363: Chapter 363 Space War

During Ains's deafening speech, the battle intent of the Jushen Company soldiers reached its peak; everyone's heartbeats quickened as adrenaline and dopamine surged through their systems.

It was at this moment that,

the reconnaissance fleet discovered an anomaly on Polyphemus, and alarms blared instantly. The fleet of the Philiphimus Civilization had appeared—no, perhaps it shouldn't be called a fleet.

Because there was only one.

Six million kilometers away from the Jushen Company fleet, as a ripple flashed through space, this incredibly massive enemy ship appeared in everyone's sight.

Its colossal body made all the personnel in the 2,000 reconnaissance ships gasp in shock.

The situation discovered by these 2,000 reconnaissance ships was quickly transmitted to headquarters via Jushen Company's quantum information network. Categorized and summarized by artificial intelligence, it appeared before Ains, Lin Fang, and the others in just 0.5 seconds.

"The enemy ship is spherical, quantity: one, diameter: 3,000 kilometers. The hull's base material is primarily metallic, with approximately thirty percent of the area exhibiting characteristics of living biological tissue."

"The metallic substrate composition cannot be locked. Its spectral characteristics are close to titanium isotopes, but the isotope mass numbers are outside the range of the existing periodic table and cannot be calibrated."

Through the tactical holographic projection, Lin Fang also saw its appearance.

This was a perfectly spherical spaceship, its surface showing only some unknown energy conduits for transport.

A diameter of 3,000 kilometers meant its volume was sufficient to crush most dwarf planets. The main warships that Jushen Company took pride in were like mere dust-sized insects before it.

The average diameter of the Moon is only about 3,500 kilometers.

Jushen Company's technicians and AI systems began to analyze it.

"Analyzing the enemy ship's movement method: traces of spatial oscillation found; confirmed movement method is Spatial Warp. Warp window stability, spatial distortion precision, and energy consumption efficiency all exceed our highest level of warp technology by thirty-three times..."

Listening to them,

Lin Fang felt a bit more at ease now. If they could analyze even a part of it—if they could grasp some of the opponent's technical characteristics, energy patterns, and structural features—that in itself was a good thing. The gap between the two sides was not an insurmountable chasm.

The biggest fear was that the opponent would be so strong that they couldn't perform any analysis at all, so strong that they couldn't even understand the principles; in that case, they would have to wave the white flag in the Universe.

The Jushen Company fleet began to charge forward. With the existence of Warp Engines, a distance of six million kilometers would only take a moment.

Surprisingly, since its appearance, this spherical ship had remained in place without moving an inch.

At this moment, a stark contrast appeared in the vast starry battlefield.

On one side was the Jushen Company's main cluster, arrayed strictly across the starry sky. Three million warships' engines spat out blue glows and exhaust flames, like a swarm of bees carrying thundering wrath, surging forward at sub-light speed.

The ship arrays were uniform, cannons on standby; every warship carried the resolve of a last stand, carving dense and shocking light trails through the pitch-black Universe.

On the other side, there was only a solitary spherical dreadnought with a diameter of 3,000 kilometers. It floated quietly in the Universe, coldly watching the enemies pouncing toward it.

Ains gave the order to attack.

In an instant,

the Jushen Company fleet began to pour all its firepower onto this spherical ship. Analyzing intelligence was a task for the technicians in the rear; in the minds of the combat personnel on these warships, they only needed to do one thing.

Fearless of sacrifice, they just needed to drag this war in a direction favorable to the Company.

The firepower of a single ship, falling upon that 3,000-kilometer-diameter behemoth, probably couldn't even stir a ripple, like a grain of sand hitting a mountain.

Before this enemy ship, which was like a mobile planet, any single individual or single warship was so small as to be negligible.

No one felt they could decide the outcome of the battle.

No one would be naive enough to think they could sink this interstellar behemoth by their own strength alone.

Yet they were still firing, still charging, still throwing all their firepower, all their will, and all their lives forward.

One person is very small.

One ship is very small.

One bit of power is very small.

But when billions of small things converge into an ocean, they can raise a giant wave that overturns the stars.

The main cannons of three million warships roared simultaneously. Gamma Deep-Space Missiles, ion beams, electromagnetic guns, Antimatter Warheads, and Directed-Energy Weapons converged in the same airspace into a sea of fire that submerged the stars, firing at this spherical spaceship from all directions.

Among them, the main cannons of over a thousand giant motherships were Heavy Plasma Cluster Cannons of staggering power. These weapons relied on the ship's core reactor for continuous power, firing high-temperature plasma after multi-stage magnetic compression and directional focusing.

A single Plasma Cluster was enough to pierce through kilometer-level fortress armor, instantly evaporating an area of space into a high-temperature forbidden zone.

And now, over a thousand beams fired simultaneously, converging into a scorching light curtain that covered a thousand miles, slamming hard into the enemy ship's hull.

Other attacks arrived in the blink of an eye. The firepower of three million warships was like a surging sea of stars, instantly swallowing that 3,000-kilometer-diameter spherical dreadnought.

Half of the enemy ship's spherical surface was completely illuminated by this world-destroying firepower; at this moment, it was like a star being ignited, breathtakingly spectacular.

Inside the command flagship where Ains and Lin Fang were, everyone held their breath, staring at the sea of light in the holographic projection that swallowed everything, hope igniting in their hearts.

"There should be some effect, right?"

Lin Fang thought to himself. After this round of strikes, even the Moon would be blown to pieces. Most of the personnel on the ship shared this thought.

But the subsequent facts proved that one shouldn't count their chickens before they hatch.

A few seconds later, the color drained from everyone's faces as the holographic images were transmitted back.

All the whistling gunfire, missiles, and plasma beams suddenly seemed to hit an invisible wall about a thousand kilometers from the spherical ship's hull.

After the explosion, the spherical ship remained unscathed, still standing quietly in the Universe, silently mocking humanity.

As if saying:

"Look, your all-out effort is so laughable in my eyes."

The Commanders of the over a thousand giant motherships of Jushen Company turned pale at this scene, their eyes full of disbelief.

Having received the results, Ains's expression was heavy.

The only good news was that the technicians had analyzed some data about this shield based on the information sent back by the probes.

"Officer, I judge this to be an extremely powerful Repulsive Force Field capable of withstanding both physical projectiles and energy weapons."

A gray-haired old Professor said anxiously, "This belongs to a type of Unified Force, but we are not yet clear on how they achieve this effect..."

After hearing his words, Ains didn't hesitate for a moment and directly used his trump card.

"Activate the Superheavy Great Cannon, full power charging!"

As his words fell, eight starry sky war fortresses behind the fleet slowly extended a barrel 9 kilometers in diameter and 260 kilometers long from their centers and began to charge.

Inside was the strongest shell humanity had manufactured to date.

With the assistance of AI, in the starry sky battlefield, the three million-ship fleet changed formation, opening a path leading to the spherical ship.