Yelu then gritted his teeth and said with a malevolent tone, “It has been my honor to fight alongside all of you. Listen to my orders, activate the spacetime splicing equipment!”
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On the other side, Han Xiao had already received news of the battle, and his long-distance projection was currently watching the battle on Planet Lighthouse.
The dynasty dealt with the assault of the Kunde Race fleet promptly, and the enemy was not able to fight back at all. It was not that easy to make up for the gap in technology.
Tarrokov controlled the situation calmly while Han Xiao slacked off by the side.
Although the situation was extremely good, Han Xiao had a doubt in his head.
Strange… the Kunde Race seems to be extremely weak. Just how did they create trouble for the dynasty in my previous life?
The situation was slightly different from what he had expected. The way he saw it, the Kunde Race should have been able to fight the dynasty on somewhat equal grounds since they could be written down in history as a troublesome opponent. Why was the enemy so weak?
A group of Virtual Mechanics were currently breaking through the firewall of the Kunde Race fleet, and their progress was smooth.
They would be able to obtain an entire fleet in a few more minutes, and there was no need for him to take action.
The Kunde Race no longer has a chance to turn the situation around. Strange, Han Xiao thought to himself.
Just when he was deep in thought, a Virtual Mechanic suddenly said with a doubtful tone, “Chief Commander, we’ve discovered a problem.”
Tarrokov looked over and asked doubtfully, “What problem?”
“This… the enemy fleet disappeared from the quantum network, and we are unable to receive any signals. Our Virtual Intrusion has been automatically cut off, but they did not forcefully go offline.”
Before Tarrokov could even respond, a strange scene occurred on the battlefield.
All of a sudden, all the Kunde Race spaceships seemed to have frozen on the spot.
The dynasty’s army would not fall into a daze and continued to rain down their attacks. More than half of the battleships were immediately destroyed, including Yelu’s flagship.
Right at this moment, a change occurred!
A spatial distortion could then be seen on these destroyed spaceships, and before everyone could react, these spaceships were suddenly repaired and returned to their state before being destroyed. At the same time, they moved forward a great deal as though they had teleported.
The dynasty’s army hesitated for a moment before attacking again. However, the exact same scene occurred, and the Kunde Race fleet moved forward again.
This time, the dynasty’s fleet no longer attacked by the Kunde Race fleet still moved forward as though they had teleported.
“What is this?” Tarrokov, who had observed this scene, was also at a loss.
Ohm!
Right at this moment, an alarm went off in the room!
“Detecting a spacetime ripple. Matching it with the database… Match not found. Creating a new file…”
At the same time, the dynasty’s army used all the means that they had to attack the enemy fleet but to no avail. Furthermore, they continued to approach Planet Lighthouse, and it was impossible to stop them.
Upon seeing this scene, Tarrokov took a deep breath and adjusted his emotions. He then shook his head and said, “It seems like we have underestimated them. We can’t look down on any civilization.”
Everyone then looked at each other with strange looks on their faces.
They originally thought that this would be an easy battle but never expected the enemy to suddenly take out unknown technology. It seemed related to spacetime, and who knew how they climbed up the technological skill tree?
Just when the commanders were at a loss, Han Xiao also fell into a daze.
He recognized this technology!
However, he had never imagined that it came from the Kunde Race!
This was one of their trump cards when dealing with the World Tree in his previous life!
Chapter 971 - Spacetime Splicing Technology
The same theory would usually result in different technological skills. Being a Universal Civilization did not mean that they were omniscient. Just like how the three Universal Civilizations could not grasp each other’s specialty technology, the various civilizations would have a technological skill tree that was unique to themselves.
Han Xiao was familiar with the special skill that the Kunde Race had displayed. It was a technological skill called Spacetime Splicing Technology. It was a branch of spacetime theory.
Spacetime skills were extremely advanced, but they were not rare. The three Universal Civilizations and the various Star Cluster Civilizations had all grasped a certain degree of spacetime technology. Even the Mages had some spacetime related spells.
However, the Spacetime Splicing Technology also had its own uniqueness.
The three Universal Civilizations did not reveal the exact theory behind it in Han Xiao’s previous life, and Han Xiao only understood the general situation. This Spacetime Splicing Technology seemed to be a type of spacetime shuttling technique, but it was very different.
The way Han Xiao saw it, the Kunde Race fleet was able to restore themselves because they used the Spacetime Splicing Technology to freeze their fleet in a state before being destroyed. Regardless of how many times they were destroyed, they would be able to return to their previous state. It was like the legendary save and load method.
The movement of the fleet was the other effect of the Spacetime Splicing Technology. They first made a certain action into a parameter and simulated the entire action in spacetime. They then broke apart the spacetime continuum and split spacetime up into different time fragments. To put it simply, they transformed ‘something that they wanted to do’ into a movie with every time fragment being a scene in the movie.
Following which, they then locked themselves in the spacetime fabric and cut off the past and future. The entire process was cut off, and only the present was left behind. As such, the fleet would jump to different points in time while skipping through the process. Because there was no process, the attacks of the dynasty were not able to stop them.
Another way of putting it was that the fleet transformed into a high ping warrior. Even if they got hit, they were only hit in the previous frame.
This technological skill had many different uses but also had its side effects. The spacetime fabric of the entire universe was connected and a system that could not be calculated. As long as there were any peculiarities in the fabric, it would be self-corrected.
For example, after various spacetime freezing or slowdown spells were used, the area of effect would slowly revert back to normal, leaving behind the modified physical objects. However, it would not have an effect on the spacetime fabric.
The side effects of the Spacetime Splicing Technology came from the self recovery of the spacetime fabric after being broken.
By the time the spacetime fabric repaired itself, their entire physical being would be completely wiped out as though they did not exist.
This meant that their deaths were already announced, and they would disappear anytime.
In my previous life, the three Universal Civilizations made use of a lot of supporting equipment to stabilize the spacetime fabric in order to greatly extend the time taken for the fleet to disappear. If the dynasty took this technology from the Kunde Race, it means that the dynasty will definitely improve on it over the next few versions, and the Spacetime Splicing Technology in the Kunde Race’s hands is probably only the first version. This means that it will be much easier to deal with them, and the side effects will be far worse.
Meeting the attack of a native civilization would only give the dynasty trouble. But now, the dynasty would be able to receive a decent spoil of war.
Who knew whether the stowaways that secretly gave the natives technology knew tha
t the Kunde Race grasped such a technology? Although the stowaways would definitely observe the strength of the Kunde Race, the Spacetime Splicing Technology was a confidential technological skill, and it would not be discovered so easily.
The stowaways in the Flickering World were not too different from suicide troops, and the Super Star Cluster Civilizations would not send out too many Calamity Grades for such a mission.
“If they didn’t know about it, they will definitely suffer a huge loss. They wanted to backstab the dynasty but ended up giving them a huge treasure,” Han Xiao sneered in his mind.
On the other side, Tarrokov did not remain idle either.
As an experienced commander, he had been through many different battles. Although he did not know the theory behind the Spacetime Splicing Technology, the alarm said that it was related to spacetime and thus employed the relevant measures.
Very quickly, a dynasty fleet awaiting their orders on Planet Lighthouse set off with a large amount of spacetime stabilizing equipment and a large group of Mages that specialized in spacetime magic.
Ordinary attacks were not useful, but spacetime attacks would create some trouble for the Kunde Race fleet.
After the second fleet entered the battle, the situation changed greatly. The distance that the Kunde Race fleet could move shortened, and the speed of their disappearance increased.
Everyone in the command room watched the battle calmly.
After a short while, the Kunde Race disappeared and never appeared again.
There was not an intense battle scene, and the Kunde Race fleet was wiped out just like that.
Despite the enemy knowing that their death was certain, they still wanted to deal a heavy blow to the enemy.
“Has it been settled?” Tarrokov asked doubtfully.
“Chief Commander, spacetime has returned to normal, and there aren’t any abnormalities on the radar.”
“Er… this may be the side effect of the enemy’s technology. It shouldn’t be perfected yet. However, we cannot let down our guard before being sure that the enemy has been destroyed. Continue to scan the surrounding region. Also, open the shield of Planet Lighthouse and activate the emergency escape system. If the enemy suddenly appears near the planet, we will be able to escape safely.”
Because he did not understand the enemy, he did not dare let his guard down.
Han Xiao, however, already knew that the enemy was dead and thought to himself, The dynasty obtained this technology from the Kunde Race in my previous life, but I didn’t receive any news about it. This means that the dynasty did a good job keeping the matter confidential. I don’t think they will allow their allies to exchange for such technology. Thus, I will have to take things into my own hands if I want to grab this technology.
It was a rare opportunity for him to obtain unique technology. Han Xiao was truly tempted.
Since the dynasty still was not aware of the theory of the Spacetime Splicing Technology, he could make use of this opportunity to obtain it for himself.
Although he would not be able to use it, the members of the army might be able to use it.
Would the Spacetime Amber be compatible with the Spacetime Splicing Technology? Han Xiao was a little curious.
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In the depths of the Dust Light Star Cluster, a large Kunde Race fleet was slowly moving in the universe.
In the conference room of the main flagship, the leader and upper echelons of the Kunde Race were present.
After discovering that the Crimson Dynasty was coming after their territory, the upper echelons had resolutely left their mother planet and followed the fleet.
Since they had already sent out most of their civilians and temporarily abandoned all their colonial planets, they no longer needed to hesitate about war.
“We’ve lost contact with Yelu. The assault plan has failed.”
“Have they died?”
“I am not sure. They should have used the Spacetime Splicing Technology.”
“Does this mean that even the Spacetime Splicing Technology is useless against the dynasty?”
Everyone’s mood was heavy as they listened to the report.
The Kunde Race leader then said slowly, “Make use of the scorched earth plan.”
Upon hearing that, everyone’s expression… shells changed slightly.
They had come up with many different plans, and the scorched earth plan was their final resort. They had originally planned to only make use of such a plan when their loss was determined, but they never imagined that their leader would start off with such a plan.
In truth, the members of the upper echelons present were not confident about the war either. The only reason they had stayed behind was because they were not willing to hand over their homeland to bandits. They did not wish to let the Crimson Dynasty take over their homeland without paying a price.
The scorched earth plan would make use of the never-ending expansion property of the Primordial Psionic Energy to destroy their homeland to ensure that the dynasty would not be able to obtain anything. They would then retreat and follow the members of their race.
However, they found it difficult to destroy their own homeland.
As no one responded to him, the Kunde Race leader said with a deep voice, “Since no one objects to the plan, begin the arrangements. As for the Crimson Dynasty’s fleet, send out our fleet to intercept them and tie the enemy down. Try to stall for time and slowly let them into our homeland and the lockdown region of the scorched earth plan.”
Everyone’s mood was heavy. There was no turning back if they chose to destroy their homeland.
The scorched earth plan required time to implement, and they needed to send their fleet to slow down the dynasty. This meant that many of their comrades would die on the front lines.
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A few days after the ambush on Planet Lighthouse, war finally erupted on the frontlines, and the Kunde Race fleet appeared to exchange fire with the dynasty’s fleet.
The division that Teny led also met more and more enemies.
It was not that there was not an opportunity for battle. However, Teny was far too good at fighting, and the enemies that he met were all easily defeated by his strategies. They would be able to defeat the enemy in a long-ranged battle, and there was not even a chance to engage in close quarters combat.
Furthermore, Teny intended to protect the members of the Black Star Army, so Nero was not even able to fight a single battle after following the fleet for almost a month.
If this continued, Han Xiao was tempted to use his Virtual Intrusion and remotely control the Kunde Race to attack Teny.
Thankfully, Teny did not let Han Xiao stretch out his demonic hands so quickly, and the Black Star Army finally engaged in a close combat battle.
Nero finally welcomed his first time.
Chapter 972 - Nero, a Non-Tanky Mechanic Doesn“t Have a Soul
In a corner of the Dust Light Star Cluster, Teny’s fleet met a new wave of attacks. They exchanged fire with the enemy while sending their small spaceships to weave through the chaotic battlefield to engage in close combat battle.
In the previous few battles, Teny had been too obviously biased toward the Black Star Army, and in order to balance the opinions of the other organizations, he decided to let the Black Star Army take on the role of facing the enemy.
In the chaotic battlefield, a battleship nimble weaved through the Primordial Psionic Energy explosions.
In the battleships, many different squads were awaiting their orders in the charge cabin. Nero’s squad was also a part of this battleship.
The interior of the charge cabin was gray with a red light blinking over their heads, dying their faces red. Nero’s team was seated across two rows with their backs facing a magnetic plate. The backs of their uniforms also had a magnetic plate on them so that they could stabilize their bodies.
The charge cabin was trembling under the intense maneuvers of the battleship, and Nero’s face turne
d slightly pale.
The captain who was clad in a heavy armor mechanical suit patted Nero’s shoulders and said, “Little brat, don’t worry. The mobility of our ship far exceeds our enemy. They won’t be able to hit us.”
Trouble usually befalls someone who says something like this… Nero could not help but curse in his heart.
The academy had a charge cabin module, and Nero was extremely clear about the things that he needed to take note of. However, he could not help but be nervous when being placed in an actual battle.
“This is our first time fighting together since you entered our squad. Let’s see your true strength and don’t hold us back.” The captain chuckled.
“Alright.” Nero let out a deep breath and clenched his fists.
Waiting in the charge cabin was an extremely tortuous thing. Time seemed to drag on for a long time, but an announcement was eventually made in the charge cabin.
“Locking on to the target. The charge cabin will be launched in forty-five seconds! Please get ready for battle! I repeat, please get ready for battle!”
A countdown timer then appeared on the screen of the charge cabin. Nero felt as though his heart had stopped, and his teammates all had nervous looks on their faces.
The captain cleared his throat and said with a deep voice, “This is the final chance to check your equipment!”
All of them were already prepared, but they still checked through their equipment once more. Nero had also activated his mechanical suit’s self-check feature.
His mechanical suit was personally modified by him and forged from many different rare materials. It was even stronger than the mechanical suit provided by the Black Star Army.
Although Nero could obtain a more powerful mechanical suit forged by other Mechanics, he preferred to research new blueprints.
This mechanical suit was similar to the Mountain Ape suit that Han Xiao had used before. However, Nero did not have that high a skill and could only make a simplified version of the suit that he called ‘Iron Ape’. It was a suit that specialized in close combat battles.
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