Chapter 106
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Chapter 106: Space Fortress
The Large Battleship reached the outer monitoring range of the military base and opened its hatch.
Captain and several high-ranking traitors from humanity lay prostrated at the entrance.
"Sir!"
Fifty-two silver-winged Angelic Beings flew into the battleship.
"Can we make a Space Jump before the nearest warship arrives?"
The Ten-Winged Silver Angel asked coldly.
"In five minutes, we can reach an area unaffected by surrounding celestial bodies."
"The Large Battleship can then accelerate, and it will take about an hour to break through sub-light speed, light speed, and then super-light speed before making the Space Jump."
Captain remained prostrated on the ground, respectfully responding, "According to our calculations, it will take the nearest Large Battleship one and a half hours to arrive at the closest interception point after receiving orders from the division headquarters."
"Have you secured control of the Space Jump System?"
The Ten-Winged Silver Angel inquired.
Captain explained, "Not yet, but the Hackers we’ve hired are the top hacking team in the galaxy."
"They can forcibly breach the intelligence system and obtain Space Jump permissions in no more than half an hour."
"The only trouble is that the division headquarters has already remotely locked the attack system, making it difficult to unlock it in a short time."
"Moreover, if they detect that the Large Battleship’s Space Jump coordinates are at the edge of the cosmic storms, they’ll know our target may be the human genius from the exile planet."
"There is a high possibility that the division headquarters will remotely activate the Large Battleship’s self-destruct system. Even the top hacking team can only temporarily delay the self-destruct timer."
The Ten-Winged Silver Angel replied indifferently, "As long as we manage to successfully cross the cosmic storms, the rest is not a problem. After killing the human genius, we have the treasure bestowed by the Leader, which can support us in crossing the cosmic storms safely."
"Understood!"
Captain and the other traitors remained prostrate, not daring to make a sound.
Inside, they were incredibly excited.
The treasure bestowed by the Leader, just being able to see it was an unmatched honor in their eyes, let alone personally experiencing its protection.
"To the control room!"
The Ten-Winged Silver Angel waved his hand.
Captain and the other traitors stood up and led the fifty-two silver-winged angels to the control room.
A few minutes later, the Large Battleship began to accelerate.
An hour later, traveling at super-light speed, the Large Battleship activated the Space Jump System.
It then vanished from sight.
A moment later, it reappeared at the edge of the cosmic storm, thousands of light-years away.
"Captain, no energy fluctuations have been detected within one billion kilometers, nor have we scanned any traces of medium and small battleships."
The monitor reported the data immediately.
"How could this be?"
Captain was puzzled.
To make a Space Jump, the Large Battleship needed to accelerate and set the jump coordinates an hour in advance.
After an hour of frantic acceleration, it could successfully make the Space Jump.
And with the Military’s capabilities, they could monitor the energy fluctuations from the Space Jump coordinates at the edge of the cosmic storms through the surveillance network spread across the galaxy.
Logically, they should also mobilize the Large Battleship to make a Space Jump towards that area.
At the same time, according to information provided by the traitors within the Military, due to Yi Chen’s sudden appearance,
a military base was also established at the edge of the cosmic storms.
To prevent the Large Battleship from being seized, this military base did not contain any Large Battleships but had tens of thousands of medium and small battleships.
In just one hour, the nearby medium and small battleships could arrive in the area to carry out an interception.
Yet, nothing had happened?
This was too strange.
The Ten-Winged Silver Angel and the two Eight-Winged Silver Angels frowned.
Their purpose was to break through blockades.
According to the Military’s rating, the Four-Winged Silver Angel was about the level of a Level 90 fierce beast, slightly weaker than a medium-sized battleship.
The Six-Winged Silver Angel was equivalent to a maximum-level fierce beast, second only to Large Battleships in strength.
The Eight-Winged Silver Angels rated at Level 110 had the ability to destroy Large Battleships.
With one Ten-Winged Silver Angel, two Eight-Winged Silver Angels, six Six-Winged Silver Angels, and forty-three Four-Winged Silver Angels,
their configuration was comparable to a small fleet of humanity.
With their strength, they could easily defeat the medium and small battleships that came to intercept them and simultaneously intercept the Large Battleships that would come chasing through the Space Jump System, ensuring that the hijacked Large Battleship could smoothly enter the cosmic storm area.
As for whether they could successfully shake off all the Large Battleships in pursuit once in the cosmic storm area, that would depend on luck.
The chances of successfully breaking through the center of the cosmic storms while being chased by hundreds or possibly thousands of Large Battleships were incredibly slim.
But this was the best plan that Burton, the intelligence leader of the Angelic Beings, could come up with.
What surprised the Ten-Winged Silver Angel and the two Eight-Winged Silver Angels was that the Military of humanity didn’t send any Large Battleships to pursue them!
Nor did they send any medium or small battleships to intercept.
Could it be that the Military of humanity completely disregarded the life or death of that human genius?
"Forget about that, let’s enter the cosmic storm area first."
The Ten-Winged Silver Angel was the first to regain clarity.
Regardless, the absence of pursuing Large Battleships was a tremendous stroke of luck.
"Understood!"
Captain immediately gave the order.
The Large Battleship quickly entered the cosmic storm area, heading at full speed towards the coordinates of the exile planet.
Beep beep beep…
“Warning, warning, an ultra-large flying object detected nearby.”
A piercing alarm rang out in the control room a few minutes later.
On the giant screen, at the edge of the scanning range of the Large Space Battleship’s scanner, 10 billion kilometers, or 0.001 light years, amidst countless asteroid torrents, an enormous object suddenly appeared.
It was shaped like a sphere, with a diameter exceeding thirty thousand kilometers.
If it were a planet, it would not be surprising.
In the cosmic storm area, while countless asteroids were more common, occasionally, there were also surviving planets that had not been torn apart, or even larger stars.
The problem was that this sphere was not a planet.
According to the scanner’s display, it was a giant flying object.
“Oh my! It’s a Space Fortress!”
“It’s over! Why would a Space Fortress appear in the cosmic storm area?”
“No wonder, no wonder the Military did not send any Large Battleships to pursue… It turns out, there is a Space Fortress stationed in the cosmic storm area.”
Everyone turned pale, including the Ten-Winged Silver Angel and the two Eight-Winged Silver Angels from the Angelic Beings.
Humanity’s most powerful war machines were the Large Space Battleships.
And for humanity, the strategic weapon that protected the survival of the entire race was the Space Fortress.
At its peak, humanity had eleven Space Fortresses that instilled fear in neighboring races.
These Space Fortresses did not participate in attacks; they only defended humanity’s territory.
The largest one could reach a diameter of one hundred thousand kilometers, while the smallest still exceeded ten thousand kilometers.
A hundred years ago, during a significant defeat, humanity’s three flagship fleets were completely wiped out.
Four Space Fortresses, including the largest, were totally destroyed.
The remaining seven Space Fortresses could barely guard the outer perimeter of the galaxy.
After a hundred years, the vitality from that defeat had still not recovered, and the eighth Space Fortress has yet to be constructed.
None of them expected that one of the seven Space Fortresses would unexpectedly appear within the cosmic storm, intercepting them in advance.
“Sir, we need to retreat the battleship. Let’s quickly withdraw! With the treasure bestowed by the Leader, we might still escape this disaster.”
Captain looked at the Ten-Winged Silver Angel, heart racing with worry.
The Ten-Winged Silver Angel remained silent.
Indeed, there was a treasure.
But it had not been granted by the Leader, rather, it was given by Burton, the two-winged golden angel.
If the mission failed and the hijacked Large Battleship was destroyed by the Military within the cosmic storm area,
he could use this treasure to barely bring the two Eight-Winged Silver Angels out of the cosmic storm area, evading scans from the Large Battleships for about a day.
It was not just the traitors within humanity; even the Four-Winged Silver Angels and Six-Winged Silver Angels would all be cannon fodder.
Whether he and the two Eight-Winged Silver Angels could escape alive would depend on being able to secretly cling to a Large Battleship to leave the cosmic storm area.
At their speed, even while at the edge of the cosmic storm area, they wouldn’t be able to escape in a day’s time.
Currently, what stood in front of them was a Space Fortress.
How could they escape?
Even a two-winged golden angel couldn’t avoid the large-scale attacks of a Space Fortress by speed alone, let alone he, a Ten-Winged Silver Angel.
Buzz!
Ten billion kilometers away, the main cannon of the Space Fortress suddenly emitted a white light.
This white light had a diameter of more than one hundred kilometers and kept spreading outward.
It stopped expanding once it reached a diameter of one hundred thousand kilometers.
In an instant, it created a massive vacuum zone that was one hundred thousand kilometers in diameter and stretched for twenty billion kilometers.
Wherever the light passed, the asteroids that could not be shredded by the cosmic storms, along with the Space Battleship that had activated its energy shield, all turned to nothingness.
…
“How is it?”
In the main cannon control chamber, a five-star general removed the sensor and eagerly looked at the communications officer beside him.
“Compared to the first level of Spirit Release, the attack speed of the main cannon has increased by three thousandths.”
“According to calculations, if attacking a moving target, the attack speed could increase by five percent!”
The communications officer promptly reported the data.
“Very good. Once we simplify the operation and improve the hardware, plus with the gunners of the main cannon breaking through to a higher level, the attack speed will greatly improve! Even the Four-Winged Golden Angel wouldn’t necessarily be able to evade.”
“Whoever dares to assassinate our hope for the revival of humanity will be wiped out sooner or later!”
The five-star general, filled with murderous intent, waved his hand: “Return immediately!”
The enormous Space Fortress turned around and headed back toward the center of the cosmic storm.
