Scheme to Annihilate the High Echelons of Four Civilizations

Over a hundred warships in this region were blasted into space debris, and the Eternal Fleet finally entered the field of view of the four civilization commanders.

The massive meatball squirmed, and the meatball commander was the first to look towards the Metal Worm's flagship.

Only those guys would build their ships so flashy and gaudy!

Unexpectedly, the Metal Worm's flagship also sent out a puzzled signal, and the other three civilizations watching the Metal Worm were all taken aback.

"Forget it, they're not our ships anyway. Attack directly!"

At the same time, the four commanders from each race gave the order to strike.

Hundreds of warships immediately broke away from the main battlefield and charged towards the region where the Eternal Fleet was located!

Missile satellites on nearby planetary orbits activated, and a torrent of missiles rained down on the Eternal Fleet, which was firing in all directions.

Qingyang glanced over, completely unconcerned.

Even a large-yield nuclear bomb couldn't shatter the current joint shield, unless its explosive force was compressed into a single beam.

That might have a sliver of a chance.

As for near-light speed missiles like antimatter or dark matter ones, a mere Level 3 Civilization couldn't possibly possess them.

Boom!

The slow-moving missiles had barely closed to within five hundred kilometers of the ships when the defensive weapons on all five vessels activated, emitting hundreds of beams.

The dense missile swarm was intercepted mid-course; not a single one broke through the defensive fire net.

The Huiyue Type Battleship was the first to burst out of the explosion wave, its standard main cannon fully charged in an instant.

It locked straight onto the enemy warships rapidly approaching ahead!

As long as it wasn't surrounded, the Eternal Fleet was an invincible presence on the battlefield when the power gap was this vast.

Hum~

A blinding torrent of energy erupted, condensing into a solid-seeming pillar of light that crossed tens of light-seconds in a single breath.

It struck the fastest enemy warship head-on; its shield didn't even have time to react, and the entire vessel exploded in a blaze.

Then the beam began to sweep sideways, turning two or three dozen ships along its arc into interstellar fireworks.

The main cannons of the four cruisers activated in succession, and for a time, almost no enemy ship could approach the Eternal Fleet's region.

Occasionally, enemy warship fire hit the Eternal Fleet, but it only sent ripples across the shield, with no effect whatsoever.

In fact, the enemy's attacks couldn't even keep up with the fleet's joint shield's total recovery per second.

Qingyang noticed the movements of the four civilizations' warships on the battlefield, and his expression gradually turned serious.

For now, the Eternal Fleet was fine, but if the four civilizations' thousands of ships all focused their fire and surrounded them, that was another story.

A Level 3 Civilization had already entered the interstellar stage, with basic energy weapons and shield technology appearing.

The shield's defense coefficient left armor in the dust by several orders of magnitude.

If it were a Level 2 Civilization with those seven-to-eight-hundred-meter unshielded ships, tossing out a strong interaction force probe could pierce through three thousand of them in a row.

"Prepare for hit-and-run tactics. Locate the enemy command positions as soon as possible!" Qingyang ordered.

It wasn't that the four civilizations' flagship stealth tech was impressive, but that there were over a hundred ships of the flagship class, scattered across different areas of the battlefield.

Besides, the commander might not be on a flagship—could be underground on some planet, for all they knew.

The five ships immediately accelerated out of this region, entering near-light speed travel in the blink of an eye.

When they reappeared, they had arrived at another combat zone.

The moment the fleet appeared, dozens of nearby massive, clumsy steel warships began slowly turning.

They angled their broadsides directly at the Eternal Fleet to maximize firepower.

A torrent of red beams slammed into the five ships, with the Huiyue Type Battleship bearing the brunt.

The next moment, the operators on the nearby enemy ships felt a pang of despair.

The shields on the five ships only flickered slightly, completely absorbing all the bombardment.

Qingyang couldn't help but smirk. "Needing to turn broadside for maximum firepower—does a Level 3 Civilization have the capability to develop orbital ship cannons?"

Bellia kept recording without looking up. "Civilizations of the same level in the Dimensional World are clearly weaker than those in the main universe. Their resource types aren't as abundant, and many technologies can't be perfected."

Whoosh!

The massive ship cannons kept firing, and a flood of beams rained down on the Eternal Fleet.

Yet each ship merely sidestepped a short distance, easily dodging many of the attacks.

The powerful main and secondary cannons returned fire simultaneously, and explosions flared up once more.

At this moment, the commanders of the four civilizations had already guessed that these inexplicably powerful ships likely didn't belong to any of them.

"An external civilization or a lost one?"

"Find a way to surround and kill them. Maybe the chance for ascension lies with them!"

"Report this to the higher-ups."

"Cease fire for now. Assemble the fleet to surround that area."

The fierce ship-to-ship melee gradually subsided as vessels rapidly converged on the Eternal Fleet's position.

"Oh, they've caught on." Qingyang's eyes flickered as a plan formed in his mind.

The Eternal Fleet immediately disengaged from the battlefield and veered toward other sectors.

Wherever they went, nearby ships from various races were cleanly and decisively obliterated.

After circling more than a dozen times, the Four Great Civilizations finally abandoned their futile encirclement.

Instead, they regrouped their fleets and locked onto the Eternal Fleet's movements.

With thousands of warships massed in one area, the Eternal Fleet found no opening to strike.

If nearly a thousand enemy ships landed most of their attacks simultaneously, the Joint Shield would suffer heavy damage.

"Damn it! Just five ships, yet so powerful—they must be from an external civilization!"

The enormous Meatball waved its tentacles in agitation.

The Octopus Person grew even more frantic. "If we could get their technology, our civilization could ascend."

"What do we do now? Even working together, we clearly can't handle those five damned ships."

"Wait. See what the higher-ups say." The Plant Life spoke slowly.

Inside the Radiant Moon Ship's control room.

Everyone turned to Qingyang, curious about the next move.

In Guxing's view, the best course would be to strike a civilization's homeworld. The Radiant Moon's main cannon could scour the entire surface clean.

Penetration-type ship cannons would bombard underground facilities.

That alone would be enough to wipe out most of a civilization's high command without issue.

Of course, Qingyang was the commander. Guxing wouldn't disrupt his thinking in this aspect of things.

For now, it seemed Qingyang had his own plan.

A moment later, as the tension on the battlefield grew stifling.

Qingyang silently activated the language translation program and sent an unencrypted communication to the Four Great Civilizations' fleets.

In essence, it stated that the Eternal Fleet was a warship squad from an advanced civilization. They had come to find a production world, where the local civilization would manufacture raw goods for them.

As compensation, they would reward the producing civilization, ensuring what they called ascension and survival.

If they refused, the Eternal Fleet alone could inflict heavy damage on all four civilizations.

To ensure they took the matter seriously, Qingyang included a piece of energy optimization technology.

It could boost the Four Great Civilizations' energy efficiency by 25%, greatly alleviating resource pressure.

This was a casual piece of tech written up by the fleet's research team.

After all, this was only a Level 3 Civilization. Any child in the Alliance would be a senior researcher here.

Of course, Qingyang had no intention of truly propping up these four civilizations. The results would be too slow, and it would hurt his first Dimensional World score.

But it wasn't entirely nonsense—the Alliance did have quite a few production worlds.

After the message was sent, the four civilizations did not respond immediately.

The high councils of the Four Great Civilizations fell into chaos, even convening a civilization-wide meeting for the first time in ages.