Rebirth of the Super Battleship

Chapter 810: The Ignored Trump Card

Xiao Yu had already noticed signs that something was off. For example, this small universe was too large, and during the siege-and-defense battle around it, the number of Level 6 Civilization warships was too small, as if there were an intent to lure him deeper inside the small universe.

Xiao Yu had noticed, but he had not made any special preparations or taken any countermeasures. He simply watched quietly, because he had absolute confidence in his ability to take down the Guardian Civilization.

Now the Guardian Civilization had finally revealed its trump card, and at the same time all the earlier oddities were fully explained.

Xiao Yu already understood what the trump card of the Guardian Civilization was. Their trump card was this small universe itself.

This was because this small universe had not been created by the Guardian Civilization at all. From Xiao Yu’s observation, it should have been the work of some Level 7 Civilization, most likely a Level 7 Civilization of the space-direction.

A space-direction Level 7 Civilization was undoubtedly stronger than Xiao Yu, but he did not care. If a true space-direction Level 7 Civilization were standing in front of him, Xiao Yu might very well turn and run at once, but in the hands of a mere Level 6 Civilization, that was another story.

The Neutron War Star had already been destroyed by him. A small universe was nothing in comparison.

Precisely because the trump card of the Guardian Civilization was this small universe, they had intentionally held back during the siege battle, preserving their own warships while unobtrusively drawing Xiao Yu inside.

As for those Level 5 or Level 4 Civilization warships that had been destroyed by Xiao Yu, those were not worth anything. No matter how many were lost, they felt no real pain.

Or perhaps Xiao Yu had entered a little earlier than they had planned, so Civilization Number Four had stepped forward. While probing the reason Xiao Yu had not immediately launched an attack, they had also managed to buy time.The destruction of Civilization Number Four was merely an accident. And in any case, who would truly care?

Now the Guardian Civilization had finished their preparations. The high-level civilization cluster was completely shielded by a space distortion shield, while the region where Xiao Yu’s fleet currently was had begun to show signs of spatial instability.

When that space-direction Level 7 Civilization built this small universe, it had undoubtedly used some special techniques. Through these techniques, the Guardian Civilization could, from a certain control room, manipulate the space of the entire small universe.

They could cause the space in some designated region to twist, or to convert directly into a massive explosion of energy, or to fold and crumple.

“Lowly inferior civilizations, the Alliance has provided you with a safe living environment, yet instead of thinking how to contribute to the Alliance, at a time like this you think only of escaping it. Your actions are unforgivable.”

A cold, sinister message spread through the entire small universe. Before the space where Xiao Yu’s fleet was located transformed into energy and exploded, many other spatial explosions had already occurred elsewhere.

Countless low-level civilizations’ planets and ships were swallowed by these blasts and destroyed.

“Please, we beg you to stop the Guardian Civilization. Do not let it continue slaughtering innocents.” the Flame Civilization pleaded. “Those low-level civilizations are all innocent. They joined the Guardian Alliance only because they were forced to.”

“I will destroy the Guardian Civilization, but that has nothing to do with saving them.” Xiao Yu replied. “What does their life or death have to do with me? My goal is only to destroy the Guardian Civilization.”

The space where Xiao Yu’s fleet was located had already begun to explode continuously.

The energy produced by space itself turning into energy was enormous.

At the very least, if Xiao Yu’s technological level were still at the Divine Ark Civilization era, his fleet would long since have been obliterated here.

But things were different now. Xiao Yu was not yet a complete Level 7 Civilization, but he was already an existence beyond Level 6.

“I truly do not know where you get such confidence…” Xiao Yu thought with some amusement. “My main body is not even among these three hundred million warships, and my main fleet is still outside your small universe.”

“Do not speak of your trump card being useless against me. Even if it were effective, even if these three hundred million warships were completely destroyed, so what?”

“Out in the main universe I still have a fleet a hundred times this size that I have not even deployed.”

“The reason I went along with your wishes and dragged this out was only because I wanted to see whether, when I destroyed you, something similar to the Microscopic Civilization would appear to save you.”

“If I wiped you out in one go and the other existences did not have time to come, what then? Did you really think I was a fool?”

Some small ships were inevitably destroyed in the spatial explosions. But Xiao Yu did not care. His large warships remained intact and continued to advance toward the high-level civilization cluster that was wrapped in the space distortion shield.

The continuing space explosions had completely warped the region. All detection methods using visible or invisible wavelengths had failed.

However, Xiao Yu had spatial detection.

He was observing the fluctuations of the entire small universe’s space with precision and reconstructing the entire process perfectly in his mind with mathematical tools.

Several viable paths had already been calculated. Xiao Yu casually chose one and set out along it.

Explosions raged ceaselessly. Around Xiao Yu’s fleet, in every direction, space was shattered and fragmented. Light was repeatedly blocked, refracted, and reflected as it traveled, turning the entire region into something like a kaleidoscope.

Xiao Yu did not care. In this place there was nothing that could harm him.

The Flame Civilization had been shielded by Xiao Yu with a casual gesture. In this kind of environment, even as a Level 6 Civilization, without his protection they would have died terribly.

In this chaotic space, Xiao Yu launched his attack.

One spatial strike after another shot out, extending into the unseen depths of the cosmos.

The instant they were fired, they vanished, as if they had hit nothing at all.

But Xiao Yu knew that not a single shot was wasted. Every one of them had struck the space distortion shield that protected the high-level civilization cluster.

Xiao Yu’s fleet arrived at the space distortion shield, then plunged into it without hesitation.

Back when the Divine Ark Civilization had fought the Neutron War Star, the Neutron War Star had entered a space distortion shield and failed to break it even after more than one thousand years.

Now Xiao Yu entered the space distortion shield and needed less than a day to penetrate it and emerge into the calm high-level civilization cluster.

In the end, a space distortion shield was only a kind of maze-like shield formed by endlessly twisting, flipping, and overlapping space. In this small universe, was there any existence that understood space better than Xiao Yu?

The answer was no.

Spatial detection allowed Xiao Yu to easily measure any parameter he required and then to find the paths forward.

If the one controlling the space distortion shield had been a Level 7 Civilization, they would naturally have had the ability to prevent this.

But unfortunately, Xiao Yu was facing nothing more than a Level 6 Civilization.

Within the high-level civilization defense sphere, several smaller circles were divided out, each with its own independent shield.

Xiao Yu did not waste time on the other Level 6 Civilizations. In fact, he simply disdained them and could not be bothered.

He went straight to the Guardian Civilization’s defensive circle and plunged in without hesitation.

After Xiao Yu broke through the space distortion shield with minimal casualties in a very short time, the civilizations inside were seized by extreme panic.

When all their trump cards had been played and the opponent still ignored them, fear finally gained the upper hand. Xiao Yu saw countless ships pouring out of the other defensive circles and racing toward the passage that connected the small universe to the outside.

Even from within the Guardian Civilization’s own defensive circle, escape ships began to appear.

Xiao Yu destroyed only those ships that tried to escape from the Guardian Civilization’s defensive circle, ignoring the others.

Though he had no special mercy, he also could not be bothered to expend effort slaughtering civilizations that had nothing to do with him.

“Guardian Civilization, I must say your trump card is truly disappointing. I had thought you might give me some surprises, but I never expected such a pathetic trick.” Xiao Yu said calmly, after spending a little time to pass through the second defensive circle and facing the now undefended Guardian Civilization core.

The Guardian Civilization had already fallen into total chaos.

Countless ships were fleeing in all directions, cities were in uproar, and fear had spread across entire planets.

Xiao Yu did not rush to strike. He was still waiting to see whether any possible rescuers would appear.

The Guardian Civilization seemed to have lost all semblance of order, so no one answered him. Xiao Yu said nothing more, simply waiting quietly while sealing off the entire region of space.

Any ship that tried to push its way out would be destroyed without hesitation.

Xiao Yu waited for a full three days, and the Guardian Civilization remained in chaos for three days.

During that time, at least tens of billions of Guardian Civilization intelligent beings died amid the disorder.

Xiao Yu could not help but sigh. “Enemies from the outside may be terrifying, but the enemy within is even more so.”

Throughout those three days, the possible rescuers never arrived.

Xiao Yu gave a slight shake of his head and abandoned the idea of continuing to wait.

“I am tired of waiting. Guardian Civilization, you have lived freely for at least several million years. Now it is time for you to disappear from this universe.”