"On Charlotte's side there are still seven quasi-T7 pitch-black interstellar warships to face. And by the look of her intent, she doesn't mean to send in any other warships in support. But can one T6 Rakshasa-Hades-class Interstellar Dreadnought really do it alone? Isn't the risk too great?" Lilith said beside Zhao Chen, somewhat worried.
Zhao Chen, though, said as evenly as ever, "Since it's Charlotte's decision, then we choose to trust her."
As he spoke, Zhao Chen kept his eyes on the changes upon the battlefield,
and above all on the T6 Rakshasa-Hades-class Interstellar Dreadnought's course.
Zhao Chen knew Charlotte was waiting for a chance.
The time passed, little by little.
At last
Zhao Chen's pupils widened slightly.
Now!
At this moment the T6 Rakshasa-Hades-class Interstellar Dreadnought, locked in hard fighting with the seven quasi-T7 pitch-black interstellar warships, suddenly aimed its giant cannon in one direction.
Energy long stored was poured out all at once in that instant.
A huge black pillar of light shot straight off in that direction.
In that direction was a quasi-T7 pitch-black interstellar warship that was attacking the T6 Rakshasa-Hades-class Interstellar Dreadnought,
itself somewhat damaged in the hard fighting before.
And now it faced this hole card of the T6 Rakshasa-Hades-class Interstellar Dreadnought:
Dreadnought Cannon · Demon King mode!
At the first instant of the attack there was all but a pause.
Then that quasi-T7 pitch-black interstellar warship was holed clean through, from bow to stern.
But the huge black pillar of light did not dissolve; it 'passed through' this quasi-T7 pitch-black interstellar warship and went on shooting into the distance.
There, as it happened, a quasi-T7 pitch-black interstellar warship lay across its path.
Then this quasi-T7 pitch-black interstellar warship was seen to be holed straight through the side of its hull.
Again, after a short pause, the terrifying black beam was still going forward.
This time it struck the stern of a quasi-T7 pitch-black interstellar warship that happened to lie in the same line.
Though it did not destroy this quasi-T7 pitch-black interstellar warship outright, the stern snapped off was enough to leave this quasi-T7 pitch-black interstellar warship gravely damaged.
And on this line of attack
there was one more quasi-T7 pitch-black interstellar warship, at the farthest end.
This quasi-T7 pitch-black interstellar warship was most unlucky: struck right at the bow, it was destroyed on the spot and dissolved.
And there this attack could be said to end.
One shot of the Demon King's giant cannon had destroyed three quasi-T7 pitch-black interstellar warships outright and gravely damaged one pitch-black interstellar warship.
And this feat was what Charlotte had prepared her tactics for this time.
She had used her mobility, seemingly moving about and tangling with the enemy's warships without pause, seeking only to face the enemy warships' gunfire as little as possible at any one time.
In truth she had also been seeking a chance:
a chance for several of the enemy's warships to fall into one line.
And that chance needed not only the enemy's cooperation, but Charlotte's careful calculation as well.
It looked like chance that these quasi-T7 pitch-black interstellar warships of the enemy's should come onto one line.
But in truth it had all been within Charlotte's calculation; she had long since foreseen that such a situation would come.
And in the end she had brought it about.
With that,
the situation on Battlefield No. 2
became the T6 Rakshasa-Hades-class Interstellar Dreadnought facing the enemy's last three quasi-T7 pitch-black interstellar warships, and one gravely damaged quasi-T7 pitch-black interstellar warship.
Though the enemy ships had not yet been wiped out,
with the abilities the T6 Rakshasa-Hades-class Interstellar Dreadnought had shown,
destroying the remaining quasi-T7 pitch-black interstellar warships was only a question of time.
"Marshal Charlotte is amazing! She'd worked all this out beforehand!" Secretary-Officer Lilith, beside him, was greatly amazed as well.
For though she could work out anything on the logistics side,
in battlefield situations and strategy she still fell a long way short.
"Battlefield No. 2 has no great problems now. Dealing with the remaining quasi-T7 pitch-black interstellar warships within the hour won't be any trouble at all." Zhao Chen finished, and looked to the footage of Battlefield No. 3.
There was the T6 Demon Emperor Carrier Starship, in Marshal Su Lan's charge!
Marshal Su Lan was on the bridge of this carrier starship at this moment.
Compared with the bridges of other Owl Dragon-line warships,
the bridge of this T6 Demon Emperor Carrier Starship was truly wholly different in style.
For here the style was black, and darker still; there were no hard steel walls, but a hull made of a material like brown semisolid,
and underfoot some material like a carapace.
At first the crew assigned to this ship had not been at all used to it.
But by degrees they too began to settle into this warship of so strange a style.
For this was the Owl Dragon Empire's first biological warship!
That's right: this warship, to be exact, was a biological warship,
a biological warship with a body the size of a moon.
【Demon Emperor Carrier Starship
Ship type: carrier starship / flagship type
Technology grade: T6
Hull armor strength: 36 million units – 38 million units
Star-shield energy value: 2 billion units
Cruising speed: 800 star-knots
Warp engine: grade-9.9 warp engine
Length: 3,600 kilometers
Mass: 6.9 billion tons
Complement of posts: 1 million
Starship weapons:
T6 Ghoul Dragon (heavy interstellar fighter): 50 million held
T6 Dread Banshee (light interstellar fighter): 50 million held
T6 Lich King (heavy interstellar bomber): 1 million held】
"To tell the truth, every time I look over this T6 Demon Emperor Carrier Starship's data, it feels out of place among our Owl Dragon-line warships," Secretary-Officer Lilith, beside him, could not help remarking.
Zhao Chen smiled slightly. "Never mind whether it's a white cat or a black cat; so long as it catches mice, it's a good cat."
At this moment this T6 Demon Emperor Carrier Starship had already begun to move.
In that immense hull, black-mouthed openings appeared one after another.
Creatures could be dimly seen inside, ranged in rows.
Then T6 Ghoul Dragons were seen to fly out one after another; they were about the size of ordinary T6 interstellar fighters, but rather more agile,
and on their bodies was a very hard biological armor as well.
At a glance one could tell they were very tough.
After that, on the belly of the T6 Demon Emperor Carrier Starship, openings appeared one after another, and from those openings hung creatures upside down, one after another, with their wings folded.
They were packed so thick they were like little fleshy growths on skin,
enough to give anyone gooseflesh.
But at the order from the bridge,
these 'little growths' all began to drop free, and then spread their wings and showed their true faces.
They were T6 Dread Banshees!
The T6 Dread Banshee was somewhat smaller than the T6 Ghoul Dragon, but swifter.
After that, platforms appeared one after another on the upper part of the T6 Demon Emperor Carrier Starship's hull,
and on them appeared demon statues of stone, one after another,
larger in bulk than either of the first two.
Then these demons opened their eyes, and the huge pitch-black wings at their backs spread with it,
like so many giant demons.
They beat their wings and began to fly in formation.
There were so many of them that, seen from far off, they were like swarm upon swarm of locusts.
"This T6 Demon Emperor Carrier Starship really is too big," Secretary-Officer Lilith, beside him, could not help sighing.
"Three thousand six hundred kilometers. That's more or less the size of a moon. Likely only the Hive Motherships, which are biological warships too, are bigger than it," Zhao Chen remarked.
It was such an enormous bulk and structure that let this T6 Demon Emperor Carrier Starship hold more than a hundred million flying combat units.
And that was only one part of its internal structure.
Its greatest value
lay in its stored energy, and its breeding chambers.
As a biological warship, the T6 Demon Emperor Carrier Starship produced and bred these T6 Ghoul Dragons, T6 Dread Banshees and T6 Lich Kings it carried by itself.
So long as enough resources were fed in, it could breed them without end.
And in time of battle it could speed up this breeding as well.
At this moment, though the battle had not fully begun,
Marshal Su Lan had already given the order on the bridge. "Start every breeding chamber, running at full load. Without my order, no stopping. Breed me more combat units!"
"Yes!" The adjutant took the order and went at once to see to it.
At this moment, had one looked inside the T6 Demon Emperor Carrier Starship's inner space, one could have seen huge breeding chambers one after another,
of three styles in the main,
made ready, naturally, for breeding T6 Ghoul Dragons, T6 Dread Banshees and T6 Lich Kings.
In the breeding chambers 'eggs' appeared one after another.
Then these 'eggs' grew at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Once grown to a certain point, these 'eggs' would be sent to the 'hangars,' which was where these biological combat units were kept day to day,
to be understood as hangars for storing interstellar fighters.
There these 'eggs' would break their cocoons, with formidable fighting power, ready to be thrown onto the battlefield at any time.
With the T6 Demon Emperor Carrier Starship running at high efficiency,
in twenty-four hours it could breed another batch of over a hundred million combat units.
And the energy stored within it could keep up what its breeding needed for seven days.
That was why its hull was so enormous:
in order to make such an 'ecological chain,'
and make it a super-carrier starship!
Now the combat units this super-carrier starship had launched were already swarming toward the ten quasi-T7 pitch-black interstellar warships opposite.
Compared with the fighting style of the T6 Rakshasa-Hades-class Interstellar Dreadnought,
the T6 Demon Emperor Carrier Starship did not go in single-handed; around it were also 300 interstellar escorts it carried with it, taking on the part of guarding the carrier starship.
The enemy, knowing this T6 Demon Emperor Carrier Starship for a threat, would naturally launch its fiercest attack upon this T6 Demon Emperor Carrier Starship.
That naturally called for these interstellar escorts' protection.
"How sure can we be of the T6 Demon Emperor Carrier Starship's battlefield?" Secretary-Officer Lilith asked with concern.
It was, after all, the T6 Demon Emperor Carrier Starship's very first battle, and against ten quasi-T7 pitch-black interstellar warships at that.
She was still somewhat worried.
"To tell the truth, the T6 Demon Emperor Carrier Starship's battlefield is, if anything, the one I worry about least," Zhao Chen said coolly.
"Why?" Secretary-Officer Lilith was somewhat surprised.
"For the same reason as the Owl Dragon hive-race fleet's battlefield. These flying combat units here are every one of them T6 grade. And near a hundred million of them. Even with ten quasi-T7 pitch-black interstellar warships opposite, destroying them is only a question of time."
Zhao Chen shrugged at this point. "It may only be a question of time. But destroying these ten quasi-T7 pitch-black interstellar warships within an hour surely shouldn't be too great a problem."
With that, Zhao Chen paid no more attention to that battlefield,
but looked to Battlefield No. 4, in the charge of the Owl Dragon Empire's Fourth Legion Fleet Group.
There was the T6 Gluttony Demon King starship!
The T6 Gluttony Demon King starship was a rather special flagship.
For to look at its outward form, it was a ship something like an interstellar gunship.
But from its name one could tell it was by no means so simple a thing as an interstellar gunship.
Had it been a flagship on the interstellar-gunship line,
then by the System's habits of naming it ought to have had a name of the kind "T6 Gluttony Demon King interstellar gunship."
Since it did not have "interstellar gunship" in its name, it followed that heavy interstellar guns were not this flagship's hole card.
And having read its data, figure by figure, that was indeed so.
But it had to be said that the heavy guns it carried were still very eye-catching.
At this very moment, for one, Marshal Xue Xiaoxiao, supreme commander of the Owl Dragon Empire's Fourth Legion Fleet Group,
was drooling, her face all but pressed to the porthole, staring at that huge black shape in the distance,
like some lovesick creep.
Through the magnified image
the twelve huge super-heavy cannon upon the T6 Gluttony Demon King starship could be seen, standing there like twelve divine pillars.
Just looking at them, Xue Xiaoxiao kept swallowing; they struck her right in the soft spot of her heart.
Besides those, some 'smaller' main guns could be seen, 'smaller' here meaning set against those super-heavy cannon.
Compared with an ordinary T6 Lord-of-Thunder-class Heavy Interstellar Destroyer, the T6 Gluttony Demon King starship's main guns were all quite enormous things.
"Marshal… the command over here…" The deputy captain, beside her, looked at Xue Xiaoxiao like this.
Though she had long known her own marshal's temper, she still looked as though she could hardly bear to watch.
She knew her own marshal was a heavy devotee of big ships and big guns.
What she was forever muttering was 'big guns,' 'big guns.'
Before this she had long cast covetous eyes on the T6 Rakshasa-Hades-class Interstellar Dreadnought.
Then, after seeing the T6 Gluttony Demon King starship, she had fallen in love with this flagship as well.
Not long ago, on hearing that the Owl Dragon's industry was building the first batch of T6 interstellar battleships, she had wanted nothing more than to run straight to the docks for a few looks.
"It's fine; leave the command over there to you and the staff," Xue Xiaoxiao said, her eyes fixed hard on the T6 Gluttony Demon King starship over there.
The deputy captain, helpless, could only bring out a line the Emperor had once taught her.
The deputy captain put on a stern air and said,
"Marshal, His Majesty did say: if you don't do well, the first batch of T6 Purple-Gold Silver Dragon-class Heavy Interstellar Battleships won't go to our fleet group."
At these words Xue Xiaoxiao behaved herself on the instant,
went back to her own post, and dealt with the battlefield's affairs in all earnest.