Chapter 658 The Backbone of the Federation

"Done?"

Amber's voice trembled at this moment, and her body, which was close to the captain's seat, finally sat up straight.

Although the 'Eternal' had just fled ahead of time, the explosion of Alpha Serpens still allowed the 'Eternal', which had already entered the jump, to observe the relevant energy fluctuations, and even a large-scale tremor occurred in the entire hyperspace.

"It's done, Master! If the Federation Fleet and Trafalgar can still survive in this situation, then we don't have to fight, I will be the first to surrender."

Lilith's voice also sounded after a moment of hesitation. Although she was knowledgeable on the Internet, this kind of large-scale celestial explosion was the first time she had seen it. At this time, she was quickly sorting out the large amount of precious data just recorded.

As for Amber, let alone, although he is also a psychic with a strength close to level 6, and at the same time he calls himself a 'iron-blooded tough guy' who is not afraid of anything, he still felt a little fear when he felt the power of the cosmic body up close.

However, this fear also inspired his yearning for high-level psychics. After all, the "starburst" special effects in the game are not as shocking as what he just saw.

And the psychic strength of psychics is increased exponentially. Level 6 is just the threshold for high-level psychics. Level 7 can completely overturn the offensive and defensive balance of an entire ground war zone. Level 8 can "charge" battleship-level units, and level 9 can directly "charge" an entire fleet.

As for psychics above level 10, humans have actually never seen a living one so far. They know that there are three levels of 10, 11, and 12, purely because they have found relevant records in the ruins of the Forerunners.

Even for the elves of the Thousand Star Empire, this high-level psychic is a legendary existence. Only in the Forerunner civilization in Saleh's memory, very few people can reach this level.

As the pinnacle of the entire psychic strength level, the 12th-level psychic also only exists in the records of the Forerunner civilization, a legendary existence that can explode stars alone.

It is precisely because of the existence of this legend that the definition of the psychic level has reached level 12.

"Lilith, if I have the ability to 'smash stars with one hand', do I no longer have to play this dangerous game and can just lie down?"

"Master, you have the ability to 'smash stars with one hand', and you still want to lie down?"

Lilith has gotten used to Amber's unusual thinking.

"What's the point of fighting and killing every day? I've made enough money now. If Saleh hadn't warned me about the future crisis last time, I would have been lying down long ago~"

Amber shook her head and continued:

"But then again, after feeling that impact just now, I felt that the shackles deep in my brain seemed to be shaken open."

Lilith: "So Master, are you going to break through the sixth level of psychic strength?"

"Maybe it's not that simple. I feel that this shock has shaken off the shackles of the next few levels for me."

"Ah?"

"But I can't explain it clearly now. It's just a feeling in the dark. I have to let Saleh take a good look at it when I go back."

Amber quickly checked her mental and psychic state. After confirming that there was no big problem, she unbuckled her seat belt and stood up from the captain's seat.

Just when she entered the jump state urgently, the scene in front of Amber seemed to be twisted and reshaped by a pair of invisible giant hands. The originally deep and boundless space with twinkling stars was now flowing and deforming like a melted wax figure.

The stars in the sky were no longer fixed bright spots. They turned into colorful light bands, as if they were carried by a turbulent river and rushed to the endless rear.

Amber walked to the panoramic porthole of the bridge. At this moment, the external optical sensor units of the "Eternal" were all working normally, so the situation in the hyperspace was also presented to Amber.

The space around the battleship seemed to be involved in a crazy vortex. Various strange lights intertwined and collided, bursting out dazzling colors. It was the energy of different frequencies that stirred each other in the time and space of the jump, forming a magnificent picture beyond human imagination.

Some lights were like a smart snake, and some exploded instantly like blooming fireworks, releasing endless brilliance.

But what Amber was really watching was some mysterious shadows that were faintly emerging in the torrent of light.

They were in various shapes, sometimes like huge mountains, sometimes like twisted creatures, looming in the gaps of light, as if they were ancient ghosts from the depths of the universe, silently watching the warship that broke into the jump channel.

Among the various rumors about jumps and hyperspace among humans and elves, the most talked about were the mysterious existences in hyperspace. A large number of crew members swore that they had seen bizarre scenes in hyperspace.

Some even said that they had traveled with another extremely large fleet during the jump process.

Of course, this statement was also ridiculed by most people, because it was "well-known" that after a ship entered the jump, as long as the jump feature code was not shared or deciphered by other ships, the hyperspace channel it was in was absolutely independent.

But all the psychics who have experienced the jump, including Amber, know that some legends are not jokes. They can truly feel that there are other beings in the hyperspace, but as to whether they are natives of the hyperspace or visitors passing by in a hurry, that is not clear to them.

Under Amber's gaze, the mysterious shadows in the hyperspace did not appear for too long. They soon seemed to have set foot on another route and gradually drifted away from the "Eternity".

Amber has naturally seen this strange scene more than once. Even in the game of the previous life, Amber and other players have seen such scenes. At that time, players also organized large-scale expeditions, trying to forcefully enter other areas of the hyperspace during the ship's jump to find out.

However, the final result was not satisfactory. In addition to the fact that all the people in the entire fleet were re-cloned in their respective bound space stations, there was only the high cost of ship loss.

"I can find a chance to ask Saleh. The forerunners may have research on this aspect."

This thought flashed through Amber's mind and she included it in her to-do list, and then she looked at the projection of Ceris that reappeared in the air.

"Cerris, report the current status of the Eternal."

"Commander Amber, the power unit and jump engine of the Eternal are currently operating normally, all weapon units are temporarily offline, and the worker bees are performing maintenance. In the absence of crew members, the weapon system can be online at 50%, and the external armor integrity is 46.32%. Some areas need urgent repairs. The storage module, hangar module, electromagnetic catapult module, personnel living centralized module, multi-purpose silo module, deployment bay and other secondary modules have been abandoned."

As Ceris' voice sounded, the three-dimensional model of the Eternal was also projected on the bridge. At this moment, the middle and rear sections of the ship were basically in a "skeleton state", like a sea fish that had not been eaten.

In most people's minds, such a ship with its internal core exposed should not be able to sail, but in fact, due to the extremely high modularity of human ships, and the "Endless" super flagship is the epitome of it, as long as the navigation, power and jump modules responsible for sailing are not problematic, it can actually continue to sail, but it has lost its combat capability.

"When we set out, it was a brand new complete warship, but when we returned, only half of it was left, and all the modules that could be discarded to reduce weight were discarded. Do you think the people in the dock heavy industry and logistics department would want to beat me up?"

Looking at the "riddled" warship model in front of her, Amber smiled embarrassedly.

After hearing Amber's words, Ceris paused for a moment, and then continued in the same cold tone as usual: "I definitely don't dare to hit you, Commander Amber. Unless the Atlas employees in the shipyard heavy industry and logistics department don't want you to pay them."

"Huh?"

Amber turned her head curiously and looked at Ceris, who still maintained a 'cold' expression, as if she was not the one who just spoke.

Amber realized something and looked at the pixelated figure of Lilith on the screen beside her with a bad temper, and asked helplessly: "Lilith, did you add random settings to these shipboard control personalities again?"

"Master! First of all, I only adjusted Ceris's personality mode. Secondly, this is not called random settings. I just added the setting of "complaint service" to the "three nothings" attribute according to your preferences"

"Nonsense! How can you complain if it's already "three nothings"! Your setting is not in line with fundamentalism!"

"Master, your thinking is too rigid"

In the sudden sense of relaxation after surviving the disaster, one person and one AI started arguing about Ceris's "personality attributes", and Ceris, who was the core of the argument between the two sides, just watched the two sides silently without saying anything.

No mistakes in one song, one post, one content, one content, one book, one forum, one 6, one 9, one book, one forum, one look!

However, such a dispute did not last long. Soon, Amber, who had completely relaxed in a short period of time, casually laid down a nearby crew seat, then lay down and fell into a deep sleep within seconds.

Seeing this scene, without Lilith's reminder, Ceris, who had added the attributes of "gentle and considerate wife" to the attributes of "three nothings" and "complaint", immediately closed the panoramic porthole, and the entire bridge suddenly darkened, leaving only a circle of warm-colored atmosphere lights.

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The bridge of the "Infinity", the first combat fleet of Atlas.

At this moment, the front line is in a short "truce period". Both the attackers and defenders have temporarily stopped fighting, licking their wounds silently like a beast, and constantly gathering new supplies and support forces for the next battle.

At the last moment before commanding the Eternal to jump, Amber also sent the situation to the front line through the quantum entanglement communication system. The speed of this message transmission is obviously much faster than the ship jump. The Eternal had just entered the hyperspace and started its route, and the Infinity had already received the information.

After Guterres used his authority to unlock the encrypted message and saw the content, he was stunned. After a long time, the old navy reacted after being asked by the adjutant who noticed the abnormality.

He looked at the encrypted message again in disbelief. After confirming that he was not blinded by old age, a complex emotion and a feeling of being drained of strength suddenly surged up. He leaned on the back of the chair in the command seat. Even if he tried his best to control his expression, he still couldn't hide his shocked expression.

[The First and Third Fleets of the Federal Navy can be confirmed to have been destroyed in the explosion of Alpha Serpens. The Second Fleet followed the Special Operations Fleet and jumped to the assembly point of 'Plan C'. The 'Eternal' also entered the jump at the same time as this message was sent. There is no need to worry. ]

The amount of information contained in this short encrypted message is explosive and even crazier.

Before the start of this battle, Guterres had imagined countless endings, but even though he believed in Amber's strength, he did not dare to imagine that Amber would wipe out Marshal Trafalgar and his Federal Navy fleet.

That's right, although the Second Fleet is still chasing, in the eyes of Guterres, who also knows the specific content of 'Plan C', this isolated army is already a pile of cold wreckage floating in the universe.

This also means that the Federation Navy or the most elite tactical mobile force of the entire Federation was destroyed in this battle.

But in Guterres's view, the destruction of these three fleets is not the biggest problem.

For the Federation, the real loss should be that Marshal Trafalgar died directly in this battle. This is a truly fatal blow to the Federation, which is now in a state of temporary military government.

The person with the highest prestige, seniority, strength, and power in the army just disappeared. The entire Federation Navy and even the entire Federation Army will fall into great turmoil. With Guterres' understanding of the internal affairs of the Federation Army, once the suppression of Marshal Trafalgar is lost, the "military leaders" who are usually submissive will definitely be unable to hold back.

"Sir, what happened?"

Guterres's adjutant also came to his side at this time and asked in a low voice. He was the first to discover Guterres's abnormality.

"It's good news. The last remaining backbone of the Federation has been completely broken."

After saying that, the former vice admiral of the Federation Navy walked to the panoramic porthole of the bridge with deep emotion, and then activated the celestial body query function.

"Query celestial body, Unukalhai-Alpha Serpens"

After a moment, a projected indicator frame appeared in front of Guterres' eyes. Under the guidance of the frame, he quickly saw a faint bright star in the southeast of the celestial pole.

Yes, Alpha Serpens is just a third-magnitude bright star, and this time it was captured by Guterres through the "image enhancement" of the celestial body query function.

At present, Alpha Serpens has been completely annihilated under the violent reaction of the star core, but in Guterres' eyes, this giant gas planet still emits a faint light.

And this faint light came from three thousand years ago.