The battlefield has turned into a sea of fire, and countless humans, protoss battleship wreckage and huge giant insect corpses are scattered around the White Star. In this unprecedented war, no one can stay away, not even this great ship.
The Imperial flagship is also crumbling.
The White Star is located between the earth and moon space of Aiur, sandwiched in the middle by millions of ferocious Tiamat bugs and thousands of Supreme Council warships. Surrounded by only the Empire's Second Fleet, Yumo
Yang protects the Nationalist Army's First Fleet and half of the severely damaged Seventh Fleet.
About an astronomical unit away, there is an executive fleet of the Duram Protoss and several motherships of Gilana, the first Ascendant of Tal'darin, but they are also locked in a bitter battle.
As for the place further away, the Spear of Adun and the Pride of Otalis are still fighting. Even at this distance, they are two extraordinary battleships.
The empire has a repaired Xel'Naga world ship in its hands. Only such a warship can be compared with the Ark of the Protoss. The creators of the world initially only used these huge spaceships to spread the seeds of life in the still barren new universe.
, without intending to start a war, they still possess terrifying weapons capable of destroying civilization.
But before the world ship had time to enter the battle, Amon returned. But when Augustus counterattacks the void, this world ship will definitely still be useful.
By the 20th hour after the battle started, the Imperial fleet had lost about 400 battlecruisers, and ten hours later it lost another 400 battleships. At the 50th hour, this number doubled, surpassing that of the Empire.
The total number of battleships lost in previous wars.
Even with the current production capacity of the Dalarian, Ursa, Theros and Apollo shipyards, these warships will take five years to complete.
The battle was particularly brutal, and those warships that could still fight were generally in poor condition and in urgent need of repairs and supplies, and Amon's army would not give them such time.
The arrival of Zeratul and the Ihanri protoss can be described as a timely help, but they are also the last force Augustus thought of to come to support.
As you can imagine, no one else will come.
There was another loud noise and a vibration that made teeth chatter. A large swarm of bile worms flashing green light faced the White Star's roaring gun crew and directly hit the already overwhelmed armored belt. The alarm started.
Screaming at the top of your lungs, the ship's integrity percentage on the screen continues to drop. In a way, that's the Zerg's version of a living missile.
Many dazzling and short-lived stars are reflected on the bridge portholes of the White Star. Each one represents a battleship. Each battleship is firing. The terrifying beam cuts flesh and blood like a sharp long knife. The dazzling fire light is bright.
Compared to the stars, space is filled with countless deadly and terrifying particles. Countless ship fragments and huge flesh and blood tissues are drifting with the current and colliding with each other like floating objects on the sea.
On the sensor, the tracks left by the protoss storm battleships when they fired were as dazzling as light penetrating the darkness, and the particle heat flow left by the kinetic energy overload was extremely eye-catching.
A huge black shadow suddenly flashed past Augustus' eyes. He was sure that it was the torn apart remains of a swarm guardian. This damn beast was smashed into pieces by the missiles of the Viking fighter planes, like a
A watermelon smashed to pieces with a hammer.
Within a few seconds, another huge piece of shipwreck flashed past. It came from the hull of a destroyed scientific ship. Its twisted and molten surface was cast with many tangled zerg and miserable dead bodies.
There are more horrific-looking corpses floating around humans. They all died due to the terrifying high-energy particle beam radiation and the high temperature generated in an instant by the fusion reaction.
"These bugs are really endless." Tychus stood behind Augustus: "Damn it, there are just as many protoss here today as they are."
"It wasn't much different before," Augustus said.
At this moment, amidst the harsh noises, the El bug swarms were gnawing away at the White Star's thick armor in droves, as if tearing out the bones to extract flesh.
A large number of zerg, mutalisks, gnats, devourers, and brood worms opened their eyes glowing with blood, grinned their jagged fangs, and tore off the battleships like they were tearing off the flesh and blood of their prey.
Outer steel and titanium hull.
In the outer cabin of the White Star, Imperial Navy soldiers have been fighting against the zerg that invaded the hull. They used hot ion ray guns to burn the enemies in the cabin to ashes, or used gravity accelerators to reverse a hundred times gravity and crush them into pieces.
Minced meat.
Where there is air, the explosions, screams and roars never subside, while in a dark vacuum it is like a tragic mime, with majestic battleships burning and sinking, and monsters the size of asteroids
In an instant, the body was cut and dismembered by thousands of criss-crossing death rays.
There is no doubt that they are in a hard fight, the decks are piled with dead bodies, and the situation is still getting worse.
Augustus was now the only one left with Tychus, who was fully armed and carrying heavy weapons in his hands, ready to fight the enemies who rushed into the bridge at any time.
As early as a few hours ago, the White Star's shield matrix force field completely failed, and no matter how much energy the force field generator squeezed from the fusion reactor, it could not be restarted.
The Imperial fleet had just exchanged fire with the Supreme Council's fleet, and both sides suffered heavy losses, with little benefit gained. Now, they turned around and collided head-on with a large swarm of El bugs.
Even Augustus thought this was crazy. Even though human and protoss landing forces had been sent to the surface on a large scale to seize control of Aiur, there were still countless zerg and hybrids.
Flying creatures soared from the surface of the planet, flying across the ecliptic plane to attack their fleet. It was as if these monsters really came from the void, and their numbers were endless.
But those monsters are still flesh and blood, and void creatures cannot reach such deep places in the real universe. But if Amon is reborn in his evil god's body, everything will be difficult to say.
This space battle eventually turned into a meat grinder-like battlefield, with all fleets fighting with all their strength and unable to cope with the situation.
Both Augustus and Aemon knew that neither of them could count the number of battles in this battle.
But if we have to compare, Augustus, Artanis, Zeratul and others who want to destroy the evil god's body and win must be more determined than Amon.
Amon's body in the void is still alive, and he only needs to repeat the long waiting process, even for centuries or even longer, until the human empire dies and even the protoss ceases to exist.
But if the combined forces of humans and protoss lose all their elite troops in this battle, there will be no hope of recovery.
At this time, there was another dazzling flash of light. The Shirahoshi's Yamato cannon fired again. This was a compressed nuclear explosion beam, targeting a giant Leviathan five hundred miles away.
This terrible nuclear explosion immediately ablated a huge hole in its head, with bones visible deep inside. A large amount of blood spurted out like a blooming flower, and after a while it solidified like frozen ice.
But even such a horrific wound cannot hurt it. Leviathan is the true flagship of the swarm, a mobile main hive and space carrier that can reach several miles in size. As a result, important nerve centers are also buried.
Under countless tons of flesh and blood and a solid carapace like a wall, it is extremely difficult to destroy.
This Leviathan may have been born during the Brood War or even earlier. Compared with other Leviathan, it is much larger and more ferocious. Its size is worthy of the title of the Moon of the Swarm.
On the holographic tactical screen on the bridge of the White Star, there is also an extremely huge figure. Leviathan is a ferocious predator, and its prey is also astonishingly large. No one knows that in these years, this unparalleled figure in space
How much biomass has the behemoth devoured, and Augustus's battleship is now its prey.
Leviathan moves like a tyrant, destroying all enemies it encounters. The huge half-mile-long hollow tentacles are strung with blazing warships like pearl necklaces. The dazzling firelight casts twisted shadows. One hundred, one thousand.
, ten thousand cocoons erupted from its huge and swollen vesicle, from which the mutalisks and brood lords hatched. The new swarm immediately supplemented the dead ones, feasting on the corpses of their own kind and enemies.
Leviathan's position in the swarm fleet is almost irreplaceable. When it appeared, there were as few as a few and as many as a dozen, but there have never been so many as today. Just on the White Star's probe, the number of Leviathan
There are more than 300 of them, and the General Staff Headquarters estimates that the actual total number should be in the thousands.
Zergs as numerous as the sands of the Ganges River autonomously drilled in and out of the wormhole space created by the master's spiritual energy, as if there were many terrible holes in the universe. Flying Zerg creatures of all sizes were blasted by jungle-like lasers.
Passing between beams and dense missiles, the gray sky even blocked the light of stars.
"Three more Leviathans, the enemy is gathering towards us!" Theodore, the captain of the White Star, shouted loudly.
On the tactical display screen, more behemoths suddenly jumped over and headed straight for the White Star. At the same time, the Icebreakers and the Fury of the Sun of the Empire's First Fleet were also approaching the White Star, followed closely by the retaliators.
Paradise, Golden Curtain, Ghost in the Mist, Death's Advent, Apocalypse, Mark of Death, Flame of Glory and Medal of Courage were close enough for Augustus to see multiple rows of broadsides gushing out.
The dazzling flames burst out.
These are Gorgon-class battlecruisers, super battleships made entirely of steel, majestic and spectacular, with a classic hammerhead bow and a powerful hull, with black muzzles standing like a forest.
, silently releasing terrifying orange-red flames. Huge space torpedoes are constantly flying out from the battlecruiser, tracking targets locked by the radar array. Some torpedoes are also equipped with small jump engines, which can quickly
It is close to the target of destruction, but unfortunately the cost is staggering.
At the same time, a large number of mutalisks flew and dived in the death jungle formed by naval gun fire, dropping fast-growing blade insects like heavy bombers, triggering a series of terrifying explosions on the armor of the battleship. Every moment there were
A large number of alien dragons were hit by the gunfire, and their flesh and blood immediately flew away. Bright red blood and tissues were scattered in the space, constantly swirling, gathering and scattering like planets orbiting stars.
But there are always mutalisks that can drop the blade insects before the intensive artillery fire smashes them into pieces. Each explosion of the blade insects can leave obvious wounds on the hull of the battleship.
Compared with when they just set sail from the empire's territory, these warships also looked much more miserable. Many warships were already riddled with holes, and they were still dragging their broken hulls to follow the fleet. As for those in slightly better condition, they were also in a state of devastation.
So far in the battle, they have killed tens of thousands of zerg, and the corpses of zerg are far more numerous than sunken battleships. But this exchange is not cost-effective for either humans or protoss.
Augustus clearly understood that it was impossible to win in the space fleet battle. Not to mention that they could not defeat the main force of the swarm. Once Amon's golden fleet arrived, defeat would be decided.
"Their target is the White Star." Augustus looked at the tactical display screen motionlessly: "To be more precise, it's me."
The White Star is the imperial flagship of the new era, and it will always be in a position where all enemies and friendly warships can see it. She is undoubtedly a bright red flag. No matter what time, Augustus will not allow his flagship to hide in
Under the heavy protection of the fleet.
But equally, this also puts Augustus's flagship always under the enemy's priority attack.
"Then let the bastards come," Tychus said.
As soon as Tychus finished speaking, seven more Leviathans appeared around the White Star. Each Leviathan was very large and covered with a gray-brown carapace that was harder than steel.
Judging from the good physical condition of these Leviathans, they may have arrived in Aiur through the wormhole in the past few hours.
Augustus speculated that these Leviathans might be under the direct control of the Lord, and behind the Lord was Aemon.
Within ten seconds, a dozen more Leviathans appeared, each one larger than the first one.
As soon as these Leviathans appeared, they launched an attack on the imperial fleet. In addition to the bile worm swarms and biochemical plasmids, there were also a large number of blast mosquito swarms. From Augustus's perspective, those were just a large swarm a few miles away.
Fireflies can even be called quite beautiful, but wherever they pass there are earth-shattering explosions.
"Hell, there are too many of them." Tychus muttered. Even a Tyranid Superman like him couldn't kill Leviathan with a sliding shovel.
"We may be able to kill these monsters, but there will definitely be great losses." He said: "More bugs will come to surround us soon."
"Captain, it's time for the White Star to land in low-Earth orbit." Augustus looked at Tychus again and said, "Bring the Xel'Naga artifact with you, and we'll go find Eamon right now."
Following the Emperor's order, the Imperial fleet with the White Star as its flagship quickly approached Aiur. Under Aiur's gravity field, the White Star was entering the atmosphere at a gravity acceleration of five hundred times and was preparing to switch
Sailing for anti-gravity engines.
On the surface of Aiur, ten million bile jets and orbital ion cannons bombarded the withered sky like heavy hammers, and the momentum was truly shattering.
Ayr's twilight line and the earth are rapidly approaching the White Star. ()