273: Rust Council

The mechanical synthesized voice took on an urgent tone for the first time.

"Now!"

Su Lei's voice echoed through every warship.

Commanders, who had already received instructions, unleashed the most brilliant light from their three hundred plus warships' engines the moment the cage loosened, transforming into a steel torrent. They charged at full speed into that unknown airspace during the brief window when the Arbiter System was down for reboot!

When the flagship passed through the last layer of spatial ripple, what appeared before everyone was a steel Hell, enough to make any trypophobic person faint on the spot.

First Detention Zone, Mechanical Graveyard.

Boundless metal ruins, countless scrapped starship wrecks piled up like mountain ranges.

Between these steel mountains, black rivers flowed, a mixture of discarded coolant and corrosive lubricant.

The sky was not a starry sky, but a dark red dome flickering with unstable electrical arcs, with a cracked Fusion furnace at its center, pulsating like a dying heart.

The silence did not last long.

"Buzz..."

A buzzing sound, like millions of metal locusts flapping their wings, came from the depths of the steel mountains on all sides.

From the starship wrecks, which should have been inanimate, countless hatches opened, and mechanical constructs of various forms swarmed out: metal spiders pieced together from warship main cannons, spherical drones covered in rust, and even the hollowed-out remnants of frigates with only their weapon Systems remaining... In just a few minutes, they formed a steel cloud that blotted out the sky, completely surrounding the Federal Fleet.

"Detecting large-scale hostile unit assembly! Quantity, uncountable!"

"Fire!"

Dense plasma beams and a rain of missiles roared towards the mechanical tide.

However, a dark red light membrane lit up on the surface of that steel cloud.

The Federal Fleet's saturation strike had its energy instantly decomposed, diluted, and then evenly distributed among millions of mechanical units.

An attack capable of melting a battleship merely caused the shells of thousands of drones to become slightly warm.

"Attack ineffective! Our energy is being absorbed by the enemy!"

"Damn it! Their defensive force field has become one!"

This was the masterpiece of the ruler of the First Detention Zone, the "Rust Council": the Collaborative Matrix.

A war protocol that linked millions of units into a unified whole, sharing energy and distributing damage.

Unless the entire matrix could be destroyed in an instant, any conventional attack would only be a tickle to them.

Su Lei quietly watched the battle, his Divine Soul power having already penetrated that dark red matrix network.

In his perception, it was a gigantic life form, with countless data streams surging like blood, linking every unit, and at the center of the giant net, a vast consciousness, like a deep-sea behemoth, emanated a cold will.

Leviathan.

Su Lei quickly grasped the essence: energy parasitism.

The more intense the enemy's attack, the stronger the matrix's defense.

An unsolvable cycle.

"Cease all conventional firepower attacks."

Su Lei's command was transmitted to every warship.

"Dean Li, prepare all Pulsar-class electromagnetic pulse missiles, and load these miniature warp beacons onto the warheads."

Su Lei transmitted a newly drawn network structure diagram: "I need you to accurately launch these missiles into every node on this network."

"Remember, our goal is not destruction, but marking."

Despite their confusion, their iron discipline made them execute the orders immediately.

The Federal Fleet's cannons suddenly fell silent.

The steel cloud also stopped advancing, countless red mechanical eyes staring intently at the silent fleet.

Leviathan's will echoed through the network; it sensed that the opponent seemed to have noticed something.

It did not like clever prey.

Minutes later, thousands of special warheads with no energy fluctuations cut through the dead silence of space, firing towards the steel cloud.

A hint of disdain flashed through Leviathan's will.

Electromagnetic pulse? This ancient weapon was not even a tickle.

It did not even bother to defend, letting the missiles pierce its "body."

Each missile that hit its target only erupted with a harmless blue halo before quietly dissipating, like a grand fireworks display.

In the network, electronic sounds of mockery rang out.

However, on the bridge of wuguang no. 2, the corners of Su Lei's mouth slowly curved into an arc.

On his tactical star map, that unknown dark red area was now completely illuminated by tens of thousands of blue light points, flickering with faint spatial fluctuations.

A coordinate network, laid out for subsequent counterattacks and invasions, had quietly formed.

"Levi..."

Su Lei softly uttered the name: "Your body, to me now, holds no more secrets."

The balance of the battlefield was broken.

Two-thirds of the mechanical units under Leviathan's control began to converge towards the center.

They violently crashed and Fused, piecing and welding each other together in the most primitive and savage way.

A terrifying giant, constructed from countless mechanical wrecks, over ten thousand meters tall, was slowly taking shape.

A Rust Titan.

"Intruder..."

A grand, chaotic will vibrated through every warship: "Do you think you can defeat me by taking a part of my body? In the face of absolute power, your cleverness is meaningless!"

The newly formed Rust Titan slowly raised its right arm, its palm gathering a terrifying energy sphere a thousand meters in diameter, comparable to a small star.

Facing this fleet-destroying attack, the bridge was filled with despair.

However, Su Lei still did not open his eyes.

"Dean Li..."

His calm voice rang out: "Immediately transmit to me all design blueprints for the MK-V Fusion energy core, adaptive nano-repair armor, and the Valkyrie basic combat logic template."

Dean Li immediately understood Su Lei's intention and frantically operated the controls.

In the network dimension, Su Lei received this weapon from the real world.

He looked at his own million-strong golden legion before him and distributed this upgrade package, which integrated the wisdom of two great civilizations, to every unit.

"Evolve."

On the real battlefield, that golden ocean also began to move.

They frantically scavenged resources from the Mechanical Graveyard; a battlefield upgrade sweeping across millions of units had begun.

This was a transformation from zombies to super-soldiers.

It was at this moment that the Rust Titan's charge was complete, and the dark red energy sphere roared forth.

Su Lei's golden legion moved.

Hundreds of thousands of heavily armored units stepped forward, forming a golden energy canopy.

Boom!

The energy sphere slammed into the canopy, which shook violently and was covered in cracks, but it ultimately, stubbornly, blocked that world-destroying blow!

"Impossible!"

Leviathan's collective will, for the first time, let out a roar of shock and anger.

"Counterattack."

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