Forty Lion King-class interstellar missiles began their terminal acceleration, burning through their remaining fuel in the shortest possible time to reach maximum velocity!
Not all forty Lion King-class interstellar missiles targeted the Fire Salamander Tribe's T2 flagship.
Only twenty did; the remaining twenty were dispersed among the surrounding Fire Salamander Tribe starships.
Bursts of explosive flames erupted in the dark void of space.
The T2 flagship of the Eighth Fleet was hit the hardest, its entire ship hull blanketed by the T2 Lion King-class heavy interstellar missile ship.
Explosive flames engulfed it.
Almost instantly, all starships under the Fire Lizard Eighth Fleet lost communication with their flagship.
"Report! The Eighth Fleet's flagship, the T2 Grizzly-class heavy interstellar battleship, has been destroyed!"
This news startled the Fire Lizard Clan Chief, who had been preparing to "hunt" the T3 interstellar warship.
"What?" The Fire Lizard Clan Chief stood up abruptly from his captain's chair.
The battle had barely begun—less than a few minutes in—and one of his fleet's flagships was already destroyed!
Was this some kind of joke?
He pulled up the battlefield footage of his Eighth Fleet and was instantly dumbfounded.
All he could see now was the wreckage of a starship so mangled that even the original shape of the T2 Grizzly-class heavy interstellar battleship was unrecognizable.
If not for the fact that his subordinates wouldn't dare deceive him about such a matter, he would have asked:
Is this really the Eighth Fleet's flagship?
Zooming in on the footage, he saw an even more chilling scene.
Besides the mangled T2 Grizzly, within a certain radius around it were the wreckage of several T1 interstellar warships, as well as some T2 starships that had suffered attacks.
Although those T2 starships hadn't been destroyed, their main components, such as main cannon gun emplacements, were severely damaged.
"Interstellar missiles? It's an interstellar missile ship!" The Fire Lizard Clan Chief watched the footage released by his subordinates.
One of the clips showed an unidentified T2 interstellar missile ship.
Such a niche starship type had rarely, if ever, appeared in the Reef Starfield.
After all, that single volley of interstellar missiles—though only fifty in number—would cost at least five to six hundred thousand Star Coins based on prevailing market prices!
Such terrifying combat expenditure was precisely why few stellar powers equipped T2 interstellar missile ships.
Unless you could fully research and manufacture them yourself, perhaps then the cost might be lower.
But if you purchased a T2 interstellar missile ship from someone else, it meant you'd need to continuously buy batches of interstellar missiles from them over the long term.
Unlike other starships, which were typically one-time purchases—with maintenance being the only recurring cost, and some even manageable independently—this was a different story.
The Fire Lizard Clan Chief now realized another critical issue: the attack interval of a T2 interstellar missile ship was extremely short!
Sure enough.
At that moment, the T2 interstellar missile ship launched another fifty interstellar missiles, heading straight for the Fire Lizard Eighth Fleet.
"Immediately arrange for the other starships of the Eighth Fleet to take over command! The Fourth Fleet must immediately launch an assault on the enemy fleet and eliminate that T2 interstellar missile ship as quickly as possible!" the Fire Lizard Clan Chief urgently commanded.
At this moment, Zhao Chen was also admiring the "debut performance" of the T2 Lion King-class Heavy Interstellar Missile Ship.
It had to be said, the feeling of this kind of firepower bombardment was truly exhilarating.
But Zhao Chen still felt a pang of pain.
This volley of fifty stellar missiles, each costing six hundred Star Coins to produce, amounted to a total value of thirty thousand Star Coins!
If sold, the profit margin would likely be ten to twenty times that.
This was precisely the advantage of self-research and self-production.
"The scene is quite beautiful," Zhao Chen joked to Charlotte beside him.
Charlotte glanced at the spectacle of the stellar missile explosions. "How could a scene of burning money not be beautiful?"
Amidst the exploding debris, the scent of money seemed to linger.
Soon, the second volley of fifty stellar missiles descended, this time with precise targeting.
They specifically sought out the T2 starships within the Fire Lizard Eighth Fleet, focusing on interstellar battleships, stellar battlecruisers, and stellar cruisers.
"If we had dozens of T2 Lion Kings, we could spread the love around," Zhao Chen mused, rubbing his chin as he imagined the scene.
Upon hearing this, Charlotte couldn't help but feel a chill run down her spine.
That scenario would undoubtedly be terrifying!
The second volley of stellar missiles now exploded one after another, engulfing one Fire Lizard T2 starship after another.
Immediately following, the third and fourth volleys of stellar missiles arrived in quick succession!
Under these three rounds of firepower bombardment, twelve T2 starships were directly destroyed, over forty T2 starships were severely damaged, and dozens of T1 interstellar warships were caught in the crossfire.
This directly stripped the Fire Lizard Eighth Fleet's T2 starships of eighty percent of their combat capability.
But it was not over yet.
The Fire Lizard Eighth Fleet, just recovering from the three rounds of bombardment, now faced a dark, swarming mass of interstellar drones.
The nightmare had only just begun.
Bridge of the T2 Lion King-class Heavy Interstellar Missile Ship
Bai Xue, the wolf girl, observed the already crippled Fire Lizard Eighth Fleet. After another round of attacks from the interstellar drone swarm, it posed virtually no threat anymore.
She turned her attention to the other approaching Fire Lizard fleet.
The strategy was to use the combined forces of the T2 Lion King-class Heavy Interstellar Missile Ship and the T2 Queen Bee-class Heavy Carrier Starship to first cripple one of the two fleets, stripping it of its main combat strength.
Then, they would turn to face the remaining Fire Lizard fleet, quickly conclude the battle on this front, and provide support to the T3 Blizzard-class Light Interstellar Battlecruiser!
This was the battle plan devised by Bai Xue and Charlotte.
"Lock onto the target area of the Fire Lizard Fourth Fleet's flagship. Prepare six volleys of stellar missiles!" Bai Xue selected the Fire Lizard Fourth Fleet as her next target.
This time, the targeted fleet flagship was no ordinary vessel.
It was the Fire Lizard Tribe's T3 Specter-class Medium Interstellar Destroyer!
It had already deployed its star shield early on, but it was now facing wave after wave of stellar missiles.
The first volley of fifty stellar missiles unceremoniously descended upon this T3 Specter-class Medium Interstellar Destroyer.
This scene sent shivers down the spines of the generals on the bridge of the fire lizard starship surrounding the Fourth Fleet's flagship.
It was terrifying!
The T2 Lion King-class Heavy Interstellar Missile Ship perfectly demonstrated why it was also called the 'Interstellar Arsenal Ship,' fearlessly challenging a T3 interstellar warship despite being a tier lower!
Wherever its artillery fire reached, only ruins remained!
This was the interstellar missile ship!
This was Zhao Chen's 'Lion King'!
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