Chapter 144: Chapter 54 Black Knight Chapter 144: Chapter 54 Black Knight Editor: Noodletown Translations “`
(Brothers, thank you for waiting!
The first update of today is here!)
In the dark universe beneath the splendid nebula, the fleet lined up beside the planet suddenly erupted with flashes at the forefront, as a dazzling barrage instantly surged forth.
The distinct paths of the pulse cannon projectiles and laser beams traced vibrant trajectories in this mysterious universe.
The universe was simply the best place for shooting, completely eliminating the need to consider the energy reduction caused by air resistance.
Reingano saw that the others had launched an attack immediately after he cut off the video, and he smiled disdainfully as he pressed the button on his right hand.
Inside the cockpit of Zhou Tian, the seat immediately reclined back, and Reingano shifted from a sitting to a lying position.
Then, the seat, which had extended into a long mechanical table, hoisted him upright.
Suddenly, neuron connectors popped out from all sides, covering his entire body.
The full-body synchronization device was activated!
The surroundings quickly transformed into a cosmic spectacle.
Five thousand kilometers in the universe was but a fleeting instant.
Hmm!
Reingano raised his right hand and turned it.
The knight spear, even longer than his height, was flipped up, then thrust forward and twisted.
A standard assault posture preparation action.
Two yellow flames suddenly burst out from behind the Black Knight, then the flames turned red, then blue, and finally transformed into a dazzling white light.
In space, the Black Knight suddenly accelerated, turning into a black ray shooting toward the fleet like a rapidly falling meteor.
The laser beams hitting the Black Knight’s particle armor simply melted away and vanished.
As the pulse cannon trajectories tore through the silence to strike, a cold smile appeared on Reingano’s face.
“Federation scum, dying under my spear is your honor.”
“Barrier charge!”
The knight spear suddenly split into a mesh, then violently spread open.
An oblique giant net, with the spear tip as the core, unfurled, with pale blue light dancing on it, quickly covering the entire metal net.
Charge!
The Black Knight’s speed doubled again, the fierce spitting white flame expanding to cover its entire back.
The pulse cannon rounds slammed into the thin metal giant net in front of the Black Knight, spreading like ripples of energy before those rounds were directly annihilated.
“Level 2 weapon strength attack is ineffective.
Confirm again, Level 2 weapon strength attack is ineffective.”
A soldier raised his head to report to Qi Longxiang on the command platform.
“Mine-guided destroyer, launch a probing attack within the effective range of the ion cannon,” Qi Longxiang ordered without a hint of hesitation.
Two destroyers from the first team broke formation and began intercepting.
The ion cannon mounted on the mine-guided destroyer’s bow could achieve a Level 3 weapon strength within its effective range.
Energy increases tenfold with each level!
The Great Harmony Cannon on the Falcon-class giant ship had a weapon strength of Level 5, the pinnacle of warship firepower, directly corresponding to the SS-level or even stronger mechas.
However, there had been no practical experiments involving the Great Harmony Cannon against SS-level Ultimate Series mecha bodies up to that point.
Firing a cannon that takes ten minutes to charge at a high-mobility aerospace mecha is incredibly challenging.
The two destroyers had rapidly launched, with the umbrella-shaped ion cannon muzzles at their bows beginning to emit a white ghostly glow.
The Black Knight charged fiercely amid the colorful trajectories, taking on an entire fleet alone.
This fearless momentum under the starry sky ignited a fervor within.
But this scene had no audience, only the united Special Service Fleet and the lone Black Knight breaking through formations.
Seeing the two destroyers surpass a distance of one thousand kilometers from the main force, Qi Longxiang calmly spoke again, “Second and third teams, coordinate, prepare for a follow-up firepower shot, 100% firepower strength.”
“Yes, sir!”
“What is the fleet synchronization progress?”
“43%.”
Qi Longxiang closed his eyes and thought for a moment before slowly speaking, “Issue the first alert at 70%.”
He continued to stand silently on the command platform, watching as their ion cannon launched the first round of attacks.
Scum!
Reingano looked at the two mine-guided destroyers that had advanced within five hundred kilometers, and a wicked smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
The synchronized arm made a strange movement.
Eject and then chamber a round?
“Black Knight’s maneuver is abnormal, energy monitoring abnormal!”
Alarms rang out in the flagship’s command room, quickly spreading to those two mine-guided destroyers.
Seeing the situation turning dire, the fully charged ion cannon emitted a glaring white light, and a beam over a meter wide shot out fiercely.
In the midst of charging, the Black Knight pulled the knight spear back, and a surge of abnormal red-black light enveloped his body, dissipating at the hand holding the spear.
“Relish the fear that I, Reingano, bring you.
Relish the death feast that this Black Knight presents to you.
Black…
Impact Cannon!”
A faintly pleased expression appeared on Reingano’s face as he delivered a punch.
In the furious charge, the silent Black Knight thrust the long spear forward, as if to pierce the void barrier ahead.
The spear’s barrier retracted, and the tip split into three intersecting fragments.
A concentrated black glow, even purer and darker than the cosmic starry sky, began to brew within.
At this moment, with remarkable ease, he gently released the massive knight spear.
That pure black radiance drifted lightly from the spear tip, hovering for several meters before beginning to fluctuate irregularly.
It exploded the instant it was retracted!
A massive black ray, four to five meters in diameter, burst forth, tearing through the cosmos, shooting toward the two destroyers.
The two ships, not being very close to each other, paid little heed.
“Do you think that’s it?”
As these words fell in the Black Knight’s cockpit, the astonishing black ray split again midway, expanding its range by thousands of times in a radial dispersion.
At that moment, the two destroyers’ ion cannons were just firing.
The black light engulfed the silver hulls and searing white beams.
Then, after a second of dissipation,
a heap of fragmented debris quietly floated in place, with the two ships now gone without a trace.
“Mine-guided destroyers…
lost contact.”
All personnel on the Special Service Fleet watched in a daze as the rapidly advancing Black Knight continued.
The hundreds of officers and soldiers aboard the two destroyers were obliterated in a single strike, their heroic spirits eternally wandering the boundless universe.
This was the brutal reality of interstellar warfare.
A monitor looked up, “At a distance of 2,600 kilometers, expected to reach in 5 minutes.”
“Report fleet synchronization progress.”
“68%!
Expected to reach 100% in four minutes!”
Upon hearing the report, Qi Longxiang spoke again, “Second team, engage, divide into four groups, hold them off, third team, provide cover fire.”
“Tell the second team that the Federation requires them to sacrifice their lives!”
As Qi Longxiang’s words were transmitted via the data link to the already distant second-team ships, everyone knew that another group of comrades would be leaving them.
“Determined Long Song, prepare, all hands on deck, begin synchronization.”
Qi Longxiang, who had been gazing at the starry sky ahead, finally turned around as the high platform at the center of the command hall descended, replaced by a blue seat covered in intricate tubing, with all the tubes connected to the glass dome above the seat.
Casually removing his headset, Qi Longxiang sat on the blue chair and closed his eyes.
The metal cables scattered on the ground around him eerily floated up.
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