Over a hundred warships had been blasted into space junk in this region, and the Eternal Fleet finally entered the sight of the four civilizations' generals.
The massive Meatball writhed as the Meatball general was the first to turn its gaze toward the Metal Worm flagship.
Only those guys would build warships so gaudily!
Unexpectedly, the Metal Worm flagship also sent out a signal of confusion, leaving the civilizations watching the Metal Worms equally stunned.
"Never mind. They aren't our warships anyway. Attack them directly!"
At the same time, the four generals of their respective races gave the order to attack.
Hundreds of warships immediately broke away from the Main Battlefield and charged toward the Eternal Fleet's position!
Missile satellites in the orbit of nearby planets activated one after another, launching countless missiles at the Eternal Fleet as it fired in every direction.
Qingyang merely glanced at them without any concern.
Even high-yield nuclear bombs could not shatter the Joint Shield now, unless their explosive force could be compressed into a single beam.
Then there might be a chance.
As for near-light speed missiles such as antimatter and dark matter missiles, a mere Level 3 Civilization could not possibly possess them.
Rumble!
When the sluggish missiles came within less than five hundred kilometers of the warships, the defensive weapons of all five vessels activated, firing hundreds of beams.
The dense missiles were intercepted midway. Not a single one broke through the defensive weapons' web of fire.
The Huiyue Type Battleship was the first to burst through the shockwave, its standard main cannon completing its charge in an instant.
It locked directly onto the enemy warships rapidly approaching from ahead!
As long as it was not surrounded, the Eternal Fleet was invincible on the battlefield given the vast disparity in combat strength.
Bzzzt—
A blinding Energy Torrent poured forth, ultimately condensing into a beam of light that seemed almost solid as it crossed dozens of light-seconds in the span of a breath.
It struck the fastest warship head-on. Its shield did not even have time to react before the entire vessel exploded.
Then, the beam actually swept sideways, turning twenty or thirty warships along its arcing trajectory into interstellar fireworks.
The main cannons of the four cruisers activated in succession. For a time, almost no warship could approach the Eternal Fleet's area.
Enemy ship cannons occasionally struck the Eternal Fleet, but aside from creating ripples across the shields, they had no effect whatsoever.
Even the enemy ships' attacks could not keep up with the Joint Shield's recovery rate per second.
Qingyang noticed the movements of the Four Civilizations' warships across the battlefield, and his expression gradually turned grave.
The Eternal Fleet was fine for now, but if it came under concentrated fire from several thousand warships of the Four Civilizations, that might not be the case.
After all, a Level 3 Civilization had entered the interstellar age. Basic energy weapons and shield technology had already emerged.
A shield's defense rating was leagues beyond that of armor.
If they were the seven- or eight-hundred-meter shieldless warships of a Level 2 Civilization, tossing out a strong interaction detector could pierce through three thousand of them in a row.
"Prepare for guerrilla tactics. Lock onto the enemy command positions as soon as possible!" Qingyang ordered.
It was not that the four civilizations' flagships had particularly powerful stealth technology. Rather, there were over a hundred flagship-class warships, scattered across different areas of the battlefield.
Besides, the command center was not necessarily on a flagship. It might even be underground on some planet.
The five warships immediately accelerated out of the area, entering Near-light Speed Travel in the blink of an eye.
When they appeared again, they had already reached another combat zone.
The instant the fleet appeared, dozens of massive, cumbersome steel warships nearby slowly turned around.
They directly aimed their broadsides at the Eternal Fleet to unleash their greatest possible firepower.
A barrage of red beams slammed into the five warships, with the Huiyue Type Battleship taking the brunt of it.
The next moment, the operators aboard nearby warships felt despair.
The shields of the five warships merely flickered faintly, completely blocking every cannon blast.
Qingyang could not help but smile. "You need to turn a warship sideways to guarantee maximum firepower. A Level 3 Civilization should have the ability to develop Orbital Ship Cannons, right?"
Bellia continued recording without looking up. "Civilizations in the Dimensional World are clearly weaker than civilizations of the same level in the main universe. Their resource types are not as abundant, and many technologies cannot be perfected."
Whoosh!
The massive ship cannons fired continuously, with innumerable beams blanketing the Eternal Fleet.
Yet the vessels merely slid sideways a short distance, easily evading many of the attacks.
Their powerful main and secondary cannons returned fire at the same time, and explosions flared up once more.
By then, the generals of the Four Civilizations had made a guess. These inexplicably powerful warships before them were most likely not from the Four Civilizations.
"An outside civilization, or a lost civilization?"
"Find a way to surround and kill them. Perhaps the chance for ascension lies with them!"
"Report this to those above."
"Cease fire for now. Gather the fleets and surround that area."
The previously fierce melee between warships gradually subsided, and the fleets rapidly converged on the Eternal Fleet's area.
"Oh? They finally caught on." Qingyang's eyes flashed as a plan formed in his mind.
The Eternal Fleet immediately left the battlefield and headed toward other areas.
Every time it reached a new area, the nearby warships of every race were cleanly and decisively destroyed.
After circling back and forth more than ten times, the Four Great Civilizations finally stopped their futile attempts at encirclement.
Instead, they gathered their fleets and watched the Eternal Fleet's movements closely.
Facing several thousand warships gathered in one area, the Eternal Fleet could not find an opportunity to strike for the moment.
If more than half the attacks from nearly a thousand enemy ships landed at once, the Joint Shield would suffer severe damage.
"Damn it! Just five warships, yet they're this powerful. They must be an outside civilization!"
The enormous Meatball waved its tentacles excitedly.
The Octopus Person was even more frenzied. "If we can obtain the technology on those ships, all our civilizations can ascend."
"What do we do now? Even if we join forces, we clearly can't deal with those five damned warships."
"Wait. Let's see what those above say," the Plant Life said slowly.
Inside the Radiant Moon Ship's control room.
Everyone around them looked toward Qingyang, curious about what he would do next.
In Guxing's view, they should have attacked one civilization's home planet. The Huiyue's main cannon could completely plow through the entire surface.
The Penetration Type ship cannons could bombard the underground facilities.
That would be enough to eliminate most of a civilization's upper echelon.
Of course, Qingyang was the commander. Guxing would not disrupt Qingyang's train of thought in this regard.
For now, Qingyang seemed to have his own plan.
A moment later, as the atmosphere on the battlefield grew increasingly oppressive.
Qingyang silently activated the language translation program and sent an open communication to the fleets of the Four Great Civilizations.
The general meaning was that the Eternal Fleet was a warship squadron from an advanced civilization. They had come this time to find a Production World and have its civilizations produce raw materials for them.
As compensation, they would reward the production civilizations and ensure they could achieve so-called ascension and continuation.
If they refused, the Eternal Fleet alone could still severely damage the four civilizations.
To ensure the other side considered the proposal seriously, Qingyang also included an energy optimization technology.
It could increase the Four Great Civilizations' energy utilization rate by a full 25%, greatly easing their resource pressure.
This was a technology casually drafted by the fleet's research team.
After all, they were only Level 3 Civilizations. Any child from the alliance would be an advanced researcher here.
Naturally, Qingyang had no intention of truly supporting these four civilizations. Not only would the results come slowly, it would also be detrimental to the first Dimensional World evaluation.
But it was not entirely nonsense. At the very least, the alliance truly had quite a few Production Worlds.
After the message was sent, the four civilizations did not respond immediately.
The upper echelons of the Four Great Civilizations fell into chaos, even convening a civilization conference that had not been held in a long time.
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