This sudden turn of events left Li Chen stunned on the spot.
He had only just given the order to capture the enemies alive, yet the enemies—and the Star Destroyer Motherships they were riding—had actually been completely absorbed by the Energy Heart.
"I... what was that I just saw??"
King Maxim, standing beside Li Chen, was equally bewildered at that moment.
He subconsciously rubbed his eyes, then looked at Iron-Blood King, Li Chen, and the others beside him.
"I saw those three Star Destroyer Motherships break apart into energy and get absorbed. What about you?"
Iron-Blood King hesitantly said to King Maxim.
"Me too!"
King Maxim's heart trembled. In an instant, his scalp prickled, and his whole mind became a mess.
"Every Seventh Civilization warrior aboard those Star Destroyer Motherships was absorbed too... wasn't he?"
Iron-Blood King hesitated again as he asked.
"It seems... so!"
King Maxim rubbed his arm.
A chilling cold spread throughout his body.
His heart shuddered again and again.
Iron-Blood King and King Maxim exchanged a glance, then both turned their eyes toward Li Chen.
"Our ships are also being pulled by less gravity!"
Li Chen deliberately changed the subject.
Of course, he had seen what had just happened, and he was deeply shaken as well.
The Seventh Civilization's warriors had basically all completed Mechanical Ascension.
If necessary, they could shift between pure energy forms and mechanical lifeforms.
Li Chen had known this intelligence for a long time.
He had activated the Energy Heart only to counter the black hole's gravitational pull.
And, incidentally, to test whether the Energy Heart could restrain the black hole or even absorb its energy in reverse...
But Li Chen had never expected that this operation would not only absorb the black hole's energy.
It had directly absorbed and refined the