First Existences' War, The Frontline Battle (8—Last Part)

... ... ... ... Absolute silence. It was the deathly quietness of the entire area where the young black monster's group was what made them suddenly attention-stealers. The darkened cascade far ahead was still falling onto the enemy spaceships but was struck by the blue rays of lightning, with a tiny portion of a violet color. But the result wasn't even known from the direct clash when the young black monster's spaceships suddenly rotated and rushed forwards into the enemy lines without regard for their safety.

At the same time, the Existence’s wings beside the young black monster’s force rushed forth in a sudden burst of speed, with all rockets crashing their front. The enemy was sent into disarray, but they were too close to the Battleship blockade, so they couldn’t disappoint their comrades now that they were so close to turning the battle around.

“Fiiiight! Fight until it’s time, and we see these scum fall to our 3 Special Bodies commanders!!” - “Fight like it’s the only time of your life! Hold these fuckeeeerss!!” The enemy roared, but that’s all they could do when facing such a mighty charge from the Existence’s younger generation. They already carrier so much momentum they might not even need missiles, and just bashing their spaceships into theirs might be enough to rush forwards and protect their damnable young black monster.

The enemy’s morale wasn’t low but wasn’t as solid and stable as the Existence’s forces. And what’s more, no one knew if their commanders’ efforts to protect their rear would be worthwhile. Their minds were in conflict, but their hearts held strong! They braced and relied on their willpower to continue, flashing bullets and shells at the incoming spaceships while their fate was as unknown and unpredictable as the future. So they could only go against it and damn it all!!

Ta- rara rara rara rara rara- BANG!! Booom!!... Pew, pew, pew!!

If the battle was intense before, it was now insane. Bullets basically knew nothing better than to be everywhere. One side fired their machine guys away as if each one randomly hitting the other side would be enough to make a difference, but it wasn’t not effective. Thus, the others had to do the same since their anti-turret missiles wouldn’t be good enough for the vast firing rate, potency, and amount of bullets shot from machine guns.

Not a single machine gun was without firing randomly, avoiding friendly fire with their targeting systems skillfully recognizing intended and inadvertent movements from those at the front, except for the young black monster’s military force!

Every projectile kind flew from one side to the other, flying away whichever spaceship lost its shield, leaving no chance for survival. If Heian Ciemnosc hadn’t ordered this bizarre move, yet again, he might’ve lost more than half his spaceships… and those were too many! Some would have been from his Crimsonbreaking Faction or his inner core of people!

Instead, because of their rotation and spinning speed and their still advancing movement, anything coming at them was deflected with barely any damage dealt to their shields. Even fighters were spared from the destruction as they and the spaceships they belonged to shared the shielding system after latching themselves on their outer structure.

They could still experience what everyone else in the surrounded hundred meters from the rear to the front felt. Bullets, shells, missiles, and even rockets swept past them and were reflected or slid through their spaceships, fully covered by their fully enhanced shields.

While casualties were unavoidable still, there were only a few Frigates and Destroyers that turned to dust once they were hit at the worst angle by several missiles and a few rockets simultaneously.

Even then, several minutes passed, with Heian Ciemnosc’s force, the only military unit to not suffer above 50% of their destruction. Whenever such damage was reached by other groups, they would slowly retreat in a lineal or semi-lineal formation, slightly above or below the direct firing line between both sides, and return to the rear to resupply and form at the back.

It might not come to their re-installment in the battle, but they were prepared to return there if necessary, die if possible, but never halt their footsteps on their cultivation path!

The retreat might result in more destruction and casualties, but the safety of the overall remaining strength of such military units would be worth it. Occasionally, Fighters and other spaceships flew into the enemy lines, wrapped by missiles, torpedoes, or rockets… or all of them. Their sacrifice wasn’t absurdly necessary, but it allowed many retreating spaceships some freedom and safety. And it wasn’t as rare as one might have thought.

Only the enemy wasn’t doing the same. Their spaceships maintained their position, and they fought until every single one of them was destroyed. Of course, some fled, trying to survive, and while they weren’t executed by their side, the opening they gave to the Existence’s younger generation was far too precious to not take it.

Due to this, the enemy successfully made more and more Quiongu Fanhui Existence’s military units retreat to the rear and wait for another chance to battle and die. Slowing their advancement and exhausting their elite groups. However, one such elite group became the thorn in their heart and eyes, as if it had become stuck forever to remind them of the pain.

“Deal with those fucking idiots! They aren’t even attacking! Why aren’t we taking the chance?!!” - “Calm down! We’re trying!! They are protecting themselves! But don’t worry, as soon as they stop playing around, they’ll bathe in our blockade’s firepower! Those idiots! Haha!” - “That Elemental Art is still going. The commanders can’t deal with it?” - “Look! They’re preparing! Haha! Get ready!!”

At this moment, the young black monster’s spaceships no longer endlessly rotated and spun while advancing towards the Evergazing Existence’s center, which was constantly bombarded by Low Battleships tens of kilometers behind the former and aided with the problem of the young black monster’s so-called inactivity.

The spaceships started moving forwards and seemingly delegating into a position where they strategically covered a good portion of the enemy at the center. But the enemy still couldn’t do as they wished with those Battleships further at the back in the Existence’s advancing column sent thousands of rockets directly to protect the young black monster.

Additionally, the Existence’s force in this 4th line battlefield was now so close to the enemy 30 Battleships blockade that they could hear the Elemental array formation enhancing the rays of lightning crushing the darkened cascade above.

ZZZZZZAAAAPPPSSSHHHHHWWWLLOOOBBB~~~~~!!!!!!

The blue lightning extended for several kilometers. The darkened water had already been decimated by a third, and the Elemental particles added to it were disintegrated along with the strange, unique, resilient dark Neutral Energy concealed even deeper within.

What the enemy thought would be a mere minute to destroy this tens of kilometers-long cascade became a tremendous output of resources as all 30 Low Battleships shared their energy with the one responsible for the array formation, enhancing the rays of lightning.

The Existence’s forces were just a few short minutes from arriving before the blockade. But as the darkened cascade was being dealt with and the enemy Battleship blockade’s efforts were only half as efficient after discovering the rockets within the darkened cascade shooting suddenly down at their spaceships without anything to repel them in time, something else gnawed at their hearts, minds, and Souls from a distance.

“It’s the 3rd ring’s main force! They’re attacking our 4th line battlefield!!” - “Damned bastards!” - “Shameless!!!” - “Turnaround! Don’t you see others chasing after you?! Dammit! Dammit all! AAHH!!” - “Prepare for impact!!” - “No!! Prepare to receive the enemy! Don’t let them flank us— our comrades are behind them, just stop them!!” - “Dammit… damn it all! Don’t retreat! Stay in your posit-”

PEEEEW- BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG~~~~~~~!!!!!!!

TA- RARARARARARARARARARA- PUH PUH PUH PUH PUH PUH~~!!! PUM PUM PUM PUM PUM PUM PUM PUM PUM PUM PUM PUM PUM PUM!!!! PFIUSH PFIUSH PFIUSH PFIUSH PFIUSH PFIUSH PFIUSH PFIUSH~~~...!!!

Just as the rays of lightning swiftly dispatched more and more of the darkened water. It bubbled and steamed before dissipating and further disintegrating under the Elemental Poisoning. But as more darkened water was consumed under the intensity of the lightning, the rockets falling from it left the enemy commanders baffled.

Shortly after, the entire darkened cascade seemed to lose a great deal of power. Although it continued to crash down in an arch towards the enemy, it wasn’t like before, where it resisted, and even smallish dark Neutral Energy ate away the incoming lightning, lasting a few moments before evaporating to its might.

Then, as the stunned enemy commanders at the top of the Battleship blockade, on their right wing, from their middle to their rear, several thousand kilometers behind it, an entire main force from the Quiongu Fanhui Existence’s 3rd ring rushed at them after crossing through enough space and avoiding their 3rd line battlefield enemy. They had come all the way from there to here just to decimate the enemy!!

The Existence’s 4th line battlefield forces weren’t surprised. Unlike the enemy, they seemed incensed when they finally saw the enemy blockade just a few short couple minutes away! Their comrades in between the empty space of their line battlefields gave it their all. Everything they had stored and saved before was used to brutally bombard the enemy farther behind their blockade.

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The enemy at their right wing on the 4th line battlefield had no choice but to resolve their undivided attention to yet another main force. They were now fighting 2 main forces as one, and they weren’t even complete! With at least 35% of their forces down, what was the point?!

However, knowing their comrades were chasing down this shameless enemy, they couldn’t retreat or let the other side do as they wished. They turned and faced the 3rd line battlefield’s Quiongu Fanhui Existence’s main force. Whatever happens will occur.

However!

VEEEEEEMMM~~!!! BANG BANG BANG! PEEEEEEW~~!!! BAAAAAANG!!! KAAAA- BOOOOOOM!!!!!

The Existence’s 4th line battlefield main force wouldn’t just watch. They started separating, but not without leaving the way cleared by those who would stay in the advancing column.

They separated into 3 sections, and the left and right wings and the center grouped into these 3 different groups from different angles. One was formed to continue the battle with the young black monster in this column and to bash into the enemy blockade. They would follow Heian Ciemnosc and fight under his direct command. Effective immediately.

The other would join the 3rd line battlefield’s side and fight on their rear to stop the enemy of the same battlefield from aiding each other. Finally, the other group formed before rushing towards the enemy rear, unobstructed by the 4th line battlefield’s enemy forces as they were busy defending from 2 sides. They would force the enemy to divert their attention to them, and while they would suffer casualties, they would then join at the rear and finish off the enemy here before surrounding the 3rd line battlefield, chasing their comrades in an extending and closing strategy as the battle continued.

The curtains were starting to unfold and close!!

The 4th line battlefield’s enemy was baffled, complicated expressions flashing through their faces as the Existence’s 4th line battlefield suddenly launched rockets, torpedoes, and hidden missiles amounting to tens of thousands from hundreds of kilometers away, mingling between Fighters and energy attacks the Existence’s spaceships have been regularly sending.

It was a success!!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMM~~~!!! PSSSSSSHHHUUUAAAKKKK!!!!!~...

The lateral extremes of the enemy blockade were bathed in too much firepower. It was so heavy that they didn’t even bother launching something and prepared to detonate. However, the projectiles arrived first. Rockets and missiles butchered any defenses as thousands of them collided at the enemy blockade’s sides, directly breaking them apart and sending them flying away.

The rest immediately swarmed into the enemy Battleships like locusts into a well-perfectly protected garden whose defenses suddenly have an aperture. However, the rockets and missiles didn’t target the other enemy Battleships, at least not entirely.

They destroyed the enemy Battleships' weaponry after barraging their shields before rushing towards the enemy behind the blockade, targeting the center, wings, and anyone fleeing. It was as if Dragons had returned to the world and were revenging their kin by slaughtering anything that moved. But these were just materials turned into ‘divine’ weapons.

The enemy blockade was left defenseless before they had a chance to freely open fire at the Existence’s younger generation forces once enough of their comrades fell to the latter. They were shaken and could only watch as thousands of spaceships continued to rush towards them, and their blockade became meaningless as torpedoes sealed their movement.

Naturally, a torpedo or a team of the same wouldn’t be enough to force a Low Battleship to stop, much less if at least a dozen were grouped. However, tens of thousands of torpedoes’ solid clouds sealing them had to be enough. The enemy inside those Battleships could only watch as their enemy approached, with only 1 thought in their hearts: Detonate!!

However!!! Before even the glorious and famed 3 commanders could effectuate the order after coming to peace with such a predicament, the situation unexpectedly changed again as their front was about to be bashed by 8 Battleships…

FUTOMP~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!!~!!!!

“!!!????” The enemy watched and was ready to detonate, but then, the rumored young black monster’s spaceships rotating and spinning towards them immediately stopped doing that and instead faced their Low Battleships with particular angles. Everyone was flabbergasted except the rushing spaceships of the Quiongu Fanhui Existence.

Just as the 3 enemy commanders had a strange twinkle show in their eyes as they looked at the way the young black monster’s spaceships were placed, and their soberness returned… Thinking that they could end that young black monster and stop their main force’s advancement here and now with their thunderous forced detonation… a strange, silent noise echoed.

Bowwbooumb!!

“!!!” The enemy became flabbergasted yet again as they recognized what it was… A dark dome appeared, engulfing everyone in the enemy Battleships. When it blinked out, revealing color to their surroundings again, they watched as a pale young man wearing a dark coat and posing 2 lifeless eyes to strike their Souls took away the explosive equipment without saying a thing to them.

Bowwbooumb!! Bowwbooumb!! Bowwbooumb!! Bowwbooumb!!...

Heian Ciemnosc activated and deactivated his Myriad Darkness Materialization in quick succession as he appeared and disappeared from the dozen Battleships remaining from the initial 30. Heian Ciemnosc finished stealing all the explosive equipment by the time 12 seconds passed. He rapidly traveled through the dark and collected them before showing up at an enemy Battleship, then disappeared… and repeat.

Heian Ciemnosc would’ve used only one dark dome if these were friendly Battleships or if he was at the Third Step, but he was not. After he was finished, and he even ogled at his targets, the enemy commanders reacted, and their eyes shone as their Spirit Sense activated those explosives.

…booom.

“!!” However, to their utter dismay, a couple flashes appeared tens of thousands of kilometers below them, where no ally or foe moved or fought. Naturally, they were driven over there by Vocón Link, which rushed them out of the dark dome every time after Heian Ciemnosc activated another.

… fwoh… Meanwhile, with just the speed they had before, the young black monster’s spaceships moved forward, still in their strange position facing the enemy Battleships now without any method to defend themselves from utter obliteration.

The main force behind strangely ignored them, however, and continued on their way to rush past the once-a-blockade. Then, under the still, steeled gazes of the enemy, their eyes opened as the young black monster’s sharpest machine guns opened fire— but only aimed at the structures’ floors and modules’ surrounding walls!

Ta- rarararararara!! Clink clink, CLAANK~!!! Pfshuuuuhhhshhhh~~!!!!

“... … …” The enemy looked at the space and passing Existence’s spaceships. The young black monster’s force seemed stagnant, although their spaceships also continued to move towards their now open and vulnerable apertures made by their machine guns, which didn’t continue firing after exposing them all. Hangars, modules, central commands, and even store and resting modules. It all became visible to those outside. And just as the spectators in the other battlefield felt strange… The call shook the 4th line battlefield.

“Attaaaaaaaackkk!!!!” - “RAAAAAH!!” - “HUAAA!!!!”

WHOOSH, WHOOSH, WHOOSH, WHOOSH, WHOOSH, WHOOSH, WHOOSH, WHOOSH…

Millions of soldier units rushed from every spaceship in the young black monster’s force. Their spaceships suddenly stopped, and their respective cultivators flew into space like madmen!!

“!!!!!” The enemy’s eyes widened to their utter disbelief and amazement, but they wouldn’t cower now that opportunities had arisen. Since they wanted to fight, fights they will have! Since they are giving themselves to us, our spirits will rise! Fight! Fight!! Fight!!!

“Attaaaaaaackk!!!” A Colgova with a dark blue crystal color, looking like metal, raised her right arm and aimed at the incoming cultivators. Instead of ordering a full-on defense, her voice claimed for death to be met with death! To war! To fight! To die!!!

“GAAAAH!” - “WAAAAAAH!!!!!” WHOOSH, WHOOSH, WHOOSH, WHOOSH, WHOOSH, WHOOSH…

The enemy wasn’t shy to bash their mouths wide open and roar. Their bodies flew into space, and although they lacked momentum and speed compared to the young black monster’s soldier units, nobody shied away, and they put an enormous halt to the incoming cultivators. It had started!

PSHIFT, PSHIFT, PSHIFT, PSHIFT, PSHIFT, PSHIFT, PSHIFT, PSHIFT, PSHIFT… PAAAAMMMMMMMMM~!...

Everyone was in the Mythical realm in this sudden space battle, with only a few in the Central Formation realm. But the latter were very few and didn’t join the former. Instead, they sought opponents of similar cultivation bases, even concerning their stage and not just their realm.

With the initial clash, every cultivator at the front of their side was halted, and their bodies recoiled but maintained their position despite their enhanced Neutral Energy running rampant in their opposing cultivators’ bodies. After a slight stop, they pushed each other after a strike, making an opening before joining each other in a brutal, semi-momentous death match!

Neutral Energy attacks flashed in the hundreds of thousands, only to be blocked or parried with other Neutral Energy attacks. Art techniques whooshed through space in the form of offensive patterns, Fauna, flora, and weapons. Raining from one side to the other, the hearts of cultivators stopped beating after being pierced, punched to become squashed, or until their bodies couldn’t hold any longer.

One minute ago, they breathed in and out, thumping inside their respective, different bodies. Now, they were dying, falling, and ceasing to beat.

Now, it was all the war they’d cherished, and as other parts sharing the same body collapsed, their commitment had come. Falling, destroyed, or roaring while still beating, or for the last few moments, they remained firm and stable while their cultivators moved, suffered, flew, and were bashed to death.

The joy of battle!

The enemy had many more personnel than Heian Ciemnosc’s side. While Heian Ciemnosc’s force had 8 Low Battleships, the enemy had 12. But while the enemy didn’t have additional spaceships, Heian Ciemnosc’s military unit didn’t have enough to even be considered an incomplete Fleet.

But while the young black monster’s side had fewer soldier units, who were they if not under the young black monster’s command?! Their every roar, every move, their goddamn deaths, and the swing of their arms, weapons, Neutral Energy, and blood floating in space marked the most glorious, brighter, and formidable half of the picture painting!

When the battle had just started, the young black monster’s spaceships resumed their original positions according to the general universal conveyance. Then, they moved to surround the enemy Low Battleships, not attacking anyone on the enemy side, not out of caution, but because of their commander’s orders.

They could’ve just bombarded their targets as intended, but Heian Ciemnosc’s last-moment commands were irrefutable! Besides… in Heian Ciemnosc’s words… where would the fun be?

“...” Heian Ciemnosc showed himself before his Low Battleship flew away to do the same and started firing from far away at the enemy column to give some support. They changed their gravity array formations to arch their bullets and artillery shells. It didn’t matter if they were positioned at the bottom, top, or sides.

“...” Then, Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes landed on the enemy commanders, his elite group’s targets. His dark coat fluttered as he saw the female Colgova’s eyes already set on his. Then, as the Colgova remained within her central command, another 2 joined her. Heian Ciemnosc’s darkest eyes fleetingly passed over them, but his gaze returned to the Colgova’s body to remain.

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