Xiao Yu noticed that enormous Continent-Class ship. At this moment it sat ahead of the Asia, the America, and the Europe. Leading three other Continent-Class ships, the four vessels combined, plus a large escort fleet, finally stopped Xiao Yu here.

"That must be the Pegasus Civilization's flagship." Xiao Yu thought as he looked at the ship's massive body. "Worthy indeed of the Pegasus Civilization, ranked first on the Level 5 Civilization combat power list. Without the string of successive lucky encounters I had, without a Four-Dimensional shield, without space weapons, they have actually produced a Continent-Class warship whose combat strength is not inferior to the Europe. This is truly astonishing."

Indeed, this Pegasus Civilization flagship Continent-Class ship possessed overall performance no less than that of the Europe. In other words, if the Europe had no Four-Dimensional shield and no space weapons, it would not even be a match for this ship.

"If we do not count the Four-Dimensional shield and space weapons, likely only the Asia can fight it to a draw, and the America falls a grade short. Their technology is not as advanced as mine, yet they forged such a powerful warship. I really do not know what price your civilization paid to build this ship."

From prior exchanges with the Pegasus Civilization and the intelligence he had gathered, Xiao Yu knew that this ship was the strongest warship of the Pegasus Civilization, the Galloping Pegasus Continent-Class ship. Led by the Galloping Pegasus ship, these Continent-Class ships were the last Continent-Class vessels the Pegasus Civilization could still control. The other Continent-Class ships were wandering in deep space. Either the ships were too badly damaged to fight, or morale was shattered and they were no longer able to resist. These four Continent-Class ships were the Pegasus Civilization's final trump card.

It was precisely these four Continent-Class ships that held Xiao Yu's massive fleet fast at this spot.

The situation now was very unfavorable for Xiao Yu. He was, after all, in the position of attacker. Here he had no supplies and no opportunity to rest. Although damaged ships could go to the rear shipyards to be repaired, even there materials were limited. Relying on seizure of materials for resupply was ultimately not as convenient and swift as supply from within a star system backed by planets.

An offensive is like rowing upstream. Not advancing means retreating. Retreat to the extreme and it is defeat. Once Xiao Yu was worn down by the Pegasus Civilization until his energy reserves were exhausted, that would be the moment of his failure.

One could say that a stalemate was what Xiao Yu least wished to see, because he could not afford the attrition.

Under Xiao Yu's direct control, the Blood Blade Squad ships, disguised as ordinary vessels, suddenly vanished from the visible universe and entered curvature flight.

Know that this was within the gravitational influence of the star. Curvature flight is closely related to gravity. Near planets one cannot enter curvature flight. This is a consensus among all Level 5 Civilizations. But for Level 6 Civilization ships, for the Blood Blade Squad, this was not a problem.

Having mastered preliminary space technology, a Level 6 Civilization could even split off its own small universe from the main universe. How could it be hindered by the gravity of a mere star.

Amid this chaotic battlefield, amid countless artillery flashes and explosions, these hundreds of suddenly missing small ships were like a bowl of water gone from the sea. No one could notice.

Under Xiao Yu's control, these small ships were rapidly closing in on the interior of the Pegasus Civilization's capital star system. Once the distance closed enough, the Pegasus Civilization's tachyon monitoring system might detect their approach, but it had no ability to intercept. Even within the inner region of the star system, the Blood Blade Squad could unfold curvature flight at no less than one hundred times the speed of light, while the Pegasus Civilization's fleet could not even enter curvature flight. How were they supposed to intercept. Perhaps the Pegasus Civilization could attack with a negative matter tachyon torrent, like when Xiao Yu attacked the Molian Civilization's capital planet and defended against that Guardian Civilization's City-Class ship.

Unfortunately, in that battle the biological army used several hundred thousand ships to conduct tachyon attacks before they could mount an effective strike against that City-Class ship. Could the Pegasus Civilization pull out several hundred thousand ships at this time?

The answer was clearly no. Therefore the Pegasus Civilization had no strength to intercept these hundreds of ships built with Level 6 Civilization technology. Xiao Yu believed the Pegasus Civilization had already noticed these ships, but they could only watch helplessly with nothing they could do.

To describe the Blood Blade Squad as moving through an uninhabited land was no exaggeration. Curvature flight at one hundred times light speed completely isolated them from those ships that could only engage in pitiful conventional flight. Those ships were many, but they could not pose any threat to the Blood Blade Squad.

Most of the Pegasus Civilization's strength was concentrated on the front line, so the rear would inevitably be empty. As a rule, the rear was relatively safe, so those military installations that were extremely large in size and mass, slow to move, relatively weaker in defense, but higher in offensive power, such as interstellar fortresses and interstellar turrets, would all be built there. Now the rear was no longer safe, because the Blood Blade Squad had arrived.

All of the Blood Blade Squad's ships were equipped with space weapons. Although because of size and mass constraints, the power and output of these space weapons were not as great as those on Continent-Class ships, they had another advantage. They were extremely fuel efficient and very quick and convenient to fire. For a Level 6 Civilization, space weapons were originally within the category of conventional weapons.

Thus, in the rear of the Pegasus Civilization's capital star system defense line, such a group of ships appeared. They used curvature flight at one hundred times the speed of light to evade any incoming attacks directed at them. No attack could hit them, yet they could launch attacks on external targets at any time. In particular, their attack power was by no means weak.

The space weapons they carried were less powerful only in comparison to those on the Asia and other Continent-Class ships. Compared to ordinary Level 5 Civilization weapons, the power of these space weapons was still extremely great.

Like schools of fish swimming freely in the ocean, these hundreds of Blood Blade Squad ships combined and dispersed at will within curvature space, launching attacks on external targets again and again.

In this star system siege, the greatest threat to Xiao Yu was those immensely powerful interstellar turrets and interstellar fortresses. Without these, even with four Continent-Class ships blocking the front, Xiao Yu was confident he could force his way in. Therefore, the Blood Blade Squad's primary targets were decisively placed on these big fellows.

In the void, more than a dozen Blood Blade Squad ships gathered together and simultaneously attacked a giant interstellar fortress ahead. Hundreds of tiny spatial rifts flashed in the void and instantly struck the fortress, causing the shield system upon it to flicker violently for a moment, then faint black smoke began to rise.

After one volley, the dozen Blood Blade ships immediately sped away and vanished, letting the follow-up attacks fall on empty space. Then, as soon as the enemy's fire slackened slightly, another group of Blood Blade ships formed up and once again launched a simultaneous attack on this target. This time it was not so fortunate. Under the slicing of several hundred space weapon strikes, its shield shattered in an instant. Under the subsequent blows of space weapons, the tough material composing its body was directly cut in two, followed by a violent explosion.

Scenes like this kept occurring across the battlefield. Besides these large targets, the Blood Blade Squad also focused attention on various rear supply factories, rest and repair docks, and the many damaged ships returning for maintenance. The large transport fleets carrying supplies to the front line were also targets of the Blood Blade Squad's attacks. Faced with such an elusive enemy that was on this side of the star system one moment and on the other side the next, with extremely high mobility and extremely strong attack power, and inflicting major losses on their side, the Pegasus Civilization had no way to respond.

The Blood Blade Squad's ships did not tire. Because of their extremely strong mobility, they could shuttle back and forth at any time between the intense front line battlefields. This meant that if they expended their energy within the star system, they could go to Xiao Yu's rear at any time to receive resupply, then return to the star system interior to continue their harassment.

It was impossible to rely on these hundreds of ships to directly confront the Pegasus Civilization's millions of ships. Even Level 6 Civilization ships would be wiped out in an instant. But harassment in the rear was different. Faced with such an offensive, the only solution was to send large fleets back to defend the rear and protect all important targets and supply routes on all sides.

Yet this required a great deal of combat power and a great many ships. The war at the front was in stalemate. At this time, diverting large numbers of ships to defend the rear had an obvious meaning, one that both the Pegasus Civilization and Xiao Yu understood very well.

This was a dilemma. If they pulled forces back to defend the rear, the front line would not hold. If they did not pull forces back, then all kinds of important targets, interstellar fortresses, and supply routes would be threatened, and over time the front line would still not hold.

"In such a situation, what choice will you make." Xiao Yu thought with some amusement.