You said mechs were going to fight monsters, but instead you're destroying stars with your bare

Chapter 54 Operation Tokugawa at the Cape of Bō: Boarding the Ship [Thanks to CRa2yH for the Silver Alliance donation, bonus chapter!]

“No… No—!!!”

After Hanekawa Rena activated her extraordinary physique, she did not die immediately.

Her tenacious vitality kept her conscious.

however……

Faced with this dead end, she was at a loss.

He could only watch helplessly as his bio-mech, which incorporated the highest technology of the Featherbeak Group, disintegrated inch by inch in a blinding purple light!

In the end, the mech and she were completely torn to shreds and dissolved in the raging storm.

A massive spatial distortion, accompanied by dazzling light, enveloped everything.

Deep in the ocean, an indescribable, chilling aura is awakening and surging...

"Commander, the core of this abyssal rift has been fully activated!"

Xing's voice was filled with an unprecedented solemnity.

This situation was also taken into account in the contingency plan.

Unexpectedly, the catalyst was the "sacrifice" of a mecha pilot affected by the abyss's energy.

"Plan Three: Prepare for the attack!" Li Zhe issued the order.

"Demon God—Activate!"

A three-meter-tall, jet-black mecha appeared out of thin air inside the cockpit.

"Star, a human-machine integrated combat mode."

"As ordered."

The golden ship spirit transformed into a stream of light, attaching itself to Li Zhe's mecha body in his Youbo Messenger form, transforming into that sacred platinum mecha.

Li Zhe quickly entered the cockpit after it was opened.

At this moment, the peak combat power of 7.8 was unleashed with a thunderous roar.

Meet this challenge with our strongest will!

The view outside the cockpit changed and distorted rapidly.

In the end, it transformed into a chaotic darkness that devoured everything...

………………

The darkness lasted for an unknown period of time.

It felt like a fleeting moment, yet also like an eternity had passed.

When the scene before Li Zhe became clear again, he immediately rushed out of the cockpit and onto the deck.

The sight before him made his heart tighten.

The sky was filled with dense, oppressive, leaden-gray clouds.

The surrounding area was filled with a strong, pungent smell of gunpowder mixed with seawater.

In the distance, the occasional roar of explosions and the piercing sound of air raid sirens could be heard.

This is a battlefield filled with the smoke of gunpowder at sea!

"Xing, analyze the current area immediately."

"Yes, Commander." Xing's voice came from the cockpit, "Initiating multi-dimensional data comparison including solar angle, star position, and magnetic field... Comparison complete."

"Commander, the current celestial and hydrological information in the area closely matches that of a certain region on Earth at a certain time—April 7, 1945, Cape Bō."

"We...traveled to the past?" Li Zhe asked in confusion.

“It’s not a time-space transfer,” Xing added. “To be precise, the area we are in is a small abyssal barrier formed by the unfolding of the abyssal rift, and this barrier is imprinted with a fragment of spacetime from Earth.”

Li Zhe seemed lost in thought, turning his gaze straight ahead. On the sea, stained gray by cannon fire, a colossal battleship, as large as a mountain, was struggling like a trapped beast in its death throes.

The reconnaissance also revealed a light cruiser that had lost its maneuverability and eight destroyers in the vicinity.

Countless artillery shells exploded around this formation, sending up towering columns of water.

In the sky, a dense swarm of aircraft, braving heavy artillery fire, swooped down like a sudden downpour in a storm, unleashing a deluge of bombs and torpedoes upon the giant ship.

Without a doubt, the giant ship before us is the Yamato.

The surrounding ships should be the light cruiser Yahagi, as well as destroyers such as Fuyutsuki, Suzutsuki, and Yukikaze.

The smell of gunpowder in the air really gave people the illusion of traveling back in time.

However, something unexpected has happened on the battlefield...

Li Zhe quickly discovered the strangeness.

The hull of the Yamato was now covered with large patches of purple biological tissue that resembled carapaces!

These organisms, as if they were alive, slowly writhed on the surface of the ship.

Countless thick, fleshy tentacles, resembling blood vessels, extended from the gaps in the carapace, wrapping around the cold turrets and railings, making this steel behemoth appear both eerie and terrifying.

"Commander, a strong energy reaction from an abyssal monster has been detected, which closely matches the reaction of the previously destroyed 'Demon Butterfly Queen' mech!"

Abyssal energy, the causal entanglements on the Yamato, and the special abyssal power on the mecha of Hanekawa Reina that was caught up in the conflict...

The combination of these three factors accelerated the formation of the abyssal rift.

A core of an abyss barrier was born!
"After the core was born from the abyssal rift..." Xing murmured, "if the core is not dealt with in time, it will cause the domain barrier to continue to expand and mutate, distorting the history of the planet it belongs to and dragging Blue Star into the abyss..."

At that moment, an even more terrifying scene unfolded.

From the Yamato's enormous hangar and wide deck, a large swarm of locust-shaped soldiers with butterfly wings on their backs and sharp biological bone blades flew out!
"Locust army?!" Li Zhe's eyes turned icy cold the moment he saw this.

These locust soldiers are fearless and fly at extremely high speeds.

They formed purple whirlwinds of death, launching a suicidal charge against the US aircraft formation.

Wielding a sharp bone blade, it tore open the wing of a US carrier-based aircraft.

It can even spew out highly corrosive acid from its mouth, melting airplanes in mid-air!

Faced with the frenzied counterattack of this unprecedented "biological weapon," the US aircraft formation was instantly thrown into disarray, suffering heavy losses.

Meanwhile, on the Yamato, the anti-aircraft guns controlled by the Locust People became exceptionally accurate and deadly, weaving a dense web of death across the sky.

The course of Operation Kikusui, which should have been an overwhelming victory for the United States in history, seems to be about to be reversed at this moment!
After suffering heavy losses and being attacked by strange creatures, the US military aircraft in the sky began to retreat and started to turn around and leave the battlefield.

Although the Yamato was badly damaged, it was far from sinking.

At this moment, it resembled a ferocious beast returned from hell...

This abyssal rift is centered around the Yamato.

If history is allowed to be distorted, the consequences will be unimaginable.

For Li Zhe, what's even more important is...

Facing these warships formed from the combined spirits of Japanese militarism and the power of the abyss, watching these locust armies whose mouths have mutated into insect-like proboscises yet still shout "Heavenly chaos, black card, and chariot"...

An uncontrollable, raging fire ignited in Li Zhe's heart.

"Xing, let's put the plans aside for now."

Li Zhe's voice was as cold as the Siberian wind, carrying with it the radioactive fallout from the nuclear explosion.

He slowly raised his head and looked at the sky full of locusts.

Within the golden electronic visual device burned a fury powerful enough to consume everything.

"Annihilate them all! Leave no one alive!"

(End of this chapter)