Chapter 1601 - 599: Surrounded

Chapter 1601: Chapter 599: Surrounded

A tremendously massive energy beam traversed the universe, spanning distant space, and continued its forward trajectory.

Due to the intense energy contained within the beam, it could occasionally break through the three-dimensional space, plunging into subspace like a ship entering fold jump mode, zooming forward, then suddenly returning to three-dimensional universe space, advancing another segment, then disappearing, reappearing again.

With such an extremely high-frequency cycle, after just a brief moment, the gigantic beam had traversed the near-light year distance from the Super Giant Structure Engineering Office, arriving near the Fold Jump Subspace Channel of the Ascendant, which was under construction and nearing completion.

However, as the distance got closer, the frequency of the beam’s leap forward decreased. Just as it struck the channel, the energy dissipated and expanded, causing the energy density within the unit space to fall below the threshold, completely losing its leaping capability, transforming into a massive but ordinary condensed energy state, proceeding at standard light speed.

This was exactly Ren Zhong’s original idea of imitating the Ascendant’s Space Sand Worm release of antimatter folding bombs, designing a pure energy state fold jump energy gun, requiring massive energy provided by the Super Giant Structure to form a focus effect. This energy, compressed to levels exceeding the limits of the three-dimensional universe, was shot out at critical vacuum energy value, to form a continuously jumping energy stream.

Simultaneously, how this energy aggregates, and to what extent after aggregation, requires extensive calculations to ensure precise hits.

Hence, Ren Zhong himself only proposed the initial idea, but lacked the energy and ability to perfect it. However, the Far Border Branch recognized its value, collaborated with the Royal Academy of Sciences headquarters, and gathered multiple departments across the entire Empire to jointly implement it, finally bringing this stellar-strike level giant cannon from theory to reality, deploying it for the first time now to make achievements.

After firing, the Imperial Battleships forming the Super Giant Structure were unfortunately caught. They failed to disperse successfully and were torn apart by the twisted three-dimensional space, gravitational chaos, and energy storm emitted by the terrifying beam energy, exploding on site.

"For this shot, the Empire suffered heavy casualties." Dodging the pursuit of the second-class Mother Empress manipulating a space creature in space, Ren Zhong was struggling slightly to move away from the scene of turmoil. His gaze penetrated the flagship’s canopy, looking toward the distant strong beam of light stabbing into the massive channel composed of countless shadows, murmuring to himself.

In his eyes, the fearsome energy transformed into a torrent, striking up yet did not cause a massive explosion nor penetrated, but got absorbed into the channel like a towel soaking up water.

The gaps between the rapidly mending shadows started trembling violently, then the shaking ripped the gaps wider and wider.

Especially the areas that had opened voluntarily before started to disintegrate first in the intense vibration, resembling ripped intestines.

After slight disintegration, the channel’s cross-sectional area suddenly burst with strong light, triggering an external light energy explosion.

Following that, the gigantic beam finally completed its brief life, entirely plunging into the channel, and the massive energy contained within was fully absorbed.

Using the section hit as a source point, and the previous opening as an ignition point, the huge channel formed from numerous uniquely shaped spatial shadow forms and grown from a distant starry sky started to completely collapse, disintegrate, and subsequently spread open in an explosion.

Thereby declaring the destruction of the Ascendant’s ultra-long Fold Jump Subspace Channel, which took immense resources and almost completed from the battlefront outside the Star Domain straight to the core star cluster of the Far Border Star Domain, right beside the Far Border Star Gate.

Since the war commenced, this was the first time the Ascendant had encountered significant defeat.

Yet, at this moment, observing the stretched, explosion-ravaged channel remnants transforming into a vast band of fireworks traversing the starry sky, Ren Zhong did not feel much joy.

He made his choice.

In the absence of receiving external orders, he directed the target onto the channel.

This was loyalty to the Empire, yet placed himself and the Red Blade Clan in perilous circumstances.

With the channel destroyed, the second-class Mother Empress completely lost the possibility of receiving reinforcements in the short term, and even the endless energy supplies were cut off, forcing her into a last-stand situation.