Around the Star of Hope, a series of eerie events was taking place. If Xiao Yu had seen this scene, he would easily have associated it with certain ignorant happenings that once occurred on Earth, naly sacrifice. And not just sacrifice, but live sacrifice.
Yes, that is correct. Each of the spaceships shuttling around the Star of Hope was loaded with tens of thousands of intelligent beings from various civilizations. After arriving near the Star of Hope, these intelligent beings were killed by all kinds of cruel thods, either burned to death by raising the temperature directly, or drowned, or hacked to death with blades, or dismbered by light-beam weapons, or blown apart by bombs. After they died, they were thrown down like garbage, tossed onto the Star of Hope. What was even stranger was that the corpses of these intelligent beings would vanish for no reason after falling onto the Star of Hope, as if swallowed by an invisible mouth. No matter how many corpses were thrown upon it, the Star of Hope still maintained an almost absolutely smooth surface.
Endless corpses fell onto the Star of Hope like raindrops. This region of space was filled with an aura of despair, indignation, fear, and cruelty. The wails of intelligent beings echoed within the ships, yet death did not hesitate in the slightest. Severed limbs and corpses piled toward the Star of Hope at every mont, never stopping for even an instant.
More than one million spaceships were converging here from all parts of the universe. Each ship carried intelligent beings counted in the hundreds of thousands or millions. In just one minute, more than ten million intelligent beings were cruelly killed by various ans, and their bodies were then thrown onto the Star of Hope. No one knew how long this enormous slaughter had continued, nor whether tens of billions, or even hundreds of billions of intelligent beings had already been killed in this way.
As the corpses of intelligent beings accumulated, the Star of Hope seed to faintly emit an orange-yellow glow. With the continuous increase of corpses, on the Great Emperor Civilization’s capital planet, the expressions of the Supre Council leaders and the scientists of the Academy of Sciences grew even more solemn.
“Twenty thousand years of desperate research, even at the cost of obstructing our conventional technological developnt, has finally allowed us to grasp a bit of the Star of Hope’s properties.” the supre leader murmured. “No one would know that our Great Emperor Civilization’s ultimate trump card is not those warships, but the Star of Hope.”
“There is no doubt the Star of Hope possesses enormous mass. Though we do not know why it does not exhibit gravity, this mass is already enough. Perhaps due to certain reasons in the realm of the soul, we discovered that by piling up vast numbers of intelligent beings’ corpses, we can obtain a brief ability to control it. This is our final trump card. Because of its colossal mass, its impact is sothing no existence can withstand. Even a star is fragile before it. I believe that even the God of Space cannot resist its collision. So long as we can kill the God of Space and remove this final hidden danger, the entire Large Magellanic Cloud will beco the paradise of our Great Emperor Civilization…”
“Do not call it cruel. We gathered so many civilizations. Even though they constantly played little tricks under our hands, we did not carry out a purge, but preserved their lives. Was it not all for this very day? Now is the ti for them to dedicate their lives. Let their lives beco the power that drives the Star of Hope, then annihilate the God of Space, clearing away the obstacle on the road ahead of our Great Emperor Civilization. The ridiculous Resistance Alliance still thinks we began the slaughter rely to maintain internal stability.”
“Report, Leader. As of now, one hundred billion intelligent beings have been slaughtered. The Academy of Sciences reports that the Star of Hope’s energy reserve has reached twenty percent and already has the capability for conventional travel at three hundred kiloters per second.”
“Continue to accelerate. I order that before the God of Space arrives, the energy reserve must be raised to one hundred percent. From this mont on, except for the citizens of our Great Emperor Civilization, kill all intelligent beings of every other civilization, regardless of whether they are loyal to us or pay us lip service.”
“Yes.”
With the leader’s order issued, an even larger scale of slaughter began. This ti, there was no discrimination. As long as they were not citizens of the Great Emperor Civilization, all other intelligent beings were included in the massacre.
“I want to see the leader. I have rendered ritorious service for the Great Emperor Civilization. I have shed blood for the Great Emperor Civilization. You cannot treat like this. For so many years, our civilization has exterminated at least five rebel civilizations for the Great Emperor Civilization. We are valuable. You cannot do this.” An intelligent being struggled desperately against the robot troops trying to capture him, but it was useless. In the end he was seized, then thrown like cargo directly into a ship’s hold. The ship took off at once and flew toward the Star of Hope.
“Run. The Great Emperor Civilization has gone mad. The Great Emperor Civilization wants to kill us all.”
“Are you insane? We have given everything for the Great Emperor Civilization, and now you want to seize ? I want to see the leader. I want to see the leader.”
Countless roars and wails reverberated across various planets and cities. Aside from a few native planets of the Great Emperor Civilization, all other inhabited planets had fallen into total chaos. The sky was filled with shuttling ships. Squads of robots and fully ard soldiers of the Great Emperor Civilization descended from them, then seized anyone they saw on sight, directly broke their joints, and tossed them into the cargo holds like trash. As soon as a hold was filled, the ship would lift off imdiately and head for the Star of Hope without wasting a mont.
“Hahahahaha. Now you finally have this day. You were willing to be the Great Emperor Civilization’s lackeys. Now that trouble has co, what special treatnt does the Great Emperor Civilization give you? You deserve it. You deserve it. The God of Space has returned and will soon annihilate the Great Emperor Civilization. Though we will die now, our civilization will develop peacefully under the protection of the God of Space. Even if you die, your civilizations will also be punished by the God of Space.”
Amid the wailing, so intelligent beings did not care about the death before them. Instead they heaped rampant mockery upon those who were once lofty but now less than stray dogs.
It was obvious that the news of the God of Space’s return had already reached them through certain covert channels.
At this mont, there were fewer than two months until Xiao Yu reached the Great Emperor Civilization’s capital star system. Xiao Yu knew that his fleet had already been discovered by detectors the Great Emperor Civilization had placed in surrounding star systems. Xiao Yu did not care at all. The gulf between a Level 6 Civilization and a Level 5 Civilization is this vast. Xiao Yu did not care whether his arrival had been detected by the Great Emperor Civilization, nor did he care what preparations the Great Emperor Civilization would make in advance.
As Xiao Yu drew nearer, the Great Emperor Civilization’s slaughter of intelligent beings accelerated, and the glow of the Star of Hope grew brighter.
“I sense a special significance.” the Specter companion said. “Ahead, in the Great Emperor Civilization’s capital star system, there seems to be sothing with an enormous attraction for .”
“You feel it too?” Xiao Yu said. “I have detected that the Specter Heart has begun to produce an indescribable fluctuation, and as we draw closer, the intensity of that fluctuation is constantly increasing.”
“It seems the Star of Hope really is the corpse of the Micron Civilization.” After a brief silence, Xiao Yu and the Specter companion spoke these words at the sa ti.
“I never expected that this trip to the Large Magellanic Cloud would be so smooth. We have found what we wanted with almost no effort. Good, very good. Once I gain control of the Micron Civilization’s corpse and return to the Milky Way Galaxy, the first target I will deal with is the Guardian Civilization. Until I annihilate the Guardian Civilization, I will never be at ease to develop.”
“How sweet must the intelligent beings of the Guardian Civilization taste.” the Specter companion murmured. “I am already ravenous.”
“Then let us have a little appetizer first.” Xiao Yu laughed.
Two months passed in a flash, and Xiao Yu’s fleet finally reached the vicinity of the Great Emperor Civilization’s capital star system. Looking at the star ahead, still sowhat dim because of the distance, and at the innurable warships in this star system along with the uncountable mass of star system defense installations, Xiao Yu disengaged his fleet from curvature space and advanced at conventional speed toward the front.
In the observable universe, there was only a single Continent-Class spaceship formation. This formation consisted of one Continent-Class spaceship and five hundred thousand smaller ships. These were all the forces Xiao Yu intended to use against the Great Emperor Civilization.
Ahead, under the close watch of all the Great Emperor Civilization’s military strength, these five hundred thousand ships advanced as leisurely as if strolling in a courtyard, not placing the tens of millions of the Great Emperor Civilization’s warships in their eyes at all. When the distance between Xiao Yu’s fleet and the Great Emperor Civilization’s vanguard fleet shrank to ten million kiloters, the battle between a Level 6 Civilization and a Level 5 Civilization began.
In that instant, a massive torrent of negative matter reached Xiao Yu’s ships first, followed by an endless barrage of light-beam weapons, bomb-type weapon attacks, and so on.
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