Chapter 1005 Stalemate (1/2)

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Dark Galaxy with total mass of six billion suns had an accretion disk that allowed no light to pass through. It would absorb the substance of thousands of suns without stopping every year, at once adding mass and converting that mass and gravity into light.

That was precisely why the Central Black Hole was not black but instead unimaginably bright, its transcendent brightness creating radioactive pressure that actually firmly pushed nebulae away. Therefore, blowing stars apart would be even easier, just as it could repel the gravity emanating from the accretion disk that kept the silver core black hole together—if one were to calculate power levels, not even the light from all the stars in the entire galaxy would be brighter, for its luminosity could even obscure the local star's light in other distant planetary systems. Moreover, the relative streams flowing from the poles of the black hole were like lances that penetrated extended distances stretching over dozens of thousands light years.

The sheer mass of the black hole, its rapid rotation, and the streams gushing from it were also what stirred the movement of matter across the entire galaxy, for only such supermassive black holes could be stuffed inside a powerful being at the level of the Ultimate Sublimator.

On the other hand, black holes with ordinary stellar mass were playthings for the same entity—they would not even fit as waste buckets.

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Joshua had been preparing all along when Star the Steel Python combined form with the Triple Curtain and fought the Ultimate Sublimator directly. He observed the adversary's movement patterns, finding a chance where his ensuing operation could be planned. Indeed, both the Steel Python and the Triple Curtain were also moving in tacit combination, allowing the warrior an opening to head directly to the silver core black hole.

Ooom...

With a resounding rumble that ruptured the thin nebulae, Joshua warped away beyond light speed, closing in to the vicinity of the black hole's accretion disk between breaths.

In front of the silver world were two distinct black holes that were rotating rapidly in a binary planetary system, with circles of silver Steel Strength shrouds condensing into runes beyond their event horizon. The runes would then sink into its unusual ergosphere, where they would not be destroyed for the moment—neither supernatural runes that were without mass would be thrown away, as a stable bounded field would be casted upon the unfriendly black hole.

Now, Joshua would throw the two black hole engines which contained the mass of over a hundred stars into the silver black hole's ergosphere. As the two black holes compensated for the stellar mass, they would instantaneously absorb the angular momentum of the supermassive Central Black Hole, the energy of which would trigger the runes within the two black holes and energize them.

That way, one of the black holes would detach and collide with the silver core black hole, while the other would be sent flying by the massive stores of energy exerted upon it—the colliding black hole would instantly develop a chain reaction upon contact, detonating in an explosion a few scales beneath the Big Bang, while the one thrown off would become a missile of great angular momentum, directly shooting inside the accretion disk of the silver core black hole.

Then, the runes within the first black hole would develop a chain reaction, triggering a powerful unstable radioactive in the silver core black hole, as the runes in the second flying black hole would be energized simultaneously as a spatial distorting trigger. In a split second, the accretion disk of the black hole would be ignited, and with help from Star the Steel Python, it would convert the accretion clould dispersed by Steel Python and Ultimate Sublimator into a titanic mirror that engulfed the silver core black hole—a perfectly orthodox Penrose Sphere that deflects the colossal force of collision between the first black hole and the silver core black hole, thereby destroying the ergosphere of the silver core black hole within a short time.

The two combined would direct detonate the silver core black hole itself, turning the entire cosmic body with the mass of six billion stars as one of the bombs ranked at the top, even if it was in the Multiverse.

In theory, the explosion would completely destroy the entire Dark Galaxy and decimate all non-supernatural lifeforms in a billion light years, which would undoubtedly affect all of Stellaris and cause space-time disturbances. At worst, there would be a space bubble of blankness, reducing anything within reach into nonexistence.

It was absolute destruction—half of the body which the Ultimate Sublimator had extended into Stellaris would at once be consumed and pulverized, much less some Permanent Void Anchor Point.

However, that was something for the distant future.

A future far after this battle was long over, and the victor would gain dominion over everything in this world, be it calamity or future.

”I never thought that it would come to this… there is no avoiding unknown repercussions across the world should the silver core black hole be detonated, even for a massive world like Stellaris.”

Even for Joshua who was adept at creating explosions, it was the first time he was making such an insane plan.

The warrior sighed.

Nevertheless, the unknown would always remain unknown—no one could know what would happen.

However, it was at that very moment that the Ultimate Sublimator realized that something was amiss.

When the silver world had abruptly distorted space and crashed towards the silver black hole, it felt a jolt inwardly—though it appeared to have dismissed Joshua as an insect all along, it was actually paying close attention to every single one of Joshua's movements. Therefore, it quickly withdrew part of its resistance against Star, and while the Steel Python was left in surprise that it had regained some advantage, while the Sublimator at once extended a massive 'palm' that was a spatial length of two hundred and eighty astronomical units, cutting apart the distorted space as it crashed down on Joshua!

Having able to tell that Star the Steel Python was rather weakened, it was not unacceptable to allow it to claim the edge for the moment. Instead, that curious being, which was very much a symbol of the unexpected, was one that it should be wary of.

After all, no superior being that could have grown to such scale would be truly arrogant.

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Noticing that, the silver world accelerated to attempt breaking through the space of dominance, but it was not something avoidable with one or two accelerations—therefore, just like the worst of the worst scenarios predicted, Joshua was noticed too early by the Ultimate Sublimator and hence intercepted.

”I did say before…”

Forced to a halt, Joshua, who had expected such a situation, looked around at the Ultimate Space that was binding and approaching him, ready to 'dominate' the warrior. He shook his head, before lifting the black hole engine and shaking the dimensions, barring the approach of the Ultimate Space. ”This is so troublesome.”

At that moment, the Ultimate Python itself was fighting both the Triple Curtain and the Stellaris Steel Python in the three realms of Psi, Shadow, and physical. At the same time, it directed a portion of its power to stop Joshua, having strength to spare to tackle any unexpected situations even as it kept eroding Stellaris.

It was a singular entity and an independent lifeform, yet its power alone could hold back the greatest forces of a major realm—it was truly the ultimate superior lifeform, an individual that stood above civilizations, an existence about to arrive upon the threshold of the Wise Ones.

”I did mention that your resistance is futile.”

The Ultimate Sublimator's voice, which was flat and apathetic, resounded as if stating reality. ”All of you are wasting strength for nothing in your attempts to stop the inevitable.”

The egoistic dominating power augmented once again as that voice spoke. With the overlapping suppression and grinding of the Ultimate Space, the dimensions were pacified, and every commonly known Extraordinary ability in the Multiverse including magic, Psi, ether, lifeforce, and even Steel Strength were being subjugated, even controlled.

Then, the Ultimate Sublimator turned its focus to Joshua—it had serious intent to destroy the unusual lifeform that was the warrior, before resuming its clash against the Steel Python that could not control its full power.

On the other hand, if the Steel Python could fully control its power, it would not be an issue for Star to bar the Ultimate Sublimator, keeping it outside Stellaris in a stalemate with its home advantage as its World Will, while leaving aside whether its clear chance to triumph over the interloper.

But that was where the problem lay: against an ultimate lifeform which had fought and devoured all along in its journey here, the Steel Python and the Triple Curtain's combat experience were no different from an infant's.