This makes it very effective when facing large-scale, highly concentrated chaotic phantoms, but it is extremely inefficient when facing frightened and madly scattered chaotic phantoms. This is when the space fighter comes into play.
[Countdown to the end of irradiation: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, irradiation stops]
[Fighter launch ports 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, all activated, launch!]
A faint blue electric spark flashed on the track where the fighter plane was embedded in the ground, and then the fighter plane shot out in an instant, rushing towards the chaotic phantom spreading in all directions like a bullet.
The orange-yellow transparent metal eye mask on the helmet reflected the light on the screen, and the scenery changed rapidly, from the dim launch position to the brilliant channel, then into the pitch-black deep space, and then illuminated by the dazzling artillery fire in front.
The dome screen surrounding the cockpit truly displayed the situation outside the fighter. Jeremy could even see the small amount of light blue tail vortex ejected from the back of one of his fighter's wings out of the corner of his eye.
[Enter high-speed stamping mode, accelerate forward 6]
The fuselage trembled slightly, and the instrument panel beside the screen began to rotate rapidly. Originally, there was only a little light green in the corners, and then it quickly filled the empty grid until it reached the limit of deep red.
In space, thousands of warships that had been slowly stagnating suddenly emitted countless swift silver stars like a honeycomb. Then, these 'silver stars' slowly turned orange-red as they flew at high speed, rushing towards the scattered chaotic phantoms that were floating after being illuminated by the annihilation cannon.
Compared with an hour ago, the number of chaotic phantoms in this airspace is now less than 2%, but the number is still astonishing. Fortunately, after a large area of space was freed up, it also gave fighter jets room to maneuver and dodge.
[Beginning to approach, the combat system has automatically assigned you a target.]
Suddenly, among those gray-black spots on the screen, about 30 were marked, and three tiny golden arrows pointed to the target. Dozens of marks kept flashing on the screen as the perspective changed, indicating the attack direction.
"Let's get started."
Recalling the process he had practiced countless times before, Jeremy began to slow down his forward speed. The muzzle under the fighter began to charge. With the help of the AI-assisted aiming system, he aimed at those chaotic phantoms flying around randomly. When the fighter flew through the nodes in the trajectory, he fired accurately. The pale golden impact torrent was fleeting and pierced through these chaotic phantoms, turning them into broken pieces.
The battle is not over yet. Although it has been broken into pieces, it does not mean that the chaotic phantoms have completely disappeared. If given a certain amount of time, they will gather together again.
So, after clearing the area of Chaos Phantoms, Jeremy began to send signals to the warships supporting the rear.
Soon, a brilliant stream of light shone across the area, destroying and clearing away the remaining debris one by one.
[Number of targets cleared: 32. Mission completed. Beginning to assign next stage targets. Please wait...]
[Allocation completed, please proceed to this area]
Then another area was marked on the screen, as well as chaotic phantoms flying around in it. Although there were only 21 of them, not as many as before, they were more dispersed this time.
"Received the target." Jeremy answered in a low voice, then looked intently at the area on the screen and began to turn the fighter and fly towards that area.
In space, there are hundreds of thousands of fighter planes like Jeremy. Following the goals planned by the command system, they clear out the chaotic phantoms in areas with the precision and sharpness of a scalpel. They do this over and over again until the gray-black sea of chaos behind them surges up again, and then these fighter planes begin to retreat.
The first day of the battle is over.
In the first day of fighting, Earth civilization reduced about 2.3% of the Chaos Phantoms, of which one annihilation cannon was damaged due to overloading, no battleships were damaged, and 78 fighter planes were lost, which is negligible compared to the total number of about 420,000.
The situation was very good, and many people in the Ivar galaxy began to cheer, believing that they could survive this disaster safely.
On the second day of the battle, the situation was similar to the first day, with about 2.6% of Chaos Phantoms reduced, no warships lost, and 129 fighter planes lost.
On the third day of the battle, six of the Annihilation Cannons were damaged due to overheating and were under emergency repair, but the remaining Annihilation Cannons performed normally, reducing Chaos Phantoms by 2.1%.
On the fourth day of the battle, after maintenance, in order to prevent the overheating problem from expanding and causing more annihilation cannons to be damaged, the Orbital Command Headquarters recently replaced the 11 annihilation cannons that were in poor condition with spare parts. The combat goal of this day was only to delay the approach of the Chaos Phantoms, and only reduced the Chaos Phantoms by 1.5%.
On the fifth day of the battle, unidentified "black matter" began to appear in the Chaos Phantom, and 201 annihilation cannons fired normally.
Under the irradiation, these "black substances" gradually revealed their true appearance. According to the speculation of scholars and experts, they should be creatures or substances corroded by the chaotic phantom in the past, and now they are swept into space.
Although these substances are not very lethal, they greatly hinder the irradiation efficiency of the annihilation cannon, resulting in only a 1.2% reduction in the Chaos Phantoms on the fifth day. Moreover, the Chaos Phantoms began to move closer to the space barrier. If not blocked, it is expected to reach the outer orbit in 34 days at the earliest.
On the sixth day of the battle, the fighting situation slowed down. The Annihilation Illumination System only reduced 1.3% of the Chaos Phantoms, and they began to gradually approach the Sky Barrier.
On the seventh day of the battle, under the order of the Supreme Command, the Incinerator-class space battleship began to launch the fusion nuclear bombs carried inside.
These nuclear bombs, wrapped in sealing armor that could temporarily isolate them from corrosion, blasted the gray-black sea of chaos like blasting rocks through a mountain, turning the "black matter" trapped within into fine powder. This increased the efficiency of the annihilation cannons that had been blocked before.
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