Chapter 1614: Chapter 604: Alive Again

In this battle, Ren Zhong emerged victorious.

But he did not feel happy; he lost Zheng Tian, Ying Zhenshan, and many more clansmen.

After completing the reorganization and initial statistics, he found that the Red Blade Vanguard Corps he brought to the front line had a casualty rate of 92%.

Originally, the fleet that was several times the size of the entire Marquis Zhenjiang Mansion’s corps was reduced to 5% of its previous level.

The cost was very severe.

Even though Ren Zhong knew before leading the army that this would be a vicious battle and he himself would pay a heavy price, he believed that to achieve the goal, to pursue the higher dreams in his heart, and in a certain sense, to fulfill the Utopia he had promised everyone, he and his clansmen could bear these costs.

But when everything settled, when Ren Zhong faced this "cost," he found it difficult to let it go.

After a long while, Ren Zhong closed the projection and assigned Han Zhixin the task of continuing the reorganization of the forces and returning to the Fold Jump Subspace Channel exit for rest.

In this campaign, the high-ranking military personnel of the Red Blade Army suffered very heavy casualties.

Some were lost because the warships were destroyed, but the majority of the high-ranking personnel perished within the command flagship. Along with Ying Zhenshan, they massively used potions and then sacrificed themselves.

Therefore, Han Zhixin, who temporarily served as the Chief Supply Officer and performed excellently, gained Ren Zhong’s trust and was respected by others, being promoted on the spot to the Commander of the remaining forces, responsible for post-war arrangements.

After handling these matters, Ren Zhong once again stood up, walked to the hatch of his combat flagship, and gazed at the starry sky with the naked eye.

In the distance, the flashes of explosions continued.

That was the Far Border Alliance Army, led by the Marquis Zhenjiang, launching a full-scale attack. As the under-construction channel was completely destroyed, the Alliance finally gained a relative troop advantage.

Earlier, after a Second Level Mother Empress was destroyed and detonated into a short-lived star, a vast number of space creatures under the control of the Mother Empress Ship instantly became "dead objects." This was similar to the situation when a Fourth Level Mother Empress was destroyed before.

Under normal circumstances, as this was a battle zone, a large number of Third and Fourth Level Mother Empress Ships were still roaming along the battlefront.

These subordinate Mother Empress Ships would have had the opportunity to take over the control rights.

But Jin Shi was not unprepared.

Previously, when Ren Zhong’s Starry Sky Red Blade Armor was just forming, she had already been secretly plotting and preparing.

Upon the Second Level Mother Empress’s death, Jin Shi immediately ordered the Far Border Star Domain Alliance Army to intensify their offensive, suppressing other Mother Empress Ships from attempting to approach the Red Peak Battlefield.

Meanwhile, before delivering the final blow, Ren Zhong had already instructed the remaining combat units in the Vanguard Corps to gradually approach the enemy formations and prepare in advance. As he killed the Second Level Mother Empress, the remaining Vanguard Corps rapidly deployed a large number of pre-set positioning devices.

These positioning devices quickly adhered to numerous medium and large space creatures in a very short time.

On the other side, Jin Shi’s ambushed long-range bombardment fleet had already charged up, just waiting for the guidance to take effect.

Then came the epic-scale volley that almost affected the entire channel battle zone.

This was undoubtedly the largest-scale volley launched by the Mechanical Empire since the outbreak of the Three Domains Campaign.

Countless rays of various colors, particle streams, energy beams, and beams shot out from all directions, rushing towards the Red Blade Battle Zone, and fiercely hitting these medium and large space creatures.

This single heavy strike almost completely eradicated most of the medium-to-large space creatures originally under the Second Level Mother Empress.

This is what should happen when precise positioning devices, smooth information flow communication, and space weapons are perfectly combined.

Of course, the prerequisite for achieving this was Ren Zhong first killing the Second Level Mother Empress, allowing the Alliance Army to exploit the gap when the Ascended Army could not immediately take over the command to deliver a heavy blow.

After this round of strikes, the remaining forces in the battle zone consisted mainly of small fry like ordinary Zergs and chaos, making it easy for the Red Blade Clan’s remnants to clean up.

Thus, Ren Zhong could now sit calmly in the victorious Starry Sky Red Blade Armor, gazing into the starry space, full of thoughts.

Each flash in the distance symbolized a fierce or mild explosion, reminiscent of the dazzling fireworks seen on TV in childhood.

Yet, behind these fireworks lay one life after another.

Ren Zhong waved his hand again, opening the internal diagnostic projection of the Starry Sky Red Blade Armor.

He looked at the many damage reports on the gigantic armor.

Sometimes, he couldn’t help but reach out and touch the red areas representing severe damage.

The second claw-shaped stinger was still in an extremely fragile state, easily shattered upon a slight collision.

When he first exploited the Fold Jump to approach the Second Level Mother Empress and initiated a strong spin to drill inside, the second stinger collided with the ultra-strong armor on the Mother Empress’s body surface, almost shattering on the spot.

Initially, he aimed at the fragile section between the two long ridges of the Second Level Mother Empress, but the colossal creature, after all, was not a dead object. Its response was exceedingly swift, and battle experience was abundant. It managed to forcibly change its posture without moving its form, transferring the ultra-strong armor to Ren Zhong’s collision path.

Unfortunately, the Second Level Mother Empress faced Ren Zhong, who aimed at the most fragile breakthrough point he had predicted. Thus, with just a slight touch, he still pierced through it.

At that time, Ren Zhong thought the second stinger would shatter, but a miraculous thing happened. The Starry Sky Red Blade Armor, apparently as if awakened with its own will, exuded special particles independently from the alloy fiber network, maintaining structural stability in a short time, akin to how human bodies secrete large amounts of adrenaline when faced with emergencies to enhance physical endurance.

Even Sun Ai, who served as the auxiliary brain of the Starry Sky Red Blade Armor, didn’t anticipate this. She didn’t operate anything; it just happened naturally.

There’s only one explanation: The Starry Sky Red Blade Armor, designed with nearly six hundred billion Red Blade warriors’ brains at its core and manufactured using technology embedding Third Level God’s Particles, truly possessed certain life features.

This discovery drove Yang Misi, the research staff at the Far Border Star Gate, the Red Blade Science Academy, and the Source Star Science Academy ecstatic.

They realized they indeed created a life in the true sense.

Though Ruined Beast is also a half-mechanical, half-biological life form, humanity lacked memories on how to cultivate Ruined Beasts, only knowing that once a Chosen One provided the result, people have since directly relied on it.

However, the Starry Sky Red Blade Armor was different. It belonged to the Red Blade Clan, a product built collectively by tracing back along the theories of God’s Particle and Yang Misi’s Theory, not a divinely bestowed object like the Ruined Beasts.

The scene cuts back to Ren Zhong’s bridge, his finger moving again to a spot on the tail wing panel.

The tail wing panel has already deformed.

This was caused during his seventh hundred and sixty-second thrust, falling victim to the Nin Second Level Mother Empress’s ambush. The tail wing panel was hit by several high-energy rays, melting on the spot but didn’t fall off. After long enough rest, it began slowly self-repairing.

Ren Zhong’s finger continued to move...

Every scar represented a fierce and intense battle.

Finally, Ren Zhong’s finger rested on the position representing the auxiliary brain’s hub.

Now, out of the nearly six hundred billion brains, half have shriveled and dried up but have not turned black indicating death. Instead, they still exhibit a faint green glow, symbolizing that other brains within the Starry Sky Red Blade Armor are working hard to save these brothers and sisters.

Ren Zhong’s nose suddenly felt a little sour.

He vaguely remembered the feeling when he first donned the initial Red Blade Armor years ago.

At that time, he felt that the Red Blade Armor had life; it had come alive.

But later, the evidence proved that was just an illusion, merely a quantum resonance generated by the biological instinct of large quantities of Alien Ore microorganisms gathering together.

But this time, the Starry Sky Red Blade Armor truly came alive.

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