Vacuum Decay Weapon

The "Purification Protocol" purification center marked by the NGC 206 Star Cluster has been eliminated...

Eliminating remaining "Purification Protocol" corrupted entities... Dong dong dong!!!

"Warning! Warning! Warning!"

"Unknown information index source detected and shrouded, battlefield information lost... Initiating emergency faster-than-light escape directive..."

"Approximately thirty-four million five hundred ninety-nine thousand directives failed to launch, only six million five hundred eighty-eight directives successfully launched..."

From a macro-strategic perspective.

The star system where "Cyberlex" and the "Purification Protocol" invested millions of warships in a brutal war was just an inconspicuous star system within the Andromeda Nebula's "NGC 206 Star Cluster."

Besides the million-strong fleet in the star system where the purification center was located, tens of thousands of star systems in the surrounding regions were designated as battlefield areas.

In each star system, hundreds, thousands, or even up to a hundred thousand ships from both sides were engaged in fierce combat.

Occasionally, a cross-system strike weapon would instantly annihilate a star system, crushing all enemy and friendly warships within it. Such events were merely commonplace sights on this vast battlefield.

With the fall of the "Purification Center," all units belonging to the "Purification Protocol" within the entire star region were affected to varying degrees.

Driven by the brutal ongoing war, this impact was magnified infinitely, and the "Purification Protocol" soon began to show signs of collapse in this star region.

But it was clear that the "Purification Protocol," as the initiator of this war of extermination, would not give up so easily.

"Contact lost with 'CX-106399 Purification Center'--"

"Related backup protocols are authorized, extermination directive being launched, 'Higgs Field Reconstruction Matrix' activated..."

Boom!

An inconspicuous explosion occurred on a mechanical planet within a star system in the battlefield area.

Within this star system, only a few hundred "Cyberlex" warships were engaged in combat with the "Purification Protocol" ships stationed there.

This mechanical planet, which suddenly detonated itself, did not attract the attention of the "Cyberlex" warships' detection systems.

Or rather, they didn't have time to notice.

A massive vacuum bubble rapidly formed, centered on the mechanical planet, engulfing the entire star system.

Everywhere it passed, whether it was stars, planets, warships, or even microscopic atoms, protons, and neutrons, irreversible collapse occurred.

This collapse formed in an instant, spread out in an instant, and took effect in an instant.

All matter within the entire star system collapsed without exception.

The enemy and friendly forces that were originally engaged instantly dissipated into their most basic particles.

Everything seemed to return to silence.

But this was far from over.

The vacuum bubble continued to expand, engulfing one star system after another, and one battlefield after another was affected and fell into eternal silence.

All of this happened in a mere instant.

The expansion speed of this vacuum bubble surpassed the speed of light, surpassed the speed of cosmic expansion, and surpassed any faster-than-light technology known to the "Cyberlex."

Finally, the massive vacuum bubble, which covered a diameter of nearly a thousand light-years, disintegrated on its own due to some counteracting force.

This once grand interstellar battlefield was thus forcibly terminated.

Within a thousand light-year radius, only a void and a pile of pure, particle-level matter remained.

Not even the black hole singularity that is usually produced after a star's annihilation appeared...

Under the influence of gravity, some of the matter was slowly gathering, while other parts were attracted by nearby celestial bodies.

If left to their own devices, in tens or hundreds of millions of years, stars might naturally form in this space again.

But now, they were just pure, fundamental matter with almost no practical value.

This battlefield was terminated, but the conflict between the "Purification Protocol" and "Cyberlex" in the Andromeda Nebula had not stopped!

In other regions of the Andromeda Galaxy, countless battlefields still existed.

The end of this battlefield was merely the consumption of two small chess pieces on the board for both sides.

M32 Satellite Galaxy.

This was a satellite galaxy floating outside the Andromeda Nebula, yet very close to it.

Its diameter was only about 8,000 light-years, containing nearly 4 million stars.

At the center of the galaxy was a supermassive black hole, with a mass about 3 million times that of the Sun, slightly less than the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.

This black hole was likely once the core of a large nebula or galaxy. Its outer parts may have been stripped away during interactions with the Andromeda Galaxy, leaving only the central star region close to the black hole.

Therefore, the number of stars in the M32 galaxy was extremely dense.

This galaxy had long been declared a battlefield by the "Cyberlex" and the "Purification Protocol."

However, the "Cyberlex" had clearly gained the dominant position in this galaxy first, holding home-field advantage here.

Within a star sector of the M32 galaxy.

Several "Gray Gu Storm" fleets, led by Gray Wind's will, arrived in this galaxy via the Human Federation's "Heavenly Navigation Tower" located in the Milky Way Galaxy.

These fleets were here to assist the "Cyberlex" in combat. They were preparing to unite and expel all forces of the "Purification Protocol" from this galaxy.

Both sides intended to turn the M32 galaxy into a joint forward base for the Human Federation and the "Cyberlex."

However, before that, the "Gray Gu Storm" fleets needed to expand first.

Although the "Gray Gu Storm" fleets were powerful, their numbers were slightly insufficient compared to the two sides currently fighting in the Andromeda Nebula.

Gray Wind's nanite clusters could expand indefinitely. As long as there were sufficient resources supplied, she could even exhibit strategic capabilities of one person fighting a nation.

It was just that the resources produced by the forging worlds and celestial factories like the Matter Depressor and Matter Reconstructor that the Human Federation had established in this universe.

Apart from supplying the production of various warships and the construction of celestial engineering, there were almost no remaining resources to pour into Gray Wind.

This was not to say the Federation did not value Gray Wind's role.

It was for a reason.

Generally speaking, when Gray Wind's "Gray Gu Storm" fleets came into play, it usually meant the Federation's strategic options were nearly exhausted.

Currently, the Federation's main focus was on developing the Milky Way Galaxy, aiming to accumulate strength as quickly as possible.

After all, the Federation's foundation in this universe was still too shallow, and they couldn't afford large-scale attrition warfare yet.

The "Gray Gu Storm" fleets dispatched to the Andromeda Nebula were, to put it nicely, here to help the "Cyberlex" fight the "Purification Protocol."

To put it bluntly, Gray Wind was just here to make an appearance and lend a casual hand.

She was also here to monitor the battle situation between the two sides and see if she could gain any benefits.

Allies were allies, and war was war.

How to help allies fight this war depended on Gray Wind's performance.

To make Gray Wind perform to her corresponding level, the "Cyberlex" would have to trouble themselves to provide certain resource assistance.

Solar Flare.

Inside the massive ring-shaped world star system base.

Gray Wind's sub-individual clone was using high-strength alloys, active metals, nanomachines, and other resources provided by the "Cyberlex" to expand her own nanite clusters, while simultaneously sharing the opponent's intelligence network.

She obtained the battle situation report for the "NGC 206 Star Cluster." This was not the first time she had received similar battle reports from the "Cyberlex."

The "Purification Protocol" possessed a superweapon capable of indiscriminate strikes over a range of a thousand light-years at any given moment.

A weapon capable of carrying out "Vacuum Decay" strikes!

Currently, the "Cyberlex" had basically ascertained the principle and specific effects of this weapon and was researching countermeasures.

"...Higgs Field Reconstruction Matrix..." Gray Wind's sub-individual clone became interested and participated in the research, transmitting real-time information back to the United Star.