Chapter 948: Attacking the Mother Body |
At this moment, this stretch of starry sky had already been completely filled by the ocean of Alien Beasts and clustered warship formations. In the camp opposing Xiao Yu, at least on the frontal battlefield, there was no doubt that this Level 7 Alien Beast held the dominant position. Although the Dark Star Civilization provided this Level 7 Alien Beast with solid logistical support, at least this support had not been clearly manifested on the battlefield.
After the plan to destroy the Dark Star Civilization’s logistics base was blocked by the Logic Weapon, Xiao Yu had completely abandoned that intention and instead shifted his target onto the Level 7 Alien Beast itself. Xiao Yu knew that for the Dark Star Civilization, this Level 7 Alien Beast was an ally that could not be lost. So if he could force this Level 7 Alien Beast to the brink of death, the Dark Star Civilization would definitely use the Logic Weapon once again, and they would once again suffer the backlash of the Logic Weapon.
What Xiao Yu hoped to achieve was precisely this purpose. Guided by this line of thought, Xiao Yu’s vast warship fleet once again assembled. Apart from the warships tied down on the frontal battlefield to contain most of the Dark Star Civilization’s and the Level 7 Alien Beast’s forces, as well as the warships remaining at the logistics base to carry out defensive tasks, Xiao Yu deployed all of his remaining strength into this campaign.
Across this broad battlefield, Xiao Yu’s warships, through high-speed curvature flight, completed a long-distance raid from the Dark Star Civilization’s logistics base to the location of the Level 7 Alien Beast. Xiao Yu knew that his movements could not be hidden from the Dark Star Civilization. On a battlefield like this, large-scale military redeployments were transparent to both sides.
At the same moment Xiao Yu’s warships began moving, large numbers of giant Alien Beasts, along with part of the Dark Star Civilization’s fleet, also began gathering around the Level 7 Alien Beast. Xiao Yu observed that the speed at which this Level 7 Alien Beast produced small Alien Beasts had accelerated considerably, and from this moment on, after being created, these small Alien Beasts all remained beside the mother body and no longer moved elsewhere like those created earlier had done.
Clearly, the Dark Star Civilization had also made preparations to firmly resist Xiao Yu’s attack.
Actually, from certain perspectives, in this war the Dark Star Civilization held a greater advantage than Xiao Yu. That was because Xiao Yu’s offensive had a time limit. As long as Xiao Yu failed to destroy the Central Black Hole within five hundred years, the Dark Star Civilization would count as victorious. So the Dark Star Civilization’s side focused more of its energy on defense. This had both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage was that Xiao Yu temporarily did not need to worry about the Dark Star Civilization coordinating with the Logic Weapon to do something that would strike at his foundations. The disadvantage was that this situation forced Xiao Yu to keep attacking constantly, every moment, without relaxing for even an instant.
Xiao Yu was steadfastly carrying out this rule. After Xiao Yu’s fleet reached the battlefield, there was almost no pause before fierce combat had already begun.
Ahead of Xiao Yu was the Level 7 Alien Beast, enormous like a star. Beside this Level 7 Alien Beast were countless small Alien Beasts, swirling here like masses of dark clouds. As long as Xiao Yu’s fleet dared advance even a little, countless Alien Beasts would immediately surge over and completely drown Xiao Yu’s fleet in an ocean of Alien Beasts. Spatial Cannons and Spatial Bombs exploded densely here, yet they could not carve out a bloody path through this endless sea of Alien Beasts.
They were already not much different from technological warships. Perhaps calling them biological warships would be more appropriate.
The Canglong battleship was fighting a bloody battle. The hundreds of thousands of main-gun-level Spatial Cannons mounted on it were operating at full load every moment, while all kinds of other attack weapons were also attacking continuously. One giant Alien Beast was blasted to pieces by it, then another. More than a dozen giant Alien Beasts the size of Earth had been destroyed by the Canglong battleship through its own power alone, while more than twenty other giant Alien Beasts, after being wounded by the Canglong, were killed by the other ships in the Canglong battleship formation. Yet the number of enemies before Xiao Yu still had not decreased.
There were too many enemies. It was impossible for small elite forces alone to pierce through their defenses. Yes, that was right. Fourteen billion warships could be called an enormous force anywhere, but when facing this ocean of Alien Beasts, they could only be referred to as a small force.
To force the Level 7 Alien Beast to the brink of death, and force the Dark Star Civilization to use the Logic Weapon to save this Level 7 Alien Beast, was Xiao Yu’s established strategic arrangement. Yet now, Xiao Yu encountered an obstacle at the very first step of carrying out this plan. This was something Xiao Yu could not accept. Xiao Yu was rapidly thinking of ways to solve the problem.
“Should I have deployed the Neutron War Stars and White Dwarf War Stars I have stored onto the battlefield?” Xiao Yu pondered inwardly. “This is a very powerful force, enough to change the situation on the battlefield. But… would exposing this force too early have negative consequences? They are, after all, one of my trump cards.”
“Or I could once again accelerate the manufacturing process of ultra-miniature warships, sent a massive number of ultra-miniature warships into the main battlefield, and tie down their main forces. Then I could free up warships to join the attack on the Level 7 Alien Beast.” After thinking for a while, Xiao Yu made this decision.
War among Level 7 Civilizations could not be understood through common-sense assumptions. The vastness of space and the huge number of warships determined that wars between Level 7 Civilizations would be long and protracted. For example, the redeployment of warships from one battlefield to another, or the determination of victory in a small battle, or a major campaign such as Xiao Yu’s attempt to cut off the Level 7 Alien Beast’s supply lines, or Xiao Yu’s attempt to destroy the Dark Star Civilization’s logistics base, every such event was measured in years. From the time the Dark Star Civilization was pulled by Xiao Yu into the current three-dimensional universe until now, nearly three hundred years had already hurried past. More than half of Xiao Yu’s mission deadline had already been used up.
During this time, the total number of ultra-miniature warships manufactured by Xiao Yu had already exceeded ten trillion, and most of them had been deployed into the main battlefield. Of course, nearly four-fifths of these ultra-miniature warships had already been destroyed. At present, fewer than two trillion ultra-miniature warships were still in combat.
Now, Xiao Yu planned to greatly expand this number once again, even at the cost of temporarily delaying the manufacturing progress of large warships. Guided by this mindset, large amounts of computational power were diverted, and in the logistics base, supermassive docks as large as Jupiter, medium-sized docks as large as Earth, and countless small docks were all converted and given the task of producing ultra-miniature warships. Under these conditions, Xiao Yu’s speed of manufacturing ultra-miniature warships increased by nearly several thousand times.
The number of ultra-miniature warships began exploding like a blowout. In an extremely short period of time, less than two years, Xiao Yu assembled one trillion ultra-miniature warships and sent all of them into the main battlefield. The gain achieved was that more than one billion large warships could be redeployed by Xiao Yu into the battlefield attacking the Level 7 Alien Beast.
During this period, Xiao Yu also manufactured some large warships, but not many, only around twenty million, and all of them were sent into the battlefield as well.
The manufacturing speed of ultra-miniature warships continued to rise. This time, Xiao Yu needed only one year to once again assemble one trillion, then once again deployed them into the main battlefield. Then came the third batch, the fourth batch…
Twenty years had now passed. At this moment, on the main battlefield around the Level 7 Alien Beast, the total number of ultra-miniature warships scattered through space carrying out harassment and sniping missions, serving as probe ships, coordinating with large warships to harass the Dark Star Civilization’s main base, and so on, had already broken through one hundred trillion, and was still continuing to rise.
This massive number of ultra-miniature warships had finally begun to display their unique usefulness. They could contain small Alien Beasts with extremely precise killing power, and when their numbers gathered to a certain level, they could even launch swarming attacks against large Alien Beasts. The most obvious effect was that now, Xiao Yu was able to draw out nearly ten billion large warships to participate in the campaign against the Level 7 Alien Beast’s mother body.
After all these years of attrition and reinforcement, the total number of warships Xiao Yu had assembled to deal with this Level 7 Alien Beast mother body had already reached twenty billion, and this number did not even include the far greater number of ultra-miniature warships, which amounted to nearly several trillion.
Under these conditions, the long-stagnant situation was finally broken open by Xiao Yu. Xiao Yu’s warship fleet could finally push upstream against the endless ocean of warships and launch direct attacks on the true body of this Level 7 Alien Beast.