Xiao Yu did not doubt at all that if he kept attacking like this, he could directly destroy this planet, reducing it to asteroids and rubble. To achieve this was very simple, he only needed to target one fixed spot and keep firing spatial rifts. One day, Xiao Yu would slice this planet in half like cutting open an orange.
But Xiao Yu had no need to do that. He was simply using the most violent and simplest method to destroy the entire defense system within this star system.
The military base, the control center, and the computing center were undoubtedly built on this planet. Xiao Yu had no interest in dispatching large numbers of robots to land and then search and destroy them one by one. By using space weapons to disrupt the planet’s crust, triggering massive global earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, even overturning its entire geological structure, everything on the planet would naturally be annihilated.
It was a method full of violent beauty.
Xiao Yu watched as a ten-thousand-meter-high mountain was sliced in half by a spatial rift. Endless masses of rock came crashing down on the planet’s surface, triggering violent earthquakes. Vast plains were carved into uneven hills…
Xiao Yu mercifully granted them this wish. In this campaign, not a single ship of the Molian Civilization fled, not a single ship surrendered. They all fought, fought desperately to the death.
“Perish then, perish.” Xiao Yu muttered softly, commanding his fleet to carry out a tactical encirclement. Large numbers of ships were driven apart, then cut into fragments by Xiao Yu’s constantly interweaving ships. Their fronts and rears could not support one another, each isolated and forced to fight alone, and then, under Xiao Yu’s ferocious barrage, they exploded one after another into blazing fireballs…
The battle for Star System Number 5, by now, was already decided. Unless a miracle happened, the Molian Civilization could not possibly turn the tide.
But no miracle occurred. The few Nation-Class ships stationed in Star System Number 5 were destroyed. Without their command system, the Molian Civilization fleet fell into further chaos. This was like the difference between a mob and an organized army. What was happening in Star System Number 5 could no longer be called a battle. It could only be called a massacre.
Xiao Yu raised his butcher’s blade high, then brought it down mercilessly. “You wish to shed the last drop of blood for your civilization, to fulfill your duty as soldiers. Very well, I will grant you that. Even when you stand before the gods of your legends, you can proudly say, ‘I did my best. I did not shrink back. I fought until the very last moment’.”
Deep down, Xiao Yu truly admired the Molian Civilization. This was respect between opponents, unrelated to stance or sides. To be able to cause him so much trouble, to destroy four of his Nation-Class ships, these soldiers already had every reason to be proud.
Xiao Yu was not stingy in giving them their final respect. So he did not attempt to capture them, but killed them outright.
The number of Molian Civilization ships rapidly dwindled, eight hundred thousand, seven hundred thousand, four hundred thousand, one hundred thousand…
These were the last one hundred thousand Molian Civilization ships. All of them had been driven by Xiao Yu to the edge of the star system. Surrounding them, no fewer than one million of Xiao Yu’s ships watched them like tigers eyeing their prey.
“You have earned my respect. Though we are opponents, mortal enemies who will never rest until the other is destroyed, that does not prevent me from respecting you. You failed to stop me from destroying your civilization, but you need not feel regret, you already gave it your all. Your consciences are clear.” Xiao Yu spoke. This message was broadcast out through radio waves.
“Predator, no, Divine Ark Civilization, your power truly exceeded our imagination. Especially those strange shields on your ships, and your space weapons, which were far beyond our expectations. To fall at your hands, we cannot call it unjust. We know the situation cannot be reversed. All we ask now is a swift death. Let us bleed the last drop for our civilization, give the last measure of our worth.”
“Though I must personally exterminate you, that does not prevent the respect I feel in my heart. Very well, I will grant you death, so you may depart in peace. In my long journey ahead, I will always remember that I had opponents such as you. In battle with you, I had to give my full strength to defeat you. You are worthy of respect. Worthy opponents.”
“Before death, we have one last request. Use that space weapon against us. To die under the assault of a Level 6 Civilization’s weapon, for us, that would be an honor.”
Xiao Yu did not hesitate in the slightest, immediately agreeing. “Only the sharpest weapon is fit to perform a hero’s funeral. I grant you this.”
The hundred thousand Molian ships all at once deactivated their shield systems. Now these vessels lay completely exposed in the void of space. Even the most primitive kinetic projectile could have inflicted some damage on their hulls.
The surrounding fleet spread out. The China, the United States, and the Russia ships appeared at the front. Powered by the energy of hundreds of thousands of engines within, the space weapons were rapidly activated. A single line, so fine, yet infinitely deep, appeared, shooting out from the firing ports and surging forward.
Countless ships were instantly cleaved in two, exploding violently. One strike of the space weapon was not enough to destroy so many ships, so came the second, the third, the fourth…
One by one, black lines fired out. Some ships endured more than one spatial rift strike. Their hulls were carved into thousands, tens of thousands of fragments, utterly and thoroughly destroyed.
The one hundred thousand ships were all annihilated under the space weapon’s attacks. Flashes burst forth in succession, illuminating hundreds of thousands of kilometers of surrounding space, like the final flare before the fall of a civilization.
“It’s finally over.” Xiao Yu sighed inwardly. “Next, I must head to the capital star system, to resolve the final matter…”
“Gather massive resources, and build the Stellar Cannon once again… Guardian Civilization’s City-Class ship, is it? With your interference, I could not strike at the Molian Civilization’s capital planet. Then, I want to see if you can prevent me from attacking their star…”
“With my current technological strength, I am already capable of constructing a complete Stellar Cannon. A single shot, forcing a normal star into supernova eruption, is no difficult task for me. Then… I will destroy this star. With the death of one star as the price, I will drive you back, and only then can I obtain what I seek.”
Under Xiao Yu’s command, countless robots busied themselves. The planet of Star System Number 5 was still wracked by violent geological upheaval, the damage from the space weapons was too severe, and it had yet to calm. But the robots ignored all this. Under the lead of hundreds of thousands of Town-Class ships, like ants hauling food, they transported useful materials onto the fleet.
The material collection operation lasted only two days. In truth, if more time were available, Xiao Yu would have liked to gather much more. But he no longer had time.
“These things, along with my original reserves aboard the ships, should be enough… If not, I’ll just dismantle the ships themselves for construction materials.”
With this thought, Xiao Yu hastily ended the resource-gathering. Commanding his remaining one million one hundred seventy thousand ships, he rushed into curvature flight, heading straight toward the Molian Civilization’s capital star system.
Awaiting Xiao Yu would be more than two months of continuous curvature travel. In those two months, Xiao Yu would complete the construction of the Stellar Cannon. Upon arrival at the Molian Civilization’s capital star system, he would use the Stellar Cannon to annihilate the Molian Civilization’s sun…
This would be the final clash with the Molian Civilization. Whether Xiao Yu’s goal would be achieved, all depended on this decisive battle.
[T/N: Wow, he is planning to destroy their sun, kinda of a badass solution to the Molian problem and payback for all the fallen soldiers.]