Trailing a brilliant light like 'tail feathers',
the two crimson fletchings, like two shooting stars, slid across the night sky at tremendous speed.
Straight at the two T6 Bone Dragons locked on to long before.
The two T6 Bone Dragons seemed to sense the threat too; they beat their wings to check their speed.
Trying to dodge the attack even as they spat blue-white flame from their mouths, hoping to block this sudden strike with it.
The two crimson 'shooting stars' were very fast.
Surely faster than any weapon in the known universe.
And their range was very long.
The two T6 Bone Dragons were in fact still beyond the range of the fire exchanged on the defense-line battlefield.
Two crimson shooting stars.
One went straight through a T6 Bone Dragon's head, and the blue-white flame not yet spat out perished along with it.
The headless T6 Bone Dragon hung in that stretch of airspace, and stirred no more.
The other T6 Bone Dragon was a little luckier.
It reacted faster; its blue-white flame spewed out and met the oncoming crimson shooting star head-on.
But only for the merest instant.
A huge whirl of blast swept over this T6 Bone Dragon.
Then this T6 Bone Dragon's body was blasted to pieces, torn apart, not a single bone left whole.
Put that way, the T6 Bone Dragon shot through the head before had been the luckier one after all.
"Beautiful! Instant kill!" At his side, the captain of another T6 Seraph-Ballista-class Interstellar Long-Range Hunter-Killer Ship was very excited too, waving her little fists.
Zhao Chen watched it all with a smile.
This was the power of the T6 Seraph-Ballista-class Interstellar Long-Range Hunter-Killer Ship.
It was a very special interstellar warship.
The whole interstellar warship, from top to bottom, existed almost to serve one weapon system.
Apart from that weapon system, it had no other offensive weapon of any kind.
Only five hundred close-in guns remained.
And that one weapon system was the Seraph Ballista.
The Seraph Ballista was a super bow gun.
It used electromagnetic rail-gun technology, accelerating the 'shell' to the utmost at the moment of firing.
At the same time, before firing, it gathered an enormous amount of energy into a crimson 'fletching'.
That was its shell.
Strictly speaking, a compressed shell.
Tremendous speed joined to a compressed energy shell.
Combined so, a target once locked on had almost no chance of escape.
And unless it had very great defensive power, there was for the most part no T5-grade interstellar warship at all that could stop this arrow.
After Chief Engineer Annie had built it, Chief Engineer Nana had even taken it specially to run data simulations.
In the simulations,
even with the target starship protected by thirty T5 King-of-the-Hill-class Heavy Interstellar Comprehensive Strategic Escorts and a star-shield matrix,
One fletching from the T6 Seraph-Ballista-class Interstellar Long-Range Hunter-Killer Ship was enough to tear a gap in the star-shield matrix in a short time and strike the target starship.
it could still break the target T5 interstellar warship's star shield, and then destroy the target starship itself.
So terrible a single-shot sniping power was what earned it its name.
Interstellar long-range hunter-killer.
As the name says: from a very distant position, like a hunter, it hunts down and kills its prey!
【Seraph-Ballista-class Interstellar Long-Range Hunter-Killer Ship
Ship type: Interstellar Long-Range Hunter-Killer Ship
Technology grade: T6
Hull armor strength: 260,000 units
Star-shield energy value: 6,000,000 units
Cruising speed: 1,500 star-knots
Warp drive: grade-9.9 warp drive
Length: 36 kilometers
Mass: 36,000,000 tons
Complement: 15,000
Ship weapons:
1 Seraph Ballista
500 fully-automatic medium close-in guns】
So the T6 Seraph-Ballista-class Interstellar Long-Range Hunter-Killer Ship was very special: from the moment of its birth, its fighting ability was very single-minded.
So single-minded that in this one respect it stood at the very top.
"I wonder how many shots from a T6 Seraph Ballista a T6 Rakshasa-Hades-class Interstellar Dreadnought could stand," Zhao Chen muttered.
But the T6 Seraph-Ballista-class Interstellar Long-Range Hunter-Killer Ship had one weakness as well.
Its single-shot attack was tremendously powerful, second to none among mass-produced T6-grade interstellar warships.
But after one attack, it needed a fairly long time to cool down and recharge.
Under normal conditions, ten minutes.
If the fighting was fierce, that time could be shortened.
But shortening it would greatly cut the service life of this interstellar warship's key components.
Even with this one flaw, nothing could hold back this interstellar warship's terrible strength.
Under the hunt of the T6 Seraph-Ballista-class Interstellar Long-Range Hunter-Killer Ships, the T6 Bone Dragons across the way were only prey awaiting sentence.
The situation on the Line No. 1 battlefield, deadlocked and chaotic at first, gradually began to clear.
Though the undead armies had grown several times over, they still could not pose much of a threat to this defense line.
A great part of the reason lay in those interstellar warships from the Emperor's Guard Fleet.
And those T6 undead combat units, though they would try to rush in during the gaps between the T6 Seraph-Ballista-class Interstellar Long-Range Hunter-Killer Ships' shots,
were not many to begin with.
And then, as nearly all the T6 Seraph-Ballista-class Interstellar Long-Range Hunter-Killer Ships joined the battlefield.
These T6 undead combat units could threaten the line even less, not in the slightest.
"Got another one!" Tao Beibei, at Zhao Chen's side, waved her little fists in excitement.
The battle had gone on long enough that her T6 Seraph-Ballista-class Interstellar Long-Range Hunter-Killer Ship had joined the fighting too, and with quite a good record: it had already destroyed three T6 combat units.
On Undead Defense Line No. 1, the T6 undead combat units destroyed so far had reached twenty!
Even with thirty-odd still to come,
so long as order held on the Owl Dragon legion fleets' side, there was for the most part no problem at all.
This battle, Chu Xuan had held!
Marshal Chu Xuan looked at the interstellar war holo-table before her and let out a long breath too.
At least she had carried out the task of defense.
As for the counteroffensive His Majesty the Emperor had spoken of, riding on the momentum…
Just then, from the Star Gate behind Battle Line No. 1, interstellar warships suddenly came through, one after another.
And on no small scale!
The interstellar warships were brand-new, every one, likely off the production line only a few days before.
In the end, a full 100,000 interstellar warships had gathered here!
Chu Xuan understood: this must be what His Majesty the Emperor was relying on for his counterattack!
"Commander of the Owl Dragon Fourth Fleet Group's First Legion, Xue Xiaoxiao, is here!" A somewhat mischievous, proud voice rang out on the command channel.