The hall was not quiet, only slight beeping knocking sounded from time to time. From time to time, people came in and out, and the dark military boots made dull footsteps on the metal floor. Many people came and left in a hurry, with urgency written on their faces, but not panic.
On the high podium, the young marshal was sitting there quietly. The silver-white command seat is suspended, and two beams of light gather on both sides. The seat armrests on both sides are also silver and white, on which the Marshal's arms rest. Slender hands wearing snow-white gloves hang down from the cylindrical head of the armrest, the long legs wrapped in jet-black trousers are slightly slanted, and the shiny black boots step on the white metal floor so bright that a figure can be reflected.
The light from above shone on that handsome face, making the skin that seemed to be made of melting ice and snow glow faintly. He closed his eyes, his slender eyelashes drooped, and the fine black hair was scattered on his cheeks. He just sat there quietly with his eyes closed, and the silent pressure enveloped the entire hall.
Sitting there, this man was like a snow-blade blade stuck on the cliff of an iceberg. Although he was beautiful, he was cold to the bone, and his aura was scorching, making one's heart palpitating.
In the starry sky, one could see the messy rubble scattered chaotically, gushing out from the depths of the Devil's Starfield, like waves hitting heavily on the fleet staying on the edge. Numerous gravels hit the hull of the ship. Although it was not damaged, it also left scratches. At first glance, the fleet seemed to be covered in bruises, and it looked very miserable.
However, that's what outsiders who don't understand war see. Those who have been fighting in normal years can see that although the fleet looks miserable, it doesn't have a trace of decadence. All the warships are arranged in the queue in an orderly manner. The track moved slowly without any deviation.
After all, it is the elite fleet directly under Marshal Troll. Even after successive battles and pirate attacks, under the premise that the artillery fire and energy are almost exhausted, there is no fear and ten times the number of them. The United Fleet fought, and even under various unfavorable factors, it was able to fight against the United Fleet for a long time. In the end, it was not defeated. Instead, it retreated into the edge of the Devil's Star Field. He even ruthlessly bit off a large piece of flesh and blood on the United Fleet.
What a terrifying combat power.
Although the star jump points of the Emperor Star System and the other two galaxies under the Marshal's command have been closed, the other fleets under the Marshal Troll's command must have received the news and rushed to rescue day and night.
As long as the fleet under the Marshal's command has such a strong combat effectiveness, the people in the United Fleet will feel shuddering.
Although the fleet directly under the marshal should be elite, other fleets may not be so scary. However, even if it is not as good as the elite fleet, its combat power must be higher than their combined fleet. Moreover, the strength of the fleet under the command of the Marshal will not be much smaller than that of the United Fleet. Once those rescue fleets successfully arrive at the Emperor Star System...
Through monitoring, it is known that the fastest fleet has already approached the Emperor Star System, and it is expected to reach the edge of the galaxy the next day. And other fleets are also approaching the Emperor Star System one after another. According to the most conservative estimates, these rescue fleets will all arrive within three days.
This is also the reason why the patriarchs of those aristocratic families did not hesitate to reveal which armed satellites they controlled, and they also wanted to work together to solve Marshal Troll.
They knew very well that this was probably their best and only chance to get rid of Troll. Once he failed to seize this opportunity, Troll turned the tables... You know, Troll is famous in the entire universe for his ruthlessness, and he will never compromise or show mercy to the enemy. In the eyes of these nobles, he is like a bloodthirsty and ferocious beast, once it bites its prey, it must be torn to pieces.
Therefore, he must be dealt with.
Now, here, completely get rid of this terrible and rough beast!
[The Scepter of Heaven] is slowly turning. In the eyes of most people, they are just turning slowly according to the normal orbit, guarding the Emperor Star. Only the three high-ranking people who control it at this moment know what kind of terrifying power these armed satellites are accumulating at this moment.
The Negal, the head of the scepter, sailed quietly along the orbit, and its huge body began to transform silently. Countless energy absorption holes slowly protruded from its black shell, covering it densely. Its whole body. Its interior is also running, a giant interstellar orbital gun that occupies almost a quarter of the internal volume of this armed satellite the size of an ordinary asteroid slowly turns its head, and the brain and ground control attached to it With its intellectual brain synchronizing, the characters and images on the light curtain on the console are frantically swiping and jumping, using huge capacity and computing power to calculate the direction of the shelling target, ensuring that the final deviation can be corrected to infinitely close to to the point of zero.
The fleets of the three parties with different forces and different badges surround the outer starry sky of the Emperor Star, and there is a very conspicuous and huge flagship in the center of each fleet. And the patriarchs of the three forces are sitting on the command seats of their respective flagships at this moment, and the sound insulation and shadows are shrouded around the command platform. The soldiers outside can neither see nor hear what is going on in the command platform. Only a few closest confidantes are following. Inside, stand behind them.
Some of them raised their heads and stared at the dancing images on the light curtain with serious expressions; Some people looked at the magnified blue-black flagship that looked like a giant whale in the video sent indifferently, and there was a cluster of tiny flames burning in the bottom of their eyes, as if they wanted to burn Ishtar in sight like this Like a ship.
After the Negal satellite sailed to a certain location, its speed slowed down, and it seemed to be stagnant at that location from a distance. It seems random, but if you look carefully, you will find that the direction is facing the devil star field in the corner of the galaxy.
It can be clearly seen from the video image transmitted from the angle of Negal that at this position, there are no planets or small satellites in a straight line between the armed satellite and the Ishtar flagship staying at the edge of the devil's star field become an obstacle.
The speed of Negal slowed down and almost stopped, but at the same time, the speed of the other ten armed satellites suddenly accelerated. They activated the acceleration device in the sphere, and quickly drove from all directions in the outer space of the Emperor Star, and they gathered around the Negal.
Patriarch Cloto, who had laugh lines at the corners of his eyes, took a sip of the wine. The purple-red liquid rippled in the crystal clear wine glass. He squinted his eyes, as if feeling the fragrance of the wine in his mouth.
The dead soldiers lurking on Ishtar have secretly sent a message. Everything on Ishtar is normal. Although it seems to have noticed the movements of those armed satellites and is discussing, the hull has not taken any precautionary measures, and still just keeps It's just a first-level readiness state.
This is normal. It is natural for them to notice the movement of the armed satellite, but they will not think that they will be attacked. Because after all, so far, there has not been a weapon in the entire universe with an attack range that can cover the entire Emperor star system. The range limit of these armed satellites is about one-fifth of the galaxy range. So they are only vigilant about the movement of the [Scepter of the Kingdom of Heaven], not panic.
At the same time, the subordinates on Emperor Star who were in charge of monitoring the movements of the royal family also sent news not long ago, saying that there was also no movement from the royal family.
And rightly so. After all, only the three patriarchs and a few confidantes knew about the decision to bombard Ishtar with the Nergal satellite-orbiting shaped cannon. This is the only chance, and it concerns their common interests. No one will be so stupid as to leak . The royal family no longer has the right to control the [Scepter of Heaven], and they have no idea what they want to do.
The man's lips, which were moistened extremely glossy by the wine, lifted up slightly.
The serious problem is about to be resolved.
And the other two old guys... Take your time, he has enough patience to deal with those two old guys slowly.
In the future, it must be the Crotor family who will obtain the entire empire.
In the future, the one who ascends to the highest place will be him, the Patriarch of Clotho!
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"Your Excellency, the enemy fleet is still blocking the exit of the channel."
"The wave of attacks just now has been repelled."
"There is currently no sign of further attacks."
On the edge of the podium, the colonel with blue hair stood there, dozens of translucent light curtains hovered around him. Those light curtains were big and small, constantly flashing, and every time they got bigger, the captains of different fleets would report to him.
The enemy troops besieging the exit of the star field route are still attacking continuously, wave after wave, most likely intending to overwhelm them with numbers. It's just that they relied on the geographical advantage of the Devil Starfield to repel the enemy's attacks time and time again, and their own losses were not too great.
After learning about the current battle situation on the front line, Via quickly switched channels.
"Report the current location of the rescue fleet of all parties."
"Yes, Your Excellency! This is the Tanamari Fleet, and it is expected to arrive in ten hours and twenty-six minutes!"
"Estimated time of arrival is twenty-nine hours."
"The Kanna Fleet was intercepted by an enemy ship on the way."
"I'm very sorry, we have already gone at full speed, but it will take at least three days, no, more than two days—"
...
Via stepped onto the podium and walked behind the Marshal.
Marshal Troll got up, and the suspended command seat behind him quickly melted and shrunk after he got up, and then merged into the metal floor, and there was no trace of it anymore.
He walked forward, and the navy blue cloak behind him flew back for a moment with his steps, and then fell down softly. The bright light shone on that handsome face, and the forehead hair cast a deep shadow on his cheek.
Troll stood at the front of the podium, and a huge star map appeared in front of him, like a slowly unfolding scroll. The situation of the entire Emperor Star Galaxy is within this huge interstellar picture scroll.
His eyes fell on the corner of the picture scroll. He glanced at the position of the devil star field where he is now, and then quickly moved away, falling on the [Scepter of the Kingdom of Heaven] that was rapidly rotating and gathered around the emperor star. superior. The moving traces of those satellites were reflected in the blue pupils, and those arcs of light seemed to be flashing in the depths of his eyes.
His left hand was placed on his right hand, and his slender fingers in snow-white gloves gently stroked the root of the ring finger of his right hand. There was a trace of a ring raised slightly at the root of the finger, and the dark blue ring hidden under the glove shone with a little bit of starlight in the darkness, like the endless cosmic starry sky outside the ship window.
Use body as bait.
Using Emperor Star as bait.
Finally got to this point.
…
[I give you the universe.]
...
Marshal Troll didn't know, and no one knew, that at the moment when the situation on the Emperor Star was about to explode, a very inconspicuous small spaceship sailed from the outer galaxy into the Emperor Star System at an extremely fast speed.
At the moment when spaceships were everywhere in the chaotic situation on the Emperor Star, no one noticed that this small spaceship was flying straight towards the battlefield that was so discolored——the Devil Starfield.
…
The flaxen-haired young man gritted his teeth and gasped for breath. He almost tried his best to catch up with Mutt again. He teleported again and stopped in front of Mutt.
Just as Mutt was about to turn to avoid him accelerating away again, he yelled.
"You must go?!"
The young man who was about to teleport away paused, looked back at Canaan, and nodded.
Canaan looked at the pair of black pupils looking at him, and he saw the stubbornness and determination inside. Taking a deep breath, he opened his mouth.
"I see." He frowned tightly, looking very unhappy, but he continued, "I'll take you there."
He said, "We have a spaceship, the jump speed is very fast, and we can go there in that spaceship."
Mutt was taken aback for a moment, and at this moment, other people followed up one after another. When they heard what Canaan said, some were surprised, and some showed anger.
"Canaan!"
The angry Japheth shouted Canaan's name, obviously reprimanding him for exposing this matter.
"It's useless, Japheth. Since this guy has made up his mind, we can't stop him. Are we really going to watch him fly across the stars and let him exhaust his strength and die on the way?"
Although Canaan's face was not very good-looking, his tone was very calm.
"It's better for us to follow and stare. In short, let's go with him and see the situation. Maybe it's not as bad as we thought."
Canaan's words made Japheth speechless for a moment, he thought for a while, and could only reluctantly agree.
Noah is the only one who has the powerful ability to span half of the universe. Although they can fly in the universe for a short time, they will definitely not be able to sustain it for a long time.
So when they came to the Fona galaxy from the Noah's Ark planet, they didn't fly here, but took their small spaceship. That kind of small spaceship is unique to Gat. It is not too aggressive, and its size is not large. It can hold a dozen people at most, but it is very fast and has a very powerful jumping ability.
Due to their vigilance against human beings, they did not directly drive this small spaceship to the Forna star, but first hid the small spaceship on a desolate and inconspicuous small satellite near the Forner star, and then flew by themselves. Arrived at Forna Star.
"There is one more problem." Japheth said, "If that intelligence brain contacts the marshal and tells him what happened to us in the past, the marshal is likely to order nearby warships to intercept us."
"I will give DaDa an order to force her to sleep from now on."
Da Da cannot violate the highest order of the marshal, but Mute can also issue orders that make it impossible to violate.
Mute said while turning his head to look at the girl who was chasing him, "Also, Sarah, you don't want to go."
"But I also—"
The teenager smiled.
"I ask you to look after me and the marshal's house, and take care of Caesar."
There was still a slight mist in the girl's big eyes, she looked at Mute who was smiling at her, and nodded slightly.
"... I see." She twitched her nose and said, "I'll wait for you to come back."
...
After a long period of extremely fast flight and uninterrupted jumps, Jia's small spaceship has arrived at the Emperor Star System and is heading for the Devil Star Field.
However, when approaching the Devil's Star Field, looking at the densely packed fleet surrounding the edge, the small spaceship could no longer approach and could only wander not far away.
"Mute, I scanned the situation on the battlefield with the sensing system on the spaceship."
A light curtain of a large star map emerged in the cockpit, showing the stalemate battle situation at the moment.
"Although the marshal's fleet was forced into the turbulent star field and couldn't get out, the fleets outside couldn't get in either. He is still safe for the time being."
Looking at the distribution of the fleet on the star map, Mutt was slightly relieved.
"Can we attack those flagships..."
Tina makes an opinion.
"I'm afraid it won't work. I tried to sense it. Those flagships are already equipped with defense devices against us." Canaan frowned and said, "There are no ordinary warships, but attacking those warships is useless."
The number of enemy warships is so large that their attack on a few ordinary warships has no effect on the battlefield at this moment.
"I think we can stop acting rashly and hide around here to see the situation first. After all, the marshal is not in danger now..."
Just halfway through Japheth's speech, he suddenly stopped, and his pupils shrank suddenly.
"This is-"
"What's going on! Where does this terrible energy come from—"
The special sensing system of Jia's spaceship is connected with the thinking of Jia who controls the spaceship, and the moment Canaan felt the terrifying energy, it spread out rapidly. As a result, the star map of the light curtain floating in the driver's hall expanded rapidly, extending all the way to the emperor star.
In the star map, countless light spots are flickering, and at this moment, beside the emperor star, there is a dazzling light source that is dozens of times brighter than other light spots, burning people's eyes sorely.
"This kind of energy is so strong! It's almost like the power of a nuclear bomb!"
Heber held his head, and he also felt the terrifying power, and his face turned pale with fright for a moment.
If we say that the most powerful and terrifying weapon in this universe is a nuclear energy bomb, it is powerful enough to destroy an asteroid. The only good news is that this kind of nuclear energy bomb is as large as a destroyer, and it is dangerous. It is difficult to move and use, and it cannot be equipped on a ship at all. It can only be installed on a planetary fortress as a deterrent weapon.
Mutt closed his eyes, his spirit stretched out in an instant, he felt the powerful source of energy, where the mental induction was like the magma of a crater that was about to erupt, surging with frightening energy, And that energy is still accumulating, still growing, ready to go, heading in a certain direction...
The boy opened his eyes abruptly.
His heart trembled violently.
He felt the direction in which that terrible energy was heading.
He opened his eyes and looked ahead—the dark starry sky, the depths of the whirlpool-like turbulence, where the black and blue giant whale was—
Boom!
He felt that the energy that was almost destroying the world had been spurted out at this moment—
He thought nothing of it.
He didn't have time to think about anything.
"Mute! You—"
Canaan, who suddenly noticed that the figure of the boy disappeared in the spaceship, didn't even have time to call out the fourth word.
...
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In the flagship of the giant whale that was on the edge of the devil star field, in the hall, one after another hurried reports sounded.
"Report! A huge energy fluctuation has been detected!"
"The direction is confirmed! From the direction of Emperor Star!"
"The energy fluctuation has reached 870,000 mils—close to the energy when a nuclear bomb explodes—and it continues to rise!"
"It's been located—it's the Negal armed satellite!"
The enlarged star map clearly shows that the armed satellite is deforming, splitting from the belly in the middle.
It is surrounded by other [Scepter of Heaven] armed satellites, and the satellite orbital guns on those armed satellites are firing at the Negal at the same time. Those ten powerful artillery fires hit the Negal, and were absorbed by the countless energy absorption holes around the Negal.
At the same time, a huge gun muzzle as large as a destroyer protruded from the deformed and cracked abdomen of the Negal satellite, and the gun muzzle was aimed at the direction...
"The Negal is about to shoot!"
"The target prediction is our ship!"
"Report! Calculated! Our ship is 100% on the opponent's firing line!"
"Report! According to calculations, the speed of the energy beam is too fast! Our ship has no time to dodge!"
As soon as the last report came to an end, it seemed as if even the starry sky around Nergal was distorted for a moment and shook, and a huge beam of light that was so bright that it was eye-catching was ejected from the giant muzzle—
The light beam with the terrifying power of destroying planets penetrated most of the star sea in an instant.
It drew a straight and bright line across the starry sky, and everything that touched this line of light was instantly annihilated.
It is like a scepter in the hands of the god of the underworld. Wherever it goes, there is only destruction and death.
Its speed is so fast, like lightning, it has penetrated the galaxy and reached the edge of the Devil Star Field in just the blink of an eye.
A part of the United Fleet, which was kept in the dark by the superiors, had no time to dodge, and the countless battleships blocked by the artillery beam burst instantly, leaving no bones left.
The artillery fire of death runs through the channel of the Devil Star Field.
There was a dead silence in the hall of Ishtar's ship.
The oncoming beam of light through the glass windows of the ship turned almost everyone's faces into a bloodless paleness.
Everyone could only watch helplessly as the destructive beam descended.
Everyone can only wait for the next second when the flagship is pierced by the terrible artillery fire, and the ship is destroyed.
…
In the desperate situation, a faint spot of light flickered on the star map.
It is very tiny, inconspicuous compared to the huge and dazzling beam of artillery fire.
But it was this faint light that walked side by side with that destructive beam, and even took a step ahead of the coming beam—
The faint spot of light flickered for a while, then jumped forward suddenly, then turned an arc and landed.
One second before the destructive beam was about to descend on Ishtar—
Via saw something at a glance and felt her heart twitch violently.
"Your Excellency the Marshal!"
He yelled out.
Marshal Troll, who was standing on the podium with a blank face, suddenly raised his head, his breathing stagnated, and his pupils suddenly shrank into a point.
A figure appeared in front of Ishtar.
In the bright light of the oncoming gunfire beam, the figure cast a deep shadow on the transparent glass.
Compared with the huge Ishtar, that figure is so thin and slender.
Compared to the destructive beam that was about to descend, that figure was so tiny.
But that figure is still in front of Ishtar, in front of everyone, facing the artillery fire that can destroy a planet, like a towering tree facing the thunder of the nine heavens—
…
Mutt stood on the hull of Ishtar, and he looked at the huge beam of light that bombarded him.
It was like standing on the ground, watching the sun fall from the sky, towards the direction of the earth, with flames that made everything go away.
His mind went blank.
It was like the moment when I felt this terrible energy shooting towards Ishtar in the spaceship not long ago.
He thought nothing of it.
He didn't have time to think about anything.
His slightly dilated pupils seemed to be burning with hot blue flames. The flames burned out, from his eyes, from his body, and from his skin.
His entire body was surrounded and wrapped by burning blue flames, and his pitch-black hair was flying wildly, as if there were tiny blue flames jumping in every strand of hair.
The sun that burned everything fell.
He reaches out to the sky.
The blue flame firmly blocked the falling sun above the earth.
Can't let it fall.
This is the only thought in the boy's mind at the moment.
When he hit the ground, that person would die, and the person he wanted to protect would die.
The destructive light beams were colliding fiercely, and the huge power almost caused the surrounding starry sky to shake, and the countless rubble that hit it were wiped out the moment they touched it.
But it was stuck firmly in front of Ishtar, unable to move forward.
The blue flame on the boy's body was burning, before Ishtar, under the bombardment.
It is boiling, it is roaring, it is struggling, as if it wants to burn everything in it.
But that powerful light beam suppressed it fiercely, causing its flame to be annihilated bit by bit.
With a bang, the boy's knees slammed heavily on the metal shell of the ship.
He fell to his knees.
An indescribably heavy force was pressing on Mutt alone, he opened his mouth, and it was hot air that was too hot to breathe—what he was enduring was enough energy to destroy a planet—
The blue flames around him were still burning stubbornly and with difficulty, his clenched teeth were rattling, and thin threads of blood oozed from the corners of his eyes, ear holes, nose, and lips, making him His distorted face at this moment is particularly terrifying.
The sharp blade of the light beam stabbed fiercely at the top of his head, smashed down, pressed down, like a mountain pressing down on the top.
The muscles tensed to the limit that it could bear, and the explosive force had already surpassed the limit that the body could bear. The capillaries on the skin burst and blood splattered, dyeing the boy kneeling there like a blood man.
[Even if it is Ga, there is a limit to power.]
The blazing beam melted the blue flame, and it fell with overwhelming and terrifying force.
The snow-white light moved forward slowly, engulfing the young man's hand stretched forward bit by bit.
The blue flames covering the bloody boy were swallowed, compressed, and fell powerlessly.
The hand that lost the blue flame was engulfed by white light, and the skin melted in an instant, exposing the naked flesh and muscles—and the next moment, as if being burned and eroded by the raging magma, the flesh and blood also vaporized in an instant, only Thick phalanx remains.
In the next second, the only remaining white finger bones that were exposed also melted under the light.
… together with that blue-black star ring.
...
In the pitch-black starry sky, an incandescent light beam slowly fell, and at that moment, it completely swallowed up the blue flame.