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Chapter 678: All Means Exhausted
Chapter 678: All Means Exhausted
As he observed the dense blood-red shadows ahead, like a torrential rain, Song Chi's heart sank a little.
At least there was some good news. Under the concentrated fire of numerous secondary cannons, these blood shadows, though still approaching, were significantly slowed down by the combined deceleration effects of the Cold Light Frost Cannon and the Lunar Shadow Cannon.
Especially the Lunar Shadow Cannon, a black-quality secondary cannon, which had been enhanced to LV80 long ago. Although its power was still somewhat lacking, its rate of fire was unparalleled.
Moreover, with the Tianxu Skyvault being a dreadnought, each secondary cannon, once loaded, would immediately generate 9,999 module projections, in addition to the components themselves. This was equivalent to having 10,000 Lunar Shadow Cannons on the Tianxu Skyvault. Under the effect of the "Cold Moon Triple Round," each round could unleash 30,000 "Cold Moons."
With this, it was easy to cover the tens of thousands of blood-red creatures rushing forward.
Taking advantage of the significantly reduced speed of these blood-red creatures, the Qiong Tian Smart Brain naturally urged the main cannons and super main cannons to attack frantically, while the secondary cannons could only provide auxiliary support. To truly annihilate these blood-red creatures, they had to rely on the main cannons and super main cannons.
Unfortunately, despite the Qiong Tian Smart Brain's impressive computational power, the number of main cannons and super main cannons on the Tianxu Skyvault was limited.
Two super main cannons
Four main cannons
Even with the significant cooldown reduction bonus provided by the Time Chessboard, charging them still required time. This meant they couldn't attack relentlessly like the secondary cannons.
In this situation, where the killing speed couldn't keep up, the Qiong Tian Smart Brain quickly implemented a backup plan.
Sizzle—
As the warship's hatch opened, dozens of eighth-tier flame sprite terracotta soldiers and dozens of seventh-tier shadow-killing terracotta soldiers rushed out of the ship, flying towards the dense blood shadows in the distance.
These seventh and eighth-tier terracotta soldiers, while unable to pose a significant threat to sovereign-level creatures, were excellent for dealing with fourth, fifth, and even sixth-tier units.
Additionally, on the bodies of these terracotta soldiers, a single-target shield was affixed, provided by the Plasma Guardian component, which had just been enhanced to the eighth tier. With a real shield value of 240 billion, once activated, it could last for three hours, more than enough to turn these hundreds of puppet soldiers into grim reapers of life.
With the assistance of these puppet soldiers, the blood-red creatures approaching from the front were finally suppressed to some extent. However, before Song Chi could even catch his breath, the urgent alert sound in his ear caused his expression to darken once more.
[Warning: The number of life energy signatures within the blood mist ahead is rapidly surging. The current number has exceeded 140,000... 150,000... 200,000...]
The alert naturally came from the Qiong Tian Smart Brain, but the one detecting this information was the Eyes of Heaven. Song Chi had no doubt about the accuracy of this golden sky-scanning radar, as under the watchful gaze of the shadow of the double pupils in his eyes, a large number of blood shadows had once again emerged from the blood mist in the distance.
How could Song Chi be happy when, after such a long time of the Tianxu Skyvault's all-out attack, the number of enemy units was not decreasing but increasing?
[Warning: The number of life energy signatures within the blood mist has exceeded 200,000...]
Upon hearing this warning, Song Chi's eyes flashed with determination. Without interfering with the Qiong Tian Smart Brain's control, he issued an order.
"Smart Brain, activate the 'Ten Thousand Purple Sky Thunder Prison' of the Purple Sky Thunder Cannon and blast that blood mist!"
As one of the few area-of-effect attack capabilities on the Tianxu Skyvault, the 'Ten Thousand Purple Sky Thunder Prison' could activate ten thousand purple sky thunder talismans at once. Although these talismans were powerful, they could usually cover more than a million enemy units at once. But this was no ordinary situation.
Not to mention that the blood-red creatures emerging from the blood mist were at least fourth-tier units, which was already highly abnormal. Under these circumstances, 200,000 was the limit.
As the main control room of the warship glowed with golden light, the Purple Sky Thunder Cannon officially began charging. When the charging was complete, space ripples appeared around the blood mist in the distance, followed by the appearance of purple energy talismans emitting thunderous light.
Boom!
The ten thousand purple sky thunders erupted simultaneously, creating a scene that could only be described as a thunderous realm within the blood-red world.
In the main control room of the warship, Song Chi stared intently at the radar screen before him.
'Eight thousand... nearly half were annihilated in one go. Not bad.'
After the thunderous bombardment, only eight thousand life energy light points remained on the radar, meaning over twelve thousand crimson-colored life forms had been annihilated in a matter of seconds.
Song Chi was naturally satisfied with the result.
"What a pity..."
Once again, he opened the warship promotion task panel, shaking his head helplessly.
【Warship Promotion Task (Tianxu Skyvault)】
【Current Promotion Success Rate: 76.001% (Initial 0.001% + Bathing in 8th-level Tartarian Hydra Blood 15% + Bathing in 7th-level Octopoded Serpent Mammoth Blood 3% + Nine-turn Spirit Fruit 10% + Top-tier Energy Crystal 10% + 7th-level Ruler Source Blood 12% + 8th-level Common Ruler Blood 1% + Special Resource Recipe 10% + Divine Serpent Blood Crystal 8% + Law of Light Insight 5% + Law of Space Insight 2%】
【Promotion Special Resource Recipe (3/3): Space Fragment 1, Extreme Stone 1, Silver Starlet Mother 1】
【Additional Promotion Resources: 7th-level Ruler Source Blood, Common 8th-level Ruler Blood, Nine-turn Spirit Fruit, Divine Serpent Blood Crystal】
【Bathing in Alien Blood: 8th-level Tartarian Hydra (15%), 7th-level Octopoded Serpent Mammoth (3%)】
Even after killing countless crimson-colored life forms, the promotion success rate of Tianxu Skyvault showed no signs of improvement.
If his guess was correct, Song Chi surmised that these crimson-colored life forms might not belong to the normal Stellar Sea biological category. Otherwise, the numerous 5th-level life forms killed just now would have had some effect, and there would not be such a lack of change.
With no bonus to the warship promotion, Song Chi couldn't fathom what the additional reward was that Tanlang Palace Master had mentioned.
He even had his enslaved creatures bring back several bodies of the crimson-colored life forms, only to find that their source blood couldn't be extracted, rendering the bodies virtually worthless.
Given these two factors, Song Chi couldn't see any potential value in these unknown life forms.
'Could it be to enhance my combat experience?'
Unable to fathom the reason, Song Chi didn't dwell on it further.
In his opinion, since Tanlang Palace Master had specifically instructed him to kill as many of these crimson-colored life forms as possible, given the other party's status, it was unlikely to be a baseless request. So, Song Chi's idea was simple: giving it his all couldn't be wrong.
Perhaps stimulated by the 'Ten Thousand Amulets Purple Sky Thunder Prison', after annihilating nearly half of the crimson-colored life forms in one go, the distant blood mist began to pulsate like a beating heart.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Each pulse resonated like thunder in a clear sky, echoing throughout the crimson-colored space.
Song Chi, inside the Tianxu Skyvault, was shielded from all sounds by the warship's hull.
Subsequently, Song Chi was astonished to discover that with each pulse, the blood mist expanded outward, and due to the lack of reaction time, a dozen nearby puppet soldiers were directly engulfed by the expanding blood mist, even when Song Chi summoned them with his brainwave imprint at the first opportunity, it was to no avail.
After being engulfed by the blood mist, the dozen 7th and 8th-level puppet soldiers were like stones sinking into the ocean, with no response.
Turning to the Tianxu Skyvault, the 【Fire Sprite Puppet Soldier Tree】 and 【Void Shadow Killer Clan Puppet Soldier Tree】 components had each lost several puppet soldiers.
Before he could delve further into this, after three pulses, the blood mist, which had already expanded significantly, once again emanated a massive amount of life energy.
This time, it was even more exaggerated. Although the number remained at two hundred thousand, there were no 4th-level life forms, the lowest being 5th-level, with over ten thousand 6th-level, and the 7th-level ruler-class life forms had directly doubled, reaching several dozen.
Upon seeing this detection result, Song Chi's heart sank.
Swish, swish!
Countless crimson shadows burst out of the blood mist, and even with the slowing effect of the secondary cannons, these shadows were approaching at an alarming speed.
Without a single mistake, one by one, they were coming!
As the crimson-colored life forms' levels continued to rise, their resistance to negative effects like slowing and freezing also increased.
In just a few seconds, the distance between them and the Tianxu Skyvault had shrunk by nearly half. If this continued, it wouldn't be long before these hundreds of thousands of crimson-colored life forms made direct contact with the Tianxu Skyvault's hull. Even with its supposedly peerless defense among its tier, Song Chi didn't want these life forms to get too close.
This was no joke; there were over ten thousand 5th-level units, over ten thousand 6th-level, and several dozen 7th-level ruler-class life forms. If they were allowed to get too close, no matter how formidable the Tianxu Skyvault's defense was, there would be a significant risk of sinking.
With this in mind, the Tianxu Skyvault's cabin doors soon opened again, and under the control of one thousand Tianzi Brains, five thousand Hellfire Mechas and five thousand 5th-level Marrow Void Mechas rushed out in an orderly fashion.
As soon as they exited the cabin, the volume of these ten thousand miniature mechanical combat units began to expand continuously. In the blink of an eye, the Hellfire Mechas expanded to a hundred meters in size, while the Marrow Void-Traveling Mechas expanded even more dramatically, reaching the standard height of ten thousand meters for a 5th Tier unit.
Only after this step were the combat capabilities of both types of mecha fully restored.
The powerful computing power provided by the Qiong Tianzi Brain allowed these ten thousand mechas to act with remarkable agility.
The five thousand Hellfire Mechas, with only 4th Tier combat power, were all dispersed on both sides of the Tianxu Skyvault. They provided long-range fire support with their nuclear ray cannons, which had the power of a 4th Tier peak unit.
The five thousand Marrow Void-Traveling Mechas, with 5th Tier combat power and the ability to freely travel through the void, entered the void and rapidly traversed the dark side of the void sea. With their ghostly and unpredictable nature, they continuously hunted down blood-colored beings of the 5th Tier.
The effect of the five thousand Marrow Void-Traveling Mechas working together was very evident.
The dense blood shadows that were rapidly approaching began to fall like shooting stars.
After the 5th Tier blood-colored beings were killed by the Marrow Void-Traveling Mechas, their corpses no longer had external support and could only fall rapidly under the influence of gravity.
However, these corpses were mostly 5th Tier blood-colored beings, and the Marrow Void-Traveling Mechas' combat power was not enough to cause fatal damage to 6th Tier units, let alone Sovereign-level beings.
Fortunately, Song Chi didn't need to worry about this. The Qiong Tianzi Brain had its own judgment capabilities, and their targets would only be 5th Tier units. For those 6th Tier blood-colored beings, the strategy was to simply avoid them.
After the [Plasma Guardian] component was upgraded to golden quality, the "Plasma Shield" it activated could be applied to large units. Therefore, the Plasma Shield was also applied to the more than a hundred Marrow Void-Traveling Mechas at the forefront, allowing them to have enough buffer time to retreat even when targeted by 6th Tier or even Sovereign-level beings.
As for the Marrow Void-Traveling Mechas following behind, they could actively avoid them.
In this situation, while the five thousand Marrow Void-Traveling Mechas achieved significant victories, their own damage rate was frighteningly low, which was the most satisfying aspect for Song Chi.
Don't be fooled by the fact that there were always five thousand Marrow Void-Traveling Mechas on the Tianxu Skyvault. It doesn't mean that they have been mass-produced. In fact, after hundreds of years of in-depth research, the Song family's technology department successfully overcame all technical difficulties related to the Marrow Void-Traveling Mechas and achieved self-manufacturing and assembly. However, due to the short time since the breakthrough and limited production lines, the production speed is very slow.
Song Chi's side has the full support of his family, almost monopolizing all the Marrow Void-Traveling Mechas currently produced on the Dragon Spine Continent, which is why he was able to barely accumulate five thousand of them.
If not for this, why would he have left five thousand Hellfire Mechas?
Compared to the current combat power of the Tianxu Skyvault, the 4th Tier Hellfire Mechas have long fallen behind, and even the Marrow Void-Traveling Mechas will face the same situation after the subsequent promotion to Star Destroyer.
Intercepting a large number of 5th Tier blood-colored beings in the middle of their journey significantly reduced the pressure on the Tianxu Skyvault. However, there was no way to deal with the 6th Tier blood-colored beings. Even though the Qiong Tian Smart Brain had already switched the targets of the main cannons and super main cannons on the warship to these 6th Tier units, as time passed, thousands of 6th Tier blood-colored beings still approached the Tianxu Skyvault's hull.
Song Chi even noticed several 7th Tier blood-colored beings among them. The raging blood-colored energy rushed in like a tidal wave, and before thousands of blood-colored beings got close, the energy shield outside the Tianxu Skyvault's hull had already started rippling.
[Warning: The warship's energy shield is damaged by external alien energy. Current energy shield value remaining: 98.85%...]
[Detected damage to the warship's energy shield. "Neutron Star Pulse" and "Yin Yang - Mutual Generation" characteristics have been activated, and the energy shield value has been restored to 100%...]
After the Sheng Guang Zhi Dun shattered, the Yin Yang Dui Chong Min Mie Hu Dun could initially maintain balance, until more than a dozen 7th Tier blood-colored beings appeared together. Under the overwhelming power of the Sovereign-level beings, the repair speed could no longer keep up with the energy shield's consumption.
PS: The main character is about to be promoted. What are everyone's thoughts on the Star Destroyer Captain's [Royal Name]?
How about [Qiong Yu Wang]?
(End of Chapter)
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