A tremendous explosion rang out high in the sky. Lynn jerked his head up and saw that the Silver-Haired Girl had already charged into the heavens, turning into a streak of blood-red light that pierced one enormous warship after another. Countless wrecks thundered down, only to turn into data and vanish the instant they hit the ground.
But Lynn immediately noticed something.
The Colossus Brain was indeed destroying them very quickly, but every time she destroyed one, the outlines of a second and third warship rapidly materialized.
"He can keep splitting himself off and summoning more?!"
Lynn asked with a frown.
Psionic light flickered in Sir Awen's eyes. "In theory, yes. But I don't know exactly what restrictions his curse places on him. Judging by the situation, though, he still can't split off planet-destroying warships and mechanical swarms. Back in the Upper Realm, he once split off more than a thousand galaxy-class warships at once. Even as we were then, we were repeatedly overwhelmed and nearly defeated."
"Then how did you beat him in the end?"
Lynn asked as he sprinted, his brow deeply furrowed.
Sir Awen raised his head and took a deep breath. "Our civilization's Cyber and Colossus worked together, using psionics to forcibly unfold that expanse of space into a higher dimension. That allowed the Colossus to step inside him and severely damage his consciousness. Only then did we barely manage to subdue him."
He turned with a conflicted expression to look at the countless fleets pursuing them.
"But now, I'm afraid I no longer have the ability to raise a Root-Level being into a higher dimension and send them inside him."
In the sky, the constantly materializing warships had gradually amassed into a formidable force. Their concentrated barrage of death rays struck the Colossus Brain,