Super Spender

Chapter 816 - 811 What is the Sea of Worms (Part 1)_1

Chapter 816: Chapter 811 What is the Sea of Worms (Part 1)_1

“Attention all personnel, attention all personnel, main cannon attack countdown thirty seconds. Target coordinates have been sent, all main cannons concentrate fire, charge at 50%,” as the master control system announced, the battle hammer defense systems in front of all the warships quickly dispersed, revealing the ferocious main cannons within.

A first-class warship carries two main cannons, and so does a second-class warship. It’s not that more main cannons couldn’t be fitted, but because the energy consumption of the main cannons is horrifyingly high. The main engine of a spaceship could at most support the full charge of two main cannons—any more would be pointless.

Watching those cannon muzzles, blooming like chrysanthemums, light up, Finn Lewis felt a chill run down his spine. As a human being, he knew all too well the terrifying power of the weapons humanity had created. It was no exaggeration to say that if such a main cannon were to fire at Earth from space at full charge, it could destroy an entire medium-sized country with a single shot.

Of course, the impact of the main cannon wasn’t as severe, but the collateral damage from its power was just too serious.

“10, 9, 8, 7,” as the countdown continued to zero, the pale blue light of the cannon muzzles gradually turned white. When the last second of the countdown passed, numerous milky white beams of light shot out with terrifying destructive power, and these beams almost instantly converged together.

With a “hum,” the terrifying beams of light merged into a fearsome glow. Several kingworms that were in the path of the main cannon’s fire vaporized instantly, leaving nothing behind. However, when the main cannon’s attack reached about a hundred kilometers from Leviathan, with another “hum,” a horrific wave of energy suddenly erupted in the silent void of space.

A pale purple protective energy barrier appeared in the path of the main cannon’s blast. The collision between the immensely powerful main cannons and the pale purple energy barrier instantly created a terrifying energy storm, with countless energies forming an energy halo that began to scatter in all directions.

While the energy shockwave headed towards Leviathan was directly blocked by the pale purple shield—even vanishing—those waves that spread out towards the fleet and in all other directions diffused beautifully against the pitch-black space, almost popping the eyeballs of everyone in the fleet out of their sockets.

“What the fuck, is that a living creature?” Jeremiah Jenkins couldn’t help but curse. That was actually a monster—a concentrated attack from the main cannons of over thirty warships had been outright blocked. Is this thing even alive? How fucking resilient can it be?

“Main cannon, recharge to 100%,” Jeremiah Jenkins shouted loudly, because the monster they were observing had begun to move. Everyone knew that after they had attacked it, it would surely counterattack.

Finn Lewis thought the next thing would be a countless swarm of corrupt insects pouring out to cover the skies, but that wasn’t the case. The outer skin of the Leviathan, on the side facing the fleet, started collapsing rapidly, with scores of Insect Species ground units continuously moving through tunnels towards strange chambers on the surface of Leviathan’s body.

This made Finn gasp in surprise, but he quickly understood what was happening. As Leviathan’s skin collapsed inward to become flat, at least eight million ground unit Insect Species had rushed into these unique chamber cysts. Following that, Leviathan’s skin shot outwards with a sudden thrust.

Countless swelling vesicles burst forth at terrifying speeds toward the fleet. As Leviathan directly launched them, Finn Lewis instantly knew what they were—weren’t these the unique space spores of the Insect Species he had initially launched from Earth into space?

Only now, the spores no longer contained worker bees of the Insect Species, but ground attack units, and their speed was manifold faster than when Finn had first launched them. They already matched the initial acceleration of spaceships, achieving speeds of over a hundred kilometers per second in the moment they were fired.

What Finn found hard to accept happened next. As the space spores passed the location of the faint purple protection shield, their speed astonishingly increased again by at least 50%. Keep in mind the distance between the two sides was less than a thousand kilometers.

A speed of over a hundred kilometers per second meant it only took a dozen seconds or so, comparable to a person standing at the end of an airstrip watching an airplane speed towards them from above, maybe even faster.

And the moment these space spores were launched, a piercing alarm sounded inside Jeremiah Jenkins’s fleet. Human operation could no longer keep up, and the ship’s main control system took direct control of the Warhammer Defense System, activating the ships’ protective shields.

“Warning, large quantities of unidentified biological entities detected approaching the spaceship at high speed, current speed 110 kilometers per second, accelerating to 170 kilometers per second, estimated collision with defense system in 7 seconds, 6 seconds, 5 seconds,”

“Warning, warning, a great number of aggressive monsters detected emerging from unidentified monster bodies and approaching us.” The countdown of the ship’s main control system hadn’t even finished when another grating warning was sounded. All Jeremiah Jenkins could do was to issue a frenzied, terse command, “Strengthen the defense system with full force, automatic attack, automatic attack, full force attack!”

“Boom” “Boom” “Boom,” dense impacts continued to surge from the front of the Warhammer Defense System. With the first wave of dense spores colliding directly into the Warhammer Defense System, the material used to build it had grown increasingly strong since its invention, and naturally, its defensive capabilities had also significantly improved.

Since the advent of the Warhammer Defense System, Jeremiah Jenkins had witnessed various methods of breaching it. Some used high-mass space mechas to directly break through; if one’s reaction was quick enough, and skilled enough, it was achievable, but those capable of doing so were very few and usually among the most elite of mecha warriors.

Others attempted to clear a path using main guns and Secondary Guns of warships. But frankly, this approach wasn’t very effective. Usually, when deploying the Warhammer Defense System, warships were almost always releasing space fighters and space mechas, including attacks with Secondary Guns.

Main guns were rarely used, but the Warhammer Defense System should not be underestimated. Even against main gun attacks, it would take at least three full charges of a same-class warship’s main gun to clean it completely, and during that time, the enemy would certainly retaliate.

Of course, there were other methods too, like disrupting the warship’s communication systems. After all, if the Warhammer Defense System lost command from the ship’s main control brain, relying solely on its own defense systems, its response would slow down, not thickening its defense according to the attack.