Chapter 1590 - 595: Underestimating the Enemy (Part 2)

Chapter 1590: Chapter 595: Underestimating the Enemy (Part 2)

It was a vast and complete fleet, precisely the Red Blade Second Army.

Guo Denghuai’s flagship was also hidden in the center of that fleet.

The Earl Commander was nothing but shocked, utterly shocked. He once again muttered to himself, "When they flew out of the subspace channel, there was no cosmic flash, so we didn’t notice anything. And the performance of their invisibility coating... it’s excessive! What Earl Red Blade sells are all cheap low-end goods!"

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When Ren Zhong’s disc-shaped flagship leisurely flew out from the passage, the Red Peak Army, which charged out first, had already successfully cleared the exterior.

But Ren Zhong didn’t feel any joy. As soon as he arrived, he immediately felt the cruelty of the battle.

In the past, although the Red Blade Clan had impressive military achievements within the Nanxiang Star Cluster, often achieving exaggerated casualty ratios of one to hundreds or even thousands, it was mostly against pirates secretly controlled by Liu An, of small scale. What they competed with was more about elite forces, and under Ren Zhong’s governance, what the Red Blade Clan least lacked were elites.

But things were different here. The Ascenders had amassed heavy forces to attack, kill, and destroy, the scale of the battle was far beyond the petty skirmishes within the Star Cluster.

Even if the Red Blade Army had become much more elite than before, facing an opponent that matched or even surpassed the Red Blade Clan in technological productivity and other aspects, the war had truly become a contest of productivity leading to pawn exchanges.

Therefore, even though Guo Denghuai made no mistakes, and even though the Red Blade Second Army took the initiative upon arrival, catching the Ascenders off guard, when finally tallying the battle report, Ren Zhong found that the casualty ratio of the ten main combat armies that participated initially reached 20%.

Especially, the casualty ratio for the Second Army reached as high as 70%.

This particular point is especially terrifying.

The Second Army used a more advanced invisibility coating to advance to the vicinity of a third-class Mother Empress, then suddenly launched an attack, causing significant damage with the newly developed parallel chained three-phase fusion bomb. In just one strike, it shattered nearly a quarter of the shell of this third-class Mother Empress. The keratin armor on the surface of its ship, said to be indestructible, was also forcibly blown apart.

Truly, one cannot blame the third-class Mother Empress for being so vulnerable. The Red Blade Clan had extensive experience with nuclear fusion explosions and were exceedingly cunning.

As far back as the Source Star era, Ren Zhong had emphasized nuclear fusion technology, even establishing the Dragon Slayer Camp.

In the later interstellar navigation era, they relied on detonating Star C1915 to defeat the fourth-class Mother Empress against the odds.

Later, when they reached Red Blade Star, they developed chain nuclear fusion explosions, forcibly transforming an entire alien planet into a perfectly round habitable planet with a series of blasts.

Now, after so many years, the former Dragon Slayer Camp under the Red Blade Science Academy had spent many years cultivating nuclear fusion explosions, making significant advancements in materials science to assist them, creating new three-phase bombs with more focused explosive impact, smaller size, but greater power.

With just the Second Army’s ferocious assault wave, the total explosive yield created surpassed that of the C1915 Star and the explosive shockwave was extremely focused, severely damaging the third-class Mother Empress in one strike.

Yet even so, this third-class Mother Empress was incredibly ferocious, dragging its dying body, frantically producing medium and small combat units with its remaining few reproductive organs on site, summoning large reproductive subunits scattered in other areas back to shield itself, and then "excreting" while attempting to escape far away.

To keep it from fleeing, the Second Army had no choice but to relentlessly pursue and intercept it, enduring injuries and deaths, and only with the assistance of allied forces, was it arduously destroyed entirely. However, they ultimately didn’t obtain a complete ovary cell or giant reproductive cell as it successfully self-destructed.

Thus, when Ren Zhong arrived, he witnessed such heavy casualties.

At this moment, Guo Denghuai, who had clearly achieved a victory but felt extremely ashamed, was sitting with his head hung low in Ren Zhong’s flagship conference room.

A piece seemed to be missing from the top of his head, and there were bloodstains on his face. A floating miniature molecular regeneration device hovered above his head, occasionally emitting a beam of light to repair the injury on top of his head.

It was indeed close. Guo Denghuai’s skull had cracked, nearly exposing his brain inside, just a tiny bit more and this former elder of Source Star would have perished immediately.

At this moment, his expression was somewhat grimace, enduring great pain, yet there was deep self-reproach in his eyes.