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

Chapter 252 Smash! Wa! Lu! Duo! (5k)

The large ring has suffered an unprecedented blow!

The simultaneous explosion of one thousand star-shaped hydrogen bombs caused the giant ring to momentarily stop moving!
The Devouring Ring, which was already close to 0.38% of the speed of light, actually slowed down to 0.37% of the speed of light during this round of uniform super-scale nuclear explosions.

The thrust generated by the instantaneous explosion of one thousand star-shaped hydrogen bombs exceeds the total thrust of thirty thousand large ring engines!

The structure of the large ring was subjected to compression by both positive and negative forces, resulting in a resonant metallic hum across the entire ring. However, the white dwarf matter, which forms the core linking structure of the large ring, and is composed of ring beams of electron degenerate states, still supports the overall structure of the large ring, preventing large-area cracks from appearing.

The commoner dinosaurs only felt a slight "spatial distortion" in the world, followed by a massive chain of earthquakes that swept across the giant ring. The earthquakes lasted for several hours and eventually subsided under the gear effect of the rotating structures inside and outside the ring.

The human fleet's attack has temporarily ended, and deep space has once again fallen silent.

But the commander of the Great Ring knew that the enemy's attack had only just begun. In the mixed strikes that had lasted for the past hour, the human fleet had demonstrated their arrogant power to the Devouring Empire—the might of their stellar hydrogen bombs.

The Devouring Empire is not without such power; on the contrary, the antimatter bombs it possesses are far more powerful than stellar hydrogen bombs. However, the problem is that the Devouring Empire lacks the ability to deploy antimatter bombs on human fleets.

The enemy was too fast; they could even anticipate and dodge gamma-ray lasers.

Within just half a month, after experiencing two large-scale interstellar nuclear strikes by the advance fleet and the expeditionary fleet, all the dinosaurs realized that this war was indeed different from what they had experienced in the past tens of millions of years.

The human fleet truly possessed the courage and ability to destroy the Devouring Empire, a formidable foe never before seen in the history of the dinosaurs.

Moreover, this war is inherently irreconcilable.

Devouring the resource-rich planets of the solar system is the only way for the Devouring Empire to survive.

Humanity will surely eliminate the enemies that threaten Earth.

This civilization, born of the same mother, will inevitably be destroyed by one side completely.

Within six hours of the simultaneous explosion of a thousand nuclear reactors.

The Devouring Empire, which had been showing signs of division due to the death of the Devouring Emperor, was once again united by a powerful external enemy.

Apart from the sixth district, which is in a state of "autonomy," the remaining 11 districts and even the commanders of the Devouring Fleet have all expressed temporary allegiance to the Great Ring Commander. Even the old noble dinosaurs who have some complaints about the Great Ring Commander have no choice but to place their hopes on him.

But it doesn't look easy for Tyrannosaurus Karl, who has finally obtained the highest power in the empire and all its armed forces.

Before the bombardment of the last batch of 1000 star-shaped hydrogen bombs, the unprecedented defensive technology that humanity displayed against the gamma-ray laser interception of the large ring directly exceeded the understanding of dinosaur scientists.

If it wasn't mistaken, the cyan light shield formed by the 1000 star-shaped hydrogen bombs above the large circular orbit vaguely resembled the shape of a tortoise shell... The Devouring Empire did raise tortoises.

Putting aside the shape of the tortoise shell for the moment, what kind of shield could block such a high-energy gamma laser beam? Could it be an energy shield based on some kind of force field?

Or perhaps this is a tactic employed by other pseudo-divine insects?
This is definitely not good news. In the battle with Shanqing, the Empire lost all the fragments of the four-dimensional space, lost a four-dimensional space warship that was theoretically "invincible" in the three-dimensional universe, and barely managed to destroy the enemy by expending a large number of antimatter weapons and nuclear weapons.

If more of these pseudo-god insects were to appear, the Devouring Empire would likely face real calamity.

Under the command of the Great Ring Commander, the four-dimensional fragment manufacturing department resumed the creation of four-dimensional space. This consumed a large amount of energy generated by the Great Ring through heavy nuclear fusion. In the end, a square four-dimensional space with a diameter of 1 kilometer was created in a short period of time. This four-dimensional space was hidden in the central void area of ​​the Devouring Great Ring for future use.

These small four-dimensional fragments are relatively easy for the Devouring Empire to mobilize, and if they encounter other pseudo-god insects, they will not be completely powerless to resist.

Meanwhile, antimatter bullets are also in production. The Great Ring Defense Command believes that if nuclear missiles cannot effectively catch up with enemy warships, then using lighter and easier-to-hide antimatter bullets may be a good option.

When human warships approach within one astronomical unit of the Great Ring, that's when the antimatter weapon will be launched.

After this round of attacks, the Devouring Fleet reached 1% of the speed of light, a speed exceeding that of the giant ring. They proactively split into three groups: one group orbited the side rings protecting the giant ring and the back where the giant ring's engines were located; another group was on the front to deal with the next round of space attacks from humanity; and the last group proactively flew towards the human fleet.

But somehow, this last fleet did not detect the presence of the human fleet in the expected orbit.

"Have the speed of human warships decreased?"

"General, no, according to observations from the space telescope, they are still flying towards the Great Ring at 10% of the speed of light, and are expected to enter within 200 million kilometers in 12 hours."

"It seems they've made up their minds to continue with the straight-line, high-speed bombing tactic. Have the Big Ring prepare to use force fields to launch antimatter bullets. If they can hit the enemy, they can inflict devastating damage on human space warships."

The deep space battlefield unfolds beneath the coldness of space. A vast fleet composed of four main forces—the Great Triangle Bulwark-class defense ships, the Brachiosaurus-class motherships, the Tyrant-class warships, and the Stegosaurus-class fire support ships—drifts in a dispersed formation in front of the giant ring. The tail flames of numerous missiles released by the Stegosaurus-class fire support ships have already been preemptively fired towards the target, while the low-power gamma-ray lasers and magma shells released by the Tyrant-class warships also form a dense firepower network.

If the human fleet does not slow down or maneuver, they will run into this dense network of fire during their subsequent "sprint".

10 hours.

The Large Circular Space Telescope kept its eyes fixed on the rapidly approaching 488 silver dots, while simultaneously reporting to the Devouring Fleet the relative time it would take for the enemy to approach within an astronomical unit.

The fleet still showed no signs of slowing down.

The Brachiosaurus-class motherships began releasing their carrier-based aircraft. The 24 space shuttles released by approximately 6000 Brachiosaurus-class motherships also began to fly in space. These space shuttles were brought to 1% of the speed of light by the motherships and began to fly towards humanity on their own.

Meanwhile, the Wing Loong-class reconnaissance ships and Velociraptor-class spacecraft that survived the attack by the advance human fleet also began to enter the edge of the battlefield.

8 hours.

The Great Triangle Barrier fleet has blocked the Stegosaurus-class and Brachiosaurus-class warships. Both types of warships are firepower-oriented and have poor defense. They can be completely destroyed by a dozen or so electromagnetic cannon shells with a velocity of 0.13c. However, the Great Triangle Barrier, with its ten-kilometer side length, can act as a space barricade and space wall for these warships. It is capable of blocking a stellar hydrogen bomb or thousands of electromagnetic cannon shells.

6 hours.

The previously scattered human fleet began to gradually regroup. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Great Ring released three consecutive rounds of intersecting gamma-ray lasers in the direction where the light points were focused. The gamma-ray lasers ionized in the atmosphere, creating a bright blue beam of light, which then disappeared instantly after entering deep space, starting a new round of light-speed attacks with light waves invisible to the naked eye.

Based on the rapidly shrinking relative distance between the large ring and the fleet, the gamma laser beam will hit the area where the human fleet is located in 50 minutes. Given the human fleet's high speed of 0.1c, it's unlikely they can effectively record and evade it within that short timeframe. The dinosaurs held high hopes for this.

5 hours, 27 minutes, and 38 seconds.

The 488 bright spots in the large circular optical telescope observation system disappeared in an instant.

The commander of the Great Ring, who was watching this scene, felt his scalp tingle instantly.

What happened? Why did the light disappear?
Did the human fleet completely shut down its nuclear fusion engines?
No dragon could answer it.

Six beams of blazing white light swept across from the edge of deep space, crisscrossing and slashing. The dinosaur shuttle at the forefront was instantly destroyed and exploded silently the moment it was touched by these six beams of blazing white light.

This is the shortest and most tragic flower in the universe. The wreckage of the shuttle, carrying kinetic energy, slowly and irreversibly plunges into the abyss of space. And this is only the beginning of a huge and silent funeral.

Thirty thousand electromagnetic cannon shells with a velocity of 0.13c fiercely attacked the well-organized Devouring Fleet. In an instant, thousands of electromagnetic cannon shells completely smashed a Tyrant-class capital warship. Then, the projectiles slashed to the right, forming an arc-shaped space bullet chain, like a scimitar that had been deflected. Within the range of the scimitar's slash, seven more Tyrant-class capital warships were also torn apart by the space bullet rain.

The electromagnetic projectiles formed a scimitar. A few "blurs" appeared on the surface of the eight Tyrant-class battleships, but the remaining scimitars continued into the depths of space, forcefully cleaving through the space shield formed by three large triangular bulwark defense ships, completely destroying the three Brachiosaurus-class motherships and two Stegosaurus-class firepower ships that were hiding behind the large triangular bulwark defense ships and had no time to react.

A series of exploding fireballs shot out from space.

The Velociraptor spaceships and the Winged Dragon reconnaissance ships, positioned on either side of the battlefield, attempted to uncover the identity of the enemy that launched the attack. They began flying towards the source of the attack, but before they had flown far, they were illuminated by the next round of six blazing white beams of light, and were subsequently pierced into molten steel wreckage, leaving only the bright red molten state emitting a faint glow in space.

The Devouring Fleet became restless.

Approximately 12,000 devouring warships of various shapes headed towards the source of the attack. However, facing this fleet of devouring ships gathering from all directions, another 100,000 0.13c electromagnetic railgun shells bombarded them head-on. The exploding barrage tore apart a large number of devouring warships. Following closely behind, 20 infrasonic hydrogen bombs with a velocity of 0.1c and 40 stellar hydrogen bombs also came in a crossfire.

Wherever the infrasound hydrogen bomb passed, the Devouring Warships fell silent one after another. The dinosaur pilots of the Devouring Warships were shaken to death by the infrasound attack. Then, the explosion of 40 star-shaped hydrogen bombs illuminated this dark space.

Forty miniature suns appeared on the battlefield.

The stellar hydrogen bomb exploded in a vacuum, unleashing a violent electromagnetic storm that swept over the dinosaur warships. The Devourer warships, which had relatively poor electromagnetic interference resistance, immediately came to a standstill and were subsequently destroyed by the following incandescent beams or electromagnetic cannons.

Within just 10 minutes, nearly 1000 Devourer warships had been destroyed in this indiscriminate barrage of firepower.

The encircling, devouring warships were forcibly torn open.

With the firing of the last electromagnetic cannon shell, the explosion of the last stellar hydrogen bomb, and the shockwave of the last infrasonic hydrogen bomb, the attacks that could hinder the Devouring Fleet's charge were finally exhausted. Although the six blazing white beams were still intertwining and sweeping, they could not stop the Devouring Fleet's advance.

The remaining dinosaur warships gradually came into view of the rapidly approaching source of the attack, which was a small white dot.

Just as the Devouring Fleet's counterattack surged toward that white dot, in an instant, a powerful divine thought descended upon this cosmic battlefield, making the already profound dark universe even more somber in that instant.

The consuming fleet that lunged forward had its spine ripped out from behind, and all sound, all vibration, all energy readings seemed to fall into the void of absolute zero.

The dinosaurs aboard the warship were instantly stripped of their senses, leaving only a pure, suffocating silence. The roar of every engine and the hiss of every weapon that devoured the fleet on the battlefield were all choked by this enormous, invisible hand, frozen in place.

Only that majestic, silver-white behemoth slowly and solemnly emerged from deep space amidst countless counterattacks.

The flagship of the expeditionary fleet—the Paradox Engine, a star-class warship!
The eternal silence of this cosmic space was soon broken, as a lonely voice broke free of the vacuum and resounded throughout the universe:

"This is a regional molecular resonance stasis array, covering a region of approximately 10000 trillion cubic kilometers in front of us. It's a new spell I've come up with. Currently, all the dinosaur warships except for the Great Ring have been frozen in place. This is absolute static at the molecular level; you can also call it—time freeze."

(Note: 10000 trillion cubic kilometers, roughly the size of the Earth)

The voice continued to come:

"Commander Qian, my current magic power is only enough to maintain the Time Stop field for 90 seconds. During this period, how many dinosaur warships can be destroyed depends on you humans. Please note that the Time Stop effect range is a spherical space with a radius of 6000 kilometers from the core of the Paradox Engine. During the duration of the Time Stop effect, human warships can move freely."

"Damn it, Wallfacer! I knew you were hiding something!" Qian Mengjian clenched his fist, his whole body pounding with excitement.

Although the Paradox Engine-class starship had exhausted all its kinetic energy physical weapon attacks, its prism cannons and gamma laser beam cannons were still intact! When the Paradox Engine cut into the central area of ​​the devouring fleet at 10% of the speed of light, the six expensive prism cannons on the Paradox Engine, based on the European Union's converged prism technology, began to operate at full power.

Six beams of blazing white light efficiently slaughtered the Tyrant-class warships, the main force of the Devouring Fleet. The Tyrant warships, frozen in mid-air, seemed completely locked in place by a semi-transparent halo—an invisible array field. This restrained the vibrations of every macroscopic molecule on these warships. Faced with this completely still enemy, the Paradox Engine ship, equipped with prism cannon technology, began its final slaughter.

The only drawback of the Prism Cannon is its high energy consumption, but the Paradox Engine doesn't need to retain too much energy. It's enough to leave a reserve for the return voyage, convert all the remaining nuclear fusion fuel into power for the Prism Cannon, and destroy as many Dino Warships as possible.

The Paradox Engine has already fired all the electromagnetic cannon shells and star-shaped hydrogen bombs inside the ship! Its mission is more than halfway complete.

From the perspective of the giant ring, the friendly fleet came to a complete halt. The tens of thousands of main force of the Devouring Fleet located in front of the giant ring were relatively still in front of the enemy's only warship in a strange state. Even the warships that were originally traveling at 1% of the speed of light came to a stop at an impossible scale!
"A certain degree of spatial optical distortion has been detected," a large-scale observer exclaimed.

On the screen, the space in which their fleet existed began to spasm and distort silently. The once smooth, mirror-like deep space background was embedded in a transparent, jelly-like state, with an invisible force squeezing and confining the space where the fleet was located, exuding an aura of emptiness that made the dragon's heart tremble.

Is the light refraction error caused by debris from a higher dimension?

"No, no high-dimensional fragment fluctuations were detected. That space itself is fixed... My God, what am I seeing?" The observation dragon stared blankly at the screen.

At the very pinnacle of this suffocating silence and distortion, the human fleet arrived.

Silent yet possessing a destructive presence, a fleet of star-shaped warships suddenly appeared from all directions. They squeezed into that inexplicably solidified space from the normal space, and the spatial ripples caused by the interplay of normal and static space spread like water. This time, the dinosaurs could see clearly that these human warships had somehow obscured the light from their nuclear fusion engines! They had long since lurked near the battlefield like shadows in the night, and the 488 silver dots in the space telescope were, from beginning to end, an optical deception created by humans using some unknown method!
The sudden appearance of this fleet gave the dinosaurs the illusion that human warships could jump through space!
487 star-class warships have appeared.

These warships are like points of light emerging from the deep sea, initially blurry outlines, which quickly become clear and sharp as they approach at 10% the speed of light.

The 'Golden' expeditionary fleet, with undeniable power, surrounded the stagnant Devouring Ships.

(End of this chapter)