Chapter 204: Invincible Warship
A’dai’s voice was somewhat panicked, but it still didn’t stop.
“Legion Commander Wang, be careful. This warship’s material should be more advanced silver-like super metal with partial atomic-level processing technology. I suggest treating it as the Conqueror.”
His suggestion was not baseless.
The warship that suddenly appeared 100 million kilometers ahead of them was over 20 kilometers long.
Moreover, most importantly, around this warship, there were 8 cannon barrels of the same caliber as those on the Conqueror.
With this scale of ship hull size paired with this caliber of firepower configuration, it was completely equivalent to the Conqueror’s standard firepower configuration.
Wang Wei nodded solemnly.
He was silent for a moment, then slowly raised his hand and heavily swung it down.
“Order: Fleet advance at full speed immediately!”
Blue Star Space Hub, Space Force Chief Command Headquarters.
The frontline footage, after relay satellite signal transmission, arrived here in just three seconds.
However, at this moment, it was equally terrifyingly quiet here.
Fan Ren’s expression was extremely grave.
Just moments ago, at the instant he saw the alien spaceship nearly destroyed, he felt extremely relieved.
Under that circular formation, it was obvious that this small alien spaceship no longer posed any threat to humanity’s current fleet.
It might be extremely fast, but within the Solar System, deploying the Punisher in formations of 5000 ships each could protect the several major important bases, as well as the hub industrial zone and Blue Star’s safety.
This way, even if this spaceship could relay the information here back to its distant home planet to request support.
Then, even if the opponent gathered a fleet from the home planet, the fastest would still give humanity a century or even hundreds of years of development time.
One must know, large ships are different from small spaceships.
For example, the Young Dragon and the Punisher, built with the same materials—these two spaceships, due to size differences, the smaller ship’s hull structure has stronger endurance and higher speed capability.
Precisely because of this reason, in a 4.2 light-year interstellar navigation journey, large warships would take at least centuries to reach the Solar System again.
But the scene happening now obviously shattered his fluke mentality.
Space Jump Technology!
Top-tier space technology capable of crossing several light years, or even possibly tens of light years, for ultra-long-distance instantaneous movement.
Humanity not only didn’t understand it—even Fan Ren, with system support, had never even heard of this technology before.
However, in an instant, he figured some things out.
No wonder this spaceship, despite unremarkable combat power and destructive capability, and merely having high-speed navigation ability, dared to come alone to the Solar System and initiate an attack at the first contact with the Azure Dragon Fleet.
It was because he had this trump card that he was so fearless.
At this moment, A’dai’s analysis of that super battleship also reached here.
Fan Ren gravely looked at Liu Shengzhan.
To be honest, although he believed in Wang Wei’s superb combat wisdom and unyielding fighting spirit.
But the current situation was obvious: the warship the opponent deployed clearly didn’t take those 5000 Punishers seriously at all.
If the Azure Dragon Legion advanced further, it was very likely to be annihilated there.
“Commander Liu, order Legion Commander Wang to return.”
Fan Ren gave a suggestion in a low voice.
Hearing this, Liu Shengzhan turned his head, his expression equally grave, but he slowly shook his head.
“We need to know this spaceship’s specific combat methods. This is also their responsibility.”
Fan Ren couldn’t bear it and wanted to argue, but he also knew that in this situation, it was a rational strategy.
Before fully figuring out that super battleship’s capabilities, their next plan couldn’t be used yet—too many variables.
Once it failed, the consequences might be extinction-level.
A trace of sadness flashed in his eyes.
Liu Shengzhan patted his shoulder, then said no more, his gaze continuing to the real-time transmitted frontline battlefield footage.
Under full-speed advance, the Azure Dragon Legion’s formation still took some time to approach the airspace ahead of that alien super battleship.
“Order: Formation disperse with 20 km spacing. Follow my ship in circling movement.”
Wang Wei remained calm and composed at this moment.
He stared at the massive warship 100 km ahead. The huge gap in hull size inevitably brought him immense pressure, but he didn’t retreat.
This warship’s surface was still like that small spaceship, coated entirely in rust-colored paint. Though the entire spaceship was enormous in size and had turrets with calibers comparable to those on the Conqueror, for some reason, the overall style looked very worn.
At the alien spaceship, as soon as the super battleship landed, internal communications rang out.
“Commander, how is it? Is this galaxy’s civilization wealthy? An 8 light-year jump—if there’s no harvest, we can’t even afford fuel for our last bit of possessions.”
On the small spaceship, upon hearing this expectant inquiry, the alien being called Commander, who looked strikingly like a fox, finally remembered the main purpose of this trip.
He had been so angry he forgot.
He hadn’t even scanned for valuable products in this galaxy yet, and in a fit of anger, he dragged his entire fortune to this distant and remote star domain.
Just as his deputy asked, if there wasn’t enough harvest this trip, they couldn’t even pay the exorbitant fuel cost for this spaceship’s space jump.
Forget it, deal with the barbarians in front first.
Even without valuable products, this low-level civilization had developed to the space stage, so their population must be considerable. Enslaving them and building this into a backup base wouldn’t be bad.
With this thought, Commander Fox hesitated no longer.
“Listen to my orders: Destroy part of the warships ahead. Remember, don’t destroy their space cabins.”
He paused here—this civilization he’d never contacted before, he didn’t even know if they had space cabins.
He quickly discarded this thought.
Attack first, talk later.
“Open fire!”
“Understood, Commander. Be careful, watch our performance!”
In the audio, the deputy leader, not getting his affirmative answer, roared excitedly.
In his understanding, no answer meant agreement. The revenue after capturing this galaxy would definitely not waste their nearly fifty years.
As soon as his response ended, the ship hull suffered a massive ammunition assault.
This was the battleship formation ahead that had entered attack range already starting to fire.
“Damn it, Beng Ju! What are you dazed about? Don’t underestimate their firepower configuration—their electromagnetic cannons have some destructive power!”
Commander Fox jumped in anxiety and cursed loudly upon seeing this.
No matter what, 5000 battleships’ one salvo could definitely blast off 10% of their dreadnought’s armor.
And most critically, he knew the opposing battleships’ cannon rate of fire was very fast.
Sure enough, as his words fell, the communication channel came the deputy leader’s shocked response.
“Quick! Activate fortress gear, armor repairer power to maximum. Combat personnel, lock them—free fire!”
With his order, the entire dreadnought’s exterior instantly spread a visible halo force field.
As this force field rose, the deputy leader finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Clearly, the ship hull armor damage was greatly reduced.
In the distance, Wang Wei on the command ship saw this and his pupils instinctively contracted.
These electromagnetic cannon shells at 20% speed of light clearly slowed dramatically after hitting the risen halo.
With this change, the dents on the dreadnought’s hull from prior attacks also lessened.
But the current battlefield situation clearly left him no more time to think.
Because that super battleship’s massive cannon barrels were rising, aiming toward them.
Wang Wei clenched his fist with fierce intent, gritted his teeth: “All ships disperse and circle, close to 20 km for close-range attack!”
The Punisher might be large and look very cumbersome.
But at this moment, before this 20 km long super battleship, in high-speed movement mode, it was still relatively agile.
Even so, when that super battleship’s cannon barrels erupted in dazzling firelight, two extremely fierce explosion fireballs burst in the Azure Dragon Legion formation in space.
Wang Wei’s heart tightened, his gaze sweeping the fleet status. Without A’dai’s notification, he instantly knew those two Punisher warships exploded the moment they were hit.
Space is an extremely vast area.
When viewed from afar at this battlefield, the massive fireballs from those two 2000-meter Punishers exploding seemed unremarkable amid the surrounding thousands of ships.
“Punisher No. 3820, No. 2398 exploded.”
“Listen to my orders: Continue!”
Wang Wei gritted his teeth, harshly interrupting A’dai’s report. His eyes were bloodshot—those two warships had comrades he’d spent thousands of days and nights with. He hurt more than anyone.
But now he had a more important task.
He must probe this warship’s full performance; for that, he could only suppress his inner grief.
“Order: Launch dense bombs!”
“Order: All fleet commanders may freely choose attack methods at opportunities.”
“Order: Fight to the death!”
Wang Wei’s hoarse voice rang in the fleet channel. As his series of orders issued, though the fleet had timely dispersed into circling, several explosion flashes still appeared against the space backdrop.
In the distance, Commander Fox on the small boat saw this and a relieved smile appeared on his face.
As expected of barbarians—standard battleships with the lowest-tech electromagnetic railguns, trying to breach the dreadnought’s war fortress force field. What a pipe dream.
At this moment, that dreadnought ahead had its entire hull enveloped in a dim yellow halo.
It stood like a god descending, in an invincible posture at the battlefield’s center, fearless of any attack method.
