Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 246 The Inevitable War

The commander of the Great Ring continued, "Macron put forward these ideas hundreds of thousands of years ago, and this is also one of the guiding principles of the Dragon Society. The Devouring Civilization has produced many such advanced ideas. If it weren't for the emperor, who can be called the ultimate producer, suppressing them, the Devouring Civilization would have already entered the next stage of social system."

Shan Qingren is numb.

"Unfortunately, negotiations are no longer possible. The Devouring Ring's automatic feeding system means that it will inevitably target Earth, which is rich in water and atmospheric resources. Under your influence, this great battle in the solar system is now unavoidable."

The commander of the Great Ring placed his forelimbs on his chest and said in a sincere tone, "I admire you, Shanqing, and I also admire human civilization. However, we are destined to be on opposite sides. I will do everything in my power to ensure the Great Ring's victory in this war. Afterward, I will reform the Great Ring. If we fight this war and the Devourers are fortunate enough to defeat humanity, we will not choose to breed humans. The Devourer civilization will not breed such dangerous creatures, no matter how delicious they may be. Humanity will retain a spark and continue to survive in this vast solar system."

"And those who devour civilizations will continue to sail into the abyss of the universe until their demise."

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Following the conversation between Commander Dahuan and Shanqing, the Provisional Council of the Devouring Empire passed a provisional resolution and issued a statement to all dragons:

The False God Worm (Shanqing) has been defeated. The Great Ring Commander has completed his revenge against His Majesty the Emperor. The False God Worm (Shanqing) is now only a remnant of its soul, posing no further threat to the Empire. Currently, human warships have demonstrated their final trump cards: sub-light speed at 0.15c and stellar hydrogen bombs. However, these trump cards are insufficient to shake the immense power of the Great Ring. In order to ensure the continued existence of civilizations throughout the universe, the Great Ring Commander officially declares: Great Ring, proceed immediately towards Earth!

In order to gain the support of the remaining noble dragons as much as possible, the Commander of the Great Ring, despite having considerable power, did not easily take action against the noble dragons. Instead, he issued a slogan to win their support:

"Let the blood of humanity avenge the 5000 million dinosaur citizens who perished in this attack!!!" (Note: This casualty figure does not include herbivorous dinosaurs.)

Braving the devastation of a super nuclear explosion caused by five hundred star-shaped hydrogen bombs, the giant ring began its journey toward Earth.

Although the Giant Ring withstood the nuclear attack from humanity, the Devouring Fleet did not. Led by the Natural Selection, the 12 star-class warships initially targeted both the Devouring Giant Ring and the Devouring Fleet.

The dinosaur warships in the inner ring center area are naturally farther away from the outer ring. Moreover, in order to prevent the dinosaur warships in the center area from scattering prematurely, the 12 star-class warships launched nuclear missiles as early as when they entered 11% of the speed of light. These nuclear missiles were slower than the nuclear missiles that attacked the giant ring at 13% of the speed of light, and only now have they arrived at their destination.

Three minutes after nearly 500 stellar hydrogen bombs were unleashed on the surface of the ring, a meteor shower of another 450 stellar hydrogen bombs had already entered the inner cosmic space of the ring.

This time, the fireworks were much brighter than those planted on the surface of the ring, especially for the dinosaur residents of the inner ring.

After the second wave of the stellar hydrogen bomb arrived, light began to burst forth from the thin universe. This time, there was no obstruction, and all the dinosaur residents of District 12 could look up and watch this scene.

The entire Anvil Plains flickered, illuminated by the glow of the nuclear fireball in the sky.

Compared to detonating within the atmosphere of a giant ring, the power of a stellar hydrogen bomb is significantly reduced due to the vacuum effect.
Unexpectedly, the inner ring of the universe was not a complete vacuum. Due to the low gravity of the larger ring, the extremely thin air inside the ring escaped into the central region. This air became the best carrier for the stellar hydrogen bomb to fully unleash its power.

The final stellar hydrogen bomb struck the densest area of ​​the Devouring Fleet. After the nuclear explosion, the Devouring Fleet scattered like glass artifacts struck by a giant hammer.

The shockwaves generated by the thin air spread at hypersonic speeds, continuously impacting the devouring fleet.

In addition to the Devouring Warships that were directly annihilated and vaporized at the center of the nuclear explosion, a large number of Devouring Fleets in the non-nuclear fireball area also suffered damage. This nuclear fireball even ignited the thin atmosphere of the inner ring of space, forming a plasma fire storm that swept across the entire space. Although the fire storm only lasted for a short time, it still burned a large number of light space warships with weak protection to ashes.

While the dinosaur warship fleet was vast in scale, its quality varied greatly. Its protection against electromagnetic interference and shockwave damage from airburst nuclear bombs was far inferior to that of standard human spaceships. Most importantly, the flames of the hydrogen bomb simultaneously ignited the fuel depots of numerous lighter dinosaur warships, triggering thousands of smaller nuclear explosions. This domino-like wave of explosions eliminated any truly "safe" areas in the inner cosmic space. The shockwaves from the thin air and the flames from the smaller dinosaur warship explosions rapidly filled the 4-kilometer-diameter area of ​​space.

As the afterglow of all the stellar hydrogen bombs dissipated, the clear space had turned into a gray-black chaos, with the wreckage of dinosaur warships falling into the atmosphere from time to time, staging a second meteor shower in various regions of the inner ring.

The once mighty fleet is now reduced to a few large dinosaur warships barely surviving, while smaller warships such as the Pteranodon-class reconnaissance ships and Velociraptor assault boats have suffered enormous losses.

In the sky, only the massive Brachiosaurus-class mothership, Tyrant-class battleship, and Stegosaurus-class fire support ship stubbornly drifted in space.

The advance fleet, led by the [Natural Selection], achieved results far exceeding those of the Second Kuiper Belt Campaign. Humanity, whether in the past or the future, will find it difficult to achieve such a terrifying kill-to-loss ratio.

Piling up all those hundreds of thousands of massive fleets in this tiny space of space with a diameter of only 4 kilometers is an unforgivable strategic mistake.

The sky was no longer the sky, but a boiling infernal sea of ​​fire formed by a fleet.

This sea of ​​fire in space is expected to last for about a month, until the giant ring that swallowed the ring leaves this part of space and leaves all the warships in its 'belly' behind. Only then will the sea of ​​fire gradually extinguish in the cold of space.

With this, the first phase of the human fleet's attack on the Devouring Empire was finally completed!
The Devouring Fleet suffered heavy losses in this attack.

Approximately 10% of the force suffered a devastating blow, completely annihilated by the brilliance of the stellar hydrogen bomb.

Approximately 32% of the force suffered severe damage from the shockwave, the explosion of friendly ships, and the subsequent inferno, essentially rendering it unable to sail.

Approximately 50% of the force suffered varying degrees of damage, with the vast majority of these losses consisting of light dinosaur warships such as the Velociraptor-class, Pteranodon-class, and Small Triangle Bulwark-class. These small and light warships were also unlikely to participate in subsequent operations.

Approximately 8% of the force, consisting of four main classes of warships—the Brachiosaurus-class (carrier type), the Tyrant-class (battleship type), the Stegosaurus-class (missile type), and the Great Triangle Bulwark-class (meat shield)—totaling about 60,000 main warships, suffered relatively little damage and were still able to follow behind the Giant Ring.

If we include the Solar System Fleet with its 50,000 planetary-level warships, then in terms of the sheer number of warships, it has already reached parity with the Devouring Empire.

The giant ring did not pause for the damaged small and medium-sized warships, but instead continuously increased the power of its engines, creating nearly 30,000 plasma tail flames that stretched for 10,000 kilometers, propelling the giant ring toward the solar system.

The 60,000 main warships of the dinosaurs finally dispersed from the narrow inner ring of space, forming a scattered array around the giant ring, and also accompanied the mothership as it headed towards the solar system.

There were also nearly 20 abandoned, empty-hulled warships scattered in the outer ring that had escaped the disaster, lacking space combat capabilities, and about 10 small and medium-sized warships that suffered minor damage. These warships, whose propulsion systems still existed, were also thrown into the direction of the solar system like garbage.

A giant, carrying about 60,000 followers and nearly 300,000 old, weak, sick and disabled, driven by a primal desire to feed, began his arduous journey toward the solar system.

Shanqing watched all of this helplessly, unable to stop it.

(End of this chapter)