Because it was too close to the central black hole of the Andromeda Galaxy, the extreme environment prevented the Lyra from making a single Quantum Macro Tunneling jump as far as before. For the final 2.5 light-years, the Lyra had needed three jumps to arrive, and two of them had even gone slightly off course.
But that did not matter. With the final Quantum Macro Tunneling, the Heavenly Maiden Civilization Headquarters was already within the Lyra's strike range.
All the Lyra had to do now was pluck a "String," and the Heavenly Maiden Civilization Headquarters would vanish.
Shunying, who had been chasing the Lyra and attacking it all the way, also saw the Lyra's position. She was frantic, yet powerless to do anything. She was currently about three light-years from the Lyra. A single Four-Dimensional Space jump would let her enter the Lyra, but she did not dare.
After so many attempts, she had learned that this absurdly powerful warship could predict the landing point of her Four-Dimensional Space jumps. Now that the Heavenly Maiden Civilization Headquarters was within the warship's attack range, she feared that setting her jump destination aboard the warship would provoke this civilization into immediately unleashing that bizarre area-of-effect strike against the headquarters.
So, she chose to jump into the space ahead of the Lyra while stopping the other Sacred Guards from jumping. She believed the Lyra would understand the meaning of her jump location.
Sure enough, this time, the Lyra neither evaded nor activated that "Teleportation" ability of its own.
She jumped directly in front of the Lyra and hurriedly broadcast, "Please show mercy. We surrender!"
If that attack went off, the Heavenly Maiden Civilization would truly be finished. Shunying felt that even unconditional surrender was acceptable now.
"Heh heh!"
Yet her submission failed to