Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 1528 Indiscriminate Soul Annihilation

The warships, now without intelligent control, exhibited noticeable lag and stuttering. Although the strong artificial intelligence quickly took over, even a slight delay was fatal in this close-quarters combat environment.

After the previous clashes, the two fleets had already engaged in close-quarters melee, so Super Daya's attack was extremely lethal.

That's a spherical region with a radius of 2.5 light-years; any intelligent life within that area would be struck by lightning.

Of the 9.8 billion warships of the seven civilizations located at the center of the battlefield, nearly half were affected. In addition, the remaining 400 million warships of the paper civilization were also affected, bringing the total number of warships that suffered soul annihilation.

Hundreds of billions of intelligent beings perished, and even the Galactic Heart Civilization was affected. Due to the indiscriminate attack of the Super Da Ya, over a billion of their people died, making the leader of the Galactic Heart Civilization furious.

Only humans and the awakeners were not affected.

Of course, the soul-annihilating attack of the Daya civilization is powerful, but at the level of cosmic civilizations, many civilizations have done some research on the soul. Therefore, their intelligent life forms, those with stronger souls, did not actually die. Some were just in a coma, while others were just in a state of mental confusion.

While the effects of the Super Da Ya's soul-annihilating strike were still in effect, the Awakener civilization launched another attack, repeating their old tricks, only this time in three-dimensional space.

Unfortunately, the previous large-scale attack caused some overload on the energy supply system, so this time the Awakener civilization's attack did not evolve into a large-scale attack, but only shattered space in small areas.

They destroyed over 100 million warships in one go.

They could have taken down even more, but the Great Virtue civilization's ability to remotely control the battlefield altered the fate of many warships.

The cooperation between the Daya civilization and the Awakener civilization quickly narrowed the gap in the number of warships between the two sides.

In particular, the attack from the Daya civilization completely stunned the remaining nine civilizations of the Rebooters organization.

They've realized they've really messed up this time.

In fact, when the commander of the Paper Civilization fleet shouted "Human civilization is the string plectrummer," the Great Virtue Civilization and the other seven civilizations already sensed that something was wrong.

This mission was actually led by the Great Virtue Civilization and the Paper Civilization, with the Great Virtue Civilization providing support and the Paper Civilization being the main combat force.

However, this so-called combat power leader repeatedly mentioned human civilization and seemed to be in shock. Now, in the midst of the chaos, so many of their warships were destroyed by two large-scale attacks. How could those civilizations remain calm?

"Commander of the Paper Civilization, explain yourself clearly!" Seeing another batch of his civilization's warships destroyed, the civilization's leader finally couldn't hold back any longer.

Other civilization leaders and fleet commanders were also alarmed.

"Yes, if we're not mistaken, that was an attack targeting the soul, soul technology! How come there's this new kind of unique technological attack? What do you know? Share the data with us quickly!"

"It seems they've been infected too."

The commander of the Paper Civilization fleet, Viterus, was also stunned by the Super Daya. After regaining his senses, he looked at the people swaying around him and quickly explained, "Back then, we encountered a powerful and unique technological civilization. When we were at the sixth level of civilization, we had to avoid their sharp edge. Now it seems that the civilization that is with them is also very powerful."

"See those boxy warships? They're from the Awakener Civilization. The other civilization that can travel through three-dimensional space is the Silver Heart Civilization, and they're also part of their organization. In our memory, they should also have a civilization with the technology of the Great Rip, called the Falcon Civilization. I don't know why they're not here."

"Of course, that's not the main point. The main point is that human civilization seems to have become more powerful. If that warship with its rhythmic appearance is their flagship, then we might really be in danger this time. Unfortunately, we can't contact our leader right now, and I don't have the authority to send messages to human civilization directly." "As for that kind of soul-based attack, this is the first time we've encountered it. When we encountered human civilization before, they didn't seem to have such a companion."

Having suffered heavy losses, the commander of the paper civilization fleet, Viterus, was already considering retreating, but under these circumstances, there was no way to withdraw.

Just then, the voice of the leader of the Great Virtue Civilization appeared in the combat command channel: "We cannot retreat. If we retreat, our mission will be declared a failure. Moreover, if we don't inflict serious damage on them, even if we cease hostilities, we will have no say, and the mission will still fail. Don't worry, the battlefield situation is under our control. We will provide you with synchronized data and then help you disengage from the battlefield."

Upon hearing this, the leaders of various civilizations and fleet commanders finally remembered that they still had trump cards up their sleeves.

If they can hold on a little longer, and wait until the Great Virtue Civilization is ready for the next large-scale spatial folding, they can leave the chaotic battlefield area and no longer be threatened by area-of-effect attacks.

As for the soul-destroying strike, they could only pray that the Super Daya's wide-area attack wouldn't take too long to recharge.

They certainly knew about soul technology, and they also had different levels of spiritual and soul enhancement technology, but no civilization had developed to the level of the Daya civilization.

Meanwhile, the leader of the Great Virtue Civilization was thinking: "Should we just throw 'Zero' directly onto the chaotic battlefield and wipe out both sides indiscriminately, friend or foe?"

His hesitation wasn't because he was worried about hitting his own people; he was genuinely considering the bigger picture.

Especially after hearing that human civilization was the String Piper and a powerful civilization with unique technology, the leader of the Great Virtue Civilization felt even more strongly that these civilizations should be brought into the Rebooters' camp.

However, since the opponent has been brought into one's own camp, it cannot be viewed from the perspective of a loser, so the fight must continue.

He felt that at least a draw was necessary.

The leader of the Great Virtue Civilization felt that they should wait and see. Since they already had "Zeroing" in hand, it wouldn't be a big problem to use it as a strategic deterrent when the situation deteriorated. There was no need to use it directly now.

Moreover, the current situation is not just a chaotic battlefield where battles are taking place; a crucial battle is also taking place in the void on the other side.

He wanted to see the outcome of that battle first.

"It should be soon."

The leader of the Great Virtue Civilization looked towards the other side of the battlefield, where one of their civilizations had once been located. Now, it had become a vast two-dimensional area with a diameter of 80,000 light-years, undoubtedly the work of the Paper Civilization.

It was indeed the work of the flagship of the paper civilization. As soon as it arrived, along with the 100 million warships that came with it, it launched a massive dimensional reduction attack on the area where the Dream Lyra was located.

The Paper Civilization flagship was actually quite fast. Their shrinking movement method was very rapid, but it was still not as fast as the large-scale spacetime folding. So they didn't arrive at the location of the Dream Lyra until the Awakener unleashed a dense, ultra-large-scale, powerful space-shattering attack.

Just as they arrived, the Lyra Dream emerged from the microscopic quantum world, having just destroyed the fleet of the civilization that had been exiled into the microscopic realm by quantum exile.

As a result, the Dream Lyra, which had just returned to the three-dimensional universe, was immediately subjected to a dimensional reduction attack by the flagship of the paper civilization, which brought a hundred million Nebula-class warships right up to its face.

(End of this chapter)