Legacy of the Void Fleet-Chapter 284: ch

"Why the change in plan, Lady Eclipse?"

Their voices carried clear surprise. Eclipse didn’t hide anything, nor was there any need to. She explained what was happening and the reason behind the sudden shift in strategy.

Hearing this, both admirals were stunned. It took them at least ten seconds to fully accept it. Then they sighed, almost in unison. "Oh... what luck we have."

After that, they spoke firmly. "We will act according to the wishes of the Grand Admiral."

They saluted and declared, "For the Void Fleet!"

"For the Void Fleet."

With those words, Eclipse vanished from the respective Oblivion-class ships of both admirals.

Meanwhile, almost immediately after Eclipse departed, both admirals began issuing orders to their respective vice admirals and ship AIs.

"Begin charging the weapons. All weapons, main and secondary. Prepare to fire on the Minotaurs. Let them witness our strength. Our true strength, for once. Let them fear us this time. Let them feel what it means to be helpless. Let them disappear into the embrace of cold space. Let them be obliterated."

Both Michel and Jasmin spoke with burning passion as they addressed their subordinates. Their voices raged like flame, their minds fixed on destruction, their thoughts speaking only the language of annihilation.

"Target their flanks. Cripple them. Engage propulsion. It’s time to surround them and end this."

At the same time, Eclipse was visiting Admiral Joshua, who led the vanguard of the First Battle Fleet. At first, he shared the same confusion as Michel and Jasmin. But upon hearing why the strategy was changing, he accepted it far more quickly. That surprised Eclipse slightly, though she found it natural.

As a new recruit from Earth, Joshua was one of the brightest. He had the ability to accept and adapt to any situation with remarkable speed, an advantage over many others. In war, seconds mattered. Yet this same trait was also one of his disadvantages in certain aspects, though how so was a matter for the future.

For now, he had accepted the truth and spoke.

"Hah... so this is what I was waiting for. Lady Eclipse, give my thanks to the Grand Admiral. Tell him I’ll flex the muscles of the vanguard to the utmost. I’ll pour the full power of our weapons into this and wipe this brute race before me like insects."

He bumped his fist, speaking with absolute confidence.

At his words, his confidence, and the way he bumped his fists together, Eclipse’s mouth twitched slightly. She couldn’t help thinking that he was extremely excited... and oddly quirky.

Whatever, she thought. My task is done. I don’t care how he does it, and neither would Ezra. Still, she couldn’t help wondering why he and others like him were so strange. Pofff... shoo. Go Away stupied thoughts shuu shuu.

Shoving these thought aside like clouds that has formed above her head, she saluted and departed from the Barracuda-class battleship.

As soon as Eclipse left, Joshua turned his gaze toward the subordinates below the bridge and issued a few rapid orders. Then he opened the vanguard-wide comms channel, his voice booming across every ship at the front.

"Charge your weapons. Target the Minotaur vanguard—and the vanguard only. Fire up your propulsion engines. Concentrate shield power to the front. We move in and crush this thing once and for all. Our target is to push straight toward the Minotaur main battleship and its escorts."

His voice rose with mounting excitement.

"Now listen up. Ten seconds. In ten seconds, I want every damn ship in formation moving—together. When ready, fire at will. The countdown starts now. Let’s go. Let’s test the true power of these beauties this time! Hahaha!"

On the command bridge, several officers almost stumbled at the sound of his laughter. For a brief moment, some even imagined him as a devil with horns and dark wings, rubbing his hands in anticipation as if his deepest wish was about to be fulfilled. Sweat formed on more than a few brows, and the same unease spread throughout the vanguard.

But they were trained professionals. They quickly cast those thoughts aside and began issuing orders of their own.

"Charge the main batteries.""Lock targets—those ships.""Fire up propulsion engines.""We move in... eight seconds—no, seven—make it six—no, four!"

And just like that, within ten seconds, nearly three thousand five hundred ships broke away from the main battle formation, surging forward toward the Minotaur fleet ahead.

At the same time, they unleashed a devastating variety of attacks. Main and secondary batteries fired in unison. Missile salvos streaked forward. Beams, kinetic rounds, and energy weapons tore through the darkness of space, hurling themselves toward the Minotaur frontline.

Many of the enemy ships were already damaged. Some were barely holding together.

Then the bombardment truly began.

A spectacular barrage lit up the void, expanding the horizon of destruction in every direction. Turbo-lasers tore through Minotaur shields—frigates, destroyers, even battlecruisers—before slamming into their hulls. Energy and kinetic strikes followed, bending metal under overwhelming force, cracking armor, and ripping into internal systems.

Moments later, missiles struck.

Ships exploded into countless fragments, and the Minotaurs inside never even had time to scream before their world went dark, as if consciousness itself had been erased.

The same scene played out across the Minotaur’s three-layer battle line. Countless ships were obliterated instantly, while others suffered catastrophic damage before being finished off by follow-up strikes. Untold numbers of Minotaur crew died inside their vessels, erased in waves of destruction.

The sudden, overwhelming assault drew the attention of every remaining Minotaur. Those arguing among themselves froze. Even those attempting to flee couldn’t ignore it.

They all shivered as they witnessed the slaughter begin. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶

It began once again, and this time the intensity was off the roof. In the blink of an eye, they had lost nearly—if not more than—two hundred ships, and the destruction was still continuing.

"Is this... is this the might of these foes of ours?" one Minotaur cried out over the comms, his voice heard by almost all of their forces—except those already laughing moments earlier on the forward line.