Striking Beyond the Light Cone

The moment the fleets entered Warp, the Awakeners also began to move, but unlike the Harvesters, they did not move in a uniform manner. Instead, they were more like scattered troops, with one or several warships forming a small squadron and entering Warp one after another.

The Awakeners appeared in the starry sky numbered only 1.7 billion warships, but they were not afraid at all when facing the Harvesters, which numbered in the hundreds of billions. After detecting that the Harvesters were moving, they all rushed forward to meet them head-on.

At a distance of ten light-years, a head-on collision would take approximately seven days. However, at this moment, their battle clearly wouldn't involve actual warships clashing, much less close-quarters boarding. Both sides continued to close the distance simply to ensure their powerful weapons could better hit each other.

As for what kind of weapon it was, both sides quickly showed each other the facts.

The first strange phenomenon appeared in the starry sky: the space at the front of the Harvesters fleet suddenly twisted, as if a black hole had appeared. If a detection method Beyond the Light Cone were used to detect it, it would be obvious that this starry sky suddenly collapsed, and the three spatial dimensions of length, width and height around it were suddenly pulled towards a certain point.

Black Hole Bomb, also known as Gravity Bomb.

The Harvesters fleet first dropped Gravity Bomb into space, seemingly not to kill the Awakeners, but more as a battlefield deployment.

This is probably because Gravity Bomb are not the most effective way to kill Level Six Civilization.

Sure enough, after one Artificial Black Hole appeared, strange particle streams that could not be detected by conventional means began to bypass these Artificial Black Hole. These strange particle streams were not accelerated by the Gravity Field of the Artificial Black Hole, because their own speed was faster than the speed of light.

Belonging to the category of weapons Beyond the Light Cone, Artificial Black Hole are merely used to make the emission points of these particle streams more concealed.

This strange particle stream attack method seems to be the prelude to a war Level Six Civilization. The Harvesters are using it, and the Awakeners are also using the same attack method.

However, these attack methods are completely invisible in the visible universe because they do not interact with light at all. This means that when the two sides start fighting, it seems that nothing has happened. All that is seen is that the two fleets enter Warp and a group of Artificial Black Hole appear to disrupt space, and the starry sky suddenly feels quiet.

From a conventional perspective, attacks that exceed the speed of light are completely invisible. However, in reality, the two sides have already clashed in the world Beyond the Light Cone.

The shields of a Harvesters warship suddenly lit up, and then it was unable to maintain Warp and was forced to Warp. It should be noted that the so-called shield lighting up is not a 'light' in the traditional sense, because no photons were actually produced.

The Harvesters warship's shields are not traditional shields, nor are they illuminated. They are completely invisible in the visible universe. Similarly, they do not react with photons and do not participate in Electromagnetic Forces.

Therefore, from the perspective of the visible universe's time, it seems as if nothing happened and it exited the Warp state on its own, but this is not actually the case.

Its shield blocked the attack from Beyond the Light Cone. It was obviously lucky; it simply exited Warp mode and was not destroyed.

The other Black Warship in its squadron was not so lucky, as it suffered more damage. In the unseen world, its shield, which did not participate in Electromagnetic Force, was broken, and its shield generator burned out due to overload.

Then it was directly hit by a Faster-Than-Light Particle.

This attack method, which Beyond the Light Cone, revealed its power to the world for the first time. From a conventional perspective, this attack method appears as nothing at all: no dazzling energy beams, no faint light paths formed by the dissipation of photons, and no earth-shattering commotion.

Even the space through which this stream of particles passed did not react at all; everything was perfectly normal, as if nothing had happened.

But only the target that is hit knows this, which is not the case.

The Harvesters, a Black Warship, was hit on its port side. At the moment of impact, the color of its port side first faded slightly, its pure black exterior turning into a dark gray. Then, its color rapidly changed; perhaps over dozens or even hundreds of Planck Time, the black on its port side became increasingly faint, eventually turning transparent.

Well, "transparent" is just a term used from a conventional perspective. In reality, it's not transparent, but rather it has transformed into another form of existence. If the armor of this Black Warship in its normal state is called visible cosmic matter, then after being hit by an attack method Beyond the Light Cone, it transforms into another form of existence, perhaps what we might call Space Matter.

The area hit disappeared into the visible universe. Because the change occurred in an extremely short time, it looked as if the Black Warship had just been pushed out of Warp drive and then, as if someone had used video editing techniques, cut it all off from the left hull to the stern.

As you can see, the cut surface is very flat, just like a complete warship suddenly losing half of its length, leaving only the bow. It's almost like using special effects to cut out a part of the layer that originally belonged to something in a video.

The parts that were hit by this attack method Beyond the Light Cone disappeared completely, as if they had been hit by nothingness.

But what's amazing is that no photons were produced at the place where it disappeared. Only a few faint Meson-like Particles drifted out from there, proving to the visible universe that something terrible had just happened there.

The appearance of Meson-like Particles is also the last evidence of the existence of the tail half of this warship in this visible universe.

Because half of it was suddenly missing, the warship, now only half intact, was completely destroyed in a series of lightning-like malfunctions.

The fate of this warship is just a microcosm of the vast battlefield. After both sides activated Warp and began to move rapidly, warships without heads or tails began to appear one after another in this starry sky. Some warships also had a large hole in the middle, as if their abdomens had been hollowed out, and the starry sky behind them could be seen from the bottom.

Some warships were relatively lucky, with only minor gaps around their sides, like a bite taken out of a cookie. These less damaged warships were slowly repaired by the repair system, which was considered quite fortunate.

Many more warships were destroyed in one wave and disappeared into space.

Of course, so far, all the ships destroyed have been Harvesters warships.

Such a battle is truly magical. There is no sound in the universe to begin with, and now there is not even light. The battle between the two sides is silent and utterly quiet. Only faint, diffuse Meson-like Particles are trying to prove to those civilizations that can only observe things in the visible universe that things here are indeed not as peaceful as they appear on the surface.