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Chapter 185: Flying the Sky (10): Guilliman and the Star Gods fight, and the mortals suffer!

"This is... Cai Yi's diary?" Yukong's hands trembled as he took the diary, and his pupils dilated several times. "How could this thing be here..."

However, Yukong, who was responsible for managing the entire Tianbo Division every day, immediately understood what this meant. After a long moment, she slowly spoke, "I understand. Qingni... I'm sorry, I can't support your wish because I've already made a vow to someone else."

"I don't ask for your forgiveness, but I just hope... you can listen to my explanation."

"Mom, what are you talking about? We're mother and daughter, how can we talk about forgiveness and excuses? I'm willing to listen to whatever you say..." Seeing her mother's expression, Qingni heartbrokenly took her mother's hand.

Yukong thought for a while, and her frown finally relaxed. She patted Qingni's head and opened her diary.

"I once had a yearning for the sky, just like you. I know what it feels like... sailing through the universe, surrounded by vast emptiness and unimaginable wonders in the distance."

“Drifting like a lone boat among the sea of ​​stars, some call it loneliness, but we prefer to call it freedom.”

"Cai Yi is like that too. We've been friends since childhood, driving the Star Raft and causing trouble everywhere—until we were captured and brought before General Jing Yuan."

"Well, the fastest legend of the immortal ship, a fiery duo..." Xing found it hard to imagine the scene.

"Soon after, Cai Yi and I became the most elite pilots of the Tianbo Division. Life there was far from easy, and could even be described as brutal—"

Yukong flipped through his diary while Qingni stood obediently beside him, listening to her mother.

“You never know if your friends can return home, and of course, you never know if you can return home yourself.”

"But for me, that is the most beautiful memory of my life. Shedding blood, fighting the skies, purging evil, and upholding justice. A fox's life is so short, shouldn't it be spent burning for such a glorious cause?"

As Yukong spoke, she began to mutter to herself... She gradually returned to that time, back to the cabin of the battleship...

Yukong held onto the maintenance ladder while Caiyi was inspecting it. "Come to think of it, Caiyi... I really didn't expect you to come back... Is the battleship so attractive to you?"

Cai Yi returned right after her maternity leave. That's pretty quick.

"That's incredibly tempting," Cai Yi said in a cold voice. "It's hard, tiring, and the pay is low. You're always worried about your life, and you only get to Luofu a few times a year..."

"But if I were to choose again, I would still become a battleship pilot."

[“Because—” Cai Yi looked up at the sky with a certain glint in his eyes. “I have already touched the sky.”]

"The brain is a strange organ. After living for over two hundred years, I've long forgotten most small talk... But I remember every word of that boring chat clearly."

As Yukong narrated, everyone could vaguely hear the sounds of artillery firing and battleships whizzing past...

[As far as the eye can see, there is a graveyard of steel.]

The huge engine casing crumpled like a piece of waste paper, and the edges of the shattered armor plates reflected a deadly luster.

The orange-red flames greedily licked all the metal they could touch, spewing out thick smoke, which reflected on Yukong's face, which was covered in oil and blood.

She knelt in the center of this purgatory, holding Cai Yi tightly in her arms.

Deep, horrific wounds pierced Cai Yi's armor. Yu Kong tried in vain to cover the deepest wound on Cai Yi's abdomen, but warm blood continued to flow from between his fingers.

“Cai Yi… hold on…” Yukong’s voice was hoarse and dry, like sandpaper rubbing against the ground. “Cai Yi… open your eyes…!”

[Cai Yi breathed faintly, "Yukong... Thank you... I've had a wonderful life..."]

Her scattered gaze seemed to pierce through Yukong and cast into the further void, carrying with it endless attachment and unrelieved regret, "Promise me... don't let Qingni take this path... don't let her... become... a battleship pilot..."

[The last word dissipated into the air, and the last bit of light in Cai Yi's eyes also went out.]

[A huge, heart-wrenching pain instantly gripped Yukong. She clung tightly to Caiyi's gradually cooling body, a suppressed whimper like a wild beast emanating from her throat...]

She roared, roaring at the starry sky above, which was like a purgatory! Tell it to return Cai Yi!

【But the universe responded with only more death.】

[On the vast canvas of the universe, millions of ships are engaged in a fierce struggle.]

Deadly energy beams rained down upon each other like a torrential rain, weaving together into a web of destruction. Every collision, every salvo of artillery fire, triggered a silent yet deafening energy shockwave in the vacuum of space.

[A battleship's engine exploded, fragments scattering like meteors; a beastship's side was torn apart by dense beams of light, tumbling and disintegrating, and the life within was instantly reduced to dust.]

[The two sides fought fiercely, like two cosmic beasts that had lost their minds, madly biting and consuming each other's flesh and blood.]

[The battle line of the Immortal Boat is in jeopardy, so why should we worry about the life and death of an individual?]

[Just when Yukong was almost suffocated by this doomsday scene——]

【A ray of light! 】

[Words cannot describe a stray arrow! ]

[It was born from the deepest darkness of the universe, carrying pure, sacred, and unparalleled power, instantly penetrating the entire chaotic battlefield!]

[Carrying the Emperor Bow Siming's unquestionable will, it brazenly struck the crucial area where both sides' main forces were fighting—one side of the Fang Hu Immortal Boat!]

[Time seemed to have been paused, even the deafening roar of artillery fire on the battlefield was silenced at this moment.]

【Then--】

【Destruction is coming! 】

[Nearly one-fifth of the Fang Hu Immortal Boat's massive body, along with hundreds of thousands of nearby fleets from both sides, suddenly collapsed inward within the core of the incandescent white light!]

Behind the intense brightness, a massive fireball, brighter and more terrifying than all the battlefield artillery fire combined, expanded within a fraction of a second! It silently engulfed every enemy ship within sight!

[Steel melted, the giant ship vaporized, and tens of thousands of Fengcuo Min troops, along with that part of the Immortal Boat Cave Heaven structure, didn't even have time to utter a single cry before they were completely reduced to ashes under the divine power of the light arrow, turning into the most primitive cosmic dust!]

[This blow, beyond ordinary imagination, instantly reversed the balance of the battlefield! ]

The main force of the Fengrao people suffered a devastating blow. Their offensive momentum was like a dragon severed in half, emitting a silent wail as their formation completely collapsed!

Although the Immortal Boat Fleet was also overwhelmed by this miraculous power, they immediately seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and launched an all-out counterattack!

[For the first time, the scent of victory permeated the air so clearly! ]

[However, in Yukong's eyes, the arrow of light that changed the world seemed to be the light of destruction for the entire universe.]

[The wounds on Fang Hu Xian Zhou, countless debris and corpses in space...]

[Is this victory? — This question lingered in Yukong's mind for a long time.]

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The Warhammer 40 world.

Guilliman was in the room, looking at the image on the screen, his heart unable to calm down for a long time.

After observing the Xianzhou civilization for so long, I finally saw their large-scale legion combat.

Although this is the scene that Yukong recalls, it may not be exactly the same as the battlefield.

However, those who have experienced many battles can guess the intensity of the war to an approximate 80% just by feeling the atmosphere on the battlefield.

If we say that the battle before Huanlong was a demonstration of the individual combat power of the Starry Sky Railway Universe.

So the Fanghu Battle that Yukong recalled was a fight between civilizations where they actually brought out their full potential.

Although we cannot truly judge the strength of the various forces in the Star Railway Universe based on this small amount of vague information, it can still explain some problems.

With a combined total of perhaps millions of armored units on both sides, plus tens or even hundreds of millions of individual combat units, this battle was, Guilliman felt, something of an apocalypse.

This kind of battle is really a meat grinder...death is just a number.

Moreover, if Xing's understanding is correct, then this battle is just one of the battles in the entire war... And such wars, just by listening to the "Third Fertility War", you know that there have been at least three such wars...

Guilliman didn't know how many years these wars had been going on, but the fact that Xianzhou could afford such a long war meant that its financial resources were considerable.

But what makes people sad is this: such a tragic battle, such a huge sacrifice, compared with the arrow of the Star God, it seems completely insignificant...

Although the human empire also has to face the evil god of the warp...but in the actual combat process, regular troops still have to fight. It doesn't mean that the war will end with a wave of the evil god of the warp.

However, the Star Railway Universe doesn't seem to be like this... Emperor Bow Siming's arrow has such power...

It seems that in the power struggle of that time and space, the combat power of Star God and Order Envoy level is very important...

Guilliman secretly made up his mind: It seems that the strength of the Star Gods must also be included in the scope of observation...

Chapter 186: Flying in the Sky (11): Lelouch: The Emperor's rule must be overthrown!

After hearing her mother's description of the war, Cai Yi also vaguely felt the cruelty of the war—but she still refused to give up her ideals.

[“You really are like Cai Yi. That’s why, over the years, the better you become, the more afraid I become. I know you’ve been ready for a long time... but I’ve never been ready...”]

Yukong admitted that she, Caiyi, and Guangyuan had never feared death since they joined the army.

[What chilled them was not the death of their comrades—]

[“It’s… the Imperial Destiny’s divine arrow…” Qing Ni finally understood.]

"Yes..." Yukong clenched her fists, as if her anger was about to burst forth—but on the Immortal Boat, she couldn't vent her dissatisfaction with the Star God. In truth, her anger wasn't really directed at the Patrolling Star God...

[“The Emperor Bow Siming’s immense divine grace annihilated those evil creatures with a single strike!”]

"But just to stop them, we paid the price of hundreds of thousands of lives!"

Yukong looked at Qingni solemnly: "If crushing those enemies is as easy as breathing for Emperor Gong Siming—then, what does our sacrifice mean?"

[“Under the might of the Star God, the sacrifices of mortals are like a joke... nothing... nothing...”]

【Xing finally understood now.】

As a soldier, Yukong didn't refuse Qingni's enlistment simply because of Caiyi's request and his mother's love.

[It was truly because of Emperor Gong Siming's arrow—although the Star God displayed his might and the Immortal Ship achieved a great victory, it was also tantamount to mocking the efforts of mortals.]

Soldiers are not afraid of death; what they fear is that their sacrifice is meaningless and not recognized.

"With such divine power, why didn't Emperor Gong Siming assist the Luofu and Fanghu Immortal Boats from the outset? Didn't Old Yang say that the Immortal Boats' close relationship with the Patrolling Star Gods is rare among all the forces in the universe?"

Everyone was speechless for a moment. Only the sound of the star raft flying by in the sky accompanied them as they savored the feeling...

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The world of Lelouch of the Rebellion.

Lelouch finally understood!

I understand why I want to fight against the emperor!

This is what Yukong can't accept! My feelings are the same as Yukong's!