Chapter 21: A New Storm

Minutes after Tassadar left, Arden's Spear led an expeditionary legion to the star system.

'Lord Coverdale, the sensor has not detected any vital signs, and the Fanged King may have fled. 'The operator of the Arden Spear reports to the Fleet Executive.

Unexpectedly, over the years, his escape skills must have been greatly improved. Coverdale nodded knowingly, the Fanged King's successful escape was expected for him, though he was more interested in Tassadar's description of the Fanged King's use of the relics.

'Send our observers and take a closer look at the remaining energy in this area, and maybe we can catch the fanged king's tail. Coverdale commanded, and several detectors flew out of Arden's spear and began to analyze the energy of the entire galaxy.

After several hours of analysis, a phase technician reported back to Coverdale, "Your Excellency, by analyzing the remaining energy on the battlefield, we have discovered a unique power, combined with what Executive Tassadar said, it is very likely that it is the power of a holy relic, and it is likely that the wormhole he created when he escaped had a brief collision with the planetary fragmentation run launched by Executive Tassadar, causing some of the energy to escape. I think the Empire's engineers will soon be able to upgrade our detectors based on this energy fluctuation, and then the Fangs will soon be discovered if they dare to use the relics within our detection range. ’

Coverdale nodded, the Fanged King had fled, and the planet had been destroyed, there was no point in staying here any longer, and after leaving an observer to stay here and retrieving the wreckage of the previous battle, the Arden Spear led the fleet out of the star system.

After receiving the message from the Arden Spear, the members of the Council of Light and Shadow couldn't help but shake their heads, the Fanged King was too cunning to catch him.

However, at this time, one of the elders of Kalai put forward an opinion, whether we can develop a large warship with a long range, which can directly attack after discovering the traces of the Fanged King, so that there is no need to worry about the fleet falling into the trap of the Fanged King, and there is no need to worry about the Fanged King slipping away.

After careful discussion of various options, the Council of Light and Shadow approved the development of this weapon, and after thousands of years of idleness, the Imperial Weapons Research Department began to design new weapons, and for so many years, they have been maintaining and upgrading the equipment of the Star Spirit Empire, but it has been a long time since they have researched new weapons.

In the year 4900 of the Kara calendar, the engineers of the Star Spirit Empire developed a large warship with an ultra-long range, and the whole battleship took on a crescent shape, a new type of warship called the Storm Warship through a kinetic energy matrix powered by overload, thus gathering extremely powerful unstable energy. This energy gathers in the hull and fuses into a sphere containing highly charged particles that is emitted at a distant target. This bell sphere can be launched into subspace by storm warships, so as to achieve faster-than-light and ultra-long-range strikes; According to the tests, the range of the Storm Battleship has exceeded the range of the ship's sensors and is capable of striking targets across the star system, and the huge high-energy particle ball will cause a huge explosion after hitting the target, which is no less powerful than a direct hit of the main gun of an aircraft carrier to destroy the enemy by surprise.

However, due to the sheer power of the Storm Battleship, even with the technology of the Star Spirit Empire, the pilots must still wear thick protective armor to protect their bodies from the destructive energy that overflows from the inside of the ship.

Since the weapon was powered by a kinetic matrix and was not suitable for mounting on other ships, the engineers abandoned the idea of installing it on the Arden Spear.

Just when the Star Spirit Empire was developing new weapons, the Skrull Empire met a new civilization in Pegasus, this civilization has established its own empire, after deciphering the languages of both sides, the Skrull Empire and this civilization that calls itself the Awebang Empire established friendly communication, the Skrull Empire has always been influenced by the Star Spirit Empire, and has been promoting the principle of peaceful coexistence in the face of unknown civilizations, but what the Skrull Empire doesn't know is, The psionic temple organizations that exist in both empires have communicated before them, and thanks to the existence of psychic communication, the two sides have reached a mutual defense agreement.

Just when the Skrull Empire and the Awebang Empire were discussing the development together, they encountered an extremely strange civilization, this civilization not only did not take the initiative to open the communication connection after encountering their spaceship, but immediately launched an attack on them, after losing several scientific research ships in succession, the Skrull Empire and the Awebang Empire had to warn the unknown civilization, if they attacked the scientific research ship again, it would be regarded as a declaration of war, and they never thought that after this warning, it was ushered in a large-scale attack by this unknown civilization.

The Skrull Empire then united with the Awebang Empire to form a military alliance, moving against the unknown Empire, because the other party has not made any response, it is difficult for the Skrull Empire to determine the other party's sphere of influence, after the battle between the two sides, the Skrull Empire had to be surprised by the unknown Empire's technological level, although it looks like a pile of broken copper and iron, but it is surprisingly strong, and can resist its own main cannon without a shield.

The way of attack is even more strange, those scrap ships are always trying to get closer, under the carelessness of the Commander of the Skrulls, the ships of the Unknown Empire approached the ships of the Skrulls, and then a jaw-dropping situation appeared, several tentacles stretched out from the spaceship, directly piercing the shield and armor, some of the ships were hit by the reactor, there was a huge explosion, and more ships were hit by those tentacles, and then, countless unknown lives boarded the ships of the Skrull Empire through these tentacles, There was a broadside battle with them.

The Skrull side, who was not prepared at all, suffered heavy losses suddenly, and it was difficult for the soldiers on the ship to resist the unknown life that rushed into the ship, fortunately, there were only a few captured ships, and the Skrull commander immediately withdrew from the battlefield, the current fleet was too close, and those captured ships could only give up temporarily.

After the defeat of the Skrull Combined Fleet in its first battle, the Skrull Empire quickly adjusted its tactics and tried to rely on its long-range superiority to fend off these strange ships, and the two sides officially entered a long-term confrontation.

The Star Spirit Empire naturally discovered the battle between these three empires a long time ago, and it was a special civilization that launched the attack, according to the research of the Star Spirit Empire's engineers, the civilization only exists as a conscious subject, and the rest of the sub-entities are all extensions of that subject, the Star Spirit Empire once tried to send people to communicate, but this civilization is extremely xenophobic, and very brutal, after the Templars who went to the Templar sensed the deep malice from that subject, the Star Spirit Empire gave up the idea of communication, And this civilization was turned into a murderous swarm by the Star Spirit Empire.

Although the killing bee swarm is extremely brutal, it can only be regarded as a relatively special primary civilization in the eyes of the Star Spirit Empire, according to the provisions of Dau law, the Star Spirit Empire cannot participate in the battle between primary civilizations, and can only be shot when it involves a major event such as genocide, so in this battle between the three empires, the Star Spirit Empire only sent detectors for remote monitoring.

Despite this, within the Star Spirit Empire, there are a large number of people who suspect that this killing bee colony is a ghost made by the Fangs King, and it is very likely that it is another experiment, but since there is no direct evidence that the killing bee colony is controlled by the dark side, the Star Spirit Empire can only pay close attention to this war.

When the Skrull coalition was trying their best to resist the attack of the murderous swarm, they received information from the front-line military base, they detected that several fleets of the unknown empire were heading towards a colony of the Skrull Empire, because the colony was on a communication artery, once the unknown empire captured it, it would not only cause the front line to lose support, but also endanger the security of the rear, in order to defend this location, the combined fleet had to give up the battle on the front line, gathered forces and rushed there, ready to fight to the death with the fleet of the unknown empire.

"General, an unknown space signal has been detected, and the Alpha Fleet is coming." Sure enough, the Spotter detected a ship signal from an unknown Empire, and since the name of the Unknown Empire was never known, the Skrull Empire named him Alpha.

"Everyone is ready, I want you to open fire the moment those things appear, for the sake of the Empire!" The general gave the order, and the batteries of all the ships were aimed at the arriving Alpha ships.

The Alpha ship was hit by numerous artillery hits as soon as it passed through the jump point, and under the baptism of artillery fire of the combined fleet, all the enemy fleets that came to attack were eliminated one by one, but the fleet commander felt that something was not right, although there were many enemies who came to attack, but there was no strength to confront the combined fleet, and if the main force of the enemy did not come here, then where did they go.

Thinking of this, the fleet commander broke out in a cold sweat, and hurriedly contacted the upper echelons of the Skrull Empire and the Awebang Empire, everything was safe and sound inside the Skrull Empire, and no enemy fleet was detected, but the military upper echelons of the Awebang Empire lost contact.

The commander's ominous foreknowledge was fulfilled, and a few hours later, a shocking news spread throughout the entire combined fleet, the capital of the Awebang Empire was successfully raided by the Killing Swarm, and everyone on the entire planet was devoured and transformed by the Killing Swarm, and the remaining colonies were also facing the attack of the Alpha Fleet, and they were about to be destroyed.

The Combined Fleet immediately went to support the remaining colonies, and finally took several colonies from the mouths of the swarm, the Awebang Empire existed in name only, and this news also shocked the Star Spirit Empire, they did not expect that the capital of the Awebang Empire was destroyed in these few hours, so whether they should intervene in this war has become a discussion point in the Light and Shadow Council.