The stars, but they become the gray wind

Seeing that strange black aircraft suddenly stopped and launched a unilateral crushing massacre, the commanders of both fleets breathed a sigh of relief. If the fight with this unidentified spacecraft continued at this rate, the fleets of both sides would most likely be wiped out, which would not be a good thing for either the Empire or the Alliance.

However, this night fighter, later feared by the Allied and Imperial soldiers and called the Invincible Battleship, made a clear statement to both sides: "What does it matter to you if I destroy you?"

The fleets of the Imperial Army and the Allied Forces began to retreat at the same time. They knew that if they stayed here any longer, that terrifying black battleship would start slaughtering both fleets again at any time. The wise choice was to escape as soon as possible. With the terrifying speed of that black battleship, the Imperial Army and the Allied Forces fleets present might be wiped out by the enemy before they could even escape to the entrance of the subspace channel of the galaxy far away from the star's gravity well.

"What a failed battle this is!" On the bridge of the Brunhill, Reinhardt slammed the armrest of the chair in dissatisfaction. He had never encountered such a failure before. Even Yang Weili, who had suffered setbacks for him several times, could not do it. He annihilated an entire fleet with only one spaceship. And the strange black spaceship in front of him, which was privately called the invincible battleship by his soldiers in fear, unilaterally crushed all the alliance and imperial fleets present, as if deliberately insulting him. The opponent did not even use any strategies or tactics, but simply relied on the most primitive method of collision and the unknown red rays emitted from the hull of the black spaceship to annihilate more than tens of thousands of battleships of both the alliance and the empire without any damage.

Although he was very unconvinced, Reinhardt knew that the other party's achievement only meant that the gap in technological level between them and his side was likely a ridiculous generation gap. Just that layer of pure black, indestructible material was far beyond the cognition of himself and his technicians. Reinhardt observed during the battle that the black spaceship had at least been hit by hundreds of nuclear bombs at very close range, but it was still unscathed. Close optical observations showed that there was not even a scratch on the pure black hull of the spaceship. Such terrifying and advanced materials technology was unimaginable for both the Empire and the Alliance.

The pure black night fighter left its killing battlefield and turned around to fly towards the sun of the Yamliza star system at high speed. The fleets of the Imperial Army and the Alliance Army that survived this one-sided massacre also retreated towards the entrance of the subspace channel at the edge of the galaxy. On the way of retreat, both sides did not let down their vigilance against the black spaceship. Both fleets were observing the strange black spaceship that was accelerating in a sideways direction. In the process of monitoring the spaceship, the Alliance and the Empire once again observed the incredible and terrifying acceleration ability. The black aircraft accelerated from a standstill to a near-zero speed in less than 0.001 seconds. The speed of light. If there were any crew members on that spaceship, they would have been crushed into pieces under such acceleration even with inertial protection devices. During the entire battle between that spaceship and the Empire and the Alliance, the soldiers and officers of both sides observed such violent acceleration and deceleration at least dozens of times. It seemed as if the opponent's hull was not affected by the gravitational acceleration caused by inertia, and acceleration and deceleration did not seem to require any process or time. Several technicians and scientific officers on Reinhardt's ship firmly believed that it was impossible for any crew members to survive under such acceleration. This spaceship must have used some advanced and incomprehensible technology.

At the retreating Alliance fleet, Bickgu wiped a drop of cold sweat from his head. This completely unreasonable way of fighting was something he had never seen before, even for him who had been through many battles. Although his fleet had not suffered heavy losses in the previous one-sided massacre, the experience of having nearly 1/5 of the fleet casually wiped out by the enemy in a crushing manner seemed to have had a very serious negative impact on the morale of his soldiers. He even heard the soldiers and officers below in Cambridge whispering, calling the terrifying black spaceship that had wiped out more than tens of thousands of warships from the Alliance and the Empire an invincible battleship.

This battle, later known as the Yamritza Massacre, lasted less than half an hour, but in just half an hour, the fleets of both the Empire and the Alliance lost a total of more than ten thousand warships, while the enemy suffered zero losses.

When the mysterious black ship, later hailed as the Invincible Battleship by soldiers on both sides, ceased its attack and departed, leaving only the Alliance and the Empire alone, the battle neared its end. Exhausted by the chaotic battle, the Imperial and Alliance fleets, having suffered a one-sided crushing slaughter, lost all desire to fight further. After gathering their fleets, both sides turned and retreated at top speed. The entrance to the Warp Channel at the edge of the system, just as it had been during the Battle of Asti.

"damn it!"

On the bridge of the Brunswick, Reinhardt slammed the armrest of the seat.

Anger etched across the young man's cheeks. The goal of annihilating the Alliance Expeditionary Force had been thwarted by an unexpected factor. This battle, which had been destined for a decisive outcome, had come to a hasty end due to the unexpected appearance of another disruptor. Reinhardt still found it difficult to accept it all.

"Faced with a one-sided massacre of unprecedented and unknown warships, this guaranteed a fleet survival rate of nearly 80% despite numerous unfavorable circumstances. Your Excellency's battle was truly remarkable."

Oberstein said expressionlessly.

"Speaking of which, in this battle, Brigadier General Yang from last time, no, we should call him Lieutenant General Yang now. His fleet was also present, right?"

"Yes, do you want to send him another message?" Gilfairs looked at Reinhardt seriously in the communication interface. He understood his close friend's respect for a powerful opponent.

"Well, let's just say that I'm deeply relieved to see you again on the battlefield after our separation, Asti. With the current situation turbulent with the appearance of black ships of unknown origin, I hope that one day you can find a good tree that truly suits you. That's all."

"Is this a good idea? The other party might think that..."

"That's fine. I have a feeling that he and I will eventually face a decisive victory. But until then, that strange black warship is our common enemy."

However, considering that he did not receive any reply to the last message, Reinhardt felt that he would most likely not receive a reply this time.

"Oh, this is really true." Yang Weili, who was evacuating the warp channel entrance along the edge of the fleet, naturally received the message and saw the hidden irony in it. But there was nothing he could do about it. The Alliance was not currently at an advantage economically or militarily, so being mocked on this point was understandable. However, when he thought of the tragic situation left behind by the Alliance's capital planet Heinessen after the sudden and unpredictable attack by the black invincible battleship, Yang Weili felt the responsibility and pressure on him become even heavier.

"How should I reply to this letter?" Yang Weili muttered to himself.

But before that, I have to write a letter back to the Marshal.

At the same time, the night fighter skirt

"It's a bit weird that you managed to turn the dark fighter into a water droplet, isn't it?" On the communication screen, Yuki watched the entire crushing battle from a first-person perspective.

"We dare to do this because we are absolutely ahead in materials science. If we didn't have such an absolute advantage in technology, how could we dare to turn our spacecraft into a reusable kinetic impactor like a water droplet?"

"What's more... the spacetime condensation material is indeed very strong. Even if other matter hits it at nearly the speed of light, it will not cause any damage to the spacetime condensation material."

"And don't forget, anything that can travel at close to the speed of light is an absolute killer. Even if it only uses the kinetic energy it carries to kill a target, the power is terrifying."

"However... this tactic is only effective against opponents whose material science lags far behind ours. If we encounter an opponent who can manufacture materials of the same length or specifications, this tactic will be useless."

"It might even turn into a free kill for the opponent."

"If the other party can create even a tiny bit of magnetic monopole matter, or even a gram of material that can reach the same level of strength, this trick will be useless."

"That's right. This tactic can only be used when the material science and other technical levels are completely overwhelming."

"Let's not talk about this anymore. I'm going to go set off some big fireworks for the Yamritza star."

"Come to think of it, I've never used the highest gear of the Star Crusher weapon on the Night Fighter before."

"Be careful when bombing a star. The Alliance Expeditionary Force and the Imperial Fleet are still some distance away from the entrance to the subspace channel outside the Perseverance Gravity Well. Don't blow them away as well."

"Don't worry. Even if a supernova explosion occurs immediately after the star is hit, it will still take several hours to reach the entrance of the subspace channel at the edge of the galaxy. That's enough time for both sides to evacuate their fleets intact."

As the Night Fighter broke away from the state of near-light speed drive, the Yamritza star was already within reach. The active coronal matter on the surface of the star was continuously ejected outward, forming long red whips.

Carlisle gripped the handle of the pistol-sized star-shattering ray launcher and solemnly adjusted the gear of the gun-shaped launcher to the highest level, which was the true "star-shattering" gear.

Aiming the bow at a nearby star, Carlisle pulled the trigger, and a beam of gravitational wave with unprecedented power hit the Yamritza star from the front of the Night Fighter at a speed close to the speed of light.

After the star was struck by the gravitational wave star-destroying ray, nothing changed for thousands of minutes, as if nothing had happened. But five minutes later, a huge crack began to appear in the star's photosphere and convection layer at the location of the impact. The diameter of the hole reached 50 kilometers, enough to accommodate five Jupiters side by side. A huge amount of plasma reacting inside the star gushed out from the crack, forming a giant pillar of fire over millions of kilometers long. Due to the huge amount of internal material loss, the pressure decreased, and the nuclear fusion reaction inside the star began to weaken rapidly. The star in the Yamlitza system first dimmed rapidly, and finally only a dim outline remained. This made the pillar of fire erupting from the star's surface even more eye-catching and dazzling. With the complete termination of the stellar fusion reaction, the internal radiation pressure was no longer sufficient to support the star. The outer shell of the entire star began to collapse inwards. Eventually, the shell, without support, came into contact with and squeezed the already overwhelmed core of the star, triggering an unprecedented supernova explosion. In that instant, the Yamlitza star became the brightest celestial body in the Milky Way, illuminating the entire galaxy with a flash equivalent to that of 2000 billion suns. A gamma-ray burst of terrifying scale swept across everything around the star, including the Empire and the Alliance. The fleets of both sides had deployed several observation satellites before evacuating to guard against the unidentified black spacecraft. Before these observation satellites were destroyed by the supernova explosion, they faithfully transmitted the images of the night fighter destroying the entire star back to the fleet far away at the edge of the galaxy.

"That battleship! Directly destroyed the Yamritza star?!" In the Allied fleet that had just entered the subspace navigation state at the edge of the galaxy, veteran Bikgu felt his heart stop beating. The scene of the night fighter firing a star-destroying beam to destroy the star was played over and over again on the display device in front of everyone. For a moment, all the admirals of the fleet participating in the meeting fell silent.

It was understandable that a single ship could annihilate nearly 1/5 of the fleets of the Alliance and the Empire, but it was unheard of that a single ship could completely destroy an entire star in a short period of time. No, this was simply a fantasy, Bikgu thought.

Thinking of how the battleship had wreaked havoc over the alliance's capital as if it were in an empty space, the admirals present were terrified. If the battleship had not launched an attack directly against the planet Heinessen, but had directly destroyed the stars in the Barat system where Heinessen was located, just like it had done to the Yamriza star, the consequences would have been disastrous.

Facing such an invincible battleship of unknown origin that can annihilate an entire Alliance and Imperial fleet without any damage and can easily destroy a star, if we are not vigilant, it will cause endless troubles to both the Empire and the Alliance.

Chapter 226: Aftermath (6000 words)

When the Alliance's expeditionary fleet, which had suffered heavy losses, finally returned to Heinessen via the Icheron Fortress, the expeditionary force witnessed the enormous damage that had occurred in Heinessen: the city center where the Hongmeng Supreme Council Building was located had been completely reduced to ruins, and the major military bases on the planet's surface had also been severely damaged. Only a small amount of debris of the Artemis Necklace, the 12 armed satellites that originally protected the planet Heinessen, remained floating in orbit. The spaceport and dock in the planet's orbit also suffered heavy losses due to the inexplicable nuclear reactor failure and shutdown incident that affected the entire Heinessen. The fusion reactor in the entire spaceport suffered heavy losses in the uncontrolled emergency shutdown. The space dock in the planet's synchronous orbit was completely paralyzed due to the loss of energy. Although various civilian infrastructure on Heinessen was still in operation, the situation was not optimistic. A large amount of civilian infrastructure that was still in normal operation now basically relied on backup power generation equipment and energy. This state of affairs was bound to be unsustainable.

In the chaos of the attack on Heinessen, the pro-war members of the Alliance Supreme Council, led by Treunicht, disappeared collectively. If it were not for Lebero, Hewang, and members of Parliament Jessica who stepped forward in time to take charge of the situation when Treunicht and others disappeared, and directed the evacuation of the people in the upper city of Heinessen during the attack, and to maintain social order, Heinessen might have fallen into a chaotic state of anarchy at this time.

While the citizens of Heinessen were grateful to Senator Jessica for helping maintain social order and basic livelihoods on the Alliance capital planet during the chaos of the attack on Heinessen, they also criticized the pro-war Senators headed by Treunicht. If they had not used all the fleets originally responsible for defending the Alliance capital planet for a meaningless expedition against the Empire, the Alliance citizens of Heinessen would not have to suffer this crime at all. The expeditionary fleet of more than 3000 million people who went to the Empire for a meaningless expedition also suffered heavy losses during the evacuation. It was a labor-intensive and costly mobilization, but in the end there was no result. The capital also suffered heavy losses because the expeditionary fleet diverted defense forces. This was obviously absolutely unacceptable to the people of the Alliance.

Under the huge public opinion and social pressure brought by the angry allied citizens who came to their senses, Roberts, the supreme commander of the expedition, and Brigadier General Hawke, the planner, were dismissed. The responsibility of leading the reconstruction of the Allied Heinessen was temporarily handed over to pro-peace parliamentarians such as Lebelo and Jessica.

What the citizens of the Alliance still don't know is that the missing Triunisit and others have been turned into corpses that will never be discovered by the gravitational wave ray that was specifically aimed at destroying the VIP secret bunker.

Although there are still many interest groups within the alliance that are related to Treunicht and the Earth Church, this sudden attack is enough to serve as a warning, that is, the alliance capital planet Heinessen, which they think is safe, is actually not safe at all. These interest groups will inevitably distance themselves from the missing Treunicht and others in order to save their own lives and their own innocence.

In the recently returned expeditionary fleet, which had suffered considerable losses, in addition to helping maintain security and reconstruction efforts in Heinessen, senior Allied military officials were also researching the origins of the strange black aircraft that attacked Heinessen, as well as the highly similar craft that appeared in the subsequent battle at Yamliza.

After repeatedly comparing the images taken on the planet Heinessen with those taken by the fleet in the Yamlitza star system, the tactical intelligence analysts in the fleet came to an astonishing conclusion, that is, the two aircraft are actually the same!

This result scared the admirals in the fleet into breaking out in cold sweats. According to subsequent time comparisons, the strange black aircraft appeared in the Yamlitza star system on the other side of the Iserlohn Corridor, 6400 light-years away, less than 0.1 seconds after disappearing from the Heinessen. This means that the spacecraft instantly jumped 6400 light-years in less than 0.1 seconds. This analysis result was unbelievable to Yang Weili, Bikgu and others.

As everyone knows, no ship belonging to the Alliance or the Empire can cross the unnavigable zone between the Iserlohn Corridor and the Phesar Corridor, fraught with dangerous astronomical phenomena, due to the limited range of a single jump. Therefore, the Iserlohn Corridor has become a crucial chokepoint for both the Empire and the Alliance. Crossing the unnavigable zone separating the Alliance and the Empire without traversing both corridors is only possible through the development of long-range jump engines capable of even greater jump distances. Furthermore, superluminal travel technology, capable of reaching jumps exceeding 6000 light-years in a single jump, is simply a fantasy for the Empire and the Alliance.

But now such jumping technology is in front of both the Alliance and the Empire. If this ship is really as analyzed by the tactical intelligence officer of the fleet, then this ship will be able to appear in any galaxy within the Alliance and the Empire without hindrance, and the Icheron Corridor as a strategic chokepoint will become meaningless.

What terrified the admirals even more was the strange black aircraft. It had exploded in the Yamlitza system just as their fleet had escaped the influence of the star's gravity well and entered warp mode. Several surveillance satellites deployed by the Allied fleet before their departure captured the footage thoroughly until they were vaporized in the supernova explosion.

According to subsequent reconsideration, apart from launching a few strange red rays of unknown principle in the middle of the journey, this strange black spaceship destroyed at least more than 6000 Alliance and Imperial warships simply by means of collisions. During the battle, it was observed that this black spaceship accelerated from zero to nearly the speed of light in less than 0.01 seconds, and performed several such drastic accelerations and decelerations and maneuvers. This kind of thing even made several Alliance scientists call it impossible. If there were passengers on these spaceships, being crushed into pieces by the gravitational acceleration of thousands or even tens of thousands of Gs would be the lightest description.

Even more terrifying was that if such a ship could completely ignore the no-fly zone between the Empire and the Alliance, then any system within their borders would be in imminent danger. This ship could potentially appear anywhere at any time, detonating a star and destroying an entire system. The Alliance fleet would be completely powerless to stop it, given its limited mobility. By the time it arrived, the entire system would be filled with only the remains of a supernova.

To make matters worse, the Alliance fleet and Heinessen's technicians finally figured out why the ship's appearance had caused a sudden nuclear reactor shutdown affecting the entire Heinessen planet and its surroundings. It seemed that within a certain radius of influence, several physical parameters governing fusion reactions had been altered within Heinessen during that period.

"You means..."

"Yes, that strange black spaceship seemed to have briefly modified the fundamental physical laws of the entire planet Heinessen after its appearance. This truth finally made everyone present realize what they were facing—a terrifying existence that could rewrite the fundamental laws of the universe.

The admirals of the alliance were clearly helpless against an enemy with the power to alter the fundamental laws of the universe. Even the hailed genius Yang Wei-li couldn't possibly overcome such a technological disparity. To engage an enemy capable of altering the fundamental laws of the universe wasn't a fight; it was suicide.

The Alliance and the Empire could not just leave such a terrifying spacecraft of unknown origin alone. Its ability and behavior to destroy stars at will were enough to frighten the Alliance and the Empire. Now it also possessed the ultra-long-distance jump engine technology that the Alliance and the Empire had always dreamed of, and its suspected ability to modify the laws of physics, which made some people in the Alliance and the Empire have some inappropriate thoughts about it.

But more importantly, the Alliance no longer has the energy to search for the missing black spaceship. Just rebuilding and maintaining the stable operation of Heinessen has exhausted almost all the energy and resources of the Alliance fleet. As for searching for the spaceship that destroyed the Yamliza star and nearly 1/5 of the Alliance expeditionary force's warships, we can only wait until the situation in Heinessen stabilizes. Before that, the Alliance fleet must be vigilant that the spaceship may appear at any time and destroy the stars within the Alliance territory, and ensure the safety of the Alliance territory.

"I really don't know when I can retire..." In the captain's room of the 13th Fleet, Yang Weili put on his hat and complained silently.

.........

On the other side, the imperial army that had evacuated the Yamritza star had not yet recovered from the shock of the destruction of the red star when it received another shocking news: the emperor had passed away!

This news forced Reinhardt to divert his attention from the mysterious black spaceship that had been pinning him and the allied fleet to the ground the entire time, and to participate in the next struggle for supreme power that was about to break out in the empire.

"Your Excellency, the Emperor did not designate a successor before his death. Therefore, the next Emperor of the Empire will be chosen from among the three sons of Frederick IV.

"They are two princesses and a grandson of the Emperor. The fathers of both princesses are members of the Imperial nobility, leaving the grandson helpless. It's foreseeable that if the old Emperor's faction doesn't want the nobles to seize the throne and supreme power, their only option will be to support the grandson of the Emperor and recruit you as their backer."

"Sir, I know we still want to destroy that ship of unknown origin, but threatening as it is, but right now, clearly, finding a way to seize the highest seat of imperial power as quickly as possible is the most important priority."

Oberstein suggested to Reinhardt with a still expressionless face.

"I know that some bad things have happened recently. The old guy died so quickly. It was too easy for him. If I had another five years... less than three years, I would have made the old guy pay the price." Reinhardt said angrily.

Oberstein, standing by, remained silent as usual. He also wanted to understand where the strange-looking black ship that had wiped out a fifth of the Alliance and Imperial fleets had come from, and what its purpose was.

However, the current situation obviously does not allow Oberstein to be distracted in this regard. The most important task at the moment is to help Reinhardt seize the high position of power in the empire.

At this point, neither the Alliance nor the Empire was able to launch further foreign wars. Within the Alliance, Heinessen, the capital, had suffered extensive damage, and its government functions were essentially paralyzed. Within the Empire, a struggle between the Imperial faction and the aristocratic families seeking to seize supreme power was about to begin. The conflict between the Huangquan faction and the aristocratic families had become irreconcilable, and the Alliance was clearly unable to raise an expeditionary force of similar size to continue its offensive against the Empire. Simply dealing with the various internal affairs that had accumulated over a long period of time was already overwhelming Jessica, Rebelo, and the others.

Yang Weili pulled up the star map and marked the location of Iserlohn Fortress and the Phesar Corridor on the other side. With a wave of his arm, he circled the area causing the anomaly in the Iserlohn Corridor and marked it in bright red. He clicked delete, and the red color instantly vanished, leaving a vast blank space on the star map in the conference room. If the Alliance or the Empire ever truly intended to take action against the mysterious black warship, the Phesar Corridor and the Iserlohn Corridor would become completely meaningless. For the black warship, the barrier between the two corridors would be completely nonexistent. Meanwhile, the Empire and the Alliance would be trapped by the untraceable zone between the two corridors, completely limiting their mobility. Thinking of this, Yang felt the pressure on his shoulders once again.

…………

High-dimensional space jump bubbles briefly appeared around the Night Fighter, and then quickly disappeared. The Night slid silently into the hangar of the Time-like Infinity, which was parked under the shelter of the Barrier Star Ring. The smooth black surface of the Night Fighter made it impossible to imagine that this Night Fighter had just been bathing in the debris of a supernova explosion.

"Huh!" The purple-haired girl walked down from the cockpit of the night fighter as if she breathed a sigh of relief, holding a pistol-shaped object in her hand. In the holographic vision of Yuuki who came to greet her, he saw that the pistol-shaped object in Carisi's hand was emitting the synchrotron radiation that he was very familiar with, and a large amount of high-energy charged particles were being released from the inside of the pistol.

"It's worthy of being the highest gear. It blew up a star in such a short time. Who could have thought? The thing that blew up the entire star is actually only this small?" Carlisle was playing with the gravitational wave ray emitting device pistol in her hand. Now the purple-haired girl had adjusted the gear on the pistol to the lowest safety position again.

"You're having a blast, aren't you?"

"Of course, but I didn't expect the highest gear to be so powerful. I guess the Alliance and the Empire are scared now, right?"

"They are indeed frightened, but they don't have the energy to start a foreign war now. One is busy rebuilding Shouyao, and the other is busy fighting a civil war with the aristocratic families. At least they have avoided a bad future, right?"

The purple-haired girl said to her companions.

"However, in order to prevent them from suspecting us, I need to prepare a set of rhetoric, a set of rhetoric that can fool both sides at the same time."

"As for this, let's use it to scare the Alliance, the Empire, and a certain old fox in Feiza." Yuuki looked at the pistol-mounted gravitational wave emitter in Carissa's hand and the dark night fighter behind her.

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That night, Yang Weili returned to his room as usual. Just as he was about to take some brandy from the cabinet, an extremely familiar voice sounded from behind him.

"Admiral Yang, we meet again."

"!" Yang Weili looked at the figure that suddenly appeared in his room in surprise.

"Admiral Yang, I see you've been very busy lately. This... just consider it as a small greeting gift." Yuki gently placed a bottle of fine brandy on the coffee table and motioned Yang opposite him to sit down.

"You wouldn't drop by suddenly for no reason, would you?" Yang Weili said after thinking for a few seconds while sitting on the sofa opposite.

"As expected of Admiral Yang, you've grasped the crux of the matter immediately. I'm here to visit you because I have something important to discuss."

"Then let me guess. Could it be about the recent attack on Heinessen, that black spaceship?"

"You're pretty close. It's indeed related to these two things. But as for that black spaceship... it's at least a familiar sight, right?"

"Something quite familiar? Do you know the origin of that black spaceship?"

"Not only do we know about the creator of that black spaceship, we're also incredibly familiar with them. They... are not to be trifled with."

"You're quite brave, daring to engage that thing head-on. They're not someone you can mess with."

Yang was a little confused. Looking at the other person's expression, it seemed that the creator behind the black spaceship was some very terrifying existence.

"The last being that dared to be their enemy and initiate an attack has been almost completely wiped out."

"Are they referring to the forces behind that black spaceship?"

"Force? No, no, no, it can't be called a force at all. It's just one of them. Admiral Yang Ban, what do you think a black spaceship like this looks like?"

"Plane tree seeds."

"Well, Admiral Yang, what do you think it is?"

"What is it? What does this mean?"

"You call it a spaceship because you subconsciously think it's a vehicle, but what if I tell you it's more than just a vehicle?"

"They are a very strange existence. Every spaceship you see is their physical form in the macroscopic material world, and their essence is nearly immortal. Not to mention that you have no ability to damage it, even if you could directly destroy the spaceship, it would be impossible to kill them. Moreover, you are only facing one of them."

"You keep saying 'they'. Are you referring to the creators of this spaceship? Are they some kind of virtual being? Attaching their consciousness to the spaceship?"

"If you simply regard them as some kind of digital life, then you are oversimplifying. They are not such low-level beings."

"They are the creators of this spaceship. Spaceships like these serve as their physical bodies. They were born from flaws in the fabric of spacetime. Other civilizations call them the Kings of Baryonic Life. Even among the ancient beings in countless universes, they are among the most powerful."

"If they are called 'Zeli'li in your language, then the black aircraft you saw in Yamritza is one of them. Each of those aircraft is the body of an individual of them, a life form and structure they have evolved to adapt to this cold universe."

"Since you said that the black aircraft was one of them, why did it suddenly attack the fleets of the Alliance and the Empire?"

"Attack? Can that even be considered an attack? Admiral Yang, you haven't seen the extreme measures they'll take to destroy someone when they truly consider them an enemy. Their actions towards the Alliance and the Empire are just like you accidentally stepping on two ants while walking down the street. Do you know why they blew up the Yamliza Heng Qiling V Shi Liuba Qiqi Xing?"

Yang Weili shook his head.

"That's to create a more comfortable environment for themselves. For them, only the supernova remnants or black holes after a star explosion can make them feel comfortable. To them, it's just like lighting a fire in the cold wilderness to keep warm. The Alliance and the Empire are just ants accidentally burned to death in the process of making the fire."

"You see, he didn't even use their most famous tactic of short-range continuous time jumps to deal with high-threat targets. This proves that he doesn't regard the Empire and the Alliance as so-called hostile targets at all." Yuki put down a holographic projection terminal, which showed the entire battle process of the Yamliza Galaxy Massacre recorded by the Alliance fleet.

"So, the Alliance and the Empire aren't considered enemies by each other at all, right?"

"That's right. You just happened to be in the place where He built a fire to keep warm. Just like you build a fire in the wild to keep warm and don't care whether the heat of the flames will burn a few insects that accidentally get too close, They don't care about that either. You were just driven away because you caused a little trouble for Him."