The Great Star Voyage
Chapter 590

Worldview-Shattering

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With hundreds of billions of warships involved, a war between two civilizations cannot be ended in a single contact, especially without the use of weapons of mass destruction.

The concept of weapons of mass destruction is certainly different for interstellar civilizations than it is for Earth Era. In Earth Era, hydrogen bombs were the pinnacle of their technology and the most powerful weapons of mass destruction. However, in the interstellar era, especially at the level of Level Six Civilization, even Supernova Explosion cannot directly destroy their warships, which gives you an idea of how powerful their warships are.

To destroy such powerful warships on a large scale, one would need even more powerful weapons, and these weapons would certainly be area-of-effect weapons.

The weapon the Harvesters are currently developing is a type of weapon of mass destruction. Suddenly, the Harvesters warships in the starry sky all exited Warp mode, and then hundreds of billions of warships formed a strange formation in Three-Dimensional Space.

Then, without any visible movement from them, no flames or intense light were seen. It was as if they were simply standing still in the starry sky. Then, a slight Gravitational Wave appeared within the area where they were located, but it was not strong, indicating that it was not Gravitational Wave type of attack.

But after the Gravitational Wave appeared, a black dot appeared at that location in space. The black dot was very small, only a few thousand kilometers away. It was nothing compared to the battlefield, which was measured in light-years. It was even darker than the dark background of the universe. The black dot was not a black hole because it had no Gravity response. On the contrary, the black dot exhibited a repulsive force opposite to Gravity.

When the repulsive force is detected, it will be found that these black spots are like a spatial glitch in the three-dimensional universe. As for where the glitch leads, it is estimated that only Level Six Civilization would know.

After the black dot appeared, a repulsive force opposite to Gravity first appeared around the black dot. Then, in less than a second, countless invisible Dark Light, or rather, countless streams of unknown particles traveling faster than light, like the Beyond the Light Cone before, were transmitted out from it and quickly spread to the surrounding space at superluminal speed.

It looks like a light source placed inside a sphere with many holes on its surface, resembling a colorful neon light from which countless rays of light shoot out.

The reason this attack is described as a mass destruction is that there was more than one black hole. After the billions of Harvesters warships made some coordinated move, black dots appeared one after another in the starry sky. Then, in less than a breath, the entire Starry Sky covered by the billions of warships turned into a sea of black dots.

Then, countless visible matter crisscrossed this star field with invisible, unknown ion beams, forming a death laser net that pierced through all warships in this space.

Its range depends on the area of the fleet that launched the attack, and the current attack by the Harvesters fleet covers a sphere with a radius of approximately 1.7 light-years.

This is such a vast area, containing at least a million, if not millions, of Awakener Warship. This wave is truly powerful and will definitely give the Harvesters a chance to vent their anger.

It's likely that the Harvesters already knew these slippery Awakeners possessed some kind of evasion-type Characteristic Technology, hence their use of area-of-effect attacks. Of course, Level Six Civilization have shields against this kind of particle stream attack; to reduce Level Six Civilization's warships to Space Matter, their invisible shield would first need to be destroyed.

However, whether due to the Harvesters technology or spatial location factors, the unknown particle streams scattered from countless black dots seemed endless. They were not worried about the rays running out of steam. After the actual combat strike, the billions of warships once again entered Warp mode to avoid the Awakener Warship that were attacking them.

This scene resembles everyone gathering at the edge of a fishpond, throwing a bunch of firecrackers at it, and then running away.

It describes something that, although crude, has a rapid effect.

It's a concept that's easy to understand: area-of-effect attacks are very difficult to dodge, especially those that are faster than the speed of light, dense, and randomly interwoven.

However, a scene that left the Harvesters speechless appeared: the more than three million Awakeners Rectangular Warship in the space seemed to have foreseen the location of each black dot and all the scattering directions of the unknown particle streams scattered from each black dot.

In the instant the unknown particle stream was scattered, the more than three million ships made various evasive maneuvers based on their spatial position and relative speed. These maneuvers included conventional maneuvers, Warp maneuvers combined with conventional maneuvers, and flipping and turning the ship. Looking at it, it was as if a group of messy cuboids had grown out of the starry sky, much like boxes of building blocks being scattered into the sky.

Avoidance is understandable, but when the unknown particle stream, like an intertwined strangulation net, was scattered out, all the civilizations in the starry sky that observed this scene fell silent.

Because the seemingly unavoidable streams of scattered particles almost all narrowly missed the Awakener Warship. At that moment, the Awakener Warship was like a series of nimble birds, weaving through the dense laser tunnels—something that Level Six Civilization's detection technology could not possibly achieve.

Of course, I say "almost" because some Awakener Warship were unable to avoid them all, but that was also because the net of scattered unknown invisible particles was too dense, with the intervals between them smaller than the size of the Awakener Warship, making it impossible to avoid.

However, the Awakener Warship were not destroyed, because these warships, with no way to avoid the attack, still possessed that invisible shield. After withstanding the initial impact with this shield, these Awakener Warship astutely moved to areas with looser ray nets, escaping the fate of being blasted into Space Matter and reduced to nothingness.

The Awakener Civilization, with its Characteristic Technology, once again refreshed the Harvesters' understanding of damage avoidance, as well as the understanding of damage avoidance held by the Silver Heart Alliance, the Perseus Commonwealth, the Silicon-Based Collective, and other Level Six Civilization who were waiting for their chance in a hidden space.

It can be said that his worldview was greatly shaken.

In particular, ordinary Level Six Civilization without Characteristic Technology are now deeply aware of the terrifying power of Level Six Civilization with Characteristic Technology. What is even more unacceptable to them is that this civilization from the small Triangulum Galaxy is actually able to overwhelm the Harvesters.

Even with such a huge difference in numbers.

It's important to know that the Harvesters are the most powerful civilization in the Milky Way Galaxy. None of these civilizations dared to Harvesters directly, but this Awakener Civilization did, and even achieved unforgettable victories.

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