Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 693: Interlude

In that instant, war had already erupted. In this battle, Xiao Yu deployed around one hundred million warships, but his flagship, the Star-Class spaceship the Solar, did not take part. It remained within the small universe. The one participating was the Star-Class spaceship Tianyuan IV.

The two sides were separated by about one light day. With the current maneuvering performance of both sides, this distance amounted to only a matter of a dozen minutes. The Guardian Civilization chose to hold its ground, so naturally Xiao Yu was the attacker.

At this moment, all construction activities of the Guardian Civilization had ceased. Likewise, nearly one hundred million warships stood in tight formation awaiting battle. Facing the large force of ships charging in with overwhelming momentum, the Guardian Civilization’s fleet began orderly redeployments.

“Of the one hundred million warships I have committed, I am afraid 80 percent will be destroyed.” Xiao Yu sighed slightly. “The lack of quality has always been my shortcoming, and I can only compensate with quantity.”

The situation after the war began confirmed Xiao Yu’s prediction. As soon as the fleets made contact, the situation was almost one-sided. With virtually no surprises, Xiao Yu’s fleet was comprehensively suppressed. Xiao Yu saw that, with coordination from the star system’s defense system, the Guardian Civilization’s fleet formed neat battle arrays. With a single volley, they nearly wiped out one million of Xiao Yu’s ships. After paying the price of nearly ten million ships to finally force the battle into a melee, the performance gap between ships became even more evident.

Xiao Yu saw one of his Nation-Class ship formations actually being pressed hard by one of the Guardian Civilization’s Province-Class formations. A space rift was born out of the void and struck that Nation-Class ship with a vicious blow, and then the ship’s shield flickered violently.

Xiao Yu received real-time telemetry from inside this Nation-Class ship. Combined with the current situation, he knew this Nation-Class ship was beyond saving.

After that Province-Class ship of the Guardian Civilization fired the space rift that struck the Nation-Class ship, a group of space bombs patrolling nearby, like sharks smelling blood, engaged curvature flight and arrived beside the Nation-Class ship in an instant, then detonated violently. Immediately, the space in this region was torn to shreds by raging energy. The shattered space, like blade after blade of sharp cleavers, struck that Nation-Class ship again and again. Xiao Yu maneuvered the Nation-Class ship to fight back with all its might, but still could not change the situation of being suppressed. When another Nation-Class ship of the Guardian Civilization arrived, the end of Xiao Yu’s ship came.

The space weapon mounted on that Guardian Civilization Nation-Class ship suddenly activated. At once, Xiao Yu’s ship, along with a surrounding patch of space, was sliced out of the main universe. Because that patch of space was too small, once cut away it rapidly underwent heat death. Xiao Yu’s Nation-Class ship finally turned into a uniform cloud, diffusing throughout the entire small universe. Within it, time no longer flowed. It would drift eternally along the four-dimensional direction.

A single Nation-Class ship was destroyed with ease. And this was merely a small part of the battlefield.

Across the battlefield, crisscrossing space rifts were everywhere. Spatial collapse, space shattering, space slicing, space bombs, long-range space cannons, negative matter tachyon torrents, conventional light-beam weapons, gravity weapons, and other endless armaments churned this stretch of space into utter chaos. Within this tangled maelstrom, broad swathes of two-dimensionalized space appeared from time to time. Vivid images of warships or fragments were created, then, under the sweep of fierce space weapons, exploded in an instant and ultimately vanished into nothingness. 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

One hour after the war began, Xiao Yu’s one hundred million warships were down to fewer than seventy million. Nearly one third of his combat power had been destroyed. For any army, such losses were unbearable, but Xiao Yu did not care. Under Xiao Yu’s control, vast numbers of warships poured out from the small universe in an unending stream, surging toward the battlefield like a river that never ran dry. No matter how many of Xiao Yu’s warships were destroyed, the combat strength he maintained on the battlefield always hovered at around one hundred million ships.

Tianyuan IV was leading more than five hundred Planet-Class warships, tangling with the Radiance. The Python Alien Beast had also begun to show its might. Its enormous body flickered in and out across the vast battlefield, now in conventional flight, now in curvature flight. Every time it appeared in the visible universe, one of Xiao Yu’s Nation-Class or higher ships was doomed to be destroyed. The Python Alien Beast disdained attacking small ships. It specifically picked large ships to strike.

Xiao Yu saw that when the Python Alien Beast appeared in the visible universe again, one of his Continent-Class ships happened to be beside it. Before this Continent-Class ship could escape, a thick tail lashed down from the side. The ship was struck and snapped in half.

Because Continent-Class ships were not qualified to be equipped with the four-dimensional shield, after being struck and broken it did not even explode violently. Some instruments were still operating, but it was already pointless. The Python Alien Beast attacked only once and instantly left. A group of Guardian Civilization ships nearby immediately charged in. Space gun turrets also began to target the wreck, and interstellar mine clusters bombarded it densely. Under multiple attacks, the Continent-Class ship was destroyed at once.

Having lost its squadron flagship, the ships subordinate to that Continent-Class ship were immediately redistributed under Xiao Yu’s control into other fleet formations to fight in coordination with the remaining ships. Xiao Yu was exceedingly calm now. Massive streams of data surged and ebbed within his mind, and the entire battlefield situation was laid out clearly before his eyes.

Of the ships Xiao Yu had committed initially, more than 80 percent were cannon fodder. Xiao Yu was coolly wearing down the Guardian Civilization’s strength. He believed that as his reserve warships continually joined the battle, he would sooner or later seize the advantage.

The Guardian Civilization was not an ordinary civilization, all the more since it had joined with the Python Alien Beast. No matter how dismissively one might speak in words or in overarching strategy, in his heart Xiao Yu had never underestimated this enemy.

This region had descended into total chaos. Nearly two hundred million warships of peak Level 6 civilizations were locked in melee here, enough to turn this region into a true cosmic deathtrap. Natural celestial bodies like stars and planets were incomparably fragile here. Xiao Yu saw one star wrapped in a Dyson sphere that the Guardian Civilization had not yet had time to transport. Affected by the battlefield, its Dyson sphere was first destroyed, then it suffered endless attacks from space weapons. In just an instant, it exploded entirely.

This was not a star destroyed by using a stellar cannon, but a star truly blasted apart. At the instant it exploded, its brightness rose by ten thousand times. After a time, it had nearly illuminated the entire battlefield. Stellar matter from its debris began to spread wantonly, and various high-intensity radiations permeated the battlefield. But whether Xiao Yu’s ships or those of the Guardian Civilization, they all ignored these things.

The star died in the most magnificent fashion, but sadly, the most spectacular image of its lifetime was completely ignored by the two civilizations before it. Only some small ships already heavily damaged were unlucky enough to meet their end in this stellar destruction.

It was merely a red dwarf exploding. What of it? With Xiao Yu’s current level of technology, the ships he built could even withstand a true supernova explosion, to say nothing of the Guardian Civilization whose technology surpassed Xiao Yu’s.

The destruction of a single star was only an interlude and did not affect the situation on the battlefield. By now the fierce fighting had lasted more than twenty hours. Over one hundred million of Xiao Yu’s warships had been destroyed, while the price paid by the Guardian Civilization was only a little more than twenty million ships.

In other words, within twenty hours, at the cost of just over twenty million ships, the Guardian Civilization had destroyed the entire military strength of a peak Level 6 civilization. This ratio allowed Xiao Yu to feel even more keenly the Guardian Civilization’s power.

Yet Xiao Yu was still waiting. He did not release the corpse of the Micron Civilization because of these losses. He was waiting for the right moment, to seize it and deal a heavy blow to the Radiance.

The Star-Class warship Tianyuan IV, leading more than five hundred Planet-Class warships, was entangled with the Radiance. The Radiance did not carry a corresponding escort fleet. Relying on a single ship, it pinned down all of Xiao Yu’s high-end combat power. In fact, this was an important reason why Xiao Yu’s losses were so heavy. But Xiao Yu still waited. With four-dimensional jump technology, the Radiance’s maneuverability was simply too great, and the weapons it carried were far too powerful. Since the war began, Planet-Class warships that had already fallen to this one ship alone numbered more than one hundred.

More than twenty hours into the war, the Radiance finally made a major move. It once again used the four-dimensional jump technology. This time, its jump destination was chosen directly in front of the Star-Class warship Tianyuan IV.

At that moment, Xiao Yu’s heart jolted. “Now. Specter, go.”