Rebirth of the Super Battleship

Chapter 824: Qualified Test Subject

“Yes, everything you are seeing… is real.” Ao Tian spoke as if muttering to himself. “The Sweepers Civilization really is controlling those monster-like warships, slaughtering our fleet. In front of those warships, our fleet… has no ability to fight back at all.”

“What! What kind of joke is this!” A civilization leader suddenly shot to his feet and said in a voice filled with fury, “How can this be real? How can this possibly be real? From the moment we began attacking this small universe, our alliance has paid a tremendous price, wearing down the Sweepers Civilization’s strength bit by bit. At the start of the war, the number of their warships really did not decrease, but that was only because the Sweepers Civilization was overdrawing its war potential. In the star system assaults we have conducted inside the small universe, which battle did not inflict heavy losses on the Sweepers Civilization? We have even broken through the last star system they were hiding in, and we have destroyed their flagship spaceship as well. And now you tell me that they somehow produced so many terrifying warships out of nowhere?”

“How can this be real?” This leader was practically roaring, “Just as our alliance is about to win, you tell me that all of this was fake, that the Sweepers Civilization has been playing us from the very beginning?”

“Th-this really is real.” Ao Tian whispered in reply.

At this point, a one-sided situation had appeared in this star system once again. The difference was that the side at a disadvantage had shifted from Xiao Yu to the Andromeda Galaxy Alliance. Previously, the number of warships the alliance possessed was so great that Xiao Yu could not make up the difference with quality. Now, Xiao Yu’s quality was so high that the Andromeda Galaxy Alliance could not make up the difference with numbers at all.

The enormous three-dimensional display relayed the battle scene in real time. The leaders could feel the situation on the battlefield clearly. Out there, all kinds of unimaginable scenes were taking place. For example, several Province-Class spaceships were relentlessly chasing down and attacking a Star-Class battleship. In addition to that terrifying white light, there were also sporadic explosions of extremely high energy appearing around that Star-Class battleship, with no way to tell where they were coming from.

Some ships even drilled directly into the interior of that Star-Class battleship, wreaking havoc inside. For example, a Town-Class spaceship was hunting down a Planet-Class warship. Another example, several County-Class spaceships working together were beating a peak Level 6 Alien Beast to the point that it was living a fate worse than death…

Every time a beam of white light swept past, at least several hundred warships were sliced in half. And at this moment, how could the number of such beams on the battlefield be merely in the tens of millions? Their own warships were being destroyed at a horrifying rate, while their counterattacks were pathetically weak.

The leaders watched as several Planet-Class battleships finally seized an opening and managed to trap a single County-Class spaceship in the void. They jointly launched their most powerful spatial collapse weapons, only to find that these spatial collapse attacks, which had never lost before, had absolutely no effect on that County-Class spaceship. It still maintained that terrifying speed of at least one thousand two hundred times the speed of light.

After flying for a while, it even used conventional flight to ram straight into a Planet-Class battleship. Barely more than ten minutes later, that enormous Planet-Class battleship exploded with a thunderous boom, turning into a blazing fireball…It was as if the entire world had suddenly flipped over in that instant. The supposed weakling, the loser who only needed a final blow to be utterly and easily defeated, suddenly transformed into an invincible god of war, trampling and slaughtering as if stepping on ants. Meanwhile, their own proud, enormous fleet was not even comparable to ants in the face of the enemy.

Watching their own fleet being massacred without end, Ao Tian’s body began to tremble slightly.

“No, this is not how it should be… Everything was under my control. Everything was under my control… Right now, I should be hosting a victory banquet, not standing here watching this bizarre scene… This is wrong, this is wrong!”

“Who can tell me what is going on?” Ao Tian asked in a trembling voice. “Have the Rules of the universe suddenly changed at this moment, so that the losers have become the victors and the victors have become the losers? Who can explain this to me? What the hell is going on here?”

The only response Ao Tian received was dead silence.

Suddenly, a anguished scream shattered the quiet in the conference room. A civilization leader suddenly shot to his feet and lunged toward the three-dimensional display, shouting loudly, “Our civilization’s flagship! The flagship our civilization spent nearly ten thousand years building! Just like that… just like that it was destroyed by a few City-Class spaceships!”

“That is our civilization’s Number Two ship… No, no! Commander, I am your leader. I order you to immediately pull back with all of our civilization’s ships. Retreat, retreat! Run as fast as you can, as far as you can! Go, hurry and go!”

“No one can run, no one can get away…” Ao Tian muttered. “The Sweepers Civilization’s ships can reach speeds of one thousand two hundred times the speed of light or even higher. Our ships can only reach one hundred fifty times the speed of light… No one can run, no one can get away…”

Another civilization leader stood up, crying and cursing loudly. “Ao Tian! You lied to us! You lied and told us we were sure to destroy this Level 7 Civilization and seize its technology. And now look! You have destroyed our civilization. You are the unforgivable sinner of our entire alliance!”

By now, Ao Tian had already crouched down, clutching his head in pain. Only at this moment did he truly understand that this had all been a trap. He had finally found a very reasonable explanation for everything. Most likely, when he had first arrived here, the Sweepers Civilization had not yet become a Level 7 Civilization. It was only over the years since he began this war that the Sweepers Civilization had truly advanced into the Level 7 Civilization tier and created such terrifying warships.

As for why the Sweepers Civilization had constantly displayed a defeated posture, it was nothing more than to prevent the alliance from fleeing in fear. If the alliance fled, the Sweepers Civilization would lose a suitable experimental subject for verifying the combat strength of its new warships and discovering flaws in their design…

“I’m too pitiful, thinking the victory was in my grasp the whole time, thinking everything was under my control, never realizing that I, that our entire alliance, have been toyed with by the Sweepers Civilization like monkeys… We became their test subjects for nothing. Now that their technology is mature, now that their warship manufacturing techniques and theories are complete, we have no value left, so now… now is the time for them to slaughter us…”

“Run, run. Our number of warships is large. The Sweepers Civilization cannot kill us all in a short time. Whoever can run, run. From now on, never provoke the Sweepers Civilization again…” Ao Tian muttered to himself.

But they soon discovered that, at this point, they could no longer even flee. At some unknown time, the passage connecting the main universe and the small universe had already failed for some reason. All attempts to open a new passage or lay a Space Bridge also ended in failure. It seemed the Sweepers Civilization had used some method to seize control of this entire region of space.

The entire alliance fell into despair once more.

“This is my trump card.” Xiao Yu said to the Flame Civilization with a smile. “Those warships that were destroyed before were nothing but my rejects. My pretend, step-by-step retreat was only because I was afraid that if I showed my full strength, I would scare the Andromeda Galaxy Alliance away, and thus lose a rare experimental subject. Now that my experiment is complete, they no longer have any value. Things without value should not exist in this universe. So I plan to wipe them all out.”

“A-all, all wiped out?” The leader of the Flame Civilization stammered, “Th-this is your true strength. Just how powerful are you really?”

“My strength exceeds your imagination. Because I am a Level 7 Civilization. The war-related battle power of a Level 7 Civilization is beyond what you Level 6 Civilizations can imagine.” Xiao Yu said calmly. “Now, come with me and leave this small universe. This small universe can no longer remain stable. I intend to test a more powerful superweapon here. Let the Andromeda Galaxy Alliance, this qualified test subject, contribute the last of its value…”

The leader of the Flame Civilization let out a long sigh and cast his gaze into the distance within the small universe. There, several thousand low-level civilizations were serving as logistics support. Clearly, Xiao Yu had no intention of sparing them either. Their fate had been sealed. They would disappear from the universe alongside the destruction of this small universe.

Xiao Yu recalled all of his warships and quietly left the small universe, leaving behind the members of the Andromeda Galaxy Alliance, who still had not recovered from their shock. When the leaders suddenly realized that all of the powerful enemy warships had vanished, some of them could not help but collapse to the floor, sobbing loudly.

“Gone, they are gone? The Sweepers Civilization actually spared us? Is my luck really so good?” Ao Tian thought in disbelief, then came to his senses. “As long as I do not die this time, I can definitely reorganize the alliance. Relying on our own strength, we will advance to the Level 7 Civilization tier, then find the Sweepers Civilization and take revenge, revenge! If you dare treat me, Ao Tian, like this, then not even gods descending from the heavens will be able to save you!”

By now, Xiao Yu had already returned to the main universe. Looking at the galaxy that had returned to tranquility, Xiao Yu said softly, “In another ten seconds, the superweapon I left in the small universe should detonate…”