Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 773: Moths to the Flame

The entire battlefield now revolved completely around these five spherical warships. They were charging through the battlefield, unstoppable, carrying something of the imposing might of a Neutron War Star. In fact, Xiao Yu knew that these spherical warships were originally imitations of the Neutron War Star.

Xiao Yu was still tensely thinking of a way to destroy the spherical warships, but he had gained nothing. While commanding all allied warships and Arrow Beasts in battle, Xiao Yu once again turned his gaze to the battlefield, using his mind to sense everything.

A Pegasus Civilization ship exploded with a roar. From the afterglow of the explosion, a spherical warship drilled out. It did not slow down at all, but directly plunged into the body of a nearby Arrow Beast. That Arrow Beast struggled in agony, hundreds of tentacles lashing continuously through the void, like a drowning human about to die.

A slight pain clenched in Xiao Yu’s heart. Xiao Yu knew he had no ability to save it.

The battlefield with the Sweepers Civilization had been moving continuously. From the beginning of the war until now, a long time had passed, and the battlefield had unknowingly come beside a star. The vast fireball beside them wantonly poured out its energy. Endless light illuminated this dark void, and within this profound depth, the fierce battle continued.

“I’ve thought of a way.” At this moment, Lorna sent Xiao Yu a message. Without waiting for Xiao Yu to respond, Lorna continued on her own, “Before we set out, the thirty thousand warriors of our Arrow Beast Civilization, including me, had already prepared to die in battle. Our Arrow Beast Civilization loves peace, but we have never feared war, and we have never feared death. Sweepers Civilization, the overlord of the Milky Way Galaxy, is it? Then let you see the power of our Arrow Beast Civilization…”

A bad premonition suddenly rose in Xiao Yu’s heart. Before he could make sense of it, he saw another scene. Several Arrow Beasts that were relatively close to a spherical warship suddenly violated the orders Xiao Yu had given them, making movements Xiao Yu could not understand. Xiao Yu saw that facing the fierce oncoming spherical warship, they did not dodge according to orders, but instead charged straight at it.

The spherical warship did not retreat at all. It drove forward and easily rammed into the bodies of these Arrow Beasts. Two Arrow Beasts ultimately managed to keep the spherical warships inside their bodies. The remaining two Arrow Beasts failed to do so. The spherical warships pierced completely through them, thoroughly destroying their bodily tissues and taking their lives.

Adding the first Arrow Beast, at this moment, three spherical warships were inside Arrow Beast bodies. Xiao Yu understood the bodily structure of alien beasts very well. No matter what level of alien beast, they naturally possessed bodily structures equivalent to a technological civilization’s holographic defense technology. They were unlike technological civilization ships, whose hull was hard while the interior was extremely fragile.

Just like back then, when a spherical warship rammed into Xiao Yu’s Star-Class warship equipped with holographic defense technology, and was ultimately kept inside the Star-Class warship’s body and destroyed, these three Arrow Beasts also kept the spherical warships inside their bodies. But Xiao Yu knew that peak Level 4 alien beasts were simply too far beneath Level 6 civilization Star-Class ships. Even though they naturally possessed holographic defense technology, doing this would inevitably cost them an enormous price.

“What is your method?” Xiao Yu asked Lorna.

“Tell your allies to prepare to attack that star and destroy it…” Lorna said calmly.

And in that instant, those three Arrow Beasts began a violent charge toward the star. Moments later, the three Arrow Beasts plunged entirely into the star, swallowed by its blazing light.

“So that’s it…” Xiao Yu murmured to himself. Xiao Yu reflexively wanted to stop it, but in the end he could only give up in dejection. Because Xiao Yu knew it was useless. The physical endurance of a Level 4 alien beast was not enough to support survival on the surface of a star. They might hold on for a very short time, but once they continued to break deeper into the star, they would surely die. Completely die.

These three Arrow Beasts were like moths rushing into flame, carrying the spherical warships within their bodies as they plunged into the star.

So what was the next step?

With some weakness, Xiao Yu issued an order, “Ship Number 3758, activate negative matter weapons. Negative matter frequency as follows, target the star and attack. Execute this order within three seconds.”

At the cost of their lives, these three Arrow Beasts brought three spherical warships into the star, but the star’s energy was still not enough to destroy the spherical warships. Through extremely high-precision observation instruments, Xiao Yu clearly saw three small black dots appear at the star’s surface. The surging sea of flame on the star’s surface and the intense radiation could not affect these three spherical warships at all. Xiao Yu saw the three spherical warships making certain movements, seemingly attempting to enter curvature flight and leave.

But it was already too late. Xiao Yu’s order had already been carried out. The surging Tachyon Torrent of negative matter instantly rushed toward the star. It easily pierced through the star’s surface, ultimately reaching the star’s core, and reacted with the matter in the stellar core, both vanishing into nothingness. Thus, the star exploded violently.

The power of a star’s close-range explosion was beyond imagination. At the current technological level of Xiao Yu and the Sweepers Civilization, they could already treat something like a star exploding as a small matter. Whether by using curvature flight to flee, or relying on advanced shield systems to withstand it head-on, they could offset such an impact. But that was at a fairly distant range, at least hundreds of millions, even billions of kilometers away. The current situation was different.

The environment at the star’s surface was far too harsh. Even Level 6 civilization warships could not easily enter curvature flight in such a place, so those three spherical warships were detained here. They were too close, far too close to the star, so the power of the star’s explosion could be fully applied to them.

In Earth’s era, the lethal radius of a grenade was about a dozen meters. Then a person standing a dozen meters away from a grenade and a person standing right next to the grenade would obviously suffer different levels of harm. At this moment, this star was an enormous grenade, and those three spherical warships were the ‘people’ standing right next to the grenade.

The negative matter torrent detonated this grenade. Energy so violent it was beyond imagination instantly swallowed the three black dots. Endless stellar matter was hurled out at nearly the speed of light, and intense radiation energy swept across the entire cosmic space.

The Asia spaceship had lost its curvature flight ability, but more than a dozen Arrow Beasts and several hundred Pegasus Civilization ships stood in front of the Asia spaceship. At the cost of severe injury or damage to themselves, they took upon themselves the star’s rage before its death in place of the Asia spaceship. This place still had some distance from the star, and the power of a star’s explosion attenuated with increasing distance. So even peak Level 4 alien beasts, or Pegasus Civilization ships, could hold on in the face of this world-destroying energy.

But the three spherical ships were different. They were truly too close to the star. Xiao Yu had made calculations, even a third-line Star-Class ship built by him at his peak would be destroyed at that distance. Even the strongest Star-Class ship, the Solar spaceship, would suffer severe damage at that distance. The spherical warships were inferior to the Solar spaceship, so they could not survive.

Three Arrow Beasts paid for three spherical warships with their lives. At this moment, Xiao Yu’s heart was filled with an indescribable taste. Xiao Yu knew that the consequences of doing this must have been very clear in the hearts of those three Arrow Beasts, yet they still did it without hesitation. From the standpoint of interests, three Arrow Beasts in exchange for three spherical warships was a very worthwhile trade, but many times, many matters could not be fully summarized by interests alone.

That would be too cold, too cruel.

“Thank you. Thank you.” Xiao Yu could only say this to them in his heart.

The explosion of this star completely changed the situation of the current battlefield. At this moment, the first priority of all ships was no longer to eliminate the enemy, but to preserve themselves before the star’s rage. Because the Asia spaceship had lost curvature flight capability, all the Arrow Beasts and all the Pegasus Civilization ships did not leave. Using conventional traction, they were dragging the Asia spaceship as they slowly departed this dangerous region by conventional flight. As for the fewer than one thousand Sweepers Civilization ships remaining, as well as the two spherical warships still left, Xiao Yu saw them enter curvature flight without hesitation.

Ignoring the exploding star, the battlefield had completely returned to quiet, no longer filled with fierce exchanges of fire. Taking advantage of this brief peace, Pegasus Civilization ships transported a large amount of raw materials for Xiao Yu to use to repair the Asia spaceship. Tens of thousands of Arrow Beasts and tens of thousands of ships served as the Asia spaceship’s loyal guards.

Xiao Yu knew the Sweepers Civilization had not left. They would certainly appear again. Unless they destroyed him, they would not let this go. But this time, Xiao Yu’s expectation was wrong. When the Asia spaceship regained the ability for curvature flight and began advancing toward the Pegasus Civilization territory, those Sweepers Civilization ships still did not appear.

“Perhaps they realized that with only two spherical warships, they could no longer accomplish the task of eliminating me, so they left for now, or are lurking, waiting for reinforcements to arrive…” Xiao Yu silently thought.