Star Empire

Facing the ever-changing battlefield environment, after the first wave of low-intensity tentative attacks were neutralized, the white figure floating in the "front" of the imperial fleet that was almost turned into a pile of debris immediately left its previous "position" .

And in the next moment, the remaining clone in this position, which looked identical to the real body, disappeared into the focused torrent of information.

"...So, this is what I am now. Wait a minute, haven't all these information flows that contain attacks disappeared?"

After adapting to the initial huge shock, Kriz's consciousness gradually adapted to the new body shape and began to take back the control of his body from the hands of instinct.

He noticed that after the clone he created as a false target was destroyed, there was still a lot of remaining offensive information that continued to track him.

"That's not good...are they so directional? If they are not targets, they may even refuse to interact with entities that pass through their path?"

After noticing such a scene, Kriz began to mobilize the resources he could mobilize, supplementing the knowledge needed to fight in a battlefield of this level from currently feasible ways, while focusing on another area. The sea of ​​clouds - the sea of ​​clouds penetrated by countless black and red lightning and densely covered with countless black spots.

"It seems that I am not very skilled yet..."

Different from "taking off clothes" to create clones and restore the joint shield by charging it, Kryz discovered that even if he launches an attack, he does not need to carry out a large number of tedious and complicated assignments like the imperial equipment. What he wants to project is Attacking... also requires writing a lot of requirements.

Before constructing its own counterattack, the shock waves created by the continuous bombings from Σ and these dangerous information flows are forcing itself to constantly change its flight path.

The vast majority of attacks against oneself are currently not considered "fatal". But Kriz noticed that the effect of the black mist exploded by the arrow-shaped black missiles launched by the Σ battleship seemed too strange - the damage they caused seemed too "painful".

"What...are they planning to do?" Kriz imagined that there were many flying stars surrounding him, and as a result, hundreds of flying stars actually appeared around him, following him. His left hand pointed to the cloud that was raining heavily, and his right hand hit a place beside him, as if hitting an invisible wall.

The flying star turned into a bright spear and crossed the already boiling starry sky, exploding at the edge of Σ's clouds with a scorching light that was enough to blow away part of the order correction wide-area fusion field.

At the same time, a series of cracks spread rapidly along with the knocks. They seemed to be cracks in the world itself. The white-hot light released from the cracks once again dispersed the attack that hit him.

The fragments that collapsed from the attack launched by Kryz and the Σ fleet began to self-destruct according to the order, and a series of bright lights turned everything in the world into silhouettes again and again.

As his mastery of his body increased and he became familiar with the sudden influx of new powers, Kryze began experimenting with new attack patterns and increasing the frequency of his attacks.

Although he has not systematically and meticulously studied subjects related to battleship weapons and destruction methods, he has taken movie viewing classes, visited many places, and asked many questions, which has been able to provide him with more information from the "human" side. Lots of ideas. and……

The power pouring into his body is the virtual information accretion disk that was once formed around the narrative singularity. These accretion disks contain a large number of traces of everything that the beings of the empire have ever seen and used!

For billions of years, even if it is fragmented, the precursor of "self" has been watching and feeling these contents. This may not be comparable to the effect of systematic summary, but for now, this is enough!

The huge white light group exploded violently, and the extremely destructive shock wave swept across the periphery of the order correction wide-area fusion field, blowing away large pieces of clouds that were not protected by the joint shield.

Cracks began to spread from all the dimensions that had been unfolded and crawled towards the Σ fleet. Along with it, there were bright white lines drawn out of the night sky that could illuminate the entire universe - this was released by Kryze with a wave of his hand. of heavy rain.

These attacks with obvious characteristics of Kryze's power briefly became the most obvious part of the battlefield, but corresponding countermeasures also appeared.

While those raindrops created many seemingly "painless" ripples, the time and space where the cracks were located was like cracked skin being licked by a huge invisible tongue, and they quickly dissolved and merged.

In a short period of time, similar scenes can be created and destroyed many times.

"That's not good..." Kriz watched helplessly as another of his clones disappeared in the chaotic space-time vortex.

The acquired knowledge tells me that the structure of time and space is an integral part of the world. Even for my previous body, their changes can only be said to be the breeze against the rocks. If this breeze is really strong to a certain level, then Maybe you can move the stone, but you can never make it disappear inexplicably.

However, under the current circumstances, the stone not only disappeared, but could not be simply smashed into pieces, but was thrown into a different dimension that even I could not contact or perceive - where could it be?

After escaping another distorted light and shadow mixed in the black and red rainstorm, the fear of hindsight came belatedly. I don't know what will happen if I am hit by such a thing. If I can survive it, I may be injured at most. If I resist, If he doesn't come down, his strength won't be enough to counteract the effects of that weird light and shadow... He might not be able to see anything at all, right?

How did this happen? These black and red ships—where did they come from? Why are they here? Why would they... launch such an attack on the beings of the empire without explanation?

In my mind, that complex image once again contradicted everything now. As both fists were once again blocked by the invisible wall, two beams of complex cracks like probabilistic lightning chains wrapped around countless solid light groups and smashed towards the "other side".

These spreading rifts filled with destruction are shaking the earth, which is becoming more and more complex, called the structure of space and time, but the shaking of the earth is once again tending to be calm - the Σ creations have stronger control capabilities , they are quickly calming down the shock caused by Kriz!

"Wait...what's going on?" Kriz suddenly noticed from the corner of his eye that the Σ battleships in the sea of ​​clouds - their periodic activities became extremely strange, and it looked like their originally coherent movements were cut into Several segments are played randomly and randomly.

"No wonder their movements are weird... They have abnormalized the phase of their activity cycle. In the process of concealment and deception, have they chosen to deceive now?"

Kriz subconsciously prepared for defense, but he soon discovered that his opponent was faster than him - in the short period of time when he was occupied by his discovery, he had already been marked with many "visible bones" " mark.

"...Huh?" Just when Kriz realized that he couldn't unplug the marked information that was deeply nailed into his body in a short period of time, he suddenly discovered that the space-time structure behind him - not the fleet behind him, but In a more distant place, at the blocked border of the world, everything seems to be getting brighter and brighter.

"Zizzi-kah-la-kah!!"

First there was the "sound" of some kind of brittle cracking, and then a strong wind swept over him from behind.

From the vocabulary that could describe this stretch of space, all words with a similar meaning to "darkness" were eliminated in an instant. Strong light shone at him from all dimensions, and Kriz turned his head to look behind him in surprise - the restrictions of the world barrier, and the large number of complicated structures that would be generated by slight disturbances in unstable time and space... They were all forcibly created by external forces. It exploded!

"what happened?"

There was no time to think about it, and the sense of crisis was rising at this moment - another group of distorted light and shadow regarded him as a target, but relying on the clone, he could no longer pull out the beacon spike that was driven into his flesh and blood. How should he avoid it now?

"...?"

The expected pain that ripped through his body did not come, and the surrounding scenes remained the same.

A dim white barrier separated him from the dark clouds on the other side of the world, and the light and shadow were blocked by this white film of light - the light film looked so crystal clear and so weak.

But Kriz saw that the dark light and shadow that hit the light film had been eliminated from its connection with himself as the attacker and the attacked - its appearance, its existence and Its operations are no longer aimed at attacking itself.

And if the attack itself loses even this purpose... there will be no need for it to exist.

"Thank you, you did a great job."

"Ah..." Kriz didn't know who conveyed this sentence to him, but this sentence contained the power that could make him feel at ease. Everything around him did not deceive himself, and these scenes did not reveal any flaws under any kind of sensory exploration-the backup force finally entered the scene.

"Save them first, and -"

"Don't worry, you have done your best. Go and rest. Leave the rest to us."

The sense of security finally relieved the tension that I had been unable to let go of before. Severe pain gushed out from all parts of his limbs, especially his arms. This may have been caused by him attacking the space-time structure too many times.

But these pains didn't attract much of Kriz's attention. Soon, wave after wave of fatigue began to surge deep in his soul.

"Uh... not yet, not here yet..."

Kriz forced himself to scan the ocean gushing out of the crack. He saw clearly: a soft light and shadow surrounded the ice-covered surveying ship and garrison fleet, and the thick earthquake crystallized in this mass. They slowly melted under the caress of soft light, and their original structures were protected and sealed by the new encapsulation force field. All of this was done calmly and meticulously under the protection of the magnificent long wall of light film.

"It should be... okay now."

…

"Your Majesty, the safety sealing has been completed and all the earthquake crystals have been removed."

"Your Majesty, we have confirmed all the intelligent individuals carried by this fleet - some individuals are seriously injured, but none are irreparable."

"Very good, where is the individual xs4028?"

"The soul activity is stable at the narrative singularity, and the level of will activity drops sharply. It is confirmed that this phenomenon is caused by the individual entering dormancy due to excessive fatigue."

"Can he move effectively under the influence of external force?"

"Yes, the self-sustaining attribute of this individual is still stable, and other information currently released by this individual can be effectively merged. We are sure that he can ensure his integrity and can be moved under the action of appropriate external forces. He will not be as unfolded as The shield, like other protective fleets, will be held back by the force it releases, and we can move it quickly and efficiently."

"According to the predetermined plan, the Narrative Singularity and other Imperial presences will be removed from this area."

"Understood, Your Majesty Victorville."

"Then next..." Vidoville's eyes stared at the ancient enemies that appeared along with the black vesicles in the spiral world's maze.

"Star Emperor Vidoville informed all units of the Imperial Fleet that they have searched the current battlefield. No escape of Σ creations has been found so far. It is confirmed that the highest level of Σ creations that appeared in this vesicle incident - the Dark Vault, is quite positioned. No Σ decisive battle flagship has been found in the Zenith, the world branch of the empire. No individual is allowed to leave the protection range of the Immortal Wall without authorization or leave the current overall protection system of the combined fleet."

"Confirm the order, I understand."

"I don't know what they are planning to do this time." Vidoville's private thoughts began to gradually diverge from parts other than the main line.

"...the emergence of "vesicles" provides new evidence that extremely well-preserved Σ creations will appear from places that cannot be traced or detected. This is not an isolated case. The commonalities behind this series of phenomena need to be considered. And further try to find where these Σ creations are."

"And, for this battle, they have released a huge "sea"..."

It can be said that the survival of the empire is closely related to the "sea" released by these Σ beings time and time again in standing battles in order to follow their goals.

Without those "showing mercy" time and time again, the history of the empire would probably become a blank - before the star civilization became the empire, the world management equipment under one name could easily wipe out the civilization of the Federation period. In space, not a single trace is left, let alone the battles that will be scary to look back on again and again in the future.

And this time, the same is true - no matter how powerful the innate power of the narrative singularity is, it is impossible for him to fight against the powerfully armed Σ World Branch Zenith on his own now, let alone fight against this A whole Σ fleet.

Outside the direct battlefield, the "web of existence" projected by a large number of Holy Music Praise Fortresses tightly blocks this series of complex world structures, and the narrative network compiled by the void survey radar array also tightly wraps everything here to avoid ΣCreation escapes.

Vidoville didn't want to delay, as even the tightest dragnet might have loopholes. What's more, the "enemy" in front of him is a creation of previous civilizations that although defeated has never been truly surpassed by the empire.

If it cannot be resolved quickly, the longer it is delayed, the greater the possibility of side effects.

The general flagship began to quickly integrate power and calculation resources from the entire fleet. As two pairs of brilliant celestial poles light up, an extremely intense narrative bombardment quickly matures. As if feeling the threat of this powerful force, the intensity of the counterattack firepower of the Σcreatures also suddenly increased, and the heavy rain blocked everything outside the immortal wall.

"...Huh?" Vidoville suddenly noticed that a small section of the Immortal Wall began to look a little strange - it was being attacked by a large number of information annihilation missiles. Although I have seen the practice of using information annihilation missiles to carry out concentrated attacks before, this time, the Σcreatures' approach was obviously too obvious and deliberate.

"What's going on?" Vidoville used a series of operations to concretely display the actual situation in that area in his mind:

Since the annihilation properties of information annihilation missiles are very strange, the Immortal Wall may be able to prevent the missiles themselves from continuing to target the Imperial fleet or itself, but even this protective barrier applied to Σ's own decisive battle flagship cannot be completely effective in resisting The black mist released by the explosion of the information annihilation missile——

They are like a non-polluting mixture of dead tide void that can "eat" information in a short time.

In this regard, Vidoville had to constantly fine-tune the boundaries of the Immortal Wall and the Union Shield to prevent regional damage to the shield due to them.

"What is that?" Vidoville frowned. He discovered that there seemed to be a "central safety zone" in the area where Σ's information annihilation missile cluster attacked. This small area was demarcated by the "circle within the circle". It will not be disturbed by the black fog created by the explosion of the information annihilation missile, and it is "very safe".

In this relatively safe zone, there is a long and narrow black "box" clinging to the outer edge of the long immortal wall.