The command center aboard the [Earth] was utterly silent.
Anyone confronted with such a bizarre sight, so far beyond their understanding, would have struggled to make an appropriate judgment right away.
"[Ten], what... what kind of weapon is that?"
At the command station, Lü Yongchang opened his mouth and struggled to get the question out.
A message from the Imperial Fortress swiftly appeared before everyone.
[Preliminary assessment: this is a higher-dimensional attack launched from the fourth dimension. Its precise mechanism is unknown.]
Lü Yongchang's heart sank, but he pressed on. "Is there any way to defend against it?"
[Before departing, the Empire had not fully deciphered the mysteries of the fourth dimension.]
We're done for!
Lü Yongchang and everyone else in the command center felt a deep chill rise from the depths of their hearts.
Lü Yongchang said nothing. He merely turned his gaze toward the enormous projection ahead.
In the time it had taken to exchange those few words, the invisible shock wave had already reached the edge of the fleet.
Without question, the Imperial Fortress bore the brunt of it.
Its sturdy Dense Neutron Armor was dissolving at an alarming rate!
One layer, then two...
Like pencil marks rubbed away by an eraser, an enormous hole with perfectly clean edges appeared on the surface of the Imperial Fortress.
Lü Yongchang's eyes widened slightly as he stared at the scene in the Holographic Projection, his mind blank.
The hole was spreading at tremendous speed.
Just as the Imperial Fortress seemed about to become the first casualty of this war, a shrill alarm suddenly rang out from the Tachyon Radar aboard the Earth.
An immensely powerful spacetime fluctuation appeared beside the Human Fleet.
Then a distorted spacetime structure resembling a black hole slowly emerged.
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