Chapter 300: The War Begins, Chu's Fury

Chu originally intended for this 40% to merely probe the situation.

In blunt terms, it was a sacrificial move.

However, what Chu did not anticipate was that it had somewhat overestimated Star City's combat capabilities.

Deep down, it had always thought that Star City was likely the weakest among the Olive Branch civilization. Yet the ensuing war overturned this belief.

These star cities were actually inferior to Star City because Gais, in order to resolve internal conflicts, had allowed a portion of the warships within Star City to participate in the plan to exterminate humanity. This led to a severe lack of combat power in these star cities; even though they later filled the numerical gaps with life forms, the number of warships remained unfilled.

Star City itself was essentially a massive warship, but this warship lacked the agility typical of ordinary warships, and its attack methods were extremely limited.

Although Star City once seemed very strong and comprehensive in the eyes of the former Federation, Chu understood that Star City's strength stemmed from its long-range attack capabilities and its numerous warships—both were indispensable. If one were missing, then a single star city would not be able to contend with the Federation.

This resulted in 40% of the combat power from dozens of star cities—hundreds of thousands of warships—decimating those star cities effortlessly.

Soon, several star cities were occupied.

Chu could hardly believe its own information.

Why hadn't Gais taken action?

It did not understand that Gais was currently constrained by issues within Gais Star City. However, Chu knew this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and quickly led its fleet towards other star cities.

The territory of the Olive Branch civilization is not vast—about 200 light-years or so.

It is certainly much larger than the Federation, but given the current speed of Olive Branch civilization's warships, crossing these distances would take less than 1,300 years.

Within 1,000 years, Chu's fleet had captured over 20 star cities, while other fleets had taken down 18 more. The number of star cities under Gais's control suddenly decreased by 70%.

Chu knew this was just the beginning; it had not forgotten what happened before.

Therefore, after occupying these star cities, the first thing it did was begin to recompile all particles within each star city. This was a massive project; however, Chu developed a compilation method similar to a virus.

Like traditional ransomware, once a computer is infected, its internal files become encrypted.

Chu created something similar—not altering the structure of these particles but rather locking them down. For Gais to control these particles again, it must first decrypt this layer of locks.

This left Gais unable to regain control over certain star cities after resolving issues within Gais Star City.

All these star cities became enemies.

"Threats; all of them are threats."

Gais felt an overwhelming sense of threat approaching; if it did not respond soon, it might end up with only Gais Star City left.

"Is this how the third civil war breaks out?"

"In the end, it cannot be avoided."

"Then let's end this directly; we cannot allow the war to enter a prolonged stalemate phase; that would only make us more passive."

Having experienced the second civil war, Gais knew that a war cannot be prolonged. What it must do is cut through chaos swiftly.

If before it could hesitate on any matter, now it could not afford such indecision; it must let all opponents know its cold-blooded nature.

Countless square structures within Gais Star City began to aggregate together to form a massive device.

This device was an almost perfect ring that continuously encircled towards the center, forming a shape resembling incense coils or more accurately like an incense burner since it was conical in shape.

Through this structure, energy continuously transmitted towards the tip of the cone where substantial material energy gathered together and then triggered a wave of fluctuations.

The wave first spread out and then converged into a point that could not be seen by the naked eye or detected by any observational equipment because it was a true point—a point existing in zero-dimensional space.

This point began to move and formed a line.

This line is referred to as "Emerald Light" within Olive Branch civilization. Indeed, this is what Yan Xia and Ella have been searching for—the Emerald Light—it does not exist in two-dimensional space but remains in one-dimensional space.

However, the Federation's exploration into one-dimensional space is limited to string theory levels and thus cannot observe this line.

Once this line formed, it began attracting surrounding strings; due to some magnetic force, they formed a circle around this line making it appear as if Emerald Light resembled a pipeline.

Subsequently, some substances passed through this pipeline.

These substances are called factors.

Factors attract all strings along the pipeline; these strings continuously follow factors towards the end of Emerald Light and then begin exploding within one nanosecond at that endpoint.

As exotic matter, factors cause fusion at Emerald Light's endpoint with strings producing explosive results known as pan-factors. 

Pan-factors begin decaying immediately upon creation; their decay generates numerous anti-quarks which invade objects touched by pan-factors. The anti-quarks annihilate quarks that compose protons within atoms leading those atoms themselves to begin disintegrating—resulting in what appears from a macroscopic perspective as direct decomposition of that entity.

This is Olive Branch civilization's most powerful weapon: "Destruction Bloom."

Bloom occurs when numerous factors at Emerald Light's endpoint undergo fusion with strings causing pan-factor explosions that eject pan-factors into surrounding space.

Factors exist as exotic matter in one-dimensional form rather than three-dimensional matter allowing them to complete fusion while pan-factors are three-dimensional matter constantly decaying particles themselves. 

The distance covered by pan-factors is not vast; thus Emerald Light is not just one line but billions upon billions of them. 

After dispersing, these pan-factors cannot inflict substantial damage on excessively massive objects either. 

This explains why some life forms observed by the Federation were killed while others that were not contacted by life forms remained unharmed—theoretically because those objects themselves were sufficiently large and too far from stellar systems along cosmic silk road preventing dispersed pan-factors from completing decomposition since their decay-produced anti-quark quantities are finite. 

However, living beings or spaceships are different—they are too small and can be easily decomposed. 

Thus what the Federation detected was merely one characteristic added onto this weapon rather than its primary capability; Destruction Bloom's main ability remains mass destruction over vast ranges. 

This time Destruction Bloom targeted a star city currently under Chu's command. 

It witnessed firsthand the annihilation of a star city and only then did it understand why the Federation felt despair. 

Gais actually aimed such weapons at star cities clearly intending to destroy them all. 

At this moment, an uncontrollable rage surged within Chu's heart. 

Gais sought to satisfy personal desires by wanting to annihilate everything within civilization—a truly unworthy act for any leader; its murderous intent towards Gais reached its peak at this moment. 

"Let's head towards Gais Star City and unleash all weapons upon that city."