Chapter 383: Attack and Stone Throwing
The Tier 3 Warship charged at full speed, but the attack on the patrol squad had already alerted the Sovereign. The defensive armed platforms and armed satellites the Sovereign had deployed near their Homeworld Orbit had already aimed their energy cannons at this warship, which was like a moth flying into a flame.
In an instant, lights flashed everywhere in the entire Sovereign Star Orbit, including various locations on the Sovereign Planet Surface. Countless energy cannon blasts rained down towards the White Tiger.
Kane controlled the White Tiger, pushing its thrusters to the limit. The warship's energy depletion instantly climbed to ninety percent. The thousand-meter-long warship weaved like a fish through the dense beams of energy cannon fire.
However, this was the Sovereign's Homeworld after all. As one of the top Tier 3 Civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy, the Sovereign had not only launched countless defensive satellites into their homeworld's space orbit but had also built at least ten thousand large defensive fortresses on their planet surface.
From these fortresses, giant energy cannons extended. Their muzzles were a hundred meters thick, accumulating deep, dark energy. Firing simultaneously, blinding energy beams instantly covered the space above the surface.
Under such dense energy cannon fire, no matter how agile the warship Kane controlled was, the concentrated fire still hit the White Tiger's energy shield. The Kree's active warships were indeed very strong; their energy field shields were sufficient to withstand over a dozen rounds of energy cannon bombardment from warships of the same tier.
However, facing the cluster of energy cannon fire from the entire Sovereign Planet Surface's planet defense system, the nearly hundred-meter-thick energy field shield only lasted for less than a dozen seconds before being blasted into shattered pieces by the streams of light fired from hundreds of high-energy cannons.
Screech!
After the energy field shield shattered, several high-energy beams fired from the Sovereign's anti-aircraft artillery instantly struck the White Tiger's protective armor. The protective armor, made of special alloy, immediately emitted a grating sound.
"King Ghidorah! Go out and protect the spaceship!"
Looking at the large depression in the spaceship's ship cabin, Kane skillfully controlled the spaceship, ordering without turning his head.
A tyrannical light flashed in King Ghidorah's six golden vertical pupils and dragon eyes. It spread its wings, its dragon body transforming into a phantom, directly penetrating the spaceship's ship cabin and appearing above the warship.
As it spread its wings, the surface of its golden dragon scales shimmered with blazing white light. Fine electric current flowed inside its body, forming a divine ability imbued restriction in the shape of spirit marks, named Imitate Heaven and Earth.
King Ghidorah's body size instantly expanded from that of a lizard to a giant creature over a thousand meters long. Its three heads roared left and right, and streams of blazing white high-energy electric current sprayed from its mouths. The thick high-energy electric current swept outwards, instantly causing over a dozen Sovereign satellites to explode into debris, emitting black smoke.
The appearance of the adult space beast, King Ghidorah, immediately drew away most of the firepower from the White Tiger.
King Ghidorah flapped its wings, half of its dragon body coiled above the spaceship, shielding the White Tiger beneath it. Streams of high-strength energy beams bombarded its body.
The blazing white electric current on King Ghidorah's body surface circulated repeatedly over its scales, forming a thick protective white light.
However, facing such dense energy cannon fire attack from the Sovereign, even King Ghidorah's protective white light, comparable to that of a True Immortal, only lasted for a few minutes.
After all, the defensive works built on the Sovereign Planet Surface could be said to be their homeworld's last line of defense. Some defensive positions had muzzles even thicker than their warship.
The power of the energy beams fired was enough to destroy an asteroid with a single shot.
Fortunately, Kane pushed his divine sense and five senses to the extreme, controlling the White Tiger and doing his best to dodge the energy beams fired from the super energy giant cannons. However, the dense firepower, after King Ghidorah struggled for a few minutes, still pierced through its protective white light and its thick scales, tearing open blood holes on its body. But relying on its super regenerative ability, King Ghidorah still managed to forcibly protect a little over half of the spaceship amidst the tens of thousands of high-strength beams.
And the few minutes it bought were enough for the White Tiger, moving at full speed regardless of energy depletion, to break through the Sovereign's low orbit defense.
Just after breaking through the Sovereign's orbital satellite defense system, all the gun emplacements on the full-speed White Tiger were also activated. Hundreds of high-energy cannons on the warship fired simultaneously, creating a continuous series of dense explosions. The ground of the Sovereign Homeworld was instantly filled with gunsmoke.
The attack target of the hundreds of high-energy cannons was directly the Sovereign's super giant cannons. Kane stood in the driver's cab, one hand on the thruster, watching sternly as a giant cannon emplacement covering hundreds of kilometers turned into dust under the artillery fire.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh—"
At this moment, on the Sovereign Planet Surface, dense swarms of golden drone fighters, like a nest of hornets that had been poked, flew towards the White Tiger from all directions. The dense energy cannon fire instantly covered the White Tiger. "Roar!"
King Ghidorah's three dragon heads swung like turrets. Amidst the roar, blazing white electric current sprayed out, facing the fighter jets that flew close.
King Ghidorah's three dragon heads seemed to be made of rubber; they suddenly extended hundreds of meters, biting several drone fighters that couldn't dodge in time.
"Rumble rumble—"
King Ghidorah shook its three heads, spraying streams of smoke and dust and firelight from its mouths and nostrils.
"Warning! Warning! Energy depletion ninety-seven percent. Energy source is about to run out. Weapon system is about to shut down. Propulsion system is about to shut down. Please prepare for a forced landing!"
As the cold voice of the onboard artificial intelligence echoed within the White Tiger, the hundreds of high-energy cannon ports on the White Tiger warship simultaneously went silent. Even the engines were shutting down one by one, and the energy flames from the thruster ports began to dim. Looking through the portholes at the dense golden fighter jets surrounding their warship outside, even with an adult space beast above them desperately spraying energy beams,
Everyone on the spaceship, except for Kane and Adam, fell into despair. Facing the hundreds of thousands of drone fighters outside, even if that space beast was incredibly brave, defeat was only a matter of time.
For their spaceship, which had exhausted all its energy source, even escape had become a luxury.
"If we knew we'd end up in this situation, the Company should have spent a fortune to get a few Kree Star Destroyers over here. Now *that's* what you call powerful! One shot and it could blow this planet into cosmic dust!" The Captain, whose spaceship control had been forcibly taken by Kane, looked through the driver's cab's observation window at the golden ocean outside and let out a wry smile.
"Star Destroyer! The kind of warship the Kree used to cause the destruction of Knowhere!?"
Kane took out a jade tiger tally token from his five yin pouch, glanced back at the Captain, clearly interested in the Star Destroyer he mentioned.
"Star Destroyers are warships that only Level 4 Civilizations can manufacture. Even within the Kree Empire, every Star Destroyer is registered with the Supreme Intelligence and simply won't circulate... Compared to Star Destroyers, I think you should be concerned about whether we can survive right now!"
A Captain capable of piloting a Kree Tier 3 Warship was a rare talent, even within the entire East Galaxy Company. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been chosen by Elder Mandel to pilot the spaceship for Kane and Adam.
But now this Captain was full of suppressed anger, and he spoke coldly and sarcastically towards the damned headquarters' High-level Staff.
If he hadn't piloted the spaceship so recklessly, they wouldn't have ended up in this state.
Kane seemed not to hear the Captain's sarcasm. He toyed with the jade tablet in his hand and said in a deep voice, "Everyone, prepare for impact!"
Sovereign, inside the Regent Council Hall. The magnificent palace was resplendent and golden. The High Priestess Ayesha, holding a scepter, sat high upon the throne. No expression could be seen on her golden face. However, the tense grip on her scepter revealed her current nervous state.
Having ruled Sovereign for hundreds of years, she had never imagined that one day Sovereign would be attacked all the way to its homeworld.
Even more unexpected, her predecessors, like her, had proudly believed that no one dared to oppose the Sovereign.
This also led to the Sovereign's planet defense system remaining at the level of tens of thousands of years ago. Otherwise, these invading warships would have had no chance of approaching Sovereign.
The suspended virtual screen in front of her displayed the scene of the Sovereign's drone fighters intercepting the intruders.
Fortunately, the number of these intruders was not large, only a fleet composed of twelve spaceships. On their side, not counting spaceships and warships, there were hundreds of thousands of drone fighters that had taken to the sky.
Hundreds of thousands against twelve ships, the advantage is with us!
Looking at the reckless warship on the screen, charging directly towards their homeworld, the proud High Priestess Ayesha's eyes were practically spitting fire.
Fortunately, her soldiers, relying on their numerical advantage, successfully trapped that warship. Eliminating these intruders was only a matter of time.
"Tell those soldiers to go easy on it. I want that star beast hide, don't damage those golden scales. A star beast hide spread out in my living room, I believe, will create a great atmosphere!"
"Then I want this star beast head. A space beast with three heads is quite rare."
"The space beast's head and precious hide have been divided among you, so what do we get?"
"I think this space beast's flesh and blood is good. It can be used to formulate some bio-weapons..."
Inside the Regent Council Hall, looking at the intruder spaceship surrounded and cut off by their own fighter jets on the screen, the Regents, who had just been in a state of panic and fear, instantly relaxed. They gathered together, loudly discussing and distributing the spoils of war.
Furthermore, before the war even ended, one Regent ordered his subordinates to relay a command to the soldiers controlling the drone fighters: be careful not to damage King Ghidorah's scales, as they were his reserved spoils.
As for the High Priestess Ayesha's face, twisted almost beyond recognition, none of the many Regents paid any attention. Even if someone saw it, they merely gave a cold laugh inwardly, completely disregarding the High Priestess.
Someone had to bear the responsibility for the failed expedition to Fallen Star. Coupled with the homeworld being invaded, these Regents could completely join forces to dismiss the High Priestess and replace her with someone more obedient.
"What is that thing?"
Just as the Sovereign's High-level Staff were feeling smug and harboring their own schemes, on the screen, above the surrounded intruder warship, a patch of white cloud mist suddenly condensed and formed. It enveloped the White Tiger, which was being bombarded by thousands of drone fighters. At this moment, their operators suddenly saw a blur, and their surroundings instantly turned into a vast expanse of white.
Above them were white clouds, underfoot were white clouds, and all around was a vast, boundless expanse of white clouds stretching out in all directions.
Even when they activated the detection systems on their drone fighters, they couldn't see how far this expanse of white clouds extended.
As the thousands of fighter jets continuously weaved through the clouds searching, a Sovereign girl finally controlled her drone fighter and found something unusual. In the center of the cloud layer, surrounded by radiant cloud light and green mist, a magnificent, golden archway towering ten thousand li high stood majestically.
On the archway's plaque were three giant, golden light-shimmering ancient tadpole divine scripts—South Heavenly Gate! Just as the Sovereign girl, who didn't recognize this script, turned her head to tell her companions this information, the control screen in front of her suddenly turned blood red.
Seeing the screen display the information that her fighter jet was damaged, the golden Sovereign girl angrily smashed her fist onto the control platform, completely unaware of what had occurred.
Above the South Heavenly Gate, tens of thousands of Angels and Heavenly Soldiers were densely arrayed in the Heaven's Net and Earth's Web Formation. That cloud layer rapidly spread towards the Sovereign Planet Surface. Simultaneously, at the nodes of the Heaven-Earth Net Great Formation, expressionless Yellow Turban Strongmen were spellcasting, throwing down large mountains!
Literally, real large mountains! In the former Underworld, the dwarf artifact refiners under Boss Tang had a sudden idea. They wanted to combine Pym Particles with weapons. Originally, they just carved inscriptions onto steel ingots weighing tens or hundreds of tons, then used Pym Particles to shrink them to the size of projectiles, making special firearm bullets.
However, this required considering the dissipation of Pym Particles and the inability of the enlarged steel ingots to maintain their initial velocity, so this project was not continued.
This experiment, however, gave the Weapons Research Department inspiration, based on the principle that bigger is better and simple is brutal.
The Researchers at the Weapons Research Department developed an extremely simple and brutal weapon.
They extended an invitation to Dr. Hank Pym for help, directly using Pym Particles to shrink a mountain peak down to the size of a fist. Then, they would drop this mountain from high altitude.
The moment it was dropped, that experimental small hill, nearly a hundred meters tall, exited its shrinking state and instantly expanded, as if a meteorite was falling from the sky. It not only smashed the experimental ten-thousand-ton vessel into the seabed.
It also stirred up a sea wave over a dozen meters high on the sea surface, and even triggered a considerable tsunami. The Weapons Research Department conducted several more experiments afterwards, but they didn't dare to experiment on Earth again, choosing several uninhabited planets instead.
In the final experiment, a mountain several thousand meters high was dropped from a planet's low orbit. The planet, which was originally barren land, had its entire continental shelf directly smashed into a canyon, splitting the entire continent in two.
According to their calculations, its power was equivalent to over a dozen times that of the Tsar Bomba from back then.
Finally, they concluded that this simple and brutal weapon had no upper limit to its power. Theoretically, they could even shrink an asteroid and use it as a projectile, but this depended on the degree of Pym Particle development.
Later, after Boss Tang learned of this, he brought out a divine ability imbued restriction called Size As One Wishes.
This divine ability imbued restriction had a similar effect to Pym Particles. Combining the two, at this moment, Yellow Turban Strongmen were throwing fist-sized finished products from their hands towards Sovereign. Each dirt clod, upon leaving their palm, transformed into a massive mountain peak several hundred meters high.
The shadow of the falling mountain peaks now enveloped the entire Sovereign. Instantly, smoke and dust rose everywhere on the Sovereign Planet Surface, dirt flew, and even the entire planet trembled.
"Hold on tight!"
The nearly thousand-meter-long warship was falling rapidly through the Sovereign's atmosphere. Just as it was about to hit the ground, Kane forcibly pulled the spaceship up, and the ship's bow plowed forward.
Fortunately, the Kree warship's armor was thick enough. After the spaceship plowed a massive gully several hundred meters wide and nearly a hundred kilometers long on the Sovereign Planet Surface, it finally came to a grinding halt under King Ghidorah's braking with its feet.
(End of chapter)