204. The Great Calamity
Rattatatatatata!
Bravo Six emptied a magazine and removed it. The priest teammate beside him immediately chanted a blessing:
"Oh Mother of the Night, You are the beginning and the end. The kindness and mercy You bestow upon us shine through the moonlit night, and thus I revere You deeply…"
Mysterious power flowed with the hymn, and the plasma-scented air seemed to transform into incense. Bravo Squad roamed the dark zone, constantly switching cover. Their standardized military weapons and efficient tactics allowed them to maximize their Zeta-tier capabilities.
Normally, a 12-person professional tactical squad could withstand an intense assault from an enemy four times their number for four to five hours. With proper logistics and command, they might even stage a brilliant counteroffensive.
Rattatatatatata—
The machine gunner opened fire fiercely. The roaring bullets and stray plasma beams exploded in the air. However, the enemy's movements were ghostlike, erratic in the sights, sometimes far away and sometimes suddenly close, raising a staff and slashing down deftly!
Swish!
A head dropped instantly. Nastisha twisted her staff, and the energy blade extending from its tip crackled with lightning. She used electric currents to track each of them.
Against a high-tier Ita-tier mage, even a disciplined Zeta-tier military unit was no match.
This is the nature of ascension—the higher one climbs, the greater the disparity between levels, and the more incomprehensible their power becomes to ordinary understanding.
"Futile struggle. Do you think blinding my eyes will enable a counterattack?"
Dean Nastisha raised her hand. The dark zone obscured her visual perception, but electric currents and airflows were unaffected.
Methods typically used in space combat couldn't exert their full pressure when applied on the ground.
However, in the heart of Trivira City, the dark zone made Nastisha hesitant to unleash large-scale spells that could risk the lives of potential civilian survivors. Auto-targeting spell missiles also struggled to distinguish friend from foe due to the dark zone's interference.
'I didn't expect these Night Butterfly soldiers to use space-combat tools in urban warfare. I must ensure our workshop develops proper friend-or-foe identification methods.'
Regardless, their resistance was futile. Nastisha activated a spell shield; even a nuclear grenade couldn't breach her defense. As for blessed bullets and plasma shots, they barely scratched her.
'But that child with Omega Energy…'
Although he was a [Domination] anomaly, he was still a student. Fighting Remaining Moon didn't make him inherently evil.
'After all, he's my student. He's battling Remaining Moon now. I wonder how he's faring.'
Nastisha sighed, her emotions conflicted.
[Domination]-tier Omega Energy users, especially those holding sequence Omega Energies, were called mobile disasters and primordial calamities.
Initially, Star Abyss had no sequence Omega Energies. The most powerful [Domination]-tier could achieve was Omega-tier energy.
But five thousand years ago, after the [Domination Will] Murphidria fell and the legendary hero Leozi perished, these harbingers suddenly appeared.
This period wasn't long or short. Objectively, Leoz's death caused a surge of [Society] into Star Abyss. Despite the lack of sighting of the Three Destroyers, with narrative-level civilizations holding them back, the damage from [Society] wasn't as catastrophic as rumored—not quite the "end of the universe" many feared.
While the threat of [Society] was gradually forgotten, sequence Omega Energies, or rather the danger of the [Domination]-tier, persisted.
'Oh well, let's see how far he can go.'
Nastisha shook her head, twirling her spell staff as sonic booms trailed behind her. She leapt toward the next target.
Boom——————!
Remaining Moon's aberrant form slammed its arms heavily onto the ground, causing countless tendrils to shatter into fragments that rained down upon Li Aozi like a deluge.
Slicing through the air, Li Aozi, clad in red and silver metallic armor, sprinted forward at high speed.
At that moment, he had activated [Armed Empire]. The metal on his body came alive, shooting out streams of metal to intercept the blood shadows. Simultaneously, he warped space-time with gravity, slowing everything around him.
The world slowing down meant he sped up!
Li Aozi instantly closed the distance, his proud stance resembling a knight. He swung his longsword decisively, slicing off a tendril from Remaining Moon's aberrant body. He vaulted skyward, landed atop the creature's head, and pressed down. The immense weight of ten thousand gravities pinned the monster to the ground.
WuraaaaAAA!
The aberration screamed, tendrils flailing as it unleashed countless dimensional slashes. Yet, under the slowed space-time, its attacks were agonizingly sluggish, and Li Aozi evaded with ease.
"Gravity, Remaining Moon, Bloodline."
Li Aozi uttered coldly, like a machine devoid of emotion.
He grasped the enormous aberration, lifted it into the air, swung it around several times, and smashed it into the ground with a deafening crash!
"Trinity——"
Boom!
Li Aozi stomped on its chest. Taking advantage of the [Wind's Wrath] immunity effect, he ignored his flesh and cybernetic body's rupturing blood vessels and torn muscles. He leapt and stomped down with all his might.
The earth quaked as his terrifying power leveled buildings across a radius of several kilometers. A massive crater over four kilometers in diameter formed instantly, crushing the aberration under his immense force.
Li Aozi glanced at the system-generated name, muttering:
"Heaven's Pull • Luminous Moonfall!"
401.6 meters.
798.2 meters.
1,598 meters!
Accelerating.
26 kilometers.
45 kilometers!
Still accelerating!
The closer to the planet's core, the stronger the gravity grew, and Li Aozi's plummet became increasingly terrifying.
The temperature initially plummeted but then sharply rose beyond a certain depth.
Remaining Moon's aberrant body shattered soil, the lithosphere, ancient ruins, and fossils of prehistoric creatures.
Boom!
The final layer of rock crumbled, sending Remaining Moon plunging into molten magma!
"Welcome to the planet's core!"
White Candle Star's crust was thick, but its core temperature was extraordinarily high. Remaining Moon first fell into scorching magma, then descended faster under the crushing atmospheric pressure and gravity a thousand times that of the surface. The molten iron-nickel alloy was viscous and exceeded 6,000℃—enough to vaporize even a Zeta-tier entity.
Despite this, Li Aozi remained cautious.
Hovering midair, his stern gaze watched Remaining Moon's aberration as it was dragged into the planet's core, ever vigilant.
For even now, Remaining Moon's health bar had not appeared.
Indeed, from the moment Remaining Moon was overtaken by Omega Energy and the battle began, Li Aozi hadn't even seen a combat mode indicator.
This was a very bad sign.
Even monsters like [Society] displayed dazzling health bars upon revealing their true forms.
But not Remaining Moon's aberration.
What was wrong?
Li Aozi tightened his grip on his sword, maintaining extreme vigilance and racing through potential answers in his mind.
These aberrant forms were legendary phenomena in his previous life. As players, they had no concept of Omega Energy overload, nor had they encountered such monsters often.
How should he handle it? What was its structure? What caused its emergence?
Li Aozi didn't know.
WAYRAAAAAA——
Suddenly, the aberrant form began to violently struggle again, as if it had absorbed energy from the molten magma below, its entire body radiating an eerie azure glow.
In the next moment, it leapt out of the magma, crossing multiple planes in succession, and appeared right before Li Aozi.
WAWU!
The aberrant form spread its countless tendrils, raised its head, and lunged downward, engulfing Li Aozi completely.
Boom!
Li Aozi coldly threw a punch. Like the detonation of a nuclear bomb, the compressed air ruptured and pierced through with terrifying force, even producing a blinding flash. The aberrant form's body instantly folded and bent, smashing through hundreds of meters of granite before it tilted its head and initiated another warp.
——But what connection does knowing its data have with him using [Bloodline]'s granted strength to overwhelm it with raw stats?
The answer: none.
"Jumped again, huh?"
Li Aozi sneered, his palm ripping open a dimensional rift:
"Fine, you jump dimensions, I'll jump dimensions too!"
[Gravity] combined with [Remaining Moon]!
"Two-in-one—Dimensional Fold."
Li Aozi's figure vanished into the gaps between dimensions, easily locking onto Remaining Moon's aura—after all, he possessed the same [Remaining Moon] within himself.
Don't even think about escaping.
Li Aozi's helmet cracked open, as if grinning.
His body shifted rapidly. Now that the gap between his and the aberration's stats had significantly narrowed, Li Aozi knew all the tricks Remaining Moon did.
And what Remaining Moon didn't know, Li Aozi had already mastered.
The chase continued, from striding on the surface of atoms to turning corners in two-dimensional corners. The two-dimensional plane became their playing field for this cat-and-mouse game. They raced across the surface of cubes, weaving through mazes of pigment particles and metal dust.
Li Aozi played the cat, Remaining Moon played the mouse.
The two-dimensional world was monotonous.
No temperature, no time, no space.
If an observer could watch, they'd see the two moving like cartoon characters, endlessly darting through the plane. To them, there was no place they couldn't go.
Yet, Li Aozi still felt uneasy.
Even though he remained dominant and wasn't even fully engaged, maintaining the time-space ripple deceleration with minimal effort.
Yet, he couldn't catch up.
It was strange.
[Even within my time-space deceleration field, Remaining Moon's aberration can move at such terrifying speeds. It's baffling.]
Besides that, its behavior was odd.
Occasionally, it would counterattack, but most of the time, it fled. Even when Li Aozi slowed down, it would deliberately pause to strike back.
This behavior… only convinced Li Aozi further that Remaining Moon's aberrant form was baiting him.
But when would it have had the time to set up a trap?
Li Aozi couldn't understand.
As the chase dragged on, the [Wind's Wrath] effect on Li Aozi wore off, but his health had fully recovered. If Remaining Moon turned around to fight, Li Aozi would still have the upper hand.
They crossed dimensions one after another, traversing the gaps between planes.
One moment, Li Aozi was racing across the surface of a carbon dioxide molecule.
The next, he was stepping onto soft grass, taking several strides before stopping.
A gentle breeze brushed against the blood on his body, and the tender sunlight caressed him. Yet his menacing metal armor clashed horribly with the serene natural beauty around him, making him look like a cruel and fearsome tyrant.
"This place…"
Li Aozi scanned his surroundings.
Rushing streams, chirping birds, and a giant tree entwined with green vines that shot skyward, its branches adorned with stars and moons.
He lowered his head, grabbed a handful of soil, and casually scattered it. The earth dispersed lightly, carried away by the wind.
Gravity was weak, or rather, it wasn't gravity holding everything to the ground.
"The laws here differ completely from Star Abyss… Is this an alternate dimension?"
In this low-dimensional world, his destructive power was terrifying. He could casually pluck celestial bodies, and even his slightly heavier steps made the entire world tremble.
"The aura of Remaining Moon's aberration ends here."
This was beyond strange.
Li Aozi frowned.
Was it his imagination, or did it seem like Remaining Moon's aberration didn't want to fight him at all?
It had fled the entire time, even luring him here on purpose.
What was it planning?
A creature devoid of self-awareness and entirely controlled by Omega Energy—how could it have such a complex plan?
Li Aozi couldn't figure it out.
He wandered the alternate-dimensional plane, examining his surroundings. Plucking two stars from the World Tree, he crushed them with gravity. Suddenly, a system notification popped up:
[You have slain 'Remaining Moon.' Over-leveled kill—damage contribution exceeds 99%.]
[You have gained 1.037 billion experience points.]
Li Aozi froze in place, confused.
In the next moment, the entire plane began collapsing downward. Using [Remaining Moon]'s protection, Li Aozi leapt out in time, watching the alternate-dimensional plane vanish before his eyes.
"What just happened?"
Li Aozi opened the battle log in confusion. What he saw left him dumbfounded:
[Your Omega Energy, 'Calamity,' accumulated massive disaster power, inflicting a devastating curse on the target Remaining Moon.]
[Under the influence of 'Calamity,' Remaining Moon entered the state 'Omega Energy Rampage.']
[Under the influence of 'Calamity,' Remaining Moon entered the state 'Chaotic Thoughts,' unable to enter combat mode.]
[Under the influence of 'Calamity,' Remaining Moon lost its sense of direction.]
[Under the influence of 'Calamity,' Remaining Moon accidentally entered the 'Fragment of Laurel Diagram World.']
[Remaining Moon has been assimilated into the Fragment of Laurel Diagram World as an anchor point.]
[Under the influence of 'Calamity,' you destroyed the anchor point of the 'Fragment of Laurel Diagram World.']
[Disaster power has been fully expended. 'Calamity' Omega Energy is overloaded. Cooldown time: 5 natural years.]
"…What the hell."
Li Aozi turned his head, staring at the collapsed alternate-dimensional world, then glanced at his interface.
"[Calamity]… Is this Omega Energy really that powerful?"
He'd thought Remaining Moon was scheming something—turns out [Calamity] had orchestrated everything.
Li Aozi stared at his own fist and clenched it.
[Remaining Moon] had driven him here.
[Gravity] had ensured he stayed in control.
[Calamity] delivered the grand surprise. This unfamiliar Omega Energy improved with time.
Only [Bloodline]…
"[Bloodline], you're absolutely pathetic!"
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