Chapter 994 Sky and Abyss (1/2)

In the heart of the Dark Galaxy, the jubilant Chaos spawns suddenly paused and promptly turned towards a particular direction.

That particular course was simply darkness devoid of any illumination. Even brilliant radiance shining from dozens of thousands of light-years away would only reach them dozens of thousands of years later, whereas the sub-lightspeed particles and gravitational waves carried forth by the continuous distorted space would destroy everything in its wake. Naturally, it would only happen dozens of thousands of years later—as long as the cone of light had yet to reach them, it would not have happened or indeed even existed for them, who were at a faraway spot.

That was, unless they possessed senses beyond lightspeed or were lightspeed recon troops, or perhaps illogical Void alarms from beyond the world.

Whoosh—

In space, warp halos of all size shone as waves of Chaos spawns assumed formations. They were so many that they could cover entire systems and block out a massive zones spanning light-years as if they were a nebula. It was a tide of aberrations that the thousands of stars in a galaxy had nurtured, a horde that could drown everything if they spilled out.

Now, those aberrations were moving rapidly, forming a great horde fort—a structure of flesh, the Great Wall of the Universe. Stellar-cast Void Mothers had set themselves as cornerstones for that Great Wall by adjusting their coordinates, their astonishing scale releasing all forms of Chaos spawns that filled in as bricks…if it had to be put into words, it was like a school of sardines encircling the corals undersea, with the Chaos spawns hence connected into a sturdy living stronghold.

If so-called Order was a society of ants and bees, the Chaotic Evil Gods were considered Order as well: even the strictest human commanders would have been left embarrassed and felt out of place at that well-organized formation. If their command was equal to controlling the human body for ballet, the Evil God's command over its spawn was probably thorough Extraordinary individuals controlling their blood and cells to build a new organ.

Meanwhile, thousands of Chaos spawns were unleashing powerful energy boundaries on a corner of the massive formation, creating a rendering magnetic light. That portion of the Great Wall was also under the illumination of a giant silver star which was seventy-five times the mass of typical yellow main sequence stars, and seven million times brighter than most other stellar bodies.

The magnetic boundary of the Chaos spawns hence collided with the solar winds of the giant star, forming a circular aurora with a diameter of over eight million kilometers. Even stars were rolling marbles in the midst of that bright and dazzling aurora, and planets were as small as dust. As the raging magnetic boundary tore atmospheres and lithospheres apart while igniting them, all of them were reduced to frivolous red cinders in the beautiful background.

In that moment, the Evil Gods and their brethren were fully prepared…

And was thus pulverized.

The distorted space needed only a split second—or perhaps even shorter—to cover its ground, for its speed was more than hundreds of times beyond lightspeed that even the interior of that space was moving at 95% sub-lightspeed.

However, any individual without reflexes beyond lightspeed was fated to not comprehend what they had seen: two 'bowling balls' that shone in silver and silver-blue respectively had simply crashed into the billions of Chaos spawns as if they were bowling pins, pulverizing everything along their way into basic particles.

A collision of such speed would trigger nuclear reaction even with celestial dust, so what was the Chaos spawns gathered so closely? Infinite substance was at once disintegrated or fusing, causing consecutive nuclear reactions that shattered protons, neutrons, and electrons. Indeed, where the two bowling balls had struck the Chaos horde, turbid quark fluid splashed like a geyser over all directions, creating a vast shockwave that extend over two hundred light-seconds.

There was only light in that split second.

At a corner of the grand Great Wall of Chaos, a halo was spreading at lightspeed as if a fiery star had ignited over a black curtain and would not stop expanding. Exaggerated energy surges had instantly approached the extreme temperatures of the Big Bang, with the infinite spawns and Behemoths being bombarded into clouds of particles in the universe even without their knowledge.

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[Reminder: According to calculations, we have arrived at the center of the galaxy, the location of the Evil Gods.]

The voice of the Triple Curtain echoed in the spirit realm.

”I felt that I crashed into something just now too.”

Upon realizing that, Joshua began to cease his spatial distortion and return to the normal space to sense his surroundings and the location of the Evil Gods—he realized that he had crashed a hole into the horde of Spawns along with the endless aberrations that had lunged at him from all directions.

”Basically, we can be sure…” he said, lifting his brow, ”that we are indeed here.”

As he spoke, Joshua's first right hand tightened his grip over his weapon: it was a formless sword that was essentially a gravity well. Forged purely from pure distorted space, the Giant God lifted it high above, his back facing the silver-blue sphere that was a clone of the Triple Curtain.

The last time he was here in Stellaris, he had been in a tough spot when he was outnumbered by the millions of Chaos spawns.

But now, it was futile for an entire galaxy of Spawns, or indeed every minion in Stellaris, to attack him.

Clenching his fingers and combining as one with gravity, Joshua calmly stood off against the Chaos spawns that filled his vision by 360 degrees, giving them no chance to attack as he swung his gravity sword heavily upon thin air.

The dimensions hence twisted once again, with light that moved in straight lines now contorting into a sight that resembled a vortex. Hence, swirling light, rays, and electromagnetic waves spread over every direction, forming an impregnable iron wall.

Whether larger than stars or smaller than dust, every Chaos spawn reached by the twisted space was absorbed into the deep well of gravity and churned by layers of gravitational vortices Boundless darkness was drawn in, but was unable to block out that single silver spot—they were indeed lemmings jumping into the ocean, throwing themselves into a bottomless abyss or indeed a grinder that wore everything down.

But that was merely the prelude, just like when the warrior had brandished his fist. After a certain period and having charged considerably, Joshua simply swung his sword at the heart of the dimensional vortex before flinging the blade away.

Thus, the sword erupted.

It formed a 700 light-seconds-wide dimensional vortex and in that split second, formless ripples engulfed everything surrounding like a tidal wave, with all Chaos spawns which the ripples reached being drops in the ocean, helplessly flung towards a direction that they would never know.

The grand Great Wall of Chaos was now visibly crumbling from its center as unthinkable gravity projected blasted away every spawn, the shockwave even reducing a chunk of the wall into pebbles and thrown heaven-knows-where. The spawns fruitlessly struggled within the gravitational waves, but their own strength could only ensure that they did not die too horribly.

[Reminder: Chaos density decreased to 26.43563% of initial levels.]