A Colossus rushes in at the start

Chapter 18: Technological Explosion - Absurdly Powerful

Back in the fleet equipped with the new technology, Bennett, as the main commander, gave the order to the entire massive fleet: "Proceed! Destination: Diaz Empire Star System, Kao Star!"

Waves of gravitational waves appeared around the fleet, and then these massive spaceships stretched out like dough, forming a straight line pointing to the distant horizon.

The line grew thinner and thinner until it disappeared completely.

Two days later, Lu Shang, who was directing the swarm to infect a Diaz Empire industrial planet that he had just destroyed, suddenly received a warning from a solid planet inhabited by the swarm.

This solid planet had previously received instructions from the land entropy to reside in this red dwarf star system and was in the process of incubating into planetary life. A few minutes ago, it received a gravitational wave of unknown origin coming from outside the Kuiper Belt.

There were no swarm units in that direction. If it wasn't an individual swarm unit, then it could only be an enemy of the swarm. Therefore, the swarm on the solid planet immediately sent a warning signal to the land entropy.

During the time the solid planet issued its warning signal, a peculiar gravitational wave had already blocked its faster-than-light capabilities.

Lu Shang was already somewhat used to the enemy's sudden attack, and he calmly gave the solid planet the order to engage.

At this moment, Bennett was on the bridge, calmly directing the fleet to deploy its formation.

"Use gravity-blocking ship formation to advance! Prevent it from reaching faster-than-light speeds!"

"Main fleet, do not attack. Retreat and advance, maintaining distance from the enemy!"

"The radar ship maintains precise ranging and reports back to me in real time! Our lives are in your hands!"

Since it is impossible to envelop itself in a warp bubble and move faster than light, it can only move solid celestial bodies by accelerating with psionic momentum.

This is a bit troublesome. It's not that acceleration is impossible, but psionic acceleration is different from thruster acceleration. Thruster acceleration is from a point to a surface, and finally to the entire object, giving it momentum.

Psychic acceleration can directly apply momentum to the entire object. Since all particles accelerate in the same direction, the planet's movement will not produce deformation.

However, due to the sheer size of the celestial body, it takes a relatively long acceleration process for psionic acceleration to reach high speed.

The solid planet was approaching the enemy at an accelerating pace, while the swarm's various sensory organs indicated that the enemy was retreating while maintaining its formation, always keeping a distance from the solid planet.

The most crucial point is that the enemy fleet remained outside the range where level 10 psionic energy could be used.

This clearly only proves one thing.

"Have the drawbacks of psionic powers been discovered?"

Lu Shang raised an eyebrow, then shook his head: "Fine, I know I can't hide it anyway. Frequent battles with the main fleet will definitely give me away."

"But even if you discover this shortcoming, what can you do about it?"

Lu Shang sneered and retorted, then ordered the psionic brains on the solid planet, "Launch sublight-speed rocks! Blow up these gravity-blocking ships!"

"OK."

After the psionic brain on the solid planet responded, a large number of stones rose into the air and orbited the planet itself with uniform acceleration.

It reaches sub-light speed, which is difficult for radar to detect, in just a few breaths.

Due to the great distance, the swarm could not distinguish the types of warships in the enemy fleet, so Lu Shang ordered the swarm to attack the largest ships.

After a wave of attacks, the Inlunhai Kingdom fleet, equipped with new weapons, has suffered heavy losses.

"Sub-light speed kinetic energy attack detected!"

"Gravity-damping ship No. 1432 is damaged!"

"Gravity-damping ship No. 7763 is damaged!"

"Gravity-damping ship No. 0064 is damaged!"

……

"Gravity-damping ship No. 2436 is damaged!"

Reports of battle losses came one after another, but Bennett, as the commander, felt more relaxed than ever before.

All of this was because the enemy did the same thing he had thought, and a certain suspicion in his heart was completely confirmed.

"As expected, although the psionic reaction has surpassed that of the Void God, as long as we stay outside the effective range, this is the only means of attack we can use," Bent murmured.

Although the enemy also possesses the capability for sub-light-speed kinetic energy strikes, such an attack would hardly be able to quickly and immediately destroy the entire fleet in a short period of time.

This is a significant improvement compared to the battles between the Dias Empire and the swarm creatures.

After submitting his findings to the Alliance General Staff, Berndt ordered his fleet: "Prepare for attack! It's time to give these swarm creatures a surprise!"

The main fleet was fully charged and firing at full power, but there were no dazzling laser or plasma cannon strikes, nor any imposing kinetic weapons.

Before and after going all out, it's exactly the same, as if nothing ever happened.

However, the abrupt changes that occurred on the solid planet indicate that there were differences between before and after launch.

Numerous enormous depressions inexplicably appeared on the surface of the solid planet. Countless swarms of bee-like creatures fell into these vortexes, turning the entire solid planet into something resembling a water-filled balloon that had been brutally crushed by a mischievous child, so twisted that it could no longer maintain its spherical shape.

At the center of the vortex, extremely intense light was continuously released, accompanied by extremely violent light bursts, blasting the entire solid planet into pieces.

"Holy crap?!"

On the other side, Lu Shang was also startled by this strange phenomenon. In the swarm's perception, no impact was detected at all on the solid planet.

His face quickly darkened; this was a very serious problem.

It's not scary that the enemy has discovered the drawbacks of psionic energy; what's scary is this kind of unknown attack from the enemy. If you can't find out what form the attack is, you can't defend against it!

As things develop further, the roles of offense and defense will shift!

"All planetary life forms, set out and surround that place! I need to find out what happened there!"

The entire swarm of bees stirred up.

……

A great victory in the Battle of Kao Star!

This good news quickly spread throughout the entire Star River Alliance, giving the Alliance's continuously declining morale an unprecedented boost.

The Star Alliance did not conceal the principles behind its new weapons, perhaps because it felt that if the swarm were to reverse-engineer the wreckage, the principles would be impossible to hide, so it simply made them public.

Lu Shang quickly learned of this through those living intelligence networks.

The impact is achieved through a particle accelerator, where particles accelerated to near the speed of light can collide and create microscopic black holes. Although ordinary microscopic black holes evaporate quickly, the longer the kinetic energy is increased, the longer the microscopic black hole will exist, because the energy invested is converted into the mass of the microscopic black hole.

What devoured the solid planet were several microscopic black holes formed by high-speed collisions!

"A weapon that induces the formation of microscopic black holes..."

"Light-speed attack..."

"Exploiting the drawbacks of psionic range..."

"And there are also gravity-blocking ships interfering with faster-than-light travel..."

Lu Shang's eyes twitched, and he muttered, "I really underestimated this alien alliance."

"Just you wait! You won't be so lucky next time!"

(End of this chapter)