Chapter 439 The Pope's Martyrdom

Seeing the Pope's actions, Havermann in the command center was shocked, "What is the Pope planning to do?"

"I don't know…" A high-ranking bishop was equally bewildered. "The Pope has been studying the changes in the holy icon. He should be in the Sacred Chamber…"

At this moment, the Pope had already stepped out of the pillar of light. His face was serene and calm as he walked step by step towards the distant light, like an ordinary old man taking a stroll after dinner. The charging electric light of the black warship and the light of the Hoddings Great Shield plated him with a layer of brilliance, and the airflow stirred up by the explosion in the high altitude made his coarse cloth robe flutter. The Pope looked down at the sacred book in his hand and sighed, "So that's how it is."

Then, his figure transformed into a stream of light, shooting straight towards the black spaceship.

Exclamations rose and fell within Hoddings Floating City.

Although it was just a tiny human rushing over, the black spaceship seemed to sense some kind of special threat. Its surface suddenly unfolded layers of electric芒, trying to stop the old man rushing straight towards it. The protective divine术 on the Pope's body were constantly shattered and reorganized under the whips of the electric芒. His forward speed was slowed down, but his forward pace did not stop at all. In the end, he could almost touch the outer shell of the black spaceship, but his speed was also suppressed to almost an inch at a time.

However, even in this situation, the old man's figure did not shake at all. He still maintained a calm expression, moving slowly forward in the chaotic lightning storm, slowly but firmly and calmly facing the thunder. As his hands were about to touch the outer shell of the black spaceship, the Pope felt a loud, bell-like sound in his mind. A powerful and angry will forcibly broke into his spiritual world. Although he couldn't hear it clearly, the voice was angrily questioning his intentions.

The Pope raised his head, the wrinkles on his face increasing and deepening at a speed visible to the naked eye, instantly aging like an old man about to die: "I come to confess."

Lightning surged from all directions, and endless electric light seemed to tear the entire world apart. In this electric light, the Pope sensed a frenzy that had accumulated for ten thousand years. He stood quietly in the thunder, doing his best to conduct difficult negotiations with that will in his mind. Finally, he released his hands and faced the light like a prophet welcoming the end of the world: "Then take me away."

An unprecedentedly bright light erupted on the surface of the black spaceship, and the charging section of the rear half of the spaceship dimmed at a speed visible to the naked eye. When all the light dissipated, the Pope's figure could no longer be seen in the sky.

A high-ranking bishop stood on the tower of Hoddings and saw this scene. He cried out in horror, "The Pope is martyred!!"

The soldiers of Hoddings Fortress fell silent in shock for a few seconds, then the cannons roared in unison, and endless magic bullets and crossbow bolts bombarded the black warship in the air, but the latter had no intention of fighting back. The spaceship hovered quietly in the air for a while, then suddenly began to accelerate and flew towards the sky.

Hoddings Floating City was ultimately just a crude aircraft. Facing an alien spaceship setting out to travel into outer space, it could only sigh in vain.

In the vast space, the Tortoise Rock Platform was quietly waiting for the black warship. Everything that happened on the surface of the planet fell into the eyes of everyone on the bridge. Hao Ren didn't understand how the Pope finally made the black warship cancel the global electromagnetic storm. He guessed that the Pope might have understood some secrets related to the goddess before his death, but now that the Pope was dead, to uncover this secret, he would probably have to go to the owner of the black warship.

After the black warship left the planetary atmosphere, it directly encountered the Tortoise Rock Platform waiting in full battle array. The two spaceships faced each other from a distance of tens of thousands of kilometers. The small silver-white spaceship was insignificant compared to the several-kilometer-long black warship, but the latter's full energy reaction made it impossible for anyone to ignore its threat.

The black warship hesitated slightly, and a distorted vortex suddenly opened in front of it, seemingly planning to open a space door to escape, but the vortex only lasted for less than a second before it suddenly collapsed.

The gravity well generator sent a signal of successful interference. Hao Ren opened the communicator and shouted to the black spaceship on the public channel: "Attention, the spaceship ahead. This airspace has been laid down with a gravity well generator, and all faster-than-light navigation methods are now blocked. This ship is now…"

Before he could finish speaking, he saw the front half of the black spaceship suddenly shine with a light. Hundreds of main and auxiliary guns of the enemy ship fired at the Tortoise Rock Platform at the same time.

The black warship's artillery bombarded the Tortoise Rock Platform's shield, causing a ripple. The latter's hull shook slightly, and the data terminal whistled, "Whoosh - the power is a bit greater than expected. It seems that technical content is indeed the primary combat power."

"Anyway, I have carried out the initial communication and warning according to the requirements of the manual," Hao Ren frowned and threw the captain's code on the console casually. "Turn on high-speed maneuvering, counterattack with auxiliary guns, and turn on all interference devices. Anyway, we can't let that thing run away!"

The data terminal said while inputting instructions: "Do you want to kill it or beat it half to death?"

"Of course, we can't kill it!" Hao Ren supported the console with both hands. "If possible… I still want to catch it alive."

"Roger!"

The surface of the Tortoise Rock Platform suddenly泛起 a burst of fuzzy and uncertain light. Then the entire spaceship flickered in space like a phantom, relying on continuous space teleportation to avoid the black spaceship's lock. At the same time, several auxiliary guns also protruded from under the armor belt on the waist of the spaceship and began to counterattack.

The black warship had extremely advanced technology in this universe. One of its spaceships could cause devastating blows to an entire planet - even the civilization of Iolam, which had already developed space technology, could not resist it. Therefore, it also posed a certain threat to the Tortoise Rock Platform, a civilian-level inspector's flagship. But even so, the Tortoise Rock Platform used幽能 power. Each of its attacks contained幽能. This was an energy that could take effect in all dimensions. Each attack would cause equal damage to everything within the scope of action - including matter, energy, space, laws, and even all other things in the world. This was an irreconcilable qualitative difference. The black warship, no matter how large, could not gain any advantage in the face of such "artillery" duels.

The black spaceship could not dodge in the face of the幽能 bombardment. Large patches of bright flashes erupted on its surface. The spaceship's shield began to falter after several bombardments, and then the black crystalline thin plates on the spaceship entered an overload state with bright sparks. Continuous small-scale explosions spread on the outer shell of the spaceship, and the most severely damaged parts were those identified as engines and hyper-space devices. A string of dazzling flashes划过 the waist of the black spaceship, cutting off a large part of the spaceship's power supply while blowing away two sets of hyper-space generators. But until all the systems were destroyed, the warship's counterattack never stopped.

Hao Ren pressed his hands on the console, staring at the enemy ship on the holographic projection: "I couldn't do anything to you on the ground, but in space…"

The data terminal loudly took over: "This is my territory!"

The short and fierce bombardment lasted for a few minutes, and the black spaceship quickly fell into a standstill. The data terminal performed well this time. It accurately found the weak points that could make the enemy ship lose its function without completely blowing it up. After the bombardment stopped, the black warship悬浮 silently in space. Most of the black crystalline thin plates on its surface were broken due to overload, and there were many horrific ablation holes on the ship's hull. Clusters of electric light burst out from these damaged places from time to time.

The data terminal used the ship-borne radar to sense the energy reaction inside the target enemy ship, to prevent the latter from "playing dead" to save its life. After confirming it again and again, it breathed a sigh of relief: "The target has lost its ability to move. There is life reaction inside."

Lily was stunned, and after a while, she blurted out: "It's so exciting!"

The others on the bridge had almost the same reaction: this was the first time these guys had experienced such a battle.

Hao Ren was also a little immersed in the excitement of this first space battle with an enemy spaceship, but he didn't have time to indulge for too long. After confirming that the Tortoise Rock Platform had only suffered minor damage, he immediately ordered to approach the black warship of the brain monster.

A sense of anticipation that was about to uncover some secret came out for no reason.