Chapter 1644 - 631: Hundred Emperors and Long Guci

Chapter 1644: Chapter 631: Hundred Emperors and Long Guci

Constant fleeing will only embolden the enemy and can never bring about victory.

Advance when the enemy retreats, attack when the enemy is weary, pursue when the enemy withdraws, evade when the enemy is strong, rejoice when the enemy is weak. This is the core military strategy Ren Zhong formulated for the military academy.

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There are a total of sixteen first-class Mother Empresses participating in the Seventh Star Cluster annihilation operation.

The number of second, third, and fourth-class Mother Empresses doesn’t matter, they are not worth mentioning.

The sixteen first-class Mother Empresses each have their own abilities and specialties, and are not mere carbon copies of one another.

For example, six of them are permanently stationed in the Hundred Clusters Star Domain, responsible for the administrative management of the Star Domain as administrative-type Mother Empress Ships.

The strengths of these six Mother Empress Ships lie in productivity management, gene fusion, exhaustive scientific research, and other such layers.

Compared to the war-oriented Mother Empresses, the reproductive organs of these six administrative-type Mother Empresses have long been set into a pattern of continually producing reproductive subunits for production over the years.

If they need to explosively produce production-type subunits in a short time, there would be no problem, and they could certainly exceed their workload.

However, if they are required to charge into battle like war-oriented Mother Empresses, both commanding in battle and quickly absorbing battlefield waste, while also incubating war space creatures with extreme efficiency, that would be impossible.

Therefore, although these six are closest to the Seventh Star Cluster, they do not actually bear the main combat tasks, and their flight speed is not at maximum but rather slightly slowed down.

As for the other ten war Mother Empresses, they were temporarily dispatched from nearby Star Domains around the Hundred Clusters Star Domain. They were originally mature forces that participated in the Three Domains War and then returned to the frontline Star Domains in front of the Hundred Clusters Star Domain to recuperate.

These ten Mother Empresses are the true main force for this annihilation war.

Despite the use of Star Gate transmission, their arrival near the Seventh Star Cluster will be delayed by several months. If they travel at full speed, they will arrive almost simultaneously with the six administrative-type Mother Empresses in thirty-five years.

Considering that the Red Blade Army already has the record of killing a first-class Mother Empress, these upper echelons in the society of Ascended Ones won’t easily send themselves to death, but will act in pairs at the very least.

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As the head of the six administrative-type Mother Empresses in the Hundred Clusters Star Domain, the Hundred Emperors has a unique skill in the art of longevity.

At this time, the Hundred Emperors is in slumber.

Its main consciousness is predominantly in a sleep state, but it has divided ten sub-brains within its body to maintain basic physiological functions.

These sub-brains are devoid of any emotion and completely lack autonomous decision-making ability, serving purely as executors.

This is also the secret to the longevity of the Mother Empress Ship, which possesses neuron regeneration capabilities and partial memory transfer capabilities.

By emptying the mind more often, one can naturally live longer.

For example, during this kind of long-distance voyage, the Hundred Emperors is too lazy to receive other useless external information, it only needs to keep moving forward peacefully, considerations can be made upon arrival.

Of course, in the Hundred Clusters Star Domain, only the Hundred Emperors dares to be so bold, slacking off even during the execution of warfare advancement tasks.

This is because, compared to the five small juniors who climbed to the position of first-class Mother Empress through administrative and scientific research routes, the Hundred Emperors is an elder retreated from the battlefield. Its path of promotion was all hard work, with no shortcuts.

Its original form was not even a Mother Empress, but a low-level combat creature eliminated over a million years ago.

It managed to survive through repeatedly courting death on the battlefield, a bit of luck, and countless clever tricks after awakening its active consciousness.

It was gradually elevated from a low-level creature, leaping the dragon gate to become the lowest fourth-class Mother Empress, then went into the Mechanical Empire’s territory as a rover, destroying several Tracer colonies, becoming an assassin-like member of the Suicide Squad diving into the Hundred Clusters Star Domain to gather military intelligence, reconnoitre enemy situations, ambush key supply fleets of the Mechanical Empire, and managed to launch a successful ambush on an Imperial Battleship that once belonged to the Commander of the Hundred Clusters Star Domain, slaughtering into the Star Domain Central and devouring the entity of the Empire Super Network... ℴℴ𝘮

In short, the experiences of the Hundred Emperors are too legendary, a Chosen One among Ascended Ones. It is perfectly reasonable for it to hold supreme authority in the Hundred Clusters Star Domain today.

Although after experiencing multiple metamorphoses and thought transfers, the current Hundred Emperors has lost too many memories, not quite remembering the battlefield experiences of the past. It is uncertain whether it still is the once battlefield-tested Hundred Emperors, but that doesn’t matter, as long as the Founder recognizes it.

The Founder granted it extremely high authority, allowing it even to command the other ten war Mother Empresses.

During the expeditionary flight, it also habitually played a small trick. Besides secretly sleeping, it also intentionally slowed down, allowing itself to drift behind the other five junior Mother Empresses.

Before departing, the Hundred Emperors thoroughly studied the intelligence of the Three Domains War, fully aware of the terrifying Red Blade Army.

Ironically, one of the five juniors, a fellow named Long Guci, is rushing at the forefront. Long Guci’s form is incomplete, looking like a large fruit bitten into. Long Guci was the unfortunate one that previously tried to traverse through the Star Gate to the Seventh Star Cluster but was forced to self-destruct half its body to protect itself.

Throughout the decade-long voyage, Long Guci has been consuming reserve energy and materials to heal its wounds, not fully recovered yet. This unlucky fellow might not regain complete form until near arrival at the Seventh Star Cluster. But by then, Long Guci’s reserve resources will be nearly spent, seeming to need to borrow from other Mother Empresses to maintain the reserve resources above the safety line.

However, Long Guci doesn’t mind these things. It has also read the war report on the Three Domains War, closely studied the Fold Jump Fusion Missile Array the Red Blade Army used to kill first-class Mother Empresses. It thinks that its foolish peer merely suffered due to underestimating the enemy and lacking intelligence. With preparation, the Red Blade Army poses no threat.

Since it previously suffered due to carelessness, it must rush to the forefront now, to have the best chance to truly engage that slippery enemy and establish some new military achievements.

If luck is on its side, Long Guci believes its newly incubated swarm of Floating Jump Worms might even manage to burrow into the Red Blade Army’s main ship, then eliminate that Imperial human named Ren Zhong. It believes this is its unique technique. At least that’s what it thinks.

Only, to activate the Floating Jump Worms, a large amount of resources will be consumed, and an opportunity to borrow from other Mother Empress Ships must be found.

It cannot wait for the war Mother Empresses to unite since with its slightly inferior speed, it might not even catch a share of the prize, it must seek to borrow from a powerful Mother Empress in advance.

Now, who should I approach?

Long Guci focused its attention on the Hundred Emperors that was acting dead far behind. That old one sure has ample reserves, enjoying too much leisure. The Founder really favours it too much. It’s unfair. The old dog is no longer the legendary figure of the past, thoroughly aged.

Thus, Long Guci tried to send a message to the Hundred Emperors, but unfortunately received no reply.

Darned old dog is really slacking and even graded my message as secondary information!

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Suddenly, one of the Hundred Emperors’ ten sub-brains responsible for externally receiving intelligence information transmitted a new High Rank message to the main brain.

This message wasn’t from Long Guci, but from a mixed low-level species it casually fabricated years ago for low-grade energy manufactural needs when passing by the Seventh Star Cluster.

Now, unexpectedly, an individual capable of releasing high-power information flow externally had evolved from this low-level species. That’s an excellent sign.

Hmm, let me check the name of this species.

Furry Whisker 331.