Right now, the scene on the battlefield was spectacular. A massive warship with a pale purple shield was advancing at high speed, and around it, several ships with either pale red or pale green shields were ramming it again and again.

Strictly speaking, these collisions did have some effect. For example, at this moment certain instruments inside the Continent-Class spaceship were showing signs of burning out, but this did not affect the overall situation. As long as it could ram into the planetary shield, it did not matter even if it was completely destroyed.

The distance was down to the last 3,000,000 kilometers, the last 100 seconds. The final impact was about to occur.

At this moment, the super negative matter cannon fired. The Continent-Class spaceship, which had already suffered some damage, saw its exterior shield flash abruptly. This meant that at the instant it was struck, the instantaneous energy intensity had exceeded the engine’s load capacity. Unfortunately, the energy buffering system and the energy regulation system immediately dispersed the pressure. This single shot from the super negative matter cannon still failed to destroy it, and it did not even break its shield.

“A final wail before death, is it…” Xiao Yu murmured.

“All special operations troops, prepare. Be ready to occupy and assault at any time…” Xiao Yu issued a new order.

Indeed, earlier, Xiao Yu had already mobilized over a hundred thousand special operations troops, having them board the Blood Blade Squad’s ships. After the planetary shield was breached, they would storm this planet alongside the landing-type robots, under the cover of the Blood Blade Squad’s ships, and seize key objectives.

A hundred seconds was very short. During this span, the incoming Continent-Class spaceship finally reached the planet.

In that instant, time seemed to stop. On the battlefield, every gaze focused here. The difference was that Xiao Yu’s side watched with expectation, while the Pegasus Civilization watched with despair. They were willing to pay any price, even their own lives, to have their bodies turn to ash and be buried forever in the cold darkness of space, if only they could block this ship’s advance. But they failed, utterly and completely. The crazed behemoth had arrived beside their home. The impact was imminent.

No matter how unwilling they were, the impact happened in the end.

The ship’s bow made contact with the planetary shield.

At that moment, no words could describe the grandeur of the scene. The Continent-Class spaceship that countless vessels had sacrificed themselves to ram, without being able to slow it in the slightest, actually came to a hard stop. It was held fast outside by the planetary shield.

As it stopped the ship, the planetary shield lit up like an electrified lightbulb, flashing instantly brighter. Vast energy coursed through the planet’s ubiquitous circuits and was finally conducted into the planetary shield activation base built on this world, conducted into engine after engine.

The immense energy released by the ship’s impact was ultimately borne by over a million high-power engines. In that instant, these engines withstood the force of the collision.

But only for an instant.

The energy of the impact was too immense. The pressure borne by the Continent-Class spaceship itself was too immense. Imagine a twenty billion ton colossus going from a velocity of thirty thousand kilometers per second to a complete stop in a split second. What kind of test of inertia would that be. At that moment, what kind of pressure would its hull endure.

At the instant of impact, the Continent-Class spaceship was already destroyed. Its shield shattered in an instant, and countless explosions erupted within. The ship’s bow had stopped, but only the bow. The midsection and stern were still moving forward.

Under the action of the enormous inertial force, the ship’s structural integrity was completely broken. Under extremely high pressure, its hull materials exhibited fluid-like characteristics.

This led to a very strange phenomenon. The enormous inertia tore apart its structure. The bow stopped, while the midsection and stern continued to press forward. In the end, the ship was compressed into a thin sheet. Everything inside the spaceship, including all instruments, the hull, various materials, as well as the assorted sundries and household trash Xiao Yu had put inside, was all compressed into that thin layer.

Such a colossal ship, under the action of inertia, was squeezed down to such a point.

This occurred in a single instant. The entire process took less than one hundredth of a second. After the whole ship became this thin sheet, the matter composing it began to rebound. Since the inertial force existed only for that brief moment, there was no longer any force compressing them. Naturally, they would revert to their original density.

All the energy they carried was transmitted to the planetary shield.

This was the second wave of attack borne by the planetary shield.

This tremendous force again spread through energy conduits to all parts of the planet and, through load-balancing technology, was finally conducted into those millions of engines. Unfortunately, this time those engines could no longer withstand such a colossal power demand.

They exploded, as expected. Seen from space, countless bursts of fire were clearly visible on the planet’s surface, with billowing black smoke rising. As these engines were destroyed by the extreme energy load, the planetary shield flared with an unusually intense flash and then vanished entirely.

It was finally destroyed.

With the planetary shield gone, the wreckage of the Continent-Class ship, which had long since lost the shape of a vessel, began to fall toward the planet’s surface. However, it had lost the vast majority of its kinetic energy. Its speed was no longer great, and when it hit the ground it would only gouge a huge pit, unable to cause overly severe devastation.

“This is already enough.” Xiao Yu’s spirit lifted, and he immediately issued the order.

“Special operations troops, prepare to strike.”

Hundreds of Blood Blade Squad ships swiftly flew down to the planet’s surface. With the planetary shield gone, there was nothing left to stop them. Their performance was so formidable that they could even carry out curvature flight within the atmosphere. They were elusive. One moment they were on one side of the planet, the next they had jumped to another location.

Xiao Yu ordered devastating strikes on all suspected planetary engines and planetary shield bases discovered. One slender spatial rift after another was unleashed, like sharp blades slicing those colossal structures cleanly in two.

A massive structure towered on a mountaintop, its obviously metallic outer shell gleaming. Overall it was cylindrical, and from the sky it looked like a giant tube thrust obliquely into the planet’s surface. This was clearly a planetary engine.

“Destroy it.” Xiao Yu ordered.

A pitch-black spatial rift slashed out. Like a blade chopping a bamboo stalk, the cylinder split from the middle. The upper half crashed down, kicking up a vast cloud of dust. After destroying this planetary engine, the spatial rift still had not expended all its energy. It slammed straight into the rock behind the engine, and hundreds of millions of tons of rock were cleaved and thundered down from the cliff.

A planetary engine on a sea island was discovered by the Blood Blade Squad. One spatial rift cut down, and the entire island was almost split in two.

A planetary engine buried beneath the surface had closed its ground access and hidden its position, but a spatial rift still came slicing in. It carved a trench ten kilometers long and several dozen meters wide into the ground, ruining the terrain of the entire area.

Hundreds of Blood Blade Squad ships rampaged across the planet’s surface. The pursuing ships of the Pegasus Civilization and the defenses on the ground could only flail about like headless flies, unable to find a target.

As the entire planet sank into chaos, several Blood Blade Squad ships descended. Special operations troops wearing personal life-support equipment and various advanced gear specially crafted by Xiao Yu, along with landing-type robots, disembarked. The moment they touched down, they deftly boarded different specialized vehicles and fanned out toward every direction across the planet. In the blink of an eye they vanished from their original positions, while the Blood Blade Squad ship immediately took off again and reentered curvature flight.

During this time, Xiao Yu did everything possible to destroy the planet’s planetary shield bases and planetary engines. After spending such effort to bring down the planetary shield, Xiao Yu could not accept the idea of them rebuilding it again.

After completing this task and confirming that the Pegasus Civilization could not rebuild the planetary shield and planetary engines within a year, the Blood Blade Squad’s ships began to transport large numbers of troops here. Their extreme mobility gave the Blood Blade Squad the ability to shuttle across the battlefield at will. Large numbers of special operations troops were transported from the rear to the planet and began executing all kinds of missions.

Xiao Yu never forgot that acquiring technology was his top priority. He had launched such a vast war for one ultimate goal. It was all for the technology of the Pegasus Civilization.