Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 666: Ten Seconds

“Hurry up and run, don’t waste time here, the Great Emperor Civilization’s fleet could arrive at any moment!”

“You dare lay hands on us? So what if you are a Level 5 Civilization! If you destroy our spaceship, the Great Emperor Civilization’s fleet will crush your civilization into extinction. Consider the consequences! How about you surrender immediately and join us under the Great Emperor Civilization’s banner. A Level 5 Civilization will certainly be valued by the Great Emperor Civilization, and you will gain countless benefits!”

As Xiao Yu’s Province-Class spaceship rapidly closed in on the pursuing fleet from the rear, Xiao Yu simultaneously received transmissions sent by both the pursuers and the pursued. One side spoke urgently, urging Xiao Yu to leave at once. The other sounded incredulous, as if they placed absolute faith in the Great Emperor Civilization’s prestige, as if any existence, upon hearing the name of the Great Emperor Civilization, ought to surrender at once and prostrate in worship. Thus, they found it utterly incomprehensible that someone would still attack them after hearing that name.

“Hmph. Is a Level 5 Civilization enough to draw the Great Emperor Civilization’s attention? In that case, this Great Emperor Civilization is nothing much, at most at the peak of Level 5, or merely an preliminary Level 6 Civilization. With that level of strength, it is not qualified to enter my eyes.” Xiao Yu snorted coldly in his heart and ignored both civilizations’ messages.

At this moment, Xiao Yu had already decided to annihilate all thirty thousand of the pursuing spaceships before him, not leaving a single one.

Xiao Yu did not intend to take out a new reinforcement fleet from the small universe. Although within the small universe the number of combat spaceships stronger than this battered Province-Class ship could be counted in the hundreds of millions, what stood before him was only a Level 4 Civilization. To deal with a Level 4 Civilization’s thirty thousand spaceships, relying solely on this Province-Class spaceship originally used for towing was already enough. Destroying them would be like crushing an ant to death.

The gap between a Level 6 Civilization and a Level 4 Civilization is this vast, so vast that a non-specialized Province-Class spaceship with some damage from long-distance travel, belonging to a Level 6 Civilization, can completely annihilate a Level 4 Civilization’s fully organized professional combat fleet.

Xiao Yu fired several hundred spatial rifts at minimum power. Instantly, hundreds of black lines flashed across the pitch-black universe and, in the next moment, arrived before the spaceships of the pursuing fleet.

Even at minimum power, these spatial rifts Xiao Yu launched were more potent than the castrated version of spatial rifts he had previously acquired from the Trolor Civilization’s ruins. Back when Xiao Yu was at Level 5, he relied on that castrated version of a spatial weapon to rout the Molian Civilization. Now, in Xiao Yu’s view, this arrogant pursuing fleet’s strength was inferior to that of the Molian Civilization, and the gap was considerable.

It must be known that when Xiao Yu was still weak, a single City-Class spaceship of the Guardian Civilization completely held in check tens of thousands of Xiao Yu’s spaceships. Although Xiao Yu’s current strength did not reach that of the Guardian Civilization, the enemy before him was much weaker than Xiao Yu had been back then.

Thus, under the gaze of both civilizations, a well-equipped pursuing spaceship with ample energy reserves was suddenly cut into two segments after being sliced by a pitch-black spatial rift. The rupture happened so quickly that when it had just been split, both halves of the spaceship still had protective shields. Roughly a fraction of a second after being divided, a violent explosion occurred, completely blowing the ship apart.

One spaceship was destroyed so easily. And because this spaceship’s energy intensity was too low, it was not sufficient to fully neutralize all the power of the spatial rift Xiao Yu had launched. Therefore, after passing through this spaceship, the spatial rift continued forward and reached the second spaceship.

The traversal speed of a spatial rift is faster than light, and much faster than a fleet’s cruising speed. Once locked on by a spatial rift attack, even Xiao Yu’s own spaceship could not evade it, let alone these Level 4 Civilization ships.

So the second spaceship, before it could react, was also cut in two. Then the third, the fourth spaceship…

This single spatial rift destroyed a total of five spaceships and grazed three more. Even so, its energy was still not fully spent. But there were no ships ahead of it any longer, so it shot off at extreme speed into the depths of the universe, destination unknown. Xiao Yu knew its ultimate end. After a period of time, it would be neutralized by the main universe’s self-healing properties. Yet before being neutralized by the main universe, this spatial rift would continue to possess unstoppable lethality.

This spatial rift was merely one among several hundred identical attacks. Accompanying it as they reached the pursuing civilization’s fleet were another several hundred spatial rifts. These hundreds of spatial rifts surged like lions rushing into a flock of chickens, charging unhindered and unstoppable. Every spatial rift destroyed at least one spaceship. Many, after passing through the first ship, lunged at a second, and after passing through the second, lunged at a third.

Before firing, Xiao Yu had already used his formidable detection capability to determine, in an instant, the position of every spaceship in the Level 4 Civilization’s pursuing fleet. Then, through calculation, he selected for these spatial rift attacks the trajectories with the densest concentration of ships, thereby maximizing the damage.

Under such circumstances, five hundred spatial rifts destroyed as many as three thousand spaceships, an average of six ships per rift. Beyond the destroyed ships, there were also a large number of damaged ones, numbering over two thousand.

In other words, relying on a battered, non-combat vessel alone, Xiao Yu in that instant wiped out at least twenty percent of the enemy’s combat strength. And this was only the first wave of attacks.

Just as the first wave of spatial rifts had been launched, the second wave had already set out, also numbering five hundred. These five hundred spatial rifts followed the trajectories of the previous wave, continuing to surge toward the Level 4 Civilization’s fleet and inflicting enormous damage. Only, the results this time were somewhat inferior to the previous wave, destroying roughly two thousand two hundred ships and damaging more than one thousand eight hundred.

This was because the number of ships in the Level 4 Civilization’s fleet was already somewhat fewer than before, and the number of ships arranged in a straight line had likewise decreased a bit. Therefore, in this wave, the average number of ships destroyed by each spatial rift dropped to about four.

But spatial rift weapons can be fired continuously and rapidly. After the second wave was launched, only a fraction of a second later, the third wave of spatial rift attacks was fired again.

If it were an ordinary Province-Class spaceship, it would be impossible to unleash spatial rift attacks at such intensity. The reason is simple, insufficient energy reserves. At this intensity of combat, the energy stored inside the spaceship would be depleted in a very short time. However, this Province-Class ship was the towing vessel built by Xiao Yu. Behind it lay an entire small universe supplying it with energy. Its energy supply could be said to be virtually inexhaustible, and the expenditure for launching spatial weapons was nothing to it.

In ten seconds, Xiao Yu launched forty spatial weapon attacks. During these forty offensives, Xiao Yu also maneuvered the Province-Class ship to switch positions many times, seeking the optimal attack routes from different directions, then striking the Level 4 Civilization’s fleet to ensure that each spatial rift would produce the greatest possible damage. After forty spatial weapon attacks, there were no intact spaceships remaining before Xiao Yu. In this patch of cosmic void, there were shattered limbs of ships everywhere. Battleship fragments flew in all directions. Wreckage kept exploding. Light flared again and again, briefly illuminating this dark expanse of space before quickly dimming once more.

Some ship debris likely contained flammable gases, such as hydrogen. At this moment those gases leaked, mixed with escaping oxygen, and, triggered by the explosions, ignited fiercely. The fierce burning spread to some of the ship debris. One must know that a large portion of a spaceship’s construction materials is also combustible. Thus the blaze grew even more intense.

In the pitch-black universe, these burning warship wrecks floating one by one in space looked like wish lanterns set upon a stream in Earth’s era, drifting with the current.

Billowing thick smoke, raging flames, and ceaseless explosions turned this region into a land of ruin.

In just ten seconds, the Level 4 Civilization’s pursuing fleet that only a moment ago had been high and mighty, utterly dismissive of Xiao Yu, had already been reduced to a field of wreckage. At this time, the fleeing Level 4 Civilization’s fleet was still transmitting messages to Xiao Yu, urging him to leave at once, “Hurry and run away… ugh…”

The fleeing Level 4 Civilization’s message cut off halfway, as if they had been struck dumb by shock.

For a while, the atmosphere on the battlefield turned a little eerie.

Xiao Yu sent back a single message, “Well? Does that so-called Great Emperor Civilization you spoke of have power like mine?”