Chapter 247: Ace Warship: Divine Might Fleet

Zhou Shaoqing's proposal was quickly approved unanimously by the Federal Supreme Military Committee.

After formally stepping onto the threshold of a third-level civilization, the Human Federal indeed needed a powerful display of strength to redefine its position in the Milky Way Galaxy.

It was both to deter the Silicon-based Union, which still lurked in the shadows, and to……let that diligent student, the Star Sea Divine Sect, gain a deeper understanding of what the two words "mentor" mean.

Thus, a joint military exercise, nominally to test new equipment and deepen the coordinated combat capability of the united front, was put on the schedule.

The exercise was conducted in a virtual projection mode with a realism of 99.9999%.

One side of the exercise was the Star Sea Divine Sect's forces stationed in the outer Solar System, composed of the elite one hundred thousand Paladin Warrior warships of the Fifth Holy Hall Fleet,

they represented the Radiant Exercise Detachment, the highest combat power of the sect's fleet.

The commander of this fleet was a Holy Hall Grand Knight renowned within the sect for bravery and skill in battle.

Over the past tens of thousands of years, he personally smashed with his war hammer a number of Silicon-based warships reaching as high as one hundred thousand.

For this exercise, the Grand Knight was full of confidence.

For twenty-five years, they have guarded the border of the Solar System, diligent and never daring to slack off in the slightest.

While studying the advanced ideas of the mentor civilization, their own military training has never lagged.

They are confident that, relying on the Holy Hall Warriors' powerful faith and fearless fighting will, they can easily crush any opponent of equal standing.

As for the mentor civilization……although they greatly respect the mentor, military affairs are military affairs.

In their view, even if this young civilization develops rapidly, its fleet's actual combat capability and battle experience will inevitably lag far behind those of these veteran warriors who have fought a hundred battles.

This exercise is more like a teaching drill.

It is an opportunity for them, these assistants, to have the mentor demonstrate their learning achievements and, incidentally, guide the mentor fleet in practical combat skills.

The other side of the exercise, meanwhile, was the Human Federal's newly formed First Divine Might Fleet.

It numbered only ten thousand ships.

When this lopsided force ratio was announced,

the Star Sea Divine Sect side even voluntarily proposed, for the sake of exercise fairness, that they could reduce their participating forces to fifty thousand.

This proposal was politely refused by the Federal side.

"No need, Grand Knight Your Excellency."

The Federal liaison officer, in a flat tone, replied, "Military exercises are not about dining guests. We want to see your strongest strength."

This bewildering confidence made that Holy Hall Grand Knight feel a hint of annoyance at being looked down upon.

"Since the mentor civilization is so confident, we shall certainly accompany them to the end!"

……

On the day of the exercise.

The virtual projection of the one hundred thousand Holy Hall Warrior warships formed a flawless offensive-defensive integrated spherical battle formation.

The bow of each warship shimmered with a golden spear condensed from faith power, capable of tearing space.

The entire formation exuded a mighty aura of unstoppable, sacred inviolability.

Opposite them, ten thousand jet-black Divine Might-class warships, shaped like daggers poised to strike and filled with a cold killing aura, hovered silently.

They formed no complex formation, merely arranged loosely in groups of a hundred.

They looked like a bunch of ignorant fools about to challenge a dragon……rabble.

In the viewing channel,

the Grand Archbishop, Kan Ti, and other sect high officials were watching the exercise together with Qin Hao, Zhang Xianzhong, and others.

"Commander Zhang, your Federal's new fleet looks……distinctive."

Kan Ti, looking at the Divine Might Fleet's disorderly formation, said in a tactful tone.

"Well, they're still very young; they need to learn more from your elite forces."

On Zhang Xianzhong's face hung a gentle smile, revealing no emotion.

"Exercise, begin!"

With an order from the Chief Commander Headquarters,

the Star Sea Divine Sect side launched the first attack!

"All units, charge! Let them witness the glory of the Holy Hall Warriors!"

At the Holy Hall Grand Knight's command, the engines of the one hundred thousand warships roared, turning into a golden torrent that surged fiercely toward the Divine Might Fleet!

They intended to crush the enemy with a single, direct, savage charge!

However, at the moment the golden torrent was unleashed,

the ten thousand black "daggers" opposite them moved.

They neither retreated nor met the charge head-on.

but……collectively vanished.

They vanished into thin air right where they stood.

There was no spatial jump fluctuation, nor any sign of warp travel.

Thus, in an instant, they disappeared from all detectors without a trace.

"What the hell?!" the Holy Hall Grand Knight exclaimed, startled.

Kan Ti and the others in the viewing channel also showed puzzled expressions.

Just when everyone thought the Federal warships had suffered some kind of technical fault,

an anomaly occurred within the formation of the Holy Hall Warrior fleet!

Hum—

A Holy Hall warship positioned at the rear of the formation suddenly had a minuscule spatial ripple appear in the void beside its flank.

The next second, a Divine Might-class warship materialized out of nowhere!

Its appearance position was extremely cunning, exactly at the side-rear of the engine cooling vent where that Holy Temple warship's shield was weakest!

Before the Holy Temple warship could react at all.

At the bow of the Divine Might warship, a micro-singularity only the size of a fist, yet emitting terrifying gravitational fluctuations, instantly formed!

"Singularity gravity source!"

The observing Kan Ti let out a shocked cry.

That unfortunate Holy Temple warship was firmly seized by this sudden gravity, its massive hull instantly twisted and compressed!

Boom!

With a muffled explosion, the Holy Temple warship and the Holy Temple warriors inside were crushed by the gravitational singularity into a lump of scrap metal.

And after that successful strike, the Divine Might warship's hull became blurred again, and it vanished into thin air once more.

The entire process, from appearance to attack to disappearance, took no more than three seconds!

This was merely the beginning.

Within the massive formation of the Holy Temple warriors' fleet, in all directions, hundreds to thousands of points simultaneously staged the same scene!

Divine Might warships, like ghosts, continuously performed short-range 'space jumps' in the void.

Each time they appeared, they precisely emerged from the blind spots of the Holy Temple fleet's defense.

They launched a deadly strike with miniaturized singularity weapons, then instantly vanished, giving the enemy no chance to counterattack.

The entire Holy Temple fleet was like a giant constantly being gnawed at by countless invisible ghosts.

They possessed great strength but could not hit the enemy at all!

"Hold steady! Contract formation! Activate omnidirectional non-selective Holy Light barrier!"

The Holy Temple Grand Knight let out an angry roar.

The remaining Holy Temple warships quickly contracted, forming an impenetrable barrel formation.

Layer upon layer of golden Holy Light Spatial Shields, like an onion, tightly wrapped the entire fleet.

Such defense could withstand a saturation attack from enemies several times their own strength.

However, the Divine Might fleet's attack cared nothing for how thick your defense was.

At the very moment the Holy Light barrier formed.

In the void beyond 0.01 light-years from the Holy Temple fleet's core position.

Hundreds of Divine Might warships simultaneously fired a peculiar kind of 'bomb' at empty space.

This bomb had no physical substance; it was merely a cluster of entangled quantum-state energy.

The instant they were launched, they... hit the target.

No flight process, no energy trajectory.

Because they utilized the nonlocal effect of quantum entanglement.

At the moment of launch, they had already detonated at the core of the Holy Temple fleet's formation!

"Quantum entanglement bomb!"

This time, it was Qian Bowen of the Federal Academy of Sciences who excitedly shouted that name on the observation channel.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Inside the Holy Temple fleet's seemingly impregnable barrel formation, suddenly burst clusters of inward-to-outward destructive energy storms!

Hundreds of Holy Temple warships located at the formation's core, not even knowing where the attack came from, turned into cosmic dust in this bizarre explosion.

The entire Holy Temple fleet's command system fell into complete chaos.

The 'Spatial Displacement Shield' capable of spatial shifting, and the 'miniaturized stabilized Singularity Gravity Source'.

And the 'Quantum Entanglement Bomb' that exceeds light speed and cannot be intercepted.

These three core technologies constituted the Divine Might fleet's brand-new, despair-inducing trump card.

The exercise lasted less than an hour.

The result was shocking.

The Star Sea Holy Sect's fleet of 100,000 Holy Temple warriors was completely annihilated.

And the Human Federal's Divine Might fleet lost... one hundred ships.

When the signal of the last Holy Temple warship disappeared from the screen.

The entire observation channel fell into a deathly silence.

Grand Archbishop, Kan Ti, and all the religious high-ranking officials behind him opened their mouths wide, staring blankly at the screen at those ten thousand black warships hovering in the void.

Their faces no longer bore the previous confidence and composure.

In their place was a complex expression mixed with shock, horror, and... deep reverence.

They finally understood that the Federal commander's remark 'We hope to see your strongest strength' was not arrogance.

But rather... a statement of fact.

Zhang Xianzhong slowly rose to his feet, his face still bearing that gentle smile.

He patted the shoulder of the Grand Archbishop beside him, who had completely petrified.

"Grand Archbishop comrade, it seems our batch of new recruits still needs more excellent sparring partners like you."

The Grand Archbishop's mouth corner twitched violently.

He felt that his understanding of the two words 'mentor' had, at this moment, penetrated deep into his marrow.