Chapter 225: Prelude to the Decisive Battle

1500 Giant Spirit ships appeared like ghosts bursting from hell around the target area, forming an encirclement!

Immediately followed by a strike without hesitation!

No dazzling beams, no earth‑shattering explosions.

Only countless invisible space fissures shot from the bows of the Giant Spirit ships,

In an instant, it sliced the dozens of target asteroids with diameters over a thousand kilometers within the target area into fragments across space!

Following closely was the even more terrifying 'Space Shockwave'!

The Giant Spirit ships' onboard annihilation engines ran at full power, injecting terrifying energy into the space‑cut, extremely unstable region!

Wave——

Space ripples spread outward.

Instantly, a black spherical void a million kilometers in diameter appeared suddenly at the center of the target area!

All matter in that region—whether asteroid debris, cosmic dust, or even light itself—was completely devoured and annihilated by that terrifying space undulation!

The whole process—from jump to encirclement to the destructive strike—was completed in one fluid motion, smooth and seamless.

Its display of precise control over space technology and terrifying lethality made every Faith Guide watching through surveillance feel a soul‑deep shudder.

This is the nuclear weapon of the interstellar age!

One strike could destroy even a star.

In the virtual lounge, Kan En Ti's perfect face first showed an undisguised shock.

The shock was not the range of the space weapon, but the development speed of the Human Federal—it was simply too fast.

This simply defies common sense.

He stared at the holographic screen, at the target area that had already returned to calm.

His brain raced, evaluating.

Evaluating the Human Federal, the true combat power of this Giant Spirit Fleet.

Evaluating how much cost it would take to completely annihilate this fleet if the Star Sea Divine Sect and the Human Federal were to break ties now.

The evaluation results made his heart sink.

Because the casualty ratio could reach ten to one—of course, that ten is the Human Federal.

This fleet can no longer be underestimated.

Although few in number, its destructive power is enough to pose a lethal threat to the Holy Hall Fleet.

More importantly, their understanding of space technology has already faintly touched the threshold of "changing the rules."

Human Federal,

In his view, this civilization that had always wavered and needed guidance… had, without his noticing, already grown to this extent!

"Hehe……"

After a long while, Kan En Ti let out a slightly dry laugh.

He withdrew his gaze and looked again at Lan Ge.

The divine aura on his face had vanished, replaced by a smile carrying a hint of "approval."

"It seems… I underestimated your potential."

"Your growth rate is truly… astonishing."

"Regarding the joint command matter, we were indeed too hasty."

Kan En Ti voluntarily withdrew his previous radical demand.

"However,"

His tone shifted again: "For our shared great cause, deeper communication is still very necessary."

"I will send more, more senior Faith Guides to your star system. They will no longer be limited to the technical level, but will engage with your people broadly in culture, art, philosophy, and so on."

"I believe this is truly the best way to deepen our friendship."

The fox tail, though retracted.

But another, more concealed tail quietly stretched out.

Time, in this strange "friendly" atmosphere between the Federal and the Star Sea Divine Sect, flew by.

In the blink of an eye, only a few days remained of the icy "three‑year agreement" with the Silicon‑based Union.

The entire Federal had entered the highest combat readiness state.

Every Federal citizen knew that an unprecedented war deciding the fate of civilization was imminent.

Over the past three years, the Human Federal's strength has undergone a complete transformation.

Under Qin Hao's personal oversight and "cheat‑like" guidance, the Academy of Sciences' technology tree grew wildly in a vertical surge.

The Federal's military factories pushed the concept of "mass‑producing troops" to the extreme.

The number of Federal warships has surpassed the terrifying ten‑million‑ship mark!

Of course, this must be added to the three million ships of the Solar System.

However, due to the Federal's population issue, each warship's crew is not large, reduced from eight hundred to five hundred,

They mainly serve as the command structure, with other posts filled by large numbers of intelligent robots.

As for the flagship Giant Spirit Fleet, after solving the mass‑production problem of photon crystals,

and after equipping them with an initial space‑weapon system, their number also reached an astonishing figure—100,000 ships!

100,000 ships capable of ultra‑long‑range space jumps and of unleashing space‑cutting and space‑shockwave strikes—a terrifying killing machine!

This is the Human Federal's greatest confidence in daring to face a third‑level civilization!

Yet no one dares to relax in the slightest.

Because they know their enemy is a true third‑level civilization that has existed for hundreds of thousands of years.

Their strength will likely surpass everyone's imagination.

This day.

Yanhuang Star System, Military Command Center.

The piercing alarm echoed throughout the entire star system!

"Alarm! Alarm!"

"K-78 coordinates, detecting ultra-high-intensity spatial ripples!"

"The spatial structure is being forcibly torn apart! Scale…… scale is more than ten times that of three years ago!"

On the holographic star map, the coordinate point where a 'star gate' once appeared is now glowing with a huge red light point brighter than a star!

They're here!

Everyone's hearts leapt to their throats at this moment.

Old Luo, Zhang Xianzhong, Zhou Shaoqing, and others appeared in the Command Center immediately.

Qin Hao's figure was no different.

He closed his eyes, his vast mental power already spanning the distant starry sky, sensing that violently fluctuating space.

Boom—

A huge silver-white star gate burst open before everyone's eyes!

Behind that star gate lay a lifeless, hopeless darkness.

Immediately after, warships composed entirely of cold metal, devoid of any signs of life,

like locusts surging from hell, they poured out of the star gate in endless numbers!

Their numbers were too many.

Exactly twenty million ships, their technology far surpassing that of the earlier Moyun Civilization.

At this moment, the distance between the two sides was still billions of kilometers away.

In the heart of that boundless fleet.

A colossal, awe-inspiring true 'mechanical planet' flew out of the star gate!

Its diameter exceeded thirty thousand kilometers.

Its surface was covered with countless high-speed mechanical structures and energy circuits flashing with cold light.

It was the main body of the Ninth Fleet of the Silicon-based Union Civilization!

A moving planetary-scale war fortress!

At the Federation Command Center, everyone was struck silent by this terrifying sight.

Another direction also experienced an anomaly.

A brilliant, nebula-like golden light appeared out of nowhere.

Immediately after, warships entirely silver-white, with holy wing-like shapes, flew out of the light.

Around them gathered vassal fleets of various forms from hundreds of different civilizations.

The fleet of the Star Sea Divine Church Civilization has arrived!

The voice of Holy Envoy Kane Ti appeared in the Federal public communications channel.

"Friends of the Human Federal, do not panic."

"We are here to fulfill the covenant."

"The heretics of the universe shall be judged by us together!"