The void war was going so well.
Although that guy Kasjia was a nepotism case, his command was clearly insightful.
He had managed to catch the enemy warship's laser weapons during their recharge cycle, thereby seizing void superiority, and had destroyed a large number of enemy warships with lightning speed, securing victory in the void war.
Logically, the battle should have ended there.
But no!
This Kasjia, like an insatiable hunter, just had to personally find a good xenos warship to board!
Looking at the scanner, where the xenos warship the team had boarded was getting closer and closer to the gate, the fleet commander's heart tightened.
Under normal circumstances, if they were afraid of an enemy ship escaping, they would just knock out its engines.
But the structure of these crystal xenos warships seemed particularly strange. Even though their ships had completed a scan of the enemy ship with the information from the boarding party, they still couldn't find the specific location of the enemy's engines.
Emperor above!
Why do we have to board?!
Isn't it better to just blast them to bits with lances and macro-cannons?
Is boarding a fun, coooooool thing to do!?
As a fleet commander, he had a deep loathing for such a barbaric act as boarding.
"Commander."
"Perhaps Kasjia's way of thinking and acting is indeed a bit unconventional, but his actions always seem to play a key role."
"Just like when he ordered a retreat to wait for an opportunity, which allowed us to launch a surprise attack on the xenos warships."
The fleet commander recognized the speaker.
Koleon.
A young girl with a great talent for piloting starships, now serving as an apprentice to the captain of this Lunar-class cruiser, she stepped forward to persuade him.
"I hope so," he could only say with a bitter smile.
"This way!"
"Keep up!"
Kasjia slowly advanced with the large boarding shield in his hands, blasting one crystal xenos after another who dared to block his path into charcoal.
Although the large shield in his hands was heavy, judging by Kasjia's light footsteps, he didn't seem to have slowed down because of it.
As a Space Marine modification that had cost more resources, although Kasjia didn't understand what was different about his, in terms of basic aspects like reaction speed and strength, he was already far beyond the level of a typical Space Marine.
The power of stats.
And boarding was indeed a very fun, coooooool thing to do!
"Almost there. Behind this door is the central area of the xenos warship."
"Tarvitz, prepare the melta charges."
"Yes."
Kasjia's tactical squad stopped in front of a huge, thick crystal door.
Unlike the other jagged crystals of the warship, this crystal door was extremely smooth and seemed to be emitting a faint fluorescent light, dimly illuminating the deck.
According to previous detection results and feedback from other boarding party members, all other areas of the xenos warship had been explored, but they had not been able to find the location of the enemy's engines and command room.
This was the core area of the teardrop-shaped xenos warship, and also the only area that had not yet been explored.
Even Kasjia's proud mechanical spiders had not been able to find an entrance here.
And by process of elimination, their final target could only be here.
[Melta charge has been placed. Will detonate in ten seconds.]
[Ten!]
[Nine!]
Seeing that the huge explosive pack had been attached to the door, the team quickly retreated, looking for cover.
[One!]
With a muffled explosion, Kasjia calmly raised his large shield and slowly advanced into this final room.
The structure here was different from the rest of the warship.
The extremely high dome was made of a very pure, transparent material, and was cut as neatly and magnificently as a jewel.
And what was seen on the four sides of this circular room was not various colored crystals, but everything that was happening outside in space.
As if seeing through all obstructions, it offered a panoramic view of the void outside.
The whistling gunships and warships, and the cruiser trying to stop them from passing through the gate with its ramming prow... all in plain sight.
At this moment, the huge Dalinite Gate, emitting a faint light, was still approaching them.
We have to hurry.
Kasjia thought to himself.
In this final room, apart from the crystal door they had just blown up, there were no other entrances or exits.
The empty circular hall had a radius of several hundred meters, and in the very center of the hall, an exceptionally large crystal was quietly floating.
Like those crystal xenos, this was a construct composed of countless transparent and semi-transparent crystals, but its size was simply enormous compared to the ones they had encountered before.
The crystal construct, about ten meters high, was quietly attached to the very center of the room, pulsating slightly.
It did not seem to have changed due to the arrival of uninvited guests like Kasjia.
"Fire on the core together," Kasjia commanded calmly.
These xenos were more troublesome than he had imagined.
Judging by the current situation, the warship seemed to be directly controlled by this giant crystal, leaving no external interface for them.
It was almost impossible to seize control without destroying the structure.
But since they were already here, they couldn't just leave empty-handed.
Kasjia, along with the other two, tried to fire their bolt guns at the core of the crystal.
VMM!
VMM! VMM! VMM!
Several scorching beams shot out from three points, converging on the core of the giant crystal.
But the other party's crystal shell was only left with a few small, blackened marks.
As the master of the warship, its defensive power seemed to be much higher than that of the other crystal xenos.
Kasjia and his team's attack had failed to penetrate its defense.
And as the bolt beams proved ineffective, the crystal also seemed to realize something, constantly changing the shape of its own crystals.
Until the next moment, the center of the huge thing, scorched by the bolt gun's beams, aimed at them.
"DODGE!!!"
A shout from Arcur behind them instantly filled the entire hall.
ZHEW!
As if the crystal walls did not exist at all, a huge beam of light shot at the tactical squad's original position, leaving a shining trail in the void.
This laser... it was exactly the same as the light cannons fired by the xenos warships!
Damn it!
Kasjia, who had barely dodged in time, felt a wave of fear.
This thing wasn't just their command and control system, it was also the xenos warship's laser weapon!
"Is everyone alright?"
Kasjia anxiously looked around.
It seemed that because their tactical squad was full of hidden talents, Tarvitz and Lucius were both experts.
Even if their reaction speed was not as fast as his and Sword Saint Arcur's, they still managed to narrowly dodge this powerful blow.
"Captain, what now?"
Tarvitz asked, getting up.
"Look for an opening."
"When it fired its laser just now, it seemed to expose its core."
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