Chapter 1648 - 529: We Are Ready to Fight to the Death
Chapter 1648: Chapter 529: We Are Ready to Fight to the Death
"Insect Swarm? Where did the insect swarm come from?
Weren’t they all in the Roes Civilization? How did they suddenly appear?
Also, what about the fleet’s vigilance?!
How could the swarm attack without warning and sneak into the fleet? What are they doing?"
General Ximu almost roared as he consecutively questioned.
Judging by the sudden listing and explosion of the warship just now, it must have been directly attacked on the ship itself.
And those Insect Clan certainly don’t have any long-range attack capabilities! Being able to attack the ship itself means the swarm has already approached the warship and entered the fleet’s interior!
But the fleet has always maintained a vigilant state; once the Insect Clan appeared, the alarm would definitely be sounded before they reached, how could the swarm sneak up on them?
Seemingly frightened by his tone, the voice on the communicator stuttered after a long pause:
"I-It seems that these swarms have some special concealment technique, approaching us by disguising themselves as ordinary meteors...
And judging by the direction these Insect Clans are coming from, it appears they are returning from the direction of the Roes Civilization...
They’ve now crashed into the fleet and seem to be trying to invade the warship!"
"Useless bunch, organize the warships for a counterattack immediately!"
After cursing, General Ximu hung up the communication and solemnly spoke to several Mages who had also put away their smiles:
"Sorry, the swarm suddenly attacked, I request the esteemed masters to join in repelling the Insect Clan boarding the warships.
There will certainly be thanks after the fact."
No matter how greedy he is, he is very concerned about his fleet.
After all, the fleet is his everything, his capital for greed, he is very clear about the fleet’s safety and face issues.
Moreover, he knows the situation is special, they’ve already been hit within the interior of the fleet, the situation is already very urgent.
Although the probability is low, it already poses a real threat to the fleet.
Even he must be on high alert, after leaving a promise, General Ximu hurriedly departed.
The remaining Mages exchanged glances, also understanding the gravity of the situation.
If the swarm succeeds, they are not high-tier, not confident they can escape from a fleet full of insects.
Besides, there’s a reward involved, naturally, there’s no objection to helping.
After a brief hesitation, they all nodded, individually followed General Ximu out of the reception room and proceeded to various parts of the fleet.
At the same time as they sprang into action, with transcendent speed, General Ximu quickly returned to the command room.
"What’s the specific situation?"
General Ximu looked at the projection ahead, which was a sea of warning red, already anticipated, but still asked to get the situation immediately.
"The situation is not good, this attack was too sudden, many warships were even undergoing routine maintenance or other activities, not even having time to utilize the function of the spaceship shell before being invaded by the Insect Clan.
Now more than a third of the warships have been invaded, and the crew is fiercely resisting.
Even our warship is..."
With the information on the projection in front of him and the subordinate’s report, General Ximu roughly grasped the situation, furrowing his brows.
Leveraging the secrecy of this assault, the swarm directly surged into the fleet’s interior, bypassing the Insect Clan’s weakness in long-range bombardment, and launched directly into melee.
Dragging nearly half of the warships into internal battles, deactivating the fleet’s greatest advantage of long-range artillery fire.
Although logically, those swarms didn’t have the capability to conceal themselves as the subordinate mentioned, even if disguised as meteors, they shouldn’t escape the energy radar’s detection.
But now is clearly not the time to delve into this issue.
Moreover, the most important point is, this attack does not only affect them, upon returning to his command platform, he gathered from accumulated messages that similar attacks have occurred in several areas across the Starry Sky.
"Is this another large-scale insect swarm attack, do these swarms conduct periodic cycles of attack?
Have they reaccumulated Strength after the last large-scale activity?
These insects are indeed a bunch of beasts; it’s been so many years since we’ve seen such a primitive beast tide.
Don’t worry, several masters have already intervened, the flagship will be fine.
Immediately relocate the ships that haven’t been attacked to avoid getting entangled by the swarm again.
Convene the transcendents from the unassailed warships to immediately support other attacked warships!
Also, immediately activate those anti-Insect Clan armors!
We now need their Strength!"
General Ximu quickly made what he deemed the most correct decision, and the entire fleet seemed to regain its backbone, recovering the military Order from the Chaos of the recent assault.
The attacked fleet immediately split into two parts, the unassailed warships swiftly withdrew, distancing themselves from the battlefield’s position
Simultaneously releasing numerous small landing pods, carrying transcendents to reenter the battlefield, boarding those attacked and still chaotic warships.
Watching the battlefield projection on the command platform before him, his fleet was already adapting according to his will, surveillance within the fleet showed transcendents swiftly joining the battlefield.
Moreover, accompanying them were a group of magic puppets about two people tall.
Those were the "anti-Insect Clan armors" mentioned earlier with the masters!