In a galaxy at the heart of the Milky Way, the dark red, old stars are releasing their last residual heat.

And in the orbit of this star not far away, a sky-blue planet is slowly rotating around it.

Ninety-five percent of the planet's surface is made up of oceans, and the other five percent is made up of islands.

Originally, the planet had been occupied by the Zerg, but everything changed when a purple crystal battleship descended from the sky a few days ago.

A tower-like purple warship stands on one of the planet's largest islands.

Underneath this "tower", hundreds of assimilated people floating in the air are wandering aimlessly.

Unlike the assimilants they infected, these assimilators do not have legs underneath their bodies, but rather countless crystal shards mixed in a pale white mist.

Behind these assimilators were hundreds of diamond-shaped crystals that looked exactly like the ones that had penetrated the shuttle in the first place.

And on several large islands around this island, hundreds of praying mantis insects are being chased by several crystallized mantis assimilation insects.

The creatures that these assimilators have assimilated seem to have retained their original appearance, and humans have generally taken on the form of humans after assimilation.

After these zergs were assimilated, the assimilated insects still retained their original appearance, and the sharp claws made of sharp crystals could easily penetrate the bare rocks.

In the starry sky not far from this planet, ten white battleships, only one kilometer long, suddenly sailed out of hyperspace.

As soon as the ten warships left hyperspace, the assimilators on the planet's ground suddenly raised their heads and looked at the starry sky.

They seem to have spotted the ten warships that had just arrived.

But strangely, even after discovering the appearance of these ten warships, the warships of the assimilators did not react in any way, but continued to stand silently in place.

"Sir, the other party has not made any unusual moves." On the bridge of the Imperial Zeus III battleship, ten captains sat on either side of a long conference table, and at the end of the conference table stood Eva's figure.

"Leave them alone, launch an attack on this enemy ship at once, use all the weapons, I want to see what hole cards this battleship has." Eva finished speaking and disappeared into the bridge.

The other ten captains shook their heads and disappeared, all of these ten warships use remote control, although this greatly affects their combat effectiveness, but after all, this unknown civilization is too mysterious, and the possibility of these ten warships hanging up is as high as nine out of nine.

For the sake of the lives of the Imperial soldiers, of course, it is better to be safe.

Dozens of minutes later, the Empire's fleet was already in orbit on the planet.

The purple battleships on this planet still didn't react, and Eva couldn't help but wonder if there was some kind of conspiracy involved.

"Fire! Attack with all your might! With Eva's order, thousands of spatial windows suddenly opened on the outside of the ten Zeus III warships!

The barrels of a railgun and beam cannon protruded from the window, aiming at the planetary surface on the side of the fleet.

Just as the Imperial Battleship's shipboard weapons were about to be launched, the Crystal Battleship on the ground suddenly reacted.

Hundreds of diamond-shaped crystals with a diameter of ten meters suddenly detached from its body and shot towards the orbit.

In less than a second, the fragments flew through the atmosphere to the Imperial warship.

The super shield on the outer layer of the Imperial battleship only blocked the fragments for less than three seconds before they were completely pierced.

Then there is the Empire's dimensional armor, and when these fragments hit the dimensional armor, a large amount of energy was released and charged into the dimensional armor.

However, as energy poured into the dimensional armor, the volume of these crystal fragments began to decrease dramatically.

When the dimensional armor absorbed the full energy and shattered, the volume of these crystals was only about half.

The half-sized crystal shard drilled into the battleship again, and as it drilled, the surrounding armor began to crystallize little by little.

"A foreign body invasion has been detected, and the structure of the outer armor is being altered!"

"A change in the molecular structure of the armor has been detected, and at the current rate of change, the outer armor will be completely transformed into a crystal state in three hours."

"The structure of the crystal is being scanned, and it will take some time to get the results!" The bridge of the Imperial battleship resounded with the noisy discussion of many officers.

After comparison, it was found that the speed of this crystallization transformation seems to be related to the density of matter.

The denser the matter, the slower the rate of transformation, which means that the denser the object will be transformed into a crystal shape at the same volume.

Just like the outer armor of the Imperial Zeus III battleship, it is much denser than normal metal due to the fact that it is mined from the white dwarf.

Because of this, it took only three hours for the entire armor layer to be assimilated.

You must know that these three hours represent not all armor being assimilated, but only representing the thickness of less than one meter of letter crystal armor being assimilated and pierced!

Now, if you look at it with the naked eye, you will see that a little bit of crystal is spreading in all directions inside the hole where the letter crystal armor has been drilled.

However, this is all theoretical data, you must know that this crystal is spinning at high speed, trying to drill through the thick letter crystal armor in front of it.

As it rotates, so does its size, and with it comes ultra-high temperatures.

While the opponent's attack had not yet broken through the armor, the weapons of the Imperial warship aimed at the "tower" and fired cannonballs and beams.

As the Empire had observed, the energy weapon seemed to have no effect on this crystal, and no amount of beam cannon attacks could cause the opponent to create a crack!

In contrast, the effect of kinetic weapons is more obvious, as a cannonball hits this crystal battleship, the crystals around the hit point immediately burst open and scatter around.

Under the impact of thousands of cannonballs, the whole island was like a rain of crystals, countless crystal shards fell to the ground, and the sun's rays passed through these shards and became colorful, and the sky became a beautiful seven colors.

The "tower", which was originally tens of kilometers high, was also like the corn that had been gnawed, the surface was full of ugly gaps, and the height of the other party was also cut off a large amount, leaving only four-fifths of the original height.

There was even a kilometer-long crystal shard that began to pour towards the ground on the side due to the piercing of its base.