Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 595: The Specter Race’s Method of Attack

The planetary war star the Earth was the most powerful weapon a Level 5 Civilization could build. The Specter companion was a Level 3 peak Specter, with strength roughly equivalent to a Level 5 peak Technological Civilization. But unlike a Technological Civilization, the Specter companion, like an Alien Beast Civilization, was a single-entity civilization.

Individuals of a single-entity civilization all possessed extremely formidable power. In normal times, such formidable individuals might still be besieged and killed by a Technological Civilization due to differences in numbers. Yet when an individual civilization and a Technological Civilization united, the situation became entirely different.

Once these two joined forces, their strength was not a simple one plus one. Thus, on the present battlefield, this was precisely the situation unfolding.

With the coordination of more than ten million warships and the Specter companion, the planetary war star was simply unstoppable. Nothing could block it. A planetary war star of the Level 5 Civilization Alliance charged at Xiao Yu’s fleet. It possessed a complete planetary shield, densely packed weapon emplacements, and a large escort fleet. Its strength was undoubtedly great, yet fifteen minutes later it had lost all power.

As soon as it drew near Xiao Yu’s fleet, the Specter companion pounced first. Immediately, its Energy Shield suffered an extremely severe impact. In just a few minutes, the energy bases arranged across its surface exploded in succession, belching sky-high flames. What followed were hundreds and thousands of black spatial rifts, along with countless negative matter cannons, conventional shells, and death ray attacks. Its shield lasted less than ten minutes before it vanished. Once its planetary shield was lost, it became a sitting target. Tens of thousands of ships skimmed its surface and drove tens of thousands of high-yield bunker-buster missiles into the planet’s interior. Then, at Xiao Yu’s command, they detonated. Instantly, that planet became fragments.

From its arrival to its destruction by negative matter bombs, the entire process lasted only fifteen minutes.

With the Specter companion’s addition, the battlefield became completely one-sided. Wherever Xiao Yu’s advance met obstruction, the Specter companion appeared. Once the Specter companion arrived, the shields of the Level 5 Civilization Alliance’s ships shattered one after another, then the intelligent beings inside the ships were killed by the Specter Race. The entire ship became a corpse with no one at the helm.

That was the state of the situation now.

“The Specter is truly too formidable. With such strength, I fear that even the Earth combined with ten million warships would not be its match. Hm, but if I go all out and throw in all ships, I can still drive it back. If it chooses to flee, though, I still have no way to annihilate it.” Watching the Specter companion slaughter across the battlefield, Xiao Yu silently made a comparison of strength in his heart.

“Specter, take care not to fall into the encirclement of large numbers of enemy ships. Although that cannot annihilate you, it will inflict considerable damage. You must act with the cooperation of our ships.” Amid the chaos of the fighting, Xiao Yu sent a message to the Specter companion, reminding it to pay attention to safety. After all, in terms of comprehensive strength, the present Specter companion was not Xiao Yu’s match. Since it was not Xiao Yu’s match, it naturally was not the match of the Level 5 Civilization Alliance either. If trapped in a heavy encirclement, the Alliance’s combat power could still inflict a certain degree of harm on the Specter companion.

“Understood. Do not worry. I have not let killing intent cloud my reason.” The Specter companion laughed heartily and replied to Xiao Yu. “Still, this feeling is truly exhilarating. It has been a long time since I had such an appetite, Xiao Yu. If you were to let me devour all these trillion lives, I would have an eighty percent chance of advancing to a Level 4 Specter.”

“Level 4 Specter?” Xiao Yu’s heart stirred slightly, but he still refused the Specter companion’s proposal. “That will not do. I will find food for you later. These populations are still useful to me. If I can incorporate them, their research power will greatly propel my technological progress.”

“Alright.” The Specter companion answered carelessly.

“By the way, Specter, how exactly do you attack? Even now I still do not quite understand your method. I only know that ships you attack instantly lose massive amounts of energy. How do you accomplish that?” Xiao Yu asked. “Where does that lost energy go?”

This question left the Specter companion momentarily blank. After a moment it replied, “I do not know either. I do not understand technology much, so I cannot give you a complete description. I can tell you how it feels when I attack an enemy. When I attack a ship, it seems there is a gate within my body. So long as I wish it, I can open this gate, and then that ship’s energy will naturally flow into my body.”

“But where does the energy that flows into your body end up? As a whole, the Specter Race presents characteristics of zero energy and zero mass. That energy cannot be stored in your body.” Xiao Yu said.

“Of course it is not stored in my body.” the Specter companion replied. “It is a very strange feeling, difficult to describe. Hm, roughly like this. When that energy flows into my body, I can store it in another place. By way of analogy, it is as if there is a bottomless pit beside me. All the energy flowing into my body, I can throw into this bottomless pit. The capacity of this pit is infinite, but the amount of energy that can flow into my body per unit time has an upper limit. That upper limit is the upper limit of my attack power.”

“Then how do you move? What sustains the existence of your body?” Xiao Yu asked. “That is the most basic physical law. You cannot violate physical law and survive without needing energy.”

“How to put it…” Xiao Yu’s question evidently troubled the Specter companion, to the point that even its movements slowed. Only after it angrily destroyed a Province-Class warship that had attacked it did it answer. “I’ll still use that bottomless pit as an analogy. One can simply say the energy I consume to act is precisely the energy I previously threw into that bottomless pit. I can take it out again. Of course, the actual process is far more complicated than that, but I do not know how to describe it. You must understand, I basically have no scientific literacy.”

“Hm, is that so…” Xiao Yu mused, beginning to think. “The Specter’s method of attack is very strange. Before, my technology lagged, so I could not analyze it. Now perhaps I can attempt an analysis.”

Thus, while commanding his fleet in battle, Xiao Yu began collecting all kinds of combat data from the Specter companion. He even launched probes that attached to the Specter companion’s body to monitor internal energy fluctuations and the compositional structure of various substances.

“Perhaps research in this area can be used to develop some new kind of weapon.” Xiao Yu thought. “The Specter Race’s attacks are so formidable. There is no reason that a weapon built on the same principle would not be formidable. And I do not believe that anyone other than me could have a Specter available to study.”

Amid Xiao Yu’s deliberations, the battle continued. The tempo of combat was now completely in Xiao Yu’s hands. The arrival of the Specter companion had utterly reversed the battlefield situation, leaving the Level 5 Civilization Alliance strained to cope. Even if they mobilized all their strength, they still could not withstand the combined assault of Xiao Yu and the Specter companion.

Xiao Yu could be certain that the Level 5 Civilization Alliance had discovered that a powerful existence had intervened in the war and had, through certain deductions, learned that this powerful existence was of the Specter Race. Yet even knowing this, they could do nothing. Xiao Yu saw the Level 5 Civilization Alliance attempt to organize a powerful fleet to separate the Specter companion from Xiao Yu’s fleet and then defeat them piecemeal, eliminating either Xiao Yu or the Specter companion. But such a tactic was clearly ineffective. The Alliance fleet that came to split Xiao Yu and the Specter companion not only failed to accomplish that goal, it was instead directly devoured by the Specter companion.

The Specter companion roamed everywhere across the battlefield and, with the coordination of Xiao Yu’s fleet, slaughtered on a grand scale. With a rough estimate, Xiao Yu arrived at a number that shocked him to the core. Since the war began until now, the intelligent beings of the Level 5 Civilization Alliance who had perished at the hands of the Specter companion had already exceeded one hundred billion.

It was a number that made even Xiao Yu secretly shudder.

Intense suppression inevitably arouses the fiercest counterattack. The Level 5 Civilization Alliance was not a weak or insignificant existence, after all. Under the frenzied onslaught of Xiao Yu and the Specter companion, the Level 5 Civilization Alliance also launched fierce counterblows. Yet these counterattacks carried more of a tragic tone, for they were, for the most part, ineffective.

Xiao Yu saw warships begin to adopt suicidal attacks, hoping to inflict some loss on Xiao Yu with their own deaths. He saw planetary war stars, heedless of life, charging to ram him…