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Chapter 333: Sky Dominion Mechanical Civilization
Chapter 333: Sky Dominion Mechanical Civilization
Song Chi and An Se Wei met up about ten minutes after the Sky Dome left the Sky Rush Valley. The designated meeting point was in the starry sky outside the Morning Star Yang Land.
In the main control room of the White Rose Cruiser, the communication channels between the two warships were officially connected. An Se Wei, who had been well-rested over the past half-month, now wore a radiant smile on her face.
Her eyes fixed on the projection screen displaying Song Chi, she spoke softly:
"Are you ready?"
Upon receiving a nod from Song Chi, she didn't immediately activate the ship integration device. Instead, she repeated the information about the civilization ruins she had already shared with him a few months ago.
The ruins she had discovered belonged to a mechanical civilization called the Sky Dominion. The ruins were filled with numerous mechanical constructs, and to explore them thoroughly, the warships needed to have strong defensive capabilities.
An Se Wei wasn't sure about the quality of the energy shields and hull armor on Song Chi's Sky Dome, so she couldn't directly ask. Instead, she chose to confirm this way.
Song Chi didn't say much, just nodding again.
He had absolute confidence in the defensive capabilities of the Sky Dome.
However, he then asked about something else.
"What about your brother?"
According to the previous plan, the three of them were supposed to explore the ruins together, including the Fourth Prince, Sain Morningstar.
Mentioning her brother, An Se Wei replied with a hint of annoyance:
"Don't even mention him. He just entered the family's original mystic realm to comprehend the laws and won't be out for another decade..."
Song Chi didn't press further, feeling no particular emotion about it.
It couldn't be helped. Clearly, Sain Morningstar had entered the family's original mystic realm without informing An Se Wei, causing a conflict in their plans.
After confirming everything was ready, An Se Wei activated the purple integration device on the White Rose Cruiser.
Once the two cruisers were fully integrated, the charging for the interstellar deployment was also completed. As the intense spatial fluctuations enveloped the ships, Song Chi also initiated the deployment just before the sensation of weightlessness fully took hold.
...
In the sky above a giant star sea floating continent with a diameter exceeding 0.5 light-years, two kilometer-long cruisers appeared out of nowhere.
The moment they stabilized, Song Chi instinctively began to carefully observe the surroundings.
"This is a 4th-tier resource-type star sea floating continent?"
As he spoke, An Se Wei had already retracted the integration light bands, and her explanation came through the ship's magnetic communication channel.
"Yes, but before I discovered it, it was already in this pockmarked state. All the resources had been completely depleted by an Unknown Civilization."
Song Chi nodded, his gaze following the projection screen on the front of the warship to look down at the star sea floating continent.
As An Se Wei had described, the 4th-tier resource floating continent was dotted with mining pits of various sizes. It was clear that all the resources on this continent had been exhausted long ago.
Of course, over the unknown period of time that had passed since then, the floating continent's core had continued to absorb and nurture external energy, and new mineral resources were beginning to form again. However, it was only at the beginning stages, and it would take a long time before significant resources would be available again.
In just a few seconds, Song Chi's mind had made various judgments. However, before he could think more, An Se Wei's voice brought him back to reality.
"Where do you think the civilization ruins are? Guess correctly, and there's a reward, sister."
Ignoring An Se Wei's playful tone, Song Chi thought for a moment and said:
"A special sealed folded space?"
"Wrong!"
As they spoke, the White Rose Cruiser activated its engines and began descending, with the Sky Dome following closely behind.
While controlling the Sky Dome, Song Chi continued speaking.
"A mystic realm?"
Seeing An Se Wei shake her head again, he instinctively furrowed his brow. The next moment, his gaze suddenly shifted, looking down at the 4th-tier floating Continent.
"Could it be underground?"
This time, An Se Wei finally nodded in affirmation. Immediately, the Sky Dome received a beam from the White Rose Cruiser.
Before Song Chi could think more, the Abnormal Status Purifier component issued a prompt.
"Detected an unknown status buff on the warship. Do you want to purify it?"
An Se Wei's explanation followed.
"This is a shield buff aura that can increase the warship's energy shield by 50%, but it only lasts for 1 hour!"
Hearing this, Song Chi subconsciously opened the attribute panel of the Immortal Five Elements Celestial Energy Shield and saw that the shield value had indeed increased by 50%. He immediately sent a command to the Abnormal Status Purifier component to deny the purification.
One of the good things about the Abnormal Status Purifier component is that it doesn't automatically purify all abnormal statuses or imprints on the warship. Instead, it first seeks the captain's approval. Only if the captain doesn't respond in time will it purify on its own.
"We're here!"
The White Rose Cruiser suddenly stopped descending, and Song Chi could clearly sense a change in An Se Wei's tone, shifting from a light, teasing tone to a more serious one.
In response, Song Chi also focused his mind and senses.
After passing through a vast expanse of barren hills and a layer of space that served as a camouflage, they arrived at a hidden corner on the ground, where a dark, deep hole led straight down.
Clearly, this was the entrance to the underground ruins of the Sky Dominion mechanical civilization that An Se Wei had mentioned.
Without further words, just as Song Chi released two Void Shadow Assassin Puppet scouts, An Se Wei took the lead and maneuvered the White Rose Cruiser into the hole.
Seeing this, and having already confirmed through the Void Shadow Assassin Puppet's perspective that the initial part of the tunnel was safe, Song Chi also controlled the Sky Dome to descend.
However, it didn't take long before the two Void Shadow Assassin Puppet scouts, several kilometers below, were suddenly attacked from all sides. They were destroyed almost instantly, with no time to react.
However, this didn't cause much concern for Song Chi. An Se Wei had already mentioned this part in the information she had provided earlier.
The two Void Shadow Assassin Puppet scouts were destroyed by the fire control systems of the Sky Dominion mechanical civilization ruins. Despite their quick destruction, it was mainly due to their numbers. In terms of firepower, the systems were quite limited.
With the energy shields of the flame warships, as long as they could pass through quickly, it wouldn't be a problem.
Thinking this, the two warships, which had been descending the entire time, reached the position where the two Void Shadow Assassin Puppet scouts had been destroyed. Immediately, countless fine beams of light illuminated the dark tunnel, all of which were the firing ports of the civilization ruins' outer defenses.
"Speed up, don’t stop!"
Before the dense web of firepower could fully envelop them, Answei’s voice rang out. However, her reminder was unnecessary as the Sky Dome was already moving faster than the White Rose Cruiser.
Hum hum hum!
A large number of laser beams hit the Five Elements Celestial Energy Shield, creating dense ripples on the shield’s surface.
Although the individual attacks of these laser beams were limited, and most of them did not even reach the defensive threshold of the Immortal Realm Five Elements Celestial Energy Shield, they could only cause a minimal 1 point of damage. However, the sheer number of laser beams was overwhelming, and the cumulative effect was causing the shield’s value to steadily decrease.
After a rapid descent of several dozen seconds, the two warships finally passed through the outer fire control area.
At this point, the energy shields of the two warships clearly showed that the Sky Dome’s shield was significantly brighter, indicating a higher remaining shield value. The five-color light shield was also slowly recharging.
In contrast, the energy shield of the White Rose Cruiser was noticeably dimmer.
Noticing this, Answei’s eyes flickered with light. She knew that the White Rose Cruiser was equipped with a red-quality energy shield on the Sky Dome’s shield armor on the White Rose Cruiser, and it was evident that the White Rose Cruiser’s shield was significantly weaker.
"Where’s your brother?!"
Suddenly, the two warships passed through a new isolation barrier, and a new space appeared before Song Chi and Answei.
The area they had just passed through was just the outer corridor of the ruins, and now they were officially inside the ruins.
Glancing around, Song Chi’s eyes showed a slight surprise.
He discovered that the two ember warships were now in a massive underground square space.
The entire space, made of special metal, seemed to stretch endlessly. Large mechanical devices stood on both sides of this underground space, and energy gates divided the space into multiple sections, extending far into the distance. At a glance, there were no fewer than ten energy gates.
It was also evident that the four nearest enclosed areas had already been connected, with the energy gates between them completely destroyed. The energy transmission nodes below the gates were charred and corroded, and the items within these four areas had already been stripped clean, clearly the work of Answei.
As Song Chi quickly gathered information, Answei continued to provide additional details.
"Behind the third energy gate, there were several types of mechanized creatures. There were large numbers of bipedal mechanical dogs, and thousands of tank mechs with second-rank combat power, as well as thousands of third-rank Hellfire mechs and one fourth-rank Hellfire mech!"
After explaining, Answei added with a hint of frustration:
"The tank mechs weren’t much of a problem, but the Hellfire mechs were the real issue. Each of their individual attacks reached the third-rank level. When thousands of them combined their firepower, it almost brought down the White Rose Cruiser. So, I didn’t dare to continue attacking the area behind the fourth energy gate..."
After hearing this, Song Chi had a basic understanding.
"Let’s move directly. With the combined combat power of our two cruisers, we shouldn’t be held back by the mechanical guardians behind the fourth energy gate..."
With that, the two didn’t hesitate and the warships continued to advance. When they were less than ten thousand meters from the fourth energy gate, the turrets on both warships began to rotate.
Continuous explosions echoed through the underground space as the warships concentrated their fire on the energy transmission area below the gate, which would significantly speed up the destruction of the energy gate.
However, even with this concentrated fire, the two warships took several days to finally destroy the energy gate, highlighting its extraordinary defensive capabilities.
It’s worth noting that both the Sky Dome and the White Rose Cruiser were equipped with main cannons that had been enhanced to the fifth-rank level. The fact that the energy gate could withstand such sustained bombardment was truly astonishing.
"Answei, do you know what level of civilization the Sky Dominion mechanical civilization is?"
The strength of the energy gate made Song Chi question the nature of the Sky Dominion mechanical civilization. It didn’t seem like a nascent mechanical civilization; it might be a highly advanced and developed one.
If that were the case, the mechanical constructs behind the subsequent energy gates could be even more formidable, and caution was necessary.
Answei shook her head, admitting that despite exploring four areas, she hadn’t uncovered more specific information about the Sky Dominion mechanical civilization.
No matter how strong the energy gate’s defenses were, they could only be gradually worn down by the continuous bombardment from the two cruisers.
On the eighth day since entering the underground ruins, Song Chi spoke up.
"Get ready, the energy gate is about to break!"
With that, both of them were on high alert. About ten minutes later, as the thousands of meters long sword light phantom landed on the energy gate’s lower area, a sudden sizzling sound grew louder and then abruptly stopped as the fourth energy gate finally collapsed.
Without hesitation, Song Chi pressed the firing button.
Two specially designed cobalt bombs dropped from the external launchers and sped toward the distant area.
After a brief flight, two intense explosions followed.
In the violent shockwave caused by the cobalt bombs, the continuous barrage of laser beams from the other side of the energy gate paused for a moment. Seizing this opportunity, the Sky Dome and the White Rose Cruiser continued to fire, trying to eliminate as many of the mechanical units behind the fourth energy gate as possible.
Once the energy shockwave subsided, Song Chi and Answei finally saw the situation in the fifth area of the ruins.
Densely packed bipedal mechanical dogs with mini laser cannons, tens of thousands of second-rank tank mechs, thousands of third-rank Hellfire mechs, and two fourth-rank Hellfire mechs, each towering three thousand meters tall.
"Whew!"
Seeing this, Answei sucked in a breath, her delicate face showing a hint of hesitation.
In contrast, Song Chi’s expression remained calm.
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