Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones-Chapter 414: Awaiting Our Disposition

​Ship after ship exploded under the siege of these massive, ferocious Star Beasts, and similarly, Star Beast after Star Beast was directly blown apart or torn asunder by Tom’s attacks.

​Although the scale of the battle was not large, it was continuous. From the moment Tom’s fleet exited warp travel until now, probably tens of thousands of massive Star Beasts have been killed by Tom, and similarly, approximately ten thousand of their own battleships of various sizes have been destroyed.

​Amidst this protracted battle that lasted for several months, Tom saw that the intelligent civilization besieged on the rocky planet finally reacted.

​A small fleet, under their desperate breakout attempt, finally briefly broke through the Star Beasts’ blockade and entered space. Then, constantly suffering losses under the Star Beasts’ pursuit and interception, ultimately, fewer than ten battleships broke through to the front of Tom’s fleet, stopping at a distance of about 15 million kilometers.

​This distance could probably be considered a safe distance for a gravity-level civilization.

​Afterward, an electromagnetic wave signal containing dictionary information was transmitted.

​"Respected guest, hello.

​We are the ’Moraise’ civilization from a red planet. During our long interstellar journey, we unexpectedly encountered this Star Beast Disaster and were forced to dock in this solar system for repairs and supplies, and were subsequently besieged by this Star Beast Disaster, facing imminent danger.

​As a legitimate intelligent civilization, we firmly believe that peaceful and friendly exchanges, equal and just cooperation, and mutual respect and assistance are only possible between legitimate intelligent civilizations.

​Also as a legitimate intelligent civilization, we firmly believe that you must also be a peace-loving, noble, and benevolent civilization. Here, our Moraise civilization requests support and assistance from your civilization, to rescue us from our peril.

​If we can successfully escape, we are willing to offer compensation including but not limited to technology, military, machinery, and resources.

​We sincerely request you, please help us."

​...

​Tom, after a moment of silent thought, did not directly reply to this distress signal but instead asked directly, "Does your Moraise civilization have another name, called Grey Worm Civilization? If not, what is your relationship with the Grey Worm Civilization?"

​After a brief communication delay, Tom’s message reached the few battleships that were clearly remotely controlled.

​Tom knew that this information would certainly be transmitted in real-time to the rocky planet through the internal superluminal communication system of this civilization, which called itself Moraise but which Tom suspected was the Grey Worm Civilization.

​So... how would they react to this?

​The next moment, those few battleships suddenly simultaneously activated maximum power propulsion, accelerating away at an extremely high speed, seemingly attempting to escape.

​Hmm?

​Tom did not hesitate and immediately dispatched a small fleet that had been prepared to give chase.

​Perhaps sensing that they could not escape, after fleeing for a moment, those battleships simultaneously exploded, turning into several fireballs and disappearing into the cosmic starry sky.

​"Upon hearing the name Grey Worm Civilization, they actually self-destructed immediately..."

​Tom silently pondered, "This clearly confirms that they must be related to the Grey Worm Civilization, and it’s also possible that they are the Grey Worm Civilization.

​But this seems a bit off. Even if they really are the Grey Worm Civilization, how did they immediately determine that I was an enemy and not a friend?

​I merely asked about the name, I didn’t show any hostility at all..."

​After thinking for a moment, Tom simply gave up pondering this question.

​"I don’t care for what reason, whether you are the Grey Worm Civilization, or what kind of connection you have with the Grey Worm Civilization. In any case, your civilization is here now and cannot escape.

​Since that’s the case, I’ll control your civilization first! I have plenty of time to slowly deal with you and get to the truth!"

​Braving the continuous harassing attacks from the Star Beast Disaster, Tom’s massive fleet continued its deceleration maneuver, finally entering the interior of the solar system and arriving directly at the very core of the entire system’s battlefield, the rocky planet where the fighting was most intense.

​This was an extremely vast war.

​Tom saw that there were hundreds of thousands of massive Star Beasts around that huge rocky planet. Even the super-giant Star Beasts with a mass of tens of billions of tons and a length of dozens of kilometers numbered more than ten.

​And there were still endless streams of Star Beasts converging from all directions, joining the siege of this rocky planet.

​In the planet’s near-space, millions of Moraise civilization battleships, along with endless space-based and ground-based air defense systems and unmanned combat weapons, were fighting desperately, desperately resisting the assaults of these ferocious Star Beasts.

​At this moment, a considerable number of Star Beasts even broke away from the original battlefield and converged towards Tom’s fleet. The battle, which was originally only at a harassing intensity, was rapidly escalating, even showing a tendency to open a second front.

​"Oh? You Star Beasts are quite confident in your combat power, wanting to fight two intelligent civilizations at once?

​Just like that, you silently steal my position... have you asked for my permission?"

​Regardless of whether the Moraise civilization and the Star Beast Disaster would obey his commands, or even understand them, Tom ignored everything and directly sent a piece of information as an electromagnetic wave broadcast into this battlefield.

​"Bluetoth Civilization command: Starting from this moment, the warring parties must cease all acts of war within one day, must maintain a distance of 10 million kilometers, and await our disposition!

​If both parties fail to cease hostilities within one day, we will intervene directly and suppress with force! Any attack on our peacekeeping fleet will be regarded as provocation and a declaration of war, and will certainly suffer our severe retaliation!"

​A declaration full of dominance was issued. And then... it had no effect, failing to cause any changes on the battlefield.

​Tom saw that the warring parties acted as if they hadn’t received the message at all. The Star Beasts were still attacking with full force, the Moraise were defending with full force, and the battle remained fierce.

​Furthermore, the number of Star Beasts continuing to approach and converge on his fleet, attempting to engage in large-scale warfare and open a second front, increased rather than decreased.

​One day quickly passed, and the situation remained unchanged.

​"Then don’t blame me..."

​Tom sighed and immediately issued an order to his massive fleet.

​"Set sail! Deploy!"

​Numerous battleships, already prepared for battle, converged and charged towards the rocky planet battlefield like tigers descending from the mountains.

​Over a hundred thousand ferocious Star Beasts quickly assembled, yielding not an inch, and while maintaining immense pressure on the Moraise civilization, they brazenly charged head-on towards Tom’s fleet.

​"Perfect, let’s test the results of my research over these years!"

​Thousands of years of continuous searching, thousands of years of persistent, uninterrupted research, battleship refits and complete overhauls time and again, Tom had honed his fleet countless times, but had never brought it out for use.

​Now, the time for the treasured sword to be unsheathed has come.

​Facing the surging onslaught of over a hundred thousand Star Beasts, in that instant, millions of high-speed interstellar missiles roared violently as they charged forward, and tens of millions of high-energy laser cannons simultaneously activated, instantly illuminating the bodies of those Star Beasts.

​Countless highly convergent gravity wave beams, like laser cannons, instantly shot out, violently tearing at the bodies of those massive Star Beasts.

​At the same time, defenses at various levels instantly activated.

​Projectile interception systems, laser cannon defense systems, energy shields, Gravity Shields...

​These hundreds of thousands of battleships even executed maneuvers like a single entity in an instant, dispersing and occupying advantageous combat positions in a flash, with their coordination and cooperation between actions being exquisite.

​These manned battleships, furthermore, coordinated with a greater number of unmanned combat units, drawing out massive firenets in space, like giant millstones, grinding away at the bodies of these ferocious Star Beasts as if grinding beans.

​Numerous Star Beasts roared silently at the same time, their ferocity erupting. They fiercely crashed and violently tore within these firenets and flesh-and-blood millstones, seemingly unstoppable and invincible, but always silently having their last shred of life taken by a missile, a laser cannon beam, a gravity wave beam, or even a cluster of interstellar missiles flying in from who knows where.

​Tom’s offensive was like the earth, like the sky; although silent and without grand movements, it was always so indestructible and irresistible.

​No matter how ferocious the fierce Star Beasts located between the earth and the sky were, there would always be a moment when they fell to the ground and completely lost their lives. And this trend was unstoppable!

​Under Tom’s ’unremarkable’ offensive, the battle formation composed of over a hundred thousand ferocious Star Beasts was forcibly torn apart by Tom in less than a month, and along with it, the lives of over twenty thousand ferocious Star Beasts were reaped.

​After this, Tom’s fleet did not stop at all and went directly into the Star Beast battle formation besieging the rocky planet.

​This time, the attacks Tom faced were even more ferocious. Furthermore, not only these ’local’ Star Beasts but also more Star Beasts converged from vast space to join the battle.

​This once again verified one of Tom’s previous conjectures.

​These Star Beasts had not used their full strength at all in the war against the Moraise civilization! While besieging the Moraise civilization, a considerable number of Star Beasts were also scattered throughout the solar system, playing, breeding, feeding, and so on.

​Tom noticed that among the several planets in this solar system, these Star Beasts seemed to value a certain ice giant located in the outer reaches of the system the most.

​Ice giants are also a type of gas giant planet; they are more similar to Uranus and Neptune in the Solar System than to Jupiter and Saturn.

​Their mass is also slightly smaller than Jupiter and Saturn, generally between ten and twenty times the mass of Earth.

​That ice giant seemed to have become the Star Beasts’ lair.

​However, there’s no need to worry about that for now; let’s deal with the situation here first.

​Facing the even more ferocious attacks, Tom finally brought out one of his trump cards.

​Jupiter-class battleship!

​On the Jupiter-class battleship, which had not participated in the battle before, with a length of over ten kilometers and a mass of tens of millions of tons, tens of thousands of giant thrusters simultaneously activated, propelling it to the edge of the fleet at an incredibly high speed and extreme flexibility completely disproportionate to its mass.

​The giant Gravity Cannon specially developed by Tom also commenced its first actual combat.

​In front, dozens of massive Star Beasts, each over twenty kilometers long and weighing hundreds of millions of tons, formed a line tens of thousands of kilometers apart, like nails firmly securing this defense line, abruptly stopping the charge of Tom’s fleet.

​Hundreds of thousands of smaller Star Beasts, under the support and cover of these massive Star Beasts, even launched a counter-charge against Tom’s fleet. Although they could not cause any damage to Tom, they forced the fleet to slow down its advance.

​Since that’s the case...

​High-power Gravity Cannon, activated!

​Numerous gravity wave beams, completely invisible to the naked eye, were instantly released, sweeping away all tangible and intangible matter in front of them at the speed of light.

​Some smaller Star Beasts that happened to be in the propagation path did not have time to react at all and were instantly torn apart as if by a giant hand; their energy shields, integrated with their flesh and blood, instantly burst, their skeletons were instantly twisted and broken, and large amounts of liquid and solid matter erupted from within them, only to be instantly shattered by ubiquitous radiation in the next moment, dissipating as interstellar dust.

​After instantly destroying dozens of Star Beasts, this gravity wave beam finally poured into those giant Star Beasts.

​At this moment, like elephants struck by bullets, large amounts of flesh and blood fragments and unknown liquids instantly burst out from the bodies of those massive Star Beasts.

​Their bodies twisted violently, emitting silent wails, and simultaneously launched a counterattack.

​Endless energy cannon projectiles, ’flesh-and-blood missiles’ similar to interstellar missiles, and so on, fiercely attacked this Jupiter-class battleship located at the forefront of the battlefield.

​At this moment, thousands of high-power multi-fusion reactors simultaneously increased to maximum power. The brightness of the energy shield enveloping the Jupiter-class battleship increased again, becoming as bright as a star and impossible to look at directly.

​That fierce attack, capable of tearing apart hundreds of battleships, hit this layer of shield like a mud ox entering the sea, without causing any ripples.

​Not only that, the defense system of this Jupiter-class battleship even extended to the other battleships.

​Millions of small laser cannons and energy cannons simultaneously activated, like opening a large umbrella, not only intercepting the attacks directed at itself but also intercepting most of the attacks directed at the other battleships.

​The Jupiter-class battleship still did not stop and launched another fierce offensive.

​It was like a nail puller, ’pulling up’ the massive Star Beasts that were firmly wedged in the defense line, fixing the entire line, one by one. Then, countless medium and small spacecraft followed closely behind, rushing through like a surging flood.

​The Star Beast Disaster’s second and final defense line was also breached by Tom!