"Kill! Kill! Kill!" Not only did Port Madoc's soldiers not collapse, but Joseph's roar instead stirred their resolve to die. They charged forward without hesitation.
The battleship captains took the initiative to move their ships to the front, using their energy shields—far stronger than those of cruisers and destroyers—as the front-line barrier. The shield escort ships joined forces to raise layer upon layer of shields, while every warship threw its engines into full power!
One minute later, the Zerg main cannons unleashed another barrage. One hundred and fifty green beams destroyed every shield on the front-line battleships in a single strike. Though they had no shields left to use, everyone still erupted in cheers, because the Hive Battleships had finally entered their firing range!
"Fire! Blast them! Blast them to death!"
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..." Hundreds of beams shot toward the Hive Battleships like arrows. Though Port Madoc lacked the Zerg's coordinated hive combat capabilities, they could still manually coordinate concentrated fire. Every warship focused on the Hive Battleships at the very edge of their range. Each of the fifty Hive Battleships endured more than ten main-cannon strikes!
The instant Port Madoc's main cannons lit up, the Energy-Devouring Locusts aboard the fifty Hive Battleships surged like mad. Those fifty warships were like a desert, while the Energy-Devouring Locusts were a sandstorm swept up by a hurricane. Tens of millions of Energy-Devouring Locusts formed a flat shield in the blink of an eye. When the enemy's main cannons struck that shield, the entire barrier immediately lit up from the point of impact. Then, like ripples spreading outward—or signals traveling through a nervous system—the front-row Energy-Devouring Locusts passed the energy they could not consume to those behind them, and the locusts in the rear absorbed their fill before passing it on further...
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