The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5358

Chapter 5358 The Darkstar King

The Throne of Lies was not alone.

The dreadnought was accompanied by many escorts. Their sole mission was to prevent any alien unit from threatening the nearly irreplaceable monument of human power.

All kinds of smaller but still fairly powerful cruisers and destroyers saturated the coordinates of the Darkstar King with weapons fire!

The relatively short range should have caused the attacks to hit their targets with at least 90 percent accuracy, but the reality was that only 14 percent managed to strike the spatial barrier of the Darkstar King.

Shortly after the formidable orven phase lord bypassed the human ace mechs, he summoned an array of weaker but more sustained gravity wells.

These gravity wells bent the spacetime in the surrounding area. This caused every incoming attack to follow crooked trajectories.

Combined with the remarkably fast and agile movements of the gigantic humanoid alien leader, it became incredibly difficult for the escort vessels to slow down the enemy's advance!

The officers and crew of the Throne of Lies did not panic, though.

They never really put too much faith in the ace mechs of the Red Association from the beginning.

The fleeters had tangled against alien phase lords multiple times since humanity entered the Red Ocean. They had already taken into account that they would have to defend their strongest warships against alien decapitation attacks.

The hull of the Throne of Lies turned away from the Darkstar King a lot faster than a 15-kilometer long vessel should be able to move.

The powerful ship had retracted her ECM arrays and took on a more streamlined form. This made it look as if the dreadnought was ready to scram rather than continue her attempts to disturb her alien opponents!

Still, no matter how quickly the Throne of Lies could accelerate away, there was no way a ship of her size could outrun a greater phase lord, especially at short range!

The Darkstar King had already been readying his phasewater organs for a stronger attack.

Instead of trying to test the defenses of the human dreadnought, he was ready to take her out all at once by evoking a much more devastating ability!

"We are detecting much stronger spatial fluctuations from the greater phase lord! The readings are three times greater than his previous significant exertion!"

Many people started to grow nervous for the Throne of Lies. Many of them had already learned enough about phase lords that many of them could crush warships by employing their powerful spatial abilities.

However, just before the greater phase lord could engulf the coordinates of the dreadnought with a miniature singularity, the Throne of Lies disappeared from view!

Just a short instant later, the space that was previously occupied by the enormous hull became engulfed by a much larger and stronger singularity!

The alien god visibly strained himself to create this more powerful black hole!

The center looked a lot darker while its effective range was obviously many times greater than before.

No matter which direction the Throne of Lies had quickly boosted towards, it should have been extremely unlikely for the large and relatively sluggish dreadnought to completely escape the effective range of this ultimate attack!

Yet to the astonishment of the Darkstar King and the many observers, the Throne of Lies was nowhere to be seen!

Not a single piece of debris had gotten loose.

Not a single trace of the dreadnought could be seen within the active singularity.

The orven phase lord displayed a very human expression of shock and incredulity as he realized that the Throne of Lies had somehow evaded an attack so powerful that it was sure to damage the RF flagship.

Pure anger overcame the powerful god a moment later! The leader figure let out a silent scream of rage that shook the surrounding space in every direction!

It turned out that the orven god's action was not only an emotional outburst, but also a wide-area attack that also functioned as an active sensor pulse.

Nothing could remain hidden when they became subjected to the powerful spatial ripples.

Thousands of hidden probes and other small devices spread into the surroundings malfunctioned or blew up straight away!

Yet no matter how far the spatial ripples traveled, not a trace of the Throne of Lies could be seen.

Where did she go? How did she manage to evade the Darkstar King's blow?

It was not until the Throne of Lies reappeared several hundred kilometers away from her last known position that the answer became clear!

Her hull gradually shimmered into view as she disengaged her active stealth system.

It turned out that the dreadnought possessed an outrageous ability to hide!

So many people reacted with shock at this because the difficulty of keeping a 15-kilometer monstrosity perfectly hidden had often been regarded as an impossibility!

Normally, stealth vessels tended to be small and light.

It was already a stretch to develop stealth cruisers. Their greater mass, volume and energy activity made it far too challenging and expensive to prevent them from getting detected by many different sensors and scanners.

For whatever reason, the Throne of Lies completely defied this well-established convention and fully showcased her ability to hide from the senses of an alien god!

"There is more to this than an active stealth system!" Ves exclaimed as he became thoroughly impressed by the tech demonstrated by the dreadnought. "The Throne of Lies couldn't have moved out of the area of effect of the greater phase lord's strike by relying on her sub-light propulsion system. The only other explanation is that she is equipped with a silent, instant short-range displacement function."

In other words, the immense dreadnought was able to hop across space!

Perhaps the range might not be that impressive, but jumping hundreds of kilometers away without generating a lot of disturbances was incredibly useful for a stealth vessel!

The Throne of Lies did not appear from stealth just so that she could taunt the Darkstar King.

She began to launch over a hundred transphasic missiles that directly converged upon the angry and frustrated greater phase lord!

Shortly afterwards, the dreadnought fired her white ion beams at the same target!

The beams struck the greater phase lord first despite the fact that the alien had surrounded himself with numerous gravity wells.

It turned out that the targeting systems of the Throne of Lies had already corrected for the distorted trajectories! _{freēwēbηovel.c૦m}

The greater phase lord experienced a bit of discomfort, but the white ion beams failed to destabilize the strong and solid spatial barrier.

The transphasic missiles arrived a moment later. Over two-hundred of them got caught in the gravity wells when they unexpectedly moved to block the incoming warheads, but the rest managed to get close enough to detonate close to the large target's position!

The explosions were much different than before!

Instead of producing wide-area EMP effects, the missiles detonated with so much energy that they engulfed an enormous chunk of space!

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