A Core Ship From The Start-Chapter 793 - 563: Fighting Poison with Poison_1

Three months, not long enough to consider it long, yet not short enough to consider it short.

And in this span of three months, a lot had happened.

Firstly, the Star Alliance had disclosed information about the Reapers to the public and announced the blockage of all Mass Relays, entering fully into a state of wartime alert. Upon learning of this, the public naturally fell into panic and suspicion. Fortunately, after learning that the Tribunal would participate in resistance against the Reapers, most people heaved a sigh of relief.

After all, the combat ability of the Tribunal had been convincingly displayed. The citizens of the Star Alliance who had witnessed how they easily dealt with the Batarei people before, coupled with religious bonuses and the deliberate/unintentional guidance from the Star Alliance authorities, many people come to see the Tribunal as mankind’s Guardian God——which is, in fact, not wrong.

Of course, there were also "wise" ones who believed that humans should not go for isolationism but should fight shoulder to shoulder with other races against the upcoming threat. Separating from others would only allow the Reapers to defeat them one by one, now is the time for them to display the combined strength of cosmic civilizations, and so on.

Unfortunately, most of these people had already been invited to territories of other alien civilizations by Lumiaire at the very beginning, and the Star Alliance even destroyed the two main Relays leading to their galaxies, so these people couldn’t come back at all. Though the remaining ones made a lot of noise, the majority of the public didn’t buy their arguments.

People operate according to their own simple logic—What is the use of teaming up with those alien fleets that can’t even beat the Tribunal? Who knows, we might even have to send our own fleets to help them. What if this results in a lack of military power and we are invaded by the enemy?

Isn’t it better for everyone to mind their own business at this point? It’s not like we can sacrifice ourselves to help those who invaded us before. We are not stupid! The so-called ’a suffering lip makes the cold teeth shiver’? They are nothing to us.

Next....the Reapers arrived.

For the Divine Fort Council, the appearance of the Reapers was indeed "sudden and unexpected". Although they did make some arrangements after receiving warnings from the Star Alliance, they didn’t expect the Reapers to show up in their home territory!

This wasn’t surprising though.

It had been mentioned before that Mass Relays were like railway stations. Therefore, whenever other races waged war in the past, they would choose to blockade the Mass Relays with their armies. As soon as the enemy arrived, they’d be attacked.

But the problem was, the Reapers were not passengers of this train. The entire Mass Relay was created by them, they were more like the drivers!

When the driver is driving the train, wouldn’t it be his call where to stop and where to go, regardless of the designated stations?

So, when the Tuggy and the Ashali were blocking the Mass Relays with large armies, the Reapers just drove past them and stopped right at their doorstep.

By the time they received the call for rescue and found out their homes had been invaded, it was already too late. The Reapers had begun large-scale attacks and harvesting on their home planets.

Even though the alien fleets managed to return to their home planet, there was no good outcome waiting for them because all that awaited them was ... a massacre.

In the dark universe, hundreds of large, octopus-like warships swam around, moving ruthlessly around the cosmos like a squad of octopuses in the universe’s deep sea.

"The target has been locked. Attack!"

Looking at the giant Reaper battleship charging towards his own fleet, the Tuggy captain’s face was stern. He raised his hand and issued the command.

"Fire!!!"

Explosions burst from the Tuggy warship, raining down on the Reapers in front of them. However, even the most powerful cosmic fleet of the Divine Assembly couldn’t do more than causing some sparks on the Reaper battleships. At the same time, the Reaper battleship’s tentacles slowly unfolded from the front, and a red energy beam shot out suddenly!

"—————!!!"

The red energy beam swept the area, easily halving three Tuggy warships that stood in its way. In just a moment, three of the Tuggy’s main ships were completely turned into blazing debris and disappeared into the universe. The Reaper battleship continued advancing. The Tuggy ships behind either couldn’t dodge in time or tried to block it, and ran directly towards the Reaper ship—only to become a burst of sparks like a moth flying into a flame.

Unscathed, the Reaper battle ship moved forward still.

"............"

Seeing this scene, everyone from the Star Alliance couldn’t help but take in a sharp breath of cold air.

"This is...the Reaper Fleet."

Li Longcheng stared intensely at the screen, fists clenched tight. The Star Alliance has battled with the Reapers before. Initially, after the Council Specter Saren was brainwashed and defected to the Reapers, he led a Sovereign-class Reaper Dreadnought to attack the Council, which was finally destroyed by the Star Alliance fleet.

Of course, at that time, there was only one Reaper ship, and they had the advantage of superior numbers, plus the active presence of the Shepperd siblings, so the Star Alliance didn’t find it troublesome.

However, reality proved that when hundreds of such battleships appeared, it would be a completely different story.

"Thank God we destroyed the Mass Relays."

At this point, General Hackett also let out a sigh of regret.

"Yes... "

Hearing General Hackett’s sigh, Li Longcheng nodded too. Although Duanmu Huai had once warned them about the Reapers using the Mass Relay for surprise attacks, it was only upon witnessing it firsthand that they understood how formidable this power was. It was not a problem that could be settled by deploying troops to the relay or the home planet. As the Reapers could manipulate the Mass Relay freely, they could use this technology to appear at any weakly defended location in the galaxy at will... this was the greatest crisis.

If even the Tuggy Fleet which had the strongest military power among the Divine Assembly could not defend against the Reaper Legion, one could only imagine the outcome of other races.

Although the Star Alliance had begun to construct new main battleships on a large scale to combat the Reaper Fleet... only a few dozen were completed, a somewhat insufficient number in the face of the many Reaper Battleships.

There wasn’t any choice; after all, even if the warships could be built, crew members wouldn’t materialize out of thin air. They weren’t like Duanmu Huai, who could instantly produce a batch of puppets to control a warship.

"From the current situation, how much longer till the Reaper Fleet arrives?"

"We’re not sure. Possibly a month or two, but hopefully longer. Mr. Duanmu said he would try to delay the Reapers’ arrival as much as possible."

"All we can do now is make the most of this time to prepare."

While speaking, Li Longcheng and General Hackett met gazes and sighed simultaneously.

After all, they had made a choice. Whether this choice was the right one, they could only leave it up to fate.

So, what was Duanmu Huai doing exactly?

In fact, Duanmu Huai was now on the home planet of the Tuggy tribe. His purpose here was single: Just like he told Li Longcheng, he was trying to delay the speed of the Reapers as much as possible.

"... Hmph, indeed. Even the Tuggy are just like this."

Standing in the ruins of a city street, looking at the corpses scattered around, Duanmu Huai’s expression didn’t change a bit. He didn’t come here to assist the Tuggy in resisting the Reapers—there was no benefit in it for Duanmu Huai. However, he didn’t plan on allowing the Reapers to do as they pleased here. For example...

"Roar—————!!!"

Suddenly, a beast-like roar echoed out. Immediately after, Duanmu Huai saw a creature, its skin pale white, eyes glowing blue, and appearing like some kind of mutant zombie, charging out from a nearby alley. It roared and lunged towards Duanmu Huai. He then blew its head to pieces with a punch, turning it into a headless corpse.

"Hmph, it is indeed a Corpse."

Looking at the creature before him, Duanmu Huai scoffed. This was a trademark move of the Reapers. They would stick dead bodies on poles, transform them into Corpses, and use them as a ground attack force. Once the entire planet was cleared, these Corpses would be taken away and altered to become a part of the Reapers.

In this way, the attack methods of the Reapers and the Tyron Swarm could be considered similar: they use local supplies and the more enemies they kill, the stronger they become.

As for Duanmu Huai, this was like a rehearsal for dealing with the Insect Race.

"You like to play with Corpses, so... let’s see which is stronger: your Corpses or my Corpse Variants. Who’s superior: the Reapers or Blood Moon!"

As he spoke, Duanmu Huai reached out, and a Soul Card appeared in his hand. freewёbnoνel.com

Activate———[Profane Sphere]!

"Boom—————!!!"

The next moment, the ground behind Duanmu Huai abruptly split open, and a dark monolith emerged from the earth, towering above the ground. Then, on the surface of the black monolith, a series of crimson runes gradually lighted up!

An invisible pulse swept across the entire ruins. The bodies of the Tuggy on the ground suddenly began to swell and distort, sharp bone spurs sprouted from their arms, and moving tentacles spewed from their open mouths. Then, these monsters all rose to their feet...

"Eradicate all the enemies in front of us, obliterate them completely!"

"Roar ooooo!!!"

With Duanmu Huai’s command, the next moment, numerous Corpse Variants let out sharp screams, and then, like ravenous beasts, they scattered in all directions!

For the Tuggy, this was the beginning of a nightmare.