The closer they drew to the defense star ring, the more they could feel its majestic grandeur. It was like looking at a planet from within a starship: from afar, it seemed no bigger than a glass marble, but as the distance steadily shrank, that glass marble assumed an exaggerated scale, looming proudly before them.
This was exactly how the Zerg heroes felt now. The Central Defense Star Ring's armored walls stretched both above and below like an insurmountable chasm, dividing the Alvin Star Region into two separate worlds. As the star ring grew larger, those armored walls gradually filled everyone's vision!
Suddenly, the defense star ring rumbled with the roar of machinery. The sound was immense. There was no medium through which sound could travel in space, but the vibrations generated by the machines' operation shook the surrounding space itself. The resulting tremors reached everyone's ears with perfect clarity. The sound was so deep, like muffled thunder beneath a gloomy sky, stirring their souls as though it had sounded directly within their hearts!
At last, the Ye brothers saw the changes in the wall. Every two hundred meters or so, dents appeared in the brown and black metal armor, revealing pitch-black gunports. Every five thousand meters, an enormous barrel—far longer than fifty meters—extended from within the star ring through the armor. The previously orderly armored wall was covered in countless black holes in an instant.
"First Artillery Brigade, First Squadron, First, Second, and Third Platoons! Target: Zerg Cruisers! Fire!" The two sides were still eight thousand kilometers apart. Even if the Zerg warships could use the Overlord's magnified vision to lock onto their enemies at that range, their main guns could not inflict effective damage across such a distance. Yet three red beams of energy suddenly shot from those