Free Web NovelChapter 470: Chapter 82: Black Prison Race Front Line, Nano Silicon-Based Life
They used their visual range as an anchor.
Across the Star Sea, all thirteen Ancient Deities were now in motion.
With the thirteen Ancient Deities at the fore,
they used the Shadow World as their center, each departing in a different direction with at least ten Powerful Divine Power Deities in tow, initiating their transit through Subspace.
Their approach was crude.
They simply used their own Divine Vision as an anchor, continuously leaping toward the furthest point they could see.
After all, they were no Lince.
As an Authority Level Deity holding the Authority of the Fiery Sun, traversing Space was much simpler for him than for them.
He only needed to use nearby suns as springboards, continuously leaping to quickly find out if there was any life in the surrounding Star Sea.
As was the case now.
When Kukudar returned to the Crimson World and entered a deep slumber in a Void Black Hole Lince had found, Lince directly ordered five of the Thirteen Blood Ancestors to guard Kukudar’s ascension.
Meanwhile, Lince himself had secretly begun his own reconnaissance of the Black Prison Race’s World Community.
If, at the beginning, Lince hadn’t known about the unique nature of the God of Thousand Faces, he might have proceeded methodically, waging wars of civilization on the planets discovered by the True Game and taking a slow and steady approach.
But now that he knew the situation with the God of Thousand Faces,
Lince felt that ’it would be faster to do it myself rather than wait for the results of each search from the True Game.’
After all, as the wielder of the Authority of the Fiery Sun,
he hardly consumed any Power when leaping between stars. freewebnøvel.coɱ
Thus, by continuously leaping between different Fixed Star Systems while using his powerful Spiritual Vision, he was confident that with a single sweep, he could instantly determine whether or not most systems contained life.
Therefore, Lince used the star where the Shadow World was located
and began a series of continuous leaps.
Leaping from one Solar System to another.
In the process, Lince soon scouted the situation in over a thousand Fixed Star Systems.
But it had to be said, life truly was a miracle in the Cosmos.
After over a thousand Fixed Star Systems, Lince had yet to discover a single living being, or even a living planet.
However, in a boundless Cosmos, a region of a thousand Fixed Star Systems was truly nothing.
So, Lince didn’t mind too much and simply continued his methodical, rapid leaps between different Fixed Star Systems.
「Roughly three months later, according to the time recorded by the True Game.」
Finally, Lince saw signs of life in a Fixed Star System.
His powerful Divine Vision swept across the Star Realm.
Within Lince’s senses, right at the edge of this current Fixed Star System,
two biological communities were engaged in battle.
One of them, needless to say, was the Black Prison Race.
However, there didn’t seem to be too many of the Black Prison Race at the edge of this Fixed Star System.
Their total number was perhaps only six or seven hundred thousand.
For a true interstellar war in the Star Sea, a force of this size was about as small as they come.
As for the other side,
Lince watched closely and found the civilization fighting the Black Prison Race to be quite interesting.
It appeared to be an Interstellar Civilization that relied purely on technology.
Particle Cannons, Energy Shields, and even large swarms of combat drones.
And these drone combat swarms were even more advanced than those of the Star Empire.
For the simple reason that Lince discovered some of the larger individual drones actually had the ability to transform.
Their Metal bodies could even liquefy at will, allowing them to change into other forms.
No.
After observing for a while longer, Lince realized something.
In battle, this Interstellar Civilization was far more powerful than he had imagined.
Because Lince had misunderstood from the very beginning.
’That massive Interstellar Fleet on the other side could actually be considered a single entity!’
Even the massive Starships, the instant they were pierced by the Black Prison Race, could instantly disintegrate and transform into various other flying combat units of different forms.
Some Starships could even rapidly repair the damage to their remaining parts amidst an explosion, like thousands of dancing fireflies re-converging.
’An Interstellar Civilization with a hive-like mechanism?’
’Or... is this a purely silicon-based Interstellar Civilization?’
’There are no carbon-based lifeforms!’
Yes, throughout the entire battle with the Black Prison Race, Lince never once saw a single real, flesh-and-blood creature appear from the enemy fleet.
Moreover, after Lince scanned these mechanical creations carefully with his Divine Power, he discovered something.
Their fundamental units were actually Nanoworms, each one only slightly larger than a Magic Particle!
These Nanoworms were shaped like scarab beetles.
Although their overall structure was composed of Metal particles, they also possessed the characteristics of life.
In other words, these Nanoworms were the core component of the Interstellar Civilization before him!
They were true silicon-based life!
Though minuscule, they possessed incredible regenerative speed and aggressiveness.
They could devour all Elements, including Metal and even Magic Power; there was almost nothing they couldn’t consume.
Therefore, during the battle with the Black Prison Race, it was visible to the naked eye
that this small legion of the Black Prison Race was gradually being overwhelmed by the army of Nanoworms.
Although the Black Prison’s Black Flame, and even the Deities among them, could continuously destroy large numbers of the Nanoworm-formed Interstellar Fleet,
it was unfortunate.
Any members of the Black Prison Race killed by the Nanoworms—their flesh and blood, including all their Magic Power and Spiritual Particles—would become food for these Nanoworms.
At the same time, after devouring these materials, the Nanoworms could rapidly divide and create new individuals.
