[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-starting-from-the-planetary-governor":3,"chapter-starting-from-the-planetary-governor-starting-from-the-planetary-governor-chapter-1021":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Starting from the Planetary Governor",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1230573,1635,"Chapter 1021: 552, Blood Shark Slaughters the Torch_2","starting-from-the-planetary-governor-chapter-1021",1021,"\u003Cp>Chapter 1021: Chapter 552, Blood Shark Slaughters the Torch_2\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, at the moment their formation became even more scattered due to the explosion, more than a dozen Blood Sharks silently rushed into them with the blast!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These silent warriors, wearing silver-gray chest armor, leg armor, and helmets, with dark gray shoulders and a streak of blood on their helmets, painted with blood-colored shark patterns, some held double axes, some held giant axes; among them were power weapons and chainsaw weapons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They seemed to have a special preference for axes; among the dozen or so, most carried axes. Only a few were equipped with power swords or weapons like long-handled halberds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were undoubtedly masters of close combat, ruthless butchers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In an instant, they caused terrifying casualties, unleashing a bloodbath among the New Era Torch crowd.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Mengsong saw with his own eyes, amidst the chaos of his ambushed team, severed limbs flying in an instant, and he even saw three heads soar into the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This scene filled him with pain and anger!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Blood Shark, after severing a New Era Torch’s arm, continued with a barrage of attacks like a storm, striking the opponent’s chest armor, leg armor, and helmet multiple times in moments, almost ensuring the opponent could no longer resist, fatally wounded even if not dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the Blood Shark showed no signs of stopping, seemingly unwilling to spare any mutilated parts from being chopped down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Enough!” With a fierce shout, Wang Mengsong charged rapidly to the Blood Shark’s back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Blood Shark turned its head, scarlet eyes staring at the torch’s Battle Group Leader, its double axes unhesitatingly slashing towards him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the Battle Group Leader, Wang Mengsong’s strength was naturally not lacking. He wielded a flaming long-handled war hammer—this was the sacred relic of the New Era Torch, a weapon that only the Battle Group Leader could wield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon contact, the heavy force overwhelmed the Blood Shark warrior, knocking him off balance. The suddenly expanding flames engulfed the Blood Shark in the next moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a deafening explosion, the flames gradually dispersed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Blood Shark lay on the ground, while the flaming long-handled war hammer was pulled out from his crushed chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his fury, Wang Mengsong didn’t pause, immediately rushing towards the next Blood Shark, and after three or four moves, hammered the second one to the ground as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next came the third one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The remaining Blood Sharks were soon all slain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the ground lay a total of 29 bodies, 12 of which were Blood Sharks, and the remaining 17 incompletely formed ones belonged to the New Era Torch warriors in brass and orange armor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at this ratio, it seemed the difference was not great, but the New Era Torch was the side that suffered the explosion and ambush.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the manpower gap between the two sides was tenfold!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The attacking Blood Sharks were only 12 people in total. Although none survived, before all perishing, they managed to topple more New Era Torches than their own numbers, even with a Battle Group Champion like Wang Mengsong in place!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was more than enough to demonstrate their formidable combat capabilities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, these Blood Sharks achieved their objective as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They managed to stall Wang Mengsong’s team for a considerable amount of time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Mengsong understood this point too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without time for lament, he left a few men to care for the wounded and led the remaining seventy towards the not-so-distant battlefield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he arrived at the scene, he found that the situation was already quite dire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The number of Blood Sharks did not exceed expectations. Wang Mengsong took a glance and roughly assessed that there were about sixty Blood Sharks in total, with about forty still alive; but unfortunately, there were originally a hundred members of the New Era Torch tasked with blocking them, now only sixty remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite having superior numbers, they still suffered a two-to-one exchange ratio.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was difficult for Wang Mengsong to articulate whether he should be shocked and furious at the enemy’s strength, or resentful of his own people’s incompetence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The disparity in capabilities between the two sides was indeed apparent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what troubled him was not just this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He also saw a squad of Blood Sharks leaving the blockade line.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had already disrupted the lines of the Torch squads blocking them, with their main forces holding back the New Era Torches, yet still managed to send out a squad for another mission.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What were they going to do?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There is no doubt that they intended to bomb the core engine room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wang Mengsong immediately gave orders, deploying personnel to pursue them. But two Blood Sharks tried to obstruct the pursuers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Torch Leader roared in rage and charged up, killing the two blocking Blood Sharks at the cost of receiving an axe blow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were three Blood Sharks going to destroy the engine room, while the chase team of the New Era Torch consisted of ten people, including a company commander and two company champions. They should… they should be able to stop them, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no time for further thought as he was already personally involved in the battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With him and his sixty men entering the battlefield, the advantage in numbers was even more apparent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eventually, they still secured victory, at the cost of about twenty casualties, killing nearly thirty Blood Sharks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the battle, Wang Mengsong removed his helmet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gasping for breath, his head was covered in blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Throughout the battle, he alone had killed a total of nine Blood Sharks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, he also paid a considerable price.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His helmet was chopped apart, with two deep wounds exposing the skull, constantly bleeding; his left hand was somewhat limp, due to having to resist a slash with his elbow, the bone was severed, and only a layer of skin and armor kept the left arm from falling off, hanging to the side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had Wang Mengsong not personally charged into the Blood Shark group, he wouldn’t have ended up like this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Each Blood Shark exhibited formidable individual capabilities, and among those he killed, there were even two reaching company champion level, and even a company commander level existence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if he was not at the forefront, victory might still be attainable, but the losses on his side could have been more than twenty, maybe another ten more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he could not yet attend to his injuries or the casualties of his troops.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anxiously, he called through the communicator, summoning the squad that went to stop the bombing of the engine room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He hoped for good news.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, on the other side of the communicator, there was silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An ominous feeling rose in his heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, since there was no explosion, perhaps they were just fighting hard, unable to connect…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Boom!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The violent explosion interrupted Wang Mengsong’s thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He, and the New Era Torches around him, were all blown away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The core engine room exploded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hitting the ground hard, it took Wang Mengsong over ten seconds to struggle back up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What greeted his eyes was a sea of flames.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The explosion of the core engine room did not directly destroy the Torch of Light, nor did it kill all of Wang Mengsong and his hundred-plus warriors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, this did not mean the Torch of Light could survive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the core engine was destroyed, the entire warship’s power dropped to a terrifyingly low level, almost to the point of immobility.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Simultaneously, as the energy output sharply plummeted, the ship’s Void Shield also suddenly disappeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Granted, the Torch of Light had multiple auxiliary power engines; if there were no combat pressure, it could slowly retreat or be towed by other ships back to the factory for repairs, potentially saving it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, there was no chance for that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Bloodshark Fleet, originally focused on attacking the Flame of Triumph, suddenly turned their cannons towards the Torch of Light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Strike while the iron is hot, bring it down!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It must be blown up!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Alliance ships also followed suit, changing targets to open fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ultimately, a ship equivalent to a battleship’s level, the flagship of a battle group, the Torch of Light battle barge, exploded into a heap of space debris.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meanwhile, the Flame of Triumph also withdrew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This battle was no longer winnable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The abruptly appearing Blood Shark Battle Group was too fierce.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without even considering another boarding assault, even in naval combat, missing a battle barge, the scales of victory were no longer tipped in their favor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Politos decisively chose to retreat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Retreating while fighting, he somehow managed to hold on until rendezvousing with the battleship completing warp and arriving in this star system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Alliance Fleet and the Bloodshark Fleet did not continue pursuit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Politos could sense a heavy scent of blood hanging close by his fleet. The Man-Eating Sharks, who had smelled the scent, showed no intention of leaving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The threat facing the Fury Fleet was far from being resolved.\u003C\u002Fp>",1499,"2026-06-05T14:29:27.902Z",1,"novelbin.me","e4d9d9b10fa1570477634dfec91cbc79a357d17fcad7f7418879d31377ce1d60","starting-from-the-planetary-governor-chapter-1022","starting-from-the-planetary-governor-chapter-1020",1694,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstarting-from-the-planetary-governor-cover.jpg"]