Chapter 94: Chapter 83: First Battle Won, Total Annihilation!
"Simply put, it’s a targeted detection method requiring connection to a brain-chip. The detection range is one kilometer. If any Void Spirit Race is found within that kilometer, an immediate alert will sound and the target will be locked." Shen Yu of the interstellar world said, "Three thousand anti-Void Spirit weapons have already arrived; consider this a corps-level field test for the new weapon. I expect you all to deliver a satisfactory result."
"Rest assured, you have my absolute assurance!" Jer Saint’s excitement was impossible to hide as he thumped his chest heavily. "For the honor of the military, if I can’t take down more than half of the Void Spirits, I’ll willingly accept demotion—to a mere foot soldier!"
At this moment, the way he looked at interstellar world Shen Yu had completely changed.
Previously, he’d thought this person’s protected status was probably just because he was a valuable experimental asset.
That his actual contribution to the two major projects might not be significant.
Now he realized just how absurd that notion was!
What had he just witnessed?
Even the Goddess of Hope had declared it impossible, yet this person stayed in a classified room for less than an hour—and produced the actual device!
This was a device capable of detecting Void Spirits. For twenty-three years, project teams and the best scientists had all failed to succeed—yet here it was, just like that?
One kilometer. Not a huge range, but paired with high mobility, and focused scouting in areas where many soldiers had previously fallen, it was enough!
"I’ve already assembled a million of our most elite warriors, three hundred men per mobile squad." Jer Saint quickly demonstrated his command abilities, rapidly formulating tactics.
When he distributed the war plans to these million elites, every warrior became incredibly charged.
Just moments ago, they’d been yearning for even a chance to equip these new weapons.
Longing for a proper, frontal war with the Void Spirits.
No one expected the opportunity would come so fast.
Still less did anyone imagine there’d be a Void Spirit detector!
Even if it was just an experimental prototype—so what?
Countless warriors would fight tooth and nail for the chance to take part in this experiment.
At this moment, Shen Yu of the interstellar world did not interrupt, but silently observed as the senior officers rapidly issued a series of orders. The intricate tactical thinking and ingenious structures fully revealed the gap between them.
On this front, he truly couldn’t compare with these carefully selected geniuses drawn from the entirety of human civilization.
But, that didn’t matter—as long as he was the one employing their talents.
And in just two hours, the initial victory report had already arrived.
One thousand two hundred and thirty-six Void Spirits slain!
Indeed, to achieve the "first sight kill" effect, Jer Saint only launched the raid after locking onto a sufficient number of Void Spirits!
If the number of detectors hadn’t been limited, he would have wiped out every Void Spirit still on the planet in a single strike.
But even so, these numbers were enough to thrill everyone.
"Gentlemen, this battle will be written into history!" Jer Saint’s voice resounded throughout the military channel.
The first blood on the Void Spirit Race had gone to Shen Yu of the interstellar world.
But this time, it’s the first victory on the battlefield!
Destined to enter the annals of history, remembered for as long as human civilization survives!
For soldiers, this was the highest possible honor!
At this moment, the Void Spirits had fallen into unprecedented chaos.
They scattered in panic, desperately fleeing the previously contested zones. Some, gripped by terror, unleashed further slaughter—perhaps hoping to instill fear.
Yet what once worked, now only fueled the warriors’ fighting spirit.
They had seen that the Void Spirits, once as terrifying as death itself, actually felt fear, panicked, and even made stupid decisions in their panic.
Creating slaughter only exposed themselves, hastening their own demise.
"Leave half? You’re seriously overestimating them!" Jer Saint and the others were now utterly absorbed. "I’m keeping at least seventy percent—no, eighty—no, a total wipe-out!"
Such exhilarating battle had only existed in their dreams before.
Now, it was reality.
Shen Yu of the interstellar world watched for a while, then left without disturbing them.
He quietly slipped away, returning to the classified room.
With every Void Spirit killed, the quantity of Gray Mist rapidly increased.
By rough estimation, each Void Spirit Race could yield over five thousand units of Gray Mist!
This was, so far, the Association’s most valuable enemy—second only to the Worms.
It showed the devastating harm they brought human civilization, but also held some good news.
The more Gray Mist, the better.
At this point, Shen Yu of the interstellar world returned to the Gray Mist Space.
Shen Yu’s original body and Martial Artist Shen Yu were both there already.
Martial Artist Shen Yu had called the meeting.
Seeing Shen Yu of the interstellar world arrive, Martial Artist Shen Yu skipped pleasantries and opened a projection.
"This is footage from the meteorological monitoring device I traded from you a few days ago—captured half an hour ago."
The footage clearly showed an incomparably massive tornado eye rapidly taking shape.
It was truly enormous.
At the edges, wind speed was still slow—not fast—but already covered nearly a tenth of the landmass!
Martial Artist Shen Yu’s world was on a planet even larger than the Mother Star.
Its surface area was three times greater.
The central continent alone was astonishing—twice the size of all land combined on the Mother Star.
Vast beyond belief.
In these conditions, a tenth of the surface area was unimaginable.
All tornadoes, typhoons—compared to this, weren’t worth mentioning.
"Temperatures have started to drop sharply these past days, and wind intensity has steadily risen. At the time, this apocalypse-level tornado eye hadn’t formed." Martial Artist Shen Yu’s expression was grave. "All the tornadoes on Earth Martial Sect’s side were suddenly swallowed and merged by a gigantic super tornado, which expanded to this size in just a few hours."
"The climate problems in your world are indeed serious." Shen Yu of the interstellar world reviewed weather satellite data, saying, "These changes totally violate normal meteorological patterns. Even our satellites have no analytics to model this, so we made no predictions."
The most likely cause was still the presence of active Primordial Energy disrupting weather patterns.
That type of fierce wind simply couldn’t occur on a normal planet.
It could even be considered a large-scale, apocalypse-level weapon.
"Whatever the cause, at this rate of expansion, there won’t be any habitable surface left." Martial Artist Shen Yu said gravely. "After a simple survey, I found that approximately eight hundred million people have survived in this world. We can’t delay—I must do everything possible to preserve these eight hundred million lives!"
Eight hundred million—seemingly a lot, yet the Martial Arts World was immensely vast.
In the past, even normal people were healthy, food was abundant, and life expectancy was high.
Now, at least half the population had already been lost to this disaster!
By proportion, far worse than what Shen Yu and interstellar world Shen Yu had suffered in their respective civilizations!
Originally, with no Association to take responsibility, Martial Artist Shen Yu wouldn’t have considered this his problem.
But now, he could no longer stand by and watch those eight hundred million die in droves.
"Building an underground temporary survival base for eight hundred million people in a short time isn’t difficult for us. Food supplies aren’t a concern in the short term—for now, it can be a purely emergency shelter." Shen Yu of the interstellar world calculated rapidly and said, "Our need for Moonstone is high. According to the latest plan, resources for construction won’t be a problem. So, the biggest challenge remains in gathering and managing the population."