Rebirth of the Super Battleship

Chapter 794: The Solar vs the Neutron War Star!

From shortly after the day Xiao Yu was reborn, the fearsome reputation of the Neutron War Star had always lingered around him. Every time the Neutron War Star appeared, it was always linked with words like invincible and overbearing. The notion that the Neutron War Star was unbeatable had practically become a truth carved into the hearts of all intelligent beings in the Milky Way Galaxy. Reality had indeed been so, countless powerful civilizations of all different types had fallen one after another on the battlefield against the Neutron War Star, including the Micron Civilization and the Specter companion.

“Now I am going to break this so-called truth. By chance you obtained a powerful weapon of a Level 7 Civilization and have lorded over the galaxy for so many years. Sweepers Civilization, it is time for you to yield the number one place in the Milky Way Galaxy.” Xiao Yu thought silently.

The very instant Xiao Yu arrived at the battlefield, the entire Divine Ark Civilization erupted in jubilation. They had held out for so long and resisted for so long for the sake of one hope, the hope of Xiao Yu’s return. This faith, which had no real basis at all, had supported them through more than a thousand years of confrontation with the Sweepers Civilization here. Now, at last, they had managed to wait for Xiao Yu to come back.

No one had ever questioned the Divine Ark Civilization’s persistence. It seemed that everyone firmly believed Xiao Yu would definitely return.

Now, Xiao Yu had returned. After a thousand years of exhausting war, the Divine Ark Civilization could finally rest.

The newly constructed Solar warship appeared in the pitch-black void, facing off against the Neutron War Star from tens of millions of kilometers away. True to its reputation as the most powerful warship, even with the Solar built using some Level 7 Civilization technologies, Xiao Yu knew that in a head-on clash it would still not be the Neutron War Star’s match. Yet at the same time, the Neutron War Star did not have the ability to destroy the Solar in a short period either.

Tens of millions of warships gradually appeared, then gathered around the Solar as their core. On the Sweepers Civilization’s side, around the Neutron War Star, a large number of warships also began to assemble. There were spherical warships as well as ordinary warships. But Xiao Yu did not spare these ships even a glance. In Xiao Yu’s eyes there was only the Neutron War Star and only room for the Neutron War Star.

The Sweepers Civilization’s conventional warships could no longer pose any significant threat to Xiao Yu. The spherical warships still had a certain degree of threat, but it was limited. Only the Neutron War Star truly mattered. Xiao Yu knew that as long as he destroyed the Neutron War Star, he would have won this battle.

“Without the Neutron War Star, even the Divine Ark Civilization in my absence would surpass the Sweepers Civilization in overall strength. The Sweepers Civilization is not worth worrying about; all they rely on is the Neutron War Star. In that case, I will destroy the Neutron War Star, annihilate your civilization, erase your name, and consign the word ‘Sweepers’ to history.”

At this moment, Xiao Yu thought of many things, the arrangements and schemes of the Sweepers Civilization, the period when he had struggled to survive in the Milky Way Galaxy, walking at every step on the edge of death. The Sweepers Civilization had always cast its shadow across the trajectory of his fate. Perhaps due to luck, or perhaps due to other reasons, he had survived and grown to where he stood now.The chess piece had successfully jumped off the board and become a powerful player. This game being played in the Milky Way Galaxy had now reached its most crucial moment. After this clash, the game would at last come to its conclusion.

“First I have to clip your wings, only then can my plan proceed smoothly.” Xiao Yu thought silently, guiding his immense fleet forward.

In terms of conventional combat strength, Xiao Yu possessed the power to completely suppress the Sweepers Civilization. This had already been the case back when he was still with the Divine Ark Civilization, and now the difference between the two sides had only widened, not narrowed.

The Sweepers Civilization’s fleet, with the Neutron War Star as its core, still remained in place, neither advancing nor retreating. They seemed to be waiting for something, or perhaps preparing their defenses against Xiao Yu’s impending assault.

Xiao Yu did not overthink things. After attempting to break through to a Level 7 Civilization and gradually grasping the mysteries of space, he already had complete confidence in this war. So what if it was the Neutron War Star? If it were in the hands of a Level 7 Civilization, Xiao Yu might have backed away. But the Sweepers Civilization was only a Level 6 Civilization.

The war began in an instant. The battlefield, which had returned to silence for a time, erupted once again. The Sweepers Civilization suddenly sprang into action. A vast number of warships, escorting the Neutron War Star, surged toward Xiao Yu’s fleet.

Xiao Yu did not feel even the slightest panic, even though he was facing the strongest warship in the Milky Way Galaxy. Tens of millions of warships surged forward like a tide. Their outstanding maneuverability, powerful defenses, and potent firepower allowed Xiao Yu to immediately gain the upper hand in conventional warfare. Yet the Solar did not join the melee. Amid the chaotic clash of countless ships in the void, under the endless barrage of cannon fire and spatial attacks, the Solar and the Neutron War Star charged straight at each other.

This was the first time Xiao Yu faced the Neutron War Star on a frontal battlefield using a warship of his own making. Xiao Yu himself was aboard the Solar, but the Solar still personally took the field and bore the most important mission. Xiao Yu had no worries about anything happening to the Solar. He had that level of confidence now.

The massive Solar and the Neutron War Star finally made direct contact. At the moment the two warships came together, the Neutron War Star vanished. It was like a needle easily plunging into the body of the Solar. But Xiao Yu knew that in this collision, the Neutron War Star had not caused any substantial damage to the Solar.

That was because the space distortion shield, constructed using partial Level 7 Civilization technology, had already been activated. The space around the Solar had become like a labyrinth. A space distortion shield and a space folding shield were not the same thing; the technological gulf between the two was immense. One needed only to consider how even that Level 7 Civilization in the travel direction had to use a space distortion shield to protect the Star Gate it left behind.

Naturally, Xiao Yu’s current technology could not yet compare with that of a true Level 7 Civilization. The space distortion shield he had built still differed greatly from the one that safeguarded the Star Gate. But it was already enough to resist the Neutron War Star for a short time.

The Neutron War Star disappeared for more than thirty seconds. Then it reappeared at the edge of the Solar. This strike had failed. Instead, it was the Solar that immediately launched its own attack as soon as the Neutron War Star left the range of the space distortion shield.

This was not a spatial rift, but it had an appearance similar to one. It was likewise a black fissure, enough to split this patch of cosmic space into two parts, after which the two regions of space began to move in opposite directions.

A normal spatial rift attack was like cutting a slit into a sheet of paper. The attack Xiao Yu was using now was like continuing to move the two sides of the paper after cutting, using the tearing force of space itself to destroy any matter lying along the rift.

A long, narrow spatial fissure spanned hundreds of thousands of kilometers of space. It spread from the distance until it reached the Neutron War Star, then its end disappeared, only to emerge again from the other side of the Neutron War Star. Viewed from the outside, it looked as if a needle threaded with a strand of string had been run straight through a glass sphere.

The Neutron War Star was too powerful, and the space around it too stable, so this spatial fissure did not sever the space it occupied, only the space to its sides.

If that were all the attack did, then it would be useless against the Neutron War Star. But at that moment, the regions of space at both ends of the spatial fissure began to move in opposite directions.

This was a tearing force acting at the level of space. It was as if a sheet of paper had already been cut through in most places, leaving only a long narrow strip connecting the two halves. What Xiao Yu was doing now was grabbing the ends of the paper and pulling hard, using external force to rend that strip apart.

A small asteroid that happened to lie along the line of attack was neatly sliced into two hemispheres. Then, as the two hemispheres followed the movement of space and were pulled apart by the tearing force of space, the planet’s interior was exposed, its glowing red hot rock faintly visible.

A derelict warship hulk also lay in the path and was similarly torn apart by the motion of space, revealing the broken, tangled circuits and instruments inside.

Only the Neutron War Star still maintained its intact structure. The motion of space did not inflict excessively heavy damage upon it. But that did not mean this spatial weapon was useless against it.

For the first time, Xiao Yu had used a technological weapon of his own making to inflict damage on the Neutron War Star.

A large amount of debris was once again sheared from the body of the Neutron War Star, like a sharp plane scraping hard across wood and shaving off curls of sawdust. Once more, the Neutron War Star became shrouded in a vast cloud of hydrogen gas.

If Xiao Yu were given enough time, judging from the Neutron War Star’s mass, he would need only about two thousand years to grind the Neutron War Star to death with this kind of attack. Unfortunately, the Sweepers Civilization would never give him that chance, and Xiao Yu had no intention of burying the Neutron War Star by such means.

The Neutron War Star began to rotate slowly. Its rotation was very slow and very heavy, as if an invisible giant hand were pressing around it, hindering its movement. As it turned, an eerie fluctuation suddenly appeared in the space around it. In the next instant, an enormous amount of energy exploded forth, surging toward the Solar like a tidal wave.

This was a Spatial Starburst, one far stronger than before. Accompanied by this Spatial Starburst attack, the Neutron War Star suddenly leaped out, breaking free of the range of this spatial weapon.