"Wrong target?" Yu Ze exclaimed, "How could we hit the wrong target, it was so big!" The target was a whole planet, how could that be missed? The scout’s voice was also filled with disbelief, saying, "We didn’t hit the Gold Battle Star, we hit an illusion!" "What?" Yu Ze and the other commanders of Maoshi Star Civilization were both shocked and angry, "An illusion? Such a large planet, with gravitational sensing and energy radiation, how could it be an illusion?" This wasn’t the Virtual Universe, their warships had clearly locked onto the target. "How could an illusion have gravitational sensing? Our Gravity Sensor detected a planet there! Its gravity was real, and the planet’s matter disintegrated upon our hit!" "Yes, and its energy radiation was very real! Could the Blue Star Civilization really create an illusion of an entire planet?" They couldn’t make sense of what had happened. At that moment, on the screen of the detector, the disintegrated "Gold Battle Star" turned into countless fragments and disappeared into the universe. Energy radiation and gravity effects vanished without a trace, as if nothing existed at all! "What’s going on?" Yu Ze looked as if he had seen a ghost, even if the Gold Battle Star was disintegrated, its parts should still have the same mass, so why did all that mass vanish instantly? "Sir, not just the Gold Battle Star, the warships we attacked earlier, they were all illusions too! We fired into empty space!" The Reconnaissance Ship discovered more clues. They had approached those warships, and only then did they realize that they were shooting at a cluster of light and shadows, which not only had energy radiation but also a strong gravity field, misleading their reconnaissance satellites. "Sir, look!" A Reconnaissance Ship reported back its findings; they had reached the front of a "warship" and the detector had passed through its Energy Shield and armor directly. Suspended in the light and shadows was a miniature warship. This machine generated a strong gravity field, and some space automatic weapons were attacking. "Did they create the illusion? How did they do it?" Yu Ze asked in shock; if it were just a light show, they couldn’t have missed it from the start. The Reconnaissance Ship tried to capture the machine, but the machine seemed to realize the enemy’s invasion and self-destructed. They didn’t even obtain any debris from the machine. The scientists on the ship analyzed: "It must have been a Gravity Illusion Maker." "It was equipped with an Antimatter Reactor and a Force Field Generator." "A powerful gravity field can bend spacetime, light also twists with spacetime, creating a Gravity Lens effect, allowing observers to see one or multiple images formed by light bending!" "The Blue Star Civilization likely used this trick, employing a miniature warship to create one or several illusions, simulating the warship’s own gravity with a strong gravity field, accompanied by energy radiation." "Our reconnaissance equipment primarily determines enemy targets based on light, gravity effects, energy radiation, and spatial fluctuations!" "And their Gravity Illusion Maker can cover these four types of information simultaneously, leading us to mistakenly believe there were actual warships or war stars!" "You’re saying? The Gold Battle Star earlier was just a large Gravity Illusion Maker?" Hearing their explanation, Yu Ze was both shocked and angry; they had gone through so much trouble, even using the Planet Disintegrator given by Marquis Yunxiao, only to attack a mass of vacuum! "We’ve been played!" The commanders quickly realized something was wrong. Their two main fleets were here fighting illusions, so where was the enemy’s main fleet? "Warning, enemy fleet detected outside Star Domain Defense Line, Space Outpost 24, suspected main fleet!" Their fears quickly became reality as a warning came through. Space Outpost 24 was over a hundred light-years away, and for their main fleet to rush there would take a certain amount of time. "Sir, we must return to defend immediately!" Yu Ze urgently requested reinforcements. Elsewhere, Qing Gu was frustrated. It was hard work to command the fleet, and she thought the first battle would be a great victory, only to be fooled by the Blue Star Civilization with a Gravity Illusion. Although they didn’t suffer losses, it would greatly tarnish her prestige. "Second Fleet, return to defend, surrounding defensive fleets provide support." Qing Gu ordered, "Stay here, take over the Sand People Civilization, construct a defense system, and prevent further enemy attacks." "Yes!" Yu Ze felt a pent-up frustration with nowhere to vent. Follow current novels on novel·fıre·net "The Blue Star Civilization is really cunning, they even have something like a Gravity Illusion Maker!" "We’re in trouble now!" "Let the Academy of Sciences analyze it and quickly develop reconnaissance tools capable of seeing through Gravity Illusions!" "This Gravity Illusion Maker is really handy!" In the Blue Star Alliance Command Headquarters, seeing the Maoshi Star Civilization Fleet firing into empty space, the commanders couldn’t help but laugh. The enemy’s salvo wasted unknown amounts of firepower, all shot into the void. The Planet Disintegrator shattered nothing but silence! "This time we managed to draw out their Planet Disintegrator." He Xingzhou said, "Our War Stars cannot face a Planet Disintegrator directly. This is a superweapon that can be manufactured by civilizations 3.5-level and above, and we have no way to deal with it currently." "So, the tactics need to be adjusted; without absolute certainty, we must avoid facing the enemy’s main fleet!" "While they haven’t cracked the Gravity Illusions, let them be on edge everywhere!" Luo An laughed, "I’ve already made arrangements for this, and the Maoshi Star Civilization will now have to rush day and night!"