Battle of Vilsert (18)

Over a hundred million silver-white beams struck a single point at once.

The entire expanse trembled as a result, ripples visible to the naked eye spreading outward in ring after ring, like a stone dropped into water.

Finally,

After more than ten seconds, as though the strange rift had eaten its fill and could no longer swallow any more energy from the terrifying assault, it stopped absorbing. The bizarre scarlet rift then shattered like broken glass, turning into countless fragments that gradually dispersed into the void.

"Deputy Officer Bai, did we get it?"

A former staff officer aboard the Melos, now Bai Xuan's temporary deputy, asked from beside her. His voice carried both excitement and a trace of concern.

"I don't know what lies within that rift, nor do I know whether Aliya was behind this. But I am certain of one thing: that Imperial Bug is dead!"

"Perhaps the Zerg are incredibly resilient. Even being severed at the waist might not kill them immediately. But it depends on how that severing is done!"

"Judging from what just happened, that Imperial Bug was effectively cut in two from the side. Even an Imperial Bug couldn't survive that!"

Bai Xuan spoke calmly, brimming with confidence.

Indeed, whether humans or other lifeforms, being cut in two at the waist would not result in immediate death. This was especially true for Zerg or individuals from other advanced Biological Civilizations, who could even survive and recover.

However, if an entire organism was cleaved in half from the side, there was absolutely no way it could survive.

Unfortunately for Stant, he had been split into two from the side. The rear half of his body had been dragged into the rift, while the front half had been blasted into cosmic dust by the Nether Fleet's