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In the void, amidst the shadows that were disguised and hidden in all directions, a blinding energy light suddenly shone.
Four menacing Lunar-class combat ships, like lurking sharks, appeared from four directions, their main guns, missile launchers, and close-in weapon laser arrays locking onto Chen Yuan's mixed fleet at the same time.
"What?" Sal and Jock's expressions changed drastically.
"Fire!" A hoarse, violent voice, like the scraping of metal, rang out over the public channel, filled with cruel pleasure.
The next moment, a devastating blow struck.
Four cruisers fired their cannons simultaneously, dark purple plasma beams crisscrossing to form a deadly net, and a dense swarm of missiles covered the entire airspace.
The small Razor attack boats responsible for guarding the perimeter of Chen Yuan's fleet were instantly vaporized.
One of Sal's Lunar-class assault ships was overloaded with shields and was hit repeatedly, exploding into a massive fireball in space.
Meanwhile, Jock's modified warship had its side torn apart, and secondary explosions were occurring repeatedly inside, billowing thick smoke.
With just one salvo, Chen Yuan's fleet suffered heavy damage. The screams of the soldiers and the roar of the warships breaking apart came through the communication channel, sending chills down one's spine.
"Ha ha ha ha……"
Vera laughed and said, "Chen, all of this was to lure you, and those two good-for-nothings you recruited, into this grave that you've carefully prepared for yourself."
A massive shadow loomed over the battlefield. A warship, larger than the others of the Lunar Observer class, its armor covered in spikes and peeling dark red paint, was the Bloodbath Slaughterhouse.
On the bridge, Blood Butcher Barton, a figure resembling a giant bear, stood proudly, his murky mechanical eyes scanning the battlefield before finally locking onto Chen Yuan.
"You've managed to force that venomous woman Vera to ask for help, and you've also managed to subdue Sal and Jock. You've got some skills."
Blood Butcher's voice was filled with undisguised admiration, "Unfortunately, this ends here. Your head will be my best collectible."
"An ambush? A trap?"
Chen Yuan slowly raised his head and looked at Blood Butcher on the bridge of the Slaughtering Ground. His eyes were so calm that they were chilling. "Is it possible that I was also setting a trap and inviting you into it? It's not just you who can act like this."
After speaking, Chen Yuan raised his hands, and the light from his nanosuit suddenly became dazzling.
"Nano Core, Liberation of the Insect Swarm!"
With a low shout, Chen Yuan's battle suit seemed to boil over, and countless tiny, silver-gray nanobots, invisible to the naked eye, flew out in all directions from him.
They numbered over a million, coalescing into a metallic cloud that silently but with astonishing speed rushed toward the four Lunar-class warships that had just completed their salvo and were charging for their next attack.
"What the hell is that?"
A space pirate stared in horror at the unrecognizable "cloud" on the scanning screen.
The nanobot swarm ignores energy shields. They are not energy attackers themselves, but they attach themselves to the armored surface of the warship like a malignant tumor, and then rush into the warship's interior through weapon launch ports, sensor gaps, heat dissipation grilles and all other tiny openings.
"Report: The A-7 plasma cannon barrel is blocked by an unknown substance."
"Missile silo malfunction. Cannot be opened."
"The close-in defense system is offline, and the energy transmission line has been cut off."
"For some unknown reason, the main gun cannot be started..."
Alarms blared incessantly within the four Lunar-class warships.
The nanobots have a clear objective: to destroy all visible enemy thermal weapon launch ports. They use their sharp mouthparts to gnaw on intricate energy conduits, use their own bodies to short-circuit and burn out control chips, and use their proliferating bodies to clog cannon barrels.
In just over ten seconds, the four Lunar-class ships that had been unleashing deadly attacks were like tigers with their teeth pulled out.
All main guns, missiles, and rapid-fire cannons were disabled, and even the energy shield was gnawed through with a large hole.
The battlefield situation reversed instantly, and Chen Yuan's side actually gained the upper hand.
"Impossible. What kind of ability is this?"
Vera stared at the unimaginable scene before her, her maniacal laughter freezing in her eyes, replaced by deep fear.
Chapter 234 Bloodbath of Barton
Thrall and Jock were also stunned; they had never seen such a bizarre and powerful attack method.
The savage grin on the face of Blood Butcher Barton on the Slaughterhouse froze.
His prosthetic eye flashed wildly, analyzing the bizarre cloud of nanobots, but all he got was a bunch of gibberish.
He had witnessed countless acts of pure violence before, but this kind of precise destruction at the micro level made him feel a strange threat.
"Hahaha... Good, very good."
Blood Butcher laughed instead of getting angry, his voice filled with the excitement of discovering prey, "Chen Yuan, you are now qualified to fight me."
"boom!"
The hatch of the Slaughterhouse exploded open, and Patton, like a blood-red meteor, crashed directly into Chen Yuan with an unstoppable and ferocious momentum.
The massive, hot-melt chainsaw cannon had already begun to rotate and preheat, emitting a chilling roar.
Barton, at the early stage of the seventh rank, is known as the strongest space pirate. Having recently broken through to the seventh rank, he is now extremely arrogant.
"You suppress the enemy warships, he's mine."
Chen Yuan gave Sal and Jock their final orders, then flashed forward, activated spatial teleportation, and took the initiative to meet Blood Butcher.
"Well done!"
Barton pushed off with both feet, and his whole body shot towards Chen Yuan like a cannonball.
Bloodbath Barton's ability is Scarlet Fission. It's not simply about getting stronger from injuries, but rather about actively breaking down his own cells and armor energy to unleash terrifying power that grows exponentially in a very short time.
This is a forbidden ability that sacrifices life and equipment to gain ultimate combat power.
The effects can be roughly divided into three stages.
Phase 1, Blood Rage: When injured or emotionally agitated, basic attributes such as strength, speed, and recovery are steadily increased by 1.5 times.
The second stage, Fission: When actively using this ability, blood-red energy patterns will appear on the body, attributes will be increased by 3 times, and energy attacks will have a fission effect, continuously eroding enemies and disintegrating the structures of matter and energy that come into contact with.
The third stage, Bloodlust: Unleashing the ultimate power at any cost, Barton's attributes briefly surge to more than 5 times, and his body is enveloped in a crimson energy storm, but it will cause irreversible damage to the body and leave him extremely weak after it ends.
The armor he wears can be enhanced simultaneously when he uses his abilities.
The weapon on the right arm, the Thermo-Destruction Cannon, can fire high-density plasma containing scarlet fission energy, which has extremely strong penetrating power and destructive force.
The armor's Blood Devouring Conversion System can absorb some of the energy from attacks and convert it into its own power, thus powering Crimson Fission.
In the void, both fleets had already retreated under the terrifying pressure, and the cleared airspace became the arena for the two kings to duel.
With a furious roar, Blood Butcher unleashed an infrasound wave that transformed into an invisible impact in the vacuum, striking Chen Yuan first.
Chen Yuan's eyes narrowed, and he activated the electromagnetic gravity field, forcibly crushing the shock wave.
The two clashed instantly and began to fight.
There were no fancy tests, only the most extreme collisions of speed and power.
Chen Yuan teleported and appeared on the side of Blood Slaughter, his Molecular Disintegration Sword piercing straight into the gap in the armor.
Blood Butcher didn't turn around; instead, his left fist, crackling with crimson energy, slammed back towards the sword's spine.
"Qiang!"
A burst of energy and light shone forth, exceptionally dazzling.
Chen Yuan felt an extremely tyrannical force coming from him, and the Molecular Disintegration Sword was actually deflected.
At this moment, Blood Butcher's right arm annihilation cannon had completed its energy charge, and a dark red sphere, extremely compressed and undergoing continuous energy fission, condensed at the muzzle.
Crimson Fission Cannon!
"boom!"
The dark red sphere shot out at a speed beyond the reach of sight, leaving a faint black trace in the space it passed through—the path of the matter being completely decomposed.
Chen Yuan's pupils contracted slightly, and three layers of spatial barriers instantly appeared in front of him.
"Click, click, click!"
From a distance, the first barrier was instantly eroded and pierced, the second barrier held for half a second before shattering, and the third barrier was covered in cracks before breaking apart.
The residual energy impact slammed into Chen Yuan's crossed nano-arms, blasting him away. The nanoparticles on the surface of his battle suit became disordered.
"Hahaha, again."
Blood Butcher laughed wildly, his body glowing with crimson patterns, indicating that he had entered the second stage of Crimson Fission.
His speed increased dramatically, catching up to Chen Yuan like a shadow. His fists, like heavy hammers, unleashed a storm of close-range attacks, carrying fission energy capable of tearing everything apart.
Chen Yuan combined shadow stealth with spatial teleportation to the extreme, weaving through the countless fist shadows. His molecular splitting sword and various weapons constructed from nanotechnology, such as spears, heavy hammers, and chainsaws, constantly collided with Blood Butcher's fists and armor, exploding into bursts of energy halos.
The two moved at incredible speeds; to onlookers, all they could see were two streaks of light, one blue and one red, colliding, separating, and colliding again. Each clash sent shockwaves of energy sweeping in all directions.
"Got you!"
Blood Butcher Barton's instincts caught the slight stiffness Chen Yuan experienced after teleporting. Like a wild beast, he bravely withstood a spatial blade strike from Chen Yuan that landed on his shoulder armor, while his left fist, brimming with fission energy, slammed into Chen Yuan's chest.
Chen Yuan urgently constructed nano-barriers and electromagnetic shields.
"boom!!"
The fission energy and the electromagnetic shield clashed fiercely, producing a piercing tearing sound, as Blood Butcher's fist approached at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"Fission, disintegration!"
Barton roared, and the crimson energy in his fist suddenly erupted once more.
"Snapped!"
The electromagnetic shield shattered instantly.
The fist, imbued with terrifying decomposition power, slammed solidly through the nanobarrier, its momentum undiminished, and struck Chen Yuan's right shoulder.
"Crack!"
A clear sound of bones cracking and metal tearing rang out as Chen Yuan's entire right arm was ripped off at the shoulder.
The severed arm, along with fragments of the nano-core suit, was instantly annihilated into the most basic particles by the subsequent fission energy.
Chen Yuan grunted, his body flying backward like a meteor, crashing through several nearby rocks before coming to a stop. Sparks and nanoparticles flickered wildly at the severed arm, which was being repaired, but at a noticeably slow pace.
"It seems that this is the end for you."
Blood Butcher Barton was panting heavily, but he was extremely excited and believed that victory was in his grasp.