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Chapter 453: The Might of the Autonomous Subbrain Mechanism
Chapter 453: The Might of the Autonomous Subbrain Mechanism
Time passed, and half a year later...
Three battleships, multiple six-rank enslaved creatures, the Heaven Ruin Skydome and its subordinate enslaved legions, and over ten thousand Hellfire Battle Armors—this formidable force had thoroughly transformed the Abyss Devils.
With this lineup, the Song Family's achievements over the past six months were astonishing. Whether it was the area they cleared or the number of Tribulation Star Races they eliminated, they far surpassed the other families within the joint fleet.
In just half a year, they had completed the clearing of the entire Zone E-08, adjacent to Zone E-07. However, behind this impressive record, the other families of the joint fleet naturally began to resist and boycott them.
Although no one dared to make a move due to the monitoring of the entire battlefield by the Planet Destroyer Ship 'Encircling Wolf Jushan' outside the Floating Shield, they subtly united to exclude the Song Family's fleet.
Calamity Star Floating Land, Zone E-08, Song Family Fleet Assembly Point.
High-level Communication Group Chat:
"Song Xingru: Since they've taken the initiative to push us aside, why should we still stick around? Let's just act independently!"
"Song Dingbang: If only it were that simple. This is a Level 7 Floating Land. Once we encounter a large Tribulation Star Race team, even with our million warships, we won't even create a single splash!"
"Song Tianhao: Contact the Ancestor. We must handle this matter with caution; otherwise, if something goes wrong, it will be a disaster for our Song Family!"
...
After discussing for a while, Song Dingbang finally activated a special communication card left by Song Wujang.
Deep in the sky, the two Intrepid Ships of the Song Family were still jointly fighting the enemy when the Ocean Anchor Soaring Ship suddenly received an encrypted transmission.
After reading the message, Song Wujang turned to Song Shiyuan and said,
"Since they've pushed us aside, we might as well act independently! But this also means..."
Understanding the situation, Song Shiyuan frowned,
"This is indeed very troublesome. It's too risky for us to act alone on this Calamity Star Floating Land!"
As he spoke, his gaze shifted, and he looked back at Song Wujang.
Compared to Song Wujang, his social circle was larger, and he might have more solutions in this situation.
However, the reply he received next left him in astonishment.
"We can only ask them to contact the Morningstar Family. If our two families can act together, our safety will increase significantly!"
"The Morningstar Family?"
Song Shiyuan did not hide his confusion.
But Song Wujang did not elaborate, merely saying casually,
"It's a long story. It's not appropriate to discuss it now. Just don't underestimate that old fox, Rosetta. If there are no major surprises, there might be an even greater cooperation between our two families, which could be the key to establishing the foundation for our Song Family's future for tens of thousands of years!"
Song Shiyuan seemed deep in thought, with many questions in his mind, but in the end, he did not voice them. It was not a good habit to be distracted during battle.
...
"The Morningstar Family?"
Zone E-08, at the moment they received the Ancestor's reply, the crowd of elders in the family was also filled with confusion.
"Since it's the Ancestor's order, let's give it a try. If there wasn't prior preparation, the Ancestor wouldn't give such an instruction."
Song Dingbang's words calmed the crowd in the group chat. Immediately, an elder who had once managed the foreign affairs department took the initiative to send a communication to the Morningstar Family.
As the manager of the foreign affairs department, this elder had the communication of multiple other families' Deer Hunt Ship captains on his special communication component.
Just as Song Dingbang said, it seemed that the two Ancestors had indeed made a special deal. Within just a few minutes, the Morningstar Family agreed to the request for the two families to join forces, and the matter progressed exceptionally smoothly.
A few days later, the Morningstar Family fleet, having left the joint fleet, successfully joined the Song Family fleet. Together, the number of their warships exceeded three million, a scale that already possessed basic self-preservation capabilities.
With the addition of the Morningstar Family, the two fleets had no more reservations and continued to clear the surrounding areas at the fastest speed.
In the blink of an eye, another two months passed.
On this day, a howl suddenly reverberated through the sky, echoing across the entire Calamity Star Floating Land.
The terrifying noise immediately startled all the Flame Captains within the Floating Land, including the Tribulation Star Races.
However, their reactions were completely different.
The Flame Captains under the Radiant Han Kingdom felt more fear and unease, while the Tribulation Star Races, as if stimulated, began to emit steaming blood mist from their bodies, a sign of collective frenzy.
Song Family and Morningstar Family Joint Command Fleet Group Chat:
"Ma Long Morningstar: According to our Morningstar Family's records, that should be the howl of the Floating Land's Primordial Will."
Hearing the words of this Morningstar Family Battleship Captain, the Song Family members, who had not heard of this term before, looked at each other in confusion, but they did not ignore it.
"Song Xingru: The howl of the Floating Land's Primordial Will? What is that?"
The Morningstar Family members were not surprised.
The Song Family's inheritance was only three thousand years old, compared to the Morningstar Family's inheritance of over seven thousand years, it was normal to have differences in their foundation and various literature and records.
Ma Long Morningstar continued,
"The howl of the Floating Land's Primordial Will, also known as the final call of the Floating Land's Primordial Will, is a phenomenon that occurs only on Level 7 and above Floating Lands. When the Floating Land's Primordial Core is weakened to the extreme, and the Primordial Will is about to be extinguished, it launches its final counterattack."
"This means that the primordial rules of the Calamity Star Floating Land will be greatly weakened soon, but the darkness before dawn is often the most terrifying. The Cataclysmic Tribes summoned by the will of the Floating Land will go all out, even burning their own lifeforce, to deal the heaviest blow to us invaders!"
"Song Xingru: But..."
Before Song Xingru could ask further, the group chat was already filled with the voices of Song Dingbang and a Veteran Battleship Marshal from the Morning Star Family.
"A large number of high-rank Cataclysmic Tribes are rapidly approaching us. There are at least four 6th Rank Cataclysmic Tribes, forty 5th Rank, and nearly six hundred 4th Rank."
Hearing this, the two families' high-ranking members were shocked.
If these high-rank Cataclysmic Tribes were allowed to charge into the fleet and slaughter, the ordinary clan members of both families would face unimaginable losses.
For these high-ranking members to escape was easy; they could simply use a single jump to easily break free. However, the ordinary clan members below them couldn't do the same. If they were left unattended, and if the casualties among the lower-ranking members were too high, both families might even face the danger of extinction in the future.
With this in mind, the reactions of the two families' high-ranking members were in perfect harmony.
"Song Dingbang: Alright, the four 6th Rank Cataclysmic Tribes, our two families will each take on two. As for the 5th and 4th Rank Cataclysmic Tribes, let's have our people below coordinate to intercept them, how about that?"
"Agreed!"
...
Song Family High Command Channel:
"Song Dingbang: Immediately pass down the order, organize the family fleet to evacuate in batches, remember, they must not panic!"
"Additionally, the two 6th Rank Cataclysmic Tribes will be handled by me, Tianhao, and Xingru. Song Chi, you do your best to block those 5th Rank Cataclysmic Tribes."
"Grandson, you can hold back one 6th Rank on your own..."
Before Song Chi could finish, he was interrupted by Song Dingbang.
"Song Chi, follow the orders. With three 6th Rank enslaved creatures and our three Battleships, we can handle two 6th Rank Cataclysmic Tribes. But you're different, you have a 6th Rank Abyss Devil, you need to command it in real-time to control its enslaved legion to intercept as many 5th Rank Cataclysmic Tribes as possible. There are over forty 5th Rank Cataclysmic Tribes, and besides you, there aren't many Deer Hunt Ships in the clan that can deal with the enraged 5th Rank Cataclysmic Tribes. Your task is heavy!"
Hearing this, Song Chi nodded.
"Grandson understands!"
Under Song Dingbang's orders, the family's million battleships evacuated in an orderly manner in batches. However, besides the Deer Hunt Ships and Battleships, there were still thousands of Hellfire Battle Armors left on the battlefield, not all of them belonging to the Song Family. The Morning Star Family also had quite a few.
It wasn't just Song Chi who had obtained the complete set of Hellfire Battle Armor manufacturing blueprints; Anserai had also submitted the blueprints to the family. With the Morning Star Family's heritage, they naturally developed the Hellfire Battle Armor.
The Hellfire Battle Armors of the two families had some differences in appearance, but their performance was more or less the same. According to the information shared between the two families, the Song Family had brought over fourteen thousand Hellfire Battle Armors into the Calamity Star Floating Land, while the Morning Star Family had fewer, just over eight thousand.
However, at this moment, there were only five thousand Hellfire Battle Armors here. Even if they added the thousand each left for the evacuating fleets, there were only around seven thousand in total, less than a third of what they had when they arrived.
The reason for this was the consumption of war over the past year.
Take the Song Family, for example; since entering the Calamity Star Floating Land, the family's achievements in the past year have been astonishing, yet they had only lost two Deer Hunt Ships. Why? It was because they had a large number of Hellfire Battle Armors to assist and scout ahead.
Although the Hellfire Battle Armors had powerful firepower, their close combat was a weakness. Once approached by a same-rank Cataclysmic Tribe, even if several Battle Armors joined forces, they couldn't match a 4th Rank Cataclysmic Tribe. Under this premise, the losses of Hellfire Battle Armors had remained high.
Fortunately, when the two families were clearing out the various Cataclysmic Tribe cities, the ordinary starships following behind had also scavenged various ready-made resources, so overall, the gains were far greater than the losses.
Looking at the five thousand Hellfire Battle Armors standing by, the nearly three hundred Deer Hunt Ship Marshals of the two families finally felt a bit more at ease.
The Calamity Star group seemed to possess a spatial Artifact, and with the group teleportation effect of this Artifact, they quickly arrived at the defense line set up by the two families' high-ranking members.
There was no communication.
Both sides already had a deep-rooted hatred, one being the invaders who had slaughtered their way here, and the other being the defenders who would burn their lives to protect their homeland. The battle quickly erupted.
Several Battleships and the four 6th Rank Cataclysmic Tribes immediately soared into the high sky, opening up a battlefield tens of thousands of miles above.
As for the more than forty 5th Rank Cataclysmic Tribes and nearly six hundred 4th Rank, they mixed with over two hundred Deer Hunt Ships and hundreds of enslaved creatures, engaging in a chaotic battle. Behind them, the five thousand Hellfire Battle Armors seized the opportunity to provide rounds of fire support from time to time.
Clang!
After the sharp sound of metal collision, the Heaven Ruin Skydome was pushed back hundreds of thousands of meters by the terrifying strength of the 5th Rank Cataclysmic Tribe.
The Cataclysmic Tribes' bodies were already strong, and with their constant tempering under the Death Cataclysm Star, even if they couldn't match the Eight-Armed Serpent or the Starry Sky Beast, they wouldn't be far off. Moreover, at this moment, they were in a state of life-burning frenzy, making the power they could unleash in each strike even more terrifying.
Even with the strength of the Lv.69 Neutron Star Core Armor, it was still a little overwhelming.
In addition to the Fifth Rank Cataclysmic Tribes that the Heaven Ruin Skydome directly blocked, the One-Eyed Ogre and Flame Wrath Giants each blocked five, and the enslaved legions under the Abyss Devil had blocked ten Fifth Rank Cataclysmic Tribes and dozens of Fourth Rank Cataclysmic Tribes.
In other words, with the strength of Song Chi alone, he had blocked more than half of the Fifth Rank Cataclysmic Tribes and one-tenth of the Fourth Rank Cataclysmic Tribes.
However, even so, the overall situation was still grim for both families.
Despite the support of the firepower from the thousands of Hellfire Battle Armors at the rear, the key issue was that these Cataclysmic Tribes had the blessing of the Floating Continent Primordial rules and the boost from burning their lives, effectively doubling their strength and pushing them to the limits of their current ranks.
In other words, what they faced were nearly six hundred Pre-5th Rank, forty Pre-6th Rank, and four Pre-7th Rank Cataclysmic Tribes attacking with reckless abandon.
Given this, it was normal for them to be at a disadvantage.
Song Chi's heart was filled with urgency as he saw that several er Hunt Ships had already sustained severe damage. If this continued, the balance of the battle would soon be completely upset.
Shua!
A subtle wave of energy emerged from the Heaven Ruin Skydome, eventually forming a Temporal Barrier that covered an area of 100,000 kilometers.
Within this barrier, almost all objects were affected by a tenfold slowdown of time, except for the Heaven Ruin Skydome, its subordinate enslaved creatures, and over ten of Song Family's strongest er Hunt Ships.
These ten-odd er Hunt Ships were recognized as allies by the Temporal Barrier due to their "Neutron Link" characteristic.
As Song Chi's gaze swept over the surrounding Cataclysmic Tribes, who had all slowed down tenfold, he quickly spoke in the group chat:
"The domain can only last for half an hour. Everyone, give it your all!"
Upon hearing his words, over ten clan elders led by Song Tian Shu and Song Tian Mang nodded and swiftly took action, employing their most powerful methods to attack the surrounding Cataclysmic Tribes whose movements had slowed.
Song Chi also quickly activated the attack attributes on several of the warship's components that had not yet entered the cooldown phase.
But that wasn't all. He turned his gaze to the side and looked at the Sky Dome Artificial Intelligence System component.
"Autonomous Subbrain Mechanism," activate!
Without hesitation, this characteristic, which had never been used in actual combat before, was directly activated.
Chi-—
The airlock of the Heaven Ruin Skydome opened, and in the midst of the many sluggish gazes around, a series of mini Hellfire Battle Armors emerged from the hangar.
As soon as they left the hangar, the scaling effect on these mini Hellfire Battle Armors dissipated, and a thousand hundred-meter-tall Hellfire Battle Armors hovered neatly around the Heaven Ruin Skydome.
Ding!
Even though the Hellfire Battle Armors had no pilots inside, those integrated with the Sky Dome Artificial Intelligence System were unaffected. Under the remote control of the Sky Dome Artificial Intelligence System on the Heaven Ruin Skydome, they quickly opened the weapon slots on their shoulders.
Two thousand Fourth Rank weapon slots, plus the special nuclear ray guns in the hands of the Hellfire Battle Armors, formed three thousand Fourth Rank cannons that, at the command of the Sky Dome Artificial Intelligence System, simultaneously fired upon the more than twenty Fifth Rank Cataclysmic Tribes.
Boom, boom, boom!
At that moment, with the Heaven Ruin Skydome as the center, the entire sky seemed to transform into an ocean of laser fire.
However, this was still not enough. Ordinary Fourth Rank cannons couldn't inflict fatal damage to these dozens of Cataclysmic Tribes with Pre-5th Rank strength.
Just then, the forty-two "Quantum Sword Light Phantoms" at the bow of the Heaven Ruin Skydome solidified and roared, firing at the more than twenty Fifth Rank Cataclysmic Tribes.
Song Chi activated all the remaining less than 1,000 points of black hole energy in the Black Hole Evolution Layer, and each of the forty-two quantum sword light phantoms carried 23 points of black hole energy. As long as they landed on the Fifth Rank Cataclysmic Tribes, they would undoubtedly create a powerful space collapse effect.
Quantum sword lights shot out, and boundless sharp sword intent spread.
Roar, roar, roar!
The Cataclysmic Tribes wailed. In just this round of bombardment, sixteen of the twenty-six Fifth Rank Cataclysmic Tribes gathered around the Heaven Ruin Skydome were killed, and the remaining ten were quickly eliminated under the continuous attack of the thousand Hellfire Battle Armors.
After eliminating all the Fifth Rank Cataclysmic Tribes, Song Chi instructed the Sky Dome Artificial Intelligence System to shift the target of the thousand Hellfire Battle Armors to all the Fourth Rank Cataclysmic Tribes.
In this way, the thousand Hellfire Battle Armors continued their attack for half an hour, until the end of the Whirling Time Domain's duration. In total, more than two hundred Cataclysmic Tribes fell to Song Chi and the dozen or so clan elders, including nearly thirty Fifth Rank Cataclysmic Tribes.
Without a doubt, Song Chi alone had eliminated over half of the Cataclysmic Tribes' combat power.
When the flow of time around them returned to normal, not only the Song Family elders but also the more than one hundred er Hunt Ship captains from the Morning Star Family looked at the Heaven Ruin Skydome with astonished and shocked eyes.
Song Chi's actions this time were truly worthy of turning the entire battle situation around with his own strength.
(End of Chapter)
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