"I've already made the location of the main fleet so obvious. I wonder if those Void Spirits have the guts to charge at us."

"Everyone, this is the war we've been waiting for! Let's fight to our heart's content!"

"..."

Clearly, right now the Human Civilization legion is brimming with fighting spirit.

Instead, it's the previous retreat tactics of the Void Spirit Race that have stirred an even greater murderous intent.

After fighting the Void Spirit Race for over twenty years, with revenge finally within reach, the enemy kept running away. This feeling is suffocating.

Now, watching the accelerating, even superluminal approach of the Void Spirit Race fleet, the warriors have nothing left but frenzied battle lust!

The five highest-ranking commanders immediately issued a dazzling series of orders.

The first was full acceleration across the board.

In a war with fleets of this scale, battles are never fought standing still; in fact, the entire star system is moving relative to itself at ultra-high speed.

So, every engagement happens at superluminal speed.

"So-called superluminal travel is actually made possible by a unique Phase Barrier that controls mass-energy changes, keeping the fleet at a relatively low internal velocity. But—this also weakens its defenses, because if the Phase Barrier is shattered, both warships and people in superluminal state will instantly convert to pure energy and be annihilated." Intersellar world Shen Yu whispered an explanation to Martial Artist Shen Yu.

Interstellar war is extremely brutal.

There's rarely even wreckage left behind.

Just a few hours later, the two sides make official contact.

But Martial Artist Shen Yu can't follow the battle; he can't make sense of the technical terms or the orders the commanders are giving, and neither can intersellar world Shen Yu. The only thing they do understand is that, looking at the map, both sides are extremely close, moving in the same direction, colliding again and again.

Every so often a light dot representing a Human fleet disappears, and sometimes dots representing the enemy fleet vanish.

Every dot means destruction.

At first glance, it looks evenly matched.

But it doesn't last long.

After just over two hours of battle, Martial Artist Shen Yu clearly hears the truth.

The Void Spirit Race has finally joined the fight directly, with a huge number of Void Spirit warriors breaching Human Civilization's fleet through information transmission technology—many more than before!

And instead of helpless resistance, Human Civilization's fleet puts up a fierce fight.

The command channel erupts with noise.

"More than two hundred in Area A, Third Squad go and block them!"

"Too arrogant—do these bastards think we can't see them?"

"Careful, they're using some highly aggressive memetic weapons, even Martial Arts Squads can't hold them off!"

"The numbers are climbing."

"Activate the Holy Great Sun! Fleet-wide coverage!"

"Report: We've just eliminated over ten thousand Void Spirits, but enemy numbers keep increasing!"

"We need to locate their signal transmission device!"

"..."

It's obvious that, confronted with the Void Spirit Race's direct invasion, Human Civilization now has enough resistance and killing power, but this time, the Void Spirit Race is going all in—regardless of the cost, flooding the battlefield with more and more of their native warriors.

They know this is no longer a game, but a war—yet they show no sign of retreat.

Intersellar world Shen Yu's expression turns graver and graver, and he finally speaks up: "Half an hour—if we haven't found the signal transmission device in half an hour, I'll have to use the Association's full force."

Seeing Shen Yu still looking somewhat lost, intersellar world Shen Yu quietly explains: "Normally, in superluminal combat there shouldn't be this kind of 'boarding action.' Any matter that loses the Phase Barrier's protection instantly turns to energy. But the Void Spirit Race is different—they don't exist as material entities, and can use super-spatial information transfer to lock onto and invade our fleet. But to do that, they need a special information transmission device, and it's always located in a specific bio-warship packed with Void Spirits!"

Before intersellar world Shen Yu arrived, Human Civilization's only way to counter the Void Spirit Civilization was to take casualties and destroy the bio-warship carrying the information transmission device.

That way, the Void Spirit Race couldn't invade the Human Civilization's fleet anymore.

The remaining bio-weapons would barely have a chance to fight.

Martial Artist Shen Yu suddenly understands and asks aloud: "Isn't it really expensive to use Gray Mist to lock on and then Teleport?"

"Locking on and then Gray Mist Teleportation burns over a hundred million units," intersellar world Shen Yu replies, "Probably because we're way behind in information transmission technology."

Martial Artist Shen Yu nods slightly, able to understand.

That's just how Gray Mist works.

If Human Civilization had high technical levels, it would just save time and cost very little.

If not, the cost is huge.

So, improving Human Civilization's overall power in every Domain is also essential for efficiently utilizing Gray Mist on the battlefield.

"But this time, we've got a clever trump card," intersellar world Shen Yu adds.

Otherwise, he wouldn't set a half-hour deadline.

Right now, that trump card is already in play.

It's the Bronze Fleet!

A Human Civilization warrior pilots a relatively small Bronze Battleship, rapidly approaching one of the enemy's notably larger bio-warships.

This bio-warship looks, in shape, just like a giant whale.

Wandering forward.

The whole structure is covered in hard scales, and protected by a layer of Phase Barrier.

Its speed at the moment is close to twice light speed!

But the Human Civilization warrior easily catches up!

Just this maneuverability alone makes him want to weep with excitement.

"This is it—this is what a next-gen warship means!"

Actually, the Bronze Battleship's drive engine isn't much improved; the real breakthrough is the bronze material integrated into the hull.

It can even extend the coefficient in the mass-energy formula to some extent.

Reduces shield pressure.

Plus, with a smaller frame, the Superluminal Engine accelerates even faster.

That's the next-generation effect.

And it's not just the speed.

The enemy quickly notices this small warship approaching and responds fast, hundreds of Void Spirits teleporting into the Bronze Battleship.

But as soon as they arrive, the driver doesn't even need to do anything—they all howl and dissolve on the spot.

The entire battleship is saturated with the Holy Great Sun Magic!

"That's done—my turn now!" The pilot punches the attack button, ecstatic.

BOOM——!

A fierce Antimatter Energy Beam instantly locks onto and hits the enemy.

Far more powerful than you'd expect from a ship this size!

Blasts through a chunk of the Phase Barrier; in an instant, vast amounts of flesh at the rear of the bio-warship are completely annihilated.

Though the Phase Barrier repairs itself rapidly, it's already lost a full third of its strength!

"Just gotta hit it twice more," the Bronze Battleship pilot says, dodging the swarming enemy ships of similar size, using his ship's formidable defense to get even closer, and, with three powerful shots, blows away this heavily armed, giant bio-warship.

The only downside: that kind of shielding obviously doesn't protect the warship carrying the Void Spirit Race's information transmission device.

But there are over a hundred Bronze Battleships like this.

All targeting the enemy's large warships.

Past experience tells them: the information transmission device is definitely inside one of those big ships.

Even if they can't locate it through information technology, they can systematically eliminate them on the physical level until they find the one with the strongest defense.

Forget half an hour.

Just eighteen minutes after the Bronze Battleships attack, the target is locked—not just one!

"It's finally our turn!" intersellar world Shen Yu grabs Martial Artist Shen Yu, long awaited!

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