Chapter 144: Graveyard Planet

The battle in this fortress of the United Galaxy is not just being watched by the belligerents.

The young civilizations of the galaxy are also watching this battle, and the war here will determine their actual strategy.

The "Cordyceps disease", which was thought to be effectively curbed, brought greater harm, and no one thought that those ancient space "mythical creatures" had actually become part of the "Cordyceps".

"That's the Space Whale Mother, and ......" The commander of the Combined Fleet, who was commanding the battle, finally showed a desperate expression at this time.

In addition to the leading clan mothers, more and more huge "mythical creatures" are emerging from the void in the darkness.

Some of them have been documented by the Galaxy, but most of them are creatures that have never been discovered.

It was only then that the galactic civilizations realized that there were still so many mysterious space monsters in the galaxy.

Civilizations, including the Tinder Alliance, are all dignified by this, and so many space monsters infected with "Cordyceps" can be gathered here.

This "mythical creature" has the ability to rival an entire fleet, so how many will they have to face at that time?

"Among the 'mythical creatures' that have appeared here so far, the ones that have been recorded are the Space Whale Mother and the Split-Claw Dragon......"

A Tinder Alliance scientist kept flipping through their files as he watched the footage interrupted from time to time due to unknown effects.

The Space Whale Mother has had many encounters in the galaxy, and the information about it is the most detailed, making it easy to recognize at a glance.

The Splitclaw Dragon, on the other hand, has only been encountered once, and the scientists who discovered it have unfortunately died in the mouth of the space beast.

However, the information was documented and quickly found by scientists from the Tinder Alliance.

This "mythical creature" originated from an archaeological ruin, and the civilization responsible for the excavation at the time finally discovered the planet to which it pointed after a long effort and several galaxies related to it.

The civilization thought their efforts were about to pay off, but just as they were about to open the ruins, the "Split-Claw Dragon" appeared in the galaxy out of thin air and destroyed the civilization's archaeological ship.

This catastrophe has made the galaxy aware of the existence of this "mythical creature", although there have always been civilizations that have had thoughts about this "clawed dragon" and the ruins there that are still in their final steps.

But for various reasons, they were not able to organize a decent force to come and destroy this space monster.

Now the Split-Claw Dragon, which had not had time to deal with it, had become one of the machetes that swung at them, and it had been strengthened by Cordyceps, and now it was even more terrifying.

From time to time, disgusting mycelium stretched out from the rotting flesh, swaying through the universe. Beneath the huge dragon body was a strange blue light spreading.

Strange beams of light erupted from the mouth of the Broken Claw Dragon, destroying the swept fleet like a dragon's breath, shields and armor dissolved in an incomprehensible bio-energy that one couldn't help but fall into.

“…… These two 'mythical creatures' are documented by us, and even though they have been modified by 'Cordyceps', they are roughly the same as described in the documentation,"

"But...... What are the other 'things'? ”

The Tinder Alliance scientist was not alone, because the rest of the "creatures" were the first time they had seen them.

Those who follow the space behemoth are a kind of "active planet".

At first, the observers thought they were mistaken and thought it was a drifting planet.

But through the detection of signal fluctuations and gravitational anomalies, they confirmed that the planets could also be counted as some kind of biological weapons.

These planets may have been habitable in their lifetimes, but now they start on the surface and continue to the inner core of the planet, and a terrifying number of fungi have infected them.

Blocks of land continue to crack due to fungal activity, causing the rock surface to be thrown into space due to enormous stresses.

But at the moment when the rock layer is detached, the mycelium buried deep in the ground pulls the rock layer back like tentacles, and then sticks it back together.

On a seemingly uninhabited planet, a huge number of biological signals can be detected.

Because it was so powerful, observers even thought that other "mythical creatures" had come here.

While everyone was still wondering what this strange planet could do, they saw that the disgusting mycelium on the surface of the planet began to gather and entangle, and soon formed something similar to the rhizome of a tree.

Those "mycelial rhizomes" began to grow longer and longer, breaking through the meager atmosphere, enveloping the corpses of broken space creatures that had been approached by gravity.

Then everyone understood what this planet was all about.

I saw that the "Cordyceps creatures" that had been inactive due to various attacks reappeared under the mycelium and made an attack posture again.

The efficiency of this kind of "repair" has exceeded imagination, and even the fragments of the corpse that are missing 80% of the flesh, can only see a pile of minced meat, and can't even recognize what the original body is, have gained combat effectiveness under a period of stitching and repair.

Even these corpses, which can be considered fungal organisms in terms of physical composition, can be the object of fungal "resurrection" as long as there are still organs that can be used.

Most of the corpses that had been confirmed to be inactive had returned to the battlefield, and only those that had been completely destroyed had disappeared into the sea of stars forever.

This was undoubtedly a huge blow to the fleet stationed here.

Originally, their battle loss ratio could barely reach 1 to 1.5 or even 1 to 2, but now that those corpses that were regarded as "head counts" stood in front of them again, their battle loss ratio reached a terrifying 5 to 1.

They needed the saturated firepower of several warships to completely destroy a "corpse", but those who could not be completely destroyed would not be long before they could stand in front of them in another position.

The front line is retreating, and the virus missile, which is regarded as a "fungal buster", is unlikely to be effective.

While it is true that the virus inside the missile is effective in interrupting the activity of the fungus, the toxin can be easily broken down under planet-level purification.

The commander here is still trying to stop the rout of the front, but it is only a matter of time, and it will not be long before he himself will have to get on a special plane and leave here.

It is clear that what should have been a great victory against "Cordyceps" has gone to the path of failure.

"Perhaps...... This peculiar 'fungal planet' is the root cause of 'Cordyceps'. If we can completely destroy this planet, then we may be able to put an end to this crisis. ”

“…… Difficult, these planets are interstellar due to unknown biological activity, and the mycelium inside is deeply rooted, which means that it is almost impossible for us to completely destroy them by means of simple orbital bombardment. ”

"But at the very least, we've got new information, and our focus can shift to that."

"The name 'Fungal Planet' is too arbitrary, and as an object that needs to be focused on, we have to come up with a new name to emphasize that this is the focus of the 'Galactic Crisis.'"

In the "Star Sea Community", the remaining young civilizations who are still fiercely fighting against this crisis have quickly passed the shift of the focus of the galaxy.

This is a critical time, and the only thing in the parliamentary proposals is related to the resolution of the crisis.

"Galaxy Focus: Fungal Control; Goal: Destroy all 'Graveyard Planets'. ”

"Graveyard Planet", the special name given to the strange activity planet by these young civilizations, is an enemy that only exists in this crisis.

The fact that the planet resembles a graveyard and is capable of giving birth to an endless number of "space undead" gave them this name.

With the update of the Galactic Notice, the "Crisis Fighters" who are still struggling to resist have a clearer understanding of this crisis, and have shifted their focus to how to destroy those "graveyard planets".