Chapter 537: Chapter 321: The Enemy’s Destruction Death Light “Our warships have been lost!” Seeing this scene, Xue Lei felt a heavy heart. Their warp speed battleships only reach Level 2 warp at most, while the opponent’s are at least Level 3 warp, with more than ten ships. They only have one warp speed battleship in Tiancang Five, how can they fight? “Headquarters, this is Commander Xue Lei of Tiancang Five Star System. The enemy’s strength far exceeds ours. We are preparing to retreat, requesting approval!” Xue Lei knew that continuing to fight would only result in senseless sacrifice and futile efforts. At the Blue Star Alliance Command Headquarters, He Xingzhou briefly analyzed the intelligence and decisively responded, saying: “Permission to retreat granted. Take away everything you can, destroy those you can’t!” “Yes!” Xue Lei immediately ordered, “Everyone, evacuate the Tiancang Five Star System immediately, destroy our space base and planetary mines completely!” “Execute immediately!” “Yes!” Everyone felt reluctant; they had been developing here for decades and considered it their second home. Now, they had to destroy their own home, which naturally weighed heavily on them. “Maoshi Star Union, we’ll be back!” Engineers watched as explosions continuously occurred on the planet’s surface and in space. The engineering structures they painstakingly built had become space dust. The warp speed battleship covered other warships in retreat, while the Maoshi Star Union fleet continued to attack from behind. “Pursue, pursue!” Dong Zhen excitedly exclaimed; they had finally gained an advantage over the Blue Star Civilization in direct combat. “Take down as many warships as we can; this time, let them feel pain!” Under their pursuit, many warships were destroyed. In the end, all sub-light-speed battleships were destroyed, leaving only one warp speed battleship to venture into warp travel and escape. “Congratulations, Commander Dong, we have achieved a great victory!” The other commanders and captains of the Maoshi Star Union celebrated. “It feels so good, truly satisfying! The Blue Star Civilization should now know what a gap in strength means!” “They are no match for us at all; they don’t even have the courage to confront us directly!” “Whether in terms of the level or quantity of warp speed battleships, they are far inferior to us! This is the foundation of the Maoshi Star Union; a Blue Star Civilization has only been a second-level civilization for a few hundred years!” “Our Maoshi Star Union has more than five second-level civilizations and controls over a hundred star systems, with extremely abundant resources. Even if we pile up the number of warp speed battleships, we can overwhelm them!” Resources determine the limits of fleet production; even if all their factories are operational, the Blue Star Civilization’s rate of warship production cannot keep up. “We’ve won a glorious victory!” Dong Zhen laughed, “We have vented our anger tremendously and occupied the Tiancang Five Star System!” “This matter must be reported to every civilization in the Maoshi Star Union!” “Today’s victory is just the beginning!” Confidently, he proclaimed, “Within fifty years, I want to completely subdue the Blue Star Civilization and occupy all ten of their star systems!” “Masterful!” Everyone laughed. Read complete version only at novel·fire.net The defeat at Tiancang Five Star System was indeed a blow to the Blue Star Civilization, but it was not fatal. “In this battle, we lost one star system, dozens of sub-light-speed warships, and millions of soldiers.” At the Blue Star Alliance Command Headquarters, commanders analyzed the losses and gains of the war. “There’s also good news,” He Xingzhou said, “At least we have seen that the Maoshi Star Union has not experienced a qualitative leap in the level of antimatter weapons, but rather an increase in quantity!” “Their antimatter cannons, destruction death light, and the warp speed of their warp speed battleships have only enhanced the quality and control of antimatter.” “We can catch up with these advancements relatively soon!” “Let’s let them be arrogant for a few more years; other star systems should prepare for defense.” Fast Particle Weapons are not something that can be easily manufactured; He Xingzhou estimated it would take at least thirty years. Within thirty years, unless the Maoshi Star Civilization invades comprehensively, at most they will lose two or three star systems. The conservatism of the Blue Star Civilization led the Maoshi Star Union commanders to further conclude that the Blue Star Civilization is currently quite helpless. Thus, their intentions to attack became more evident. “Build warp speed battleship factories and antimatter extraction plants in the Sirius Civilization as the forward base to attack Blue Star Civilization, and massively expand the warp speed battleship fleet!” Dong Zhen stated confidently, “Blue Star Civilization is only our first step; the next step after eliminating Blue Star Civilization is attacking the Black Sea Civilization!” To execute this plan, the Maoshi Star Civilization dispatched a large amount of resources from various affiliated civilizations to the Sirius Civilization. Although the Sirius Civilization was still only a second-level civilization, its strength had become incomparable, making it the strongest civilization among all the affiliated civilizations of the Maoshi Star Civilization. Just seven years after capturing the Tiancang Five Star System, the Maoshi Star Union’s fleet returned to the Lacaille Star System, the place where they had previously been defeated. The human fleet in Lacaille Star System had already prepared defenses, but under the disparity in firepower several times over, they still could not match the Maoshi Star Union fleet and had to abandon the Lacaille Star System. In this battle, although the Blue Star Civilization lost territory, the fleet suffered no losses. Once they preliminarily judged that they couldn’t compete with the opponent, they retreated very decisively. With the success of attacking the second star system, the momentum of the Maoshi Star Union became more aggressive, immediately plotting to capture the third star system. At this time, in the Solar System, He Xingzhou was intensifying the development of Fast Particle Weapons. Over time, they had already successfully discovered and manufactured fast particles. Now they were attempting to cluster fast particles and aim at targets for attack. The experimental site was set on the Blue Star and the Moon. “Launching lasers from the Blue Star to the Moon takes 2.56 seconds. Now we are sending fast particles from the Blue Star to the Moon to check signal reception.” He Xingzhou stood on the Blue Star, where fast particle detectors had been placed on the Moon. “Launch!” The fast particle emitter was timed to send fast particles to the Moon, and at the same time, at the receiving station on the Moon, they detected the existence of fast particles synchronously. When the signal feedback reached the Blue Star, a little over five seconds had passed, but the signal reception time and launch time were almost simultaneous. “Master, at the distance scale between the Blue Star and the Moon, our detection equipment cannot fully detect any time difference between the launch and reception of fast particles!” The robot Lu Mi reported the experimental results to He Xingzhou, “We need to extend the scale to the distance between the Blue Star and Jupiter to detect some time difference.” “Then set up a monitoring station on Jupiter and perform directional fast particle launch!” Fast particles absorb energy, slowing down almost to the speed of light. Normally, light from the Blue Star to Jupiter takes about thirty-five minutes. After re-calibrating the equipment, they set up fast particle detectors in space outside Jupiter. Over such a long-distance launch, fast particles would also scatter, so it was necessary to launch enough fast particles with high concentration. “Launch!” In the second experiment, the fast particle emitter on the Blue Star launched fast particles. Jupiter’s observers sent back information via the subspace communicator promptly. “Master, this time, we received the fast particles in just 8.2 seconds.” Lu Mi reported again. They repeated the experiments several times, and the time data varied, related to the intensity of the emitter’s energy and the energy absorbed by fast particles in a vacuum. But all within ten seconds! This was enough to show that they had mastered a particle that surpassed light speed and could perform ultra-long-distance strikes! “Fast particles are practically god-speed particles!” He Hongwei said excitedly, “With such speed, within the attack range of a warship’s ray, fast particle weapons can be considered instantaneous attacks!” “And they counter energy shields; using fast particle weapons, the enemy won’t have a chance to fight back, not even to defend!” He Xingzhou was also satisfied, “Before warp weapons, its speed advantage over weapons of similar level is incomparable!” “Our warships will be equipped with new weapons, and it’s time to counterattack the Maoshi Star Union!”