The destruction ray appears to have two colors.

The beam itself is blue, but in the outermost layer, the plasma formed by incomplete combustion has a lower temperature, so it appears red. Its shape is not as convergent as the inner beam, but rather appears to be diffuse.

The entire destructive beam spread out in a trumpet shape after being shot out. The beam with a diameter of more than 1,000 kilometers almost doubled in width after crossing a distance of three light seconds.

As one of the most advanced offensive weapons, the Destruction Beam is specifically designed to defeat targets of the same level. This light-speed beam is not simply a lethal particle stream, but can erase the existence of matter at the microscopic level.

When the rays hit, the nuclear force will disappear in a short period of time, and the protons that make up the nucleus will separate from each other due to mutual repulsion, which will cause the macroscopic matter to disintegrate at the nuclear level.

Three seconds later, the destructive ray hit Crystal Battle Star No. 1. Under the power of the beam, the entire side of the crystal battle star that was hit began to dissolve.

Its surface is sunken into a huge deep pit, the deepest part of which reaches the center of the earth and is even larger than the Pacific Ocean.

After a violent explosion, the aftermath of the radiation dissipated. The entire Battle Star No. 1 was driven by the explosion and began to spin erratically, like a drunkard on his way home.

But this attack did not completely destroy the war planet, but only paralyzed it for a short time.

The New Mars's destructive beam could not be fired again in a short time after this one, so the Crystal Storm began its counterattack.

The escort spacecraft accompanying the war star were the first to launch an attack. They swooped down on Bai Yi and his defense facilities. Countless lasers crossed the vast space and landed on the new Mars.

Faced with such a strong attack, the new Mars itself can still withstand it, but other facilities do not have such strong shield protection.

The defense platforms' shields were overloaded, their armor unable to withstand such intense firepower for long. As for the orbital tachyon artillery positions, due to their greater distance, they were not significantly affected. They continued to provide long-range fire support, but the enemy was simply too numerous, several times greater than the forces they had initially surrounded. Therefore, the firepower of these artillery positions now seemed to be a drop in the bucket.

However, Bai Yi didn't care about these things. His full attention was on the five war planets. These planets hadn't launched an attack yet, but with the exception of the severely damaged war planet No. 1, the brightness of the other four had increased significantly.

The flow sensor kept sounding the alarm, and the numbers displayed on it were refreshing the record every second.

Finally, after the brightness exceeded a certain threshold, the four surviving war stars simultaneously launched an attack on the new Mars.

The Crystal Battle Star's attack was very strange. They didn't use the laser beams of the regular purple crystals, nor did they use cloud lightning. Instead, they ejected a bright, oversized, rugby-shaped ball of light. Before the light ball reached the surface, the New Mars's shield strength dropped significantly.

"Holy crap! Tachyon weapons!"

Bai Yi was shocked.

This is the unique attack method of the Crystal Battle Star, which was later named Tachyon Bombing.

In the previous exchange of fire, Crystal Storm did not show any superluminal attack methods, which made Bai Yi subconsciously think that the opponent could only attack within the speed of light.

Black smoke was billowing from the surface of the New Mars. This was the planetary shield generator that had been damaged by overload in the previous sudden attack. Several construction machines were surrounding it to repair it.

But the crystal storm didn't give Bai Yi a chance to catch his breath. Countless tachyon attacks rained down like raindrops. They attacked the fortress ship frantically, and the strength of the planetary shield was rapidly decreasing.

Bai Yi naturally couldn't just sit there and wait for death.

In addition to continuous counterattacks, he also turned the steering engine power to the maximum, allowing the entire planet to rotate continuously, in order to distribute the damage over a larger impact area.

However, as the planetary shield overloaded, large-scale holes began to appear in the new Mars's first line of defense. Countless laser and tachyon beams began to attack the surface directly through these holes.

The strength of the surface energy armor has been pushed to the maximum, but even so, under the comprehensive siege, the surface of the planet was bombarded with pits one after another.

boom!

There was a loud bang on the distant horizon, followed by a series of explosions.

A steering engine was pierced through the one-way repulsion shield surrounding it, and the impact from the crystal storm landed directly on the engine's core. The entire engine was blown to pieces due to the energy overload.

Over the next few dozen minutes, more and more steering engines were destroyed. When the damage rate of the steering engines exceeded 20%, Bai Yi had no choice but to slow down and stop the rotation of the New Mars.

If it continues to rotate, once the damage exceeds the redundancy limit, the fortress's rotation can only be controlled by the propulsion engine's vector nozzle, which can only move a few degrees. At that time, even if the destruction ray can be fired again, it will not be able to be aimed in a short time.

After expedited reloading, the destruction ray was ready for the second round of launch.

For some unknown reason, these crystal war stars have never moved their positions since leaving the subspace, which has greatly facilitated Bai Yi's aiming.

The new Mars stopped rotating, and under the enemy's fierce artillery fire, the planetary reactor began to transfer energy to the core igniter.

The destruction ray was fired again.

This time, Bai Yi chose a target that was 4.5 light seconds away from the Star Mars. This was the closest unit besides Battle Star No. 1, so it was also called Battle Star No. 2.

Before the attack was launched, the brightness of Battle Star No. 2 was about to reach a critical point, which was a sign that he was about to start a new round of attack.

Bai Yi opened fire at this critical moment because he wanted to abort this round of attack. Even if there was no way to contain the offensive of the other war stars, he had to minimize the damage as much as possible.

Boom——

The destructive ray slammed violently into Battle Star No. 2.

The strong shock wave completely blew away the thin layer of gas on the surface of the war planet, but this time No. 2 was online and did not collapse like No. 1.

Before the radiation actually reached the planet's surface, the entire nature of the war planet changed. Its surface was no longer a crystalline mass of unevenness, but instead began to roll like flowing water. Like a drop of water in space, surface tension transformed it into a smooth, perfect sphere.

At the same time, the properties of the crystal have also changed. The war star is no longer the previous translucent purple crystal structure, but now has full reflection properties like a mirror.

After the destructive beam touched the fully reflective mirror, it was bounced back along its original path.