Global Crossing: Empire of Stars - Volume 747

"Understood." Link immediately ordered the fleet to assemble, and the atmosphere in the command center grew tense once more.

The fleet remained on alert as it made the jump toward the galactic core. Two weeks later, when it was only a little over a hundred light-years from the core, the Imperial Fleet jolted violently in the middle of its jump and rapidly fell back into the Three-dimensional Universe.

"Hyperspace Blocking Force Field!" Link blurted. A screen of psionic light quickly took shape, wrapping around the entire fleet.

It was a Resonant Psionic Barrier, formed by combining the Energy Shields of the entire fleet into a super shield that was nearly impossible to break.

Link's reaction had been remarkably quick. A mere dozen seconds after the Resonant Barrier formed, a Black Hole Bomb slammed into it and exploded with a deafening roar.

A point of mass appeared for an instant, then evaporated in a flash. But in that fleeting moment, the supposedly indestructible barrier had already suffered severe damage. Its once-brilliant light dimmed, like a candle about to go out.

The turn of events left the officers in the command center in a cold sweat. If the fleet had been caught completely off guard by the Black Hole Bombs, this first attack would have inflicted devastating losses.

Lin Zhichen lowered his hand. In that brief instant, a total of three Black Hole Bombs had come their way. He had opened rifts in spacetime and sent two of them to the void several light-seconds away. Apart from stirring up waves of Gravitational Waves, they had caused no damage.

The barrier shield rapidly recovered, while the Star Spirits opened their psionic vision, trying to find the enemy amid the information fed back by the fleet.

Lin Zhichen shook his head. "Ake, stay behind.