Warlords: I just made a little fortune, but I didn’t build a country.

The pitch-black universe was suddenly ripped apart by a blinding stream of light. Dark blue arcs of electricity emanated from the bow arrays of the Qinwu Empire's ten fleets. Black hole projectors, each a hundred meters in diameter, were activated first, and a black hole roared out from the twisted space rift.

The remaining shields of the Novak clan began to ripple in the distortion of space and time. The next second, three medium-sized warships were sucked into the black hole's event horizon and pulled into quantum streams of light like pieces of paper.

"Activate the World-Destroying Light Spear!"

As the command was given, the bows of the ten Pangu-1 aerospace fortresses slowly unfolded, and twelve sets of triangular energy matrices began to rotate at high speed.

Light golden energy beams burst out from the core of the matrix, interweaving in the air into hundreds of meters wide spears of light. Wherever they passed, the space was burned with charred trails.

The Novak main battleship tried to evade, but the light spear accurately pierced through the bridge. The entire battleship disintegrated into stardust under the energy impact, and the antimatter cabin in the core of the hull exploded, triggering a chain reaction of explosions in a radius of 100 kilometers.

At the same time, the Jiaolong Aerospace Fortress's positron cannon array emitted a piercing roar. A torrent of azure energy poured down like a river from the sky, instantly tearing a hole in the Novak's defensive formation.

A space cruiser that attempted to counterattack was hit head-on by the positron stream. The hull was vaporized in the high temperature, and the remaining metal vapor was wrapped up by the energy beam, forming a ferocious plasma whip, which lashed towards nearby friendly ships.

The remaining fleet of the Novak clan struggled to fight back in the death vortex. Their dark matter torpedoes, trailing purple flames, broke through the air, but when they touched the nano-shield of the Qinwu fleet, they were broken into quantum dust.

The Qinwu Empire's pulse particle cannon had already locked onto the target, and the dense silver-gray rain of bullets was like the scythe of the god of death, cutting the Novak escort fleet into pieces.

"Start space folding!" The Novak commander roared and gave orders.

The crystal matrix on the flagship's bow lit up with an eerie purple light, attempting to teleport the fleet to a safe area. However, the Qinwu fleet's phase jammers activated prematurely, and amidst the distorted spatial turbulence, three Novak warships, in transit, suddenly exploded in mid-air. The wreckage, like glass shattered by an invisible giant hand, sent sharp fragments hurtling towards the surrounding friendly forces at high speed.

At the core of the battlefield, a Pangu No. 1 aerospace fortress activated the forbidden weapon - the star splitter cannon.

The huge amount of energy gathered into a crimson ball of light. When the beam hit the Novak clan's last mothership, the entire battleship instantly collapsed in the high temperature and turned into a miniature supernova.

The energy tsunami caused by the violent explosion swallowed up all objects within a radius of 50 kilometers.

"Fight back!"

The Novak fleet gave up resistance and chose to fight back. The remaining 1300-plus space battleships began to fight back frantically, and various weapons began to be released one after another, as well as the mysterious means hidden by the Novak race.

When the massive hull of the "Star Relic Plunderer" slowly emerged, the gravitational field of the entire star region trembled. This nine-story tower-shaped super warship was surrounded by a nebula-like energy halo, and the prow was engraved with the ancient world-destroying totem of the Novak people. The surface of the 9000 million ton behemoth was covered with strange purple-blue lines, like a cosmic giant beast that had been dormant for thousands of years awakening.

Inside the cockpit, Novak priests wore robes inlaid with star fragments, their withered fingers dancing rapidly on the control consoles covered with biological synapses.

The ancient spells they chanted turned into materialized energy ripples, activating mysterious devices throughout the ship.

"kill!"

As the priests roared in unison, more than 1300 remaining warships surged out like a black tide, forming a cone-shaped assault formation with the Star Plunderers, and rushed straight towards the Qin Wu fleet.

The first to be hit was the string-vibrating pulse blade, which was launched first. The triangular emitter on the bow of the ship burst out with a high-frequency vibrating silver-gray energy wave. The space was twisted into a strange honeycomb shape the moment the ripples touched it.

Immediately afterwards, the chaos spore generator sprayed out a dark purple mist. These spores containing dark matter were like greedy devourers. Wherever they went, the nano-shield was like metal corroded by acid, making a teeth-grinding sizzling sound. The surface of the ship under the shield began to twist and deform uncontrollably, as if being kneaded by invisible hands.

When the most deadly annihilation resonance anchor point was activated, the entire space was filled with dazzling white light, and its power was extremely strong.

"Activate the basalt energy shield!" Guo Dahai's voice echoed in the command cabin.

The surfaces of the ten major fleets suddenly appeared with golden tortoise-shell patterns, and energy shields enveloped the entire fleet like flowing liquid metal.

When the psychic siphon beam fired by the Star Relic Plunderer hit the energy shield, the entire protective shield rippled violently, and the golden light and the bluish-purple energy collided wildly, and the resulting radiation storm evaporated the surrounding meteorites into powder.

"kill!"

The remaining fleet of the Novak clan launched an all-out attack at all costs. One warship after another activated the engine overload program and launched the strongest attack means in an attempt to shatter the energy shield.

Every attack dimmed the light of the basalt energy shield, and the Star Relic Plunderer took the opportunity to constantly adjust the angle of the muzzle. In the energy ball condensed at the bow of the ship, countless stellar debris could be vaguely seen spinning wildly.

The Qin Wu fleet's counterattack became more and more fierce. The main gun of Pangu No. 1 Aerospace Fortress began to charge, and the dark red energy gathered at the muzzle into a materialized halo of destruction. The decisive battle between the two sides has entered a white-hot stage, and the entire universe is shaking violently in this collision of forces.

"boom!"

The Novak people's string shock pulse blades were still fighting back tenaciously, and the silver-gray energy ripples continued to tear open the defense line of the Qin Wu fleet.

However, the Qinwu Empire's nano-shield repair system operated at astonishing speed, mending the torn shield in an instant. The silver-gray hail of pulse particle cannons was as dense as a rainstorm, blasting the Novak escort fleet that attempted to break through into floating scrap metal.

The Star Reaper suddenly let out a deafening roar, and the energy ball at the bow was released.

A purplish-blue beam of light, swirling with the remains of a star, ripped through the void and slammed heavily into the basalt energy shield. The golden tortoise-shell patterns trembled violently under the blow, and a blinding white light shone across the shield's surface, as if the entire shield were about to be ripped apart by the force. But just as the Novaks thought victory was within reach, the Qinwu fleet's counterattack finally arrived.

"Fire!" Guo Dahai's roar resounded throughout the command channel.

Ten Pangu-1 aerospace fortresses fired their main guns simultaneously, their dark crimson haloes of destruction converging into a torrent of energy that obscured the heavens. This beam, imbued with the force of a stellar collapse, slammed into the Star Reaper with devastating force. The Novak super-warships seemed dwarfed by this force.

The Star Reaper's protective shield shattered at the moment of contact, and the ancient runes on the surface of the ship were evaporated by the high temperature.

Despite the frantic efforts of the priests to activate the emergency defense system, the Qinwu fleet's second round of attacks followed. The Jiaolong Aerospace Fortress's positron cannons and Pangu-1's secondary guns formed a dense barrage of fire, enveloping the Star Relic Plunderer in a sea of energy.

[Starting tomorrow, I might update once a day. I'm planning a new book with two directions. One will still be about the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and the other will be about apocalyptic warlords like the Ninth Special District. Feel free to share your thoughts.]