Rebirth of the Super Battleship

Chapter 822: The Death of the Solar

The Andromeda Galaxy Alliance was like a diligent gardener. Under its tireless watering, Xiao Yu’s technological achievements finally blossomed into beautiful flowers. Warships built with Level 7 Civilization technology had already matured and become capable of meeting the demands of large-scale, intense warfare. By this time, the Andromeda Galaxy Alliance no longer had any value in existing.

Things without value should not exist here. What was more, the Andromeda Galaxy Alliance had never harbored good intentions toward Xiao Yu.

“Let me grant you your last extravagant hope of victory.” Xiao Yu sneered inwardly as he issued a new order.

Xiao Yu already possessed a sufficient number of Level 7 Civilization warships, a full one billion of them. Among them, there were five Star-Class battleships. Xiao Yu had already moved into the new-type Solar spaceship, from which he controlled this enormous fleet.

Compared with before, Xiao Yu’s computing power had made an enormous leap. Correspondingly, however, the computing power required to operate Level 7 Civilization warships had also increased. Thus, the number of warships Xiao Yu could control had not changed much compared to the past. Now, Xiao Yu could simultaneously control roughly three hundred million warships.

With these one billion Level 7 Civilization warships, the fewer than fifty million remaining warships of Level 6 Civilization standard had become completely worthless. Refitting them was too much trouble, and if he dismantled them and rebuilt new ships, Xiao Yu already had more warships than he could control. There was simply no need to waste more computing power building extra ships.

“To repay you for helping me fix so many flaws, I have decided to give you these fifty million warships.” Xiao Yu thought calmly as he controlled the last batch of old-type warships. Including the Solar spaceship, he sent them all into the battlefield.

The abnormal situation on the battlefield immediately attracted Ao Tian’s attention. At that moment, Ao Tian’s mind grew taut with wild joy. A command filled with excitement was issued. “Look, everyone, the Sweepers Civilization has exhausted its strength. Their final batch of warships has also been sent to the battlefield. As long as we destroy this last batch of warships, we will secure the final victory. Look, that ship must be their flagship. I order a full-scale assault. All units, full assault, full assault!”

“Full assault, full assault!” Countless cheers rang out across the entire battlefield. Tens of billions of warships in total, and the fewer than thirty remaining single-entity civilizations, at this moment, poured all of their passion and strength for battle into a furious charge forward.

After the battle began, something that delighted them even more occurred. It was as if Xiao Yu had suddenly gone insane. The tight coordination between warships vanished in an instant. The cooperation between ships became as chaotic as that of complete novices with no combat experience, utterly lacking in order. There were even frequent incidents of friendly fire between ships.“The Sweepers Civilization has squeezed its war potential dry, I am certain of it. The ones operating these warships right now must be rookies who have hardly undergone any training. They cannot be our match. Attack, attack!” Ao Tian shouted hoarsely in the command room. “I order ten single-entity civilizations and three billion warships to be assigned to encircle their civilization’s flagship. You must capture that warship!”

The old Solar spaceship charged mockingly into the alliance’s warship formation. Of course, this mockery, in Ao Tian’s eyes, became something tragic. He muttered to himself, “So you are ready to be destroyed? How unfortunate. Even if you fight this desperately, you still cannot reverse the decline of your civilization. You wish to die, and I will oblige you.”

A dense swarm of ships and powerful single-entity civilizations completely surrounded the Solar spaceship.

After a brief stalemate, the battle line turned into a one-sided slaughter. Xiao Yu’s side suffered a crushing defeat. The Flame Civilization stared in horror at the scene before it, watched as the star system defense line was breached, watched as the Star-Class battleships that represented the civilization’s highest combat power were surrounded, watched as one Star-Class battleship after another was destroyed, until in the end only a single Solar spaceship was still fighting bitterly…

“No, we cannot sit back and watch this happen. How many warships does our civilization still have?… Still thirty thousand? Send them all, send them all. We must share as much of the burden for the Sweepers Civilization as we can!”

“Calm down, calm down.” Xiao Yu was in an exceedingly good mood at this moment. Smiling, he refused the Flame Civilization’s request for reinforcements. “Wait a little longer. The old must go before the new can come. We will not be in danger.”

At this time, there was only one Star-Class spaceship left, the Solar spaceship that had once represented Xiao Yu’s glory. At this moment, the Solar spaceship’s escort ships had been reduced to fewer than three hundred thousand, while the warships participating in the encirclement of the Solar numbered in the tens of billions.

“The end of one glorious era is the beginning of another.” Xiao Yu sighed. “Solar spaceship, you were my strongest warship in the previous stage, yet I never let you take part in a single battle. For a warship, to die on the battlefield is the best destination. I grant you this honor. Go, go, unleash all of your power…”

Under the siege of this ocean of warships, the last escort ship was finally destroyed. In the battle zone where the Solar was located, only that single warship remained.

Amid the endless encirclement of warships, the Solar spaceship, which represented Xiao Yu’s brilliant achievements as a Level 6 Civilization, unleashed its greatest power. Countless spatial rifts raged through space. Space shattering, space collapse, space folds and other spatial weapons were pushed to the extreme by it. Never before had there been a moment when Xiao Yu poured so much computing power and mental focus into a single warship. Because it was the Solar spaceship, it had earned that right.

Xiao Yu focused all his attention on maneuvering the Solar through the battle zone. Sweeping away all previous decline, it now embodied the full prestige of the strongest warship of Level 6 Technological Civilization. An enemy Star-Class battleship was heavily damaged and had to withdraw from the fight. As the price, a Level 6 Alien Beast viciously lashed one of its thick tentacles against the Solar, while a ferocious spatial attack launched by another Star-Class battleship also struck its hull.

The shield of the Solar spaceship flickered violently several times. Those few attacks had already inflicted a certain degree of damage upon the Solar. Yet the Solar was utterly fearless and kept fighting in the thick of battle.

The enemy warships were simply too numerous. Aside from those blows landed by high-end combatants, the attacks from the medium and small ships were like raindrops, never ceasing for even an instant.

Even the Solar spaceship, in the face of an onslaught by hundreds of millions of warships, was under immense pressure. The disparity in numbers had reached a level that sheer quality could no longer compensate for. The gap between ants and dinosaurs was enormous, but if hundreds of millions or tens of billions of ants swarmed a single dinosaur, even a tyrannosaurus would likely die with regret.

By now, the Solar spaceship had already sustained extremely serious damage. Of course, if it wanted to escape at this moment, it was still capable of doing so. With a cruising speed as high as two hundred times the speed of light, no one other than Xiao Yu could catch it. But Xiao Yu was unwilling to let the Solar spaceship, which carried the glory of several thousand years of his life, be dismantled. To die on the battlefield was its best resting place.

The situation grew worse and worse. The Solar’s protective shield had already been breached. Thanks to the modular defense system design, its other sections still maintained their defensive capability, while holographic defense and holographic attack technologies rendered the enemy’s attempts to break through the damaged area and penetrate into the Solar’s interior completely futile. The Solar had reached the very limit of what a Level 6 Civilization could achieve, yet it was still not enough.

The Solar spaceship was declining irreversibly. Its movements began to slow, its counterattacks grew feeble, and with each hit it suffered, the damage became more and more severe. At this point, Xiao Yu knew that the Solar’s death was no longer far away.

By this time, several million enemy ships, large and small, had already fallen to the Solar’s attacks. Among them were two Star-Class battleships and a Level 6 Alien Beast that had been grievously wounded and forced to withdraw.

This was the price that had to be paid to destroy the Solar spaceship. The Solar had proven its status with its strength.

“All combat units, pay attention to your attack strength. Do not destroy the Solar. Capture it. Capture it!” Ao Tian shouted himself hoarse as he issued his command. With this order, the alliance’s combat deployment changed once again. Their high-end combat units stopped engaging the Solar head-on and instead chose to harass and circle around it.

Xiao Yu knew that they were draining the Solar’s energy. They were trying to exhaust the Solar’s reserves and then capture it.

From that moment on, Xiao Yu understood that the Solar would find it difficult to achieve any greater results.

“There is only a Solar that dies in battle, never a Solar that is captured.” Xiao Yu thought with utter contempt. “Solar spaceship, die in the most heroic way.”

The Solar spaceship turned into a dazzling burst of light. At the final moment, Xiao Yu controlled it to end its own life with self-destruction.

Watching the self-destruction of the Solar spaceship, Ao Tian slammed his fist down hard on the table.

“Go, go. This is the end of the old era and the beginning of the new.” Xiao Yu murmured, unable to say whether he felt sorrow or joy in his heart.

With the destruction of the Solar spaceship, the defensive ring Xiao Yu had set up at the edge of the star system was completely breached. At that moment, every warship chose a kamikaze-style method of attack, ending its own life in the most heroic fashion.

“Charge! Destroy the Sweepers Civilization and plunder their resources and technology!” Ao Tian issued another order. Yet just as the command left his lips, an unforeseen situation occurred.

He saw warships again. Countless warships were rushing out from the center of the star system…