Blind Spot
Chapter 506 - 463 Air Combat I

Chapter 506: 463 Air Combat I

Streams of white and red beams shot out from behind Li Chengyi, directly hitting a group of flying White Star Reinforced Humans in the distance.

Some Reinforced Humans’ bodies exploded, turning into fireballs. Others had their skin flash red for an instant before they quickly dodged.

Li Chengyi focused as he lifted the laser cannon, adjusting the aiming angle from a distance.

After a series of synthetic prompt tones, the muzzle of the light cannon in his hand slowly lit up with a blinding red light.

The original halo rapidly increased in brightness.

Shi!

In an instant, a red light streaked through, hitting a Blue Ray Reinforced Human who was firing at other spacecraft.

But the beam was precisely deflected by a small shield on that Reinforced Human’s body, the shield quickly turned red, heating up.

The Blue Ray Reinforced Human flashed to the side, flying out in a strange, irregularly fluctuating trajectory.

Shi!

In his other hand, he held a blue laser cannon, aiming it viciously at Li Chengyi and firing.

And this shot was also swiftly avoided by Li Chengyi with a Shadow Flash.

In the vast expanse of space, twenty-odd thousand kilometers apart, both quickly realized that they were no ordinary opponents and began to discard other adversaries, focusing on each other instead.

Streams of red and blue beams flew back and forth, but due to both sides moving extremely fast, neither could land a fatal blow.

’The distance is far, but the damage is too weak,’ Li Chengyi frowned, shooting dozens of times before he finally couldn’t help it and tossed the light cannon to a command ship behind him.

’At this distance, the Flower Language Technique can’t reach, it can only work on myself. If I want to engage at close range, I can’t affect a slightly larger scope of the battle.’

Just flying from one small battlefield to another took minutes—what’s the point of this?

By the time he got there, the people there were long done with their fight, moving on to the next wave.

Only now did Li Chengyi understand why, in space battles, Feiyi Masters were separately designated as strategic Feiyi Masters, because here, the control range of common Feiyi Masters was utterly useless. The command ships had to amplify it.

Shi! Another blue light burst forth.

Li Chengyi performed a Shadow Flash, appearing with no warning in another location, avoiding the beam.

But immediately after, another blue light shot toward him.

Continuous, incessant blue beams, like raindrops, covered him in a barrage of fire.

Li Chengyi acutely realized that the adversary’s attacks were different from before.

’Is this... a Segmented Particle Annihilation Gun?’

It was also blue laser, but the opponent’s weapon was clearly much stronger than before.

No longer requiring sustained beams to irradiate, this kind of segmented particle cannon only needed one hit, and in one second, it could blow up a fighter jet or Feiyi.

"Do we have similar weapons?"

He called out to the Feiyi Masters behind him.

"Uh... Sorry, sir," a female voice responsible for technical support answered.

Li Chengyi immediately understood—the technological gap.

"Then how did you deal with these opponents before?" Li Chengyi asked as he dodged another blast from the particle cannon.

Because of his constant Shadow Flashes, his communication began to cut in and out.

"It was the higher-ups, sir. Utilizing the continual acceleration of the Feiyi, relying on a one-use Feiyi for a suicidal covering charge. At such high speeds, only the higher-ups could quickly change direction and lock on. The enemy’s electronic jamming is too strong, our artificial intelligence is far inferior...."

"A joke, if it’s human operated, you can’t predict the opposition?" Li Chengyi frowned.

He dodged another beam, but a spacecraft behind him was directly hit.

Bang!!

The side of the spacecraft was pierced through, and its interior began to rapidly burn and swell.

Boom!

A red light exploded, completely scrapping the dozens of meters long spacecraft, turning it into a fireball.

Li Chengyi’s expression soured.

He had originally thought that entering the fray, he would be much stronger than the Shadow Dragon, but he soon encountered an extremely uncomfortable situation.

The Shadow Dragon’s body was massive; with a Shadow Flash combined with ultra-high-speed collision, the enemy had no way of dodging.

But he...

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration crossed his mind, and his eyes beneath the helmet became sharply intense.

His gaze swept across the other Feiyi Masters’ attack strategies, their Feiyi firing once with such explosive force that they were accelerated to a terrifying degree in an extremely short period.

This was similar to the use of an Orbital Cannon—Feiyi Masters are only responsible for short-term micromanagement.

Li Chengyi’s heart was clear. Suddenly dodging another blue particle cannon blast with a Shadow Flash, he appeared on a black spaceship, grabbing the spaceship that was dozens of meters long with one hand.

"Give me a boost, let’s accelerate together!"

He said gravely in the channel.

"But...," the Feiyi Master controlling the spaceship wanted to speak, but Li Chengyi cut her off.

"This method of attack is too inefficient, do as I say!"

Li Chengyi thought, this is why the battles between the two sides, besides the close combat battles, had large casualties but took an extremely long time. With this tactic, it was odd if things moved quickly.

A battle taking more than ten hours was hardly unexpected; a longer one could go on for days.

If you consider that this was the clashing of large armies, not even counting the time it took to travel, such intense continuous fighting would determine winners and losers within a few hours on the ground.

They had time to waste here, but Li Chengyi did not have the leisure to accompany them.

Death loomed close behind him; the longer he delayed here, the more variables would increase when he returned.

"Follow the orders!" Li Chengyi repeated sternly, his voice harsh.

The Feiyi Master controlling the spaceship fell silent for a moment, finally firing up the thrusters at the rear of the spaceship.

Hum.

A ring-shaped ion accelerator lit up with a blue glow, beginning to push the spaceship forward at high speed.

The speeds soared.

The spaceship, with Li Chengyi onboard, started moving in an irregular pattern.

Once the speed of sound.

Five times the speed of sound.

Ten times!

Twenty times!

In space, if there’s no resistance, an object can maintain a speed and keep flying indefinitely.

But to stop, one needs to expend an equally massive force to disrupt it.

This spaceship was essentially one-time explosive material; the propulsion was equipped with a single-use amount, expended solely to accelerate.

The speed kept increasing, faster and more urgent.

Initially, Li Chengyi could still somewhat make out his surroundings, but as the speed increased to eighty times the speed of sound, everything around became blurry.

The speed still climbed.

Until a hundred times the speed of sound.

That is 34,000 meters per second.

Thirty-four kilometers a second!

The terrifying high speed turned the tip of the spaceship into a blade, easily piercing through all obstructions ahead.

But the material of the ship itself also began to crumble and fracture in the collision.

Li Chengyi firmly grasped the spacecraft, his body flashing with golden light as the Floral Fortress rapidly covered his entire body, enhancing his defensive strength.

By now, the spacecraft was beyond control, having left the Feiyi Master’s operation, only capable of moving in a straight line.

But its speed continued to increase.

A one-time use weapon, that’s what it was.

Bang!

Finally, with a thunderous crash, the spacecraft violently collided with a large gray-white warship of the White Star.

The several-kilometer-long massive warship, caught off guard, shook slightly from the impact.

The spacecraft was like a dagger plunged into a tree trunk, fiercely stabbing into its side.

Li Chengyi, dazed and rattled by the shock, disconnected and shook his head, then looked around again.

He was still a considerable distance from that blue Reinforced Human.

’Damn it...!’ He now deeply realized the agony of space battles...

No wonder everyone was shooting at each other with laser cannons.

’I was originally worried that if I accelerated to an even higher speed in one go, I might not be able to stop due to inertia and might keep charging out of the battlefield... Now it seems...’

There’s a saying on the ground that ’distance is deceptive on open ground,’ here it’s like a super-enhanced version of that.

Bang!!

Suddenly, a high-speed object from behind violently struck Li Chengyi in the back.

The Armor was dented slightly by the object but quickly returned to its original shape.

That’s the advantage of Bone Armor, its high recovery strength, much more useful than the Floral Dress.

Therefore, he primarily used Bone Armor, integrating the Floral Dress into it, and its strength significantly increased.

Turning his head, Li Chengyi saw that the small combat Reinforced Humans from the warship were shooting at this location with small kinetic guns.

His expression turned cold as he suddenly thought of something...

Bang!!

In an instant, a burst of golden light exploded behind him.

Immense thrust, carrying him rapidly towards those few White Star Reinforced Soldiers.

Floral Brilliance Flash, finally at this moment, found its most suitable use.

Releasing the Glint Flash at an extremely close range, Li Chengyi instantly gained a kinetic engine exclusive to him.

His form shot forward like an arrow, accelerating to five times the speed of sound in an instant.

Glint Flash!

Glint Flash!

Glint Flash!!

He boosted three times in succession.

His flying speed reached fifteen times the speed of sound, and he could still make slight side adjustments to modify his trajectory.

Numerous golden Gladiolus petals rotated and fluttered, a five-meter-long Golden Longsword condensed in his hand.

Gray-white Bone Armor climbed onto it, also covering the Golden Sword inside, forming a gray-white Bone Sword.

The hard but fragile Golden Sword, once covered by Bone Armor, immediately had its hardness and toughness greatly enhanced.

The Bone Armor also received substantial support.

Hiss!

In an instant, a white line crossed over three Reinforced Soldiers.

Boom!

Three fireballs nearly exploded simultaneously.

Li Chengyi had already left the blast radius, his Bone Sword fiercely stabbing into the surface of the warship.

The sturdy, all-encompassing Radiance Field was pierced and collapsed.

White Blood Essence wrapped around and surged, causing Li Chengyi’s strength to suddenly soar.

The blade penetrated the force field and entered the outer armor.

Waves of white Blood Essence, like a flood, crazily poured into the warship’s interior through the breach.

The armor layers were rapidly shattered by the onslaught, and the high-strength metal material could only serve to slow down the pace of invasion in front of Li Chengyi’s current Blood Essence.

A massive amount of Blood Essence began to expand throughout the interior passageways of the warship, destroying all living things in their path.

’Too slow!’ Li Chengyi lamented in his mind, a full ten seconds.

Hiss!

Another blast of blue particle cannon fire hit him squarely in the chest.

With the speed of light beams being too fast, even he could not completely dodge it. From the moment he saw it, he had already been stricken.

Intense explosions and burning occurred incessantly on his chest.

Glint Flash!!

The golden light exploded, blasting the blue light completely away.

The outer layer of Bone Armor was burned into a large hole, but it quickly regenerated.

’Not bad for potency...’ A single weapon comparable to double-seal level Blood Essence.

Li Chengyi looked towards the blue Reinforced Human, who once again raised the beam cannon, aiming it this way.

Hiss hiss hiss hiss!!

Blue particle cannon fire shot out in rapid succession.

"You’re really...!!"

Li Chengyi’s whole body unfolded the Radiance Field, as his physique switched to the Sunflower Dress with Titan Sunflower integration.

Suddenly, a large golden triangular shield appeared in front of him.

The shield’s surface was covered with Bone Armor, the golden light of the Floral Fortress quickly spreading over it.

And the Flower Language Technique of the Sunflower Dress, the Radiance Field, and Glint Flash, all saw their powers enhanced in that moment.

When wearing the original Floral Dress, the Flower Language Technique’s power could be deployed to its peak.

Hiss hiss hiss hiss!!!

Blue particle beams kept striking the tower shield.

The terrifying high temperature climbed rapidly, reaching tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of degrees!!

In an extremely short amount of time, the tower shield began to melt, getting penetrated.

At that moment, Li Chengyi released a Glint Flash.

Bang!!

The golden explosion actually managed to interrupt and negate part of the sustained assault of the particle cannon.

Seizing the moment, he quickly withdrew, but the Bone Armor on the front side of his body was still partially melted.

The strength of the Sunflower Dress was far from sufficient for the situation he faced at that time.

He had stayed on the warship for a full ten seconds before the Blood Essence managed to cover the entire interior space of the warship.