The moment the fleet disappeared, overwhelming blue lightning flooded the space where they had previously existed.
At a safe distance, Carlus's deputy looked at the almost continuous jumping lightning and felt a lingering fear.
But at the same time, he was very happy, because it meant that the Crystal Storm's attention had been attracted to him.
The so-called escort team, as the name suggests, is a force that protects a certain target.
Even if all of us are destroyed, as long as the protected target still exists, the mission is considered completed.
Therefore, the escort fleet's initial goal was not to protect the safety of the Burning Heaven Divine Soldiers, but to draw the enemy's attention to themselves. When facing an enemy without an absolute numerical advantage, this was the only way to delay time.
However, after the first round of lightning attacks ended.
The crystal storm did not come towards him as the deputy expected.
Instead, they separated a small group to attack the escort fleet, while the main force continued to rush straight towards the Burning Heaven Divine Soldiers.
This small group of crystals no longer rushed forward like a long snake. Instead, they spread out in all directions like a purple wall across the universe.
This wall completely blocked the convoy's firing range, and all the firepower was absorbed by the crystals that made up the wall.
The jumper mechanism is still cooling down.
They now had no means of crossing the wall. In this situation, they could only fly forward while bombarding the wall.
In the hope of getting around it, or opening a hole in it.
But this idea is not realistic.
Crystals were constantly added to the wall's construction, and the speed at which the wall was repaired and extended far exceeded the speed at which the escort fleet was destroying it.
As the wall grew thicker, light gradually became unable to penetrate the crystals. The fleet on this side of the wall could no longer observe the Burning Heaven Divine Weapon's position.
The Crystal Storm, as a large force, was certainly not idle, and they were still approaching the Burning Heaven Divine Soldiers at full speed. It was as if they were fully aware of what the Galactic Alliance was about to do and were determined to do everything they could to stop it.
The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, and the purple laser beams bombarded the shield of the magic weapon intensively. At the same time, the dense anti-aircraft artillery on the magic cube also began to spit out flames.
As a super spaceship with the size of Jupiter, the Burning Heaven Divine Weapon has enough space to install various self-defense firepower and shield generators.
Countless lines of fire will tear apart the surrounding crystals, but the gaps will be filled by successors in an instant.
In just a few dozen minutes, the crystal storm completely enveloped the entire Burning Heaven Divine Weapon from the outside. From the outside, these crystals looked like the hand of a purple giant.
One end of the arm was connected to the subspace gap, and the other end had five fingers clenched into a fist, holding the Burning Heaven Divine Weapon firmly inside.
The crystal storm that formed the encirclement continuously bombarded the divine weapon's shield with lasers and sky-cloud lightning. The thick shield also caused waves of blue ripples under the endless firepower.
But at this moment, the giant hand was cut in half.
Without any warning, a huge hole appeared on the thick arm. Then came the second... the third...
In just a few seconds, a series of holes connected together, breaking the entire arm into two sections.
Then, dazzling streams of light formed a white torrent and rushed through the holes.
The new Mars opened fire.
Bai Yi had already transferred control of the New Mars to the Third Fleet, but because the fortress ship was severely damaged, most of its weapons had been abandoned.
This time, it mobilized almost all of its remaining tachyon cannons for the attack.
Then, a series of missiles attacked the crystals tightly surrounding the Burning Heaven Divine Soldier. The dense explosions completely shattered the crystal formation. Under the attack from both inside and outside, the entire encirclement quickly collapsed, and the Burning Heaven Divine Soldier was able to see the light of day again.
The New Mars began to approach the battlefield.
As the tachyon cannon fired fiercely, he fired all the warp missiles in his inventory.
The fierce firepower tore open the wall between the defense fleet and the red dwarf. The escort fleet quickly left its original position, passed through the slowly healing gaps, and came to this end of the battlefield.
The appearance of the new Mars helped relieve a considerable amount of pressure on the frigate fleet. Such a large size and ferocious firepower made it impossible for the Crystal Storm to continue its policy of ignoring it.
Most of the crystals turned around to attack New Mars, while the escort fleet took this opportunity to return to the Burning Heaven Divine Soldiers for rest.
They needed to abandon some of the spaceships that had lost their combat capability and transfer the crews to other relatively intact warships.
They formed a simple spherical formation, surrounding the spacecraft responsible for transporting and receiving personnel in the center. With the protection of the outer spacecraft and the Burning Heaven Divine Soldier's anti-aircraft artillery, the entire process proceeded smoothly and efficiently.
After the transfer was completed, the entire fleet immediately turned around and resumed attacking the crystal.
At this point, the crystal storm had completely ignored them. Aside from a few crystals that were very close and would fight back, all the crystals present joined in the encirclement of the New Mars.
Crystals capable of enveloping an entire Jupiter-sized object were now concentrated on the surface of the New Mars. As the outer crystal layers grew thicker, the innermost crystals began to attack the fortress with a suicidal impact.
Faced with this kind of attack, the Fortress naturally wouldn't sit still and wait for death. Since the tachyon cannons anchored above the poles had been completely destroyed, the only weapons of mass destruction he could use were the remaining railguns.
The bad news is that it's difficult for railguns to hit fast-moving crystals.
The good news is that the sky is full of crystals, so there's no need to aim.
With the support of high-explosive armor-piercing shells, each shot from these 4000mm caliber super-turrets exploded a fireball the size of a standard football field in the sky.
Moreover, the killing radius of the shells was several times larger than that of the fireballs. Almost every round of artillery fire would form a huge crater in the sky.
If someone were to stand on the surface of the new Mars rover now, they would surely see a magnificent sight that is indescribable.
There is no longer a distinction between day and night in the sky.
Every corner as far as the eye could see was filled with purple glowing crystals. Countless purple lasers and blue lightning bolts drooped down from these crystals, landing on a layer of blue light.
The planetary shield that had just resumed operation was shaking like a candle in the wind under this huge force.
The crystals that were hit fell from the sky like fire from the sky, and countless fire snakes spewed out from the ground, connecting to the sky.
Finally, the blue light curtain reached its limit. With a series of explosions, all the shield generators overloaded, and the New Mars lost its first layer of protection.
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