Each Civilization Leader looked solemn.

They knew that the Claw Star Cluster had reached its most critical moment.

The Civilization Federation, a name heard from the Devouring Zerg, was rumored to be even more powerful than the Devouring Zerg.

Originally, they thought the Devouring Zerg was only the Devouring Zerg they had faced.

But now, they knew.

The Devouring Zerg they faced was only one percent of the entire Devouring Zerg.

The Devouring Zerg has tens of thousands of branches, most of which only have billions or tens of billions of Zerg.

Those truly ranked are all above a hundred trillion Zerg swarms.

There are 47 such Zerg swarms in total.

The Zerg swarm they faced was ranked in the middle.

This was heard from the Mind Civilization Leader.

In order to make them surrender, the Mind Civilization continuously boasted about the power of the Zerg, making them give up hope.

Following this, they learned that in addition to the Devouring Zerg, there were also the Sun Zerg and dimension Zerg.

The scale of the Sun Zerg is no smaller than that of the Devouring Zerg.

The scale of the dimension Zerg is not large, but it is much stronger than the Devouring Zerg tribe they faced.

This is the entire Zerg.

And the Civilization Federation is also an existence more powerful than this entire Zerg, not just that Devouring Zerg tribe.

A heavy shadow pressed on their hearts, and as the meeting ended, most of the warships and colossal weapons arrived in the central area within twenty years, aimed at the deep, lightless black hole.

Everything was silent.

Only the extremely strong fluctuations on the detector showed the unrest inside the black hole.

Each peak value would trigger a sharp alert sound.

Such days continued for several more years, until all living beings grew tired of waiting and felt it was a false alarm.

29 years after the Leaders' Meeting.

Suddenly.

The alert sound became continuous.

The ripple peaks of the detector continuously rose, and the values turned into vivid colors.

And the black hole, at this moment, became as dazzling as a Star!

...

“We’re here!”

Filo Dime felt as if he had entered a wormhole, arriving 7,500 astronomical units away in an instant.

In the blink of an eye, it was another starfield.

This feeling was magical.

He quickly noticed the Claw Star Cluster army waiting to greet him outside.

“Indeed, just as the Host calculated.”

“Due to the time dilation effect, traversing the wormhole actually took 29 years, not an instant.”

It depends on the reference frame.

If the reference frame was him and all the warships, then indeed only an instant passed, no matter what detection method was used, it was an instant.

However, for external time, it was a full 29 years.

The Civilizations of the Claw Star Cluster were already prepared.

People in the old era divided wormholes into two categories.

Lorentzian wormholes and Euclidean wormholes.

The former are persistently open, traversable wormholes, belonging to the realm of general relativity, activated using exotic matter and Negative Energy.

The latter are mathematical tools in quantum theory, helping to understand quantum fluctuations, such as how a quantum instantly moves from one place to another in the universe? Perhaps it uses a Euclidean wormhole to instantly teleport to the other end of the universe.

Euclidean wormholes are instantaneous, capable of crossing hundreds of thousands, millions, or even hundreds of millions of light-years in a very short time.

Lorentzian wormholes, on the other hand, are more aligned with the traditional understanding of wormholes and exist on a macroscopic level.

Human Civilization's current technology is close to Lorentzian wormholes, but with slight deviations.

The deviations come from practice, not theory; on the theoretical level, the two are highly similar.

Lorentzian wormholes are actually very similar to spatial warping, bending spacetime to shorten the path.

Lorentzian wormholes can make tens of thousands of light-years seem only a few hundred or thousand kilometers away, and the time to traverse the wormhole depends on the speed of the traverser and the length of the wormhole's throat.

According to Human Civilization's current technology, it can usually be traversed within 1 second, or it can be said to be instantaneous.

However, wormholes themselves are not static.

wormholes can cause time dilation due to different speeds at ends A and B.

This effect is negligible, and most of the impact is only on the time at both ends, not the actual traversal time.

More importantly, wormholes themselves exist on the surface of a black hole's event horizon, affected by gravitational time dilation, so the wormhole traversal process observed by an external observer will be stretched.

And this is also affected by the wormhole's own existence time, with the time dilation effect accumulating.

Leading to an increasingly long time to traverse the wormhole.

In this ancient wormhole passage, what originally required only an instant for the wormhole traversal process actually took 29 years of external time.

Filo Dime was already prepared to start the war as soon as he arrived at the other end of the wormhole, and all the warships under his command were the same.

A cruel smile appeared on his face as he shouted, “Let the war begin!”

“Let our friends in the Claw Star Cluster see what fear truly is.”

On the other side.

The leaders of the major Civilizations also issued attack orders the moment they saw the Civilization Federation warships.

But the moment the attack orders were issued, the colossal weapons in the rear simultaneously exploded.

The fleets that had not yet deployed were stunned after receiving the information.

The leaders of the major Civilizations instantly realized that the enemy had already prepared.

Their resolve grew stronger.

“Do not hesitate, block the enemy, and defend our homeland.”

In reality, the distance between the two sides was very close, only a few thousand astronomical units, less than 0.1 light-years.

Beams of various weapons shot out.

Among them were countless missile-like weapons.

These missiles exploded midway through their launch, forming single-sided material walls.

Actually, they were more like one-way mirrors.

Because most of the weapons used were laser weapons, such walls only needed to be transparent on one side and opaque on the other.

They blocked attacks from the Civilization Federation without hindering the Claw Star Cluster's own attacks.

In space, such walls appeared densely, numbering in the hundreds of millions.

Even if the Federation's weapons could shatter them, the lasers that hit would also be deflected at a certain angle, or even bounce back.

However, this was bound to be an unequal war.

The attack power of the Claw Star Cluster Civilizations' warships was truly weak; their warship specifications were smaller than those of Human Civilization's warships, which further prevented their weapons from having an advantage in the war against the Civilization Federation.

This was just the first engagement.

Although the Claw Star Cluster was well prepared, casualties quickly exceeded ten thousand.

On the other side, relying on stronger energy shields and larger hulls, the Civilization Federation's more than 5 million warships lost only a mere few dozen.

Filo Dime was not surprised.

They had already known the Claw Star Cluster's firepower level, so they traversed the wormhole without any hesitation.

Even if the traversal took as long as 29 years.

However, the opponent was, after all, a 2.6-level Civilization.

Although there was a technological gap between the two sides, it was similar to when Human Civilization faced the Olive Branch Civilization, or when the Civilization Federation faced the Destiny Ring Star.

A 0.1 level difference does not guarantee an absolute, lossless crushing victory.

In Filo Dime's view, the most important thing in this war was not to conquer the Claw Star Cluster, but how to conquer the Claw Star Cluster with fewer casualties.

“Now, the enemy should also begin their second step, most likely more powerful energy weapons.”

“Shield network, begin connection!”

As Filo Dime gave the order.

All the warships' energies connected together, forming a protective shield in front of the warships.

At the same time.

The leaders of the six major Civilizations began to change their strategy.

If this continued, the casualty ratio between them and the enemy would continue to widen.

The peak number of warships in the entire Claw Star Cluster Alliance exceeded 200 million; now, with the Storm Civilization and Mind Civilization not participating, plus previous wars, the actual number of warships deployed was only about 120 million.

warships were being destroyed at a rate of dozens per second, which meant millions per day.

It seemed like it would take dozens of days to finish, but in reality, war is not calculated that way.

As the casualty ratio widens, the morale of the Soldiers below will also become increasingly low, leading to many desertions.

Even if these warships could attack autonomously, without human support, their combat power would decline, and war also depends on logistics; many aspects would instantly collapse without people.

Therefore, they could not continue like this.

“Use the melody.”

As the order was given.

Instantly.

The universe fell silent.

From a distance, it seemed that in that instant, the starfield where the war was taking place turned pitch black.

Because no light was emitted.

Melody weapons directly affect the fluctuations of matter, and also the fluctuations of spacetime.

They instantly transform everything within their range into a sea of matter, restricting the propagation of all light and the speed of matter's movement.

Light can be slowed down.

It depends on the medium.

For example, its propagation speed in water is not 299,792 kilometers/second, but approximately 225,000 kilometers/second.

It is significantly reduced.

And melody weapons can materialize the surrounding universe, causing the speed of all light to plummet to only a few thousand kilometers per second.

The speed of other matter is even more restricted.

This speed is actually aimed not at the macroscopic, but at the microscopic.

Changes in microscopic speed also change the energy of the matter itself.

Leading to what were originally high-energy particles becoming low-energy particles.

Leading to a weapon that might have exploded with the equivalent of 1 ton of TNT having less power than a big slap.

This was the trump card of the Claw Star Cluster Civilizations, now used against the Civilization Federation fleet.

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