Bzz!
An invisible surge of mental force powerful enough to crush stars erupted around the silver-haired figure and swept across the sea of stars.
Space crumpled into folds wherever it passed. The reconnaissance fleet closest to Earth was the first to suffer.
Under the crushing mental force, their composite armor was as fragile as cardboard.
The layers of defensive runes shimmering with dim light across the ships' hulls buckled and shattered the instant they touched the torrent of mental force.
Then, beneath the rune layers, hull plating forged from spiritual metals rapidly twisted and deformed like cans crushed by an invisible hand, hideous cracks spreading across the ships.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Silent explosions blossomed in the vacuum.
Entire swaths of the reconnaissance fleet exploded in the sweeping torrent of mental force, becoming floating metal debris.
Yet the frenzy of mental force Fate Throat unleashed did not stop. It continued sweeping toward the boundless Mechanical Legion.
Though the defensive ratings of the different warships varied considerably.
At this moment, they were like ants or beetles beneath a human's descending foot. Either way, it was absolute domination over insignificant beings.
Before this invisible power, the masses of armed warships, frigates, and cruising motherships were no different from those reconnaissance vessels.
The energy shields hastily deployed by the various warships burst like soap bubbles at a touch, their hull structures collapsing instantly beneath the crushing invisible mental force.
Inside the core mothership's command room, the highest-level alarm utterly shattered Core Brain's confidence.
On the holographic star chart in its mind, blue dots representing the Mechanical Legion's combat units were going dark in swaths at a speed that filled it with despair.
Every red dot meant a warship's destruction. Like a wildly multiplying virus, the red dots spread rapidly from the silver-haired figure along