Chapter 434: Loot and Losses on the Storm Calamity Floater

No one really knows how many rare treasures and resources can be harvested from a Grade‑6 Starsea Floating-land. But one thing’s certain: the earlier a captain gets to choose, the greater the spoils.

That’s exactly why those factions fought so hard for the last nine link slots.

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Time passed as the White Night Morningstar and nine battleships were steadily pressed to the limit by two sixth‑tier Doomstar elites and more than a dozen fifth‑tiers. The defensive formation was crumbling, and at last the rift in the Floating-land’s shield was torn wide enough for dreadnoughts to push through.

With one half‑step peak dreadnought, another full peak dreadnought, and the summoned sixth‑tier ten‑winged archangel from the White Phantom, their side finally achieved the shield-breaking objective right on schedule.

The Calm‑Sea Dragon‑Xiang, the Radiant Gold, and the Stark Family’s dreadnought, the Solar Gold Lord—three dreadnoughts—revved their engines and charged through the rift into the heart of the Floating-land as fast as possible.

Right behind them came all the other battleship captains of the joint fleet.

And after that, over a thousand Zhulu‑class Cruisers surged in. The three newly arrived dreadnoughts quickly regrouped with the White Night Morningstar, splitting into duos to each face off against a sixth‑tier peak Doomstar on the battlefield.

Meanwhile, the battleships and fifth‑tier Doomstars divided the battlefield into their own skirmishes. Song Chi and the other numerous Zhulu Cruisers intercepted waves of incoming fourth‑tier Doomstars from the ground, taking shots from the edges and raining down artillery support whenever they could.

Unlike the Celestial‑Star Race or the Hornbeast Race, the Doomstar Race is more like the Eight‑Armed Serpent Demons. Their strong bloodlines mean that instead of relying on power armor or starships, they trust their own raw combat strength.

Although their innate talents aren’t quite on the level of the Eight‑Armed Serpent Demons, they do possess unique bloodline powers and secret arts passed down through their kind.

Right now, the two sixth‑tier Doomstar elites locked in battle above with four dreadnoughts—using brutal physiques to go toe‑to‑toe with warships—were surrounded by dense, shadowy starlight. Their command over the Law of Light was nearly perfect.

Unlike the Yaoguang Star Tower’s own Star talents, it’s said that the Doomstar Race’s light affinity comes from an ancient multiverse‑era star called Deathstar, which stands deep within a super Floating-land’s heavens—its rank is beyond words.

Swish!

The Yan Shen Divine Sword cut down hard onto a fourth‑tier Doomstar. Empowered by mid‑mastery Law of Space, it sliced the already wounded beast in half.

Even so, the tenacity of these Doomstars was staggering. Even sliced in two, this fourth‑tier didn’t die instantly. Dark starlight wrapped both halves and, fueled by its advanced Law of Light, launched lances of black energy at the Heavenly Ruin in Mythical Mech Form.

Unfortunately, it couldn’t even scratch the Heavenly Ruin. Its Yin‑Yang Counter‑Phase Annihilation Shield, already boosted to level 67, shrugged off such attacks with ease.

The Yan Shen Divine Sword flashed again, finishing off the fourth‑tier Doomstar. Song Chi shifted his focus to another one nearby.

Engines roared beneath his feet, but before the gigantic mech‑warrior form of the Heavenly Ruin could lunge, Song Chi felt his expression tighten inside the cockpit.

When a warship enters Mythical Mech Form, the captain fully merges with the vessel, syncing nerves and senses to become one.

All at once, Song Chi felt as if a mountain was pressing down on his shoulders. The source of this oppressive force on the giant mech was clear.

Above, a colossal, shadowy star thousands of kilometers wide hung overhead. Its glowing starlight blanketed half the sky, oppressing the giant mech‑warrior with heavy, dim radiance.

More than likely, this was a Deathstar Projection conjured by one of the sixth‑tier Doomstars’ secret arts.

And it wasn’t just the Heavenly Ruin—all the Torch warships that entered the Floating-land were bearing the same crushing weight. The dreadnoughts included.

On the other hand, the Doomstars in the sky surged in power, basking in the eerie starlight.

With the Floating-land’s origin rules amplifying this effect, the Torch side began to lose the upper hand.

Just then, the Eagle Family’s mainline battleship captain suddenly activated a golden sanctuary component on the Eagle Soaring.

Divine Wind Domain Stone, level 69.

Left by the first Eagle Marquis, this gold domain‑type part was one of the Eagle Family’s highest trump cards.

But due to Slim Eagle’s red Torch core, this component had never quite reached level 70.

As the “Divine Wind Domain” power activated, a light blue wind domain spread from the Eagle Soaring, easily enveloping both Doomstars and warships across the sky.

But this time, everything was flipped—all Torch warships were marked as allies, and Doomstars as foes.

The heavy pressure on Song Chi eased at once, and possibilities raced through his mind.

Laws of Space converged around the mech‑warrior, forming a massive Return‑to‑Void sword beam in an instant.

At the same time, the supercannon belonging to the Myriad‑Spirit Annihilation Bow on the right hand revealed its fearsome muzzle, and the twin main cannons on the shoulders were ready as well.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!

The Yan Shen Divine Sword swept out, pushing that Return‑to‑Void blade directly toward a target. As a spatial secret art, its speed was incredible; several Doomstars in its path had no chance to dodge, as if space itself collapsed for them. The energy blade struck home effortlessly.

With Song Chi’s mastery of mid‑tier Laws of Space, those Doomstars were instantly crippled.

The triple cannons, fully charged, fired one after another. Even ordinary shots dispatched three more Doomstars without hassle.

He hadn’t even needed to use the Black Hole Collapse function.

Song Chi wasn’t the only captain to seize the moment. Within moments, hundreds of fourth‑tier Doomstars were slain across the sky.

From the surface, you’d see hundreds of fourth‑tier and above Doomstar corpses raining down—a truly shocking sight for the lower‑tier monsters of this Floating-land.

It wasn’t long before billions upon tens of billions of Doomstars on the ground were thrown into chaos.

That was just the start of the pandemonium. Soon a blood rain swept the lands, ramping the turmoil even higher.

With so many fourth‑tier and above Doomstars dying at once, the Floating-land’s own will wailed in grief. The rain was only stage one; next would come earthquakes, hurricanes—every form of catastrophic weather.

Every creature born of the Floating-land contains a trace of its origin rule. The higher their rank, the stronger the bond; all depend on the Floating-land’s core state.

With this many high‑tier creatures dying together, the origin rules they carried faded away as well—dealing a harsh blow to the Floating-land’s core.

Outside the Floating-land, two dreadnought captains exchanged glances. Their enormous mech arms fired at full power, joined by the searing holy light of the supporting ten‑winged angel.

As the Floating-land’s origin core weakened, blowback struck the shield. Noticing the drop in shield strength, the two dreadnought captains launched a coordinated assault.

With both mechs pinned at the breach, their palm cannons couldn’t be used. But the four shoulder cannons—two per mech—were free, and all the auxiliary turrets on their backs riddled the barrier with fire, targeting the now‑weakened shield.

……

Up above: the sixth‑tier battlefield.

Perhaps sensing the changing tides, the second sixth‑tier Doomstar unleashed its own Deathstar Projection.

Now two gigantic projections loomed on either side of the sky.

The arrival of the second projection brought an even greater sense of doom—if Slim Eagle’s Divine Wind Domain Stone hadn’t been top grade, the wind domain would have shattered by now.

Though its range was forced to minimum, as long as it held, Torch warships could put up some resistance.

Everyone pulled back, forming a tight defensive group around the Eagle Soaring and switching from offense to all‑out defense.

Their main reason was obvious: changes in the overhead shield were plain to see, and some on the Stark and Morningstar teams had gotten direct messages from their own founders outside.

Warning: the Storm Calamity Floating-land’s shield was about to completely collapse!

With that knowledge, nobody dared challenge those twin Deathstar Projections. As long as the top two dreadnoughts made it in, the Doomstars wouldn’t stand a chance.

But it wasn’t just the Torch fleet who understood what was at stake—the pair of sixth‑tier peak Doomstars overhead knew it too.

Maybe that’s what finally drove them to desperation.

Buzz, buzz, buzz!

A sharp, splintering sound rang out. Old Master Lu Beili was the first to shout a warning.

“Careful! The Deathstar Projections are expanding!”

At his words, the captains jerked their heads up, and everyone’s pupils shrank in shock.

Both projections, originally just thousands of kilometers across, now swelled to almost twenty thousand. Worse, they kept growing.

Every captain instinctively went for their Space‑skipping Pearls or armor defenses.

Even before this frontier war began, every faction had gathered intelligence on the Doomstar civilization.

So deep down, they all knew perfectly well what that expanding projection foretold.

“Damn it! Isn’t Deathstar Apocalypse supposed to be the hardest secret art to master? Why are there two at once?”

While grumbling inside, Carem Stark’s voice piped up over the fleet-wide comms.

“Hold formation! If you’ve got a blink component, head down now. Everyone else, hide under the Solar Gold Lord—I can block the first wave of Deathstar blast energy…”

As soon as he finished, he triggered a unique component on his dreadnought. Instantly a massive semicircular energy shield spanning thousands of kilometers unfurled above the Solar Gold Lord, sheltering it and dozens of Torch warships below.

The shield formed like a giant parasol, covering the Solar Gold Lord and every Torch ship lacking blink tech.

The moment the shield snapped into place, both Deathstar Projections above reached nearly fifty thousand kilometers wide. In the next second, they exploded together.

Twin supermassive mushroom clouds erupted high above, sending familiar waves of dark stellar energy crashing down across the Floating-land.

Song Chi hadn’t stayed up there. Using his Space‑skipping Pearl, the Heavenly Ruin dove much deeper, well away from the blasts.

It wasn’t that he distrusted the Stark ancestor—only that the shield would hold for just the first shockwave. After that, each captain was on their own.

Besides, with the Neutron‑Star Core Armor on the Heavenly Ruin, it wouldn’t make sense to trigger those defenses inside the tight fleet cluster. Pulling away was safer.

Even after two consecutive blinks and a massive gap, the blast’s impact raced his way. Fortunately, its strength had dropped by over 90%, and his shield took less than 8% damage.

Of course, that was just the first wave. More deathlight shockwaves would follow, but the threat would continually decrease—the Yin‑Yang Counter‑Phase Annihilation Shield could take it.

Though the Heavenly Ruin avoided all danger, Song Chi wasn’t too relieved—he looked back toward the sky.

Compared to him, the Solar Gold Lord and hundreds of Zhulu Cruisers huddled below it took the brunt of the twin-Deathstar blast; the destruction they faced was unimaginable.

Even with the Solar Gold Lord’s cover, Song Chi was sure some Zhulu Cruisers would be lost in the explosions.

And he was right. As soon as he glanced upward, he saw several ships plunging down toward the Floating-land’s surface.

And that was only the first wave. More Zhulu Cruisers kept dropping from the sky.

Reflexively, Song Chi’s heart clenched.

If he remembered right, his grandfather Song Mingsong’s Furious Lion of War was also caught up there. He could only pray it wasn’t among the falling ships.

He couldn’t help it—even with his support, the Furious Lion of War had only just advanced to Zhulu status, rare blink tech was out of reach, and he’d had no way to help it escape in time.

Minutes later, after the residual waves of the Deathstar blasts ended, Song Chi piloted the Heavenly Ruin upward fast. Hundreds of other ships that had also blinked away earlier did the same.

When he saw the Furious Lion of War still intact and hovering beneath the Solar Gold Lord, Song Chi finally let out a long breath.

It made sense.

Even if the Furious Lion of War had only recently reached fourth‑tier, thanks to his help all its components were excellent.

With a red-tier energy shield, orange-tier hull plating, and both raised to fifth‑tier, its defensive setup was top for a Zhulu Cruiser. Surviving wasn’t surprising.

By contrast, the dozen or so lost Zhulu Cruisers generally had only purple shields and armor, or orange gear limited to fourth-tier by their purple Torch cores.

Still, when the final tally came out, the pain of that loss sank in for everyone.

Seventeen Zhulu Cruisers down: one from Stark, two from Morningstar, two from Dusk, two from the Gold Horn Lu Family, one from Song Family, four from Eagle Family, and five unaffiliated.

Numbers on a list couldn’t express the true loss—seventeen precious high‑tier warships, and with the war only halfway done, everyone felt a heavy weight.

After all, who knew if they might join that list themselves before it was over.

Some good news, though: the pair of sixth‑tier Doomstars were first to die in the Deathstar explosions. That kind of mutual-destruction secret art took them out immediately.

“What a waste, losing two drops of sixth‑tier origin blood!”

A rogue captain sighed over the fleet comms.

Soon, the shield high above shattered for good. The Storm Calamity Floating-land now lay fully exposed before millions of ships in the joint fleet.

What followed would be a looting frenzy.

First, though, the big powers needed to hash out the details of how the spoils would be split.

Storm Calamity Floating-land, Doomstar Sanctuary.

As the Doomstar Race’s highest authority on this Floating-land, the Sanctuary had stockpiled over seventy percent of its resources over the millennia.

Though many had been sent up to the Doomstar Holy Court on the Grade‑7 Floating-land, what remained was more than enough to make every top faction salivate.

Just the value of items looted here rivaled several silver‑grade legendary parts.

“Hardy Stark: Here’s everything inventoried from the Doomstar Sanctuary. As agreed, the dreadnoughts and battleship captains each pick one. The rest gets split by Stark 2.5, Morningstar 2, Lu, Song, and Dusk each 1.2, Eagle 0.7, and a shared 1.2% for the others. Everyone good with that?”

Heads nodded all around—distribution had been decided from the start, and no one objected.

That’s when Slim Eagle suddenly spoke up:

“Aside from Hardy and Grand Duke Rosetta, I want third pick this round!”

Everyone understood—this was his payback for burning his golden Divine Wind Domain Stone earlier. His move back then paid off now.

No one complained; the selection order for the dreadnoughts was soon set.

Hardy Stark, Rosetta Morningstar, Slim Eagle, Carem Stark, Angel Star.

Last were Song Wujian, Lu Beili, and Hors Dusk—they’d make their picks together, haggling if two chose the same Oddity.

After these eight, the nine battleship captains who first came to the White Night Morningstar would pick.

Everyone else followed.

With the order set, the list of loot soon appeared in the comms.

Forty strands of Seventh‑Tier Floating-land Origin

Five thousand strands of Sixth-Tier Floating-Land Origin

Six hundred ten thousand strands of Fifth-Tier Floating-Land Origin

More than ten million strands of Fourth-Tier Floating-Land Origin

Over thirty billion Third-Tier and under Floating-Land Origin

One Silver Legendary Oddity

Twenty-six Red Epic Items

Three hundred five Orange Glory Items

Over ten thousand in purple and lower grades

Ten kilograms of Hunyuan Copper

One million Titanite Crystals

Two Sixth-Tier Void Crystals

One Sixth-Tier Silver Apple

……

Reading the staggering list, it wasn’t just Song Chi—every Torch captain in the chat felt envy.

Hardy Stark, the peak dreadnought captain, made the first choice.

He went with the silver treasure—a rare artifact that could become a Shadow Light Energy Shield, clearly the most valuable find.

The forty strands of Seventh‑Tier Floating-land Origin didn’t count for this split—the six major powers would divide those up later.

Some second‑tier powers grumbled, but no one dared protest.

Rosetta Morningstar, still just a voice in the group, chose a red artifact: a fireseed that could become an upgraded Firesource.

A treasure that grants a tier-up Firesource.

While the first picks were underway, the Song Family’s Calm‑Sea Dragon‑Xiang group chat buzzed with suggestions:

“Song Dingbang: Ancestor, let’s grab that sixth‑tier Silver Apple. With it, we can evolve the Floating-Land Origin Core Extractor to red tier and maybe snag the Floating-land’s core origin next time, speeding up Dragon‑Spine Continent’s advance to grade seven.”

“Song Xingru: Agreed!”

“Song Tianhao: The Hunyuan Copper’s nice, but the Silver Apple’s even more valuable to us!”

By the time they finished, Song, Lu, and Dusk were all up to pick. As Song Wujian started to speak, Song Chi quickly messaged after catching up on the chat:

“Ancestor, don’t bother with the Silver Apple. I’ve got ways to get more—focus on something else!”

Just as he finished, Hors Dusk called dibs on the Sixth-Tier Silver Apple—clearly, their Family needed a red-tier upgrade, too.

Catching the hint, Song Wujian silently turned away from the Silver Apple and claimed the ten kilos of Hunyuan Copper instead.

After the dreadnoughts, it was the battleship captains. As one of the first nine to link up, Song Xingru got first choice.

Her sixth‑tier Fire Drakesaur had played a big role earlier.

She paused a bit, then chose a red artifact that could become a secondary cannon part.

Song Chi felt a pang of regret—Carem Stark and Angel Star had already snatched the two Sixth-Tier Void Crystals, or he’d have pushed for one for Xingru.

It wasn’t quite the Fifth-Tier Void Crystal he needed, but Sixth‑tier ones were essential for later upgrades to the Breeding Sanctuary.

He’d already decided to give Xingru a Fifth‑Rank Moon Spring as a consolation—something that had to go to the Family anyway.

With a shake of his head, Song Chi let it go; after loot division, the talk moved to splitting up the whole Storm Calamity Floating-land.

After all, this was just the Sanctuary’s share. There had to be rules for dividing the rest, or things would get messy fast.

Soon enough, the Stark Family carved the Floating-land up into seven sectors, using the same percentage split as before.

Stark 2.5, Morningstar 2, Lu, Song, and Dusk each 1.2, Eagle 0.7, and 1.2 for the other states.

The breakdown was fair—no region was obviously rich or poor, so everyone agreed quickly.

But just as each faction was preparing to mobilize, Hardy Stark dropped a strange reminder.

“Everyone, the kingdom has strict rules—grab any above-ground loot, but leave all unmined veins until the new territories are officially divvied up after the Frontier War. The Chaos Sector wasn’t regulated before, but this is Doomstar territory now. Break this rule, and not only will you lose your ill-gotten gains, you’ll be fined double!”

Without waiting for a response, the Stark Family fleet was already on its way out.

The others were left confused, but the Song Family brass—aware of Xian Qin Divine Dynasty’s hand in things—memorized the warning and started planning how to get future protection from a Paragon family.

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