Most of the armed battleships utilized pre-executed maneuvers or evaded, or used pop-up external armor to block the energy flow. Only two unlucky armed ships got their engine sections and bridges hit by the diffused energy flow, suffering severe damage and losing combat capabilities.

However, the combat personnel inside these two armed ships quickly emerged, boarding small flying devices.

Each armed battleship served as both a gunship and a mothership.

Eight hours later, a total of 988 armed battleships appeared around the Tracer, maintaining a distance of 500,000 kilometers, resembling 988 satellites orbiting a planet.

The 0001 belonging to Ren Zhong and Li Yang was also mixed in, maintaining exactly the same position as the others.

At this point, the Tracer had stopped emitting energy flows outward.

The success rate of this weapon was too low, and with the remaining energy of the ship already somewhat insufficient, the input-output ratio was too low. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

Of course, Ren Zhong, familiar with the Tracer's weapon reserves, would not let his ship foolishly rush in.

The strongest combat force within this massive colonization ship was the Ice Sealing Army, but the strongest weapon was not the energy flow, but a rather "rustic" ultra-high-speed missile.

This missile had a range of 300 million kilometers and possessed a sustained acceleration capability far exceeding that of the Water Drop, with a maximum flight speed reaching one-fifth the speed of light.

However, its flight speed wasn't its most significant feature; it was its destructive radius, reaching a full one thousand kilometers.

If Ren Zhong allowed the battleships to rush in collectively, once their interspacing was reduced to a certain extent, they would inevitably face a saturation attack from these high-explosive missiles.

Currently, the opponent hasn't used these missiles, likely considering them a trump card, fearing that the missiles might be prematurely intercepted and detonated by energy weapons.

Therefore, the real close-quarters battle needs to be handed over to small combat units.

Of course, before that, Ren Zhong's side could first use kinetic weapons to clear the field.

"All personnel and Ruined Beasts ready for debarkation!"

"Enter your respective Viper Space Fighters by number!"

"Activate all mid- and long-range kinetic weapon pods!"

"Fire!"

Five seconds later, the surface of the armed battleships opened one cover after another, revealing one vertical launcher after another.

One rotary launcher after another popped up like radar.

Numerous missiles, large and small, were ejected from countless launchers. Spinning, they coarse-aimed, ignited in space, and roared ahead with long fiery tails, bombarding towards the central spherical ship meteor shower-like from every angle: above, below, left, right, front, and back.

The missile launch lasted nearly three minutes.

During these three minutes, each armed battleship fired a total of over ten thousand mid- and long-range missiles.

Then, a large number of activated Star Sky Ruined Beasts leaped out from the cargo bay door, swiftly floating forward.

Aside from the core Professionals of the Starfire Corps, Armored Soldiers from the Mengdu Group, Mechanical Warriors, Gunsmiths, Blast Masters, and War Artists from the Source Star Military Industry, among other combat professionals, piloted their respective fighter jets, chasing after the formation of Ruined Beasts and missile swarm.

The strongest model of the Viper Fighter produced by Starfire Military Industry, the X model, was in the hands of the Starfire Soldiers and hadn't been deployed initially, but that didn't mean there weren't other modified models.

The researchers of Starfire Military Industry and Source Star Military Industry collaborated, using the Viper prototype as a base to create various specialized Viper Fighters for different professionals.

For instance, they modified the cockpit structure for differently-sized Armored Soldiers, reducing the demand for brain-machine synchronization rate and brain response, and handed more of the fighter control details over to Chip Intelligence.

Of course, assisting the Chip Intelligence in controlling the aircraft now was none other than the former "Network," now Sun Ai. After realizing there was a chance to resurrect Sun Ai, Ren Zhong had only just awakened and had already started reinstalling the previously dismantled Chip Intelligence on various war machines.

For the Blast Master professionals, the bomb bay was further improved, reducing the presence of energy weapons and cannons, providing various large-caliber bombs, and even supplying a select few with newly minted small hydrogen bombs.

For the Gunsmiths, the performance of the energy cannon and super-high kinetic cannon was further enhanced, allowing the Gunsmiths to pilot this wingless, rocket-shaped Viper Fighter for combat in their usual manner.

As for War Artists, they had different functional classifications.

Some had the task of manipulating various communication relays, playing the role of battlefield communication relay hubs.