Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 615: Encirclement Battle

Curvature flight is realized by folding and bending space, but space has its own toughness. The stronger the energy within a region of space, the harder that space is to bend. Precisely for this reason, the spatial rifts created by spatial weapons are blocked by matter, because matter is energy.

Spatial weapons are based on this very principle to inflict damage on various tangible matter, such as spaceships and celestial bodies.

Reinforcing space can reduce the lethality of spatial weapons. Likewise, reinforcing space can prevent space from being bent and folded. It is the same principle as how a sheet of cotton cloth can be folded easily, while a steel plate is very hard to fold.

What Xiao Yu was doing now was using instruments mounted on nearly one hundred thousand ships to greatly reinforce the region of space in which the Arboreal Race Alien Beast was located. This naturally caused all matter within this region to be unable to perform curvature flight. The Arboreal Race Alien Beast was of course included.

And if curvature flight could not be performed, it meant the Arboreal Race Alien Beast could only use conventional flight at a maximum speed not exceeding three hundred thousand kilometers per second. It meant that its maneuverability at this moment dropped to a terrifying degree, and Xiao Yu’s ships could freely aim at it and attack.

At this time, Xiao Yu’s main fleet, his flagship, the small universe, and the Specter companion were rushing here from their hiding place at more than eighty times the speed of light. It would take less than one day to arrive, then the encirclement and annihilation of the Arboreal Race Alien Beast would begin.

“Despicable Divine Ark Civilization, you have actually reached the category of a Level 6 Civilization. This is a trap you set.” At this moment, trapped in reinforced space and unable to perform curvature flight, the Arboreal Race Alien Beast finally realized what had happened. Xiao Yu’s signal receivers once again picked up a message filled with anger.

“Do you intend to confine me with such a method? You are too naive.” The Arboreal Race Alien Beast let out an enraged roar again. This time it did not use curvature flight, but conventional flight, swiftly rushing toward the surrounding ships equipped with space-reinforcement instruments. Its speed was actually very fast, reaching even eighty percent of light speed.

Ships equipped with space-reinforcement instruments were generally very cumbersome with poor maneuverability. Moreover, after they reinforced this region of space, they themselves were also affected by the toughened space and could not perform curvature flight. In other words, as long as these ships were destroyed, this region would return to normal. Or one could simply refrain from destroying the ships at all and directly use conventional flight to dash out of this region. These ships had such low maneuverability that they could not possibly keep up with the Arboreal Race Alien Beast’s escape speed. Once curvature capability was restored, escaping this trap would pose no difficulty at all for a Level 6 Alien Beast.

Though the Arboreal Race Alien Beast’s intelligence was somewhat low, it was not stupid. In an instant it found the key point. It knew this was a trap, bait to lure it in. Having been confined, the Divine Ark Civilization would certainly have follow-up means to deal with it. This was not a place to linger. It had to leave at once.

This was its plan now. The trap that Xiao Yu had set up here to prevent curvature flight had a diameter of roughly three hundred thousand kilometers. As long as it broke out of this region, what awaited it would be ordinary cosmic space where curvature flight could be performed freely.

But Xiao Yu did not intend to give it this chance. The ten million warships he had arranged here were not for show. Without curvature flight, the Arboreal Race Alien Beast’s maneuverability dropped to a terrifying level, and that very drop created an opportunity for the warships that had been waiting so long.

Thus, at that very instant, at the instant the Arboreal Race Alien Beast intended to burst out of this region, Xiao Yu’s warships were already in motion. Outside this region, his ships were rapidly shifting positions by means of curvature flight, conducting carpet bombing into the region. Various powerful weapons manufactured with Level 6 Civilization technology poured their fire into the area. Moreover, approximately three million warships also entered the region. If curvature flight could not be used, then conventional flight would be adopted. At extremely close range to the Arboreal Race Alien Beast, they attacked it with spatial rift weapons.

Being unable to perform curvature flight did not mean spatial weapons could not be used. Although in such space the power of spatial weapons would be greatly reduced, the extremely close distance compensated for some of the loss caused by reinforced space. These spatial weapons still possessed a certain degree of lethality.

Amid a sky-shaking roar, the Arboreal Race Alien Beast found that its charge had failed to break out of the region. The Divine Ark Civilization’s frenzied, no-holds-barred assault had forcibly blocked it within this region, leaving it unable to extricate itself.

It was, after all, no longer a Level 6 Alien Beast at full strength. After the capital planet of the Pegasus Civilization rammed into it and the Neutron War Star struck it with full force, it had suffered extremely severe damage, and its strength had dropped by a full seventy percent. This could be seen from its current size, which was now roughly only half of what it once was.

This made it all the more furious. It tried again to break out of the region, but the ships responsible for entangling it at close range and attacking at close range had already reached its side. A full three million warships attacked it with utter disregard for consequences. A single lash of a branch-like appendage on its body would destroy more than a dozen ships, but destroy ten and one hundred awaited, destroy one hundred and one thousand awaited.

Xiao Yu did not care about losses at all. As long as the Arboreal Race Alien Beast could be kept here to buy time for his main fleet to approach, even if all ten million warships were lost here, Xiao Yu would not care. With sufficient computational power and resources, warships were merely numbers to him.

Ten million warships could never hope to destroy the Arboreal Race Alien Beast. They could not even confine it for long. But Xiao Yu did not need to hold it for long. One day would be enough. No, less than a day, because the Specter companion had already separated from the small universe. For some unknown reason, the Specter companion possessed speed far surpassing Xiao Yu’s current capability. At maximum it could reach more than one hundred and ten times the speed of light. At that speed, it needed only about seventeen hours to arrive.

“Seventeen hours? As long as my fleet can hold for seventeen hours, the Specter companion will arrive. Hold it for another seven hours after that, and my main fleet will arrive. Then the Arboreal Race Alien Beast will have no possibility of escape.”

On one side was a Level 6 Alien Beast grievously wounded. On the other side were ten million Level 6 Civilization warships attacking without regard for the cost. Under such circumstances, the Arboreal Race Alien Beast was actually held here, unable to escape.

It continued to slam wildly against the confines, trying to break out into free space. Yet no matter how fiercely it struck, it could not break Xiao Yu’s defensive line. Xiao Yu had resolved that no matter what, the Arboreal Race Alien Beast would be kept here.

At this moment, the number of warships destroyed by the Arboreal Race Alien Beast had reached seven hundred thousand. Seven hundred thousand Level 6 Civilization warships would have sufficed to annihilate all of Xiao Yu’s strength in the past. Here, their role amounted only to holding the Arboreal Race Alien Beast for six hours.

Time continued to pass slowly. Up to now, fifteen hours had gone by. In only two hours more, the Specter companion would arrive. By this point, Xiao Yu’s warship losses had exceeded three million.

“Three million? That is nothing. Compared to the entirety of the Arboreal Race Alien Beast’s flesh and blood, three million warships are hardly worth mentioning.” Full of confidence, Xiao Yu committed all remaining warships to the battlefield, except those carrying out fixed space-reinforcement tasks and the necessary escort ships. About six million warships were thrown into combat.

Time flowed on bit by bit. With each moment that passed, the Arboreal Race Alien Beast grew more frenzied. Yet no matter how frenzied it became, under Xiao Yu’s even more frenzied counterattacks, it could never escape this small patch of space.

Under such circumstances, the Specter companion finally arrived.

“Arboreal Race Alien Beast. Did you not say you would kill me? I am here now. Let me see how you intend to kill me.” The Specter companion sent out a wave of signals filled with a violent aura and, without any hesitation, plunged into the battle.

A Level 3 peak Specter, in concert with several million warships, confronted this Arboreal Race Alien Beast whose strength had been greatly diminished, and the two sides clashed fiercely.

“Despicable creatures, despicable creatures. You used such schemes and tricks to lure me into the trap. I will kill you all without leaving a single one alive. I will exterminate you all.”

The Arboreal Race Alien Beast roared madly, while the Specter companion, like a puddle of transparent water, swiftly streaked across the pitch-black void and tangled with it.

Time continued its slow passage. Gradually, seven hours had elapsed, and Xiao Yu’s main fleet finally arrived as scheduled. More than forty million warships, arrayed in precise battle formations, surged to the front of the engagement in an instant.

The final encirclement had at last begun. Victory or defeat would be decided here and now.