"Damn it! Turn the bow! Evasive maneuver, forty-five degrees to port! Get us up to maximum speed, maximum speed!!!" the captain of the cruiser targeted by the fireball roared furiously.
"Attack!" At the same time, the other warships fired several main cannons!
The gigantic fireball and blue energy beams instantly ignited a mesmerizing radiance in the dim interstellar void.
Though enormous, the fireball was no slower than the energy beams. The targeted Alvin warship had barely fled a mile before the fireball slammed viciously into its stern! The instant the fireball struck, the ship's energy shield emitters immediately surged to maximum load. A pale-blue, translucent energy shield in the shape of regular hexagonal facets appeared, enveloping the warship like a massive eggshell. To conserve energy, these shields were normally invisible, but under attack, they were fully revealed—powerful in defense and exquisitely beautiful, displaying the splendor and marvel of human ingenuity!
"Boom!!!" The fireball burst apart the moment it hit. Driven by the force of impact, endless flames scattered outward from the point of collision along the spherical energy shield. The flames spread tightly across the shield's surface, as though the fireball had opened a huge red, bloodthirsty maw in that instant, seeking to devour the energy shield along with the ship!
The facts proved that this gaping maw was not quite so formidable. Once the flames spread to the top and bottom of the energy shield, they lost their force...
Yet this sight made the cruiser captain's heart leap into his throat. Before him, the gauge recording the shield's defensive capacity had fallen from one hundred percent to five percent in the span of a breath!
Five percent! Heavens, a single strike had consumed ninety-five percent of the energy shield's energy! If that fireball had been even slightly stronger, it