Super Mothership
When I wasn't prepared, you couldn't even penetrate my defenses. Now that I'm prepared, are you planning to tickle me?
He really wanted to shout, the same trick won't work on the Karon Beast!
However, before he could get the words out, they were interrupted by a piercing alarm.
"Warning! Warning! A Level-8 high-energy weapon attack has been detected. Estimated arrival time: 6.5 seconds!"
What?!
"BOOM!" The moment he saw that blinding light, the attack had already arrived.
The defensive bone shields in front of him were instantly shattered and vaporized with overwhelming force. Even the special energy-absorbing gel secreted by the Leviathan was unable to stop it this time and was directly pierced through!
A five-times World-King Cannon shot from Nie Yun was like a sharp surgical scalpel. Nothing could withstand it wherever it passed, leaving behind only a deep trench. In practically an instant, an ugly scar appeared on the Leviathan's forehead.
By the time the stunned members of the Karon Pirates reacted, the humanoid body on the Karon Beast had already been completely vaporized, leaving behind only a few wisps of blood-red, cotton-like material, fluttering chaotically through space like the severed strings of a kite...
"D-Dead?!" All the pirate leaders who had been watching closely were left dumbfounded.
Karon, who could single-handedly fight an entire small fleet... was just dead?
This was... a little too easy, wasn't it?
It was like the enemy commander, renowned for his unmatched bravery, had just appeared on the battlefield, hadn't even had time to say "Who dares fight me?", and then... and then been killed by a stray arrow?
However, it didn't take long for everyone to realize that things weren't that simple.
Because the Karon Beast's synthetic beast legion showed not the slightest sign of panic. Even the Leviathan beneath him merely stared with its dead-fish eyes and continued moving forward unhurriedly, seemingly completely unaffected by the attack just now.
"Hahaha! You think I'd really be stupid enough to leave my true body sitting there completely exposed in front of you?" Sure enough, Karon's mocking laughter rang out once again.
The next moment, a large amount of blood-red, cotton-like material suddenly emerged from the Leviathan's back. A familiar figure slowly rose from within the seaweed-like strands drifting in the air.
Karon!
An identical Karon had actually appeared!
"**To tell you the truth, the Leviathan stores more than a hundred of my clones inside its body, distributed throughout various parts of its body. Only one of them is my true body.
I told you, decapitation tactics... are useless against me!**"
Everyone immediately sucked in a breath of cold air.
They hadn't expected the Karon Beast to be so cunning!
During the Karon Beast's fusion experiment, the Leviathan's only vital point, its "brain core," had already been removed. Karon's modified true body had then taken its place, replacing the brain core and controlling the nervous system throughout the Leviathan's body.
However, with so many clones serving as decoys and cover, finding the one true body hidden somewhere within such an enormous body was practically like looking for a needle in a haystack.
This meant that the Karon Beast had practically no concept of a vital point anymore.
Flint and the others also looked grim when they saw this scene.
They had fought the Karon Beast before, but they had never forced it to reveal this trump card. If the Ghost Captain hadn't destroyed one of Karon's clones with a single cannon shot today...
Just imagine: when you confidently believed you had found Karon's weakness and killed him with one strike, only for your opponent to tell you that it was merely a fake, before charging into your fleet and slaughtering everyone...
Fortunately! Fortunately, the Ghost Captain had forced this trump card out today.
As everyone reassessed the Karon Beast's combat power, they also became extremely curious about the cannon aboard the Ghost Captain's flagship.
Considering the size of that warship, being able to install a Level-7 energy main cannon was already astonishing enough. Who would have thought that the weapon hadn't even been operating at full power just now?
That previous attack was absolutely comparable to the full-power strike of a large mainline flagship!
A solid Level 8!
Could it be that after staying away from the Shattered Star Region for so long, the mechanical race's cannon technology had already advanced to such an astonishing level?
……
"I hate having to guess whether the 'heart is on the left or the right'..." Nie Yun sighed, feeling somewhat helpless.
This wasn't even a matter of figuring out whether to stab the left or right side. Who knew whether Karon might have hidden himself inside his stomach or even in his armpit?
The five-times World-King Cannon was indeed extremely powerful, but without being able to locate the vital point, the wounds it could inflict were roughly equivalent to using a divine sword to give a hill giant a single slash.
At most, it was nothing more than scratching the Karon Beast's itch and adding a few scars.
But... if you couldn't defeat the enemy, it certainly wasn't because the enemy was too cunning.
Don't ask.
If you ask, the answer was simply that the cannon's caliber wasn't big enough!
"Prepare the eight-times World-King Cannon!"
"Zzzzt~" An energy beam twice as thick as the previous one once again appeared before Karon's eyes.
Karon Number Two was vaporized once again.
This time, it was even more thorough. A layer of muscle several dozen meters thick along its back was sliced away as well, leaving absolutely no chance for even a single cell to remain.
However, another Karon crawled out from the Leviathan's abdomen.
"I already told you, it's useless..." Before Karon could say anything else—
"Ten times!"
"Zzzzt~" Karon disappeared from everyone's sight once again, while the Leviathan's abdomen was also pierced by a gigantic wound.
Although compared to its enormous body this could only be considered a minor injury, this wound seemed to have finally caused the Karon Beast to feel pain.
"ROAR!" The Karon Beast let out an enraged roar.
It immediately accelerated its advance once again, deciding not to give Nie Yun any more opportunities to attack.
As long as it could get close, the Ghost Captain would definitely be unable to escape death!
The continuously increasing energy level of Nie Yun's weapons had already given Karon a faint sense of mortal danger.
After all, his vital point was merely hidden extremely well. It wasn't nonexistent.
Even a blind cat could occasionally catch a dead mouse.
What if his opponent was incredibly lucky while Karon happened to be incredibly unlucky?
However, the attacks that had already begun to frighten him were coming almost once every ten seconds, continuously firing at an incomprehensibly fast cooldown rate, while the energy level continued breaking through new heights!
"Twelve times!"
"Fifteen times!"
The main cannon's muzzle had practically begun charging for the next attack the instant the previous shot was fired, and its power continued increasing...
In barely two minutes, the Leviathan had already suffered more than a dozen wounds, each deeper than the last. The Karon Beast, renowned for its defensive capabilities, was actually being beaten into repeated furious roars.
Even after Karon ordered the surrounding synthetic beasts to block the attacks and share the firepower, it was completely useless.
Anything that stood in the path of the death beam was vaporized!
The Karon Beast no longer released clones to lure attacks away, because Nie Yun had already activated indiscriminate-fire mode.
As long as something looked like it could possibly hide a person, he would fire at it without hesitation.
"ROAR!" At this moment, amid an enraged roar, the final fifteen-times World-King Cannon shot actually pierced straight from the Leviathan's forehead all the way through to its back, creating a terrifying hole several hundred meters wide.
Flint and the others were practically left with their mouths hanging open, staring dumbfoundedly at the scene.
The previously arrogant and seemingly invincible Karon Beast was now being toyed with like a target by a small warship.
Aside from shock, their minds were filled with countless questions.
Was this the mechanical race that was rumored to have fought the Woolf Empire to a standstill?
It was practically a miracle that we hadn't been exterminated by now!
If even one of their small warships had possessed this kind of combat power during the war a thousand years ago, would the Woolf Empire really have gone all-in on a decapitation strategy?
They should have just gotten down on their knees and begged for mercy!
However, Nie Yun's furious barrage of attacks wasn't completely without cost.
As the energy-compression multiplier continued to rise, the barrel of the World-King Cannon became increasingly red.
Just as the sixteen-times World-King Cannon was about to fire, the barrel finally failed to withstand the surging energy being poured into it!
"BOOM!" After an explosion, thick smoke immediately billowed from the front of Nie Yun's flagship...
"Uh... it isn't an advanced material after all. It seems the basic mithril cannon barrel can only withstand a maximum of fifteen times the energy compression..." Nie Yun looked at the damage warning flashing on the warship and felt somewhat disappointed.
He believed that with the advanced mithril technology of the Iris Civilization, they could definitely create cannon-barrel materials capable of withstanding far more than the basic version's limits.
What level could the World-King Cannon reach then?
Twenty times? Fifty times? Or one hundred times?
Could it cook a Karon Beast in a single shot?
Nie Yun's imagination began to run wild...
Yet this astonishing accident—the explosion of the World-King Cannon—made the already somewhat intimidated Karon Beast ecstatic.
"Hahaha! Ghost Captain, you brought this upon yourself! Did you really think your cannon didn't need to cool down? Now that your main cannon is gone, what are you going to use to fight me?"
This was what they called getting carried away and suffering for it!
With the warship's main cannon destroyed, the auxiliary cannons posed absolutely no threat in the Karon Beast's eyes.
In other words, the Ghost Captain was now completely like a fish on a chopping board, ready for him to carve up!
"No one is allowed to interfere. I'm going to eat him alive!" The Karon Beast snarled as it charged forward.
As the distance rapidly closed, the prey in Karon's eyes seemed to panic and attempt to turn around and flee.
However, the Karon Beast had already accelerated to a certain initial speed, and in terms of velocity, it had an advantage over its opponent, which had only just begun accelerating. The distance between them continued rapidly shrinking.
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!" The seemingly panicked Ghost flagship fired several auxiliary cannons at the Karon Beast.
However, these attacks were nothing more than futile struggles, making Karon even more excited.
"Click! Click! Click!" When the distance between the two was only tens of thousands of kilometers, the Karon Beast opened its terrifying maw.
A strange suction force suddenly appeared, actually causing the Ghost flagship's speed to slow!
A directional force field!
This was the Leviathan's primary method of hunting asteroids and celestial bodies in space, and it was equally effective against warships.
The enormous mouth, as deep and bottomless as a black hole, grew wider and wider as it drew closer.
No matter how much the warship increased its engine output, it simply couldn't escape the grasp of the enormous force field. Its speed continued to slow.
"BOOM!" Finally, the gigantic mouth slammed shut.
And the Ghost flagship, which had created what everyone considered a miracle, completely disappeared from everyone's sight...
"It... it just got eaten?!" Everyone stared at the scene with expressions of disbelief.
Although they had known from the beginning that this would be the outcome, still... if they already knew this was how it would end, why did you have to put on an act like "I can turn this around" and waste all their emotional investment?
Couldn't stay cool for more than three seconds.
I had so many regrets, so many expectations. Do you even know?
……
In the distant Proxima Star Region, the Immortal who was serving as a "spiritual antenna" witnessed this scene and was immediately filled with sympathy.
This familiar scene reminded it of the "Life-and-Death Talisman" that had changed its fate back then...
Should it be said that a true ultimate glutton really couldn't change its nature even after being turned into a synthetic creature?
Was it really determined to die on the road of eating?
I would avoid that thing like the plague, yet you actually swallowed it voluntarily?
Just who gave you the courage?
Liang Jingru?
TL Note- Singer of Song courage....
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