Once its attack strength had been reduced to less than one percent, it finally managed to chip away at the Dark Peng's Shield Durability.
But the shield recovered at a rate of over 13,000 points per second!
The battle had barely begun.
The Remnant Star Empire's fleet soon realized in despair that
even though they outnumbered their opponent a hundred thousand to one,
in a head-on fight,
their firepower was utterly incapable of harming the Dark Peng!
Their futile bombardment continued for over half an hour.
The Remnant Star Empire's fleet hadn't fallen apart
because the Dark Peng's retaliatory firepower had been out of proportion to its defensive capabilities from the very beginning.
One crimson death ray after another
could sink a Remnant Star Empire warship in just a few minutes.
But that rate of destruction
was practically negligible against a fleet of over a hundred thousand Remnant Star Empire warships.
The Remnant Star Empire's fleet knew perfectly well
that the Dark Peng had even more powerful weapons.
For instance, the cyan pillar of light that had just sunk the Remnant Star Empire's deep-space carrier.
Even so,
with the Capital Star System behind them, home to nearly fifty percent of the Remnant Star Empire's population and over eighty percent of its elite,
they couldn't simply give up!
And that hesitation
sealed their fate.
Half an hour later,
the Four Symbols Origin Crystal, having finished cooling down and recharging,
told them what their pointless resistance meant.
This time,
Shi Zunhou truly unleashed the Four Symbols Origin Crystal's full capabilities!
Including its attack range!
During the previous two shots,
the Dark Peng had kept the Four Symbols Origin Crystal's attack range firmly under control.
That strategy had successfully misled the Remnant Star Empire.
When the Four Symbols Origin Crystal's maximum effective range