From an outsider's perspective, the new Mars looked like a purple firefly, its engines dragging a long trail of gas, drawing a huge arc through space.
Countless crystals continued to fly towards her, falling layer by layer on her skin. The increasing weight made it difficult for her to move.
As the crystal attack intensified, many engines began to shut down. The steering engines almost completely collapsed, and the remaining ones could only barely keep the ship moving in a straight line.
Two of the six propulsion engines had been damaged and disabled in the previous galaxy defense battle, and two of the remaining four had also experienced shutdown failures.
The oil is running out and the lamp is extinguished, there is nothing that can be done to save the situation.
The New Mars began to burn out its last bit of strength.
Inside the pressure vessel at the core of the spacecraft, all the restrictive valves were evacuated one by one, and the rate of energy reaction increased rapidly every second.
The controllable reaction began to develop into an uncontrollable trend. Finally, with devastating acceleration, all the reaction chains collapsed at this moment, and every particle in the reactor was burning.
The light and heat they released impacted the inner wall of the reactor and gradually eroded the zero-element material coated on it.
Under the uncontrolled reaction, the entire fortress spacecraft has become a bomb ready to explode at any time. But the crystals wrapped around the exterior of the spacecraft are unaware of this.
They were just constantly strengthening their encirclement, not realizing that by doing so they were only digging their own graves.
With a powerful flash of light, the entire planet was reduced to ashes.
The crystal ring shattered in a violent explosion. The crystal structure inside was transformed into the fundamental particles of the universe by the instantaneous super-high temperature and radiation flow.
Those on the outermost sides were in a slightly better situation, but they were just fragments left.
The power of a zero-point reactor explosion is horrific.
Even though there was no air in space and sound could not be transmitted, the escort fleet still felt the tremendous power of the explosion.
When an explosion occurs, the first thing that is felt is a huge flash.
Fortunately, because the news was received in advance, the sunshades of the bridge windows were lowered, so the people inside would not be affected by the strong light.
But then, a powerful electromagnetic storm swept across the entire area at the speed of light. Even with the escort fleet's military-grade EMP pulse resistance, the system was paralyzed at this moment.
Fortunately, the paralysis was only temporary. The sudden explosion had a greater impact on the Crystal Storm, so the Galactic Alliance still had enough time to restart the system.
There is no electricity supply.
The spacecraft was completely dark, with only a few emergency lights barely illuminating the interior.
The combat bridge could only rely on the dim light of the emergency lights and grope along the fluorescent paint on various equipment to restart the system, while those on the navigation bridge had a slightly better situation.
Since the navigation bridge uses a huge floor-to-ceiling glass window design, the outside light can directly penetrate into the bridge.
From the perspective of everyone on the navigation bridge, the current situation at the explosion site can be clearly seen.
The shattered remains of the New Mars have been blown tens of thousands of kilometers away, and all that remains at the center of the explosion is a small ball of expanding colorful gas.
Like the gaseous nebula left behind by a supernova, the Zero Point Reactor vaporized a vast amount of heavy metals during its explosion. These elements cooled and condensed into a brilliant cloud of gaseous dust, which shimmered in the residual heat of the explosion.
Without external interference, the brightness of this cloud will drop to one percent within two years and to one thousandth within the next 1,500 years, and then the luminosity change will slow down further.
If it were to cool naturally to the point where it completely stopped emitting light, it would take more than 100,000 years.
Although the specific operating principles were unknown, the crystal storm seemed to be experiencing widespread anomalies. Their previously constant brightness now flickered like a light bulb in a voltage department, and each one drifted helplessly through the universe as if it had lost control.
What a magnificent sight it is.
The afterglow of the explosion, the glowing and hot gas clouds, the shimmering purple crystals all over the sky...
But the members of the convoy had no time to appreciate all this.
They had to restart the spacecraft's shield and weapon systems in the shortest possible time because the aftermath of the explosion was about to hit them.
The previous explosion shredded many crystal ships, and these fragments, at high speed, were like sharp daggers. Without the protection of a shield, these daggers could easily penetrate the weak points of the armor.
Even the kinetic energy carried by the larger fragments can penetrate a small frigate.
And in the entire explosion, the only thing that was not affected was the Burning Heaven Divine Weapon.
As a star-destroying weapon, his defenses were designed to withstand the force of a supernova explosion at close range.
The aftermath of a mere planetary fortress spacecraft's self-detonation was not enough for him.
When the shockwave reached the Burning Heaven Divine Weapon, the shield's pressure reading was even lower than when it was previously besieged by the crystal storm.
At this time, the other half of the Third Fleet, which was originally on standby in the rear, also arrived at the scene.
The two fleets on the ship reunited to form a complete commando team, and the affected crystals had not yet recovered from the paralysis.
By now, the Galactic Alliance had finally gained the initiative on the battlefield. They began to call out the names of the crystals that had lost their resistance one by one.
The crystal spaceship, having lost control of itself, was unable to organize an effective resistance or fight back when faced with the assault from the commandos. It could only be reduced to pieces of glowing debris in a series of explosions.
But Crystal Storm's counterattack is not limited to this.
There was a unique communication system between them. Crystal ships from other war zones in the galaxy came into contact with the Burning Heaven Divine Soldiers before the crystals from the C11 galaxy in the Pass, so they were very clear about what the Galactic Alliance was doing at the time.
In order to protect their own race's offensive route, the crystals decided to continue to increase their investment, determined to use the dual advantages of quality and quantity to regain the initiative on the battlefield.
Accompanied by huge gravitational fluctuations, four crystal war stars descended into this galaxy.
Based on the damage to their surfaces, it was not difficult to recognize that they were the war stars that had previously participated in the encirclement and suppression of the New Mars.
But the Galactic Alliance was not unprepared for this.
They had already anticipated that the other party had the ability to learn, and they were also very sure that the war star that had appeared before would appear again in this Burning Sky Operation.
So they set up a trap to take advantage of the situation.
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