Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1071 Battle of Shield Arm

A conventional warship of the Shenju civilization suddenly lost half of itself for no apparent reason, as if that part of the warship had been cut out using cutout software, which was very abrupt.

If this phenomenon happened in the Earth era, I guess many people would immediately exclaim it was a miracle.

But in fact, it was caused by the sixth-level civilization weapon, which was the void strike!
The battleship was directly hit by the void and the part that was hit was turned into space matter. The battleship that was hit also triggered a series of malfunction reactions and soon turned into a large piece of scrap metal.

The battleship was destroyed before it could even put up a void shield.

The attack range of the Void Strike is basically only 3 light years, but to reach 3 light years, it takes several seconds to fill up the energy, so more level civilizations will not open fire in this range, but will get closer.

As for the warship of the Shenju civilization just now, it failed to open the void shield in time because it found that there were no Reaper warships around it, and was taken away by the enemy.

The emergence of Void Strike made the battles between some warships invisible.

The battlefield was divided into two dimensions, visible and invisible. The visible battlefield was dominated by tachyon lightsabers and real shields, and the fighting was very explosive, with lightsabers often traveling across light years, or real shields colliding with tachyon lightsabers to burst into brilliant light.

The other battlefield is the battle of void strike weapons.

This weapon is invisible to optics, and the route it takes to fire is also invisible. Although the time it takes for this weapon to hit the target is slower than that of a tachyon lightsaber, its power is more than twice as great.

Because it is invisible, from the perspective of visible light, one often only sees a battleship suddenly exiting the warp, then pointing its main gun at another enemy ship, and then it once again props up the warp bubble and escapes into the warp transfer position. The battleship that was pointed at by the main gun has silently developed a large gap, or even lost half of its size, becoming a lifeless wreckage.

The direct collision between the main fleets escalated the war.

The Battle of the Shield Arm, which was later recorded in the history of the Milky Way by the advanced civilization of the Milky Way, officially began.

All the level six civilizations that participated in this war, and even the races involved, have been recorded in the historical archives of many civilizations.

In this war, later known as the Battle of the Shield Arm, the Reapers' psychological tactics were very effective, and they successfully avoided being outnumbered at the beginning.

This prevented the United Front from taking advantage of the number of warships.

If the official outbreak of the war is counted from the time when the main fleets of both sides began, it has been going on for one year and seven months now. However, several main flagships of the United Front are still watching and have not directly joined the melee.

The Lyra, Neutron Battle Star, Galaxy and the sixth-level Gaia life, the main forces were still quietly watching the warships of both sides being destroyed behind the fleet, as if those destroyed warships were indifferent.

"What are the Reapers waiting for?" The leader of the Shenju civilization looked at the situation on the battlefield and said silently in his heart. He was speaking to himself.

Because he now knows very well that the Reapers are waiting for the scattered fleets of the Divine Principle Civilization to gather together to attack the group of Reaper conventional warships concentrated in one star field. Of course, they are also waiting for the subsequent echelon fleets of the Galactic Heart Alliance to join the battlefield.

By that time, when the electronic warships appear again, they will be able to destroy the largest number of warships of the United Front at the fastest speed.

"You wait, and we wait too, to see who can't wait first!" On the Galaxy of the Galactic Heart Alliance, there was also an idea that secretly made up its mind.

Obviously, he was the supreme commander of the Galactic Heart Alliance, and he also saw the Reaper's plan, so it was even more impossible for him to send the main fleet into the battlefield at once.

It was obvious that the Reapers were using the 500 million battleships as bait, trying to lure other civilizations' fleets closer, just like when they fought the Legacy.

The Reapers have used this trick many times, and it has always worked. It's not that other civilizations are too stupid, it's really that the Reapers take advantage of the information gap, sometimes they really deceive other level 6 civilizations, like the battle with the Legacy, and sometimes it's an open conspiracy.

Just like this time.

The United Front guessed the Reaper's plan, and that's why all the major civilizations today told themselves in their hearts that they had to hold back.

Whoever can't help himself first will lose the initiative.

In this situation, the Awakener warships did not dare to rush directly into the Reaper fleet, because they were afraid that they would not have time to escape.

The Awakeners were not stupid, they were just fighting a guerrilla war. The three million Awakener warships were separated, and they led the ten thousand elite warships of the human race to cruise around the battlefield, having a great time.

Yes, it was fun.

After all, I'm the only one hitting you, but you can't hit me.

The Reapers' conventional warships simply cannot hit the Awakeners' and humans' warships. If the Awakeners were not afraid of being swept into the large fleet, they would probably have killed everyone by now.

But you still have to endure it.

But what is strange is that up to now, the United Front has not found any trace of the Reaper's fully transformed warships.

Perhaps the Reapers regarded them as their trump cards, the leaders of several civilizations thought so.

As time went on, the distance between the two sides became closer. Some brave warships had already rushed to the other side, opening up new means of attack on this battlefield.

When the warships of each other were within one light year or so, space-cutting weapons appeared on the battlefield for the first time.

Sharp blades that cut through space were emitted from the sub-civilization-class warships, and then slashed outwards like flying blades. Well, perhaps the word "extension" would be more appropriate.

Because the mechanism of these black lines is not "flying" in space, but the black lines themselves are cracks in space, and the black lines are moving, which actually means that the space cracks are moving forward. The force that drives them comes from the battleship's space cutting weapon system.

The so-called space-cutting weapons are naturally of spatial nature. Any object that relies on space can be cut by it, because it does not cut objects, but space itself.

However, due to the stable nature of the three-dimensional universe, once the space is cut, it will automatically close in the next Planck time. Therefore, the black line extending forward of the space-cutting weapon is actually an "extension of energy that destroys the stability of space." Once this initial energy is exhausted, the black line will automatically disappear.

For space weapons that involve the concept of Planck time, their extension "speed" must exceed the speed of light, and their range is relatively short. Therefore, as soon as the black line appeared on the battlefield, many warships that were unable to avoid it were cut into many sections.

The broken parts of matter will be crushed together with the energy that destroys space, converted into energy in an instant, and then cause secondary energy shock damage.

Therefore, the warships that are cut off by the black line will experience a violent expansion of energy as the black line appears, which is referred to as an explosion.

The application of space weapons instantly turned the battlefield into a real meat grinder, oh no, an iron grinder, where countless warships were destroyed. The battlefield, which was originally filled with white light, also had deep black lines engraved on the background.

As the war entered the next white-hot stage, the leaders of several major civilizations remained there watching quietly: Fight, if you don’t come out, we won’t be in a hurry, let’s just fight this war of attrition and see who can’t hold back first!
Judging from the current situation, the conventional combat power of the Reapers is obviously no match for the United Front. Even if they cannot take advantage of numbers, the United Front still has an advantage in terms of casualties.

(End of this chapter)