novelraw Chapter 435 435: Keep Bombarding
Chapter 435 435: Keep Bombarding
Seeing this, Tom's heart sank even further.
It's important to note that the distance between their galaxy and the galaxy where this group of Star Beasts resided was a full 4 light-years.
A distance of 4 light-years covered in only about 4 months meant that this group of Star Beasts possessed superluminal travel speeds of approximately 12 times the speed of light!
This was twice the speed of Tom's current superluminal travel, which was less than 4 times the speed of light.
Furthermore, calculating by the mass of the current star, Tom would need to be about 1 light-year away to reduce the influence of the star's Universal Force Field to an acceptable range before entering superluminal travel status.
Yet, this group of Star Beasts only exited warp travel when they were merely 3.2 trillion kilometers, or about 0.34 light-years, from the star. This clearly indicated that these Star Beasts had a much deeper and more detailed understanding and control over gravity, far exceeding his own.
The advancement of technological levels is not about abandoning an existing technological system to master a new one, but rather about further developing upon the former.
Just as Tom gained a deeper control over Strong Nuclear Force after advancing to the gravity stage, this group of Star Beasts, after advancing to Dark Energy level, clearly also gained a deeper control over gravity.
Such a group of enemies...
Taking a deep breath, he glanced at the full-star defense line he had laid out, at the Electromagnetic Life that had fully entered combat readiness, and at the Universal Force Field components that were ready. Tom understood that he had no retreat.
He had to block the first few waves of attacks from these enemies, forcing them to target the star!
Detectors positioned at the edge of the galaxy clearly observed that after exiting warp space, this larger, more ferocious, and more numerous Star Beast cluster immediately began to accelerate fiercely at a rate of thousands of meters per second squared, quickly reaching speeds of over 90\\% the speed of light and violently impacting towards the interior of the galaxy.
They then decelerated sharply when only a few hundred billion kilometers from the star, their speed only dropping to a few thousand kilometers per second upon entering the galaxy's interior.
Regarding the numerous industrial facilities, spy satellites, detectors, and other devices Tom had left at the galaxy's edge, this group of Star Beasts paid them no heed, completely ignoring them and charging directly towards the star.
Their target was clearly only himself; everything else was outside their concern.
It wasn't until the distance between the two sides shortened to just over ten million kilometers that Tom took a deep breath and issued the combat order.
The distance was still far, not yet reaching the engagement range of conventional interstellar warfare. But at this moment, there was no time to hesitate.
At this instant, on the side of the entire star facing the Star Beast cluster, a hemisphere covering approximately 46 trillion square kilometers, energy cannons—totaling 100 trillion units of varying power, size, and volume, located in various warships, forts, armed satellites, and space-based anti-aircraft bases—simultaneously fired projectiles of still varying rates of fire, muzzle velocities, and masses.
Calculating at an average rate of fire of 1,000 rounds per second, in just one hour, the total number of projectiles fired at that group of Star Beasts reached approximately 3.6 quintillion!
For these approximately 10 million Star Beasts, even if only one-millionth of the projectiles hit their targets—after all, Tom was launching a regional, overall attack, not a precise, targeted one—each Star Beast would still be hit by 36 million projectiles!
Just over a dozen minutes later, these projectiles whistled and violently collided with the Star Beast cluster.
Tom did not expect these projectiles to heavily damage the Star Beast cluster, nor did he harbor such extravagant hopes.
But regardless, no matter how powerful these Star Beasts were, such a massive cluster attack, which could even be said to almost exceed the limits of a Gravity Civilization, should still be able to kill tens of thousands of Star Beasts.
No matter how advanced your shield technology or how strong your defense, if there are enough ants, they can still bite an elephant to death. There's no reason why so many of my projectiles can't even kill a mere few tens of thousands of Star Beasts, right?
But the next moment, something unexpected happened to Tom.
Precise detection satellites deployed near the Star Beast clusters clearly detected that, facing this torrent of energy cannon projectiles tens of millions of times more intense than a violent storm, this group of Star Beasts made almost no clear countermeasures.
They were like a group of blind creatures, completely oblivious to these projectiles, still maintaining their high-speed advance.
Their speed and course remained unchanged. Even the posture of their bodies barely shifted.
But what Tom found incredible was that his numerous projectiles seemed to have suddenly entered another world. Even though the Star Beasts made no reaction, these projectiles instantly vanished the moment they approached their bodies.
There was no explosion, no flash, no energy release. They simply disappeared without a sound, as if they had never existed.
Disappeared…
Tom suddenly gritted his teeth.
He had long known that Dark Energy level Star Beasts possessed technology related to antiprotons and had applied it in combat. But he hadn't expected that even such a massive, extremely fast, and precise torrent of energy cannon projectiles could be nullified by their antiproton technology!
The simultaneous bombardment of over a hundred trillion energy cannons failed to kill even a single Star Beast, let alone tens of thousands!
Then...
"Keep bombarding, don't stop!"
Tom gritted his teeth and issued the order: "These Star Beasts must consume energy to produce and utilize antiprotons, and their production rate must have a limit; they cannot produce them indefinitely.
Although these energy cannon projectiles failed to harm them, they are still consuming them!
As long as we can consume them, it is valuable!"