Absolute Advantage
The destruction of the Awakeners's Small Universe foreshadows a further escalation of the war.
The Fallen Civilization, or rather, the individual Fallen Civilization that had been 'awakened' by the Awakeners, vanished without resistance in the destruction of the Small Universe. The powerful spatial fluctuations easily tore apart everything in the original Small Universe, as well as everything in the starry sky of the region where the Small Universe was located.
The impact of the destruction of the Small Universe didn't stop there. The fluctuations in space, like a raging storm, swept outwards, obliterating everything in their path, including even Level Six Civilization's warship. However, the Awakeners and the Harvesters clearly had foresight; as the Small Universe shattered, they sped away at top speed.
Even while they were throwing things aside, they didn't forget to attack each other.
After losing their Small Universe, perhaps because they were already deeply Harvesters fleet, the Awakeners did not choose to retreat. On the contrary, as if they had lost some kind of restraint, they dispersed their warships again and launched a fierce attack on the Harvesters.
From the perspective of the Awakeners, although their Small Universe has been destroyed, they still have the upper hand. And that is indeed the case. Several decades have passed since the start of the war, and the Awakeners have lost less than 10,000 warships, while the Harvesters' warships are being destroyed almost every moment.
After decades of fighting, the casualty ratio reached an astonishing figure. The battlefield was littered with the wreckage of Harvesters warships. Roughly speaking, the Harvesters lost tens of billions of ordinary warships and over a billion of elite warships.
Perhaps due to good protection, the Harvesters' ace warships suffered relatively few losses, only around two hundred million. This is indeed not many compared to the total number of warships the Harvesters deployed, but compared to the losses of the Awakeners, it's staggering.
It's gotten to the point where even the Harvesters are suffering.
Previously, the Harvesters were quite unconvinced and deployed their Ace Fleet to form a new strike force. However, after paying such a price, they have indeed come to realize the situation and understand that this Awakeners from the Triangulum Galaxy does have something unique about it.
Although the Characteristic Technology is still unknown, the Harvesters are certain that it is related to prediction. This Characteristic Technology makes the evasion ability of each Awakener Warship almost prophetic, making them slippery and impossible to hit. The nearly 10,000 warships that were destroyed were only destroyed in the supernova light, after the warships had difficulty Warp, and were finally destroyed by a group attack.
Fortunately, the Awakeners' fleet wasn't that large; otherwise, the Harvesters' losses would be far greater than this.
Moreover, during the battle, the Harvesters discovered that this Awakeners from the Triangulum Galaxy did not seem to have a large number of Strong Artificial Intelligence warships like other civilizations, but rather all the warships were piloted by individual life forms of their own civilization.
This discovery has led the Harvesters to speculate on Awakeners' Characteristic Technology. They believe that these Characteristic Technology can only be used or driven by individuals within their own civilization, and that this is not the case, based on the phenomena observed after the Awakeners' Small Universe were destroyed.
The Harvesters initially believed that a large number of Awakeners life forms and some warships still existed in that Small Universe, but this was not the case. It seemed that the battlefield represented the entirety of the Awakeners' combat power, and their individual lives were not in the Small Universe. This was because the Harvesters clearly discovered that when the Small Universe was destroyed, the destroyed warships were obviously not Level Six Civilization warships.
This is very puzzling. The entire civilization of the Awakeners is only 1.7 billion in number, and they are all operating warships.
Such a structure is unique even among technologically advanced Level Six Civilization, because such a number of individuals is indeed too small for a Level Six Civilization.
Only 1.7 billion. Keep in mind that even humanity, a mere Level 3 Civilization that only ventured into space after a catastrophe, has a population of tens of billions. The Awakeners, on the other hand, is a single person with a single ship, representing a civilization of 1.7 billion.
After destroying a certain number of Awakener Warship, the Harvesters apparently discovered the pattern of one Awakeners life form per warship. As a result, they became the civilization besides humans to discover the secret of the number of Awakeners pilots.
The Harvesters showed great interest in this discovery, knowing it must be due to the Awakeners's Characteristic Technology.
Indeed, this is true. There are only 1.7 billion individual lives of the Awakeners, and the reason is related to their Characteristic Technology.
However, even after the Harvesters learned of this, they failed to gain an advantage in the ensuing battle and instead suffered even greater losses under the Awakeners's fierce offensive.
However, the Harvesters did not seem to be in a hurry. On the contrary, perhaps because they had too many cannon fodder fleets, the Harvesters did not back down in the following battles and ordered their ordinary fleets to increase their attack intensity, even to the point of not caring about the losses.
On the battlefield, hundreds of millions of ordinary warships appeared, completely disregarding their own evasion, often risking destruction to launch an attack on the Awakener Warship's likely next evasive position. Those warships that launched large-scale attacks in combination did the same, with one being destroyed and another taking its place, all to lock onto a specific star system and unleash a massive, devastating strike.
The Harvesters' actions also caused their own fleet to pay a much heavier price in the ensuing battles, with tens of thousands of warships being easily destroyed by the agile Awakeners.
Despite their overwhelming numerical advantage, the Harvesters were overwhelmed by the Awakeners on the battlefield. However, judging from the current situation, the Harvesters showed no intention of retreating. Instead, they intensified their efforts, using their massive fleet of ordinary soldiers to wear down the Awakeners, though with little success.
The Harvesters seemed to be giving off a "let's see just how powerful your evasion Characteristic Technology can be" vibe, like a big boss coldly watching someone use their own minions to test their opponent, acting all high and mighty.
Although the war has been going on for less than a century, the situation in the Starry Sky Battlefield is already very clear: the Awakeners, with a small fleet, are wreaking havoc on the battlefield, leaving the Harvesters with no chance to fight back. From the perspective of interstellar warfare, this war can be considered a crushing defeat.
However, neither the Harvesters nor the Silver Heart Alliance, who were still hiding in the concealed space and secretly watching, were in a hurry. Only the Awakeners were happily slaughtering everyone. Some of the Awakeners could even shout during the battle, but the Harvesters ignored them.
The Hundred Years' War has wiped out all the stars within a 300-light-year radius of the entire cosmos, turning the entire expanse of space into the energy of stellar explosions. Fleets of warships navigate this environment, sometimes at Warp, sometimes at cruising speed, constantly moving through this space. Countless weapons clash in this cosmic void, turning it into hell.