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𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟏𝟑: 𝐌𝐚𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐁𝐨𝐫𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐅𝐞𝐚𝐫 (4)
‘We need to press on with this.’
The bio-barrier was growing larger, consuming the corpses of its kin and the heat of their enemies.
Born on the planet designated as the 4th planet, the bio-barrier had become the Chimeraz’s main strategy against the Vehlpciaarct.
【Lead Core. The Chimeraz have made an aggressive move.】
【Intent suspicious. It seems that they have no intention of waiting for Anima’s forces to arrive. Or perhaps they intend to convey to us that they will not wait.】
【Be on guard and be suspicious. Force Core. At present, they are trying to gauge our response.】
【What about taking a defensive stance against the Chimeraz’s movements?】
【It’s not that threatening. Instead, in order to keep the enemy from reading our thoughts, we should present a consistent strategy and tactics.】
【Then, we’ll proceed with prioritizing purification in the battle. However, we must accept that our forces will continue to suffer casualties due to the enemy’s strategy that originated from the 4th planet.】
【We still have 1,461 fleets. We can afford the losses. And we just received an analysis result.】
【What is it?】
【A spherical non-combat object has been deployed in orbit around the 4th planet. Shortly after that, a group of other planets seemed to move as if they were trying to block our main gun recombination attack.】
【Then, does that mean that the spherical non-combat object plays a role in amplifying the Chimeraz’s waves?】
【That’s the most logical speculation.】
【Understood. Adding it to the fleet tactics. If the spherical non-combat objects enter the firing range of our forces, they will be shot down as a priority.】
The Chimeraz gained an advantage in the fleet battle in the area where the large bio-barrier was active.
On the other hand, in areas where such bio-barriers were not active, the Vehlpciaarct continued to push back the Chimeraz with their numerical superiority.
The overwhelming numerical inferiority created an unreasonable gap in the fleet battle. For example, when both sides were raining down fire from their cannons, and one ship-class aircraft from each side was shot down, the side with the larger numbers would be able to consider it an insignificant loss.
In a single fleet battle, the Vehlpciaarct could lose a large aircraft without significant loss of strength, but the Chimeraz on the other side would experience a painful loss of strength when a single Euryale was destroyed.
Ironically, it was very similar to the way the Chimeraz had been crushing the enemy fleets until now.
It was the Chimeraz’s first time fighting against an enemy with fewer numbers, and it piled up mental fatigue on the leaders.
➖I’m sorry, Berne-nim. They were too much for me.
The leader of the 10th planet was also cornered. He was being bombarded by his own giant brain.
Berne of the 5th planet could only watch as his subordinate leaders, who resembled him, were killed one by one.
‘Who’s left now?’
➖I’m alive.
➖Sorry, but I think I’m going to die soon. But I’ll fight to the end and destroy as many Vehlpciaarct as I can.
➖I’ve driven out the ones who descended to the planet, but the fleet battle is about to be pushed back.
The mass-produced leaders of the 1st, 2nd, and 7th planets were barely surviving. Compared to Kreion’s large bio-barrier, their scale was extremely small, but they were the leaders who were deploying bio-barriers and fighting back.
‘Seven of them are already dead.’
Seven colony lands had lost their leaders and were being slaughtered by the enemy. The Mindrockers that remained there were resisting in place of their leaders, but the planet’s defenses had already been breached at the point when their leaders were killed.
Berne drove out the Vehlpciaarct on his planet. And he focused on the bio-planet that was playing the role of a moon on his planet.
‘It’s the master’s order. The bio-planet must be defended at all costs and the anti-matter pulse must be fully charged.’
Berne, an early leader ranked 5th in the collective consciousness hierarchy, was the strongest in terms of Legion dominance and composure.
Berne’s group of fighters fiercely fought the fleet battle to protect Berne’s bio-planet. Knowing the power of the bio-planet, the Vehlpciaarct focused their attacks on Berne’s bio-planet rather than Berne’s planet.
They fired missiles at the bio-planet whenever they got the chance. The anti-matter missiles flying at sub-light speed were something that the bio-planet could never avoid, and in order to protect the bio-planet, the large creatures had to throw away their lives and become shields.
‘Hold on. My planet has been attacked and I’m going to die, but this bio-planet must be defended.’
The Chimeraz group, who had become their own shields, destroyed everything inside their bodies and filled their stomachs with bio-barriers. At the same time, the incoming missiles caused a dazzling annihilation explosion.
And at the moment when the powerful energy activity of the annihilation explosion overwhelmed the Chimeraz’s sensory organs, some of the missiles that had taken advantage of the gap flew past the Chimeraz fleet and headed towards the bio-planet.
Then, purple plasma beams shot out simultaneously from the Surface-to-Air Organic Accelerator Cannons attached to the bio-planet’s skin, intercepting the missiles.
‘Move. Fill the gap in the group.’
Trickily, the Vehlpciaarct’s anti-matter sub-light speed missiles for the Chimeraz self-destructed just before being intercepted by the Organic Accelerator Cannon.
With the firepower of the anti-matter weapons, the sub-light speed, and the property of self-destructing just before being intercepted.
It was a missile that was out of spec in many ways.
‘We have to stop those missiles before they’re fired.’
‘It’s okay if my brain is destroyed.’
Berne still had his Legion dominance, even though he had lost his group, so he decided to deploy a bio-barrier on a scale similar to what Kreion had shown, even if it meant pushing himself a little.
Swoosh!!
Right now, he used the ground forces that were not engaged in combat on the planet as an unnecessary resource.
Xenotera attacked and absorbed the kin on the ground. The bodies of their kin soon became bio-barriers and rose into the sky.
It became a dark cloud, a dark atmosphere, and it left the planet and spread to the space around the bio-planet.
Berne’s bio-barrier devoured the fleet battle as it was.
The Vehlpciaarct fired missiles and sent themselves as bombs. However, the scale of the bio-barrier was much larger.
Around that time, Berne’s giant brain demanded a great deal of energy, and the blood flow to supply that energy created an explosive blood pressure.
Poof. . .!!
Several blood vessels burst in Berne’s expanding brain. Berne commanded a number that exceeded his Legion dominance, even as he bled.
He seemed to be trying to protect the bio-planet no matter what.
‘. . . . . .Ah.’
It was because he had concentrated his mental energy on the bio-barrier.
The Vehlpciaarct fleet targeting the bio-planet had changed its tactics. He had not noticed it until now.
The Vehlpciaarct fleet, which had been aiming for numerical superiority with small aircraft and ships until now.
They had disassembled and recombined themselves into a smaller number of large motherships before he knew it.
And Berne knew all too well about the main guns of those motherships.
‘How could I be so stupid. . . . . .’
‘I tried to overcome it with mental energy and willpower. . . . . .’
The Vehlpciaarct, now a group of motherships, activated their powerful main guns.
Kugugugukung!!
Berne’s bio-planet was blown into two pieces.
🔷🔷🔷
【The remaining dwarf planet-class masses are two. One on the 4th planet and one on the 3rd planet.】
【Confirmed. In that case, let’s first attack Phlegeth’s 3rd planet, which is relatively easier to break through.】
【Is it okay to go to a planet that has already failed once?】
【Ground combat is not suitable for the colony land on Phlegeth. Therefore, send a large mothership armed with more than 10 main guns to the fleet battle in that area. We need to hit them from above the atmosphere. . . . . .】
At that moment, the two bio-planets on the 3rd and 4th planets fired anti-matter pulses again.
An excessively bright flash engulfed the Hecartra star system. The Vehlpciaarct ships in the direct path from the muzzles of the two bio-planets were erased.
It was a sight where the ships were erased after the light swept past, and then round explosions appeared.
【208 fleets have been destroyed.】
【Now there are 1,213 fleets left.】
The Vehlpciaarct do not panic. They simply analyze the situation completely rationally.
【That was different from the initial attack just now. The two masses capable of wielding the power of Planet Weapon showed an energy level 5.5 times lower than the initial attack just now.】
【Then, it is speculated that they gathered only the energy that could exert significant firepower in the fleet battle and activated it. And if that’s possible, the firing cycle could be shorter in the future.】
【Summarize the results of the battle so far.】
【We have purified 7 enemy leaders, 6 colony land satellites, 4 colony land planets, 1 dwarf planet-class mass, and 506 fleet-class forces.】
【Our forces have lost 835 fleet-class forces.】
【Excluding the latent forces, if we add up the currently observable fleet forces of both sides, the Chimeraz has 441 fleets left and we have 1,213 fleets left.】
Now it’s 441 vs. 1,213.
Of course, the opponent is the Chimeraz.
【It’s meaningless to exclude latent forces from the calculation. The Chimeraz is a race that produces as many fleets as it loses in battle.】
【Yes. But isn’t that something that can’t be calculated for the Chimeraz?】
The Lead Core is pondering.
Which part of the Chimeraz should be attacked in this situation? What kind of results should be aimed for to get closest to the goal? Referring to the battle data accumulated so far, he pondered at an electric speed.
It was then.
【Lead Core. They’re finally here.】
【Finally?】
In each planet of the Hecartra star system, in each fleet battle, and at the location where each fleet gathered, something new was taking shape out of thin air.
It looked as if they had made a magical spatial leap, but in fact, they were armies that were transmitted in units of particles and reconstructed at each coordinate.
【They’re the Phase Assault Troops.】
🔷🔷🔷
It was an enormous number. It seemed to be well over 900 fleets.
Each fleet was neatly organized with various types of ships. Motherships, escort ships, main ships, battleships, and assault ships formed numerous fleets in a certain ratio.
Force Core, who saw their majesty, envisioned victory.
【Lopez. He made a wise choice. He decided to help us.】
【. . . . . .】
However, unlike Force Core’s claim, the Phase Assault Troops were acting strangely.
【Are we right to help and purify the Chimeraz?】
【?】
For some reason, the Phase Assault Troops were not attacking the Chimeraz.
【Something’s strange.】
They just appeared all over the star system and waited.
If the Chimeraz and the Vehlpciaarct continued to fight like this, the Phase Assault Troops could also be involved. They had infiltrated so deeply and appeared at every location.
Was that why? The Chimeraz stopped fighting for a while, and the Vehlpciaarct also stopped fighting, so the fleet battles throughout the Hecartra star system were temporarily paralyzed.
【I will connect the communication.】
Lead Core sends a transmission.
➖Is this Ark-nim?
And a moment later.
➖Yes. This is Ark. Are you the Lead Core of the Vehlpciaarct?
➖Yes. As you can see, we were in the process of purifying the Chimeraz. But now that the Phase Assault Troops are in the fleet battle zone, all fleet battles have been suspended.
➖Yes. I would like you to keep it suspended.
【What is Ark-nim talking about?】
【I don’t know. I don’t understand.】
➖Are you saying that we should stop purifying the Chimeraz?
➖Yes.
➖The Chimeraz is a race that must be purified. Don’t you know about their potential danger and the power they currently wield in the Local Group of Galaxies, Ark-nim?
➖I know.
➖But why?
➖The potential danger of the Chimeraz lies in their potential for growth. And I understand that the power that the Chimeraz has shown so far is ‘threatening’ to the Local Group of Galaxies in proportion to that factor of growth potential.
【Lead Core. Even Ark-nim, this is wrong. We have calculated everything and bet everything.】
➖If you understand, please help us purify the Chimeraz. Then we can prevent the future of the Local Group of Galaxies from falling into the hands of the Chimeraz.
➖Lead Core. There is one thing I would like to make clear.
➖Please speak.
➖The war-fighting ability that the Chimeraz has shown so far has been sufficiently threatening. However, the situational background that forced the Chimeraz to demonstrate their war-fighting ability was all forced upon the Chimeraz by other races, not the Chimeraz.
The initial judgment that the Chimeraz is a threat.
We need to approach it from that perspective in order to persuade the Vehlpciaarct.
➖The Chimeraz is not belligerent. It’s just that circumstances have made them so.
Of course, it was very difficult to mediate between the two sides who were trying to kill each other through dialogue.