A Core Ship From The Start Chapter 577

Chapter 577: Chapter 424 Blooming_2 Chapter 577: Chapter 424 Blooming_2 Seeing this, all the surrounding alien fleets were utterly shocked.

They had originally believed that Duanmu Huai would first destroy the defensive net of the City of Mt. Hiei Star, then send troops to suppress this city. But they didn't expect that this warship would be so ruthless as to utterly destroy the city without leaving a single piece of debris!

Meanwhile, Duanmu Huai was very calm about it. He had only promised Sister Sheppard to preserve the planet, not the city. Moreover, Duanmu Huai knew that in cosmic civilizations, it is easy to destroy a city but hard to occupy it. Isn't it more convenient to just format and reinstall rather than painstakingly change registry and shutdown services in a virus-infected operating system?

So Duanmu Huai just activated the BFG10000 and formatted the city.

I have to say, this BIG FUCK GUN found on the Hell Planet is indeed the most handy weapon for Duanmu Huai. Small power can be used to destroy cities, large power can be used to destroy stars, and it doesn't even need to be changed, just adjust the power size.

“Run, runnnn!!!!!!”

At this point, the Tuggy Captain was totally panicked. Where had it seen such a terrifying warship, such a terrifying attack? Just one shot completely annihilated the entire City of Mt. Hiei Star! How could they possibly resist this?

Run!

At this moment, the fleet besieging Duanmu Huai's warship split into two waves, one wave attacked Duanmu Huai crazily to avenge their leader who had died horribly on the ground. The other wave just activated faster-than-light travel and ran away desperately.

Of course, they were planning to escape to the Mass Relay and leave directly, but unfortunately for them…the Mass Relay had already been blocked by Duanmu Huai, these guys…couldn't escape even if they wanted to!

Damn it, where the hell did these bastards come from!?

If Duanmu Huai knew what these guys were thinking, he would definitely sneer and introduce himself.

I'm Duanmu Huai, the team leader of the Duanmu group, a direct line of the Tribunal!

At this moment, the screen should be black and white and marked with bold letters!

But now, it certainly isn't needed.

Duanmu Huai glanced at the star map, confirming that all threats around had been cleared, then he turned on the communication.

“I've finished up here, how's it going on your side?”

Soon, Younger Brother Xue Pade also responded.

“Report to Your Honor, the Judge, we have reached the designated location and are attacking. The enemy has hostages……”

Younger Brother Xue Pade sounded anxious, and the sound of gunfire could be heard intermittently. Hearing this, Duanmu Huai frowned.

“Hostages? Are they humans?”

“That…no.”

“Then just wipe them out! Don't waste time! I'll order the Tribunal Fleet to provide air support…By the way, what's going on with Team A?”

Duanmu Huai casually gave an order, then looked at the screen with confusion. Team B had reported back, but Team A, led by Sister Sheppard, had not responded. This was clearly not normal. Given Younger Brother Xue Pade's character, Duanmu Huai could understand if he ran into trouble, but Team A's situation…

“Beep——!”

However, just then, the communication sounded, and then a hurried voice appeared on the channel.

“This is Team A, we've been attacked!”

Are you kidding me?

Upon hearing the report, Duanmu Huai was completely dumbfounded.

His brother didn't run into trouble, but his sister did?

How is this possible?

When Duanmu Huai arrived at the battlefield, he found that the battle was already over.

In the entire universe, there were scattered debris and fragments everywhere, and a human warship was battered and bruised, looking like it had taken quite a beating.

Sister Sheppard, reappearing on the screen, was also wounded all over, her face ashen.

“What happened? How did you lose?”

Duanmu Huai couldn't figure out what happened, but Sister Sheppard started to speak.

“Report to the commander, we were attacked by the Collectors!”

“Collectors?”

Hearing this, Duanmu Huai was taken aback, but then immediately realized what had happened.

“You ran into them? That's some really bad luck… ”
The so-called Collectors were simply the Prolo Deities who had been transformed by the Reapers. Now they had lost their sense of self and had become outright slaves of the Reapers. In the DLC (downloadable content), the Collectors once dispatched troops to capture residents of human colonies for research to find ways to completely exterminate humans. Duanmu Huai remembered that there was indeed a Mass Relay in the Boundary God Star System's Omega that led to the Collectors' lair, could it possibly be…?

Turns out, from Sister Sheppard's report, Duanmu Huai quickly understood the sequence of events.

Half of the Star Alliance Fleet, led by Sister Sheppard, along with a Tribunal moon class cruiser, started off very successfully, eliminating the resisting forces on the targeted planet. Seeing their home base destroyed, the local alien races naturally fled in a hurry. But, Sister Sheppard wasn't satisfied with just defeating these creatures – she wanted to wipe them all-out!

So, she pursued the retreating soldiers to Omega.

Omega is a small space station, initially used for mining, but later taken over and turned into a den of iniquity. When Sister Sheppard led her forces there, the Ashali, who ruled Omega, threatened her, telling her not to go too far.

But Sister Sheppard didn't care, she destroyed Omega's space station outright.

Normally, this would have been the end of it but as Sister Sheppard was about to leave, she inadvertently saw another mass relay on Omega!

This startled Sister Sheppard because she realized that this relay was activated, yet it hadn't been mentioned in any intelligence or battle reports!

She then interrogated a few captives and found out that this relay had been activated for quite some time. Many curious individuals had tried to use the relay to travel elsewhere, but for some reason, none of them ever returned!

Now, Sister Sheppard understood something was wrong with this relay.

But she was also afraid that others might escape through the relay, so she made a decision – to block off the relay and report this to Duanmu Huai.

The idea was right, but… just at this moment, the Collectors arrived.

And not one or two ships, but an entire fleet!

Well…Duanmu Huai now understood why Sister Sheppard was in such a pitiful state.

Although the Collectors' warships weren't as advanced as the Tribunal's, they were still 2000 meters long, larger than the Star Alliance's largest dreadnought. Even though Sister Sheppard had a Tribunal Warship helping her, it was only a moon class cruiser. Given the limited support, the Tribunal's warship remained intact, but the fleet led by Sister Sheppard suffered significant losses.

After fighting for a long time, the Collectors couldn't gain any advantage over Sister Sheppard. And after being bombarded by the moon class cruiser, they decided to retreat.

Right at this moment, Duanmu Huai arrived.

If he'd been a tad bit earlier, he might have been able to capture the entire fleet of Collectors.

Who would have thought that the Collectors would have moved so early.

After hearing the report, Duanmu Huai frowned, realizing the reason for the Collectors' appearance in this area. The upheaval in the Boundary God Star System had been noticed by the Collectors. They were likely concerned that their mass relay would be controlled by the Star Alliance, so they hastened to try and destroy the Star Alliance. Later, when they clashed with Sister Sheppard and saw the presence of a Tribunal moon class cruiser, the Collectors had to retreat.

But this raises a question… Will the Reapers arrive sooner?

Anyway, internal matters need to be settled before dealing with external threats.

Chapter end

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