C28

"Admiral! This just came in! The home defense fleet has successfully arrived at Procyon system and engaged the briaan forces!"

My communications officer cried out after reading through the transmission he received from UNOES PUNIC.

Hearing this I pressed the fleet-wide intercom holographic button and gave the order.

"All spaceships initiate jump to Procyon system immediately!"

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The second royal guard fleet that numbered a hundred fifty warships of different classes was cruising through the dark starry space on one of their regular patrol roots.

Only for 8 white vortexes to appear in the middle of their trajectory out of nowhere which quickly dissipated revealing 8 battleships that were the size of the emperor's personal flagship that was the biggest and most powerful warship in the entire Briaan navy.

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"My lord 8 unidentified objects just appeared in the middle of our cruising trajectory!"

The second fleets flagships dumbfounded sensors officer cried out.

"What?! H... Evade! Evade! Start evasive maneuvers immediately!"

The admiral of the second royal guard's fleet cried out as he stood up from his throne only to hear the horrified sensors officer scream.

"B... BRACE FOR IMPACT!"

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"Jump complete! Oh gods were about to collide with a briaan fleet! BRACE FOR IMPACT!"

I heard my sensors officer cry out only to feel the Einherjar tremble the next moment.

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7 briaan spaceships slammed straight into the hulls of 7 human battleships causing the warships to move sideways as the briaan spaceship's bows completely caved in while denting the human battleship's hulls inwards.

As for the ones that didn't collide after flying past the human fleet Immediately did a 180-degree flip with their secondary Ion thrusters and after doing that fired up their main thrusters at maximum burn.

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"Fire! Fire and scramble everything we have!"

I roared as I looked at the briaan flagship lodged itself into my ship's hull.

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"Launch!Launch!Launch!"

Karl heard the same word being repeated by his group's commander as he did he hit his newest model's phantoms thrusters pedal to max speed causing his fighter to fly out with his squadron following right behind him.

"My gods!"

"F*ck!F*ck!F*ck!"

"This is a bloody massacre!

Karl heard his squadrons pilots exclaim in his comms as he expertly manuvered his fighter through a storm of solid warheads, laserbeams, and 40 mm APHE shells that covered every inch of space.

He saw Einherjar mercilessly pummel the Briaan flagship at point-blank range with its laser canons and flak canons that weren't focused on taking down Briaan space torpedoes.

That was also dishing out the punishment evident from the chunks of armor that got either melted through or blown off from the Einherjar.

The 3 ultra-heavy railguns crackling with electricity finally discharged their first payload at point-blank range causing the Briaan flagship to practically get torn to shreds as its entire hull contorted from the sheer kinetic force it received.

Causing it to go silent only to explode the next second as its damaged reactor core self-destructed after reaching critical mass.

Vaporizing one-third of Einherjar into atoms, basically, the entire front was gone but despite that the warship that was brought back from the ashes like a phoenix once alreadycontinued to dish out punishment as its torpedo ports opened up.

Releasing 100 space torpedoes that after adjusting their trajectory flew to their designated targets.

Only for a squadron of Briaan bombers heading straight for UNOES Wywern get highlighted by his fighter's AI.

"Alright shut the f*ck up already we got a squadron of bombers heading straight for Wywern! We must intercept them at once!"

Karl barked as he pushed his control stick to the right causing his fighter to change trajectory.

"Phantom 1 copy over!"

"Phantom 2 copy over!"

"Phantom 3 copy over!"

"P..."

One by one his squadron pilots gave their acknowledgments as they followed Karls's footsteps and formed up into an arrowhead formation and as soon as they got in effective range of their missiles they fired them without any hesitation.

"Fox 1,2!"

"Fox 1!"

"Fox 1,3!"

"F..."

"F*ck these guys are good! Don't waste your missiles and blow them up with your laser gatties over!"

Karl gave the order after seeing that only 30 percent of bombers got destroyed while the rest evaded their missiles by effectively using their countermeasures as they scattered in all directions forcing his squadron to also split up.

"Got you son of a b*tch!"

Karl shouted excitedly while feeling the combat drugs released from his implants coursing through his body as he pulled his two laser vattling guns trigger on his joystick making his two gatties spew out purple laser beams continuously that tore the Briaan bomber into shreds.

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"Railguns target alpha, bravo, and charlie cruisers one salvo each, lasers target destroyers and frigates in sector 4 and save our space torpedoes for the other briaan fleet!"

I barked out my orders in rapid succession as I looked at my holographic table that showed the current battle in a form of a 3D model.

"Vigorous take out that cruiser ASAP!"

I barked after seeing a cruiser sneaking up Typhoon's rear whose reactor got hit making him lose his combat effectiveness completely as its crew were doing their best to patch it up.

"Admiral! We cant! Our weapons energy system has been severely damaged our engineers and technicians are doing their best to patch it up but we need another 5 mins!"

The captain of Vigorous cried out.

"What about your propulsion?!"

"It's working sir!"

"Then f*cking ramp it or we're going to lose a battleship!"

"Yes sir!"

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"You heard the man ram it!"

"Yes sir!"

The pilot of vigorous acknowledged as he set the ship's ion thrusters to the maximum.

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"Captain! An enemy battleship is about to ram us!"

"What?! Are they f*cking nuts?!"

"Evade! Evade!"

The captain roared only to feel his cruiser tremble as vigorous triangle-shaped bow lodged itself into its hull and continued to dig deeper until his ship got torn apart.

"Captain our flak canons are back online!"

The weapons officer of vigorous cried out.

"Then Fire! Fire for god's sake! Give the f*ckers a taste of human-made lead!"

"Yes sir!"

The weapons officer answered as he hit the holographic fire button making vigorous flak canons mercilessly pummel the two halves of Briaan cruiser.

The Briaans that saw it were completely terrified just who the f*ck did they mess with? The whole race seemed to be a bunch of psychos!

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"XO whats the ETA on the briaans other fleet?!"

"3 hours sir!"

Aurora answered after minimizing her holographic table.

Good, we still have enough time to clean up this fleet and prepare for the second one.

I thought as I looked at my holographic table with red dots representing briaan spaceships that were rapidly disappearing one after another.

As for the reason they were being destroyed so quickly? That was quite simple the shields that Briaans were so proud of had no effect in this system so they were left only with armor for defense.

Unlike Einherjars who had triple the amount of armor on them and guns designed for long-range engagements that proved devastating at practically point-blank ranges.

So although all battleships received various degrees of damage with two of them being critical not one was lost yeat but that would change once we engaged the second fleet.

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"My lord the second fleet has been destroyed what are your orders?"

The adjutant of the first fleet asked.

"Continue with the interception course it's the direct order from the emperor!"

The admiral of the first fleet answered who although would have liked to orbit the Aix star fortress and dish it out with the enemy fleet there but he got his orders directly from the emperor who seemed to be hell-bent on destroying the enemy fleet as fast as possible at any cost.

As for the reason Can Nil gave such orders? He felt Dracula's presence and he wanted him dead as fast as possible plus the arrogance that the Briaans developed over the thousands of years from bullying the weaker than them civilizations didn't help either.

It made him underestimate his enemy greatly which would be the downfall of their race, well he could have prevented the extinction of his race if he didn't release the monster from its cage.

But that is a story for the future...

"My lord! These... these barbarians are using our ships as barricades!"

The sensors officer cried out as he sent the radars readings to the admiral causing them to appear as a 3D construct in which you could clearly see the damaged battleships take cover behind the destroyed Briaan warships wreckages.

"Tch! These animals have no sense of chivalry at all! Weapons start pummeling them with railguns as soon as we're in effective firing range!"

The admiral barked.

"Yes, my lord!"

The reason why Briaans didn't start sheeling Ragnorks fleet already was that they were accelerating forward meaning that if they fired now they would only be waisting their ammunition, as for space torpedoes it was the same case.

The humans could just easily take them all out because of the range after all the flak canons that fired physical ammunition didn't have the weakness off lasers that would disintegrate after their energy was exhausted.