Chapter 1772 - Shocked? (2/2)

“Emergencies across all fronts! The power of madness’ activities is increasing exponentially. The Overwatch Bastion is lost, and sector S-4 overrun. The droid echelon 172 to 268 has been wiped out!

“The guardian fleet is pulling back to the second line of fortress clusters and reforming the defensive line.”

“There’s a report from Valkyrie… Breaches reported across all ecosystems, the largest incursion has begun!”

Rheia still held her hands open as she guided the light of the Crimson Moon around the dark star, trying to suppress the frenzied corrupted divine artifact. “Your Annihilation Engine won’t last more than a few hours if you push it like this!”

“But before it comes apart, I can flood the entire universe with the power of chaos… and the universe that you cherish so much, you will be powerless to protect it…” The pale figure then charged at Rheia. “And here, I shall end you!”

The two goddesses started their apocalyptic battle once again as the pale power of chaos, and the golden divine words created multiple matrixes across the universe before disintegrating as they collided. In the span of a few seconds, the entire sector experienced innumerable rebirths and destruction.

Objects were created, then returned to the void, order was established before being destroyed by chaos, time and space fluctuated, intertwined, and crushed every last ancient ruin floating in the area.

Even Nolan who was hiding in the ruins had to reposition to avoid the spreading power of chaos.

Meanwhile, Hao Ren… He simply held the twin Cosmic Shards in his hand and monitored the progress of the battle without any intention of joining in.

As the force of both goddesses clashed, and the only thing available for combat were the two divine artifacts, the Dark Star- Annihilation Engine, and the Crimson Moon – Creation’s Engine, but as these two man-made stars were pinning each other down, neither had any capacity to support their side.

With the powerful energies tearing at it, the crust of the dark star was rent open with countless of wounds as the fetid, bloated flesh and metal flowed out like blood, while the Crimson-Moon too was not unscathed, as a massive waves roiled on its surprise, and the originally calm ‘Ocean of Lifeblood’ waxed and waned violently as if it was boiling. And between the waves, there was a faint golden, almost ethereal object appearing.

That faint golden shadow was the Creation’s Engine, and as the synchronization between the Crimson-Moon and the Creation’s Engine dropped, the fusion between the two would weaken, and the Creation’s Engine would instead appear, and as more of the golden shadow appears, it meant that the Crimson Moon was getting more and more unstable.

While the completed Creation’s Engine was powerful, Vivian was not well-versed in controlling it, and now that the goddess of annihilation had sent the Annihilation Engine into overdrive with the power of chaos, that made the face-off all the more difficult.

“The synchronization has fallen to 70%! Mistress, mistress, think of something!”

“The amount of data is too big! I’m gonna faint!”

The voices of the sprites echoed through the mental link as they reported all sorts of bad news. Vivian tried to calm them down and told them that the dark star was disintegrating faster than the Crimson Moon, and it would be the first to falter.

The sprites then calmed down, but Vivian was not, she knew the fate of the universe would be decided not just by the duel between the Creation’s Engine and the Annihilation Engine.

Her vision then moved to the side, where there was an independent projection, and on it was Hao Ren’s figure.

A tiny loading bar was slowly moving under the projection.

And in space, as a large number of divine words shattered, Rheia and the goddess of annihilation materialized again.

They had pulled a distance between them and were staring each other down. The pages and divine words around Rheia was significantly lesser than before, as strands of golden red blood floated around her. The goddess of annihilation did not fare any better as countless wounds marked her body, but blood did not flow out of the wounds, blobs of black mist did.

Rheia’s voice then rang in Hao Ren’s mind. “Damnation, that b*tch is tougher than I thought.”

Hao Ren immediately asked, “Can you hold her down for a moment?”

“I can, what’s your plan?”

“The first defensive line controlled by the Overwatch Bastion is fully collapsing, and all of the droid swarm and guardian fleet are retreating to the second line, so I plan to put the remaining Annihilation Lances on the first line to good use.”

“That’s quite the distance, can it work?”

“It’s the final shot anyway, what’s the use of limiters now?”

“…Right, that’s your style after all. Let’s do it!”

Divine power surged around Rheia once again as she prepared for the next round of attack. At the same time, Hao Ren summoned Nolan via the mental link. “Nolan, is the marker system still functioning?”

“What I lost was my waist, not my brains. Of course, it’s functioning!”

“Very good, you’ll be guiding the next Annihilation Lance salvo. I’m pulling ultra-long-range fire support.”