It was an escort ship. After a saturation attack shattered its shields and tore through its hull, it became a ball of fire.
Before long, the ship was resurrected by the power of time, a divine gift bestowed by the Emperor.
But it was meaningless. It faced enemy ships that outnumbered it a hundred or even a thousand to one, and feared no death. Just ten minutes after its resurrection, the escort ship was destroyed again.
This time, it was not resurrected.
The battle continued. One colony escort ship after another was destroyed. Then, in the fifth hour of the battle, the first battlecruiser went down, and the war officially reached its climax.
By then, the five fleets serving as test subjects had been surrounded by the NPC Fleet's Titans. Warship groups hundreds or thousands of times their size had blocked every possible escape route, leaving the Imperial warships no choice but to fight to the death as waves of enemy ships swarmed in and destroyed them one by one.
By the twenty-second hour of the battle, a Planetary Titan Fleet of one hundred thousand ships had been driven to the brink of defeat by the NPC Fleet's relentless assault. Only a hundred or so warships remained to guard its flagship.
The outcome was all but decided. Yet the Golden God, who had been silently watching the brutal battlefield, saw a glimmer of light in his eyes. A brilliant radiance suddenly burst from the colony fleet under siege, centered on the Titan flagship. This invisible force spread outward, and time throughout the entire area immediately
rewound. Enemy and ally alike, shattered metal wreckage swiftly reassembled into warships, and the newly formed ships rapidly retreated through time until they returned to where they had been before the battle began.
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