The Ultimate War Of The Apocalypse-Chapter 706 - 699: The Death Zone

Imagine, in the vacuum of space, two advanced civilizations engaged in fierce battle, both capable of flight at speeds exceeding half the speed of light. What kind of weapons could they use in combat?

Using something like space torpedoes or missiles would be laughable because their speeds wouldn’t be as fast as the targets they are meant to attack.

In atmospheric flight, it’s often that smaller but more powerful aircraft are faster, such as fighters being definitely faster than bombers, and missiles are faster than planes. This relates to a problem of power-to-weight ratio, but in the vacuum of space, where there is no air and no resistance, flight speed becomes unrelated to the size of the craft.

Hence, weapons in space often revolve around emitting beams and rays, like lasers at the speed of light, or rays reaching ninety-nine percent that of light beams.

And rays are definitely easier to defend against than direct physical attacks. Those shields, which only exist in science fiction movies, are a reality on the Celestials’ warships.

The Celestials had experienced a civil war in space.

When the Health Faction, led by the visionary scientist Axu, was completely outnumbered and out-resourced, he designed and built a Mecha that utilized very primitive combat methods. However, to engage in primitive combat, it had to be protected by the most advanced Celestial technology.

That’s how Gao Yuan’s War God came to be.

In space, by relying on a faster spacecraft to approach the enemy’s ship, and then launching the War God Mecha, pure warriors use the most primitive methods to breach the enemy’s ship.

In the age of primitive sail-powered naval battles, such tactics were known as "boarding combat."

No matter how the times advance or how technology develops, tactics and strategies are certain to evolve in a spiral fashion.

The only long-range weapon Gao Yuan had was the directional and flight system of the Mecha, which was not based on beams or rays, but on a force field.

It wasn’t about changing direction in space by ejecting tail flames, nor using Hall-effect thrusters; it was about the force field.

Therefore, Gao Yuan’s flight system allowed him to fly freely in space but within the atmosphere, he could only leap, moving in a straight line before changing direction linearly.

Now, that’s exactly what Gao Yuan was doing.

The Serpent People’s weapons, like those of the Celestials, end up converging on rays. Such rays should penetrate Gao Yuan’s Mecha, turning him into atomic dust in an instant, and the high temperatures produced by the atmospheric ionization of the rays should incinerate him and his Mecha on the spot.

But Gao Yuan wasn’t afraid of beta rays because his Mecha could create a force field that produced a magnetic field to defend against or let all kinds of rays bypass his Mecha.

It was the same principle as humans being protected from the sun’s charged particle streams by the Earth’s magnetic field.

Gao Yuan’s feet stood on the mothership, they clung to it like magnets. No, now he and the Serpent People’s mothership were one and the same.

Unless the Serpent People could destroy Gao Yuan’s force field, nothing could separate him from the mothership.

Gao Yuan raised his right hand, and then a wayward electrical glow appeared on his hand. When he thrust the electrical glow into the Serpent People’s mothership, it cut through like a sharp blade through tofu.

Without resistance, without delay, just like slicing through tofu, Gao Yuan drew a circle beneath his feet.

Then Gao Yuan and the metal plate beneath his feet fell together into the interior of the Serpent People’s mothership.

The number one ship was shot down by the Ark, and after losing all power, the interior of the ship was dark. But now, inside the number two ship that Gao Yuan had entered, it wasn’t brightly lit, but rather filled with a soft glow throughout. freewebnσvel.cøm

Triangular support poles, ships hanging from the poles, a channel reserved specifically for the ships.

Gao Yuan didn’t need to make any movements; his body flew straight towards a ship like a cannonball.

He couldn’t fly freely, but in this space, Gao Yuan was like a flea that could hop anywhere he desired, regardless of whether there was something under his feet.

It required overturning much of his knowledge and overcoming many instinctual actions, such as the notion that a person floating in mid-air couldn’t leap out of thin air, or that after leaping one would inevitably fall. Now, these existing concepts were obstacles diminishing Gao Yuan’s combat strength.

Why was it like this? Because Gao Yuan could now ignore gravity and reaction forces.

The Mecha was like clothing worn by Gao Yuan, but it felt like part of his body, no, even more direct than that. Now, Gao Yuan only needed to think, and his Mecha would respond with no waiting, no delay, because the Mecha and Gao Yuan were one.

Gao Yuan, like a cannonball, charged towards a beam. Then, just as his head was about to collide with the beam, his body made another turn, leaping to the other side.

If it were effective on just air, the thrust produced by the force field would be limited. Gao Yuan could move in mid-air, but too slowly. However, given any fixed object that could serve as a solid anchor for the force field, Gao Yuan could move at an incredibly fast speed.

Of course, Gao Yuan had to withstand the impact from such rapid movement, which he had to endure with his body.

To use this kind of Mecha normally, one must establish direct neural system contact with the Mecha. No normal person could withstand this, and even after making the neural connection, a normal person couldn’t endure the anti-human movement patterns of the Mecha under the action of the force field.

Rapid ejections, over and over again, reaching the limits of speed, and as for the attacks he received, Gao Yuan completely ignored them.

Finally, Gao Yuan saw the first person, a Serpent Person.

Very tall, standing on a floating platform, just like the ones Gao Yuan had seen during the negotiations with the Serpent People. And that vertical pole on the platform was emitting invisible rays.

Gao Yuan’s body was aglow with flowing light, which was rather beautiful, but it meant that he was currently under invisible attack. However, this posed no problem, and to the Serpent People, it was meaningless.

Gao Yuan, who would rush headlong into battle every time, now had inviolable armor.

From detection to destruction, time could no longer be measured in seconds; that would be an insult to Gao Yuan.

Gao Yuan flashed past, and the Serpent Person on the platform had lost its head. Then, the top half of the Serpent Person, along with the platform it stood on, was propelled like a cannonball by Gao Yuan, crashing directly into another Serpent Person.

With the action of the force field, Gao Yuan could move himself like a cannonball, and he could also launch any object like a cannonball.

But this was still just a secondary weapon for Gao Yuan, his means of moving in space, his method of flying and leaping in the atmosphere, these were his secondary weapons.

The secondary weapon was very powerful, but it was still just a secondary weapon, and the only reason for that was Gao Yuan’s primary weapon was too powerful.

Gao Yuan’s primary weapon was himself.

Everywhere he passed, he created intense destruction, and when Gao Yuan stopped, the place where he stood became a death zone.