I Woke Up Piloting the Strongest Starship, so I Became a Space Mercenary
# 166 Fatal Strike
"What the hell!? What do you want me to do?
"Sora hey, you're desperate to survive so you don't die. Yikes!
Huge is also an ugly crystalline onion. The surface of the thorn, which grows countless on its giant onions, explodes with tremendous momentum, and splashed shards - that is, small crystalline life forms - arrive towards Krishna.
"Or there's an accelerating enemy shadow...!
"Yes Dong!
As Mimi punches an immediate anti-ship reaction warhead torpedo into a flock of small crystals that are accelerating its number. Mother Crystal hits the quantity with her first hand against an external enemy that has approached close range. I can beat an attack like that. There's one hand I can take here. It's about sweeping away with widespread attacks before they crush you.
Then there is the soul dare to drag out the smallest crystalline life form possible while finally charging Mother Crystal's hostility by banging an anti-ship reaction warhead torpedo and calling back the smaller crystalline life form that is heading toward the rear guard.
Even though Mother Crystal releases countless small crystalline life forms, that doesn't mean it's infinite. Because small crystalline life forms are no more than some of the mother crystals.
In other words, the small crystalline life form is the armor (AP) of the mother crystal, as well as the hull (HP). The more we release to eliminate the threat in the near field, the more vulnerable we become to the attacks of battleships and cruisers that project firepower from a distance, and the more likely we are to take a devastating and deadly blow.
"Torpedoes landing!
Two anti-ship reaction warhead torpedoes land on the giant lizard of the Mother Crystal, generating a fireball of no small size to extinguish the giant lizard tip for each small crystalline life-form.
This is the unpleasant blow to Kaishin if he dives between the toge and the toge and delivers it to the center of the crystal, well now you can't afford to be after it. Accurate attacks are too difficult with heavy laser cannons and large shotguns while kicking through small crystalline life forms that were not caught in the explosion of reaction warheads. If there were as many as ten bureaucratic ships that made the same assault, it would be different again.
"Dear Hiro! The shelling is coming!
"Copy that!"
You can't get caught up in allied shelling by mistake, so go around in a direction that can't be the landing point for the shelling. Huge needles are already starting to move to resist the Zawazawa and shelling. With what kind of surgical logic on earth are we moving to defensive action before we are attacked? Maybe Mother Crystal is highly intelligent just because she can't communicate with her will.
It came while we were dealing with small crystalline life forms that stormed in a heartbeat, thinking of things like that. Thick armor, made of giant needles, melted and exploded with intense light, shaking the space.
"That's a real monster who won't even freak out."
"It's amazing that Pickle hasn't even moved. What the hell kind of principle is that?
A massive laser of that output was knocked out of one direction in a gravity-free space, and the crystalline part evaporated and exploded. Normally, whatever huge mass you might have, it's going to move with the impact of an explosion, but Mother Crystal hasn't made it microscopic as if it's pinned to space.
It's not that the scale is too big to look like it's moving, it's really not moving, not even a millimeter. That's mysterious technology. If we can figure out the principles and artificially reproduce them, it's not a property. It's a project that's going to be gold.
"At this rate, if you let the shelling continue..."
Soon I would be able to defeat it, the moment I thought about it, Mother Crystal's dense lizard armor, heavily worn after laser shelling, something that had flown at super high speeds pierced its center and scattered the crystals violently.
"KHYAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
An unpleasant sound rang as if I had scratched the glass with my nails, driven by the urge to cover my ears by accident. Am I to be praised for not letting go of the joystick among other things?
"Damn, what...!?
"I don't know, but something seems to be working."
Mother Crystal is violently blinding, deliberately causing countless thorns to burn. Disgusting straight. It's like some kind of bug's back and there's a chill running down my spine.
Perhaps, the blow that struck Mother Crystal earlier was the blow of a large black lotus electromagnetic projectile. Pat didn't see any ships equipped with physical artillery on an Imperial Navy ship, nor did he see any ships equipped with weapons that were likely to reach this point on a mercenary ship other than Black Lotus.
"Ugh... the movement of a small crystalline life form is going crazy."
Whether the unpleasant noise earlier worked considerably, Mimi reports the situation even though it took half a whisker. Maybe he's taking the blow now and trying to force the rear guard who's been shelling him.
If you're out of your mind, this isn't until you've done something wrong, is it?
"You look bad."
"Out-of-heart"
Spray Krishna's thrusters into the Mother Crystal with maximum output. Why are you doing all this chicken racing to put the speed of the fuselage on the flying speed of the anti-ship reaction torpedo? Originally, the speed of anti-ship reaction warhead torpedoes is slow and difficult to guess, but with this technique, you can significantly waste the speed of a dull anti-ship reaction warhead torpedo.
"Hey!
Two remaining anti-ship reaction warhead torpedoes are ejected, rapidly turning back and leaving, aiming at the gap between the Zawazawa and the irregularly swept beard. You won't be dressed up when you're in the mood for early sacrifice of the Mockingjay.
"Hiya, critical..."
"That's bad for your heart!?
I hear a hoarse voice complaining, but I listen to that stuff and look back, and see how it works.
"Oh? Is this...?
It's hard to explode, so what if it doesn't? and became anxious, but the Empire product of peace of mind and trust seemed to perform its full function without any talent.
"Gy -!"
It looked like Mother Crystal, who hadn't been slightly mobile before, shook the giant. At the same time, something like powerful noise penetrates the cerebral cord rather than the ear.
"Grr!?
"Guh!?
"Gee!?
I reckoned with the shock. Something sour is about to creep up into the feeling of running scared like a stick stuck in a brain miso and scratched. Oh, my God. Hey. Mental assault. Anything?
There was a drastic change in Mother Crystal while she was lethal blow and black-and-white her eyes. The light that was visible behind the countless giant lizards disappeared, and its body began to diverge as if it had lost its vitality. Apparently, this was my unleashed blow that was unlucky for Mother Crystal and lucky for us to reach the deepest core. That's the one.
"I think I'm done."
"Yeah, I think so."
"Small crystalline organisms are also inactive."
That's what Mimi told me to confirm, and it certainly seemed that those small crystalline lifeforms that were flying around were also stopping that activity. In fact, the momentum that was flying around is still flying everywhere, but there is no indication that it will change direction at all.
"You weren't surprised."
"Right."
"Hum..."
I don't care how many direct hits I made to the core, I don't think it was endurance that would screw up as much as two direct anti-ship reaction warhead torpedoes on a boulder...... for better or worse does that mean SOL had a gameplay? I don't think I'm going to get an answer.
"If a human is crushed by his brain and his heart, he dies, and I guess that means that crystalline life forms are the same. Maybe."
"Yes, what is it?
"Well, I don't know if that makes sense. Even a powerful battleship will sink if it shoots through the generator."
Whatever it is, it's a good thing you're stuck. It was worth the risk.
And I thought that individual communications came in, not wide-area communications. Instruct Mimi to establish communication. It was Major Serena's face, which was pulling her cheeks together, that was shown on the screen in a big picture.
"Good day, Captain Hiro"
"Ah, yes. Good afternoon?"
Returns a greeting with a slight pull to Major Serena's graceful greeting, which creates an unenviable atmosphere.
Is that it? Aren't you kind of mad?
"In the meantime, would you mind sending that knob to Restarias?
"Ahai, Suguykimus"
Immediately responding to the atmosphere she was not allowed to say yes or no, she immediately cut off communication.
"... that? The one that pisses me off?
"Come on?"
"Uh... I don't know"
Mimi looks anxious with Elma tilting her neck.
What shouldn't have happened? And with my neck tilted, I started the superlight drive and headed to the battleship Restarias, where Major Serena would be waiting.