Chapter 227

The Grand Archbishop's voice was icy and cruel.

His tactics were simple and brutal.

It is to fill with the lives of the remaining civilizations! To drain the enemy's energy.

The commanders of the vassal civilizations instantly turned ashen.

They understood.

We ourselves are that price.

But they dare not resist, nor even dare to raise any objection.

Because the majesty of the Star Sea Church makes them feel more fearful than the butcher's knife of the Silicon-based Union.

"This..." Zhou

Zhou Shaoqing was about to curse his mother, but Luo Rui Xiang stopped him with a gesture.

Luo Rui Xiang's expression remained calm.

He looked at Qin Hao, using his eyes to ask for his opinion.

Qin Hao nodded slightly.

"He's right; clustering only gets you killed faster."

Although cruel, this is also reality.

In the face of absolute power disparity, any fancy tactic is meaningless.

"Commander Zhang,"

Luo Rui Xiang immediately ordered, "Relay to the Federal Fleet: execute the dispersal order immediately! All warships, in squadrons, maintain maximum safe distance, prepare for guerrilla warfare!"

"Yes!" Zhang Xianzhong immediately went to convey the order.

Instantly,

The allied forces' massive fleet formation began to scatter like chess pieces stirred in a pan, quickly dispersing.

The tens of millions of warships that had originally gathered together turned into thousands upon thousands of small combat units, each a hundred ships strong,

like a giant net, they reversed and encircled the Silicon-based Union's black iron curtain.

The form of war was completely changed at this moment.

No longer a clash of lines against lines.

But became a vast battlefield spanning trillions of kilometers.

"Attack!"

The Silicon-based Union's core issued another icy command.

Their matrix formation also changed accordingly.

Countless mechanical warships broke away from that black iron curtain, turning into gray swords that precisely lunged at the dispersed allied combat units.

An extraordinarily brutal slaughter unfolded simultaneously at every corner of the starry sky.

Sizzle!

Countless gray disintegration rays, energy weapons, laser beams, curvature antimatter bombs, spatial cuts, and so on wove a death net in the dark starry sky.

The allied warships kept exploding and disintegrating.

Every second, tens of thousands of lives perished in wails.

The vassal civilizations' fleets were almost using their own flesh and blood to create output space for the Star Sea Church's main fleet behind and the Human Federal fleet.

Their sacrifice was gruesome yet effective.

The Silicon-based Union's attack was greatly dispersed.

And the allied side was finally able to organize an effective counterattack.

The Federal curvature antimatter missiles began to continually burst into splendid death flowers within those mechanical warship formations.

But the loss ratio remained shocking.

The entire battlefield fell into this mad war of attrition.

Inside the Federal Command Center, Luo Rui Xiang's gaze remained locked on the massive mechanical planet at the battlefield's center.

He knew that was the true threat.

As long as it exists, the allied advantage can never be established.

In another part of the battlefield's starry sky, a fleet of only a thousand ships drew the attention of the Silicon-based Union's core.

"Detected enemy high-mobility unit conducting a flank strike."

"Logical judgment: inefficient harassment tactic, threat level: low."

"Order: dispatch sweeper drone squadrons to intercept and annihilate."

With the icy order issued, tens of thousands of smaller, faster sweeper drones broke away from the matrix formation and flew toward that fleet.

A small-scale starry "dogfight" erupted instantly on the battlefield's flank.

The Federal warships' "Annihilation Engine" gave them mobility far surpassing that of same-class warships.

Under Zhou Shaoqing's command, the warships sometimes concentrated fire, sometimes dispersed, like a wolf pack with those "sweeper" drones,

engaged in a deadly entanglement amidst meteorites and warship wreckage.

However, the gap in numbers and quality remained an unbridgeable chasm.

The sweeper drones' disintegration rays, though not as powerful as those of main warships, were still deadly.

Continually, Federal warships' shields were pierced under high-intensity attacks and then turned to dust in silence.

Inside Zhou Shaoqing's flagship Longcheng, alarms rose and fell.

"Report, General! Left-wing B3 squadron, wiped out!"

"Report! Rear C7 array breached by the enemy! Request support!"

"General! Our losses have already exceeded twenty percent!"

One by one, the blood‑stained battle reports made Zhou Shaoqing's heart bleed.

But he still gritted his teeth to the bone, his eyes veined with blood, staring at the holographic star map.

"Hold! All of you damn it, hold!"

"If we hold for one more minute, they get one more minute of opportunity!"

He knows that his fleet's mission is not for victory, but for… sacrifice.

Using their sacrifice to create a chance that can turn the whole battle!

Just as the Federal Main Fleet, fighting to the death to hold the enemy's flank, leaves the entire Allied Front on the brink of collapse.

The opportunity finally arrives.

"All Giant Spirit units, attention."

Qin Hao's voice, transmitted through the highest‑security channel, reached the bridge of every Giant Spirit.

"Target: enemy matrix—G‑3, F‑9, H‑5—the energy relay nodes at three coordinate points."

"I will open a spatial conduit for you."

"Engage!"

As Qin Hao's words fell.

His vast, sea‑like mental power instantly linked with one hundred thousand Giant Spirits!

The next second, behind the Allied Position.

Nearly one hundred thousand Giant Spirits, which had been held in reserve, simultaneously burst with dazzling blue light!

Space is violently torn!

One hundred thousand stable, precise spatial jump conduits instantly formed under Qin Hao's guidance!

"Ghost, strike!"

The Giant Spirit Fleet, the Human Federal's sharpest dagger, finally unsheathed!

One hundred thousand Giant Spirits turned into a hundred thousand streaks of black light, surged into the spatial conduit and vanished.

The Silicon-based Union's command hub, almost simultaneously, detected this massive spatial leap.

"Alert! Large‑scale spatial jump reaction detected!"

"Target lock... failed! The enemy's jump trajectory is shielded by an unknown field; landing point cannot be predicted!"

"Alert! Redundant error in logic chain! Recalculating!"

The Silicon-based Union's central brain felt confusion for the first time.

In its calculations, a Second-level Civilization could not possibly master spatial technology!

Just as it frantically computed, trying to locate those "Ghosts'" landing points.

Near the three inconspicuous yet crucial energy relay nodes, space suddenly gaped open!

Tens of thousands of Giant Spirits, like reapers emerging from the void, appeared out of nowhere!

Their timing, angle, and position were all perfectly flawless.

They lodged precisely at those three energy relay nodes, the weakest point of defense, where energy circuits intersect!

"Fire!"