Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 624: Space Shattering

The flagship of this preliminary Level 6 civilization could not match the maneuverability of Xiao Yu’s Planet-Class warships. Xiao Yu could therefore very easily control his ships to maintain a state of relative rest with it, whether in visible space or in curvature space.

Moreover, while maintaining this state, Xiao Yu’s ten Planet-Class warships also kept a certain distance from this Planet-Class flagship. At such a distance, it could not launch effective attacks against Xiao Yu’s Planet-Class warships. Although under these circumstances Xiao Yu likewise could not launch effective attacks against it, he had never intended to destroy it by conventional means.

At this moment, around the flagship of this preliminary Level 6 civilization there were still roughly three hundred thousand escort ships. Not yet understanding Xiao Yu’s intent, these escort ships stayed tightly around the flagship, guarding it at every moment and ready to resist attacks from any direction.

Now the battlefield had taken on this situation. Because of the frenzied interception by Xiao Yu’s forces, no large-scale enemy force could break through his defensive line to the flagship in a short time. The flagship remained intact, but it was surrounded by ten Planet-Class warships.

“Then now it is. Space shattering, commence.” Xiao Yu issued the order. As his command was given, the ten Planet-Class warships occupying several specific points around the enemy flagship simultaneously activated a special device installed on themselves.

This was the newest weapon Xiao Yu had developed, space shattering. As the name implies, its function was to completely shatter the space within a certain range. Its basic principle was similar to that of the spatial rift weapon, but it was indeed an enhanced version of the spatial rift weapon, far more powerful. Once activated, all existences within this region of space, whether tangible or intangible, macroscopic or microscopic, as long as their defenses were below a certain threshold, would suffer lethal attack. If space itself was shattered, how could matter that depends on space to exist possibly maintain its integrity.

Space is three-dimensional, and a cubic region has six faces. Xiao Yu’s ten Planet-Class warships occupied different points on the six faces of this cube. These points were special points Xiao Yu had selected through calculation. As long as space shattering was launched simultaneously by ten Planet-Class warships at these points, the space within this cube would be entirely shattered. The enemy flagship lay within this cube.

Xiao Yu intended to achieve total destruction of all ships and all matter within this region by completely shattering the space inside it.

With the weapon’s activation, a peculiar spatial fluctuation began to arise, like an earthquake. The difference was that an earthquake is the vibration of a planet, whereas this was the vibration of space itself. As fluctuations appeared, light passing through this region or attempting to emerge from it was immediately distorted. The region became hazy and indistinct, and irregular black lines like lightning appeared and quickly vanished. With the emergence of this distortion and fluctuation, the ships within this region were almost immediately affected.

Xiao Yu vaguely saw tens of thousands of faint bursts of fire erupt. He knew these were the explosions of the smallest escort ships with the weakest defenses. Clearly, the changes in space had already affected them, tearing apart their hull structures and causing them to explode.

Almost simultaneously, Xiao Yu saw the enemy flagship’s Planet-Class warship emit light several times stronger than usual. Within this region, it had the largest volume and accordingly suffered the greatest influence. But its defenses were also the strongest. Spatial fluctuations of this intensity could not yet destroy it.

The Planet-Class warship began to act frantically. Sensing the imminent danger, it tried to flee, but quickly discovered it could no longer use curvature flight.

The inability to use curvature flight was one of the side effects brought about by the space shattering weapon. It had a similar effect to the space reinforcement instrument. The space reinforcement instrument prevented a ship from entering curvature flight by reinforcing space against distortion, while the space shattering weapon prevented entry into curvature space by shattering space and creating massive chaos.

Unable to enter curvature flight, it could only attempt to flee by conventional propulsion. But its maneuverability could not match Xiao Yu’s ships. If it moved forward one thousand meters, Xiao Yu’s ten Planet-Class warships also moved forward one thousand meters. If it retreated one thousand meters, Xiao Yu’s ten Planet-Class warships likewise retreated one thousand meters. It tried to rush toward a region where its own warships were massed to gain escort, but before it arrived, Xiao Yu’s other containment forces swept those ships away with fierce attacks.

It was like a fierce tiger, while Xiao Yu’s ten Planet-Class warships formed a solid cage that it could not break through no matter what.

The space shattering weapon continued to operate. Xiao Yu saw that explosions within this region were becoming more frequent and dense. In this short time alone, of the flagship’s three hundred thousand escort ships, more than 90 percent had been lost. It was estimated that within five minutes, only one ship would remain in this region, namely the flagship.

Everything proceeded as Xiao Yu had envisioned. After five minutes, the flagship lost its last escort ship. The light it emitted grew still brighter, indicating it was continuously increasing its defensive level, striving to resist the effects of the chaotic space. But the speed at which it raised its defenses seemed unable to match the speed at which Xiao Yu shattered space.

The ever more chaotic and fragmented space around it was constantly eroding the complete and calm pocket of space the ship occupied, trying to render that pocket chaotic and fragmented as well. If the flagship could preserve the integrity and calm of the space it occupied, it would withstand Xiao Yu’s attack. If it could not, then it would be torn into pieces by chaotic space and utterly destroyed.

This was warfare on the spatial level, a contest of the technological strength of two Level 6 civilizations.

“Divine Ark Civilization… let… us… surrender… we will… leave now…” At this moment, Xiao Yu received a message sent via spatial broadcast from the flagship of this preliminary Level 6 civilization. Because this region of space had become completely chaotic and fragmented, the spatial broadcast was also affected, and the message Xiao Yu received was intermittent.

Even so, Xiao Yu could understand its meaning. This preliminary Level 6 civilization clearly could not hold on.

“Only now do you think of surrendering. Is it not too late. My space shattering weapon has not yet been tested for destructive performance. Let your civilization’s Planet-Class flagship serve as my test subject.” 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

Xiao Yu cleanly ignored the flagship’s surrender and increased the output power of the space shattering weapon once more. He began to sense that the flagship was growing ever brighter, a tense and perilous aura spreading through space.

But this tense and perilous aura was for the preliminary Level 6 civilization. Xiao Yu felt no danger at all. At the same time, he could clearly sense how terrified and despairing the intelligent beings aboard this Planet-Class warship were.

“You should have withdrawn at the start.” Xiao Yu thought. “When you decided to cross me, you should have prepared to suffer heavy losses. Rest assured, after I destroy your flagship, if your other ships rout and flee, I will not pursue. That would not benefit me and would be too much trouble. I cannot be bothered to eradicate you to the last.”

The space shattering weapon’s power had been raised to its maximum. The light emitted by the flagship had already become as bright as a star. Xiao Yu knew what this meant. It meant they had pushed their energy load to the limit. Under such power surges, the instruments inside the ship could not possibly endure for long.

Yet three minutes later, the light that had already been pushed to the limit rose another notch. Now it was brighter than a star. But Xiao Yu knew this increase in brightness did not mean the flagship’s defenses had risen again. It meant it could no longer withstand the intrusion of chaotic, fragmented space, that it had been destroyed, that it had exploded.

Only the most spectacular death could release light of such intensity.

With the destruction of this Planet-Class flagship, the region of space that had remained complete and calm due to its presence was swiftly rendered chaotic and fragmented under the influence of the surrounding space. By now, this region had been completely shattered by Xiao Yu, and there was no intact place left. Any matter within this region would be pulverized entirely, down to the level where even molecular, atomic, and quark structures could not be preserved.

This was the most complete fragmentation. Such matter could no longer be called matter.

Xiao Yu quietly let out a breath and shut down the space shattering weapon.