Chapter 99: Small Battle
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
“Is this the war between the lost empires?” Blenning looked at the galaxy where the war was happening, his eyes revealing an indescribable expression.
The heavy rain that was brewing in the dark clouds finally flashed with lightning.
The first place where the two lost empires clashed was in the home system of the Stone Man Civilization.
For the civilization that had threatened to make them prostrate themselves, the Watcher and the Voyager had sent a small fleet to see how he was going to make them prostrate themselves.
Hence, the two lost empires started fighting in the galaxy.
The pitiful toothpick fleet of the Stone Man Civilization was directly swept away as trash on the chaotic battlefield. The star base that claimed the sovereignty of the galaxy also changed hands in the crossfire, but it did not return to the hands of the Stone Men.
The only thing they were glad about was that their mother planet was still far away from the battlefield, so there probably wouldn’t be a few beams of light that suddenly went astray and headed straight for them.
At first, there were only two small fleets of the lost empire, which were a few frigates and a battle cruiser.
However, after the two fleets exchanged fire, they began to shake people off, quickly causing the situation here to escalate.
The places that were originally regarded as important galaxies by the Watchers and the Voyagers, where a frontal battle might break out, were unexpectedly calm.
Meanwhile, their fleets were constantly jumping to the edge of the Milky Way, fighting in the home galaxy of the Stone Man Civilization.
As a lost empire, they naturally had ways to guard against the sudden sneak attack of the warp drive. Every galaxy under their control had at least one superluminal suppressor.
The most obvious function of this equipment was to disrupt the uniform space-time required for the warp drive to warp so that the enemy could not directly reach their core area in such a mysterious way.
Even if they used the warp drive, they could only reach the vicinity of their borders. After that, they still had to rely on normal hyperspace navigation to enter their galaxy.
However, this way, the threat would be greatly reduced, and they would have enough time to react to hostile actions.
However, there was no war on the battlefield that they had expected. Instead, a large-scale battle broke out in an unknown place.
“There were more and more of them, right? Are the Watcher and the Voyager planning to have a showdown there?” Blenning’s subordinates also looked at the image on the electronic screen. The overwhelming fleet revealed an incredulous expression.
Even the bravest adventurers did not dare to enter the place where the war between the two lost empires broke out. The various civilizations could only use their own observation methods to investigate.
However, the image formed by such a method was ultimately not as clear as first-hand resources. There had always been interstellar tycoons offering rewards for the death squads that could provide real-time live broadcasts.
No one had taken up the job yet, but even the blurry images were enough to distinguish the number of these huge fleets.
Many civilizations calculated the size of the fleets participating in the war and compared their own strength. Then, they sadly realized that the small battle that broke out here was enough to flatten them.
At this moment, the number of fleets that had arrived at the mother galaxy of the Stone Man Civilization had already exceeded hundreds. Even the Titan Battleships had joined in. It was hard to say if this was still a small battle.
The Watcher fleet, which mainly relied on psionic power, seemed to be more powerful than imagined in the war.
The shields that they had enhanced with psionic energy and Czero were far more powerful than the shields of ordinary civilizations. Even the Voyager was slightly inferior in that regard.
Under the bombardment of countless battleships, the Voyager’s fleet, which had a weaker defense, obviously suffered a greater loss.
However, the Voyager was also stronger than the Watcher in some ways.
Due to their disdain for robots, the Watcher’s fleet did not use battleship combat AL They were actually controlled by powerful psionics.
However, the Voyagers had a deep understanding of unmanned combat. Each of their battleships was equipped with intellectual combat Al, an efficient space combat fleet intelligence.
But even so, the losses of the Voyager’s ships were much greater than the losses of the Watcher.
After signing a contract with an existence in the void realm, the Watcher’s combat strength rose by a huge step.
The prediction interface that they had developed after in-depth research in the field of spiritual energy could predict the future to a certain extent. Although it was inaccurate and the time was very short, it greatly reduced their losses.
After sending in the same number of fleets, the Voyager fleet in this galaxy was already showing signs of decline.
It was hard to imagine that the two sides, who were clearly evenly matched in ancient times, would be able to determine the victor so soon. As a last resort, the Voyager, who was in a passive situation, could only react first.
They launched an attack on the Watcher’s homeland. A large number of battleships jumped to the border and headed for the Watcher’s space fortress. They wanted to take a foothold first.
For these two lost empires, infiltration would have little effect. Only a direct war was the most important.
The special psionic senses of the Watcher could detect any spies, thus preventing infiltration from erupting on the planet.
The Voyager also had their own set of methods. Their cutting-edge mechanical prosthetics and lie detectors had an unparalleled effect on dealing with spies.
Therefore, this Battle of Heaven was actually a competition of production capacity between them.
However, the Watcher who had signed contracts with the void realm experts was now ridiculously productive. During the calm before the storm, the fleets they had assembled were far more than the fleets of the Voyager.
Therefore, after a series of confrontations, although the civilizations did not notice anything unusual, the internal members of the Voyager had already realized the seriousness of the situation.
“Was our intelligence wrong? Why is their fleet replenishing so quickly?” A fleet commander of the Voyager looked at the damage report with an unpleasant expression.
He had been immersed in the decadent environment for a long time. He never thought that the first battle after he woke up would be a failure.
The small battle that took place in the home system of the Stone Man Civilization had come to an end. In the eyes of the civilizations, it seemed that they had retreated, but in fact, it was the commander of the Faraway Fleet who had first issued the emergency warp command.
The Watcher fleet, which failed to destroy the enemy, naturally left as well. However, they appeared in certain star systems with a purpose, as if they were in a guerrilla state, searching for lone Voyager fleets.
After they left, the Stone Man civilization thought that they could breathe a sigh of relief, but they did not expect a large number of spaceships from other civilizations to follow closely behind.
Many of them were adventurers, but most of them were officials. They constantly dismantled and transported away the remains of the fleet in this galaxy, either selling them or trying to study the lost mysteries.
During this process, there was naturally some friction. The Stone Man Civilization without a fleet could only wait for them to finish, and then watch as the battleship wreckage was transported away piece by piece, leaving nothing behind.
After a while, the entire galaxy was like a locust colony. Other than the planets, everything was clean. Even the asteroid belt was taken away with ulterior motives. It was hard to imagine that a war had broken out here.
However, after regaining control of the star base, the Stone Men regained their confidence. It was impossible to tell that they had declared war on two lost empires.
The commanders of the Voyager began to worry about the balance of victory and defeat in the Battle of Heaven. They did not understand why their enemies, who were once evenly matched, had grown stronger than them after a long time.
They had lost contact with the fleet that had attacked the Watcher’s border, but they didn’t care about the fate of the fleet because it was originally used as bait.
In the end, it was an intelligence officer who found some clues from the information that they regarded as trash and informed these high-level rulers.
“The End of Reincarnation? This strange space seems to have provided a powerful boost to those idealistic idiots…”
“According to the Prophet Zachlan who was removed from their name, the Watcher signed a contract with this thing in exchange for an unbelievable blessing…”
“This is really idealistic. However, if that’s the case, according to the records of the End of Reincarnation, they don’t have much time left…”
“So…”
II
Defend. As long as we drag it out until the moment they are cleared, it will be our victory. At that time, we can also use this galaxy to achieve our goal…”
These higher-ups quickly made a decision and began to enter defensive mode. If they fought in their own territory, their advantage was quite obvious.
In order to buy time, they would occasionally send out harassment fleets to scatter the Watchers ‘fleets.
As for the Watcher, they had also increased their offensive strength. Not only did they want to completely destroy this archenemy that had been their enemy since ancient times, but they also understood the urgency of time.
During this process, a certain evil thought that was born in the depths of one’s heart also began to develop.
II
High priest, what is the purpose of the giant structure that we have recently started?” On the throne of heaven, a believer asked the high priest what the huge structure near the holy land was used for.
“It’s a machine that can extract the power of the void realm. The void realm cracks left by the Enlightened Ones around the Holy Land can allow us to easily extract a huge amount of spiritual energy. With this power, we can ascend to another world and catch up to the Enlightened Ones’ footsteps.”
The high priest’s gentle voice seemed to appease the believers, but their eyes were still filled with intense uncase.
This was an inspiration bestowed by psionic power. Not only that, the prophecy that Zachlan had told him before he left had also terrified him.
II
High priest, the ring…” He wanted to continue asking but was interrupted by the high priest.
“This is what the evil god’s spawn uses to bewitch people. The ring is just baffling nonsense. Your faith is not strong enough, so I’ll punish you to copy the Book of Revelation a hundred times.”
This time, the high priest’s voice was very calm, and it made the believers tremble. They lowered their heads and left.
When there was no one else in the temple, the high priest muttered something to himself.
The powerful psionic energy had blocked everyone’s detection of him, which was why the psionic link could not sense what he was thinking under any circumstances.
However, if someone was here physically and listened with their ears, they would be able to hear that he seemed to be talking to something. The aura of that unknown existence was very similar to that of the void realm..