Luo Qi kept only a hundred Computing Centers supplied with power, diverting the power from every Research Center and all other independent small-scale supplies into overclocked reaction output to sustain Origin Star's shield!
The charging countdown ended!
The energy contained inside the main cannon had reached its current saturation point, but Luo Qi still felt it was not enough. The Gravity Towing Device began charging in preparation for the jump.
All these preparations forced every power furnace below planet class to burn beyond capacity. Surging energy fought against the containment fields, heating the furnace casings red-hot until even the atomic-level material began to melt!
Luo Qi continued to wait in silence.
At the twenty-fourth second of containment, the continuously compressed energy had reached the size of a ping-pong ball. It appeared distorted on the detection systems and had even begun shrinking on its own, actively devouring the electromagnetic and gravitational containment fields.
The external shield began to destabilize, allowing gravitational turbulence to slip through and tear apart the material on Origin Star's surface.
The first controllable nuclear fusion reactor began to go out!
The second followed, then the third, the fourth... The planetary surface shield began to distort. Vast amounts of material streamed away, exposing the Planetary Framework beneath. A surface constructed at the atomic-nucleus level had yet to be built here...
Luo Qi still waited in silence. He had to ensure that the two internal containment fields remained sufficiently stable. He coordinated all the energy across Origin Star. Overclock! Accelerate!
The eleven-thousand-and-fourth power furnace went out... Now they were like lights extinguishing in sweeping swaths, leaving only molten, searing atomic-level material behind!
This was nearly two percent of all the power furnaces on Origin Star, and the rate at which they went offline continued to rise!
At the twenty-seventh