The Falling Star Sky Spear Strike

Was the Angel Civilization pitiful?

Was the Angel Civilization weak?

Keisha thought seriously about these two questions.

When she realized, on a technological level, that the gap between the Angel Civilization and this "Final Defense Protocol" was as vast as a chasm, it completely overturned everything she had previously believed.

She had no choice but to face that gap.

At the same time, she realized that if this "Final Defense Protocol" could monitor the entire Angel Civilization so easily,

couldn't it also shield the angels from the invasion of the Human Federation?

After all, that civilization had already declared war on the Angel Nebula.

If the "Final Defense Protocol" could do that, then it wouldn't be unreasonable for the angels to submit to its oversight protocol.

After all, in a sense, this would be a reasonable way to protect the Angel Civilization, while also allowing them to obtain many technologies from the "Final Defense Protocol" that they might not develop even after thousands or tens of thousands of years.

In the eyes of the "Final Defense Protocol," the angels were not only a weak and pitiful civilization, but also a rare species on the brink of extinction!

The database showed that this species had a population of only a mere million, and every one of them was a female angel.

Not only were they endangered, but their entire species had also undergone a form of cultural castration. In their own words, they called it "abstinence," which had left their birth rate almost as low as if they had all been sterilized.

And this endangered species was actually an interstellar species?

The "Final Defense Protocol" searched its entire database but couldn't find any similar cases.

Yet after accessing the databases of the Sacred Knowledge Treasury and the Sky-based Computing Cluster, the "Final Defense Protocol"'s reasoning matrix determined that even without detecting any "Purification Protocol" signals in this universe, this species still needed to be saved!

What a bunch of organic lifeforms intent on bringing about their own extinction.

From the perspective of the collective interstellar species as defined by the "Final Defense Protocol,"

with a population of only a million, these angels couldn't even fill a single planet, let alone survive in the vast expanse of space amid the threats posed by other species and crises.

The first problem to solve was the angels' population.

Their Super Genes were easy to decode, and they could reproduce with other lifeforms of the God River Body type that they considered ordinary. This meant that even without male angels, the "Final Defense Protocol" had a way to rapidly increase their population.

But before that, the "Final Defense Protocol" had to deal with some unfriendly "invaders."

The "Final Defense Protocol"'s main base encompassed dozens of Star Systems. These Star Systems had been brought to this universe by some kind of Anomalous Spacetime Effect, as if by divine intervention.

Because they were relatively close to the Angel Nebula, the "Final Defense Protocol" had immediately designated these Star Systems, along with the entire Angel Nebula, as its territory.

But a Sky Burning Divine Weapon from the Human Federation had arrived at the Angel Nebula at an inopportune time.

The unmanned fleet under the "Final Defense Protocol" had engaged it in a bloody conflict.

This Sky Burning Divine Weapon had come with the goal of wiping out the Angel Civilization and extinguishing every star in the Angel Nebula.

Naturally, the "Final Defense Protocol" couldn't let it have its way.

It had detected the awakening of the "Purification Protocol" in this universe. The purpose of the "Final Defense Protocol" was to completely destroy the "Purification Protocol" and protect those fragile organic lifeforms.

Yet this warship from the Human Federation disregarded the lives of its fellow organic beings so completely that it had crossed tens of millions of light-years to destroy them.

In the "Final Defense Protocol"'s thought directives, this was an extreme act that would hinder the fight against the "Purification Protocol."

Therefore, upon encountering the ship, the "Final Defense Protocol" immediately sent it a clear warning, hoping to avert war.

The Federation's Sky Burning Divine Weapon might have paid no attention to a warning from a civilization like the Angel Civilization. After all, that civilization was just food on the table.

But the crew aboard the Sky Burning Divine Weapon still took the "Final Defense Protocol"'s warning somewhat seriously.

After all, the other civilization's strength was still unknown, and they couldn't yet determine whether it belonged on the menu.

But the mission handed down by the Strategic Command Center could not be disobeyed. So the Sky Burning Divine Weapon Zhurong sent an ultimatum in response to the other side's warning.

It demanded that the "Final Defense Protocol" hand over the Angel Civilization and withdraw from the Angel Nebula.

"Organics, your trespass cannot be tolerated. Please withdraw of your own accord..." The image of the communications subunit dispatched by the "Final Defense Protocol" shimmered into view inside the ship, glowing a deep blue.

"Machine, your demands cannot be met. Comply with our ultimatum immediately, or the Federation will carry out the 'Destruction Protocol' against your core!" Zhurong's captain replied without a trace of courtesy.

The other side's subunit hesitated, then gave a formulaic response:

"The activation of the war procedure is now inevitable. Organics, your limited minds cannot understand the meaning of this war. But soon, you will..."

Boom!

Before the other side's diplomatic unit could react, Zhurong launched a preemptive attack on the enemy fleet.

The other side's unmanned vanguard fleet—composed of one Titan flagship, thirty battlecruisers, and over a hundred Firepower Ships of various types—was completely wiped out by a single concentrated volley from Zhurong.

Then Zhurong clashed in a bloody battle with the reinforcements sent by the "Final Defense Protocol."

One ship against a thousand, Zhurong withstood a dense barrage of fire and detonated the Angel Nebula's Nineteenth Star Sector, which had originally belonged to the Angel Civilization.

A terrifying supernova explosion, combined with the spatial chain reaction triggered by the extraction of vast quantities of Dark Matter, annihilated every enemy ship in the Star System.

Just as they were about to head to the next Star System and continue the fight, they received a new order from the Strategic Command Center: return to the Milky Way immediately.

With no other choice, Zhurong activated its Psionic Jump Engine and fled the Angel Nebula at maximum speed.

"War protocol formally activated. War facilities in full production..."

"Target enemy ship detected withdrawing from the Angel Nebula—"

"A powerful energy source detected within the territory designated by the anchor 'Final Defense Protocol'... Central Processor operational, calculating..."

"An interstellar strike detected incoming. Defense protocol, 'Emergency Response Measures' activating, activating..."

"'Tianshu Sacred Shield' facility not detected. Unable to defend..."

Boom!

Within the Angel Nebula, dozens of Star Systems were annihilated simultaneously.

These Star Systems were struck by beams of superluminal firepower. The terrifying superluminal torrents destroyed the stars in an instant.

The stars collapsed, and the celestial bodies shattered into fragments.

The entire Star System fell into absolute silence!