Quyển 1 · Chương 147: Sói trước giả vờ ngủ

That wasn't a slender beam of light, but a torrent of destruction nearly two hundred meters in diameter, composed of high-density baryons and violent plasma.

Wherever the light beam passed, space was warped by extreme energy into transparent ripples.

Interstellar dust and small rocks floating by chance in its path were silently vaporized the instant they touched the edge of the beam, leaving not even a trace behind.

However, eight T5-class battleships of the Celestial Leader Fleet had already blocked the front.

At almost the exact same microsecond the beam arrived, the shield generators around the eight giant ships let out a piercing screech of overload simultaneously.

Hemispherical indigo energy shields instantly expanded outward.

The surface of the shields was not a smooth film of light, but was flowing with fine, complex gravitationally stable patterns like starlight trajectories.

The next moment, the torrent of destruction collided violently with the absolute defense!

The vacuum swallowed the roar, but the energy of the impact was released in another form.

Inside the bridges, ear-splitting electromagnetic screams felt as though they would tear apart everyone's eardrums and nerves!

Hit hard by the heavy particle beam, the shields buckled violently inward, forming a terrifyingly massive arc-shaped crater!

An intensely bright purple-white light exploded from the point of impact.

Hundreds of millions of fine, wild energy arcs, like bursting stardust, crazily sputtered and coursed in all directions from the center of the collision across the shields!

The gravitational patterns on the indigo shields' surface twisted, flickered, and faded at an unprecedented speed.

The uniform film of energy light was crazily eroded and stripped away by the continuous flow of high-energy particles.

Fine particles of light constantly crumbled from the edges of the shields, scattering silently in the vacuum like ice crystals melting under high heat.

Under the continuous impact of tremendous force, the several-kilometer-long hulls of the eight battleships shuddered violently, their keels groaning under the unbearable burden.

On the holographic tactical screen, the bars representing shield energy plunged at a cliff-like speed!

Overloaded, the cooling lines of the reactor bays sprayed out pale, high-pressure gas mist; every single rivet of the entire warship seemed to be fighting against this bombardment, which was strong enough to shatter asteroids.

Against the pitch-black background of space, these eight brilliant light shields became the only remaining focal point.

On one side was a particle tide swallowing all things, and on the other, an energy barrier holding fast without retreat—the tragic battle of light and force carved blinding scars into the silent void.

A few seconds stretched out as long as a century.

Finally, the sustained charge of the Empire battleships' main guns was exhausted, and twenty destruction beams abruptly contracted and disappeared.

The dented and deformed indigo shields slowly rebounded and smoothed out.

The gravitational patterns on the surface painfully restabilized and flowed again.

Ultimately, all the cracks were mended.

They left behind only a faint, gradually dispersing ring of energy aura in front of the warships.

Miraculously, eight Federation battleships had weathered the saturated volley of main gun fire!

However, the nightmare of the Empire fleet was just beginning.

At almost the very same instant their main guns went dark and energy systems entered a brief recharge window.

From the right side of deep space, which had originally seemed calm, twenty even more condensed, even more dazzling searing-white heavy particle beams burst forth without warning!

Like a long-lurking venomous snake baring its deadly fangs!

It was the fleet directly under Pluto that had completed its flanking maneuver!

They had seized the most vulnerable window after the Empire fleet's volley.

These twenty beams were precise and ruthless, like a joint surgical strike calculated with the utmost precision.

All of them poured toward the few T5-class battleships on the left wing of the Blood Locust Fleet array that had just finished firing and whose shield energy had not yet fully recovered!

The target warships' shield systems activated in response, and pale blue energy barriers lit up once more.

However, the Pluto fleet's long-premeditated volley possessed a peak energy and degree of convergence far beyond normal.

The twenty beams were not a dispersed strike; instead, under the ultimate guidance of the fire control system, they created a brief energy focusing effect!

The violent particle torrent slammed into a single point or an extremely small area of the target shields!

The pale blue shield light flickered wildly and contorted violently, letting out a wail on the brink of collapse.

The light fluctuated unpredictably, and energy readings crashed like an avalanche.

Even more fatal, the wild energy shockwaves and gravitational disturbances triggered by this unimaginable salvo swept like an invisible tsunami toward the deep interior of the Empire fleet array!

"Crack—!"

A terrifying sound like shattering glass, amplified hundreds of millions of times, detonated on the energy level!

Under the impact of these twenty light beams, the theoretically indestructible energy shields of the three battleships on the left wing of the Blood Locust Fleet shattered!

They transformed into pale blue light particles dancing across the sky that rapidly annihilated, fading into the void.

Losing this final barrier, the heavy yet completely unprotected armor of the three battleships was exposed directly to the heavy particle beams that had not yet fully subsided.

Tearing, penetrating, exploding!

One of them was struck directly in the midsection of its hull by a particle beam, which pierced the armor and poured into the power core region.

The next second.

An intensely dazzling incandescent fireball, comparable to a supernova explosion.

Burst violently from inside that battleship, instantly swallowing its massive body that stretched several kilometers long!

A violent chain sympathetic detonation tore the entire warship to shreds from the inside!

Burning metal wreckage, twisted armor shrapnel, and incompletely annihilated energy clusters.

Like the most cruel fireworks of a festival, they crazily splashed in all directions into the cold, dark universe!

The other two also suffered heavy damage; their hulls were severely torn, losing most of their combat capability, and they drifted askew out of the formation under the effect of inertia.

With just one perfect tactical coordination and grasp of timing.

At the cost of overloading the shields of eight battleships, the Federation Fleet exchanged for the destruction of three Empire T5 battleships and severe damage to two others.

The sneer on the face of Vice Admiral Knight, commander of the Blood Locust Fleet, froze completely, turning into unbelievable horror and rage.

Watching three of his own precious T5 battleships destroyed or damaged under the opponent's exquisite coordinated strike, the anger in Vice Admiral Knight's chest almost burst through his ribs.

His face turned ash-pale, veins throbbing on his forehead, and he slammed a fist onto the command console with a dull, heavy thud.

"Bastards! Damn Federation cowards!

Only knowing how to play these treacherous tricks!"

He roared into the communication channel, his voice distorted with rage.

"All units pay attention!

Entire fleet, full speed ahead!

Press forward for me!"

His arm swung forward fiercely, as if trying to crush the Federation fleet displayed on the screen.

"Fire at will!"

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