Chapter 571 Superior Comba (1/2)

The engine before Joshua's chest was humming deeply while countless machine constructs that could hardly be seen with the naked eye flowed in his veins. He stood on the fusiform colossal monster corpse that was 1753 meters long, and looked around at the surrounding stars.

What came into view was a swarm of two million horrifying beasts that blocked out all the stars and all the light, exceeding the capacity of his field of vision.

”Master… Isn't this a little too many?”

In the spiritual ocean, Ying's soul which was sharing the warrior's eyes. She blinked uncomfortably, and whispered. ”This could be even more than the monsters we've killed before put together…”

”That can't be? Our last kill record was back then with Father Nature, when we borrowed His divine power to kill more than a hundred thousand golems.” Ling recalled calmly, although his voice showed that he was anxious as well. ”By the way, the warp scale is quite huge…”

Just a while ago, the three Midgardian Colony Fleets had relied on warp ambushes and successfully culled over a hundred thousand Void beasts, and subsequently simultaneously fired luminous lances and releasing starfighters that killed over a hundred and fifty thousand of the monsters and destroy their formation. However, that was all they could do—most of the monsters that were caught by the area of effect of the projectiles and were forced to temporarily stay out of the fight had recuperated and reentered the fight, which in turn meant that the multitudinous ranks of those beasts were not diminished by much.

”If that's so, we'll just have to multiply our combat results.”

Joshua smiled nonchalantly at the little moods of his weapons and his declining energy. He flexed his four arms to cool his golden-red shell, which soon turned into a silver-white steel luster. ”Of course, the larger warp scale is my true power.”

After a few dozen times of warping in a brief moment, Joshua used up monumental energies that nearly withered the furnace in his body. In spite of that, thanks to his exponentially elevated psionic levels, as long as the Midgardians were not wiped out and the psionic light from the Midgardian home planet did not vanish, his speed of recovery would be a dozen times or perhaps over a hundred times greater. With just a little time, he would make a full recovery.

But there was no 'little time' on the battlefield.

At present, the Void monsters that had dispersed following the warrior's surprise onslaught had regained focus and rapidly assembled. In seconds, they had assumed their instinctive formations and began to charge silently and determinedly at the new target.

Thousands of dark-blue energy trails shot out amidst the dark space as over thirty thousand monsters that had accelerated to two thousandth light speed shot toward Joshua with their profound numbers. Most of them were unable to withstand the speed, and their body constructs hence crumbled underneath the overload—even so, their corpses were suitable weapons.

”Just Scout classes that are over ten meters long? I could have adjusted my position if they were larger.”

The monsters' speeds were almost arriving at six hundred kilometers per second—they would cover a lap around Earth in a minute. At present, when taking the distance between the swarm and Joshua into consideration as well as the timeframe for their acceleration, they would meet within just two seconds after the swarm dashed out. Even so, Joshua showed no hint of nervousness. He stood his ground, two arms folded across his chest while the other two grasped the Void, brandishing the two divine armaments assimilated into his own body and converted into enormous energy weapons.

Perfect timing for a warp-up.

Soon, every crew of the Third Fleet in another corner of the battlefield saw a spectacle they would not forget their entire lives.

Azra watched as the Steel giant who stood over a giant monster corpse and focused upon by the psionic screen as if a sailor on a small craft, surrounded by the boundless darkness of the universe that was the bellowing sea, while the swarm of Void monsters were torrential waves. But regardless of how the sea churned or the world collapsed, that silhouette never moved, holding a silver-white greatsword and black greataxe in his two hands that sparkled with dazzling light.

Tens of thousands of Void beasts came striking, the psionic undulation causing ripples even out of vacuum. Nonetheless, the Steel giant merely brandished the sword and axe in his hands arbitrarily and hundreds of those beasts were promptly split down the middle, before violently detonating. In an instant, a circular space of three hundred kilometers around the Steel giant became a no man's land—the Void beasts that were assaulting from three hundred sixty degrees were could not push an inch deeper, with any who dared venture in being cut into ribbons by the keen energy edges that could cut apart space.

There was utterly no aesthetic in the manner in which the Steel giant swung his weapons, but the very act cut down every monster with no exception. With deft observation and reflexes, he slashed everything apart by the order from the closest to the furthest, but precisely because of that, there was nothing elegant about its move other than a killing breath that cuts into the marrow.

Even further away, the numerous 'main force' Void monsters that were over three hundred meters long paused at once, charging energy as if sensing that merely charging would not threaten their formidable foe. In the very next instant, when thirty thousand beasts that had rushed ahead and supremely accelerated corpses were mostly cut into space fireworks by the Steel giant, endless dark-green orbs of light that resembled whirling spheres appeared in their mouths. Those were attacks that imitated the luminous lances of the Midgardian warships—though they did not have the same extreme heat or the maximal penetrating force, the psionic spheres which contained torque that could distort everything and had a radius above twenty meters had a turning speed of eight thousand and seven hundred times per second. And now, the Void monsters shot out those spheres that could slit apart space battleships, forming dense specks of light that ejected towards the Steel giant.

Even so, the giant kept its tactic of not evading against the spheres that were coming twice as fast as the previous onslaught of the beasts. The four-hundred meters behemoth body merely shifted its standing position and combined the greatsword and greataxe, and with a powerful crimson flash that was extremely blinding even for the Third Fleet, the weapons vanished and in its place was a Dragonslayer Swordspear. The Steel giant then swung the weapon that was flickering with golden-red bolts on its front end, drawing endless trails of light that formed an almost circular shield within the hundredth of a second. The infinite fireballs thus struck several hundred meters before the shield but could go no longer further, for in the instant the spheres of light darted towards them, a rather blinding flash of a spear would flash and break the spheres that contained psionic energies and detonate it.

Designated Silent Vanquisher Ability activated, Vanquish Targets locked.

Targeted Race: Minions of Pestilence

—Attack commencing.

Somehow, Azra could almost hear an extraordinary voice telling him certain mysterious knowledge, but he did not pay too much attention since he was still engrossed in the screen.

In the distance, the spheres of light detonated without a sound but wrought streaks of dark green spiral energy ripples. With the brutal force of over a thousand spheres, it was as if over a thousand vortices had also appeared around the Steel giant—a dangerous, wondrous sight that was somehow also beautiful and bizarre, marked tightly down in everyone's mind.

”Wait, that's not right!”

Whether it had been against the Scout-tier Void monsters' suicidal charge or the Main Force's shots of luminous spheres, the Steel giant's countermeasures up to now were considered perfect and had stayed unscathed. Be that as it may, Azra and the crews of the Third Fleet who were spectating agilely discovered a noteworthy situation: there had been a dazzling golden vortex before the Steel giant's chest when it first appeared, but now, after its arduous battle, the golden vortex became a threatening dark red and was now even flickering. Additionally, after the first wave of luminous spheres had ended, the giant had withdrawn his colossal spear, and stood, barehanded on the monster corpse that was mostly destroyed in the shockwave of its offensive.

”The speed of regeneration isn't keeping up with the speed of energy consumption.”

At that moment, Joshua stood where he was, his brow furrowed. He had kept standing over the colossal Void monster without moving, not to put up an act but to save every ounce of energy. According to his calculations, the three-dimensional spatial maneuver combat on a planetary scale would expend far more energy than standing where he was and just wait for the enemy to come and fend off their attacks. After all, the former necessitates offense while the latter merely require a stalwart defense.

Be that as it may, the first wave had already consumed much of his already-lacking energy.

Without giving Joshua any time to breathe, the second wave of almost ten thousand Scout-tier monsters dashed toward him in super speed once more. These diminutive beasts that made up two-thirds of the monster army had the simplest of body constructs, carrying only one energy core and its main body at the front and a propelling engine at its back. This time, the warrior was precisely in the dead center of the monsters' formations, which was why their all-direction onslaught this time was far denser than the last. On the other hand, the speed at which the warrior rematerialized sword and axe was slower.