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Chapter 15: The Purple Atomic Fusion Reactor
Chapter 15: The Purple Atomic Fusion Reactor
Just when Song Chi was breathing a sigh of relief, thinking no First-Rank White-Wing had caught up, the Cangqiong's rear fuselage suddenly jolted. A First-Rank White-Wing had pursued from behind, launching a precise attack that struck the Cangqiong's tail.
Warning: Hull armor 34% damaged, hull 13% damaged. Please repair immediately.
Song Chi's face drained of color.
While the White-Wings generally had weak offensive capabilities—evidenced by the previous attacks from a dozen Zero-Rank White-Wings, which only caused 6% damage to the hull armor—a blow from a higher rank was a different story. The single strike from the First-Rank White-Wing had destroyed a quarter of the hull armor. If the Cangqiong suffered two or three more such hits, the hull itself would sustain irreversible damage.
"Activate the basic nanobot repair kit."
He hastily issued the command to the semi-autonomous ship AI, not daring to take his attention off the controls as he continued to steer the Cangqiong upwards.
His plan was simple: escape the rift and then activate the light-speed cruise. The First-Rank White-Wing might be fast, but it couldn't match the speed of light.
Warning: Hull armor 36% damaged, hull 14% damaged. Please repair immediately.
Basic nanobot repair kit activated. Hull armor repaired 3%, hull repaired 4%. Current damage levels...
Warning: Hull armor 35% damaged, hull 12% damaged. Please repair immediately.
...
Amid the continuous warnings of damage and repair, an unknown amount of time passed until the Cangqiong jolted violently again, followed by a more urgent AI alert.
Severe hull damage. Current hull armor 80% damaged, hull 62% damaged. Once hull damage exceeds 80%, the Cangqiong will lose mobility. Please repair immediately.
The second attack from the First-Rank White-Wing had instantly increased the Cangqiong's damage to over half.
However, a glimmer of intense joy suddenly flashed in Song Chi's eyes. After relentless effort, the Cangqiong finally broke free from the rift and returned to the surface of the fragment.
Without hesitation, the engines began to operate at maximum capacity.
Below, the pursuing hundred White-Wings let out a chorus of eerie shrieks, launching their attacks one after another, including the lone First-Rank White-Wing.
It was clear that if these attacks hit the Cangqiong, the hull damage would exceed 80%. But the Cangqiong was just a bit faster. Before the hundred attacks could reach it, the ship had already vanished into the distance, reappearing at the edge of the void.
Only after re-entering the fragment belt did Song Chi finally let out a long breath, feeling a wave of intense fatigue wash over his mind.
In the rift, his mental focus had been pushed to its limits, breaking the boundary of multitasking. The strain had been so intense that he hadn't noticed the fatigue until now, when he finally relaxed.
Song Chi wasn't surprised by this; in fact, he felt a hint of excitement.
Generally, a Zero-Rank Spark Captain, even with a Level 9 Guidance Skill, could only handle two tasks simultaneously. Handling three tasks required a Level 10 Guidance Skill and a higher level of life enhancement.
At his current Guiding Technique level of 4, the only reason Song Chi could briefly enter a state of multitasking was by pushing his mental and spiritual limits to the extreme. Afterward, his spirit would naturally fall into a state of lethargy for a period of time.
Of course, this doesn't mean that all Flame Civilization citizens below level 10 of the Guiding Technique can enter this temporary breakthrough state just by concentrating intensely. On the contrary, only one in ten thousand can achieve this. Entering and controlling this breakthrough state often requires specific circumstances and certain unique talents.
Thus, the number of people who can master this skill is exceedingly rare, and each one can be considered a prodigy.
This was the reason for Song Chi's inner joy. Even though this was just a one-time accidental breakthrough, it didn't mean he had fully mastered this special technique. However, with this experience, he was confident that through long-term practice and experimentation, he could eventually master it.
After maneuvering the Skybound through the debris field for a few more minutes, ensuring that the White-Wing Tribe wouldn't catch up in the short term, Song Chi brought the ship to a halt on a small fragment.
If his memory served him right, the Skybound's active return time would be just a few minutes away.
Taking advantage of this time, he turned his attention to the special component currently loaded on the shuttle, the "Fire Chrysanthemum Soldier Puppet Tree."
As expected, seven of the ten light points on the white component had dimmed, indicating that seven of the ten Fire Chrysanthemum Soldier Puppets had fallen in the rift, with only three still struggling to hold on.
However, there was an unexpected surprise. At some point, two strands of Zeroth-Class Floating Land Essence had appeared on the Skybound, meaning that the seven Fire Chrysanthemum Soldier Puppets had managed to take down two First-Class White-Wing Tribe members before their demise.
Indeed, while the core of the Floating Land Essence continuously produces Floating Land Essence, Flame Civilization starships can also obtain Floating Land Essence by slaying alien civilization beings in foreign star domains. Since the Fire Chrysanthemum Soldier Puppets are products of the "Fire Chrysanthemum Soldier Puppet Tree" component on the Skybound, they can also trigger this characteristic.
Regarding the fact that a First-Class White-Wing Tribe member only yields one strand of Zeroth-Class Floating Land Essence, this is quite normal. To obtain one strand of Zeroth-Class Floating Land Essence, one would need to kill ten thousand Zeroth-Class aliens.
As he pondered, the remaining three light points also dimmed, and all ten Fire Chrysanthemum Soldier Puppets were now gone.
Song Chi didn't feel any sadness about this. The Fire Chrysanthemum Soldier Puppets weren't permanently lost; they could be summoned again after a 24-hour cooldown.
After checking the status of the Fire Chrysanthemum Soldier Puppet Tree component, Song Chi's gaze swept across the cockpit. He was particularly curious about the ship component that had been converted from the Level 1 Floating Land Essence Core, which he had obtained with great effort.
As he stepped into the cockpit, his eyes instantly brightened. The focus was not on the palm-sized ship component near the cockpit door, but on the dazzling purple light it emitted.
Clearly, the ship component converted from the Level 1 Floating Land Essence Core was of purple quality.
Atomic Fusion Nuclear Engine Level 0
Quality: Purple
...
Before he could finish reading, a sudden, mild sensation of weightlessness hit him, and as time passed, this feeling only intensified.
Realizing something, Song Chi immediately withdrew his gaze and returned to the pilot's seat as quickly as possible.
(End of Chapter)
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