A conventional Divine Matrix Civilization warship suddenly lost half of itself for no reason, as if someone had used image-editing software to erase that portion of the vessel. It was utterly abrupt.
If such a phenomenon had occurred during the Earth Era, countless people would probably have immediately cried out that it was a miracle.
But in truth, it had been caused by a Level Six Civilization weapon: Void Strike!
The struck portion of that warship had been directly turned into Space Matter by the Void Strike. The damaged warship then suffered a chain reaction of malfunctions and quickly became a massive chunk of scrap metal.
The warship had been destroyed before it could even raise its Void Shield.
The effective range of Void Strike was generally only three light-years, but reaching that range required several seconds of energy charging. Therefore, most Level Six Civilizations would not fire at that distance and would instead close in further.
That Divine Matrix Civilization warship had noticed no Harvester warships around it, so it had failed to deploy its Void Shield in time. One shot had taken it out.
The emergence of Void Strike turned combat between some warships invisible.
The battlefield became divided into visible and invisible dimensions. The visible battlefield centered on Tachyon Light Swords and Real Shields, and the fighting there was immensely violent. Light swords frequently swept across several light-years, or Real Shields collided with Tachyon Light Swords in bursts of dazzling radiance.
The other battlefield, meanwhile, was the domain of Void Strike weapons.
These weapons were optically invisible, and their trajectories were invisible as well. Though they traveled more slowly from launch to impact than a Tachyon Light Sword, which lit up instantly, their power was more than several times greater.
Because they were invisible, observers using visible