This Starship Is Not Ordinary
Chapter 25

Evacuation of Mar Sara

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[Commander, a massive energy source is approaching!!]

Listening to the AI adjutant's calm tone, Raynor's expression grew increasingly grave, while Tychus, who had heard it as well, took a step back.

As a mercenary who had spent his life dancing on the edge of death, he was always sensitive to danger.

At this moment, he felt an incredibly terrifying pressure radiating from the young man standing not far away.

Though Raynor was wary, he still stepped forward and asked, "Who might you be, sir..."

Feng Xiao looked at this legendary figure of the Terran sector and smiled indifferently. "Who I am doesn't matter; you only need to know that I am a human. It seems the Raiders have run into some trouble."

Considering the current situation and the abilities the young man had displayed, Raynor waved his hand to signal that there was no need to be on guard against Feng Xiao, then slung his rifle over his shoulder.

"Indeed. I didn't expect the Zerg, who had been missing for so long, to return. You aren't one of that bastard Mengsk's men, are you?"

Glancing at the Raiders, who had ceased their vigilance toward him and returned to repelling the Zerg assault, Feng Xiao couldn't help but admire them. Indeed, those who dared to play at revolution were no mediocre men.

They clearly understood that when besieged by the Zerg, one needed to utilize every available force, and they also knew that with the strength he had shown, killing them would be effortless.

Thus, they simply dropped their guard; under normal circumstances, most people would have been even more suspicious of him.

"Just call me Feng. A guy like Mengsk, whose head is filled with nothing but power, has no right to command me."

Feng Xiao turned his gaze toward the Zerg armies approaching from two directions, his tone filled with disdain.

If there was anyone in the sector he looked down upon the most, it was undoubtedly Emperor Mengsk.

He was adept at political maneuvering, but unfortunately, his grasp of the big picture was pathetic—he wasn't even as capable as his own son.

Raynor wasn't surprised. If Mengsk had such a powerful subordinate, he would have pushed him to the forefront long ago to consolidate his power; there was no way he would have kept him hidden.

"If you don't mind, Mr. Feng, would you like to come aboard my flagship for a chat later?"

Raynor said suddenly. The greatest trait of revolutionary forces was that they turned no one away, provided one's core ideology was simply hating Mengsk's rule.

Tychus was a bit bewildered. "Flagship? What flagship? Oh, Jim, how many big things have you done while I was away?"

"We'll talk if there's a chance."

Watching the Zerg forces grow in number, Raynor raised his massive rifle, closed his armor's faceplate, and opened fire once more.

Tychus watched Feng Xiao in silence for a moment before picking up his heavy machine gun and charging into the fray.

"Interesting..."

That man Mengsk was a classic case of a fierce exterior hiding a sinister heart, yet he possessed only petty cunning.

ROAR!

A pale golden halo emerged in his pupils. Feng Xiao levitated into the air, facing a section of the alloy bridge with a calm expression as his supernatural power erupted.

Divine Sense actually consumed very little mental energy; taking down that Ultralisk earlier had only cost about 2%, and his recovery speed was extremely fast.

Therefore, Feng Xiao, fighting with his own individual power for the first time, was incredibly excited. His vast Divine Sense erupted without any restraint.

The three rampaging Ultralisks were instantly suppressed. One of them seemed to be pinned down by a heavy weight, pressed flat against the bridge and unable to move.

The other two emitted cracking sounds throughout their bodies; their incredibly hard heavy armor shattered, and countless sprays of green blood erupted from the fissures.

He spread his palm toward the Ultralisks and slowly curled his fingers, causing the creatures to struggle even more violently.

"Hmph!"

Veins bulged as he clenched his hand into a fist.

Under the gaze of everyone nearby, the two Ultralisks were crushed into balls of flesh just like the previous one, and the one pinned to the ground was likewise dismantled by Feng Xiao.

Watching the ever-increasing number of common Zerg units, Feng Xiao waved his hand, causing a large amount of metallic debris to gather and be forcibly forged into spears.

Like an elegant gentleman, he lifted his palm, and hundreds of metal spearheads turned in unison, suddenly erupting with a piercing sonic boom!

The silver spears, like a torrential downpour, streaked across the battlefield at high speed, causing several Zerglings and Hydralisks that had just emerged from the buildings to explode instantly.

Flesh and blood flew everywhere.

Even the heavily armored Roaches could not offer any effective resistance against these spears controlled by telekinesis, and they were headshot and killed in an instant!

The interception network formed by hundreds of metal spears acted like a meat grinder, continuously shredding the Zerg units attempting to charge the defensive line.

Raynor and Tychus, who had been keeping a close eye on Feng Xiao's situation, were left stunned, their cigars falling to the ground without them even noticing.

"If I didn't know that the Protoss disdained taking on human form, I would have suspected he was a member of that Protoss Ancient Council."

Recalling the powerful and rare Archons among his Protoss friend's faction, Raynor couldn't help but mutter to himself.

Tychus, standing beside him, was filled with shock. Although killing an Ultralisk alone a moment ago was inhuman, it was still within an acceptable range.

But what was happening now?!

A god?

The fully unleashed Divine Sense enveloped the alloy spears, which then erupted at several times the speed of sound, killing large numbers of Zerg in succession; no Zerg could resist them.

Dozens of huge, hideous Mutalisks were cleared away rapidly, their broken corpses raining down upon the defensive base.

BOOM! BOOM-BOOM!

Roaches the size of elephants burst from the ground, roaring as they charged madly toward the front line, yet a flash of bright silver light streaked past in that instant.

The next moment, their heads shattered like watermelons.

Under an absolute blockade of combat power, Feng Xiao held the entire left flank by himself; no Zerg could break through the dense interception net of his spears.

In less than five minutes, the severed limbs and corpses of thousands, perhaps even tens of thousands, of Zerg littered the entire bridgehead.

The massive casualties and the speed of the losses had long since caught the attention of the Brood Mother on Mar Sara, though she could not lock onto Feng Xiao due to her limited sensory capabilities.

But even the slowest creature would eventually realize something was wrong.

"The humans have... a new type of weapon... built to target the swarm. Standard Zerg units cannot resist it."

The swarm's bio-intelligence, possessing a slightly mechanical tone, analyzed the situation calmly before transmitting a message to an unknown region.

"Commander, I've arrived!"

The communication channel within the defensive base descended into static before a rugged voice rang out.

Mark!

That captain of the Hyperion with such formidable command talent...

Feng Xiao felt a sense of relief as he sensed he had only ten percent of his mental energy remaining. I was too arrogant relying on level 10 Divine Sense.

If he had been using ordinary abilities, he would likely have collapsed even at level 30.

He had only slaughtered ten thousand Zerg cannon fodder; it seemed his ability still wasn't strong enough.

He could only take out ten thousand Zerg at full strength, while against the Cosmic Zerg, killing seven or eight hundred would be considered a decent feat.

The gap between the two was immense.

However... it really was different from the game.

The three-thousand-meter-long Hyperion descended into the orbit of Mar Sara, accompanied by fifteen Behemoth-class Battlecruisers, each roughly two thousand meters in length.

Watching the Hyperion unleash hundreds of orbital cannon fire chains to quickly rout an aerial Zerg force composed of nearly a thousand Mutalisks, Feng Xiao felt this was well within his expectations. If they had relied on the single ship from the game, let alone saving anyone, the Hyperion itself wouldn't have been able to escape.

The powerful warship firepower quickly cleared the area within dozens of kilometers of the defensive base, and a large number of transport ships departed from the fleet, flying toward the base.

"Commander, please hurry. The attack power of those three Leviathans is too strong."

Mark urged with a grave tone.

"What! Leviathans?"

Raynor was startled and hurriedly ordered everyone to accelerate the evacuation.

Leviathans were incredibly powerful in combat, let alone three of them.

At the very least, the current fleet—which represented a third of the Raiders' entire assets—could never deal with them without paying the price of losing half their ships.

Everyone boarded the ships, and the fleet quickly entered warp to depart the area.

"Ilde, destroy the six gunships disguised as carriers first; that 1000 attack power is too damaging."

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