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Chapter 326: The Struggle Between Dreadnoughts
Chapter 326: The Struggle Between Dreadnoughts
There was no need for reminders; with Song Chi’s personality, no one could be more determined to avoid such a situation than he was.
The Sky Dome was now a formidable warship, not necessarily invincible among its peers, but certainly among the top echelon. However, this did not mean much.
The Stark family was not a minor force. If pushed to the limit, they could dispatch a fourth-tier limit-class Chasing Deer warship to hunt him down. To avoid such a scenario, Song Chi would do everything in his power to distance himself from this incident, rather than use it as a source of boasting.
Time continued to pass, and Anderson Stark still had not shown up. This delay made the surrounding ordinary Flame Torch Warship Captains increasingly uneasy. Some of the more perceptive individuals sensed the tension and quietly moved their warships to the edge, away from the center. Everyone knew that once a conflict erupted, the nearby Flame Torch warships would be the first to suffer.
...
Boom, Boom, Boom!
At one moment, the engines of a Tier 5 Battleship emitted a terrifying pressure, characteristic of a Tier 5 battleship, emanated from a distance of hundreds of thousands of meters, affecting all the Flame Torch warships in the vicinity.
Though Flame Torch warships lacked life, they were tightly bound to their captains, almost as if their fates were intertwined. Each warship possessed its own rank-specific pressure, allowing it to interact with Tier 5 Star Sea life forms.
Among the thousands of Flame Torch warships, all the captains struggled to turn their gaze toward the center, where the source of the terrifying pressure originated.
"Raymond, you’ve lost your composure!"
From the lead warship, the Golden Light Traverse commanded by the Jiao family's elder, a calm voice emerged, directed at Raymond Stark, who was emitting the Tier 5 battleship’s pressure.
As a Tier 5 battleship in the Flame Torch civilization, there were strict regulations prohibiting any form of internal strife. Under this supreme law, even two battleships engaging in a direct confrontation was not allowed, let alone a battleship targeting a lower-tier Chasing Deer warship or any lower-tier warship. At the level of a battleship, such actions would amount to a massacre, potentially causing immeasurable damage to the Flame Torch civilization if left unchecked. Therefore, the four super-empires had a zero-tolerance policy toward such actions, whether the target was a lower-tier warship or a civilian battleship.
Of course, Raymond had not truly lost his mind. He had indeed emitted his warship’s pressure but had not taken any direct action against the surrounding warships. His main focus was on the Song family’s fleet, particularly the Sky Dome.
The reason for his sudden agitation was simple.
Just moments ago, the fragment shield’s crack had fully closed, indicating that Anderson Stark had likely perished within the Immortal Continent fragment.
This realization had caused Raymond Stark to lose his composure.
Anderson Stark held a significant position within the Stark family, being a third-sequence member and a future key figure in the family’s power structure. Moreover, he was part of Raymond’s lineage. Given the current situation, how could Raymond remain calm?
His gaze pierced through the hundreds of thousands of meters, locking onto the Sky Dome, which had emerged last and had a significant conflict with his family. Raymond’s voice, cold and stern, demanded answers:
"Song family’s young one, tell me, what exactly happened before you left…?"
Before he could finish his sentence, Song Chi, in the Sky Dome’s main control room, felt the overwhelming pressure diminish by over 99%.
Looking up, he saw that Elder Ru’s Purple Moon Long Song had positioned itself directly in front of the Sky Dome.
A familiar fiery voice echoed from within:
"Raymond, if your Stark family wants a fight, the Song family will oblige. No need for roundabout tactics, and no need to use the young ones as an excuse!"
As she spoke, the Purple Moon Long Song battleship transformed into a ten-thousand-meter-tall mecha giant, wielding a massive red axe that gleamed with intense red light. The axe pointed directly at the Stark family’s battleship, giving the impression that any disagreement would lead to immediate action.
Seeing this, the six-tier Flame Torch ship captains, such as the Lu family’s elder and Angelle Morningstar, felt a headache. They were well aware of the Song family’s notorious "mother tyrannosaurus," and thus, they understood how uncontrollable Song Xingru could be.
If it were any other battleship captain, they might not have taken it too seriously, but Song Xingru was different. If provoked, she would not hesitate to act.
Having been in the Morningstar Principality for some time, they had a clear understanding of the key figures among the principality’s major powers. Despite his outward calm, Raymond Stark’s inner thoughts mirrored those of the two six-tier dreadnought captains.
He had indeed come to the Morningstar Principality with a mission: to suppress the Eagle family and the Dinghai Song family. However, this was based on broader strategic considerations, not a personal desire to engage in direct combat.
As a battleship captain, if he were to take such actions in front of countless Flame Torch ship captains, the subsequent accountability from the Morningstar Flame Torch Bureau would be unavoidable.
With this in mind, Raymond’s eyes darkened, casting a gloomy glance at the Purple Moon Long Song in its mythic mecha form. He then activated a special component on his warship.
As the component activated, Raymond’s warship was enveloped in a dense silver glow.
Seeing this, the leaders of various factions within the Morningstar Principality exchanged rapid glances, speculating about the effects of the silver component and what Raymond intended to do.
Just as everyone was guessing, a familiar projection began to form in front of Raymond’s battleship.
A massive, ten-thousand-meter-tall mecha giant appeared as a projection.
From the Golden Light Traverse, the Lu family’s elder narrowed his eyes and muttered to himself:
"The White Phantom, it’s the projection of Hardy Stark’s warship..."
On the other side, Angelle Morningstar also marveled:
"The White Phantom, a projection of a warship from hundreds of thousands of light-years away. It must be a silver-quality projection component."
The Twilight Duke, who had been on the periphery, also showed a peculiar expression:
"Even this old man has come out. The Stark family is determined to act in concert with the principality. However, it seems they are not satisfied with their previous share and intend to extract more from the Dinghai Song family and the Eagle family."
As everyone’s thoughts varied, Song Chi, inside the Sky Dome, once again felt the overwhelming pressure. Even with 99% of it absorbed by Elder Ru’s ten-thousand-meter mecha giant, he still struggled to breathe, feeling as if a mountain were pressing down on his shoulders.
However, his attention at the moment was not on himself but on the ten-thousand-meter mechanized giant in front of him, his face filled with worry. If he was already in this state, one could only imagine how much more difficult it must be for Elder Ru, who had been enduring the overwhelming pressure from the hundred-thousand-meter mechanized giant's projection alone.
Inside the ten-thousand-meter mechanized giant, Song Xingru's face was flushed with an abnormal redness. Even with the astonishing physical resilience granted by her Fifth-Rank Guiding Technique, she still appeared frail in the face of the Sixth-Rank pressure.
This was not because Song Xingru was weak. As the Earth Line Ancestor of the Dinghai Song Clan, her flagship had already been promoted to a battleship over a thousand years ago, and her current Guiding Technique was at level 55, making her one of the most experienced among the battleship captains.
The reason she appeared so weak in front of a mere projection, and a projection that had traveled hundreds of thousands of light-years, was due to the opponent on the other side.
This person was simply too strong!
Firstly, he was projected using a silver projection component, so his projection's strength was not as weakened as one might expect.
Moreover, this person, Hardy Stark, was a relic from nearly ten thousand years ago. Although he was nearing the end of his life, with one foot in the grave, his warship had already reached the peak of a Limit-Breaking Dreadnought thousands of years ago. Additionally, his warship was equipped with various powerful components from the Stark family, making his combat power unimaginable to outsiders.
In front of such a high-level dreadnought captain, Song Xingru's performance was already quite commendable.
Enduring the explosive sounds resonating throughout her body, Song Xingru suddenly threw out the red coin filled with sharp blade intent.
In the next second, her sharp voice echoed across the entire starfield.
"Do you think you can intimidate the Song Clan with a Sixth-Rank presence? Does only the Stark family have dreadnoughts?"
Before the echoes of her words had even faded, her second voice followed swiftly.
"Song Xingru, respectfully welcomes the Ancestor Patriarch!"
The red coin suddenly appeared in the starfield, and a vast red light erupted. Under the gaze of countless astonished onlookers, a projection of a ten-thousand-meter mechanized giant appeared in the starfield.
As this projection appeared, energy surged from its body, easily neutralizing the pressure from the Stark family's dreadnought projection.
Instantly, the oppressive force on the Song Clan members vanished.
In the Sky Dome command room, Song Chi stared blankly at the scene above, or rather, he was not alone. Seeing the majestic figure that had just appeared, the hearts of all the Song Clan members were racing.
"So, the Song Clan also has a Sixth-Rank Ancestor!"
...
Apart from the agitated Song Clan members, all the flame heart captains who witnessed this scene in the starfield were also boiling with excitement.
"Ten-thousand-meter mechanized giant, this... this... the Dinghai Song Clan also has a Sixth-Rank dreadnought?"
"Damn, did I miss some big news? When did the Dinghai Song Clan get a dreadnought to guard them? From the earlier words, this must be the Song Clan's First Ancestor?"
From a few Sixth-Rank warships nearby, voices of disbelief also echoed.
"Song Wujiang, have you finally taken that step..."
"Dreadnought, Song Wujiang, I see why the Song Clan has been so quiet in recent centuries. You must have just taken that step and needed time to consolidate..."
Compared to the arrival of the Stark family's White Phantom mechanized giant projection, the promotion of the Dinghai Song Clan's Ancestor to a Sixth-Rank flame heart captain caused a much greater stir.
After all, the Stark family's base was in the Radiant Han Kingdom, hundreds of thousands of light-years away from the Morning Star Principality, making it difficult for them to influence the Principality in any significant way.
However, the promotion of the Dinghai Song Clan's Ancestor to a Sixth-Rank dreadnought captain was a different matter entirely. As one of the old major powers in the Principality, they had the potential to influence everything within the Principality.
In the starfield, the White Phantom mechanized giant projection stared directly at the projection of Song Wujiang's flagship mechanized giant, as if confirming something.
After confirming that Song Wujiang was indeed a genuine Sixth-Rank dreadnought captain and not a fake with a Fifth-Rank Guiding Technique, the Sixth-Rank dreadnought's pressure was retracted, no longer targeting the Song Clan members.
While, strictly speaking, Song Wujiang would likely not be his match in a real fight, it certainly wouldn't be an easy victory.
After all, the White Phantom had projected from hundreds of thousands of light-years away, while Song Wujiang, using a red projection component, was only around twenty thousand light-years away from the Golden Dragon Star Region. If it came to a fight, it would be a protracted battle.
Moreover, there was the Supreme Order, established by the four major super-empires of the Flame Heart humans, hanging over their heads.
Of course, the most crucial point was that after ascending to a Sixth-Rank dreadnought captain, Song Wujiang had earned a certain qualification, the right to participate in the joint operations of the two sides.
Soon, a major change would sweep across the entire Tianpan Galaxy, affecting every Flame Heart captain in the galaxy. Even for powers with Sixth-Rank combat strength, they could only flow with the tide.
While this change was fraught with danger, it also represented a tremendous opportunity. If one could seize it, a sudden rise to prominence was not impossible.
The more Sixth-Rank flame heart captains they had, the greater the chance of seizing this opportunity, which was why the Stark family had traveled hundreds of thousands of light-years to seek an alliance with the forces of the Morning Star Principality.
Song Wujiang's appearance undoubtedly added a significant boost to the combined forces, so he recognized Song Wujiang.
While the Radiant Han Kingdom was not lacking in Sixth-Rank combat strength, most of those forces were eyeing the Stark family with predatory intent, only thinking of devouring this seemingly easy target. How could they possibly ally with the Stark family?
If not for this, the Stark family would not have sought an alliance from a remote principality hundreds of thousands of light-years away.
"Alright, let's put an end to this. There's no need to damage the alliance's harmony over this."
In an instant, the Limit-Breaking Dreadnought captain of the Stark family seemed as if nothing had happened. He shifted his gaze to the Golden Light Traverse and the White Night Morning Star.
"I don't have much time. Let's use this opportunity to revisit some of the previous discussions..."
(End of Chapter)
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