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Chapter 496: Angelic Sovereign's True Spirit Shadow
Chapter 496: Angelic Sovereign's True Spirit Shadow
The man's words were not wrong, but Song Chi didn't feel the need to apologize.
In a polite tone, he was essentially saying that they were afraid of the combat power of the Heaven Ruin Skydome. Otherwise, they wouldn't have waited a year; they probably wouldn't have even waited a month.
In the end, it all came down to the strength of their fists.
After a moment of silence, Song Chi spoke,
"That was then, and this is now. The Pan family is now under my protection, so it's only reasonable for me to act at this time, isn't it?"
"You!"
...
The middle-aged man's expression darkened as he listened to Song Chi's casual tone, his gaze toward Song Chi turning cold.
After a long stare-down, the captain of the Ultimate Battleship in the center finally spoke,
"What if I, the Annan Corporation, disagree? If my men take action, it seems you won't be able to interfere!"
Song Chi remained unmoved, unaffected by the man's words. His voice remained calm.
"Then you can try. I want to see if the remaining value of the Pan family is higher, or if the hundreds and thousands of exotic colonial points of the Annan Corporation are more important. Oh, and I forgot to remind you, the Pan family has already handed over the detailed coordinates of more than three hundred exotic colonial star domains to me..."
The conversation between the two parties wasn't fast, allowing the two Zhi Lu Fleet Captains, inside and outside the Phoenix Continent, to maintain a strange standoff.
The coordinates of more than three hundred exotic colonial star domains of the Annan Corporation that Song Chi mentioned were not just empty words. The three Battleship Captains of the Annan Corporation had extremely unpleasant expressions, but they still didn't dare to order their fleets to attack, which said a lot.
The Pan family had been fighting with the Annan Corporation for thousands of years, so how could they not have any information about the corporation?
Seeing the other party's silence, Song Chi took the initiative to make a suggestion.
"Of course, no one wants to push things to the point of no return. I have a suggestion, and it's up to you to accept it or not..."
"What suggestion?"
"Just like before, let's go to the nearest cosmic battlefield. As compensation for keeping the promise, all three of you can come along!"
The casual tone, which didn't seem forced, caused the three Battleship Captains of the Annan Corporation to simultaneously stiffen. For a moment, no one responded.
To suggest such a thing while facing three same-tier battleships alone, there were only two possibilities.
First, the person was extremely arrogant and ignorant of their ship's combat power.
Second, the person had absolute confidence in their ship and could easily take on multiple opponents, fighting above their tier.
In the eyes of the three Battleship Captains of the Annan Corporation, Song Chi was clearly not an arrogant person, so they hesitated.
Over the past year, they had fully utilized the corporation's intelligence network but had never found any information related to the Eastern Kunlun. This made Song Chi even more mysterious in their eyes, and his sudden proposal made them think twice.
Finally, the captain of the Ultimate Battleship broke the silence.
"Since you've taken the initiative to invite us, it would be unfair of us not to accept. It would make the Annan Corporation seem like we only pick on the weak."
"How about this? If we win, you will stop supporting the Pan family. And if we lose, the Annan Corporation will swear to never target the Pan family again. What do you say?"
Song Chi locked eyes with the old man, who looked extremely calm, and nodded.
"Agreed!"
After reaching an agreement, Song Chi left a message for the Pan family, telling them to wait patiently on the Phoenix Continent. Then, he set off with the three battleships of the Annan Corporation, heading towards a cosmic battlefield tens of thousands of light-years away.
...
This was a star belt filled with fragments of floating continents, and all valuable resources had long been exhausted. It was one of the many cosmic battlefields under the Silver Disc Galaxy.
In the center of the cleared vacuum zone within the star belt, four battleships were divided into two groups, facing off against each other.
In the battleship communication group chat, the aged captain of the Ultimate Battleship from the Annan Corporation spoke for the last time:
"My friend, once the battle starts, there's no turning back. If we're lucky, all four of us might make it out alive. But if luck isn't on our side, it's not impossible for us to perish here. The old master has roamed the starry seas for nearly four thousand years, and I believe our ship's combat power is not weak. Are you sure you've thought this through?"
"We're already at the cosmic battlefield. Let's cut the small talk!"
The two statements, one after the other, were followed by the sudden interruption of their communication. At the same time, the engines of the four battleships roared, and light converged at their bows, signaling the imminent battle.
The four battleships made the same choice, all opting to create distance and turn their hulls towards the rear.
Seeing this, the three Battleship Captains of the Annan Corporation looked confused.
Their decision to create distance was not wrong. With their numerical advantage, they could slowly wear down their opponent by keeping their distance and not allowing the Heaven Ruin Skydome to get close. They could use long-range concentrated fire to gradually defeat their opponent.
However, the Heaven Ruin Skydome was different. In a one-on-three situation, it should have been better to engage in close combat and defeat them one by one. Song Chi could guess what the Annan Corporation's captains were thinking, but he didn't stop. He continued to retreat at full speed.
In a normal situation, close combat would indeed be the best choice. But the Heaven Ruin Skydome was no ordinary battleship. The Yin-Yang Offset Annihilation Shield, a Golden Grade energy shield, and the Angelic Sovereign's Wing, a Golden Grade component, provided one of the strongest defenses for the Heaven Ruin Skydome.
If they engaged in close combat and allowed their ships to collide, these two layers of Golden Grade energy shields would be rendered useless. Song Chi would not make such an unwise decision.
Additionally, Song Chi had never considered the Heaven Ruin Skydome's firepower to be inferior to other battleships.
As the four battleships created a distance of nearly a million kilometers between them, the charging of their bow cannons was almost complete.
In the main control room of the Heaven Ruin Skydome, Song Chi's gaze fell on the battleship furthest to the left.
This battleship was a ten-kilometer-long vessel, indicating that its captain had not been in command for long. It was clearly the weakest of the three battleships from the Annan Corporation.
Under the substantialized shadow of the dual pupils, Song Chi's eyes were determined, and he locked his primary attack target on this battleship.
His idea was simple. In a one-on-three situation, he had to reduce the opponent's numbers quickly, and this weakest battleship was the easiest target.
The ten-thousand-meter-long Annihilation Arrow and the tens-of-thousands-of-meters-long True Immortal Quantum Sword Light erupted simultaneously, aiming directly at the leftmost ten-kilometer-long battleship.
"As expected, his target is the An Nam Far River. Be careful, Captain Three!"
Without the need for the other two captains to remind him, the captain of the An Nam Far River...
The Battleship Fleet Captain reacted swiftly. Prior to this, the three had discussed and agreed that the An Nam Far River was likely to be Song Chi's primary target, so he remained on high alert.
Sure enough, upon seeing that both attacks from the Heaven Ruin Skydome were aimed directly at him, the Third Director of the Annan Corporation did not hesitate to activate an orange teleportation module on his ship.
The next second, his expression changed abruptly.
"How is this possible? Why is the An Nam Far River still in its original position?"
After activating the teleportation module, he realized that the ship had not moved at all and remained in its original spot. Soon, he noticed a special chain that had appeared from the void at some point, locking the ship in place.
However, under the control of Elder Feng's divine consciousness, his reaction was still astonishing. After discovering that the first response plan had failed, he immediately implemented the second plan.
He activated the protective attribute of the red ship hull armor.
Before the True Immortal Quantum Blade Light and the Annihilation Arrow arrived, a second layer of dark red armor appeared on the hull of the An Nam Far River, and its red energy shield remained fully charged.
But even with this level of preparedness, the outcome far exceeded the expectations of the Annan Corporation's three directors.
The An Nam Far River's red energy shield, upon contact with the True Immortal Quantum Blade Light that had arrived earlier, lasted only for a moment before collapsing.
Song Chi, the main target, was not surprised by this. Although the An Nam Far River was also a battleship, due to the quality of the captain's Flame Seed, it only had an orange Flame Heritage hull. Under this limitation, all its components could only be enhanced up to level 59.
As a result, the red energy shield was already one tier lower than the Taiyi Quantum Blade Turret, and now with the difference in enhancement levels, it was natural that it could not withstand the attack of the True Immortal Quantum Blade Light.
After breaking through the An Nam Far River's energy shield, the weakened Quantum Blade Shadow once again fell on the dark red armor outside the ship's hull.
Finally, the terrifying explosive sword light tore open a one-kilometer gap in the dark red armor. This was not the end, as the Annihilation Arrow had just arrived.
This time, there was no significant explosion, and following the path of the gap opened by the True Immortal Quantum Blade Light, the Annihilation Arrow penetrated the An Nam Far River's hull.
During this process, it only received a slight weakening from the dark red armor, as well as some weakening from the ship's hull armor and the ship itself, before finally striking the Third Director of the Annan Corporation in the command bridge.
"Old Three!"
The voices of the other two battleship captains echoed through the fleet's communication channel, but there was no response.
Looking at the An Nam Far River, although the ship had dimmed significantly, it did not go silent. This indicated that the captain had been injured and temporarily lost control of the ship.
After this, the remaining three battleships coordinated and moved the battlefield to a distant location.
Several dozen minutes later...
[External attack detected. Ship energy shield damaged by 32%. Please repair promptly!]
Song Chi paid no attention to the AI's prompt.
After half an hour, the opponent had barely managed to extinguish the Holy Light granted by the Angelic Sovereign's Wing, causing only minor damage to the Yin-Yang Offset Annihilation Shield. He was not concerned about this.
It should be noted that this was because of the absence of a Sovereign-level Twelve-Winged Archangel. The Angelic Sovereign's Wing was currently only at the Sixth Rank, and the Holy Light Shield it provided was also at the Sixth Rank. If the Angelic Sovereign's Wing were to be enhanced to the Seventh Rank, Song Chi could not even imagine how much the defense of the Heaven Ruin Skydome would increase, reaching a level that could be considered abnormal.
At this moment, the two battleships of the Annan Corporation in the distance seemed to have made a decision. Knowing that the energy shield of the Heaven Ruin Skydome was far beyond their capabilities, they realized that their disadvantage would only grow if they continued this way. They decided to attempt a lightning strike to see if it would be effective.
A faint spatial fluctuation emanated from the ten-kilometer-long battleship of the Second Director of the Annan Corporation, followed by a lingering afterimage at its original location. When it reappeared, it was less than 100,000 kilometers away from the Heaven Ruin Skydome.
"It seems they're activating a special component with a range of only 100,000 kilometers," Song Chi concluded upon seeing the teleportation destination.
He was about to activate the teleportation ability of the Sky Escape Orb to reestablish distance, but he quickly realized that the Heaven Ruin Skydome had sunk, and the teleportation was unsuccessful.
"It seems to be a fixed-point spatial lockdown component of even higher quality than orange, but it can restrict the orange-quality Sky Escape Orb, but it may not be effective against the Angelic Sovereign's Wing."
In an instant, Song Chi's mind shifted to the "Angel Wing Teleportation" attribute of the Angelic Sovereign's Wing component.
Before he could activate this attribute, a chilling sense of dread surged through him.
His gaze shifted to the distant Limit Battleship.
As expected, at the bow of the Limit Battleship, a beam of annihilation with a diameter of over ten kilometers erupted.
The speed of this annihilation beam was terrifying, almost instantly piercing through the distance, leaving Song Chi with limited reaction time.
In this situation, Song Chi immediately activated the "Angelic Sovereign True Spirit Guard" attribute of the Angelic Sovereign's Wing, a defensive attribute with an extremely long cooldown time that he had never used in actual combat since obtaining this golden sanctum component.
Holy light suddenly shone, turning the entire starry sky into daylight. After this infinite holy light, a twelve-winged angel shadow that could be called heaven-covering and earth-shrouding descended upon the Heaven Ruin Skydome.
"Angelic Sovereign True Spirit Shadow!"
In the distance, the Limit Battleship Captain of the Annan Corporation, witnessing this scene, shouted in a mix of awe and anger.
Although both were twelve-winged sovereign-level angels, the features of a Great Archangel and an Angelic Sovereign were easily distinguishable. Ordinary twelve-winged archangels did not have the qualifications to wear an angel crown; only an eighth-rank Angelic Sovereign could do so.
The twelve-winged angel true spirit shadow that covered the Heaven Ruin Skydome wore a distinctive angel crown on its head.
With the appearance of the Angelic Sovereign True Spirit Shadow, the subsequent result was self-evident. Even though the Limit Battleship Captain of the Annan Corporation activated the silver super main cannon attack attribute, one of the two silver components enhanced to level 72, the annihilation beam could not harm the Heaven Ruin Skydome in the slightest under the protection of the Angelic Sovereign True Spirit Shadow.
(End of Chapter)
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