"Move! Don't jump yet—break out of the poison fog domain first, then try!"
Jiang Yuan's voice exploded over the communication channel. The Divine Xia Jiuli's Jiuli ram had already collided head-on with the Two-Headed Poison Flood Dragon Emperor's fangs, scattering blinding energy sparks.
Song Chi's fingers flew across the console, and the Sky Ruins Firmament's engines let out a deafening roar.
"It'll work! The poison fog is highly corrosive, but it will still take time to break through the Mirror Battleship's outer energy shield and Hull Armor. At our speed, we can hold out long enough to escape the domain!"
"Good. I'll clear the way. Greedy Wolf, stay close behind me!"
Ying Yi's Immortal Qin Ancestral Dragon suddenly turned, and millions of secondary cannons opened fire at once, blasting open patches of clear space in the void.
As the rulers of the Kindling Civilization's four great empires, none of them were indecisive. In this emergency, they decisively accepted what was clearly the optimal solution.
After all, everyone present was merely operating warship avatars. Even if the Divine Xia Jiuli, which was staying behind to cover them, truly met with disaster, it would not amount to a parting of life and death.
Of course, even so, the price they had to pay was still considerable.
At the very least, it could never be like Song Chi's Mirror Split Image, where losing it once only meant waiting through a negligible cooldown of a little over a month.
Not everyone's flagship possessed a time-type component like the Time Chessboard, a color supreme-grade component with as much as a 90% universal cooldown reduction, along with a Bhasa Meditation Seal component possessing the "Meditation Seal · Inner · Time Acceleration" trait.
Furthermore, the Mirror Split Image itself possessed an advantage that other high-grade warship avatar