Human Emperor City · Western City Wall · 76th Defensive Sector
Shockwaves seemed to arrive without end, pounding viciously through the heavy composite armor and into the marrow of Li Qing, the eighth-rank Galaxy Warship captain and commander of the Dragonflame Fleet.
His flagship, the Blazing Flame Dragon—a veteran Galaxy Warship that had stood at the eighth rank for tens of thousands of years—now rocked like a small boat tossed about in a storm.
Inside the bridge, piercing alarms, the hum of energy overload, and the groans of strained structures blended together, nearly tearing apart everyone's eardrums.
"The third and fourth port-side secondary battery clusters are overloaded! Entering cooldown!"
"Energy shield integrity has fallen by over seventy percent! Repairs required immediately!"
"Over thirty percent of the warships in the third detachment's defensive zone on the right flank have sunk! Reinforcements needed at once!"
The alerts from the tactical commander and the shipboard intelligence came one after another. The commander's reports were filled with barely concealed exhaustion and hoarseness. Every report meant the loss of another portion of their combat power. Li Qing stared fixedly at the hellish scene beyond the panoramic viewport, his clenched fists turning white.
Outside, the original colors of the Chaos Void had long vanished, replaced by an endless crimson tide made up of roaring alien soldiers.
They crashed against the thick, star-wall-like light curtain of the Civilization Great Wall. Every impact sent violent ripples through the barrier.
Beyond the light curtain, energy beams, biological acid, corrosive spores, solid bone spears... all manner of lethal attacks poured down like a torrential rain, bursting into clusters of destructive radiance upon the barrier.
Even with the dual-layered seven-colored rule-protection light curtain and the multiple reinforcements of Human Emperor City's defensive shield, cracks of varying sizes still appeared from time