Chapter 1,274 The Fighting Method of the Mysterious Army

"Your Majesty! We received a request for help! It's from a third party!"

I was stunned by this sudden report, and Pandora and Viska had already disappeared in the light of the teleporter. Before they teleported away, I saw Viska trying to jump back like a runaway little animal. But it was too late - the girl was full of curiosity. She must have been attracted by the sudden news and wanted to stay and watch the fun. I saw her bumping into the safety shield of the teleporter, then covering her head and grinning, disappearing in a burst of white light, and the next second she appeared in the outer space with her whole body tilted 45 degrees and freely rotating. inside. Next to her, Pandora silently glanced at her very disgraceful sister, quietly opened a distance of dozens of kilometers, and began to summon an overwhelming number of floating cannons to perform her favorite artillery plowing activity.

The enemy's counterattack was temporarily suppressed, but Odysseus and Rena remained stationary under my order. They had to wait for the last moment before the enemy's follow-up troops entered the battlefield, and wait for the opponent to be in the most relaxed mood to suddenly attack. The enemy's follow-up troops will not arrive for more than ten minutes: they should have received reports that the leading troops are in a hard fight and are speeding up here, but their actions are completely in Xiaoxue's eyes, including their current fast march. , had all been accounted for hours ago.

"Request for assistance? What's the situation?" I turned to the command hall below the officer's platform. An officer in charge of the intelligence system stood up from his seat: "Your Majesty, we are analyzing the source of the signal, but it is speculated that its source has been destroyed. Now from that The frequency band can no longer receive any information..."

"Is that third-party information?" Sivis frowned, "If it doesn't belong to us, lower the priority. We don't..."

Sivis acted according to the standard policy of the Imperial Army, which was also the habit of normal military officers in this situation. A request for help from a third party was probably from an indigenous civilization in this universe - perhaps because of some people in the universe. It seemed to Sivis that it might be a trivial matter, such as their star suddenly extinguishing, but now at the most intense moment of the battle, such a request for help would naturally be ignored as background clutter. However, Xiaoxue suddenly stood up before Sivis could finish his words: "No, this is interesting.

"Your Highness Princess?" Sivis looked at Xiaoxue in confusion.

"When did the request for help come?" Xiaoxue motioned to Sivis to continue doing his own thing and nodded to the intelligence officer.

"Yes, the information was sent six hours ago, but due to insufficient priority and channel blocking, this information was regarded as redundant information and was automatically sunk to the bottom of the cache pool. It was re-read just ten minutes ago. Request for help information The content is as follows: We are being pursued by the enemy and the situation is critical. The fleet has lost the ability to return. We hope that any friendly and capable local civilization can provide support. The enemies we face are extremely destructive, and they may also pose a threat to your world. .The encoding format of the request for help information has not been registered, and it can be concluded that it comes from an unregistered civilization."

"Although this place is in the far frontier, it is also within the empire." Xiaoxue turned to look at me, "Dad, theoretically there should not be unregistered civilizations here. Any civilization in the macro world that has developed to an appropriate stage will be registered. Unless they are primitive."

"That is to say..." I looked at the translated request for help message on the data terminal, "This may be an alien civilization that has mastered cross-world navigation technology and happened to pass by the Empire Zone?"

My sister nodded lightly: "And he may have just mastered the technology of cross-world navigation. Civilizations that are capable of cross-border navigation usually attract attention as soon as they appear. We have never seen the one that appears now. Moreover, the empire is well-known in high-end civilization circles. It is very high. Even races outside the macro world know where the empire's boundary line is - those who don't know have basically been beaten. These people who are sending out signals for help don't seem to know that they are within the empire. They have not asked the emperor for help. **Asking for help means that he has just mastered cross-border navigation and become a high-level civilization."

This piece of information that was almost regarded as junk information seems to be really interesting as Xiaoxue said: it comes from a group capable of cross-border navigation, possibly a small force similar to an advance team. And this group is being chased by a group of highly threatening enemies. There is this sentence in the request for help: The enemies we face are extremely destructive, and they may also pose a threat to your world.

This made me turn my attention to the radar view.

That sentence may have been meant to increase the success rate of asking for help, but overall it didn't sound like a lie.

A large number of dense red dots are flashing on the radar, and the ferocious fleet of the fallen apostles is trying its best to crush everything within their range, including this space. If there is anything that is so dangerous that even a stupid alien civilization could immediately realize that it poses a threat to any world, then it is... the fallen apostles.

And more importantly, although this is within the macro world, it is not a directly governed world, but it is still considered the territory of the empire. Here, low-end civilizations may know nothing about the empire, but high-end civilizations still understand the authority of the empire: they have advanced enough to He was aware of the existence of the empire to the extent that high-level officials had even had direct conversations with the empire. Therefore, these civilizations rarely break out into fierce conflicts, because if their wars destroy the balance of the local universe, they are likely to attract the intervention of local censors: this is definitely the most difficult temporary worker in history. Under this premise, a high-end civilization that masters cross-border navigation technology announced that it was being pursued - there is only one truth.

It was the fallen apostles who were chasing them.

It's not yet certain whether they encountered each other after the fallen apostles arrived here, or whether they were chased by the latter long before that, and it was not until six hours ago that the call for help was received by us. Xiaoxue ordered to trace the source of the signal. The system records from six hours ago showed that the request for help came from a distorted space point deep in the universe. There may be a massive black hole or something else there, and perhaps the request for help came from People want to use the space environment there to disguise themselves, but further scanning shows that there is no longer any information coming out of that distortion point.

After all, six hours have passed, and we are not sure whether the people who originally asked for help have been discovered and eliminated by the small force of the fallen apostles, or whether they have escaped and temporarily hid in a safe place.

"Xiaoxue, do you know what's going on with them?" I couldn't help but turn my eyes to my daughter who was as talkative as her mother, but the latter was indeed the naughty child born by Lin Xue. I smiled slightly: "Dad, this It’s a secret.”

Fortunately, she added a few words at the end: "But don't worry, they escaped and are now hiding in another space distortion point - that's it for the time being. It's best not to actively search for them before the battle is over. The fallen apostles are also watching. Once we really scan those people... they may be killed by us."

I nodded, silently deciding that the child's pocket money for the next month would not be halved for the time being, and then turned my attention to the battlefield again.

At this moment, the shipboard host sounded a harsh alarm again: "Level 1 alarm! A large-scale order field appears outside the world barrier! A large-scale order field appears outside the world barrier! The main enemy force is expected to sink in one minute. To the material world!”

This space is on the verge of collapse. The erosion of the void has caused chaos in the cosmological constants within a dozen light-years. The various laws and parameters on which the world depends for its existence have shifted to dangerous critical points. The light has become out of control. The dark nebula in the distance Appearing on the detector screen in the form of a colorful mosaic, the discontinuous effect of gravity means that the spacecraft of both the enemy and ours must now turn on the gravitational shielding device to maintain a stable posture, and the main force of the fallen apostles began to impact after a few seconds. The nearly collapsed world barrier finally completely defeated all order here.

"The entire ship is prepared to withstand the impact! The hidden bombardment formation mission failed and failed to cause sufficient damage to the enemy's rear formation. Now return immediately - the mothership formation saves the next wave of firepower to prepare for the attack."

I quickly turned to the communicator: "Odysseus, Rena, start taking action!"

"The glory of the empire lasts forever!" x2

From the beginning to the end of this battle, there was a very subtle scene - it could even be said to be a bit funny, that is the mirage fleet that had been tirelessly "attacking" the Fallen Apostle from a distance of 0.5 light-years, but was completely ignored by the latter. . Those ridiculous geometric objects that looked like children's building blocks had no power or any defense. The fallen apostles had long believed that they were objects projected by the empire to disrupt the line of sight. After they destroyed some of the phantoms, they discovered that they were After being able to regenerate quickly, they completely ignored these things. They may have thought that they had cracked the empire's mirage tactics, and they probably still think so.

Until the moment when the main force of the fallen apostles jumped into the battlefield.

The Mirage Fleet immediately launched the same attack on the enemy's reinforcements, using those strange-looking lights and light balls. Of course, the commanders of the two groups of enemy troops had contacted them in advance, so the reinforcements of the Fallen Apostles had no ability to respond to the incoming firepower. Make any defensive posture - all their attention is focused on the energy-flooded Galaxy main guns of the Imperial Army's main formation.

Our excellent intelligence officers and information tactics center intercepted an enemy communication on a secondary encrypted channel:

"Second echelon, ignore those phantom fleets, they are diverting our firepower, they have no power!"

"First level, I bought a watch last year!"

The above communication has undergone certain artistic processing but basically has the same meaning... Anyway, the second echelon of the fallen apostles was hit by tens of thousands of spellcasters for half an hour. A group of dozens of Eternals were hit by a group of the former army. The mothership ran out of blood instantly.

Those geometric bodies that were theoretically just phantoms began to lose their disguise after the first round of strikes took effect, revealing their true colors. The commander of the Fallen Apostles was shocked to see the old imperial arms that had theoretically been completely extinct: the Magic Vanguard and the Arcana Technical law enforcement officer.

A shocking scene appeared. The caster soldiers who emerged from the darkness turned into human-shaped torches one by one. The raging energy flames rose from the bodies of these soldiers and quickly swallowed them completely. In a short time, In just two seconds, all the casters turned into blazing, dazzling fireballs. These huge blue-white fireballs began to merge with each other and expanded rapidly. After this series of changes that made me stunned, the caster troops disappeared. ,Instead……

It turned out to be a cloud that filled the interstellar space and had undulating edges!

The space combat form transformed by tens of thousands of magic vanguards and arcane archons was completely beyond my expectations. I thought they should at least look like a group of fully armed soldiers, but now they have even given up their human form and transformed into And turned into an interstellar cloud?

I immediately quickly checked the fighting methods of these two soldiers, and then I felt that this world was so weird.

The army of the mysterious system has a special fighting method. Of course, they also use powerful starships to fight, but in the case of insufficient starships, they also have another ability that they are proud of, which is to temporarily change their own The life form then merges with friendly forces to become a more powerful individual, with a sharp decrease in number in exchange for a sharp increase in power. This is their space combat posture. Each Xiling apostle has a form specifically used for space combat, and it is said that the space combat of the mysterious apostles is the weirdest one.

Now I have the privilege of witnessing this with my own eyes.

This interstellar cloud looks extremely bright in contrast to the dark nebula. They...or it looks like a diluted sun (please forgive me for only coming up with such a bizarre adjective), The energy reaction inside it was unprecedentedly violent. Tens of thousands of elite apostles merged their power without reservation, forming an aggregate "monster" with combat power comparable to an aircraft carrier formation. Then this energy body began to react towards The fallen apostle who came over was violent

It created an arcane lightning that was more magnificent than the main cannon of the galaxy. The attack of this light completely tore apart the space that was on the verge of collapse, so that more than a dozen fragmented lightning images appeared in the fallen apostle's position, and then a large number of The shields of small and medium-sized warships began to overload and exploded.

Both Odysseus and Rena knew that even if the soldiers they led formed this kind of aggregation, they could not directly confront the mothership: it was not the duty of soldiers to fight against the heavy mothership itself. Therefore, from the beginning, their targets were small and medium-sized spacecraft that lacked strong protection.

The surprise attacks of these spellcasters can only produce great results in the early stage. After all, they are still a single-soldier team (although I feel very confused when I say this when looking at the energy cloud that is already the size of an asteroid)·Continuing It could not match the battleship in terms of combat and survivability, so just when the fallen apostle was about to recover from the shock, Sivis ordered the Imperial Army's main formation to launch the most powerful attack since the war began.

Two serious tactical mistakes caused the fallen apostle fleet, which originally had a slight military advantage, to gradually fall into a disadvantage. However, it seems that it is not easy for the emperor to win. The most regrettable thing is that our stealth bombing formation failed to achieve the expected results. The enemy commander we faced this time was a guy who was able to win unexpectedly on offense and was as watertight as a turtle shell on defense. After approaching the enemy's rear formation under cover, the stealth bombing fleet only had time to drop the first batch of heavy space implodes. After the bullet was fired, the opponent noticed it and hit it back with intensive firepower. Now we must maintain the advantage brought by the two raids (the one on the world barrier, and the one Odyssey and the others just successfully carried out) and slowly expand it to win.

The battlefield has now been divided into three firepower pouring areas, two of which are of course the Imperial Army and the Fallen Apostle Fleet that are currently fighting, and the third is a large interstellar cloud that has reached the edge of the battlefield. This bright energy mist is still expanding rapidly. It is now the size of a giant planet, and its energy response is getting more and more amazing. I am very troubled to introduce to you. This is our mage army... They are now It has turned into a ball of gas.

After the battle began, this cloud kept jumping towards the battlefield in the face of the enemy's artillery fire, just like a small sun that could leap. In just ten minutes, it spanned a distance of 0.5 light-years. Arrive at the Fallen Apostle flank.

This is the first time that the caster troops of the New Empire have appeared on a frontal battlefield, and the scale of the appearance is so large. The fallen apostles must be very shocked now. I guess they are greeting the families of the heads of their intelligence departments at all levels - well, If it were also popular among the fallen apostles to greet other people’s families. It was obvious that the threat posed by the tens of thousands of elite warriors led by Odysseus and Rena was great. After entering the fusion state, they were as powerful as a group of independent formations of motherships. This cloud of mist is rolling rapidly, and now it has turned into a hurricane like a space storm. The fierce arcane lightning directly tears through the space and bombards the weaker fleet on the enemy's flank. The fallen apostle has to devote a lot of energy to deal with this fast cloud. Storm clouds close to you: These sudden appearance of legal units have completely disrupted the enemy's deployment.

I have almost seen some clues now. There is a huge difference between the spellcaster troops and the apostles of the technology department. The former do not have those amazingly powerful equipment. The mystery department lags behind the technology department in weapon manufacturing, but they use this weird The combat effectiveness exerted by the fusion posture completely makes up for the lack of individual equipment. Now this cloud is sharing all damage: all attacks from the enemy can only cause very small damage to the disembodied cloud, and this damage will be evenly distributed to each member of the cloud. There seems to be a structure inside the cloud. In the close-up images returned by the probe, you can see the highly rotating energy array and the randomly arranged light balls inside the cloud. These structures can produce attacks and can also They disperse damage and probably also have the function of repairing the combination. They... are like the organs in the body of a giant beast.

All the casters merged into a magical beast that swallowed the celestial body, and this beast could also sense light waves three times per second...

At this moment, Xiaoxue suddenly interrupted my thoughts:

"Dad, the enemy's flagship unit has been exposed!"