Chapter 297: The Time Has Come

In Conference Room One aboard the Honor Spaceship, all the high-ranking members of the Harville Civilization stood solemnly, watching the hundreds of thousands of warships depart on the main screen.

The trails of their thrusters merged, making the fleet shine as brightly as a star.

Although the total number was only 500,000 ships—much smaller than the scale of millions of warships at the beginning of the war—everyone present knew that while their own number of warships had decreased, so had their enemy’s.

Before, even millions of their warships couldn’t gain an advantage, but now, 500,000 could!

And there was another wonderful detail.

In the previous phase, the enemy had relied on an endless supply of resources to withstand their assault. The mass of that Flying Star had rapidly decreased, forcing them to call a ceasefire.

But now… they also had a planet as a supply base!

‘You can build ships, and so can we!’

‘If we take losses, we’ll just replace them!’

‘This time, we won’t be limited by a lack of resources!’

‘We see no possibility of failure in this campaign. And once we capture Planet Two, and then Planet Three, you humans will be completely cut off from your supplies.’

‘At that point, you won’t be able to escape even if you want to…’

In just two months, their 500,000 warships arrived at Planet Two. A great battle began.

And the battle unfolded exactly as Haimo Lan, the other high-ranking members of the civilization, and the Red Dog AI had predicted.

The humans’ resistance was fierce, and they constantly reinforced their fleet with new warships from their home territory. However, the Alliance did the same, sending a steady stream of reinforcements of their own.

Both sides were desperately replenishing their warships, but on the battlefield, the number of Alliance ships was steadily increasing, while the enemy’s numbers were continuously dwindling.

The reason was simple: the Alliance held the technological advantage.

The fighting appeared intense, but nearly every military strategist could see the truth.

The outcome was already decided!

The humans’ defeat was only a matter of time! Moreover, this was an irreversible trend, one that couldn’t be changed by the outcome of a single skirmish or even a whole battle!

The end was already written!

At this point, even if the humans used that Force Field Weapon of theirs, they couldn’t turn the tide of the war!

At that moment, Haimo Lan truly and completely let go of his worries about the war.

Planet Two, surface base. The clone housing Li Qingsong’s consciousness wore a solemn expression, his eyes fixed on the star-dusted expanse of space.

The Harville-Mechanical Calamity Alliance’s industrial complex had been completely transferred to Planet One.

They were using Planet One as a foundation to launch their attack against him.

‘Then… the time has come!’

Facing the vast void on the projection, Li Qingsong suddenly roared, “Electric Calamity, it’s your turn!”

This roar was converted into an electromagnetic signal by a massive antenna, then shot at the speed of light across a battlefield where countless warships fought to the death and innumerable bombs detonated, finally reaching the Lyra G16 Star.

Because Planet Two was 80 million kilometers from the star, the signal took about 4.4 minutes to arrive.

The next moment, the star—which had been thrown into a frenzy by a massive barrage of hydrogen bombs—suddenly dimmed slightly.

On the daylight side of Planet Two, the sky had been clear just a moment before, with the sun blazing brightly. But now, the sky abruptly darkened, as if noon had instantly become late afternoon.

The star, once too blinding to look at directly, could now almost be viewed with the naked eye.

It wasn’t just on Planet Two. On Planet Three, on the various dwarf planets, comets, moons, and asteroids, and even in the nearby interstellar space—from nearly every vantage point, the Lyra G16 Star had grown a little dimmer.

Except for one place.

Planet One.

Planet One was only 40 million kilometers from the Lyra G16 Star.

In that instant, the star—already blinding and as large as a millstone in the sky—suddenly flared even brighter.

In that moment, inside the Energy Shields, countless hurried Harville engineers looked up at the sky in astonishment.

Countless Black Mountain People, who had been playing and freely enjoying the comprehensive services of the Red Dog AI, also looked up, their faces full of confusion.

The entire planet fell silent in an instant. An ominous, dangerous feeling flowed silently through the air.

The light from the Lyra G16 Star continued to intensify. As the brightness increased, so did the heat, the streams of high-energy charged particles, the radiation, and everything else.

Finally, one of the Energy Shields could no longer withstand the immense power and violently ruptured. The various gases it had contained instantly dispersed.

The Harvillers who had been under its protection didn’t even have time to flee before the fierce stellar light washed over their bodies.

Before they could even let out a scream, their bodies were instantly carbonized by the intense heat and radiation.

The next moment, countless pieces of equipment exploded, and the towering, mountain-like buildings constructed from Strong Core materials melted in an instant.

An endless chain of explosions immediately engulfed the area.

But this was only the beginning.

The next moment, the heavy flooring laid across the surface by the Intelligent Mechanical Calamity Alliance also began to melt, turning into pools of molten iron. Like oil spattering in a hot pan, the molten iron flew in all directions.

Beneath the flooring, the thick rock layer of Planet One also began to melt, turning from solid to liquid, directly superheated into magma.

This transformation was not limited to this single area.

Planet One has a diameter of about 8,000 kilometers. The surface area illuminated by the star—half of its total surface area—was approximately 100 million square kilometers.

At this very moment, across the entire 100 million square kilometers of surface being irradiated by the star, the same thing was happening!

Whether it was exposed rock formations, the factories of the Harville-Mechanical Calamity Alliance, the residential areas, or the supply depots; regardless of the insulation and protective measures, the power of the Energy Shields, or the use of Strong Core or alloy materials—everything, every single bit of matter, began to melt under the star’s light.

And melting into magma was not the end.

The energy from the star was simply too immense. After everything on the surface had turned to magma, it was further transformed into plasma.

The movement of the particles became so violent that they began to escape Planet One’s Gravity and disperse into space.

And as the planet’s crust lost its stability, the tectonic stress that had been suppressed within was finally unleashed.

Earthquakes of extreme violence and volcanic eruptions began to appear, spreading across the entire planet.

But this, too, was not the end of the transformation.

Because the radiance of the Lyra G16 Star now encompassed not only Planet One, but also the interstellar space surrounding it!