Formidable Awakeners

The star that exploded, whether triggered by the Rectangular Warship or the 170 Black Warship, originally had a mass that did not exceed 1.44 times that of the Sun, which is less than the Chandrasekhar Limit. Therefore, according to the theory of stellar evolution, the remnant after its explosion should theoretically be a White Dwarf Star.

But like the sun, it was unfortunate. It did not naturally age to its best point of explosion, but was destroyed by an unknown attack. As a result, after the violent explosion, nothing was left, and everything was expanded into space in the form of energy and Mass Ejection.

This is an artificially created Supernova Explosion. Although such an explosion is not as violent as that of giant stars like Blue Supergiant Star, it is still a supernova.

It's easy to imagine how strong the Rectangular Warship and those 170 warships were at withstanding damage. The fact that they actively detonated their stars and fought inside the exploding stars shows that even Point-Blank Supernova range could not cause them any real harm.

What formidable defensive capabilities!

However, even with such formidable defense, it couldn't withstand even a second of direct hit from those black lines.

After a while, the number of afterimages in the energy surge of the nova erupted had decreased from 171 to 168. The reduction in afterimages indicated that some warships had been destroyed, but the remaining afterimages continued to move rapidly. In other words, the destroyed warships were not the Rectangular Warship, but a part of the 170 Black Warship.

The energy from the stellar explosion continues to spread at the speed of light, and the battle between the two sides continues within the burst of energy. However, apart from the two parties involved, no civilization can truly see the actual situation of the battle.

The Black Lines crisscrossed, as if the sky had been torn open and then quickly healed. Every now and then, strong Gravitational Wave, which were not natural phenomena, appeared, causing chaos in the area where the energy was surging. Even the straight-lined light was twisted and distorted under these circumstances, as if someone had scribbled on colored materials with a pen.

Those Black Lines that were clearly some kind of space attack method were not all smooth Linear Type. Some of them were obviously chaotic, like multiple Z-shaped superpositions. They were not like this when the attack was started, but rather the attack hit some kind of defense mechanism of the warship.

Of course, some crooked Black Lines are caused by strong spacetime vibrations.

In such an environment, perhaps due to too many interfering factors, both sides decisively abandoned the constant switching between Warp and normal speed modes, and instead engaged in a battle purely based on the superior performance of their warships.

The battle between the Rectangular Warship and the Black Warship Squadron did not end quickly; rather, the engagement area continued to expand as the energy from the stellar explosion spread.

During their exchange, the Streamlined Warship, its surface shimmering with starlight, located more than ten light-years away, clearly detected Gravity anomalies on the battlefield using detection methods Beyond the Light Cone.

The Sentient Life on the warship didn't make a fuss, because they knew those things were just standard attack methods. What surprised them most was actually the Rectangular Warship; they had been prepared to join the battle at any time, but the development of the battlefield was unexpected.

The Rectangular Warship seemed to grow stronger with each battle, and they discovered that it was ridiculously good at dodging—or perhaps it shouldn't be called dodging, but rather some kind of anticipation.

The Rectangular Warship seemed to be able to predict every attack launched from the Black Warship Squadron. The reason it was considered a prediction was because, after precise calculations, they found that the Rectangular Warship's various reactions seemed to be much faster than its ability to detect enemy attacks and evade them after using detection capabilities Beyond the Light Cone.

Upon discovering this, two more communication messages appeared inside the Streamlined Warship, which was shimmering with starlight.

"Could this be the Characteristic Technology of this Extragalactic Civilization? Some kind of detection technology more powerful than conventional methods? Is it just a detection technology? Or some kind of unknown predictive technology?"

"Predictive technology? What kind of concept is that? There's no such thing as a predictive technology... Does adding 'technology' to any random term really make it Characteristic Technology?!"

"But it doesn't make sense!"

"That's right, if we can't explain it, then it's not their Characteristic Technology!"

That seems to make sense. So-called Characteristic Technology are those where a race has achieved something beyond its peers in a particular technological path, even reaching a level that other life forms of the same level cannot comprehend no matter what.

Therefore, it's understandable that it can't be explained away immediately.

"It must be. They've taken down three more. It seems this Unknown Civilization from Extragalactic Civilization is quite powerful. If we don't use the Star River, our warships probably won't be able to defeat it in a short time."

These words made the other Sentient Life that could understand the detection information somewhat embarrassed, because the Silver Heart Alliance knew very well their own conventional combat strength. If the Harvesters' conventional warships couldn't win, they certainly couldn't either.

"This Rectangular Warship doesn't seem to be their flagship. No wonder the Perseus Commonwealth believes their exploration fleet mysteriously disappeared rather than being destroyed by some civilization. This civilization from an unknown Extragalactic Civilization can't be allowed to live either!"

"We mobilized the entire power of our civilization and spent millions of years to implement our Characteristic Technology on the Star River. Even after implementing Star River, we have only been able to maintain this one warship with the full strength of our alliance. And this Unknown Civilization from Extragalactic Civilization has actually been able to implement its Characteristic Technology on every single warship? If so, we may need to reassess the true strength of this civilization."

"That's to be expected. Let's take another look, and another look... Hiss~ Several more Harvesters warships have been destroyed."

As the Sentient Life inside the warship, which was shimmering with starlight, were discussing something, they suddenly discovered that eight more Harvesters warships had disappeared from the battlefield.

They keenly noticed that the rate at which the Harvesters warships were being lost was accelerating.

"Extragalactic Civilization, huh? A single ship possesses such formidable combat power. Is this the source of your confidence that allows you to appear anywhere with only one or three ships? Could you perhaps be from the Andromeda Galaxy?"

The Andromeda Galaxy is more than twice the size of the Milky Way Galaxy. With such a large size, there are bound to be more civilizations, and the probability of a powerful civilization emerging is naturally higher. Therefore, the Sentient Life form of the Silver Heart Alliance prejudicially believed that the Awakeners were a civilization from the Andromeda Galaxy.

"We'll find out where they're from later, but for now they're on our side, and the stronger they are, the better our chances of winning are."