Back on Track

All races in the Star Sea Alliance who follow the Zerg Wars know that the Zerg possess Megastructure. Most believe that these structures have some unknown and ingenious uses.

Conrads then witnessed their effects, or rather, one of their effects.

The two Megastructure, stretching over two thousand kilometers in length, were densely covered with main gun turrets of uniform length, providing the Zerg with powerful long-range firepower. The two Megastructure were like two satellite-level solid-state defense facilities for the Zerg, making them exceptionally ferocious.

While the two Megastructure are powerful enough to play a crucial role in a smaller-scale war, their impact on the current super battlefield, where both sides have deployed nearly eight billion troops, is negligible, far less significant than that of Puffer Cannon Fish.

Conrads felt that the Zerg Megastructure had more to do than just this, but the current situation didn't allow him time to think about it carefully. In fact, these Megastructure weren't as complicated as the Alliance thought.

Its early role, as the Alliance saw it, was simply a long-range delivery platform to enhance the Swarm and deploy troops.

Later, their usefulness diminished, but Rowan still habitually built two Megastructure in the newly conquered star systems. This was because if these Megastructure weren't in a hurry to be used, the main cost was time. As long as the initial Seed were invested, they would slowly mature, not at all like the huge price the Alliance had speculated.

Later, Rowan developed the Warp Skill, using the Megastructure to draw upon stellar energy to weaken the barriers of the universe, allowing his own entity to perform more operations. Simultaneously, the energy fluctuations during the self-destruction of the Megastructure could effectively conceal everything. Therefore, at that time, the Megastructure took on a new role.

Now, after several decades, Rowan, who is able to continuously open branch bases, has grown at a rate far exceeding that of the first few hundred years after his awakening, and the Megastructure have also gained new channels for advancement.

Besides the Puffer Cannon Fish and the Zerg Megastructure, there are tens of thousands of Desolate Class Mothership on the battlefield. These Motherships are like miniature versions of the Megastructure, and their normal role is as mobile long-range delivery platforms. However, in defensive battles, based on Creep templates, they can also set up hundreds of main cannons, providing firepower far more ferocious than the Puffer Cannon Fish.

However, their limited numbers mean that their overall impact is still less than that of Puffer Cannon Fish; they can only add icing on the cake in the battle, but cannot play a decisive role.

It was these random, miscellaneous things that greatly enhanced the Zerg's ranged firepower, leaving the allied Coalition Army somewhat bewildered. After several rounds of exchanges of fire, the Zerg gained a significant advantage.

Conrads' face twitched, and his expression turned somewhat unpleasant, but only somewhat unpleasant, far from being on the verge of losing his temper. The reason for this was that Conrads knew he had another card to play.

This card represents the seemingly cumbersome Outer-Ring Civilizations fleets from before. Conrads is now somewhat glad he brought them along. He didn't bring them with him in the first place because he anticipated this situation; he simply wanted to provide some support for the other Mid-Ring Civilizations.

As planned, after forcing the Zerg to activate the Stellar Bomb and the Coalition Army to begin their withdrawal, the Outer-Ring Civilizations would block the Mid-Ring Civilizations. Even if they had discussed this beforehand, it would inevitably cause some chaos and losses of troops. This was punishment for their secret collusion and slander of the Lashudia Clan.

Who would have thought that the Coalition Army wouldn't even have completed the first step of forcing the Zerg to activate the Stellar Bomb before needing these very troops, who were originally there to create chaos, to come and provide support?

As expected, once the fleets of those Outer-Ring Civilizations entered the battlefield, the tide of battle quickly turned, just as Conrads had predicted.

The Outer-Ring Civilizations's main cannon, powered by Controlled Fusion energy system, needs to hit several times to take down an Ancient Class. Therefore, while their firepower support isn't ineffective, it certainly doesn't play a crucial role.

However, because the Outer-Ring Civilizations have a shorter firing range than the Mid-Ring Civilizations, they have to push their forces forward to engage the Zerg. This gradually led to a situation where the Outer-Ring Civilizations fleet was in front, and the Mid-Ring Civilizations fleet was behind.

Although the Outer-Ring Civilizations's technology was somewhat backward, its warships were quite large. With them blocking the way, and with the Unmanned Fighter filling in the gaps, they created a very good firing environment for the Mid-Ring Civilizations's fleet behind them.

The warships of the Mid-Ring Civilizations no longer need to divert energy to frequently activate their auxiliary thrusters to maneuver and reposition. This not only allows them to unleash their full firepower, but also, due to the stable output environment, significantly increases their rate of fire and improves their accuracy.

"Phew!" Seeing that the battle situation had stabilized, Conrads breathed a sigh of relief. The Zerg's barrage of firepower had indeed given him a headache and caused considerable losses to the Coalition Army.

Even with billions of troops engaged in high-intensity combat, it would take at least several months, or even more than a year, to completely determine a victor.

Although the distance to the Outer-Ring Civilizations caused a slight delay, the entire process took less than half a month. Fortunately, he could still bear this loss.

Although there has been a slight hiccup, the battle is back on track. As long as the fighting continues in a methodical manner, victory will belong to the Coalition Army. As for how many Outer-Ring Civilizations acting as meat shields, will suffer losses, that is not something he needs to consider.

Because the Zerg have all switched to the Dark Energy system, the energy beams fired from their main cannons are all dark gray, a color that is very inconspicuous in the void.

On the Coalition Army side, all the Outer-Ring Civilizations still use relatively backward Controlled Fusion systems. Some of the Mid-Ring Civilizations have not even completed the full upgrade, and some of their warships also use Controlled Fusion systems.

From afar, the Coalition Army forces were unleashing a barrage of red energy beams that rained down on the Zerg, while the Zerg appeared completely silent, as if they were being passively attacked.

In reality, the warships of those Outer-Ring Civilizations were being destroyed one after another. Even though they were large and had very thick armor, they could not withstand the bombardment of Dark Energy Shell.

However, the Zerg also suffered significant losses. Conrads had just changed his strategy, ordering the fleet to switch from a previously dispersed and evenly distributed firepower coverage to a concentrated barrage of fire.

This ensures that some Zerg units will not be attacked at all, but at the cost of another group of units suffering double the damage.

The denser firepower shut down the previously ample space for dodging, rendering maneuvering and kiting useless. Although this change reduced the Zerg units attacked, their casualties increased dramatically.