Sky-cracking Rider
Chapter 1046 - 1046: Section 1030 - Retreat Route

The super-caliber space railguns have all withdrawn from battle; the temporary supply of Element Annihilation Bombs are limited by effective radius and can no longer fully breach the layered protective barrier of the super-giant Biological Space Mother Ship after its fusion. Meanwhile,

the combat motherships bearing the brunt of the attack have already lost more than half. The ship-mounted main cannon fire hitting the Biological Space Mother Ship's protective barrier is futile, as if scratching an itch, incapable of breaking the defense; even a slight tremor is soon restored to its defensive strength.

Conversely, the protective barrier of the combat mothership does not have the resilience that the Biological Space Mother Ship does; it's easily breached by the successive self-destructing parasitic species, followed by a swarm of even more parasitic species, with the armor's physical defense and intercept fire net unable to hold for long.

The carrier tactical jet group is also rapidly consuming at an astonishing speed. At first glance, when they sortie in thousands and thousands, covering the skies, it's impressive, but it depends on who you compare it to.

If you compare them to the parasitic species carried by the Biological Space Mother Ship, they are far from sufficient.

The Biological Space Mother Ship, in a sense, is like a simplified mobile "Seed Nest"; as long as there are enough stored materials, it can continuously hatch parasitic species, with efficiency comparable to an industrial production line.

Chen Fei is forced to adjust the current tactics, deploying all combat power, except for the Starlight Cannon, to attack those Biological Space Mother Ships not part of the fusion, avoiding futile efforts against the newly fused super-giant object.

The number of "Sagali" Civilization's space fleet keeps decreasing, soon less than 20 ships; that super-giant object is as powerful as at least six ships, where one plus one should be more than two.

Both sides have fought to this point; not only are humans near running out of resources, but the material reserves of the Biological Space Mother Ship are also beginning to run low.

With all physical ammunition consumed and energy near depletion, the combat mothership does not withdraw from the battlefield but charges forward at full speed, initiating a suicide collision, creating opportunities for other combat units, potentially achieving mutual annihilation with the enemy, which would be a net gain if successful.

Even though the reserves of Element Annihilation Bombs are nearing exhaustion, they're still relentlessly inflicting damage on the remaining clusters of Biological Space Mother Ships.

Fortunately, the big guy Louis Landon has brought the Element Annihilation Bomb to this era's Blue Star Civilization; without this devastating weapon, Chen Fei wouldn't know what to do.

"Again, another big one is going to fuse!"

The eyes widened as the S-Class Space Ability User, serving as Chen Fei's second pair of eyes, shouted while staring hard at the battlefield projection.

The AI's ability to respond to unforeseen circumstances is always lacking; having another pair of eyes watching the battle situation is good, since Chen Fei is not AI and can't easily parallel-route attention distribution like "Adam."

"I see it, I see it, damn, not staying dead after all!"

Chen Fei saw two Biological Space Mother Ships, just grazed by Element Annihilation Bombs, one without a head, another without a rear, still tenaciously approaching a perfectly intact Biological Space Mother Ship, with an obvious intent to fuse into a second super-giant object.

This is not good news; it adds new variables to this final showdown.

"'Adam,' four combat motherships, dive in, stop them from closing in, two Element Annihilation Bombs, follow up!"

Chen Fei swiped on the AR visual assistance interface, setting the targets for the distinctly marked two Element Annihilation Bombs, naturally accompanied by tactical jets to cover their surprise action.

The two missiles hidden in high orbit were awakened, self-igniting and accelerating, weaving agilely between various chaotic objects distributed at different orbital heights, streaking straight towards the three increasingly close Biological Space Mother Ships.

Two clusters of blue light almost merged exploded abruptly, slicing the intact Biological Space Mother Ship pinched in the middle, waist-deep, while the two approaching Biological Space Mother Ships suffered similar but varying degrees of waist-slicing.

After the head and tail separation of the three Biological Space Mother Ships, they finally lost all mobility and, influenced by the Seventh Planet's gravity, their orbital height gradually lowered, soon to plunge into the thin atmosphere.

The second super-giant object about to fuse was successfully sabotaged midway.

Adam: "Holds of '2-1 Cooperative Ship' are full"

The AI "Adam" suddenly reminded that the airships' cargo holds were stuffed full of various "spoils of war" collected from the battlefield, not just recovered metal materials but also a substantial amount of biological tissue, especially remnants of the Biological Space Mother Ship.

Not all remnants were charred to carbon by the high-density energy beam of the Starlight Cannon; on the orbit of the Seventh Planet, a large amount of flesh fragments was spread out, even being dragged back by flycraft enabled with "Light Distortion(1)" magic arrays, put into the airship's biological container, maintaining considerable vitality.

Chen Fei said in surprise: "Filled so quickly?" Stamping the floor hard, the hull gently shook.

The standard cooperative ship of 50 meters in length quickly expanded like a balloon, the large amount of collected metal materials serving as ready basic material, filling the cabin, hence directly utilized.

Onboard were only Chen Fei and Heseman Brown, not needing any extra facilities, so the living space remained unchanged; thus, the hull merely needed skin expansion, quickly reaching a total length of 1000 meters, its size abruptly surpassing the giant battleship left on Blue Star.