When the light of destruction came at the speed of light, death had already arrived by the time you saw it with the naked eye.
The Delta Ray itself was invisible, but its high-energy radiation excited the cosmic dust along its path, making it glow and allowing the attack's trajectory to be seen with the naked eye.
Sky blue-that was the Delta Ray's distinctive luminescent effect. Dreamlike, yet deadly!
Boom! A colossal beam hundreds of kilometers across descended from the heavens and struck the Pirate Left Wing in an instant.
The first to meet the attack were a dozen or so ships lagging at the rear, unable to dodge in time.
Their Shields, operating at full power, lasted less than two seconds before shattering. Starting with the engines at the stern, their hulls instantly vaporized, evaporated, and vanished without a trace. The pirates aboard saw only a blazing blue light, as though they had been submerged in a blue ocean.
Then... there was no then.
Everyone's clothes, skin, blood, and bones were pierced by countless high-energy particles. In the next instant, they were reduced to nothing...
Nearly a thousand pirate ships lay within the attack radius. Those that had tried to escape outward but failed to get far enough were erased from existence in barely a breath, becoming the first casualties.
Only the main force huddled together in the central cluster was still struggling to survive.
This terrifying ray of destruction, which had consumed almost an entire year's energy output from the Rock System, peeled away the ships that were too slow and fell behind, reducing them to ash layer by layer like an onion.
Simple and brutal-it crushed everything through sheer, overwhelming firepower!
All were equal before the gun!
The terrifying attack lasted a full minute, sweeping hundreds of