Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1589: Chapter 595: Underestimating the Enemy

Six years later, Ren Zhong finally led the First to Thirtieth Armies across a distance of fifty light years, formally arriving at the front line.

The first to burst out of the transit corridor was the Second Army, led by the veteran war general Guo Denghuai from within the Red Blade Clan.

In the previous internal competition, this old man Guo Denghuai had rarely managed to suppress all rivals and seize the post of vanguard general, truly living up to the honor of the former Second Army of the Starfire Army.

The moment this large Warship rushed out, it immediately went into contact-ready state. Its propulsion engines went to full power, and it shot straight out through the gaps among the already shattered original garrison forces.

What left the garrison forces dumbstruck was that during its high-speed charge, this main-station Warship was actually able to open all the hatches around its hull. One small fighter after another and Single Soldier Battle Armor suits swarmed out like locusts.

Clearly, what had rushed out first was only a single main-station Warship, yet in an instant it transformed into a charging battle formation with the big ship as its core, and fighters and War Armor as its flesh and muscles.

This was no ordinary Warship at all, but a Mother Ship that could form a battle array all by itself.

And that was not the end of it. When the locust-swarm of small fighters and War Armor had flown off and numerous small hatches had closed, larger hatches suddenly opened, and one sharp-cone-shaped heavy Missile after another roared out.

These Missiles had extremely strong acceleration performance. As soon as they were launched, they surpassed the Warship in an instant and shot rapidly toward all directions, each locking at high speed onto the Ascenders’ large-scale combat units.

The few remaining officers of the stationed forces could only sigh in their hearts as they watched this scene in the projections: the performance of this Red Blade Clan Warship was truly terrifying.

One had to know that the stronger the Warship’s acceleration, the greater the deformation and vibration inside the hull. If there were the slightest flaw in design and manufacture, these hatches would open but never close again.

So ordinary Imperial Battleships rarely open their hatches during full acceleration, much less deploy their entire complement like this Red Blade Battleship.

Yet this newly arrived Red Blade Battleship was doing exactly that, and doing it with such smooth, natural ease.

And still that was not all. After it finished launching its Missiles, the Warship—still accelerating, and in fact already leaving the defensive line and gradually thrusting into the enemy formation—suddenly lit up along its dorsal side, indicating that it was fully driving its Energy Weapons.

In the next instant, the small fighters and War Armor that had pounced out ahead of time were already entangled in a mass battle with the countless Ascender Reproductive Subunits pressing inward.

At the same time, those Missiles traced arcs through the void, spinning as they passed over the engagement plane formed by the myriad small units of both sides, lunging straight toward the rear. Then they suddenly vanished without a trace, and when they reappeared, they had already crossed a huge distance, much closer to the targets they had locked on in advance.

The space-supply bug-ships, large-scale chaos organisms, and massive telescoping war bugs that had separated from the Mother Empress Ship were already hurriedly displaying their various abilities—dodging, intercepting, or reinforcing defenses to brace for impact—with no time to counterattack.

Next, the prow of that charging Red Blade Battleship began to lance out razor-sharp beams of light, sweeping across the area where small combat units were densely engaged, then started to jink violently as the beams continued their scouring sweep.

Strangely enough, under the illumination of these light beams, the Red Peak Army’s fighters and Single Soldier Battle Armor not only suffered no damage whatsoever, they even became more vigorous and fierce. Slightly damaged component structures actually began to rapidly self-repair, and their depleted energy reserves were swiftly replenished.

In stark contrast, the Ascenders’ semi-biological, semi-mechanized troops were like ice cream under a scorching sun, melting away rapidly in agonized struggle.

It was obvious that this was yet another newly developed combat method from the Red Blade Science Academy.

Just this one strike was enough to make the pressure on the few remaining original garrison units suddenly ease.

The Earl Commander, who had been only barely hanging on, felt both shocked and overjoyed in his heart. He even forgot to redeploy his forces, merely muttering to himself, "We... we survived. Earl Red Blade’s army is actually this overwhelming! Just one Warship, and it turned the whole situation upside down!"

The adjutant next to him suddenly cried out in alarm, "No... not just one!"

The Earl Commander asked in puzzlement, "How is it not just... uh, it really isn’t just one."

As it turned out, while the first Red Blade Battleship that had burst out was rampaging in all directions, the medium and small Red Blade Battleships that were queued behind it and exiting the corridor one after another had already powered up a new type of stealth coating to full capacity, transforming into drifting misty clouds within the Three-dimensional Universe. They bypassed the battle zone, tracing a faint arc through space as they charged straight toward the distant Third-class Mother Empress herself.