Chapter 886: War of Atrition
In the galaxy, the Ocasso civilization can be regarded as the oldest intelligent civilization.
This civilization was born billions of years ago. What's more, it was one of the first dimension-reducing members of the family who created this civilization, and he was also a member of the family council, with a very high status, a strong scientific and technological mastery, and a strong personal strength.
It is precisely in this way that the Ocasso civilization stands out from the rest.
After being chosen by the creators, the Ocasso civilization embarked on a path of rapid development. At the end of the dimensionality reduction, the Ocasso civilization was already the master of thousands of star systems, with more than 100 trillion individuals, and had the most advanced technology that an intelligent civilization in the three-dimensional space could master.
It can be said that the Ocasso civilization is one of the most powerful intelligent civilizations in the three-dimensional universe.
In this civilization, the most popular are warriors. To be precise, warriors are the main body of the Ocasso civilization and the soul of the Ocasso civilization.
In the Ocasso civilization, most individuals are warriors!
The continuous external expansion and long-term foreign wars have made the Ocasso civilization extremely strong and aggressive, and the warriors of the Ocasso civilization have become extremely powerful.
Macaga is exactly the best of the Ocasso fighters.
He has the strength to conquer a galaxy alone, destroy a low-level intelligent civilization, and even have the ability to create a low-level intelligent civilization.
Interestingly, the individuals of the Okasso civilization are more similar to human civilization in terms of physical characteristics.
To be precise, it should be that the physical characteristics of humans are very similar to those of the Ocasso civilization.
Compared with Chu Tianjiang, there is only one difference in Makaga's physical characteristics, that is, he has a thick tail that completely tops a thigh.
As for what this tail is for, Chu Tianjiang can't figure it out.
In terms of physical characteristics, the Ocasso civilization is also a terrestrial civilization, and it has undergone a long period of natural evolution, which has resulted in a relatively perfect body form. According to Chu Tianjiang's understanding, that tail shows that the living environment of the Okasso civilization in the natural evolution stage is very harsh, especially the geographical environment, which must be very complex, so only individuals who are dexterous enough can have more chances of survival in the natural survival competition, and that tail provides the individuals of the Okasso civilization with very strong agility. It is this living environment that makes the Okaso civilization extremely strong, extremely aggressive, and extremely worshipful of powerful warriors.
Of course, Chu Tianjiang was a little puzzled.
That is, these physical characteristics in the natural evolution stage may not be able to improve the combat effectiveness of the individual after entering the self-evolution stage.
Take that tail as an example, in the natural evolutionary stage, it must have a lot of significance, allowing the individual to have enough agility when running at high speeds, such as quickly changing the direction of running. This, similar to the cheetah on Earth, changes the balance of the body by wagging its tail, thus changing the direction of running. The problem is that in the stage of self-evolution, after obtaining the energy body or the mass body, speed is no longer a problem, and agility is not directly related to the body form, even if there is no tail, it can also obtain enough agility, and the energy body or mass body occupied by the tail will only reduce the combat effectiveness of the individual.
If you think of the tail as a third leg, it doesn't mean much.
In the three-dimensional universe, the human body form is already considered perfect.
Previous battles are enough to show that the combination of two arms and two legs can maximize the concentration of the energy possessed by the individual while ensuring combat effectiveness. An extra arm, or an extra leg, doesn't do much to improve an individual's combat effectiveness.
To put it bluntly, the key is space constraints.
In the three-dimensional universe, there are only three dimensions in the three directions, and the extra limbs are difficult to play a practical role in the dimensions of these three directions.
Chu Tianjiang could only think that that tail was just a relic of natural evolution.
This is like the human appendix, which is a useless organ that should be eliminated in evolution, but it is not completely degraded for the time being.
Except for the tail, there are no organs or tissues on the Macaga that have nothing to do with improving combat effectiveness. For example, not even hair.
Obviously, for Macaga, hair is completely superfluous.
It can be said that Macaga is an individual life born entirely for the sake of fighting, a pure warrior.
He spent almost all of his life in battle.
According to the information obtained by Ali, Macaga has a lifespan of more than 50 million years, and is the first batch of energy bodies and the first batch of mass energy individuals after the Ocasso civilization entered the stage of self-evolution. Before the end of the dimensionality reduction, Macaga had conquered dozens of star systems and wiped out dozens of low-level intelligent civilizations with his own hands, making great contributions to the expansion of the territory and living space of the Okaso civilization.
It's just that his hands are also stained with the blood of other intelligent civilizations.
None of the low-level intelligent civilizations that he eliminated had a good end, not only did not an individual escape, but even the culture he created was completely destroyed.
The history of these intelligent civilizations exists only in a few historical sources.
Clearly, Macaga was a ruthless warrior. In his eyes, other intelligent civilizations are enemies and are not qualified to exist at all.
This was evident in the battles that preceded Makaga.
Since the primary elimination, in dozens of battles, several opponents have voluntarily surrendered, but Macaga did not give these opponents the respect they deserved, or in his opinion, killing them was the greatest respect for them, so none of those opponents who surrendered were spared.
Makaga didn't kill them all to get their star cores, but believed that in this world, weak warriors had no qualifications to survive at all.
Of course, this is not necessarily the right thing to do.
For those fighters who originally planned to surrender, after discovering that even if they surrendered, they would definitely fight desperately for survival. As a result, Macaga paid a lot of money to kill them, such as consuming more Star Cores in battle.
In several battles, Macaga even outweighed the losses.
Obviously, Macaga is a fighter who only cares about strength.
If he met Macaga before this, Chu Tianjiang would fight him in a different way, instead of fighting with him and trying to defeat him at the lowest cost.
It's just that this is the last round of the battle.
More importantly, Chu Tianjiang needs to prove his strength through this battle to convince Becca that he is the best person to represent his family in the galaxy battle selection.
Perhaps, Macaga was able to get this far, and it was also Bekaa's arrangement.
To put it bluntly, Becca needs to make Chu Tianjiang meet an evenly matched opponent, a powerful opponent that he needs to exert all his combat strength to defeat.
Only in this way did Becca know if Chu Tianjiang was qualified to represent the family in the galaxy's battle selection.
Of course, when he entered the battlefield and saw Macaga, Chu Tianjiang thought of this, and was also mentally prepared to compete with Macaga.
That's why this battle is in the spotlight.
Outside the battlefield, there were more than 100 million family members watching the battle, and the battle organizers had to open up a few more observation areas.
Ali was the creator of Chu Tianjiang, so she got an ideal place to watch.
From the very beginning, the battle was very fierce, and both sides used the style of killing 1,000 enemies and inflicting 800 self-losses, and both were desperate to attack each other.
To put it bluntly, this is a battle of attrition.
For both sides, injuries are inevitable. Either Chu Tianjiang was cut off an arm by Makaga, or Makaga was torn off a thigh by Chu Tianjiang. Although it was possible to replenish some of the losses by seizing the star core of the opponent's severed limbs, the replenishment obtained was far less than the losses suffered by oneself. That is, for both sides, the other party's star core is just an ordinary star core, and both sides lose a ninth-level composite star core in the battle.
Of course, this is also a competition to replenish the ability of the star core.
The battle went on in a thrilling way, but neither side showed signs of fatigue.
Obviously, this battle will go on for a long time. It is not until one of the parties consumes all the stored star cores, especially the ninth-level composite star cores, that it is possible to decide the winner or loser in the battle.
Ali couldn't help but be a little worried, because she only provided Chu Tianjiang with two star cores.
In contrast, the creators of Macaga are much more powerful, and it is likely that they provide Macaga with a greater variety of Star Cores, which are stored in subspace.
If he continues to fight like this, Chu Tianjiang may not be able to hold on to the end.
It's just that Ali can't help. Not to mention her, even Becca couldn't intervene in the ongoing battle.
Ali could only hope that Chu Tianjiang could hold on.
Clara was also very anxious, because this was the most powerful opponent Chu Tianjiang had encountered, and it was also the first time that Chu Tianjiang had fought in a way of fighting attrition.
Although Chu Tianjiang had won all the previous battles, it did not mean that he could win this battle.
As for the promise given by Becca, Clara didn't take it to heart, because Becca probably did it on purpose to make Chu Tianjiang relax his vigilance, so that Chu Tianjiang would lose to his opponent in the last round of the battle and lose the qualification to participate in the galactic battle selection on behalf of the family.
If Becca didn't want Chu Tianjiang to continue fighting, he would have enough reason to do such a thing.
It's just that Clara can't do anything but watch the battle in the observation area.
Most of the other observers had the mentality of watching the excitement, or they wanted to know if Chu Tianjiang could become the winner in the last battle.
It can be said that who represents the family to participate in the galaxy battle selection has nothing to do with the vast majority of family members.
Of course, there is only one exception to this family member, and that is Becca.