Events unfolded exactly as Wang Dong and the others had predicted.
A few minutes later, just as the Cthulhu Beast was about to break through the Sky Peng Horizontal's armor integrity layer,
the Black Hole Cruiser's first Overload Restart arrived right on schedule!
That pale golden halo lit up once more, enveloping the Sky Peng Horizontal!
Nearly sixty million durability, together with the damage reduced to just over fifty thousand per second, gave everyone enough confidence.
This time, the Black Hole Cruiser was fully prepared. There was no way the Cthulhu Beast could defeat it in a mere five or six minutes as it had before.
It could hold out for at least ten minutes.
And that would be enough time for the Sky Peng Horizontal's armor integrity layer, which had been on the verge of collapse, to recover to full strength!
This was the formidable advantage of a Kindling Warship after its Defense System had been fully integrated.
As long as it wasn't taken out in one fell swoop,
a Kindling Warship of Star Destroyer class or higher could make the vast majority of opponents break down in a prolonged battle!
However, Wang Dong and the others knew that they were still far from being able to rest easy.
Once the Cthulhu Beast's damage output exceeded the Sky Peng Horizontal's recovery rate, it was only a matter of time before the Black Hole Cruiser collapsed again.
And as the number of times the energy shield Overload Restarted increased, the Buffer Time required for each restart would also multiply.
If the Black Hole Cruiser were defeated a second time in short order, the second Overload Restart would take twenty minutes.
The third would take thirty minutes, and so on.
As long as the Cthulhu Beast could maintain this level of