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After all, Oberon and Tura were acquainted, so he did not have the arrogance of a space necromancer, but instead spoke to Tura in a consultative and equal manner.
He was willing to consult with Trajan before carrying out the mission. He still held an equal attitude towards humans, unlike ordinary space undead or even minor nobles who viewed humans as pests.
The galaxy belongs to the Necromancer Empire, who view all races within it as transients, or rather, as long-term guests and pests residing in their home. This was the Necromancers' view in the past.
However, the communications from the Triune Council have now informed all the Necromancer nobles and overlords of the space, causing them to set aside their prejudices against humanity.
It's just a galaxy, and although it's the home star system of their Fearful Death Empire, it's not anything particularly important.
Compared to the vastness of the universe, the Milky Way is just a tiny galaxy.
They are still willing to share with humans.
Putting everything else aside, just the fact that humans can provide them with souls, and that they would share a galaxy with them, is something they could completely accept.
"Okay, thank you very much. It's you again to assist us in the battle."
Trajan added a word at this moment, after all, this was an acquaintance, and given the attitude of the Necromancers, he shouldn't be too arrogant to avoid jeopardizing the relationship between humans and the Necromancers.
It was one thing if he didn't know what the Necromancers of Space meant before, but now that Trajan has been with the Warmaster for so long, if he still can't figure out what the Necromancers of Space are all about, then he's really getting more and more out of touch with reality.
The reason the human empire was able to gain some advantage in its previous battles against the space undead was because the human empire's weapons were far too primitive, appearing to the space undead to be nothing more than Stone Age artifacts.
The various shields and weapons of the Necromancers were prepared to deal with god-level wars, which meant that the human macro cannon, a weapon that still uses physical projectiles, could pose a certain threat to the Necromancer warships.
Advanced civilizations like the Necromancers would find it hard to understand why a civilization in the space age would still use physical weapons.
However, by the time Trajan was in command of the patrol fleet, he had already realized that the shields on the Space Necromancers might not be able to withstand the attacks of the Imperial Grand Cannon, because they had not expected to have such a rudimentary weapon.
However, his warships are not the empire's junk ships, but warships given to him by Zhou Qing, which possess a certain level of technology.
Turalyon knew perfectly well that his fleet only needed 3 to 4 Titan ships to destroy a planetary-level Leviathan swarm by combining their main guns.
However, such attacks would not have the same effect if they were launched at the Necromancer's warships.
Once the human federation's warships, which have already reached god-level civilization, engage in combat with the space undead, the weapons equipped by the space undead will be effectively utilized.
The Necromancers of space could not defend against the ancient cannons of the Human Empire; weapons do not mean they cannot stop the Infernal Rays of the Human Federation.
Sometimes falling behind isn't necessarily a bad thing; at least being so far behind that others don't even understand you is a kind of strength.
Chapter 241 A Decisive Battle
With the human fleet and the space undead fleet joining forces, thousands of warships began heading towards the edge of the planet.
Since both fleets are capable of traveling at speeds hundreds or even thousands of times faster than light, they can be said to be running side by side.
Of course, it's not that the Necromancer's warships can't move at a faster speed, but their current speed is sufficient to cover their human allies.
The massive fleet headed towards the Zerg swarm, while the human Empire's auxiliary warships proceeded slowly along the way.
Although they have undergone some modernization improvements, even with these improvements, the warships of the human empire are still limited in their ability to reach only 2200 times the speed of light.
This speed is far too slow compared to the fact that both sides' main fleets are traveling at 6 times the speed of light.
Therefore, while the main fleets of both sides arrived at their exact engagement positions with the Zerg swarm, the Imperial human auxiliary fleet was still slowly making its way there.
However, these auxiliary warships are not meant to be deployed right now. It doesn't matter; they are only used to annihilate ordinary Zerg units.
The initial stages of the war were naturally dominated by capital ships.
When the Necromancer and human fleets arrived, hundreds of Zerg planetary-level Leviathans also appeared within the range of their probes.
"Should Lord Oberon launch an attack?" The Necromancers' fleet was more powerful, so Trajan chose to consult his allies.
"Just send the entire army in! These planetary-level Leviathans are just low-level warships; destroying them is easy!"
Unlike humans who rarely engage in combat with Zerg swarms, the Necromancers of the Space possess a vast database of data on battles with Zerg swarms. Therefore, Oberon could clearly perceive that the Zerg swarm before him, though resembling planetary Leviathans, was actually quite powerful.
However, if you insist on talking about combat strength, they're not that great. After all, even Titan warships could inflict devastating damage on them, and those warships were just some inferior products.
Because this battle took place on the edge of the planet, where most of the area was empty, the battlefield was set in the void. The void of the universe was shattered at this moment by the roar of warships.
Thousands of streaks of light fired from the surface of the warship before the swarm of insects even reached its actual firing range.
Light-year-long attacks are not unique to humans; space necromancers also exist, and attacks spanning light-years have already reached the Zerg swarm.
The Zerg fleet clearly hadn't anticipated the Allied forces' proactive attack. When the first wave of light-year strikes hit, blinding flames erupted from the surfaces of several planetary-level Leviathans, and the bio-armor rapidly carbonized and disintegrated under the bombardment of energy weapons.
"Target hit! 18 Leviathans destroyed!" the observer on the warship reported excitedly.
The combined attack by the Necromancers and humans was almost a fatal blow to this ordinary Zerg fleet.
Despite being hit like that, the insects did not immediately flee.
The Zerg fleet was not made of clay; they quickly began to reorganize.
The surviving Leviathans immediately changed formation, releasing a dense cloud of spores for cover.
Strangely, these spore clouds were able to block some of the Federation fleet's detection, and they also partially blocked the Space Necromancers' fleet detection.
The Leviathan wreckage, destroyed in a location detectable by both fleets, began to writhe under the cover of a cloud of spores, and new biological tissue was regenerating at a visible rate.
The destruction of these warships is not a problem for the Zerg swarm; their focus is on continuing to devour enough biomass to resume the fight.
However, the human fleet was not afraid of this tactic. Just two hours later, the main cannons of the space undead and humans fired again!
The massive attack struck the swarm of insects in space once again, destroying dozens more planetary-level Leviathans.
Even if these insects can endlessly devour their own remains and then transform back into sufficiently powerful combat units, so what? All the fear stems from insufficient firepower. With the assistance of the space necromancers, the firepower of the human fleet is more than enough.
More importantly, they were only the main guns, which took two hours to fire one shot, but that didn't mean the secondary guns were ineffective. The secondary weapons continued to pour fire on the Zerg fleet, causing their warships to suffer heavy losses on their way to the human legion fleet.
Although the Zerg swarm had made some minor evolutions to counter the previous human fleet, they had no idea that the Necromancer fleet would join the battle at this time.
The fact that the Necromancers in space even deployed such a massive fleet to support humanity meant that the outcome of the war was almost a foregone conclusion from the very beginning.
By the time the human Empire's auxiliary fleet arrived, almost all of the Zerg's large warships had already been destroyed.
The planetary-level Leviathans were completely destroyed. The remaining large swarms of warships were devouring the wreckage of the planetary-level Leviathans in an attempt to recover and become stronger, but the battleships and cruisers were not to be underestimated.
With the help of the Necromancers' cruisers and graveyard fleet, these insectoids' plans were doomed to fail, and they were quickly wiped out.
However, perhaps the Great Devourer realized that if it continued to advance, it would only face certain death.
Therefore, a small portion of the Zerg fleet fled the battlefield in panic before the human support fleet arrived.
The number of the Zerg swarm fleet far exceeded that of the two main fleets of the Necromancers and the Terrans. Due to their sheer numbers and relatively small size, one of their tentacles escaped the area.
Generally speaking, a Zerg swarm's fleet is just a tiny tentacle and has no chance of having its own consciousness.
But this one is different.
Perhaps the main fleet of the Zerg knew that it was doomed, so the Zerg consciousness transferred to this small tentacle.
Or perhaps for some other reason.
In short, during the time it took for the human fleet to arrive and begin clearing the battlefield, he secretly headed towards the Extreme Starfield.
He could sense that there was a lot of food there. If he could go in and devour a few planets, he could quickly bring back a Zerg hive fleet.
Although it can't compare to the scale it has today, there is still hope.
Chapter 242 The Swarm Tentacles Seeking Refuge
A Zerg fleet stealthily circled around this terrifying battlefield and began to approach the edge of the Extreme Starfield; it needed to eat.
"Hungry, hungry, food..."
Filled with endless malice and a generalized desire, he continued to approach the human frontier, and how could such a Zerg hive fleet possibly escape human exploration?
When the real fighting ceased, Trajan, with his fleet, discovered the small swarm of insects that had fled.
Upon discovering that the enemy was actually fleeing towards the extreme star field, he immediately led his fleet in pursuit.
Ultimately, this Zerg fleet was no match for the true main Zerg swarm and was rather unique.
When Trajan arrived with his fleet before the swarm of insects, the insects were somewhat panicked.
Although its size cannot be compared to that of the planet Leviathan, it is not small either.
Even so, this insectoid fleet still displayed remarkable humanity in its panic.
Trajan looked at the insect hive tentacles before him, preparing to order an attack.
"Prepare..." Before his command was fully issued, an indescribable stream of consciousness linked with his brain.
"Let me go! I just want to eat. If you give me food, I'll serve you!"
Trajan was stunned; he had never imagined that the swarm would initiate communication.
As the commander of the Imperial Guard, he instinctively suspected it was a trap.
"Who are you?" Trajan asked cautiously through the psionic link.
"I am... sizzling... hungry, I'm so hungry, I want to eat," the information conveyed by that stream of consciousness came intermittently.
Trajan was so confused that he couldn't figure out what the other person meant or who they were.
"You want to eat? I don't have any food for you!" Unable to understand what the other party meant, Trajan chose to refuse directly and then prepared to issue orders to continue destroying the Zerg fleet.
"No, please don't do this... I just want to live... I just want to eat."
Perhaps for some other reason, in any case, faced with the threat of death, the swarm's tentacle consciousness actually managed to express what it wanted to say.
Turalyon fell silent. He hadn't expected that a swarm consciousness would beg for mercy from him, even expressing the simple desire to live and eat.
Of course, even with such a pleading insect swarm, Trajan would never let it go.
But just as he was about to give the order to attack, he stopped.
The powerful image of those swarm Leviathans appeared in Trajan's mind, especially the scene where these swarm Leviathans, even after being destroyed, could be devoured by others and then transformed into other combat units.
Perhaps we could try informing the Commander of War about this and let him make the decision?
Thinking of this, Turalyon did not continue to directly destroy the swarm of tentacles. Instead, he issued another different order.
"Surround this swarm of insect tentacles and make sure it stays here, preventing it from wandering off!"
"All fleets, maintain encirclement formation!" Trajan ordered. "No firing without my command!"
The Imperial Guard fleet quickly deployed, surrounding the unusual insect swarm tentacles.
The Necromancers also discovered the fleeing swarm of insectoids, but under Oberon's orders, they did not approach.