"Was this the legendary... true iron head technique?"
Aboard the Fallen Angel, Nie Yun stared in shock at the astonishing scene on the screen.
The Locke Conglomerate fleet, which had been so arrogant and domineering moments ago, had mysteriously lost more than half its ships in just a few minutes, after a dozen or so passes by the mysterious craft.
The remaining ships scattered in panic, hoping a loose formation would reduce the mysterious object's killing efficiency. But how far could they flee in just a few minutes?
"The image is ready!" Catherine brought up an image enlarged and processed by the AI Core.
Because of the distance and the object's tremendous speed, they could only reconstruct its appearance through optical image stitching, so the picture was not particularly clear.
Still, they could just make out a strange spherical celestial body, dark in color and seemingly made entirely of metal, with sharp spikes protruding from its surface.
To put it in visual terms... it looked a lot like a spiked flail?
"That thing's speed... seems to be dropping?" Nie Yun fixed his eyes on the simulated trajectory of the mysterious flying object and immediately spotted something unusual.
Compared with its original speed, this secret weapon of the Twin Stars had slowed by nearly a tenth.
"Conservation of kinetic energy..." Nie Yun immediately realized what was happening.
Although he did not know why that thing could ignore inertia and change direction instantaneously, it apparently still lost energy through collisions.
Compared with its enormous bulk, the mass of the Locke Conglomerate's ships was negligible. But those tiny losses added up. The more enemies it destroyed, the more kinetic energy it lost, and its speed naturally dropped along with it.
A speed of nearly 270,000 kilometers per second was still terrifying, but this