Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 573: Unleash Your Might!

Encircled by as many as forty five million ships, and with his over nine million ships no longer able to break out by their own power, the strongest war weapon a Level 5 civilization can build, the planetary war star, the Earth, set out.

The planetary war star Xiao Yu built differed markedly from those built by the Level 5 Civilization Alliance. The difference was not merely that the Earth could perform curvature flight while the Alliance’s planetary war stars could not.

Beyond that were many differences, the most obvious being that the Earth possessed far greater mobility.

Because of the constraints of a planet’s own material, it cannot accelerate or decelerate too rapidly. If acceleration or deceleration is too fast, it can inflict extremely severe damage on the planet itself, triggering intense geological activity such as earthquakes and volcanoes, or even tearing it apart by inertial force. To address this, Xiao Yu did extensive work.

By means of extremely advanced technological methods, Xiao Yu calculated the several tens of thousands of key stress points during planetary acceleration and deceleration, then, nearly four thousand kilometers beneath the surface at those key points, he undertook massive construction, reinforcing strata and rock with hundreds of billions to trillions of tons of special materials, and constructing a complete stress-dispersion system that could distribute the forces generated by acceleration and deceleration evenly across the entire planet. This endowed the planet with the maximum possible mobility.

Xiao Yu could be certain that among Level 5 civilizations, only he possessed this technology. With it, in conventional navigation the planetary war star could accelerate or decelerate at nearly two hundred meters per second per second. Although this mobility still lagged far behind a spaceship’s, it was a planet after all, and the two are not comparable. With this figure, it was already astonishing. It meant that this planetary war star required less than fourteen hours to accelerate from rest to ten thousand kilometers per second.

In this aspect alone, the Earth had already completely distanced itself from the half-finished planetary war stars manufactured by the Alliance.

“Earth, begin combat. Let the Level 5 Civilization Alliance witness what the strongest weapon within the scope of a Level 5 civilization truly is.” Full of confidence, Xiao Yu issued the order.

Under Xiao Yu’s command, the Earth slowly departed from the Home ships’ station. From this moment, the Home ships’ defense would be handled by the biological army. The biological army had a little over two million warships, a number sufficient to repel an Alliance attack of fewer than four million ships. Of course, if the Alliance launched a large-scale offensive against the Home ships, dispatching tens of millions of ships, Xiao Yu would pilot the Home ships into curvature flight and retreat. In any case, the Home ships were faster than the Alliance’s ships and he did not need to worry about being caught.

Because many ships had already been lost earlier, Xiao Yu had freed up some computational power. He assigned this to the reserve ships on the planetary war star. A full one million ships departed the planetary war star into space to serve as its escort force.

As soon as the planetary war star moved, the Alliance reacted. Many ships that had been racing toward the Asia-led cluster to encircle Xiao Yu’s nine and a half million ships swiftly changed course and dashed toward the approaching planetary war star. Even though the planetary war star had the best mobility among its kind, compared with warships it still lagged by a great margin. This meant it could not avoid harassment by these ships.

If it could not evade, then it would not. In fact, Xiao Yu had never intended to dodge. He knew these ships posed no threat to the Earth at all.

The two forces finally converged. A City-Class Alliance ship seized the initiative and attacked the Earth. A massive barrage of negative matter bombs, gravity bombs, light-beam weapons, negative matter weapons and more crashed down like a tide. Yet these attacks did not inflict the slightest effect on the planetary war star. The outermost four-dimensional shield did not even ripple. The Earth completely ignored that City-Class ship’s assault.

Sixty thousand large energy bases, each averaging more than twenty square kilometers in area, supplied the four-dimensional shield with indescribably powerful energy. Because they were constructed upon a planet, these energy bases had no concerns about shortages of raw materials. Moreover, even if the four-dimensional shield were breached, beneath it there was also a conventional shield supported by nearly eighty thousand energy bases, protecting the planetary war star.

That City-Class Alliance ship was ferociously attacking the planetary war star, but in the next instant it suddenly split in two, and the instant after that it exploded into a fireball.

One of the nearly five hundred space weapons mounted on the planetary war star had fired. Thanks to planetary construction and virtually limitless energy supply, each of these space weapons was more powerful than the ones on Xiao Yu’s strongest warship, the Asia. With space weapons of this strength, not to mention a City-Class ship, even a Province-Class ship could be destroyed directly.

The destruction of that City-Class ship raised the curtain on the Earth’s first battle. After that ship was destroyed, the Alliance’s first major formation arrived. Nearly one million ships reached the planetary war star, including even a Continent-Class ship. The one million escort ships of the planetary war star quickly surged forward and engaged them.

The task of these escorts was not to annihilate those ships, although they were perfectly capable of doing so. Xiao Yu did not choose that. He chose a quicker and more convenient method.

Because of the engagement by these one million escort ships, the Alliance’s first attacking formation suffered severe harassment. Then the planetary war star unleashed its might.

On the planetary war star, Xiao Yu had built nearly five hundred space weapons, more than three hundred super negative matter cannons, and various ground-based and sky-based light-beam weapons, bombs, and missile-launching fortresses. This planet had been completely transformed by Xiao Yu into a fortress of war.

A simple description suffices to show how deeply Xiao Yu had transformed this planet. It had originally been a rocky planet with diverse terrain such as mountains, basins, and canyons. After Xiao Yu’s reconstruction, there were no natural features left on its surface. Every mountain had been leveled, every canyon, basin, and cavern filled. In their place were endless artificial structures, bases gleaming with metallic luster. Aside from extraction bases, there was virtually no exposed soil anywhere on the planet’s surface.

Note that this planet’s surface area was even a bit larger than Earth’s. To cover the entire surface of such a planet with artificial structures was an immense project.

All these man-made structures and bases covering the entire planet were related to war. One can imagine how formidable a combat power such a planet could exert.

Now this planetary war star was fully activated. Confronted by the first million enemy ships to arrive, the space weapons fired, the super negative matter cannons fired, and all manner of conventional weapons, turrets, and fortresses opened up.

Countless black filaments rose from the surface and shot upward at a speed invisible to the naked eye. Countless invisible torrents of negative matter, like surging floods, rushed from the ground into the sky. Countless missile weapons, trailing long plumes like fireworks, streaked into the sky. Countless visible and invisible beams launched from various bases and fortresses and also slashed into the heavens.

Under such a ferocious onslaught, and with the coordination of the one million escort ships, in just half an hour the first million attacking enemy ships suffered over seventy percent losses. Even that enemy Continent-Class ship, under the assault of hundreds of space fissures, thousands of super negative matter cannon shots, and tens of thousands of warships, exploded in a thunderous blast.

This was the first Continent-Class ship destroyed since the war began.

“Good.” Xiao Yu could not help but quietly cheer. A Continent-Class ship had special significance. The loss of one was extremely serious for any civilization below Level 6.

Xiao Yu understood the Alliance’s plan. They had intended to use the initial one million ships to slow the planetary war star’s advance slightly and buy time for follow-on fleets to arrive. But events had now developed far beyond their expectations.

Who would have thought that a full one million ships would lose over seventy percent in just half an hour, and that even a Continent-Class ship would be taken down?

Who would have thought that this planetary war star would be so formidable?

More ships began to converge here. Ahead of the planetary war star, a tight defensive line had already formed. This line consisted of at least ten million ships, and its numbers continued to rise. But Xiao Yu did not hesitate in the slightest. The planetary war star did not pause at all and rammed straight ahead.