Rebirth of the Super Battleship

Chapter 819: The Spatial Vortex and the Spatial Cannon

With that order, the full assault began. Twenty Level 6 Alien Beasts rushed at the very front of all the warships, violently charging forward. Star System Five remained completely on the defensive, standing ready in place without sallying out.

A Level 6 Alien Beast with a form resembling the dinosaurs of ancient Earth let out a furious roar and lunged toward a Planet-Class battleship. Tens of thousands of escort warships around the Planet-Class ship immediately converged, launching a fierce attack on the Level 6 Alien Beast. The Planet-Class battleship itself retreated slightly, and its space weapon launchers, gleaming with a chilling light, were exposed. A streak of black radiance flashed past, and a gigantic gash several hundred kilometers long instantly appeared on the Alien Beast’s body. Endless amounts of flesh-like matter splattered from its wounds.

The Level 6 Alien Beast roared in fury, its radio waves of anger spreading wildly through this region of space. Its thick tail whipped through the void at extremely high speed. A Continent-Class spaceship could not dodge in time and was struck squarely by the tail. Immediately, dense alarm signals were emitted from countless monitoring devices aboard the Continent-Class ship and transmitted into Xiao Yu’s mind.

Xiao Yu let out a slight sigh.

“The combat strength of a Level 6 Alien Beast really is formidable. This Tyrant Dragon Beast is the strongest among these dozens of Alien Beasts. Although there is some gap compared to the Python Alien Beast and others in the Milky Way, it is not that far behind. To kill such a beast, I need to deploy at least two Star-Class battleships, with tens of thousands of other warships coordinating, while a single Continent-Class battleship is still far from enough.”

That Continent-Class battleship had been heavily damaged by a single strike from the Tyrant Dragon Beast and was forced to withdraw from battle. In comparison, another Nation-Class battleship had even worse luck. It was rammed head-on by the Tyrant Dragon Beast and almost instantly exploded and disintegrated, turning into a ball of fire.

Hundreds of thousands of warships of various types launched a fierce attack on the Tyrant Dragon Beast. Thanks to their superiority in weaponry, even City-Class ships on Xiao Yu’s side could carve open wounds on its body. Almost in an instant, its hide was covered with a dense network of injuries.

At this moment, the other Level 6 Alien Beasts and huge warship clusters also arrived. The battle for the defense of Star System Five erupted in full. The performance of Xiao Yu’s warships was outstanding, but the alliance simply had too many ships, and there were also dozens of single-entity civilizations here with combat power equivalent to Xiao Yu’s Star-Class battleships.

The situation on the battlefield was locked in a stalemate. Amid this chaotic clash, the ten Province-Class ships quietly moved out. Each was only the size of a Town-Class spaceship and completely inconspicuous amid this maelstrom of warships. On this vast battlefield, these ten ships were like a handful of sand scattered into the sea, vanishing in an instant.

“Tyrant Dragon Beast… you are quite arrogant, are you not. Then I will use you as my first test subject. You will be the first to experience the might of warships forged with fully Level 7 technology. For that honor, you should feel proud.” Xiao Yu thought coolly.The ten Province-Class battleships, each only Town-Class in size, had silently taken up different positions around the Tyrant Dragon Beast. A City-Class alliance battleship, seemingly seeing a ‘Town-Class’ ship as easy prey, charged toward it aggressively. Dozens of black space rifts instantly slashed toward Ship One.

Ship One did not even bother responding to these space rifts. They simply could not inflict any real damage. At Xiao Yu’s command, the ship immediately launched its counterattack.

In that very instant, right after Ship One counterattacked, the City-Class warship suddenly vanished. A massive burst of energy erupted from the place where it had disappeared, sweeping over the hundreds of ships around it. One Province-Class battleship had no time to evade and was directly destroyed by the blast of energy.

This was an attack method similar to a Spatial Starburst. The difference between this technique and the Neutron War Star’s Spatial Starburst lay only in the trigger mechanism. Xiao Yu, now a Level 7 civilization, had been able to analyze the Spatial Starburst technique. In his analysis, the Neutron War Star’s Spatial Starburst was triggered by compressing space, which was a higher-grade method he had not yet mastered. What he was currently using was a method of firing ultra-high-speed particles to induce a space explosion.

The loss of one Province-Class ship did not attract any attention amid the chaos of battle. On a battlefield where the number of ships was calculated in the billions, the destruction of a Nation-Class or Continent-Class ship was entirely normal. Only the destruction of a Planet-Class ship would draw any notice.

“Now let me have you taste the power of a Level 7 warship.” Xiao Yu thought calmly, issuing another order.

Upon receiving the command, Ship Two among the ten Province-Class ships surged toward the Tyrant Dragon Beast. With only the size of a Town-Class ship, it was as insignificant as a speck of dust before the Tyrant Dragon Beast, which was as large as a moon. The Tyrant Dragon Beast did not react at all, perhaps because it did not even see this tiny thing.

It did not notice that at this moment, space in front of Ship Two had already begun to show signs of disturbance, and that disturbance was rapidly spreading. In just a brief moment, the space ahead of Ship Two had turned into something like shattered glass, and those fragments of space were moving back and forth at high speed.

Xiao Yu’s deeper understanding of space allowed him to exert an extremely subtle control over it, manipulating space fragments to form an effect similar to a high-speed saw. This patch of space possessed terrifying cutting power. In laboratory tests, even Xiao Yu’s previous generation top-tier Continent-Class warships could not withstand this slicing.

This was Xiao Yu’s latest weapon. He named it the Spatial Vortex.

Xiao Yu could not yet fire the Spatial Vortex as a true long-range weapon. He could only create this state in front of his ship. But that was enough. It was like fitting a high-speed drill bit to the warship’s bow. Before the Tyrant Dragon Beast could react, there was no suspense at all; the ship and its spinning space zone bored straight into the creature’s body.

Following Ship Two into the Tyrant Dragon Beast’s body were six other ships. The remaining three ships launched another kind of attack.

Inside those ships, within their internal spaces, massive amounts of energy were gathering. Through the operation of their instruments, this energy rapidly interacted with space. This reaction condensed upon the ships’ weapon systems and was finally unleashed like artillery fire.

This was not a beam weapon, but outwardly it resembled one. It was a spatial weapon. Through an extremely high-energy reaction, it caused the space along a straight line to undergo explosive reactions that then focused together and struck the target like a shell. It could travel faster than light like a space rift, yet its power was far greater than that of an ordinary space rift.

In laboratory conditions, this beam-like weapon had once easily pierced straight through a Nation-Class warship.

Xiao Yu named this weapon the Spatial Cannon.

Now, four exceedingly bright Spatial Cannons were fired. Like lightning piercing the darkness, they reached the Tyrant Dragon Beast’s body in an instant and, without any surprise, punched clean through.

These were the two newest spatial weapons Xiao Yu had developed at the Level 7 standard.

Seven ships had entered the Tyrant Dragon Beast’s body using the Spatial Vortex, and three ships’ Spatial Cannons had easily penetrated the outer defenses and delivered their attacks inside the creature.

The Tyrant Dragon Beast had never noticed the seven ships that had invaded its body, or it simply had not cared. Its body was too massive. It was like a human being’s body being entered by a bacterium that the person would not even sense. It paid no heed at all to the tiny intruders. Instead, it was the three beam-like Spatial Cannons that caused it intense pain.

It let out another agonized bellow. The pain forced it to divert its attention to these little pests. Abandoning the Planet-Class battleship it had been entangled with, it charged toward one of the ships, its thick tail lashing out viciously.

Xiao Yu could easily have guided the ship to dodge. This was a pure Level 7 warship, with a maximum speed of one thousand one hundred times the speed of light. Compared with such speed, the Tyrant Dragon Beast’s movement was hardly worth mentioning. But Xiao Yu did not steer it aside. Instead, he left it in place to bear the Tyrant Dragon Beast’s full-force strike.

The reason was simple. Xiao Yu wanted to test the ship’s defensive capabilities.

The result was very satisfying. The Tyrant Dragon Beast’s full-strength blow not only failed to inflict any serious damage on the warship, it actually drove the ship straight into its body.

It was like someone trying to smack a chopstick into the ground with their hand, swinging down with all their might but failing to drive the chopstick into the earth and instead having their palm pierced through by it. The situation now was the same. The warship took almost no damage, and because the force behind the Tyrant Dragon Beast’s attack was too great, it ended up sending the ship directly into its own body.

Of the ten warships, eight had now entered the Tyrant Dragon Beast’s body.

The remaining two ships continued firing their Spatial Cannons. The Spatial Cannons’ damage upon contact was not the slicing damage of a beam weapon, despite their beam-like appearance. Their destructive power was explosive, like a bomb.

Xiao Yu saw great chunks of flesh being blasted from the Tyrant Dragon Beast’s body. In an instant, this region of space was filled with flying pieces of Alien Beast flesh.