Chapter 1769 - Sacrificing a Shipgirls Waist (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Studying on the battlefield was, of course, a joke. Hao Ren had wanted to ease the mood a little and let Rheia relax, but frankly speaking, he did not expect the weapon that Rheia had so painstakingly prepared was actually something like this.

He originally reckoned that she would create a new pair of divine blades, or some other “normal equipment”, as the weapon she had used last time against the madness was a sword, and her skill points in one-handed weapons must surely be higher than the rest. He had never thought that she would actually conjure out a sacred tome… you won’t be wrong calling it a notebook.

Hao Ren felt like he may have overdone it when he tried to hammer “knowledge is power” into her head, and that caused her to have a distorted world view…

Then again, Hao Ren was not worried that Rheia would make a mistake with her choice of a new weapon. While she may look diminutive, she had lived for several million years, and had gone through the war against the Mad Lord, and the Godslaying War. For an ace student when it comes to academics, her choice of a ‘sacred tome’ as her weapon must have been carefully thought through.

Hao Ren felt that he just needed to trust Rheia’s decision, just like how she had trusted his and Vivian’s plan.

“Actually… I had thought of tying the tome up with a chain and use it as a flail just like mum,” Rheia said as she weighed the tome in her hand. “But after some consideration, I’m just not adept at using a flail, and practically takes precedence, style over substance will inevitably cause problems.”

Hao Ren smacked his forehead. “I don’t think putting a chain around your tome and using it as a flail as stylish at all…”

Rheia smiled as she kept her tome and walked to the bridge’s exit. “It’s stylish, no doubt. Smashing someone in the face with any weapon is always stylish.”

Hao Ren shrugged as he hefted the Starbreaker Crowbar up to his shoulder. “I’ll lead. You still get lost in this ship.”

The Petrachelys was still moving within nothing but darkness and chaos, and the various twisted objects that appeared ceaselessly and the light from the starship’s shields made it look like the ship was riding into a storm, and before the starship, a bizarre “mirror dimension” was closing in.

The “mirror dimension” was awe-inspiring and terrifying at the same time, it looked like it was linked by various mirrors, forming an orb-like barrier so wide it was beyond imagination. So massive it was that even when the starship was still millions of kilometers away it already looked like an endless wall bearing down on it. It was as if the entire universe had reached an end, and everything stops before it.

Even when it was screened by the darkness and chaos, the image of the entire universe was reflected in the mirror. This was beyond all normal optical laws and was more like an information projection. Through the external sensors, Hao Ren noticed that the mirror was filled with starlight, and all of the stars of the Plane of Dreams were arrayed on it, but yet all of the light was twisted; and within the various angles of the “mirror”, the starlight was being overlapped and compressed, showing a darkening, pale hue, as if the stars were extinguishing slowly.

As they got close, the shadow of the Petrachelys finally appeared on the mirror, and from the various angles on the mirror, there were thousands of the ship’s projection, and each and every one of it was the moment the ship was destroyed: some were shattered, some were quartered, some were outright melted down into liquid metal.

“Whoa.” Nolan’s projection appeared beside Hao Ren. “That scared the sh*t out of me.”

Hao Ren gave Nolan a side-eye as he yanked the metal plating before him. “Your tone isn’t all that convincing.”

“Still up to her party tricks.” Rheia looked rather dismissively at the images from the sensors. “Using this ‘mirror’ to show her ‘power’ that she’ll be destroying this world with? I can’t believe that sorry excuse of existence is actually my other half…”

This was the Petrachelys’ propulsion engine room, and normally this was maintained by the automated drones, and the human-sized passageway was not opened. But under Nolan’s control, Hao Ren and the rest had reached that special place.

They were ready to do something that was against all security protocols as planned.

The low hum of the engines running echoed all over and this humming was like Nolan’s heartbeat. They sounded stable and powerful, totally not like something that was about to be trashed with a stick.

The final plating was taken off, and a series of parallel crystal pipes were arrayed across like sticks of light, and that moment the crystallized energy tubes let out a blue glow, providing energy to the security systems.

At that moment, the ambient hum became louder.

Nolan hugged her arm as her head shrunk in. “I… I’m a little nervous.”

Hao Ren lifted the Starbreak Crowbar and pointed toward the energy conduits. “No worries, the pain will be gone in a flash.”