I Really Didn’t Mean To Be The Saviour Of The World - Chapter 791

Chapter 791: Chapter 474: The Last Stand【6500 Words】_3

These purely AI-controlled aircraft used pure Medium Engines. Although their acceleration was not fast, they made quite an impression with their sheer numbers.

Before the two sides’ cannon fodder units clashed, the Compound-Eyed Observer’s small units had already been served in the Trickster Mine Array.

While the Blade Mantises with short-range warp ability could quickly advance forward, the Observer’s other units were blown to pieces by the countless Trickster Mines.

To pass through the magnetic field turbulence disturbed by the Plasma Magnetic Trickster Mines, even the powerful Blade Mantis had to take some risks.

But these Blade Mantises had to perform their warp maneuvers.

A single Fortress Ship’s firepower was strong, and the risk of being shot down was not small for just a few dozen that approached rashly.

They had to gather first.

Marshal Perkin, who was directly responsible for commanding the first line of defense, executed the operation, allowing some of the Fortress Ships’ heavy weapons to pre-charge.

Harrison Clark scanned the area and saw that Perkin had chosen about ten key areas.

One and a half million Blade Mantises commenced their warping simultaneously.

Only 95% of the Blade Mantises completed the warp successfully, while the remaining 5% appeared at their warp destination with only half their bodies remaining, and the other half had vanished, presumably lost in an unknown black hole.

Out of the original one and a half million Blade Mantises, only one million four hundred and twenty thousand remained. They formed five squads around the Shadow Galaxy, each with nearly twenty-nine thousand.

Four of the squads overlapped with the preheated focus points that Perkin had arranged in advance.

The instant they reappeared, they were met with a heavy blow from the heavy compound cannons of the nearby thousands of Fortress Ships.

However, one squad appeared in a position that Perkin had not predicted.

After a brief adjustment, the Blade Mantises quickly accelerated to half the speed of light, turning into streaks of light in the cosmos as they charged forward.

As the more than two hundred and eighty thousand Blade Mantises were the first to enter the Chain Fortress Array’s firepower coverage, the thousands of Fortress Ships’ medium weapons began to pour out their firepower.

Most of the weapons that fired first were not energy weapons, but solid ammunition weapons, mainly missiles.

High-power energy weapons needed to be charged, while only solid ammunition weapons could be fired immediately.

Sometimes pre-charging was possible, but once charged, the weapon had to be fired, and each shot would have a cooldown period for material repairs and energy preparation.

Missiles?

Harrison Clark frowned, thinking to himself that it would be impossible to hit the target.

Sure enough, the chaotic flow formed by the Blade Mantises suddenly dispersed, each one evading the missiles.

Although the missiles had tracking capabilities and some limited warp flight ability, tracking the Blade Mantises, which could change direction easily even at half the speed of light, proved to be too difficult.

But this was already within the human commanders’ expectations.

The missiles detonated prematurely, turning the space nearly ten million kilometers in front of the Fortress Ship into a brilliant light zone like a stellar corona.

Intense shockwaves and particle streams formed a series of “ephemeral stars” in the universe.

These “ephemeral stars” intertwined and exploded, the blast shockwaves twisting and deforming, forming a cloud of particles.

But in the blink of an eye, the Blade Mantis array rushed out of the cloud and continued to advance.

It appeared that the humans didn’t gain any advantage.

“Beautiful!”

Harrison Clark suddenly clenched his fists and roared.

He would not jump to conclusions, but the move just now by the human Fortress Ships impressed him deeply.

It turned out that the true purpose of the missile explosion was not to target the Blade Mantises, but to block the advance of the Eight-legged Beetles and other units that were chasing behind it while also destroying the invisible wires deployed by the Blade Mantises along the way.

Harrison Clark recognized these wires, which were similar in material to the Spherical Warship Long Whiskers and likely possessed space-freezing capabilities.

The Observer seemed to be using the Blade Mantises to weave webs like spiders, slowly freezing the entire outer perimeter of the Shadow Galaxy with the space-freezing technology.

Now, the Observer’s plan had gone awry.

Furthermore, since the humans could break through the wires with their explosive weapons, it also proved that their explosive power had surpassed the wire’s freezing force.

At the same time, in the top-right corner of Harrison Clark’s vision, some parameters were quickly changing.

“No.5 String Energy Beam in-field performance test ongoing…

Test progress 1%, 2%… 7%… 33%… 100%.

Test completed. With the 18, 29, 75 string energy mixed explosion modified by DX2287 Star’s laws, and Ourten No.3 Metal as the shrapnel carrier, the frozen wires can be cut within 0.0002 seconds.

The development of the No.5 String Energy Shrapnel round was a success.”

“Deep weapon assessment, the optimal propulsion level is a shell of single-particle vacuum-bubble fusion explosion with neutron cores, achieving the highest explosive effect in the shortest time.”

At this moment, the heavy weapons on the Fortress Ships were finally charged.

An instant later, thousands of Fortress Ships emitted colorful lights again, with beams of light containing immense energy pouring out and crossing in front of them like searchlights.

The terrifying energy weapons, such as characteristic-rule-triggered energy, intersecting string energy excited states, boson energy flows with strong magnetic field oscillation effects, indescribable colorless light cannons, gamma-ray bursts of comparable intensity, positron injections, and antiproton injections, were fired from the Fortress Ships in a criss-cross, overlaying manner, trapping the Blade Mantises’ path in an impenetrable net.