Boom! Boom boom!
The starry sky trembled as terrifying energy waves and overfrequency waves ravaged the area.
Wreckage from warships and fragments of planets were everywhere, while dazzling light waves and beams streaked across the void.
"Unmanned Assault Ships and Cruisers, block the hostile target!"
"Space has been sealed! Neither subspace nor deep space can be breached!"
"Fourth formation! Star Destroyers, provide flank cover! We cannot let this thing leave Charka Star Lake!"
Star Network, military local channel.
Five colonel commanders wore grave expressions as they stared at the enormous monster on the holographic screen.
It resembled a scorpion, yet had two pairs of mantis-like blade arms. Its three segmented tails ended not in venomous hooks, but claw-like appendages!
Its overall form was lean and elongated, while six pairs of black compound eyes fixed tightly on the several thousand Starcraft surrounding it.
Dense, intricate pale-gold patterns covered its dark-gold shell.
Most terrifying of all was its size!
Several thousand kilometers! It was several thousand kilometers long!
Even the strongest carrier in a T6 Veteran Fleet was barely fifty kilometers long. Before this lifeform that seemed to have stepped out of myth, it was still incomparably tiny.
It was true that starry warships did not rely entirely on size for combat strength, but for starry behemoth lifeforms, size basically represented combat power!
The main cannons of dozens of Star Destroyers suddenly lit up in massive flashes.
The surrounding cosmic energy quivered as over a hundred lances of light crossed dozens of light-seconds in an instant and bombarded the enormous creature.
Brilliant energy waves nearly blanketed a million kilometers of surrounding space.
The Star Destroyers of the Alliance Army's T6 Veteran Fleet did not merely destroy tiny planets with diameters of ten thousand kilometers.
Even gigantic planets a hundred thousand kilometers across could be easily blasted apart. As for ordinary planets, destroying seven or eight in a row would not be a problem.
To put it bluntly, the main cannons of T6 military battleships were also Star Destroyer cannons!
At the very least, shattering small asteroids over a thousand kilometers in diameter was not difficult.
Even so, the concentrated fire of more than a hundred Star Destroyer main cannons and nearly a thousand battleship main cannons still failed to inflict significant damage on the creature.
As the energy waves dissipated, the Void force field around the creature had merely dimmed, showing no signs of breaking.
It was even recovering at a visible speed.
"Saint You Great Armor! Saint You Great Armor! Damn it!" one commander cursed.
Such high-level Void predators were rare even within the Void.
Yet one had appeared in a small rift within human territory. He refused to believe this had nothing to do with the Alliance's enemies.
Buzz—
The expressions of the five commanders changed. The three tails of the Saint You Great Armor simultaneously gathered dark-gold Void Creature energy.
At the same time, hundreds of spheres of light condensed out of thin air around its body!
The next instant, three streaks of light and hundreds of beams blasted toward the surrounding Starcraft!
At once, several thousand Starcraft shifted sideways with extreme agility. Some warships even entered light speed in an instant.
A considerable portion of the attacks was evaded, but many still struck their targets solidly.
The shields of dozens of warships immediately shattered, and their hulls were ripped apart in moments. Alloy fragments hundreds or even thousands of meters long scattered in every direction.
The formidable survivability brought by Datafication had no effect whatsoever.
Most Starcraft did not require crew members. Although many warships had been destroyed, there were no personnel casualties.
One of the commanders grew even more solemn. "Has the request for reinforcements been sent?"
"It has been sent. Fleets from forty-five surrounding nations are assembling, and sixteen T6 Fleets are on their way."
"Has any T5 Fleet accepted the mission? This is a juvenile Saint You Great Armor!"
An adult Saint You Great Armor was comparable to a level-eight star beast. Even a juvenile was level seven.
Combined with the traits of a Void Creature, it was even harder to deal with. A sufficient number of T6 Fleets could suppress it, but the losses would definitely be severe.
"No, but the forward base closest to this place on the frontier has dispatched a gold-tier T6 Fleet!"
Gold-tier?
Several thousand Starcraft, all battleships, along with more than a hundred Star Destroyers and powerful special warships?
That would be enough.
Whether they were Alliance Army commanders or Star Network commanders, as long as they were gold-tier, facing a level-seven star beast would be more than manageable.
"Those freaks... factoring in their talent bonuses and additional bonuses, they really can handle this Saint You Great Armor."
"Hold on for another ten minutes. The nearest T6 Fleets will arrive then."
"Yes!"
Three light-days away from the battlefield between the Saint You Great Armor and the five T6 Veteran Fleets, three warships silently emerged.
[Star Network Notice: A Void Rift has been discovered in the inner region of Charka Star Lake, area ××× (one-million energy level). A juvenile Saint You Great Armor has also appeared. Requesting assistance!] [Alliance Army Alert: Juvenile Saint You Great Armor detected. All nearby nations, please assist with defense.]
Qingyang and Guxing exchanged glances.
After hesitating for a moment, Guxing said helplessly, "I don't recommend going there just to broaden your horizons. A casual attack from a juvenile Saint You Great Armor carries damage of over a hundred thousand energy levels. Even a T7 Fleet would only be throwing away its life."
Qingyang smiled. "Of course I know. I only came here to find something."
"The rift is right here. The Saint You Great Armor has already taken up all the passage capacity of this rift, so at most there will be some Void Creatures with total energy levels below ten thousand.
"There are plenty of treasures in the Void."
Guxing sighed in relief and said no more.
Qingyang stared at the coordinates only he could see on the star map. The three warships accelerated toward the distance.
That was precisely the direction of the Void Rift.
According to the coordinates, the Void Crystal should be on a planet near the Void Rift.
As they gradually approached, Qingyang discovered that the Void Rift was far larger than he had imagined.
It was at least ten thousand kilometers in diameter!
Black-purple Void Energy continuously eroded the surrounding space, while streams of various energies occasionally poured from the rift.
They were all kinds of higher cosmic energies that had been swallowed by the Void and could not be assimilated or eroded.
Void currents like solar prominences swayed irregularly. With a casual flick, a stream of energy would shoot out.
Asteroids hundreds of kilometers wide shattered on impact!
His expression stiffened slightly. The three warships immediately stopped advancing, after which the Changqu Cruiser alone headed toward that planet.
The journey was dangerous but uneventful. The Saint You Great Armor was clearly of an extremely high energy level.
The Changqu Cruiser encountered only a few Void beasts with energy levels in the hundreds. After killing them, it smoothly arrived at the coordinate area.
The target was located within a crater on that dead planet.
At first glance, Qingyang saw the dark-purple crystal, roughly five meters in size, as well as... an egg?
Without hesitation, the tractor beam collected both items into storage.
"Wait, could that be a Saint You Great Armor egg?" Qingyang suddenly thought of something, and his heart jolted.
He looked toward the exploration matrix and relaxed upon finding that the light dot representing the Saint You Great Armor showed no reaction.
If the Saint You Great Armor chased him down desperately, he definitely would not be able to escape.
After confirming that nothing had been left behind, the three warships once again silently departed the rift region.
It was not that he did not want to help. A Void Rift was not something he could touch yet.
At the very least, a T7 Fleet was needed to barely participate.
Still, his hometown was near Charka Star Lake. Would it really be all right?
Guxing seemed to see what Qingyang was thinking and smiled. "The Alliance is far stronger than you imagine. Forget a juvenile—even if a Saint You Great Armor at its peak appeared, any major nation could handle it alone.
"The news here has already spread. At most three days from now, that Great Armor will become material for some laboratory."
As someone born in a powerful nation, Guxing had the most authority to speak on the matter.
Only then did Qingyang feel at ease and return to the lounge.
"Star of Truth, submit the bounty mission!"
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