From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 817: Too many traitors
Outside the emerald green atmosphere of Eldaram, the cold void was being filled with an unprecedented noise, and huge deployment hatches on the huge external armor of the Coronet Fortress were opening one after another.

Hundreds of assault-type aerospace transport aircraft formed a dense torrent and filed out of the fortress one after another, like a school of fish leaving the protection of corals.

Each transport plane was loaded with human or Roma soldiers who had just completed their equipment changes.

They came from different forces, including the Federation, the Star Dragon Empire, and the Atlas Group. They were even in a hostile state not long ago, but now they are squatting in the same trench and starting to fight for the same goal.

The surface of the modified and upgraded power armor is covered with a new psychic-resistant coating, complex energy-conducting patterns are faintly visible at the joints, and a small psychic shield generator emits a low hum at the back.

All the soldiers were sitting in their respective seats, most of them remained calm, but the Roma from the Atlas Group seemed a little excited. Many of those sitting at the side seats wanted to put their faces against the portholes to take a good look at the beautiful yet dangerous planet below.

Because that is not only their next battlefield, but also the capital of their homeland, a place that many people yearn for but have never had the chance to set foot on.

"Is this crazy?! Let the human army enter Eldaram in an organized manner. And those Roma?! How can these servants be qualified to set foot in the capital!"

An angry holographic image appeared on the bridge of the 'Morning Star', the flagship of the Elf Capital Garrison Fleet. The speaker was the representative of the Silver Leaf Family, and his gorgeous robes could not hide his excitement at the moment.

"This is a defilement of the Holy City! It is a trampling on our eternal glory! I demand that you stop them immediately!"

The commander of the garrison fleet, an elf with a stern face, did not even raise his eyelids, but stared coldly at the green light spot on the tactical star map that was moving towards the atmosphere, representing a group of transport aircraft.

"This is the decree of the Phoenix King. Does the Silver Leaf Family intend to disobey the king's order?"

The commander's voice was calm, but it instantly froze the family representative's expression.

王命
These two words seemed to possess some kind of magical power, causing the air on the flagship bridge to freeze. However, in the next moment, a sneer flashed across the face of the representative of the Silver Leaf Family.

"The king's order? That's bullshit."

As the family representative finished speaking, the communication was cut off.

Immediately afterwards, the Silver Leaf Family's fleet began to adjust its direction, with the axis of its weapon beam now pointing towards another family fleet that had been keeping a safe distance from them. The weapon array on the bow suddenly flashed with a dazzling light.

No warning, no communication.

Dozens of golden energy beams tore through the void, accurately bombarding the unsuspecting flagship of the Chifeng family fleet and the bows of several main battleships.

The flagship's psychic shield didn't even have time to fully deploy before it was instantly torn apart under the saturation attack. The biological armor on the hull was quickly decomposed and peeled off, followed by a silent and violent explosion, and a huge, brilliant and deadly fireball bloomed in the vacuum.

"Enemy attack! It's the Ye Yin family! They rebelled!"

"We are under attack! Repeat, we are under attack!"

The communication channel was instantly flooded with terrified screams and chaotic reports.

Taking the sudden attack from the Silver Leaf Family as a signal, nearly half of the family fleets in orbit simultaneously turned their guns and bared their most ferocious fangs towards their compatriots who were still on the sidelines.

At the same time, more intensive jump signals flashed wildly at the edge of the star field.

An even larger mixed fleet was swarming out of the distorted space, their ships' hulls painted with the emblem of the Queen's family.

There is no doubt that this is also the enemy's reinforcements!
After seeing this scene, the Lilith android who stayed behind in the Mianluo Fortress couldn't help but show a look of surprise on her usually calm face.

"No, how many traitors are there in this Thousand Star Empire?!"

At the same time, the roar of the commander of the Morning Star was heard on the communication channel.

"All fleets loyal to His Majesty! Move closer to me! Form a line of defense!"

Under his orders, the surviving 'loyalist' fleet, including Alanita's Yuge family fleet, began to merge with the garrison fleet, and forcibly erected a steel barrier composed of warships between the aerospace transport fleet just released by the Crown Fortress and the attacking enemy.

"Cover the human transport fleet's intrusion! Create a window for the Crown Fortress and the human fleet to open fire!"

Lilith and the elf commander knew very well that the current fleet battle might be different from the usual combat mode of both sides.

At this moment, whether it is the human's super-heavy particle cannon or the elves' purification beam. Since the defense systems of the warships of both sides are more for civil war, the defense effect is not so good when facing the different weapons of alien races.

This also means that both sides have the ability to severely damage or even destroy the other side's battleships within effective range.

This is a duel with no room for error, a competition of who has a longer range, who has a faster reaction, and who can deliver deadly firepower to the opponent's head first.

The commander of the elven garrison fleet quickly incorporated this understanding into the battle command, and resolutely ordered the elven warships to block the front to form a "shield wall".

After all, the elven warships equipped with psychic shields can withstand much more attacks from purification beams than human warships which are equivalent to "running naked".

Therefore, as long as the garrison fleet and the surviving "loyalist" family fleet can attract most of the firepower, human warships will be able to better exert the firepower advantage of the "glass cannon".

As the elven warships on both sides gradually closed the distance, the rebel fleet's main guns opened fire first. Thick golden psychic light spears pierced through the darkness and pointed directly at the defense line formed by the loyal elven fleet.

"Hold the battle line! All ships activate 'psychic resonance' mode! Hold on firmly, there is a way!"

The psychic cores of the loyal elven warships quickly resonated with each other. This was a unique '1+1>2' energy enhancement method of the Thousand Star Empire, and it was even more effective when used between fleets.

Soon, the psychic shields on the outside of these elven warships became brighter, and several battleships at the forefront of the battle line that were under concentrated fire also took the first round of salvos.

But the rebel fleet's artillery fire was too dense, and the scale of the Queen's family fleet was much larger than anyone imagined. The fleet of one family alone was almost as large as the remaining warships of the loyalists.

An elven warship was grazed or directly hit by the purification beam. Its psychic shield was shattered by the attack that exceeded the threshold, and its psychic core was directly overloaded. Soon the entire warship turned into an out-of-control fireball, and the light spot representing it on the friendly force's tactical screen dimmed.

However, the human fleet did not let down the sacrifice of these elven warships. After a brief communication and knowing that they were the "main output" of the attack, the combined fleet quickly launched an attack.

In the federal fleet brought by Franklin, each of the tough-looking warships opened a large number of multi-functional launching silos all over the ship's hull on the way to the main gun firing position.

The next second, thousands of missiles and plasma torpedoes with tail flames rushed towards the rebel fleet in the distance like a swarm of angry bees.

Due to the elves' fleet combat style, they obviously don't understand the concept of "close defense". When dealing with similar biological combat weapons, they tend to use multiple warships' purification beams to kill them, and then send out their own biological combat weapons.
Therefore, the anti-ship missiles that were originally used to attract anti-aircraft firepower, after constantly making complex trajectory changes during flight, actually bypassed the anti-aircraft interception firepower of the elf fleet, which was not very dense.

In this situation, the rebel fleet had to release a large number of biological combat weapons, and then let these densely packed auxiliary combat units directly use their "flesh" to intercept the incoming missiles and plasma torpedoes.

The Star Dragon Empire's fleet was even more direct. These imperial fleets, which were already stronger than the New Federation battleships in terms of technical and tactical levels, directly began ultra-long-range sniping after entering the maximum effective attack range of the heavy particle cannon.

This is the forte of the Star Dragon Empire Royal Navy Fleet, especially the battleships.

Dense blue-white beams avoided the friendly forces in front of them, and then accurately hit the rebel warships in the distance, creating bright fireballs in the rebel fleet. And behind all the fleets, the Crown Fortress, which had been silent for a while, finally showed its most terrifying side as a strategic-level armed force.

On the central axis of the fortress, the interior of the huge acceleration track gradually lit up, and endless energy gathered and compressed in it, emitting a light that was enough to dim the stars.

That was the 'Focusing Rainbow' of the Crown Fortress that had completed its cooling, ready to launch a new round of attacks on these invading enemies.

It was not targeting any single warship, but the airspace where the rebel fleet was most densely populated.

It was obvious that these family fleets, which had just jumped in after the previous battle, had not witnessed the scene of the 'Focusing Rainbow' firing, nor did they know how those rebel fleets were wiped out - after all, after the 'Focusing Rainbow' launched the attack, those rebel fleets did not even leave any wreckage.

So by the time these family fleets realized that the situation was not good, it was already too late.

When the huge acceleration track on the central axis of the Crown Fortress was filled with energy, the entire battlefield seemed to have lost its sound, all detectors emitted overload screams, and all optical lenses turned pale.

Soon after, the soldiers and civilians of Ardaram once again saw the river in the sky above their capital.

The terrifying torrent of heavy metal particles touched the densest vanguard array of the rebel noble fleets. There was no earth-shattering explosion, no wailing of twisted metal.

Everything that was swept by the torrent simply disappeared.

The moment these elven warships were swept by this devastating torrent, their material structures began to disintegrate from the most basic level.

The ship's biological armor, internal components, psychic core, and even the elven crew members on the bridge whose expressions were frozen in horror, all turned into the most primitive particle flow and then completely disappeared into the void, without even a speck of dust left.

The entire airspace was forcibly "wiped" out to create an absolute blank space.

It was as if a god had used an eraser to casually wipe out part of the painting. The technique was rough, yet so clean that it made people feel chilled.

The momentary silence in the communication channel was more deafening than any explosion.

With just one irradiation, 80% of the family fleets that raised the banner of rebellion were destroyed.

If some warships were not out of the range of illumination, this attack from the Mianluo Fortress might have directly wiped out the fleets of these rebel families.

Of course, judging from the current results, this doesn't seem to be much different from annihilating them all.

"All fleets, disperse! Disperse the formation!"

The commander of the Queen's Family Fleet was the first to break free from his extreme fear, his voice becoming hoarse and sharp due to excitement.

He knew very well that a weapon of that level could never be fired a second time in a short period of time.

So now is their only chance!
"Close the distance at all costs! Break through their defenses! Stop those air transports!"

The rebel fleet was like an enraged beast. The remaining warships no longer cared about the formation and rushed madly towards the defense line of the capital garrison fleet, pouring all the firepower they could.

"Hold on! For the Phoenix King!"

The commander of the 'Morning Star' also roared, and his fleet took advantage of the gap cleared by the enemy and pushed forward, using their own ships to build the last barrier for the human warships behind them and the assaulting aerospace transport aircraft.

The massacre on track has entered its bloodiest stage.

The psychic shield of an elven warship shattered after enduring several rounds of concentrated fire, and then dense electromagnetic cannon projectiles turned its hull into a sieve, and finally it turned into a pile of scrap metal in a series of explosions.

On the other side, a Federation heavy cruiser was hit by three psychic light spears at the same time. The bridge was instantly vaporized, and the out-of-control warship spun and crashed into an Imperial warship not far away.

The number of warships on both sides was decreasing at an alarming rate. In the cold outer space, gorgeous and deadly flowers of death bloomed one after another.

But for that huge fleet of transport aircraft, this brief window bought with lives was enough.

"We have entered the invasion route!"

"Power unit operating at 120% overload! Prepare to enter the atmosphere!"

“Wish us good luck!”

The last batch of aerospace transport planes finally broke through the final fire blockade. Their fuselages rubbed against the upper atmosphere of Eldaram, igniting blazing flames. Like hundreds of inverted meteors, they plunged headlong into the emerald green world without hesitation.
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On the ground, Wangting Avenue.

"Second Company! Keep up the suppressive fire! Don't let them raise their heads!"

Every time Natalia swung the plasma halberd in her hand, it would set off a storm of flesh and metal fragments in the elves' defense line.

The two veteran shield guards beside her were like two unshakable mountains, blocking most of the attacks fired at her. Their heavy shields were already covered with charred energy marks.

And the charging formation composed of more veterans from the first company around them was like a red-hot wedge, nailing firmly into the elves' defense line.

The collision between the heavy power armors made a dull roar, the chainsaw swords and the psychic swords clashed fiercely, and lives were lost every second.

"Commander! We can't hold on any longer! Their firepower is too strong!" A company commander's voice came out panting in the communication.

"Hold on a little longer!" Natalia chopped an elven soldier who was trying to launch a sneak attack in half with her halberd, and hot blood splattered on her helmet. "Reinforcements are coming soon!"

As soon as she finished speaking, a series of low and continuous roars suddenly came from the highest point in the sky.

All the soldiers who were fighting, whether they were humans or elves, looked up involuntarily.

I saw the sky, which was dyed gray by thick smoke and war, being torn apart one by one.

Hundreds of fire meteors with long flame tails broke through the clouds and fell straight towards the earth.
No, that's not a shooting star.

Those were human reinforcements that descended from the sky!
Natalia looked at the spectacular scene, and a cruel smile finally appeared at the corners of her tense mouth.

She raised the battle record stained with the blood and flesh of the elven rebels, and roared through the loudspeaker of the power armor:

"Rebels of Eldaram! Your end has come!"

Not far from her, the captain of the Royal Court Guard, who had shaken off all the blood on his psychic sword, looked at the heavy power armor covered in blood and flesh, like a bloodthirsty demon king, and couldn't help muttering:

"How come this human is even more fanatical than us elves?"

(End of this chapter)