From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 644 Requiem

The Atlas fleet guard warships under Amber maintained the set intervals and continuously consumed the non-lethal tactical missiles in the warships' ammunition depots.

One after another, "shielding layers" formed by interference foil clouds, interference smoke and nuclear explosions continued to unfold along the Federal Navy's route.

Ever since the Atlas Fleet began to implement 'tactical concealment', the Federation Fleet could no longer obtain the fleet's specific movements and operations. Marshal Trafalgar could only let the fleet follow and keep trying to close the distance.

After thinking about it for a while, the admiral was not as worried as before. After all, the Atlas fleet and Mr. Amber were "trapped" here.

Based on the opponent's series of actions from the beginning to now, Marshal Trafalgar judged that this fleet should still launch an attack towards the proton annihilation bomb assembly center, so his fleet should just follow it without worrying about getting lost.

When the enemy encountered the "surprise" he left at the assembly center, the three fleets under his pursuit quickly pressed forward to attack. Marshal Trafalgar believed that even the Atlas fleet commanded by Amber could not withstand this combination of punches.
"It must be said that the Atlas Fleet still has sufficient supplies."

Looking at the 'shielding layer' that was deployed once again, as well as the continuous light curtains produced by a large number of nuclear explosions, coupled with the messy picture on the main screen of the bridge, Admiral Carol's tone became somewhat helpless.

"That's not surprising," Marshal Trafalgar said. "After all, the other party is now a giant corporation, and they started out by selling minerals and arms. It's normal for them to have sufficient reserves of tactical supplies."

Admiral Carroll: "But this nuclear bomb"

"What do you think is the relationship between the Renaissance Alliance and Atlas?"

Marshal Trafalgar asked in return: "In the former's controlled area, there are no shortage of nuclear weapons assembly plants and raw material production workshops. They are enough for them to supply the current size of the Atlas Group's fleet."

"Are we just going to stand by and watch? Although the speed difference between us and the enemy has been reduced, we still won't be able to catch up for a while. And if you look at the star map, we'll soon be close to the assembly center."

Admiral Carol pointed to a highlighted location deep inside the Pillar of Life on the tactical star map, which was where the proton annihilation bomb assembly center was located.

"I know, so the answer will be revealed soon."

Marshal Trafalgar's tone became calmer at this moment. After thinking for a moment, he continued to say to Carol:
"Send a signal to Requiem, and open fire immediately once the Atlas fleet enters attack range!"

"Yes, Marshal!"
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Fleet chases in space are the most boring of all types of battles, no matter for the pursuer or the pursued.

Especially now that the warp signature code 'decoder' is becoming more and more popular, even if the pursued party forcibly enters the warp, the pursuer can input the warp signature code generated by the other party's warp into their own warp engine and continue to chase.
Therefore, unless one side can no longer fly and takes the initiative to engage in battle, this pursuit that has no end in sight will be a boring and endless farce for both sides.

However, for the two pursuing parties inside the 'Pillar of All Creatures', this chase is not so boring for the time being, because both the Atlas Fleet and the Federal Navy Fleet have their own 'little thoughts'.

Marshal Trafalgar was thinking of relying on his advance arrangements at the assembly center and cooperating with the three fleets to form a double-sandwich cheese, so as to annihilate Amber, the number one enemy, in one fell swoop.

Amber's mind was full of "Team Poseidon, use the heat to cut off our logistics." She would hum it from time to time - this was not the first time she had done this.

Many crew members who had been on the same bridge with Amber had heard the boss occasionally whisper something they couldn't understand during battle.

For example, 'The damage ratio is not good. It's normal, normal, normal.'

Or, "I will command like this, I will only command like this, Atlas' style is like this~"

Everyone, including Isabel, was confused by these "mysterious whispers" and could only guess that they were some kind of "ancient war songs" used to boost morale.
Just as Amber was sitting in the captain's seat mumbling something to himself, Ramos came to his side and said:

"Boss, the 'Poseidon' squadron has left the range of tactical cover and is rapidly approaching the β area in stealth mode. Judging from the current movements of the enemy fleet, the enemy should not have discovered our actions yet."

"We are almost 4 kilometers away, and they are all small ships. It would be terrible if they are discovered by the other side." Amber waved his hand. He was not too worried about the battle of the 'Poseidon' team.

"But from your expression, you are worried."

Amber nodded: "I always feel that the situation at the assembly center may not be as simple as we expected."

Ramos: "Boss, are you worried about a scam?" "I hope I'm just overthinking it. Although judging by the current situation of the Federation, there shouldn't be that much spare power to make arrangements, but let's still prepare the fleet to deal with emergencies."

It turns out Amber wasn't overthinking.

When the fleet continued to sail at high speed for nearly two hours, and the ships had just completed the maintenance of the fusion furnace, reconnected the energy circuit of the main propulsion array to the furnace, and began to charge the drained superconducting battery stack in a hurry, the shrill alarm buzzer and the warning of the shipboard control personality sounded simultaneously on all ships.

"Warning, an unknown energy reaction has been detected in the target area, and the intensity is rising sharply!"

Amber jumped up from the command chair as if she had been electrocuted, her eyes wide as bells, staring at the main screen.

At this moment, he did not have time to slap himself for his bad mouth. Amber, who had already thought of what might have happened, hurriedly ordered the ship's control personality of the Eternity:
"Cerris! Allocate maximum computing power, predict the high-energy weapon beam axis! Emergency authorization to execute fleet override control, fleet urgently disperses in all directions!"

The next second, from the endless darkness in the distance, an extremely strange light quietly emerged.

At first, it was just a faint halo like the first ray of light before dawn, but it was wrapped in an energy fluctuation that could instantly disrupt people's heartbeats. But in a flash, the light seemed to be injected with violent vitality and expanded rapidly.

At the same time, after pulling all the controlled personalities of the fleet into supercomputing mode, Ceris quickly completed the avoidance operation settings for the entire fleet.

The onboard control personalities on each battleship immediately began to take over control. The originally strict fleet advance formation was like an exploding swarm of bees, and with the emergency activation of the vector nozzles on various parts of the ship, it dispersed at full speed in different directions.

Then, a beam of light as thick as the diameter of a large asteroid, carrying with it the power to destroy the world, gushed out from the source of the light.

Wherever it passed, the cosmic dust inside the Pillar of Life vaporized and disappeared in an instant like snowflakes encountering the scorching sun, and the originally stable space seemed to be torn apart by a pair of invisible giant hands.

The light beam rushed towards the original location of the fleet at a speed beyond the limits of thinking, like a world-destroying lightning.

The asteroid belts along the way were as fragile as paper and were easily pierced through by this energy impact that seemed like the wrath of God.

The huge rocks were instantly vaporized and shattered, turning into countless meteors, dragging long tails of flames, and splashing wildly in all directions, like a desperate and tragic song played by the universe.

Because Amber roared quickly enough, Ceris and the other shipboard control personalities intervened early enough, and the entire fleet dispersed just in time.

However, in the area swept by the huge light beam, there were still more than twenty battleships and even more small warships that had not had time to completely evacuate.

The adaptive deflection field was activated the moment the attack arrived, trying to resist the impending calamity. However, this shield, which was most commonly used by human warships, was unable to provide any defense against the beam that was sweeping over at this moment.

When this beam of light carrying the aura of destruction slammed into the deflection field, it could not even last for a brief moment before the entire force field shattered and disintegrated like a fragile soap bubble.

The first heavy cruiser to be hit was instantly engulfed by the light beam. The hard metal hull was twisted and deformed under the super-strong energy, and the cabins were ruptured. The crew inside did not even have time to scream before they were turned into dust by the high temperature and super-high pressure.

Then, the beam swept across, and the warships that did not have time to escape the range of the beam axis were swallowed up in an instant. Even the warships that forcibly rushed to the edge of the beam were still distorted out of shape by the high temperature.
"The attack is over. Attack signature identification is complete."

As the beam of light went out, Ceris's emotionless and cold voice rang out.

"Characteristics: High-intensity light - the brightness and heat of a supernova explosion; Induced electric field - extremely strong; Luminosity class - first-magnitude bright star; Duration - 0.25 seconds to 3 seconds."

"Source and Owner: Federal Navy's under-construction facility - 'Requiem' nuclear explosion-induced gamma ray emitter"

"Threat Level: Purple High Danger"

"Defense: None"

(End of this chapter)