Starting from the Planetary Governor-Chapter 819 - 448, Stealing a Boat is That Simple_2

Chapter 819: Chapter 448, Stealing a Boat is That Simple_2

He shouted loudly, “Depart!”

Immediately after, the Wraith Spike unleashed more than twenty boarding torpedoes.

Of these, most were dummies, with only four actually filled with the Ashen Dead.

The Alliance Fleet’s intercepting firepower, of course, sprang into action, destroying many boarding torpedoes.

The four genuine boarding torpedoes carrying the Ashen Dead did take some hits as well. However, all four were equipped with small energy shields, which blocked the attacks.

Of course, this also revealed their positions.

But it didn’t matter.

In an instant, a crimson light enveloped the four boarding torpedoes, and suddenly, they vanished.

The next moment, all four boarding torpedoes simultaneously appeared inside the Void Shield of the Opera Cruiser!

Then, they violently breached the hull of the Opera Cruiser.

The incredibly hard conical front of the boarding torpedoes broke through the cruiser’s armor and, while causing a minor explosion that detached the combat section, conveniently created a great exit space for the warriors inside the torpedoes’ rear compartments.

Following that, a total of 200 Mutinous Star Warriors from the four boarding torpedoes all burst out.

In a very short time, they cleared out the surrounding enemies.

On a cruiser like the Opera Cruiser, which typically has a hundred thousand personnel, a significant portion belongs to the so-called ‘ship’s world’ — those born on the ship, whose parents, or even grandparents, were crew members. They serve as ship’s servants and include several families of technical officers.

These people are critical for a starship to be able to launch, to sustain itself during long voyages. At the bottom of the starship, they even constitute a closed, self-sustaining society.

On ships of the Tianma Fleet, this phenomenon was not particularly pronounced, and some sailors were able to retire and leave the ship, to be replaced by new people from terrestrial planets.

After all, they were often stationed at their home base.

However, within the Empire, some ships that were always on assignment, constantly traveling through space, the so-called ‘ship’s world’ meant that generations had never left the ship, intermarried amongst themselves, and spent their entire lives on board, which was quite common.

But regardless of whether they were recruited or had been on the ship for many years, these sailors, workers, and serving class clearly lacked combat capability.

Even during times of war, when they would be issued weapons, it was the same case.

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After the Ashen Dead successfully boarded, they first encountered resistance from these armed sailors, amounting to a few thousand people. They were, of course, swiftly swept aside by the boarders.

Then, the Mutinous Star Warriors did not continue their fierce assault; instead, they paused and waited on the spot for two minutes.

During this time, more boarding torpedoes came in.

These boarding torpedoes, without the help of the War Faction Wizard, did not have teleportation capabilities and suffered heavy losses while breaking through the intercepting firepower. The greatest loss occurred when they slowed down to pass through the Void Shield.

Out of sixteen boarding torpedoes, only three made it through.

This rate was very low, and it was significantly less than what would be expected under normal conditions.

This was because, on the current battlefield, the Alliance only had the Wraith Spike as a target; when the boarding torpedoes appeared, a large amount of intercepting firepower was naturally drawn to them.

From this perspective, having three torpedoes manage to board was already quite impressive.

And from these three boarding torpedoes, a total of fifteen hundred people disembarked. They were all dressed in black and red combat suits, with a significant proportion of them equipped with exoskeletons.

These people belonged to the Servant troops of the Ashen Dead.

After joining up with the real Ashen Dead, the total force of one thousand seven hundred people began to advance into the interior of the Opera Cruiser.

During this process, the Opera Cruiser’s troops also began to assemble.

Aside from the regular crew, out of the hundred thousand on the ship, there were twenty thousand from the Navy Marine Corps, even equipped with armored vehicles, Sentry Mecha, and the likes.

These troops’ combat effectiveness, of course, was much stronger than the sailors from the first wave.

However, as the Ashen Dead advanced with their elite auxiliary forces, the Navy Marine Corps once again miserably became a backdrop.

The armored vehicles blocking the main corridor inside the Starship were destroyed by the Ashen Dead’s plasma guns, then swiftly pushed aside, dismantled. Right after that, the Terminator Squad of the Ashen Dead burst through the breach, shrugging off the bombardment from the semi-fixed autocannons behind them, using handheld grenade launchers to remove all of those human firepower points.

After clearing the corridor, the troops immediately followed up, and ahead of them appeared another team of Sentry Mechas from the Marine Corps, but this time they were directly cleared out by the Mutinous Star Warriors using bombardment guns.

Leading the entire team, the Interstellar Warriors’ pace of advance, though sometimes fast, sometimes slow, was on the whole quite smooth, and they resolutely headed toward the Starship’s command bridge.

The command bridge is the command center of a warship, as well as its brain. Once there, they could take over control of most of the Starship.

At the same time, they could also use the broadcast system facing the whole ship from that point to quickly spread chaos corruption through the War Faction Wizards.

This was a temporary measure, unsuitable for large-scale use. But in the critical, enclosed environment of the Starship, it was quite effective.

This move, they had already used many times in the past, and were adept at it.

To take over the ship was just such a simple matter.

The commander of this unit of the Ashen Dead, Anconi Ben, even found it a bit boring. He said, “This so-called Alliance really isn’t anything special.”

“Just like the ships of the other Empires, there is no difference.”

“Weren’t they saying there’s a Phoenix? Why hasn’t it shown up? It would at least relieve our boredom to have those nobodies, those green recruits appear.”

While he was saying this, suddenly he received intelligence.

An auxiliary army group arranged on the flank reported they had been routed.

At first, he thought it was just the work of an elite force from the Marine Corps.

After all, those on board the Starship also had a considerable number of Sentry Mechas. The auxiliary forces positioned on the flank, although highly skilled and augmented by Chaos Divine Power, could still be normally defeated under enemy numerical superiority.

The commander quickly arranged for support, and another auxiliary force rushed over to plug the gap.

But soon the squad was annihilated. At the same time, new information came in: those who had routed them were not merely Marine Corps soldiers, but a group of warriors wearing Red Powered Armor!

At this, Ben really got excited!

To say it was boring, and then interesting things appeared, didn’t they?

However, after thinking it over, he still decided not to deviate from the plan.

Their current priority was still to take the command bridge first.

Once they held it and let the War Faction Wizards do what they needed to do, their main force could just stay inside the bridge with ease.

Those ‘green recruits,’ those ‘nobodies,’ if they wanted to do something, they would naturally have to attack the command bridge proactively. By that time, they could set up a defense line at the command bridge and easily wait for the enemy.

In his view, it was normal for a few Interstellar Warriors to appear on this cruiser, but the number should not be large.

However, the subsequent messages, one after another, put him on alert.

From another direction on the flank came sightings of Phoenix Interstellar Warriors.

Following that, the frontal assault troops also reported encountering resistance from the Phoenix, limiting their advance.

“How many are there?”

Anconi Ben already felt something was wrong.

But if it were just limited to this, he would just feel wrong, anxious. Even if they had one hundred, or even two hundred Phoenix in front of them, so what?

These new Phoenix, just as he said, were ‘green recruits.’ By their standards, a bunch of people who had just become Interstellar Warriors, at most for ten years—what was there to fear?