The headless Nether Dragon seemed to have been struck by petrification magic, frozen motionless in the void.
Yet bright purple light sprayed from its severed neck, growing ever more brilliant.
Wang Chen, who had just succeeded in beheading it, was immediately seized by a bone-chilling sense of dread.
Without a second thought, he controlled the God of War Mecha to fly backward, pushing all four engines to maximum power!
At the same time, the Nether Warships and Ghost Fighters scattered around the Nether Dragon fled in all directions as though doomsday had arrived. Some even collided with one another.
The Imperial Army mech pilots also sensed that something was wrong and retreated after them.
Only seconds later, streams of purple light burst from the headless Nether Dragon's entire body, and then it exploded as a whole.
It was as though a ten-billion-ton nuclear bomb had detonated in this stretch of space. The shockwave unleashed by the explosion swept indiscriminately over both friend and foe who had failed to retreat in time, swallowing them in an incomparably violent energy storm.
Because Wang Chen had reacted swiftly and withdrawn the fastest, he avoided the first wave of the Nether Dragon's self-destruction.
Although the residual energy blast caught him, he endured it with the Force Field Shield.
But quite a few of his comrades had fallen.
There was no helping it.
With the fall of the Nether Dragon, the situation on the battlefield tilted even further toward the Imperial Army.
Wang Chen took the opportunity to withdraw into the Radiance Cruiser's mech bay.
The God of War Mecha had exhausted all its missiles, and its Ship-Slaying Saber had also been damaged. Both needed replenishment and replacement.
After the fierce battle earlier, the Radiance Cruiser had suffered considerable losses. Its propulsion and defenses had