Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 616: Split in Two

During this period, Xiao Yu had already seized the time to manufacture many of those instruments that could reinforce space and installed them onto the warships. Thus, at this moment, more than three million warships separated from the main force and did not participate in the encirclement. Instead, they arrayed themselves around the battlefield and activated these instruments once again.

The space range in which curvature flight could not be performed immediately expanded from the previous diameter of roughly three hundred thousand kilometers to a diameter now approaching ten million kilometers. The battlefield broadened, and tens of millions of warships rushed in at once.

A Level 3 peak Specter Race member and fully fifty million warships were sieging the Arboreal Race alien beast. This was the strongest force Xiao Yu could field. Although many of Xiao Yu’s warships had been destroyed in prior battles, Xiao Yu had stored a great number of warships inside the small universe. Now that they were needed, he could take them out and put them into use directly.

Amid the sky-filling barrage and the crisscrossing attacks of spatial rifts, the roars of the Arboreal Race alien beast grew ever more piercing. From those bursts of information laden with towering ferocity, Xiao Yu could sense how furious the Arboreal Race alien beast was at this moment.

The Asia spaceship did not participate in this battle. The power of a Level 6 alien beast was after all too great. Before it died, who knew what mad thing it might do. There was no need to risk the Asia. The Asia spaceship now waited quietly to the side with roughly several million escort warships, watching this battle with cold eyes.

Although Xiao Yu’s true body stayed here, his gaze, through the omnipresent warships and detectors, covered the entire battlefield. Xiao Yu saw that, along with the strongest single spatial rift attack launched by a Continent-Class ship, a sudden gigantic fissure appeared on the Arboreal Race alien beast’s body, over ten kilometers long and nearly one kilometer deep. Accompanied by its enraged roar, countless scraps of alien-beast flesh flew into space like stones blasted apart.

That was only the attack of one Continent-Class ship. At this moment, there were nearly one hundred Continent-Class ships participating in the siege and several thousand Nation-Class ships. The smaller ships were beyond counting. Every warship was equipped with space weapons. All ships attacking at the same time meant that every second, tens of millions of spatial rifts were striking the Arboreal Race alien beast. A single spatial rift might not inflict obvious damage on it, but what about tens of millions?

Tens of millions of spatial rifts were just one volley. In fact, these warships had been attacking continuously. By this stage of the battle, the number of spatial rifts suffered by the Arboreal Race alien beast had likely reached several hundred billion.

Yet the Arboreal Race alien beast still launched a frenzied counterattack. In this instant, its strength as a Level 6 alien beast was displayed without reserve. Though badly wounded, its power still made Xiao Yu wary.

With its strength greatly reduced, in comprehensive capability it was no longer Xiao Yu’s match. However, if it had not taken the initiative to provoke Xiao Yu and had not fallen into the trap Xiao Yu laid for it, Xiao Yu still would not have been able to kill it.

With preparation against carelessness, the Arboreal Race alien beast’s defeat and death were inevitable.

After the battle had raged for three days, the Arboreal Race alien beast’s movements began to slow. At full burst it could once reach a speed close to 80 percent of light speed, but now its maximum speed could no longer exceed 40 percent of light speed.

It gradually fell silent as well, no longer sending out those messages saturated with ferocity. As Xiao Yu increasingly took the upper hand, the Arboreal Race alien beast finally begged for mercy.

“Let me go. I promise, if you let me leave, I will absolutely not cause you trouble. I can even repay you. Let me leave here, I beg you.”

A Level 6 alien beast. It roamed the galaxy, and no civilization dared belittle it. It could survive even a full-strength strike from the Neutron War Star. Who knew how long it had lived in the Milky Way, witnessing and taking part in countless epic events. Yet at this moment, it begged for mercy.

But it was useless. Xiao Yu’s goal was clear, to kill the Arboreal Race alien beast and use its flesh to manufacture Planet-Class or even Star-Class spaceships. At this point, Xiao Yu could already evaluate the strength of a Level 6 alien beast. His conclusion was that the white dwarf alien beast he had once encountered, though also a Level 6 alien beast, even at its peak was likely not the match of this Arboreal Race alien beast. As for that bit of the white dwarf alien beast’s flesh, Xiao Yu had been recycling it over and over, and even when upgrading ships, he would reclaim and reuse it, unwilling to waste even a little. Now, with the chance to obtain the entire body of a Level 6 alien beast, how could Xiao Yu possibly give it up?

This was no longer a matter of personal enmity. It was not because the Arboreal Race alien beast had once harbored murderous intent toward Xiao Yu and tried to eliminate him that Xiao Yu now refused to spare it. Even if there had been no grudge, given such an opportunity, Xiao Yu would absolutely not hesitate.

The corpse of a Level 6 alien beast. In the Milky Way, it was enough to spark wars among countless civilizations.

Xiao Yu very crisply ignored the Arboreal Race alien beast’s words. Seeing no response, the Arboreal Race alien beast began to curse. After cursing for a while, it started pleading again. But no matter what it did, Xiao Yu never paid it any mind.

“Specter, I still need to trouble you. My fleet cannot eliminate it in a short time. If this drags on, I fear unforeseen changes. The corpse of a Level 6 alien beast is too valuable. If it draws the covetous gaze of other Level 6 civilizations, that would be disastrous. Use the method you used last time and pin it down again. I will pilot the planetary war star to ram it once more.” Xiao Yu said.

The Specter companion did not hesitate in the slightest and replied readily, “Alright. This time, with the Arboreal Race alien beast’s strength reduced so much, pinning it down no longer requires me to burn much life force. Very good… hm.”

With the Specter companion’s words, the Arboreal Race alien beast, which had been launching a furious counterattack against Xiao Yu’s warships, suddenly ceased all movement. It still maintained an attacking posture, the branch-like things on its body still raised as if to lash, but those branches would never lash down again.

“Good, just like that.” Xiao Yu laughed heartily. “The planetary war star has already lost its value to me, so let my former strongest weapon bring an end to your life. Planetary war star, set out.”

Under Xiao Yu’s control, the tens of thousands of planetary engines built onto the planetary war star began to roar violently in unison. While maintaining the planetary war star’s structural integrity, its maximum acceleration was only two hundred meters per second squared. But now, Xiao Yu intended to abandon this planetary war star and naturally no longer cared whether it suffered damage.

Thus, upheaval wracked this planet as well. Violent earthquakes and ferocious volcanic eruptions made for a hellish scene of doomsday. Yet no matter how tragic it was, nothing could shake Xiao Yu’s resolve to destroy this planet.

The planetary war star began accelerating. Its speed grew ever faster. After one hour, its velocity relative to the Arboreal Race alien beast had been boosted to 7,200 kilometers per second. After another half hour, its relative speed had been boosted to 13,000 kilometers per second.

This speed was even faster than when the Pegasus Civilization’s capital planet rammed it back then.

Although the Arboreal Race alien beast could not move at this moment, its mind was unaffected. Seeing the planetary war star charging at such high speed to ram into it, it understood what would happen next.

“Damn Taihao Alliance. If not for you inciting me to deal with the Divine Ark Civilization, how could I have fallen to this state. Damn Divine Ark Civilization, damn Specter, damn Taihao Alliance, I will kill you, I will kill you.”

The Arboreal Race alien beast’s roar cut off abruptly, because at this moment the planetary war star had already slammed into its body at 15,000 kilometers per second. The instant before impact, the Specter companion had nimbly dodged away.

Amid endless fragments and fire, and surging, violent energy, Xiao Yu saw that the planetary war star had completely disintegrated. The black speck representing the Arboreal Race alien beast was now tumbling head over heels, flung backward by the impact.

Xiao Yu did not dare to relax. Against a Level 6 alien beast, no amount of caution was excessive. Those ships responsible for reinforcing space moved as the Arboreal Race alien beast moved, keeping it shrouded within solidified space at all times to prevent it from escaping via curvature flight. Tens of millions of warships followed it closely as well.

Only after both sides had moved some distance did Xiao Yu see the Arboreal Race alien beast’s condition. He saw that the massive Arboreal Race alien beast had now been rammed into two halves. No, not two halves. Between the upper and lower parts, there was still an unknown object about two thousand meters in diameter connecting them.

Whatever it was, it no longer mattered. A Continent-Class ship fired a spatial rift and immediately severed that unknown object. From this moment, the Arboreal Race alien beast truly became two separate pieces.

But it was not yet dead. Xiao Yu could sense its faint aura. At that moment, the Specter companion pounced swiftly and used its own body to envelop the two severed halves of the Arboreal Race alien beast.

“The life force of a Level 6 alien beast is a fine thing. It cannot be wasted.” At this moment, Xiao Yu received the message sent by the Specter companion.