After spending two minutes and abandoning more than ten million battleships, the Third Fleet of the Empire's Defense Force was finally ready for battle.
"Position 010-005, start firing in unison. Blast open a gap for me!"
Looking at the huge black hole in front of him where enemy battleships were constantly gushing out, Skater knew that he had to quickly destroy the defensive fleet at the periphery and lead his troops to establish a defensive line to block the strange passage. Only then could he hope to hold on until reinforcements arrived.
Then, while he still had the absolute advantage in numbers, directly tearing a gap in the outer defense line was the best way to break in.
In the next moment, hundreds of millions of silver light beams made of dark energy swept toward the target position.
Originally, the distance was close, and with the property of the dark energy beam that could even ignore the time effect, it instantly crashed into the enemy fleet's formation.
For a moment, the entire void space was illuminated by the silver light, and the momentum was extremely powerful.
However, unlike what Scarter expected, the attack didn't directly hit the enemy fleet's battleships, but was blocked in front of the fleet.
The silver diamond-shaped barriers were like impenetrable shields, standing in front of each battleship and completely blocking all the attacks.
"Dark energy barrier …"
Scarter's eyes widened as he muttered to himself.
This thing was different from the dark energy shield. If the dark energy shield was like an armor that provided full protection for the battleship, then the dark energy barrier was like a shield that only provided partial protection for the battleship.
However, although it couldn't provide full protection, the defensive power of the dark energy barrier was far superior to the dark energy shield.
Therefore, in the universe, the dark energy shield was known as the super strong defense for super civilizations.
But this wasn't the key, the key was the number of battleships in the enemy fleet that used the dark energy shield.
After all, the Zi Lun Empire was also a level ten technological civilization, and they also had the technology to use the dark energy barrier. The problem was that the dark energy barrier of such strength could only be used by level nine dark energy users and their own battleships, but now, all of the enemy's battleships used the dark energy barrier.
That was more than ten million battleships, didn't this mean that the enemy had at least ten million level nine dark energy users?
The entire Zi Lun Empire didn't have that many dark energy users, okay?
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At the same time, inside the Imperial Palace of the Zi Lun Empire.
"You're saying that the invaders are humans?"
"Yes, Your Majesty. Although it is slightly different from the human battleships recorded in our database, both the style and the emblems on the hull show that it is a human fleet!"
"How did they get to the Capital Circle? Are the tens of billions of soldiers stationed in Yangliukou all for nothing?"
"Your Majesty, we have already contacted the garrison there, but their report is that everything is normal at the ocean current node!"
"Bastard, if there's nothing wrong with the ocean currents, could the human fleet have appeared out of thin air?"
"Your Majesty, according to the data sent back by Scarter, the channel that brought the human fleet to our capital circle is not a space teleportation or a hyperspace window. We can only make a bold guess that the humans have mastered a technology that allows them to cross the Super Star Cluster directly without relying on ocean currents!"
"This isn't …"
Just as Latis was about to yell out 'impossible', he suddenly remembered something …
Many years ago, Garen had used a method he couldn't understand to send Haig and a troop of the Purgatory Legion to the Wills Super Star Cluster.
Could it be …
"How many fleets are available in the Capital Circle and the surrounding areas?"
"Your Majesty, there are currently ten Imperial Guard Fleets stationed in the Capital Circle. Each Imperial Guard Fleet has a military strength of ten billion battleships. Within ten thousand light years, we have seven garrison towns with about two hundred billion battleships!"
"Mobilize all the Imperial Guard Fleets and block the black channel at all costs. At the same time, order the surrounding garrisons to reinforce at full speed!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
"Wait, order the garrisons stationed at the ocean current node to immediately enter the ocean current and attack the human territory!"
"Your Majesty, if that's the case, wouldn't the ocean current node become undefended?"
"Defend? If defense works, where did the human fleet that is attacking the Capital Circle come from? "
"Yes, Your Majesty, I understand!"
The military minister nodded and immediately went to do as ordered.
Just as Latis said, if defense at the node was useful, how did the human fleet get here?
Then, since it had already been used, it would be better to use it for other purposes. Directly throw the 50 billion battleships into the battle to attack the human territory. Even if they couldn't win, they could at least contain a portion of the human forces, right?
After decades of preparation, since Lin Fan had decided to take action, he naturally had enough confidence. Latis didn't think that the 100 billion Imperial Guard Fleets and 200 billion battleships could stop the human's attack.
Looking at the military minister who quickly walked out of the meeting room, Latis immediately contacted Empire Marshal Ares who had just taken down the Blood Maple Super Star Cluster and was now leading the army to rest.
"Your Majesty!"
"Ares, immediately lead all the fleets back to the Nerkenia Super Star Cluster. At the same time, gather as many fleets of the affiliated civilizations as possible!"
"Your Majesty, did something happen?"
Ares was stunned when he heard this.
Not only did he gather all the expeditionary forces back, but he also gathered as many fleets of the affiliated civilizations as possible. What happened?
"Something big … Yes, it is indeed something big. The humans have started a full-scale war with us, so you must act quickly!"
"Your Majesty, we have 50 billion battleships deployed at the ocean current node, plus at least 500 billion reserve forces in Nerkenia, it shouldn't be a problem to block the ocean current, right?"
Ares was a little confused. Even if the humans were strong, they couldn't quickly break through the ocean current node. After all, there were 50 billion battleships and a defense line that took decades to build.
Even if they couldn't hold on, they could hold on until reinforcements arrived.
In Nerkenia, the Purple Lun Empire alone had about 500 billion battleships of all kinds. Plus two Level 9 technological civilizations and other Level 8 affiliated civilizations, it was easy to gather a few trillion battleships.
But in comparison, why were they so anxious, and even …
Why were they panicking?
"Ocean current node?"
"There are no more ocean current nodes. The humans have mastered a new technology and
opened a strange channel that directly sent the fleet to our capital circle!"
"What!!!"