A Core Ship From The Start-Chapter 796 - 565: Meeting_1

The plan to use the Blood Moon to delay the Reapers was successful to some extent.

The reason it was only somewhat successful is pretty straightforward.

It was because... there were just too many Reaper Fleet ships.

Duanmu Huai had initially hoped this might cause the Reapers to halt their advance. In reality, very little reaction was provoked. Just a few more warships added to deal with the Blood Moon — after all, with the vast number of warships, they could just go straight up and attack.

That was seriously annoying.

Moreover, within this interaction, Duanmu Huai observed the Blood Moon’s weaknesses.

In simple terms, the Blood Moon, as an ultimate composite entity, indeed possesses considerable combat power. However, that battle power had finite limits too.

After all, the ultimate form of the Blood Moon is only about the size of a small asteroid. Of course, given its defensive power, regular warships couldn’t destroy them.

The reason is quite simple: not enough firepower.

In contrast, if the firepower is sufficient, then the Blood Moon becomes a sitting duck.

That’s how it is when fighting the Reapers.

The Reapers naturally possess greater firepower than us, and although one or two attacks on the Blood Moon don’t cause much effect, if they disregard honor and launch simultaneous attacks with hundreds or thousands of ships, the Blood Moon would be totally done for. After all, the Blood Moon doesn’t have long-range attack capabilities, it can only sway its tentacles to attack enemies like a jellyfish. So warships just need to maintain a distance outside of its attack range, and if the firepower is intense enough, they can take down the Blood Moon unscathed.

Of course, if it were biological entities, they would suffer a barrage of psychic attacks from the Blood Moon. However, all the Reapers are all composite entities...just like the puppets under Duanmu Huai’s command, psychic attacks are completely ineffective against them. ƒгeewebnovёl.com

But Duanmu Huai’s original objective was still achieved.

As previously mentioned, the Reapers do not merely exterminate civilized races - they collect them and perform modifications to supplement their own ranks. It can be said that all the Reaper warships are created from the remains of races they harvested — much like the Blood Moon in essence.

Yes, Duanmu Huai created the Blood Moon to compete with the Reapers in their line of work, and indeed, it has proven to be a very effective method.

The Reapers, to modify their prey, must first capture them and then perform the modification or pierce their corpses onto metal poles to turn them into corpse puppets.

In essence, they use rather scientific methods.

However, the transformation of corpse variants defies science—its conversion speed surpasses even that of the T-virus. Thus, when competing against the Blood Moon for subjects, the Reapers invariably end up short. Even if the Reapers ultimately destroy the Blood Moon, the corpse variants within will be obliterated as well, leaving nothing behind. This implies the Reapers can’t replenish their troops on the spot.

For this very reason, when a Blood Moon emerges, the Reapers immediately concentrate their forces to attack it. This gives Duanmu Huai the opportunity to wipe them all out together.

At this point, it’s time for the Wan Yi battleship to take the stage.

It must be said, the idea behind the Caballean’s creation of this Wan Yi battleship is not bad at all. Destroying an entire galaxy by triggering a star explosion is more convenient than individually blasting every planet. Of course, for this reason, Duanmu Huai usually doesn’t use the Wan Yi battleship casually — After all, it wouldn’t do to trigger an explosion within a human galaxy.

But, the situation is different now. Whether it’s the Ashali, the Tuggy, the Salarians, or any other alien species, in the end, they’re all alien creatures, not humans. So, systematically wiping them all out doesn’t weigh heavily on Duanmu Huai’s conscience. Besides, as the Blood Moon isn’t heavily offensive and its defensive skills are not too shabby, every time it appears, the Reapers have to dispatch thousands of warships. What Duanmu Huai has to do is to summon the Wan Yi battleship to trigger the star of that galaxy to explode after the Reapers burst the Blood Moon.

That way, all the remaining elements can be wiped out in one go.

After Duanmu Huai had gone through all the Divine Assembly Species’ galaxies, the Reaper Fleet suffered heavy losses, and those alien creatures were on the brim of extinction. After all, even if few of them managed to luckily evade the slaughter of both the Blood Moon and Reapers, they certainly couldn’t escape the catastrophic collapse of the entire galaxy due to the star explosion.

Of course, thanks to all this, the star map will probably need to be redrawn... well, that’s no longer Duanmu Huai’s problem.

Let those astronomers from the Star Union worry about it.

There’s no skin off his nose.

Speaking of which, he doesn’t even have any hair to lose in the first place.

Ha ha ha ha ha, is this supposed to be a joke?

Ha ha ha ha ha ha.......Darn it.

Regardless, after this series of actions, the Reaper Fleet’s numbers have been cut by a third. Although what remains is still a headache, at least it’s a somewhat manageable number now.

Approximately.

Next up... it’s time for the head-on collision between humans and the Reapers.

The dazzling light before me flashed and passed in the blink of an eye.

Stepping out of the teleportation portal and gazing at the magnificent starry splendor outside the window, Mary let out a gasp. Although it’s not her first time visiting the Tribunal’s mothership, every glance at this sight leaves her totally enamored. Honestly, if it wasn’t for the need to maintain secrecy, she’d love to bring Shirley and Asherica to see this.