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"Warning! Protective shield energy remaining: 37%. Cracks have appeared in the outer structure!"

The alarm from the intelligent computer, Apocalypse, was shrill and ear-piercing. The red light in the cockpit had nearly dyed Hua Qiang's face blood-red.

On the shield's three-dimensional projection, the green patterns representing energy intensity were fading at waterfall speed. Within those spiderweb-like cracks, he could vaguely see the dark-purple vortex spinning inside the Spirit Devouring Beast's mouth.

"Star Annihilation Cannons, second charge! Fire at full power!" Hua Qiang's roar carried the rasp of metal scraping together.

This time, the starship did not gather its energy.

Twelve cannon barrels spewed flames at once. Twelve relatively slender yet more concentrated pillars of light spread out in a fan, like a net of death cast upon a colossal beast.

The streams of light gave off piercing howls as they tore through the void, their energy density thirty percent greater than during the first attack.

The intelligent computer was pushing the starship's Energy Core to its absolute limit. The temperature needle on the dashboard had already slammed into the dangerous red line.

The Cosmic Spirit Devouring Beast had clearly not expected its opponent to be so resolute.

It had only just drawn its foreclaws back to its chest, preparing to further strengthen its suction force, when the twelve pillars of light crashed into different parts of its body.

Two grazed its enormous eyes, stirring ripples of pale-purple energy; three struck its wrinkled neck, blasting scales away and exposing wounds deep enough to reveal bone.

The deadliest was the pillar that struck its abdomen directly. The scales there had already become loose after it had devoured planets earlier.

Now, they were torn open by a gash several kilometers long. Dark-green blood gushed out like a fountain, congealing into strings of sticky