Cataclysm: Undead Dragons and Zero Empire

A beam of light, like a bolt of lightning, suddenly illuminated the dark outer reaches of the Heng galaxy.

The focused beam of light, like a divine punishment, pierced through all obstacles in the middle of the comet belt, showering heavenly fire upon the sinful monster.

That was a focused beam emitted by the flagship. As an energy weapon, the ultraviolet laser has a powerful range and penetrating ability, precise and destructive, causing huge damage through the extreme heat of a concentrated point.

It was as if giants were battling wind, rain, thunder, and lightning in space. A barrage of ultraviolet lasers struck the moving insect hive that was devouring the swarm of bees, blasting out molten holes with viscous liquid dripping from the edges.

The insect hive swarmed forth with a biological fleet, which for a moment resembled a dark cloud cloak covering the planet's periphery, defending against the approaching space torpedoes. The light and heat emitted by nuclear fusion flickered like sparks in space.

Several civilizations, long plagued by the swarms of predatory bees, finally reached an agreement on cooperation terms. They formed a joint fleet to raid the swarm's lair and carried out a decapitation strike against the swarm's hive mentality.

This extinct civilization follows a strategy of upward consciousness, with its sub-entities uniformly managed. The more sub-entities there are, the more parallel nodes there are, and the stronger the computing power of the hive mind becomes.

However, some time ago, the swarm of killer bees suddenly lost an important fleet. The branch that had been sent out to prey on organic matter became dim in the hive's mind, like an account that had been logged out of a computer system and could no longer be contacted.

Having witnessed the undead dragon banish a swarm of bees, the fleet reported the news. Taking advantage of the severe damage to the Hive Mind, they wanted to finish the job in one fell swoop and completely destroy this annihilating civilization that roamed the sea of ​​stars.

If the invasion of a life-bearing planet by a swarm of bees was an elegant hunt, now it is a life-or-death struggle between ferocious beasts. The Hive Mind has realized its crisis and has begun to consume large amounts of its stored organic matter to create more fleets and weapons.

The swarm of bees abandoned the space city and tourist planet that were almost within their grasp, and, to the horror of the surface creatures, went upside down and surged toward the fleet approaching from deep space.

The spine-covered tentacles split into blooming flowers, like a constantly branching tree, with new tentacles still growing on them. These powerful tentacles can easily strangle ships and tear apart their metal armor.

The exposed, spiral-shaped suckers contract and open petal by petal, displaying a vigorous vitality that showcases the aesthetics of devouring the bee swarm, while those suckers with beaks continuously fire acid projectiles.

Most of these acid shells, which can corrode gold, were intercepted by the Guardian Defense Network. The few that hit the ships only caused the pressure on the shield chargers to be instantly overloaded, and did not result in any immediate damage.

In response to the ever-growing fleet, the swarm began producing high-energy progeny, which leaped from the hive like mythical behemoths, their biosignals shining like tiny suns in the monitoring equipment.

The fleet's thrusters began to burn at afterburner, and they quickly surrounded these protruding high-energy sub-projectiles. The ultraviolet lasers, like flocks of birds flying in space, traversed the battlefield.

These civilizations' fleets avoided nearby space cities and colonies as much as possible. Their racial ideology did not allow their own planet to be used as a necessary sacrifice. If the war damage severely affected their own industries, even if they won the war, it would inevitably cause dissatisfaction and impeachment upon their return.

The swarms of killing bees showed no mercy; they came to prey, and the biological warships employed tactics of close-range swarming attacks, completely disregarding casualty rates. Numerous suicide attacks inflicted heavy casualties on the fleet.

The interstellar warfare that devours swarms relies entirely on the coordination of the hive mind. The neural structures that are integrated with the biological warships are the hubs for transmitting the central will, receiving combat command orders, and at the same time undertaking the task of calculating and optimizing tactics.

Beyond the planet, the two sides fought fiercely, flesh and metal colliding, countless fleets crashed, and metallic nebulae radiating dark red light burst forth in a radial pattern, like flower buds blooming in space.

Molten metal spreads without resistance in the vacuum, forming a scorching "metal magma rain" in all directions. The rain is getting heavier and heavier, which means that the fleet is losing blood and the battle damage is getting higher and higher.

The ships destroyed by the swarm of bees were burning, and the detonated nuclear fusion engines turned into tiny suns, their blazing flames seemingly igniting the entire fleet, shining brightly like an ocean of light.

The computer continuously analyzed evasive routes and corrected its firing trajectories with the swarm of warships; however, the destroyed warship swarm was nothing short of a trap for the remaining allies.

The molten metal transformed into scorching waves that surged like a flood in space. Many warships that had survived the battles needed to break through the metal nebula to continue fighting, much like throwing boulders into an ocean of magma.

The swarms of killing bees are completely unconcerned about the ever-expanding, high-temperature metal ocean. Their outer armor rapidly synthesizes a considerable amount of heat-resistant tissue, which is the advantage of rapid evolution. In this respect, mechanical technology requires a higher level to achieve the same effect.

The battleship fleet needs to allocate some of its laser or electromagnetic gun firepower to cut through the metal, and their orbital plane will always have an arc surface composed of nuclear explosion flashes and metal magma flames.

Thus, these warships seemed to be under a magnificent canopy, maneuvering at high speed across the vast space battlefield, with a considerable number of semi-solid metal fragments flying over the defense system and crashing into the shields.

The molten metal, which was being ejected, had begun to cool in the low temperatures of space, but only the outer shell hardened; the inside remained hot liquid, which further increased the difficulty for the warship to break through the obstacles.

However, the biological warships that devoured the swarms of bees also began to need to avoid the kinetic energy collisions caused by these fragments, and the battlefield began to be somewhat limited, inevitably leaving behind a desolate and cold battlefield remnant in the foreseeable future.

The high-energy offspring sent out by the swarm of killing bees have stronger self-healing abilities, so they fearlessly and rapidly pass through those flame barriers. As long as they continue to consume organic matter, the fleeting flesh and blood wriggling and the solid-liquid mixed metal torrents fail to cause them significant damage.

The warships relentlessly attacked the ever-approaching high-energy sub-entities, compressing their distance from the hive and carving a path through the battlefield with blood and fire.

Electromagnetically driven metal projectiles can easily flatten mountains when sweeping across the planet's surface, but when they hit the hive itself with their enormous kinetic energy, the regenerating tissue quickly fills in the depressions that appear on the surface.

Once the high-energy protozoa get close, they can tear apart the warship's armor with brute force. They launch deadly toxic spores, and these biological weapons with a certain degree of low intelligence erode the weak points of the fleet's shields, causing temporary holes in the shields and creating violent ripples.

This means that the shield charger's output power has reached its limit. Like an umbrella held up in a downpour, the raindrops act evenly on the umbrella surface, generating enough pressure to make the umbrella ribs begin to bend.

The decapitation operation was so difficult to carry out that it almost failed. The swarm of killing bees had accumulated too much organic matter and special technology to deal with the enemy fleet during the process of devouring and evolving.

Until the silvery-white dragon shadow suddenly appeared in this star system, the trajectory of the dragon bone soaring was like a hot knife cutting through butter, unstoppable.