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Chapter 1019: Chapter 551, The Space ’Blood Shark’_2

The Interstellar Warriors of the Blood Sharks are generally very reticent, cautious, and vigilant. However, in battle, they exhibit a noticeable transformation, displaying an extremely bloodthirsty violent outburst, madly cutting down or blowing up their enemies.

The commanders issue orders through an encrypted and locked radio network, speaking neither to the enemy nor allies in battle, except under extreme necessity.

This silence contrasts starkly with their frenzied style of hacking enemies apart, often dismembering and slashing bodies on the spot, with blood splattering everywhere. They even do this without any venting screams, just silently chopping away, axe by axe.

A strange silence.

With the help of this elusive and adept-at-surprise-attacks battle group, the situation once maintained by the Three Bougainvillea Regiments was broken in an instant.

The sudden attack stunned the three regiments.

They had never encountered such a battle group and enemy, nor had they received intelligence about another regiment. In several surprise attacks, the Blood Sharks achieved significant results.

Each time they punched a hole in the line, the Iron Rage Stone Regiments would pour in with superior forces.

After several similar battle situations, the Three Bougainvillea Regiments collapsed and inevitably surrendered.

This also rendered the Phoenix Legion’s political efforts futile.

The target they wanted to rescue was beyond salvation.

Overall, the main factor in collapsing the Three Bougainvillea Regiments on the frontal battlefield was certainly the absolute superiority in numbers of the Iron Rage Stone Regiments. Their forces were almost more than four times that of the Three Bougainvillea Regiments.

However, no one can ignore the special role played by the Blood Shark Battle Group in this.

What particularly leaves an impression is their bloody and ruthless fighting style.

Many battle groups are indifferent to the lives and deaths of mortals, be they enemies, allies, or civilians. But even among Interstellar Warriors, the Blood Sharks stand out in this aspect. In their pursuit of military objectives, they repeatedly show a thorough disregard for the casualties of civilians affected. They wouldn’t even lend a hand to help effortlessly, and if wounded civilians lay on their path, they wouldn’t slow their pace—stepping on them was no big deal.

This point is quite controversial.

Later on, scholars on Holy Terra, after deeply researching some historical documents, found some references to the Blood Sharks from ancient war examples—stories resembling myths, epics, ancient operas, and fables.

There’s nothing with them as the protagonist, but in some story backdrops, it’s mentioned that about four thousand years ago, a battle group named ’Blood Sharks’ was formed. They were sent to a Cosmos Domain without a Star Realm Tunnel connection, unable to directly use Star Language to communicate, engaging in endless voyages, slaughtering enemies of mankind. They showed no mercy to traitors, aliens, and renegades, uprooting them from their own territories.

Of course, there would occasionally be reports about them on the border Star Sectors of the Empire, but none were significant, so the lords on Holy Terra overlooked them.

Although the source of these documents lacks credibility, none are official historical records. Yet, in these nearly contemporaneous, isolated works, mentioning the same matter and giving consistent descriptions on certain details of imagery and battle group actions—for instance, all mentioning the Man-Eating Shark Battle Group demonstrating a ferocious yet meticulously planned ruthless behavior, along with similar statements on their foundation and mission assignments…

All these elements align with the Blood Shark Battle Group’s performance in the Bougainvillea Rebellion, making the credibility reasonable from this perspective.

Considering the span of thousands of years, missing a record or two isn’t unusual for the Empire’s lost historical records.

Thus, the Empire later basically acknowledged the Blood Shark Battle Group.

However, in the latter stages of the Bougainvillea Rebellion, when the war was nearly ended, conflicts erupted between the Blood Sharks and the Iron Armor Battle Group.

The Blood Shark Battle Group: cruel, bloodthirsty, cold…but very poor.

This is understandable, as a ’Expeditionary Battle Group’, and a Ship-Based Battle Group, without a Recruitment World, with no fixed income, wandering continuously in the known universe, beyond the Imperial Territory, embarking on endless expeditions and voyages—how could they not be poor?

Moreover, they are peculiarly poor.

Evident in their lack of ordinary equipment, even ammunition supplies, and few servants in the group, Mortal Auxiliary Army, but oddly equipped with quite a lot of advanced gear. Even their Power Armor models are a mess, some new, but mostly varied and ancient models, with extremely disunified styles.

The battle group collects the necessary equipment through ’Grey Tax’, or by exchanging technological relics found in the outer domain with the Sect of Mechanics or other industrial worlds for the needed equipment and ammunition.

The battle group supplements manpower and Mortal Auxiliary Army and servants through ’Red Tax’, essentially drafting from planets. The group has consistently been rather poor, and their warriors’ armor is always pieced together.

After fighting for the Iron Armor Battle Group, the Blood Sharks naturally demanded ’Grey Tax’ and ’Blood Tax’.

Initially, Iron Armor was willing to give.

Given their battle merits, why not just pay?

However, the Blood Sharks have their own rules. They collect money based on the proportion of planets conquered.

The numbers seemed a bit high, exceeding Iron Armor’s expectations.

Iron Armor attempted to negotiate, but the Blood Sharks did not understand what negotiation was. This wasn’t compensation, nor a transaction—it was ’tax’.

Does collecting tax require negotiation?

No need to hire anyone for tax collection, just do it yourself.

Seizing equipment, looting spoils of war, grabbing people, directly conscripting a large population on some Iron Armor valued planets, conducting new recruit selection activities with particularly high mortality rates…

Iron Armor was infuriated, leading to clashes between both sides.

Ultimately, the Blood Sharks retreated back to the darkness with a batch of tax collection that was unsatisfactory in amount to them.

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In the hundred and thirty years following the Bougainvillea Rebellion, the frequency of the Blood Shark Battle Group’s appearances seemed to gradually increase. But it might also be due to their newfound fame drawing more attention and concern.

They still operate at their own discretion, undertaking activities in outer domains, occasionally appearing within the Imperial Territory, with unpredictable movements. They trade a little with different Sect of Mechanics, collect some Blood Tax in various worlds, all while causing trouble for their old foe Iron Armor.

After the Princess Rebellion erupted six years ago, the Iron Armor Battle Group has been on the alert, cautiously watching if this formidable, cruel enemy with whom they have grievances would emerge as a foe.

But over the past six years, they haven’t made any moves.

Until today.

The unlucky one, however, was not Iron Armor but the Torch from the New World.

The Torch Flame, boarded by Blood Sharks. As the flagship of the battle group, the ship carried four hundred New World Torch warriors. Using some kind of unstoppable, even unpredicted Psychic Transmission Technology, the boarding Blood Sharks swiftly assaulted multiple key parts of the ship.

For a moment, Wang Mengsong couldn’t even figure out how many boarding Blood Sharks there were on his ship!

Before he could concentrate forces to besiege and exterminate these boarders, several firepower centers of the ship, artillery locations, and ship control nodes were attacked. Those places soon fell silent, either lost or blown up from within.

This is precisely why the entire Torch Flame was half-paralyzed shortly after the fight began.

Nevertheless, the ship was not destroyed, and the main force of the Torch Warriors was still on board.

However, as time passed, the situation gradually eased.

Wang Mengsong urgently redeployed forces; with the Auxiliary Army and Interstellar Warriors on board besieging and intercepting, they roughly divided the boarding Blood Sharks into five or six areas.

But then again, it’s hard to say if the Blood Sharks were forcibly divided into five or six squads, or if this was their original organizational state.

Especially concerning is a Blood Sharks squad ’isolated’ near the core engine room, which poses a particular worry.

If they carry some high-energy bombs and detonate them in the core engine room, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Wang Mengsong personally led a team to eliminate them.

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