Fame Spreads Far and Wide

Chapter 111 Fame Spreads Far and Wide

The fleet that completed its attack is regrouping.

Beyond the planet's orbit, the giant octopus-shaped ship slowly retracted its tentacle weapons, as if it had accomplished its mission and was leaving without a trace, concealing its merits and fame.

This destruction that befell the once invincible hegemon of the Alliance undoubtedly demonstrates that there has never been true peace in this sea of ​​stars. When a hegemon is wounded and bleeds, another hegemon from other territories will inevitably launch an attack.

The colony planet, once covered with towering mountains, has now become a vast ocean. Silvery-blue liquid water covers the entire surface of the planet, with only a few of the highest peaks still protruding above the water, like isolated islands dotting this newly formed ocean, waiting to welcome a new master.

The aquatic civilization's fleet dispatched engineering ships to this planet that had already been declared destroyed. They sank to the bottom of the water and worked busily, cleaning up the submerged building ruins and massive amounts of corpses, constantly stabilizing the new environment. Before long, this planet would be completely transformed into an ocean world suitable for their survival.

The fleet commander was a massive aquatic creature whose body was directly connected to the ship's control system via a neural interface, and whose eyes—if those few organs emitting a ghostly blue light could be called eyes—were fixed on the signal that had suddenly appeared on the star map.

The signal was so sudden and powerful that all the fleet's detectors sounded an alarm at the same time.

"Unknown entity has entered the monitoring range, energy reading — out of range," the intelligent system reported to the commander with a mechanical calm.

The fleet commander's whiskers trembled slightly, his way of expressing surprise. The energy readings beyond the range meant that the energy level of the unknown entity had exceeded the limits of their detectors and their technological capabilities.

Such things are so rare that they should be subconsciously ignored and denied. Even if it were a genocidal weapon sent by the Humboldt Agreement, it should not cause the detector to "go beyond its range".

"Switch to optical imaging." After a large number of detectors stopped working, the fleet commander issued the command through a neural interface to revert to the most primitive observation method.

Against the backdrop of a pitch-black starry sky, a black and red figure is moving. It looks like a dragon skeleton, an unimaginably huge dragon skeleton. Its body seems to be forged from pure darkness, while the black and red flames wrapped around the dragon skeleton dance in the starry sky like living things, offering a sacrifice to this ancient darkness.

The fleet commander's body stiffened, like a fish stranded on land, and he recognized the presence.

The universe is so mysterious and colorful that civilizations always have a special category in their archives to record those colossal beings that roam the stars and are beyond conventional understanding. They are often called "Leviathans" and are among the most dangerous beings in the universe.

In the list of "Leviathans", one name has been frequently mentioned recently - "Undead Dragon".

That being that destroyed the core territory of the Homborian Covenant, that being that made the entire star cluster tremble, and that was regarded by countless civilizations as a sign of doom.

His fame spread far and wide, reaching the ears of invaders from other star systems, or rather, it was thanks to Him that they were able to launch this crushing invasion.

Before setting sail, the fleet commander was required to read information about the "Undead Dragons." Every report from the intelligence system filled him with dread, shattering the aura of a once-dominant civilization.

He couldn't imagine why those beings, whom they avoided when their civilizations were weak but sought revenge upon when they became powerful, would suddenly appear with an existence that left them helpless, as if the universe were mocking their arrogance and ridiculing their belief in the control of nature.

Without hesitation, the fleet commander immediately issued the order: "All fleet, listen up! Enter maximum alert status! Any hostile actions are prohibited! Repeat, any hostile actions are prohibited!"

His order caused a huge uproar in the fleet. The captains, who were preparing for an endless feast to celebrate the victory, could not believe that they would hear such a decision at such a joyous moment.

However, the fleet commander's attitude was unusually firm, or rather, he had had enough of the drawbacks of his own civilization's extravagance and laxity. Rather than holding banquets every day in his own civilization, he preferred to dedicate his romance to the army and to the unknown journey.

"Repeat! The undead dragon has appeared! Do you want our entire civilization to perish because of your folly? If you want to hold a banquet, do it back home, otherwise, prepare for impeachment by the council."

This statement dispelled all the dissatisfaction caused by the interruption, and news of the destruction suffered by the Humboldt Covenant had already spread throughout the entire supercluster.

That once invincible civilization, a civilization that cherished its reputation and looked down upon others, saw its painstakingly built and impregnable core territory reduced to a desolate void by the wrath of Leviathan, the "Undead Dragon." Even their emergency jump to their home planet could not escape their fate of death.

Looking at the captains, the fleet commander felt a throbbing pain in his cheeks. Seeing that they had finally stopped drinking and making merry, he issued his orders.

"Send a communication request to that entity using the most common mathematical protocol."

The communications officer immediately began operations, but soon he received a disheartening message: "Commander, the communication request has been sent repeatedly, but there has been no response."

The fleet commander was well aware that these unconventional "Leviathans" often possessed unique ways of communicating, and unfortunately, their civilization rejected the psychic realm, even harboring suspicion towards this chaotic, consciousness-based energy. They believed in solid material laws and ultimately embraced genetic evolution.

The fleet commander felt a deep sense of powerlessness. His advanced genes clearly could not help him solve the problem at hand. His fleet was like a planktonic organism trying to communicate with a giant whale in the face of this "Leviathan".

He recalled the history of his own civilization, when they had just entered the interstellar age and encountered a similar "Leviathan". At the time of their first encounter, they thought it was a habitable planet with the potential for terraforming, but it was full of poisonous gas and unsuitable for aquatic species like them.

The ancestors soon discovered that the planet had a life-like pulse, causing the ground to tremble slightly at regular intervals. After a series of major earthquakes, large amounts of toxic gas were released, and they saw an unimaginably large beast hatch. So they chose to launch an attack immediately.

The result was obvious: the "Leviathan," covered in black slime, merely waved its claws, and the entire fleet turned into cosmic dust.

From then on, "Don't mess with Leviathan" became their long-standing survival rule. After they grew strong and gained confidence, they destroyed many "Leviathans," as if to comfort their ancestors.

Now, facing an existence even more terrifying than the "Leviathan" of yesteryear, the fleet commander knows he must make the right choice.

"All fleets, immediately evacuate the current star system and proceed to the next target," he ordered. "Report to the council that the 'Undead Dragon' has appeared. Do not engage in any provocative actions. Hopefully—we are not its target."

The fleet adjusted its course at the same time, ready to enter faster-than-light mode and get away from this troublesome place.

At the same time, Lin Ziming ignored the retreating fleet and did not stop them. His target was the Humborian Covenant, and he launched an attack on the remaining resistance forces in this star system.

The dark red flames swept across the area like a tidal wave, incinerating the fleet and fortress that thought they had survived the catastrophe into nothingness. The star system truly returned to deathly silence, as if civilization had never set foot there.

Lin Ziming left without a second thought, but the fear of the "Undead Dragon" would inevitably spread to more and more civilizations and star systems as he traveled.