This was the first real battle for the Asia spaceship. Previously, the Europe had already fought a real engagement with the flagship of the Predator Civilization, and at this moment the America was also, hundreds of light years away, leading one million warships in combat. Up to now, of the three Continent-Class spaceships Xiao Yu had produced, only the most powerful Asia had not yet experienced real combat.

Now it was time for the Asia to display its strength.

Within the Expeditionary Army of the Pegasus Civilization, there were three Continent-Class spaceships in total. At this moment, the one blocked by Xiao Yu’s Asia was the flagship of the Expeditionary Army. Xiao Yu could not block the full strength of the Expeditionary Army, but stopping this flagship was still within reach.

“You want to run? I want to see whether, when your flagship cannot move, your other ships will abandon the flagship and flee on their own.” Xiao Yu sneered in his heart.

On Xiao Yu’s side, there was only one Continent-Class spaceship. In the Expeditionary Army, there were three Continent-Class spaceships. These three Continent-Class ships were roughly arranged in a triangular formation, advancing rapidly. It was at this moment that the Asia moved to intercept.

The colossal size of the Asia destined it to be conspicuous and to be the core of the battlefield. In the previous skirmishes, although the Asia had not struck, the Expeditionary Army’s commander had been paying constant attention to it.

“Trying to block us? You only have one ship. I refuse to believe you can be a match for our three ships!” the Expeditionary Army’s commander bellowed, rapidly issuing order after order.

Under his command, several million ships massed and formed into battle formations. Encircling the three Continent-Class spaceships, they immediately began pouring fierce fire toward the Asia and its escort ships.

The weapons used by the two fleets were somewhat different. In light-beam weapons, the Expeditionary Army possessed a tremendous advantage. The death rays fired from the Expeditionary Army’s ships were like precision-guided missiles, able to turn directly in the void. Although Xiao Yu had also obtained the manufacturing technology for light-beam weapons, because too little time had passed, he had not had a chance to retrofit his own ships.

These light-beam weapons caused Xiao Yu great trouble. However, Xiao Yu’s shield technology was somewhat more advanced than that of the Pegasus Civilization. Balanced against each other, overall Xiao Yu’s fleet still held the advantage.

This was the situation in the arena of conventional forces. This did not apply to combat between Continent-Class spaceships. Facing the enemy warships surging toward the Asia like a flood, Xiao Yu’s escort forces also rushed forward at speed.

A Continent-Class spaceship was, after all, too massive, like a floating continent. If countless small ships were allowed to bombard a Continent-Class spaceship at will, even it could not endure it. Under such circumstances, the existence of an escort fleet was very necessary.

A warship vast as a continent hovered in space. Upon its enormous hull, all over it, swarmed dense, darting small craft. These small craft belonged to two sides. Those of the Expeditionary Army were striving to pour munitions onto the continent below, launching attacks while also doing their utmost to fend off the assaults of the opposing small craft. Those belonging to Xiao Yu, while ensuring their own survival, did their utmost to attack enemy warships in order to stop them from attacking the Asia below.

A Continent-Class spaceship also carried many conventional weapons. Facing these enemy ships that buzzed to and fro like annoying flies, the Asia launched its own counterattack. Upon its hull, vast as a continent, there were countless bulges and recesses. Hidden within these places were all manner of weapons. Detection devices continuously gathered parameters such as enemy warship positions, speeds, and headings, locking onto them, and when the time was right these weapons would fire. Sometimes it was a bright beam of light. Sometimes it was a guided weapon traveling at extremely high speed. Sometimes it was a negative matter weapon advancing faster than light. It might also be bombs, antimatter bombs, elemental decay bombs, and so on.

Under the backdrop of the Energy Shield that sent out a hazy glow, these weapons roaring skyward exuded a strange aura of destruction.

Ships were constantly being destroyed. Some wreckage was hurled into space, some plunged straight down to crash into the continent below. In the pitch-black void, a bloody song of annihilation played on and on.

Scenes like this were unfolding upon every Continent-Class spaceship in the battlefield. Not only on Xiao Yu’s Asia, but also upon the Expeditionary Army’s three Continent-Class spaceships the same spectacle was being enacted. This was originally the mode of battle for Continent-Class ship groups. The strength of the escort forces was also an important metric for measuring the combat power of a Continent-Class ship battle group.

Another metric for measuring the combat power of a Continent-Class battle group was naturally the combat parameters of the Continent-Class spaceship itself. These parameters included the Continent-Class ship’s defensive power, offensive power, maneuverability, endurance, and so on.

“Let me show you the power of the strongest warship I have built.” Xiao Yu murmured and issued an order.

“Prepare the space weapon.”

A Continent-Class spaceship possessed a more powerful energy level than a Nation-Class spaceship. Correspondingly, the power of its space weapon was far stronger than that of a Nation-Class ship by many orders of magnitude. The space weapon mounted on the Asia was the strongest among the strong. If fired at full power, the space weapon aboard the Asia was enough to slice apart an asteroid with a diameter of several hundred kilometers.

All friendly ships that lay along the path of the space weapon’s advance avoided the line of fire under Xiao Yu’s control. The Expeditionary Army’s ships, however, did not know this. They still crossed and loitered wantonly along the advance line of the space weapon. In the next instant, they suffered calamity.

Vast energy finally tore open space, creating upon it a pitch black, utterly deep line. This line was extremely thin, yet extremely conspicuous. It flashed past. Everything that obstructed its advance was cut into two. It traveled onward. Along its path it left behind the wreckage of at least five hundred ships. Some did not have time to explode until after the spatial rift had passed, then thundered apart, announcing their deaths in the most violent way.

The space weapon ultimately advanced to the front of the Expeditionary Army’s flagship. The ship’s shield possessed an extremely high energy tier. The higher the energy tier, the more stable the space at that location. As a result, this spatial rift and the tough fabric of space engaged in a fight to the death. Externally, this manifested as the spatial rift abruptly disappearing when it reached the front of this Continent-Class ship, while the ship’s shield, which had been emitting a gentle pale yellow radiance, suddenly flickered once.

It should be known that this was, after all, a Continent-Class spaceship. Even the full force of a single strike from a Star System-Class Negative Matter Cannon would not necessarily cause even the slightest flicker in its Energy Shield. Yet a single spatial rift made the Continent-Class ship’s shield flicker strongly once.

Such was the terrifying power of the space weapon.

After the first space weapon fired, the second spatial rift began preparations. In this interval, main-cannon grade negative matter cannons, large numbers of small ships, and all kinds of light-beam and physical weapons opened a fierce barrage, launching violent attacks against the three enemy Continent-Class ships ahead. Those three Continent-Class ships also used their own weapons to bombard the Asia fiercely.

But they did not have a space weapon. The strongest weapon mounted on their ships was the Star System-Class Negative Matter Cannon. Beyond that, they had only a plethora of various medium and small weapons. Apart from their light-beam weapons being more advanced than Xiao Yu’s, in other weapons they were not even as good as Xiao Yu.

Under the powerful energy supply of a Continent-Class ship, the robust defensive capability of the Four-Dimensional shield was fully displayed. As the outermost layer of shielding, the Four-Dimensional shield, while repelling the nearly inexhaustible bombardment from medium and small enemy ships, also withstood all the intense attacks coming from the three Continent-Class ships. As of now in the battle, apart from the consumption of some supplies and reserve energy, the Asia did not even have the slightest damage.

The second space weapon was fired. After slicing several hundred enemy warships into two once again, this spatial rift arrived before another Continent-Class spaceship. Immediately, its Energy Shield also flickered once.

Next came the third, the fourth, and so on.

The formidable energy replenishment capability of a Continent-Class spaceship was sufficient to allow the space weapon to be used continuously hundreds of times. With technology now at this level, Xiao Yu no longer needed to constantly keep an eye on energy reserve consumption.

While the space weapon was being fired again and again, the clashes of conventional weapons never ceased. Except for light-beam weapons, the power of Xiao Yu’s weapons comprehensively surpassed that of the Expeditionary Army.

Hours had already passed. The Asia still had ample energy and not a trace of exterior damage. In stark contrast were those three Continent-Class spaceships. Xiao Yu could clearly see that some areas on the three Continent-Class ships had unknowingly dimmed, with miscellaneous debris continuously drifting out.

One against three, without falling behind, pinning down the enemy’s three Continent-Class ships right here. This was the combat strength of Xiao Yu’s strongest warship, the Asia.

The Europe spaceship of the biological army, as well as that Continent-Class spaceship obtained from the Predator Civilization, were by now leading five million ships and were about to arrive.