Wandering Meteor-Chapter 260 - 259: Ever-Changing in a Blink of an Eye

In an instant, the situation was ever-changing.

The eight Battle Stars of the Lithium Eagle squadron were locked in a fierce struggle with the Entropy Tree, while tens of thousands of light-years away, Lithium Eagle Ten was suddenly besieged by both the Square Clan Civilization and the Shell Clan Civilization. Since the battles on both fronts were crucial for the survival and continuation of the civilizations involved, all parties poured in their full efforts, making the fights exceptionally intense and spectacular.

In the clash between the Lithium Eagle squadron and the Entropy Tree, the outcome remained in a deadlock, with no resolution in sight for the time being.

However, although the fight involving Lithium Eagle Ten had just begun, the disparity in combat power was immediately evident from the onset of hostilities. Unlike the Lithium Eagle squadron, which could somewhat match the Entropy Tree’s strength, the Lithium Eagle squadron was at a disadvantage. Still, it would take the Entropy Tree some effort to completely neutralize the remaining eight Battle Stars.

In the end, the Square and Shell Clan Civilizations were merely Level 3 Civilizations. Even though they combined had a total of one thousand seven hundred Battle Stars, due to technological limitations of their civilization, these Battle Stars’ size and energy level were not particularly high. The most massive among them were only a few hundred planetary masses, while Lithium Eagle Ten possessed a thousand planetary masses. Coupled with the technological support of a Level 4 Civilization, the coordinated assault by the Square and Shell Clan Civilizations was ineffective.

One could see that one thousand seven hundred Battle Stars quickly surrounded Lithium Eagle Ten, relentlessly firing various energy particle beams, spatial attacks, gravitational wave attacks, and more. However, fearing the Absolute Zero Domain, the Constant Star Leaders of the Square and Shell Clan Civilizations did not dare to get too close and only launched long-range attacks such as Crown Hole Radiation from a few astronomical units away. This was also one of their strategies: to use their Planet Battle Stars to besiege Lithium Eagle Ten and force it to deploy the Absolute Zero Domain, then use the ensuing half-hour to attempt to annihilate Lithium Eagle Ten.

Sadly for them, it was a well-thought-out plan.

But their combat strength was insufficient, and all of their attacks were effectively blocked by Lithium Eagle Ten’s defensive measures.

Moreover, this was while Lithium Eagle Ten had not even utilized the Absolute Zero Domain. Aware of the cool-down period for using the Absolute Zero Domain, Lithium Eagle Ten would not use it lightly without facing a significant threat and managed to fend off these "flies" with just conventional weapons.

However, an interesting scene unfolded during the battle.

Due to the smaller size and energy level of the Battle Stars of the two civilizations, compared to the massive Lithium Eagle Ten, they resembled ping-pong balls or basketballs in their diminutiveness.

These tiny Battle Stars chaotically flew around the massive Lithium Eagle Ten, and from afar, they resembled a metal atom magnified many times over.

This is because the electrons in a metal atom do not have fixed orbits, they are numerous, and they too orbit the nucleus in a disorderly manner. This bore a striking resemblance to the one thousand seven hundred Battle Stars flying around Lithium Eagle Ten.

"Hmph, seeking your own doom, then we shall oblige you!"

After a brief engagement, Lithium Eagle Ten decided in a strategic meeting to eradicate the Square Clan Civilization and the Shell Clan Civilization completely.

Their mission target was not these two civilizations anyway. Initially, it was thought that they could contribute to the Star Realm Ball crisis, but now these two civilizations seemed to offer no useful contribution and instead became a burden. It made sense to simply eliminate them and lighten their own load.

Whoosh whoosh...

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Those were the Unified Energy Beams, not particularly wide in diameter, but containing exceptionally high energy and density. They effortlessly shattered the thirty thousand kilometer-wide Crown Hole Radiation fired by the distant stars.

As for the other Unified Energy Beams, they were aimed at the nearby Planet Battle Stars.

Despite the Battle Stars activating their space defenses immediately upon detecting the attack, it was unfortunate that they had greatly underestimated the power of the Unified Energy Beam. The beam, the size of an arm, penetrated the Space Barrier as effortlessly as a red-hot wire slicing through cling film. It then precisely hit the Planet Battle Star, went through the thick alloy steel plates on the surface, and penetrated into the core area of the Battle Star. About one-fifth of a second later, the Planet Battle Star exploded, bursting into flames that reached the sky, taking the Battle Star and everyone inside to their graves in the blaze.

Since the flight trajectories of the seventeen hundred Planet Battle Stars were already very chaotic,

when a few Battle Stars were suddenly destroyed by the Unified Energy Beams, the shockwaves from the explosions affected the nearby Battle Stars. These stars either had their equipment damaged or, due to loss of detection in their field of view, accidentally collided with other Battle Stars, leading to a domino effect of accidents.

It was also from the moment Lithium Eagle Ten began its counterattack that the war took a one-sided turn.

With the technological weaponry of the Square Clan Civilization and the Shell Clan Civilization, they were absolutely incapable of inflicting severe damage on Lithium Eagle Ten.

Yet they were consecutively destroyed by the Level 4 Civilization’s conventional weaponry on Lithium Eagle Ten, at a rate of about one Planet Battle Star every half hour, totaling to 48 stars in one day.

After the battle turned one-sided on this front,

on another front, the skirmish between Lithium Eagle Squadron and the Entropy Tree also gradually became one-sided.

Originally, the eight Battle Stars of the Lithium Eagle Squadron were already at a disadvantage. As the Entropy Tree completely freed itself from the shackles of the Absolute Zero Domain, it began to break down matter to its fundamental state with the Unified Force, and then reconstitute it into neutrons, forming Tree Needles. It is precisely because it can grow in size and length by adding neutrons that the Tree Needles can grow indefinitely.

Under the increasingly numerous attack from the Tree Needles, the eight Battle Stars of the Lithium Eagle Squadron were slowly overwhelmed.

Though every half hour, the Lithium Eagle Squadron could use the Absolute Zero Domain to delay the Entropy Tree, after several occasions, the Entropy Tree gained more and more experience in dealing with the Absolute Zero Domain. Eventually, before the Absolute Zero Domain could even approach the Entropy Tree, the Seizing Vibration Field within it was dispersed by the Unified Force Field.

The Entropy Tree, controlling its massive body, advanced forward. After dispersing an Absolute Zero Domain, it rapidly assembled hundreds of millions of Tree Needles into a single Planet-level Tree Needle, a hundred million kilometers thick, and ferociously lashed it towards Lithium Eagle Eight. In response to such a terrifying attack, Lithium Eagle Eight had no choice but to use Space Wormholes for evasive maneuvers. However, unexpectedly, a Tree Needle suddenly emerged from a Space Wormhole and brutally stabbed into the interior of Lithium Eagle Eight’s Battle Star.

In just over ten minutes, the Battle Star of Lithium Eagle Eight was decomposed and absorbed by the Entropy Tree, becoming an energy supplement for it.

However, this was just one scene in this fierce battle. The eight Battle Stars of the Lithium Eagle Squadron were consecutively destroyed under the intense assault of the Entropy Tree — some were pierced by Tree Needles, others were torn apart by Planet-level Tree Needles, and some were enveloped and devoured by hundreds of millions of Tree Needles...

Gradually, the Lithium Eagle Squadron had only Lithium Eagle One’s Battle Star remaining.

Seeing that the situation was beyond salvation, Lithium Eagle One made a decisive decision, messaging Lithium Eagle Ten to let the latter take Wandering and leave immediately, heading back to headquarters.

However, the soldiers on Lithium Eagle Ten had their own judgment.

After lengthy deliberations, they felt that their comrades were more important than an uncharted Metal Planet. As a result, they openly defied the orders of Lithium Eagle One, deciding to rescue Lithium Eagle One and then leave the Star Realm Ball, regardless of the fate of the Square Clan Civilization, the Shell Clan Civilization, or the Wandering Alliance.

Boom!

However, the situation on-site was far more complex than imagined.

Just as Lithium Eagle Ten abandoned the battlefield against the Square Clan Civilization and the Shell Clan Civilization, opened a Space Wormhole, and prepared to go to the rescue of Lithium Eagle One, it suddenly encountered a sneak attack.