Clearing Suspicion

Clearing Suspicion

Whoosh~~~~ A blinding beam instantly illuminated space as a colossal 500-meter-diameter shell streaked forward in a golden flash.

It hit almost the instant it was fired!

Malevolence's powerful shields were instantly shattered. The pointed end of the warship, which had previously turned broadside in preparation to fire an ion pulse, was struck by the shell's still-undiminished momentum.

The immense kinetic force shoved the entire 4,825-meter behemoth aside. As though it had been slapped across the face, its stern was knocked forward and its bow thrown backward, while the struck section of its pointed bow snapped off entirely.

Inside Malevolence, the instant it was hit, the entire warship shook as violently as if it had suffered a magnitude-ten earthquake before being violently flung sideways. Nearly everything aboard slammed into the bulkheads.

Count Dooku immediately used the Force to steady himself. Seeing Tang Xiao helplessly thrown toward the bulkhead, he raised a hand, and a gentle force caught him and lowered him slowly down.

Although the warship's Gravity Generators had activated at that very instant and absorbed most of the kinetic energy, the blow still inflicted devastating damage upon the Fang-class battleship.

Fortunately, that warship—no, that cannon—had targeted only the ship's tip rather than its engines. Otherwise, while the shell's remaining kinetic energy would not have been enough to destroy the warship outright, it could certainly have crippled it beyond repair.

The moment the ship stabilized, Tang Xiao seized Count Dooku by the collar like a madman and shouted, "You made him angry! You made him angry! He really will kill me! Damn it! He really will!!"

Count Dooku turned toward the restored communications and said slowly, "This joke has gone a little too far, Lord Archangel of Death. Others aside, Tang Xiao truly could have died just now."

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