Fire at It First!

"Alright, I understand. Thanks for your hard work."

After cutting off the communication, Stuart looked once more at N'Zoth's image displayed on the large screen at the front of the bridge.

Although he had always believed the other party was merely an "ordinary beast" living in space, now that his guess had been confirmed, he still felt a trace of regret.

But the next second, Stuart cast that slight regret aside.

They had only just begun exploring the universe. He believed that in the future, they would surely discover other intelligent life forms in the universe that they could communicate with.

"Main Gun Firing! Since we can't communicate through language, we'll use another method of communication."

Steadying himself, Stuart gave the order, officially drawing the curtain on this battle against N'Zoth.

Magic Power flowed through circuit after circuit, converging at one of the pointed corners of the inverted triangular ship. An enormous magic array unfolded, larger even than the Williams itself.

The Williams's main cannon had five power levels.

Level Five was the weakest, the level used previously when attacking the Elemental Lord.

Level One was the strongest. It required drawing more than half the Magic Power stored in the Magic Pool. Even with the Philosopher's Stone continuously converting Magic Power, a Level One main cannon shot could only be fired once every hour or more. Furthermore, during that hour-long interval, no other functions that consumed large amounts of Magic Power could be used.

The many slowly waving tentacles suddenly froze, as though N'Zoth had sensed the threat. But by now, it was already too late to act.

A dazzling pillar of Magic Power shot forth, crossing the vast distance in an instant and striking N'Zoth solidly.

A silent yet violent explosion erupted. The screen at the front of the