Xyrin Empire
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Chapter 425: Chapter 425 0

“With our current half-baked Xyrin Technology, can we mass-produce real Planet Battleships?”

“Of course, that’s impossible…”

“What exactly is a true Xyrin Planet Battleship? Apart from the ‘Glory’ class of ship which, when operated at full capacity, has a strategic significance almost equivalent to an entire Empire’s territory and is thus an exception to the rule, even the standard Planet Battleships could sweep through an entire star system on their own. Their power systems, supported by the Infinite Ghost Energy Abyss, could allow these behemoths to battle from the dawn of the universe until the end of the world. Their main weaponry possesses the capability to launch attacks similar to Law Strikes, and their mainstream shields are the ‘Damage Definition Devices,’ far surpassing Ghost Energy Shields. Such defiant creations are even beyond the Star Domain Divine Race’s ability to contend with–they all have Law Resistance and even Concept Resistance.”

“Needless to say, we can no longer produce such abnormal things…”

“The hundreds of Planet Battleships that we have pushed into the limelight and are now moving from their orbits toward the territories of various races are merely junior imitations–simple technology, uniform structure. In Taville’s words, ‘Compared to the real Planet Battleships, they are nothing but size.'”

“In the past few months, our expansion legions transformed over a hundred suitable solid planets found within the Sky Zone that they occupied, directly altering the innards of these planets into vast and complex fortresses and armories using material conversion technology. The energy from the planets’ cores served as the primary power source for the entire construction process, while the material conversion technology made the rapid progress of these projects possible. Even the Xyrin Host remaining in Shadow City was summoned to the front line to assist. At last, a few days ago, these astonishingly large fortresses were successfully activated.”

“Due to the limitations of material conversion technology, naturally, these Planet Fortresses couldn’t possess powers like Law Strikes that would make Pandora drool (of course, we couldn’t build those either). Their main armaments remained close-range Gravity Tidal Devices and long-distance Space Cutting Cannons–these standard pieces of equipment are the most awe-inspiring things our current technology can produce. Fortunately, neither the Human nor the Protos Natives have the power to resist such attacks.”

“Moreover, thirteen of these Planet Fortresses had experimental new weapons installed by Taville. I must say, although scientists might not appear to have much combat power, once they cast aside the last restraints of humanitarianism, the destruction these madmen can unleash is no less than that of the entire Imperial Fleet!”

“It was just some odd thought that popped into my mind that inspired this respected female scientist to begin researching how to miniaturize the ability of the Sniper Star Cannon, which disassembles the basic structure of matter and converts it directly into energy, so it could be fitted onto the Planet Fortresses. This process sounds incredible because I always thought it was only through the Sniper Star Cannon’s enormous energy surge that matter could disintegrate, eventually turning into energy due to a chain reaction. This implied that the size of the Planet Fortresses was insufficient to install such a massive energy circuit. In reality, however, the process was even more complex than I imagined, and its energy demands were not as high as I had assumed.”

“As everyone knows, Ghost Energy originates from highly active Void Energy; despite its decline in strength and intensity, Ghost Energy still retains some properties of Void Energy, such as assimilation and devouring, allowing it to generate a vast amount of extra power during operation.”

“The principle of dismantling matter by the Sniper Star Cannon is based on this. It emits massive amounts of Ghost Energy at specific frequencies and intensities. At the initial stage of permeating the structure of matter, this energy isn’t destructive, but after a very brief delay, the Ghost Energy begins to interact with the intermolecular forces. Molecular bonds are easy for Ghost Energy, originating from Void Energy, to destroy. Once these connections that maintain the stability of matter’s form are converted into Ghost Energy, matter naturally disintegrates, which is only the first part. After matter collapses on the molecular level, it undergoes a second disintegration where atomic bonds are shattered by a similar process. A planet under attack from a Sniper Star Cannon at this moment turns into an atomic cloud, and then the Ghost Energy continues to penetrate deeper, severing the bonds between electrons and protons. The strong and weak forces, though not energy themselves, are still targets for Ghost Energy assimilation…”

“Ultimately, such a deep chain reaction completes its final mission at an extremity microscopic level: it breaches the barrier between matter and energy, turning it into a third state, intermediary between energy and matter–this involves quantum theory and sub-quark level, extreme micro-theories that humanity does not yet fully understand. And then, in an instant, these third-state entities are turned entirely into energy in the surrounding turbulent environment of Ghost Energy.”

“It’s not like a nuclear reaction where intense energy release causes matter to convert into energy; instead, it’s being taken apart bit by bit until it’s ‘dismantled into energy.'”

“I know many people don’t understand because I don’t either…”

Taville had found a way to miniaturize this specific Ghost Energy generator. Despite being expensive to produce and limited in power, when compared to the immovable Sniper Star Cannon that could only release attacks through a super space-time portal, resulting in considerable energy loss, and the fatal flaw of the former’s inability to be mass-produced, these mass-produced portable Sniper Star Cannons possessed incomparable strategic advantages–except for their short range.

The Planet Battleships equipped with this device named the “Mass Energy Conversion Core” could fire beams from a hundred thousand kilometers away. The matter swept by these beams would be directly turned into energy. Then, with the aid of a large number of experimental Energy Raiders (an Energy Raider has a limit to how much energy it can absorb), this massive energy would be recovered and compressed, revitalized into Ghost Energy, serving as a supplemental energy source to sustain the beam. Although less efficient than the Sniper Star Cannon, the effect it produced during an attack was definitely more shocking than the latter’s process-lacking attacks.

It was like an eraser, rubbing entire planets off the cosmic backdrop right in front of you. Thanks to the Energy Raiders absorbing the excess energy, not even an annoying explosion would affect the clarity of the process until the whole planet had been erased–Taville spoke.

A Colonization Star known as Yitalas belonging to the Insect Race had the honor of becoming the first sacrifice of this Starship Fleet. The live broadcast of Yitalas being gradually erased from the universe by the gigantic starship’s beam reached every corner of the Star Zone. Of course, during this process, the Insect Race had already dispatched a massive army to intercept, and Yitalas was completely covered by the Insects. Therefore, when a meat shield made up of six billion three hundred million Insects tried to block the Starship, the scene was so spectacular that it was unforgettable. But even the knockoff Planet Battleships, “merely installed with a heap of weapons and a heap of engines, and besides being large and heavily armored, containing no other technology,” were not something that this insect army could confront. The massive Planet Battleships did not even deploy their air defense troops but passed through the blockade of insects in a manner that made the Blade Queen’s jaw drop.

Planet Battleships… they also have space jump capabilities…

How on earth did Taville come up with a function so aggravating for such a massive thing?

To conduct space transmission for something of such magnitude, even with Xyrin technology, was not an easy feat. Without equipment like Star Gates to assist, the space jump distance limit of “Zero” was only ten million kilometers. In cosmic warfare, this distance wouldn’t even suffice for an Assault Ship to patrol. The only reason for installing such a power-hungry function on the Starship was to ensure that this naturally large target would not become a sitting duck due to its cumbersome shape. It was similar to Ma Wei Shadow Song’s Blink; it wouldn’t take you back to base, but at least you didn’t have to be encircled and watched by a troop of Heavy Cavalry. However, when used correctly, an escape skill could also possess astonishing lethality. The intercepted Starship accelerated and rammed into the sea of insects before making a forward space jump. The sudden super space-time transmission of the Planet Battleship, weighing billions of tons, directly resulted in a spatial collapse that killed nearly half of the six billion three hundred million Insects. Those left behind couldn’t catch up to the Planet Battleship that had already sped away: those Flying Dragons, even if they grew up drinking Helium-3, couldn’t possibly catch up to the Planet Battleship, driven by Class Coordinate Engines that completely ignored its own mass and inertia, could they?

By the time they arrived at their homeland, all that was left was an impressively lifelike “apple core” space sculpture, with a line of large characters spelled out in blue navigation lights above the sculpture: “The idiot downstairs.”

“It’s not easy to carve a planet into the shape of an apple core, the high-temperature molten Earth Core is not something that solidifies so easily. By comparison, that line of Microsoft YaHei script was a lot easier,” said a Starship Commander who wished to remain anonymous in an interview.

Of course, when the Planet Battleships first mobilized, the Three Races Alliance did not fail to attempt a joint assault on our main base to preempt the catastrophe. However, the entire Imperial First Legion, with the “Imperial Admiral” as its flagship, had long established an unbreakable line of defense, supported by the heavy firepower of nearby dozen of Planet Fortresses. Given the Three Races Alliance itself could not truly unite internally, their several offences ended in vain, and the gradual positioning of the Planet Battleships also demoralized the soldiers meant to be the Suicide Squad. Finally, the enemy gave up the futile attempt to attack our main base and turned to fiercely defend their own Colonization Stars named in that timetable, bracing for death.

“It seems that our initial low-profile and patience really were valuable,” Sivis said with a triumphant smile on her face, an anomaly for someone who typically presents with a cool temperament. “Your Majesty, massive panic has already spread throughout the Independent Federation. Human civilians are everywhere participating in huge rallies, criticizing their rulers for senselessly provoking a group of Gods of Destruction. As for the Taldarim Members, they have already retreated to their main Colonization Planets, swearing to die with their homeland.”

The first step was to instill the fear of doomsday in them. The mentality of impending destruction would shatter your last will to resist–it was something Sandora with ample experience in annihilating worlds once said.

“What about the Insects? Or rather, has the Blade Queen reacted?”

I studied the Star Map for a long time but eventually gave up on trying to find the enemy’s position from it and directly asked Sivis.

“The Insects are, in fact, the calmest Race right now. Their absolute unity, or simply said, the attribute of the whole Race being equivalent to a single entity, prevents these creatures from disintegrating internally. Aside from the Char Planet, which is being wrapped layer by layer into a turtle shell by insects, there’s no movement on other planets with insects–they just passively resist our regular troops’ harvesting.”

“Kerrigan is not the kind of person to take a passive approach,” I shook my head, “By the way, how is Bubbles’ analysis of that ‘Artifact Crystal’ Zeratul had going? Can we replicate it?”

“We’ve made some progress in our research on the Divine Race,”

The one who answered me was Taville, this scholarly big sister figure with an air of academia pushed up her decorative glasses with an expression so mild that no one could possibly imagine the number of terrifying weapons of mass destruction she had produced in the recent months.

“First off, their Ghost Energy, with Zeratul’s help, we have obtained excellent energy samples. The conclusion from analyzing them is that this energy is very similar to the Ghost Energy we use daily, although it’s much weaker.”

“They’ve started to learn how to use Void Energy?” I said, astonished, “Have the Protos natives mastered the technology to set up Ghost Energy Reactors outside of the world?”

“That’s of course impossible,” Taville shook her head, “Breaking through the World Barrier requires incredibly complex technology, and the Protos natives are using another method that’s primitive but very creative.”

As Taville spoke, she turned on the projector in front of me… but she quickly turned it off again, knowing I wouldn’t understand…

“In our view, the hierarchical evolution of energy works like this: Void Energy decays and differentiates to form Ghost Energy; Ghost Energy decays and differentiates to form the regular energy found throughout the universe; This universal energy, due to the evolution of the universe itself, undergoes various mutations to form Equal-level Energy, such as Spiritual Power, Soul, Energy Life, etc. We use Void Energy that decays directly into Ghost Energy, while the Protos natives do the opposite. They collect various energies from the universe and restore them to Ghost Energy-that is the theory.”

I was foggy for a long while, and eventually asked, dizzy, “Does this not… violate something like the conservation of energy?”

I seem to remember my high school teacher saying something about that… Uh, never mind, I can’t even remember my high school teacher’s name…

“In the scope of a single world, energy conservation is absolute. The Protos natives’ creation of Ghost Energy is merely a transformation of energy form and doesn’t violate this principle,” Taville said with an expression full of interest, her fingers unconsciously tapping the Crystal Plate in her hands, “Moreover, their spiritual power is even more intriguing. Through meditation, they gain a vague understanding of the essence of energy. A Protos native, without the aid of machines, can absorb the free energy around them and transform it into Fake Ghost Energy. Perhaps when they develop this technology to its limit, they might really be able to glimpse the true essence of the world.”

Lilina’s bright eyes spun round and round. Suddenly, she jumped out and shouted, “I get it! The Protos natives are all cultivators!”

We: “…”

Who will throw this girl out for me!

Ignoring Lilina’s utterly disruptive behavior, Taville pulled up an image of that “Divine Artifact”, and beneath that image was a hodgepodge of data that made my scalp tingle.

“Apart from the research on Protos Ghost Energy, the structural scan of this thing is completed as well. It doesn’t belong to anything we’ve seen before… you could even say, it doesn’t belong to any theoretically possible object.”

Taville spoke with confusion, enlarging an image that, to me, looked like a poorly made jigsaw puzzle in a complete mess: “This is its basic structure. Any matter existing in such structure would have its stability infinitely approaching zero. Also, we haven’t found anything like atoms or molecules in it. In a universe based on atoms as the fundamental structure of matter, this is simply unimaginable. Also, the attempt to replicate it has failed. With the technology we have now, we still can’t allow matter to exist in this form without collapsing…”

“Xyrin Technology can’t restore it?”

I was greatly surprised. I originally thought this would be quite simple, but… even with the Xyrin People’s almost bug-like science, we can’t replicate a piece of antique from the Protos natives?! Is that possible?!

“Of course, we can’t replicate it.”

Just as we were all shocked, Sandora suddenly spoke softly, breaking the silence.

“This thing wasn’t made by the Protos natives… It’s an object from the Divine Realm.”

“Divine Realm?” I didn’t catch on at first, thinking Sandora was referring to the Divine Race of Protos, but a lightning-fast thought struck my mind a few seconds later, “You’re not saying… those overlords from the Star Domain!?”

“Who else?” Sandora shrugged, “Aside from an object from the Divine Realm of the Star Domain, what else could exist that even we can’t analyze?”

Well, there is that.

“This thing is from the Divine Realm?” Qianqian was also driven by curiosity, leaning over the back of her chair, her head coming closer, “It’s not in the Empire database?”

Sandora showed a reminiscent look: “A long time ago, a member of the Star Domain Divine Race came to my territory to collect materials for his academic thesis. He gave me some decorative items from the Divine Realm as gifts. Among them was this kind of ‘crystal’. It’s been hung in my bedroom, so I had some impression. I just suddenly remembered… Hmm, speaking of which, he seemed to claim he was a senior researcher in Creation Science. Now I wonder if Dingdang’s repeated failing for thousands of years has anything to do with the high difficulty thesis he wrote at that time?”

Even the eternally flunking Goddess takes a hit without even being in the room.

“What exactly does this thing do?” I asked, unable to curb my curiosity. If it could interfere with the navigation equipment of Xyrin soldiers and it’s a Divine Realm creation, it’s easy to explain. It’s just unknown what the Divine Race folks used it for initially.

“It has many functions; it can usually be used as a beacon for military navigation. Due to its high transmission power and its ability to ignore any interference, including the World Barrier, it can affect even our military navigators. However…” Sandora’s face suddenly showed a mixture of laughter and tears, “since the Divine Race of the Star Domain never needs navigation, they’ve always treated this item as a mere decorative piece…”

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