Battle of Vilsert (15)

The Phase Bomb's destructive range was not large. It was even smaller than the Zero-Point Missile's blast radius, only around 800,000 kilometers.

Such a distance was not even the tip of the iceberg compared to the scale of the entire battlefield, and Elio could not possibly commit every Phase Bomb carried by the entire fleet without certainty.

Therefore, the dozen or so bombs deployed were merely meant to conduct another round of fire reconnaissance in the most suspicious areas.

Yes, an upgraded version of fire reconnaissance!

As the countdown ended, more than a dozen Phase Bombs detonated simultaneously. Yet they did not stir even the slightest ripple, as though every single one of them had been a dud.

Ten AU away from the Fifth Attack Group, Akat was connected through the Zerg psychic network to a Stealth Blade Bug that was advancing, sharing its vision.

One million kilometers left. Only one million kilometers left!

In at most a dozen seconds, the front of the Stealth Blade Bug swarm would officially make contact with the human fleet. Victory...

Was right before his eyes!

At that moment, Akat was already imagining the scene of hundreds of billions of Stealth Blade Bugs suddenly appearing within the human fleet formation and launching a killing blow.

But in the next instant, the image of the human fleet that had been right before his eyes...

Vanished!

No, perhaps vanished was not the right word. Rather, the shared vision Akat received through the psychic network had suddenly turned completely black. There was nothing there at all!

What was going on?

After sensing carefully, he realized that his shared link with that Stealth Blade Bug had been severed. This was the first time Akat had encountered such a situation.

Without giving it much thought, he immediately sensed