Darkness.
It's the background color of the universe.
Empty.
This is the theme song of the universe.
The birth and destruction of anything is just a speck on this black cloth.
After what happened over 700 years ago, the entire geothermal civilization began to tighten their defenses, and they had been waiting for the enemy to come.
It was just that after waiting for so long, the enemy forces still hadn't arrived, causing their defenses to go from the original pouring out of their nests to three by three.
Looking from space, there were only dozens of spacecraft patrolling around the entire planet.
There were a few more farther away from the planet as an advance defense.
It was inertia belonging to the creatures.
It originated from the lowest level of energy-consuming logic.
As long as creatures favored conserving body energy, then inertia would exist.
The entire planet was much brighter than it had been nearly a thousand years ago, more buildings were rising up on the planet, and it was even beginning to rely less on volcanoes.
This was also thanks to the Absolute Zero missiles.
Allowing the civilization to passively get rid of its reliance on geothermal heat over the course of a few hundred years, and fully switch to nuclear power generation.
External threats were the best stepping stone to civilization's progress.
This saying is really not wrong.
The reason why human beings have been able to develop so fast is also due to the characteristic of human civilization - endless wars.
The history of human civilization was also the history of human war!
Just when all the creatures on the planet were slacking off due to centuries of peace and stability.
A beam of light lit up from afar and hit a giant crystal ball on the ground.
The internal structure of this crystal ball immediately dispersed the light evenly after it was struck by the beam, causing the entire crystal ball to turn into a huge light bulb.
The light emitted from this crystal ball could be seen for hundreds of kilometers around.
At once.
Chaos rose at first.
Countless battleships began to prepare to lift off.
Bright light shot out from the planet's surface towards space.
The civilization was able to determine the enemy's position and distance in almost half an hour through the light.
Tens of thousands of turrets on the surface began to turn around.
The planet itself had no atmosphere, so their weapons could be fired directly from the ground.
And since they were laser weapons, they didn't have to consider the effects of gravity, which allowed them to use the entire planet as a fortress.
They tuned their bearings, and then began their attack in almost ten minutes.
A beam of light rose into the air, each over 20 meters in diameter and up to 700 meters long, like a giant lightsaber, making it impossible to tell if it was technology or magic in a trance.
...
Starry sky.
If cruising giant beast-like spacecraft were spread out in a fan-like manner.
At the forefront were star cruisers and destroyers.
The laser weapons themselves were light, and with light being the fastest speed in this universe to reach the physical limit, the perfect optical weapons were like gamma rays that could not be detected until after their arrival.
So as far as the front was concerned, Jon couldn't detect the opposing laser.
Only when the opponent's laser struck him could he sense that the opponent had launched an attack, and then he could evade it by anticipating his own position.
This was the bug of laser weapons.
Fortunately, the distance between the two sides was far enough at this time.
When the first laser crossed 40,000 kilometers from the side of a destroyer, the photons that escaped were captured by Ella.
"The enemy has launched an attack."
"And it won't be small."
Jon nodded, for in just two short sentences, hundreds of lasers had already flown past them.
At the same time, two of their battleships were hit.
"Fully deploy the electromagnetic shield."
Light, electricity, magnetism, and much of chemistry fell under the category of electromagnetism.
Laser weapons could be blocked by magnetic fields.
The destroyers began to approach.
When the distance between each destroyer was less than 100 kilometers, the electromagnetic shield unfolded.
Magnetism itself had the quality of attracting each other, and Ella utilized this quality, the electromagnetic shields deployed by the destroyers could be connected to each other at this distance, as if the iron ropes were connecting the boats.
Jon looked out from inside the main ship and only felt that the destroyers were just a little closer.
Electromagnetic shields don't flash with electricity like in the movies, and the special shields can only be seen on instruments.
About ten seconds after the electromagnetic shield was deployed, a laser beam struck it.
As a matter of common sense, light was not affected by magnetic fields, but the result Jon observed was that the electromagnetic shield lit up and turned into a grid of electricity visible to the naked eye.
"What's going on here?"
Ella explained, "The electromagnetic shield blocking the laser isn't using the magnetic field itself, it's the photoelectric effect and Delbrück scattering."
"Many electrons and special nuclei have been released in the electromagnetic shield, the electrons can be affected by the magnetic force evenly distributed on the electromagnetic shield, while the magnetic force can't block the photons, the electrons can, and the electric field generated by the nuclei can also interfere with the operation of the photons."
The entire electromagnetic shield, hundreds of kilometers long, lit up.
The fleet moved forward against such a light shield.
They were now only 3 astronomical units away from the enemy planet, and at the speed of the First Fleet, it would only take 5 days to approach the other planet.
"Since the enemy has done the welcoming, let's give them a gift as well."
Jon gave the command, ordering the battleships and star cruisers to launch Absolute Zero missiles.
Unaffected by gravity and air resistance in space, the high-speed projectiles could be shot at high speeds that could be superimposed with the speed of the spacecraft itself.
The missiles reach the outer space of the enemy planet without incident 3 days after launch.
The small Absolute Zero missiles are triggered differently than before, automatically detonating when the ambient temperature rises to -100 degrees Celsius or when they hit an object.
Huge amounts of laser weapons fire at the incoming missiles.
Silent explosions bloomed in the starry sky.
Terrifying coldness instantly spread through the outer planetary space, exploding everything within 260 kilometers of the blast.
Several alien warships were covered by the coldness, and the entire spacecraft lost power and fell towards the planet's surface.
But it pulled up again instantly when it was still 10 kilometers from the surface.
As Ella had said, this civilization had done research and precautions against absolute zero weapons.
But these weapons themselves were just buying enough time for the fleet.
As far as the instruments could detect, the fleet had arrived.
The distance between the two sides was already less than 1.4 astronomical units.
"That should be the right distance." Jon asked from the spacecraft.
Ella nodded.
"That's right."
"Then charge and fire ..."
The massive antimatter annihilator cannon was hitched under the front of the Hope, and with a total length of 1,152 meters, it was approaching half the length of the Hope.
The massive orb at the back of the cannon was an antimatter manufacturing machine.
The machine uses lasers to hit gold to generate 6 billion degrees of heat to give birth to positive and negative electrons, and uses a magnetic field to confine the positrons for storage.
During the charging process, the electromagnetic thrusters cease fire and all controlled fusion devices feed the antimatter annihilation cannon.
After a charge that lasted roughly 10 hours.
"Antimatter recharge complete, recharge energy is 408kg."
"Fire!"
The 408kg of antimatter was gathered and thrown out by the huge cannon tube, with no form and no color.
It was like a ball of gas.
Civilizations that didn't master antimatter technology couldn't even observe its existence.
The matter hits the surface of the target planet 7.5 hours later at one-fortieth the speed of light.
The alien civilization experienced annihilation of the anti-matter and the planetary surface without any reaction.
"Boom !!!!"
The horrific explosion reached 17.5 billion tons equivalent, 350 times the energy released by the Tsar, the largest hydrogen bomb ever detonated in human history.
The core of the explosion had a radius of 100 kilometers.
In an instant.
The entire hemisphere of the planet is engulfed in light, and the heat is felt 2,000 kilometers away.
Without air resistance, the shockwave of dust and gravel spread across the entire surface of the planet at 10 times the speed of sound within an hour and a half, destroying countless buildings.
Seeing this scene.
The alien spacecraft still in outer space even stopped moving, silently watching the surface of their home planet being destroyed without warning.