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Chapter 37 Too Many Alliance Fleets

Stars cannot be treated the same way.

Like the Sun, the main-sequence star in our solar system, a colossal object with a diameter of 1392000 kilometers and a total mass 33 times that of Earth, it is but a grain of sand in the face of some supermassive stars in the universe.

The volume difference between them can reach billions of times!

Baron is such a supermassive star, and its enormous mass storage is incredibly attractive to both the Star Alliance and the Babel Swarm, which has now completed its psionic technology revolution.

Whether it's developing technology or expanding war units, both sides cannot do without materials.

After swiftly destroying the Star Alliance's war machines that were extracting stellar matter around Baron, more and more planetary life forms escaped faster-than-light travel and appeared near Baron.

"Hurry! Act quickly! Seal off a star system within a one-light-year radius of Baron Star! Lu Shang said the swarm must capture this star!"

"A group evenly distributed, extracting stellar matter to hatch their own kind, while simultaneously enveloping Baron Star with the reconnaissance nebula, constructing the first line of defense!"

"Team Two is responsible for intercepting, patrolling, and destroying any enemy units that appear near Baron!"

"Three teams are responsible for faster-than-light interference. We must prevent the enemy fleet from using faster-than-light travel to jump to the vicinity of Baron!"

The commands from the mastermind echoed within the swarm network, and the planetary creatures, divided into three groups, carried out the orders in an orderly manner.

The largest and highest-priority group consists of numerous planetary life forms that orbit Baron Star at a distance of three astronomical units.

Because the circumference of a star's orbit varies at different latitudes, although these planetary beings all revolve around the star at the same speed, the planetary beings that revolve around the star closer to the equator seem to move slower, while the planetary beings that revolve around the star closer to the star's magnetic poles seem to move faster.

The scouts, carried by the planetary creatures, enveloped the entire star, but because Baron was so bright, even the scout nebula couldn't reduce its brightness by even a fraction of a millisecond.

Every now and then, metal fragments would enter the range of the Scout Nebula. These were the remains of war machines that the Star Alliance had previously set up near Baron to mine stellar materials.

The planetary life forms are on high alert. Regardless of what enters the scouting nebula, as long as it is not a psionic network connection or a mass entity scattered from a star, they will use psionic energy to change the trajectory of the entity and throw it out the moment it enters the scouting nebula.

Group Two is the busiest group; they are the planetary creatures that remained after Group One completed its deployment.

Because black hole-induced strikes are prohibited near Baron, the diameter of the Scout Nebula is half that of other planetary life forms, leaving the empty space surrounded by a large number of space meteorites the size of a human fist.

The second group of planetary creatures needed to intercept any mass entities that were not swarm units, but because they were the remaining planetary creatures and were not large in scale, they had to keep running around trying to intercept the Star Alliance fleet that kept appearing near Baron.

This situation continued until the third group appeared.

After the three groups appeared, the area blocked by faster-than-light travel continued to expand. From the initial light-second, light-minute, and light-hour, to the later area where faster-than-light travel was no longer possible within a radius of one light-year, the battlefield was gradually shifted from the vicinity of Baron Star to a safer open area in a step-by-step manner.

Although this would expand the combat scale of the planetary creatures in the second group, it would effectively prevent the Star Alliance fleet from launching a black hole-induced attack on Baron.

Seeing that although the Star Alliance fleet was continuing its offensive, it could no longer threaten the safety of Baron Star, the mainframe contacted Lu Shang.

"Lu Shang, Baron Star has been captured."

Lu Shang glanced at the ongoing battle and asked, "Kasha, isn't your battle still going on?"

The mastermind, Kasha, confidently declared, "Hmph, the battle is over. The swarm has already been deployed on Baron Star. If the Star Alliance doesn't have any other newer methods, sending more fleets here will be meaningless."

"Baron has abundant material resources. If the swarm can consume all of these resources, this long interstellar war can be ended."

The quality of matter on Baron Star was terrifying enough that the swarm could create an army of thousands and sweep through the entire galaxy in one fell swoop.

Previously, although Baron Star was large, it was of no use to the bee colony. The star matter was too hot and there were no planets. The bee colony was unwilling to even stop and rest in Baron Star's star system.

However, the presence of planetary life has greatly expanded the hunting range of the Babel bee swarm.

If stellar matter is extracted using psionic energy and cooled, it can yield more matter than a planet in a single day.

Whenever she thinks about this, Kasha feels that the bees of the past were just too dense to understand.

Psychic powers are so great, yet we're wasting our time using such a convenient ability.

Don't take it too easy.

"The Star Alliance still has other cards to play. Have you noticed anything different on the battlefield compared to before?" Lu Shang reminded the mainframe, Kasha.

The mastermind, Kasha, could imagine that if all the resources of Baron were extracted by the Babel bees, the resulting planetary life forms would be able to sweep across the entire galaxy in one fell swoop.

Doesn't the Star Alliance have any ideas?

Obviously impossible!

Moreover, Lu Shang recently obtained a piece of inside information through his intelligence network—the Star River Alliance has already applied new technologies on the battlefield.

Because the source of this information was so unreliable, Lu Shang hadn't taken it too seriously at first. But now, thinking about the matter on Baron Star, he couldn't help but become wary.

"No." The antennae on Kaisa's big head twitched in confusion.

Lu Shang said, "No? I just received news that the Star River Alliance has applied a new technology to the battlefield, which can effectively reduce battlefield casualties."

Kasha paused for a moment, then dismissively said, "Reduce casualties? That's impossible. The swarm wiped out the entire attacking fleet; there's no chance of survival."

"Now, the strategic deployment within a one-light-year radius of Baron Star is complete. The Star Alliance must either give up or continue fighting, which will only increase casualties."

Seeing that Kasha was so confident, and considering that his source wasn't very reliable, Lu Shang didn't ask any more questions.

Kasha continued to command the battle, directing the planetary creatures to use black hole-induced strikes to pick off the Star Alliance fleet's warships one by one.

Countless warships transformed into metal coffins floating in space, ending their existence in a spectacular explosion.

As for the black hole-induced strikes used by the Star Alliance fleet, they are completely unable to penetrate the Scout Nebula and induce the formation of black holes. Once the microscopic black holes are induced to form in advance, they will be thrown out of the Scout Nebula.

But Kasha gradually sensed that something was wrong.

This uneasy feeling seemed to grow stronger over time.

seemingly……

The enemy fleet is growing larger with each battle?

With a sense of doubt, Kasha commanded the planetary creatures to launch an attack.

(End of this chapter)