The darkness composed of assimilation particles grew ever more terrifying. Their power increased exponentially with their volume, assimilating all matter into themselves while constantly emitting a resonant energy field. Anything operating at a different frequency struggled to move within that field, and even some enormous celestial bodies disintegrated after losing their gravity.
Even when the Alta Civilization's most advanced explosive bombs were hurled into the darkness, their explosions were suppressed by its expanding field. The darkness had reached a staggering density of 56 kilograms per cubic centimeter! Its concentrated power was already affecting the workings of the high-energy universe, forcing some particles traveling faster than light to shed energy and return to the conventional universe.
And all of this had begun as something as insignificant as a shower of rain falling on a mountain, until that unremarkable rain gathered into a terrifying ocean no one could bear to look upon. The towering waves rising from that ocean would drown any civilization.
The fleet swallowed by the darkness began to endure a storm of impacts. Countless frenzied metal beasts charged forward in endless succession, tearing through the fleet's energy field and facing the Chain-Reaction Beam Cannons without fear of death, becoming flashes of light overlapping countless other flashes.
If there were any way to describe the scene, it resembled the flickering snow on an old television with no signal.
The entire fleet's communications channel was extraordinarily quiet, while attack messages refreshed frantically within the control system's mainframe.
Fei Fei watched the fleet's shattered energy field. One metal beast after another burst out of the flashes created by explosions, only to become new flashes after being struck by the fleet's attacks. Like a tide, they pressed against what little room the fleet had left to survive.
"To die among the stars! To