Xyrin Empire
Chapter 547 I knew it, the trouble isn’t over yet

Chapter 547: Chapter 547 I knew it, the trouble isn’t over yet

What’s the most spiritually exhilarating scenario in the world?

Let me tell you, besides hearing "Your tumor is benign," it’s like this moment, leading the sudden emergence of the Three Aunts and Six Aunties Promotion Association to overwhelmingly surround and observe one’s enemies in spirit.

Mr. Cao’s "Short Song" was created when he was leading 830,000 friends and family to watch the Sun Liu Gang. Of course, that led to the most famous arson case at Chibi in history.

Well, now’s not a good time to bring up the guy who lost 830,000 fans in a fire.

I might be too comfortable spiritually that it’s caused me to confuse things.

"Eternal Level heavy mother ship in position, Galaxy Main Gun firing in 2-2-3 formation at will! Target: the Abyss Gate! All assault ships support the Royal Flagship, annihilate the Abyss Mutants, Frontier-class barrier ships move to the Earth-Moon gravitational balance point, prepare to create gravity cages, Raven Assault Team go and suppress the star reaction to prevent Abyss Energy from using the sun to amplify its waves! Pandora’s Heavy Defense Force resupply the Ghost Energy Barrier at coordinates 2461″3515″7205, from now on we forbid radiation from the Libra star system from entering this zone for the next three hours..."

A series of dense and astute commands came through the command link, commanding the vast Imperial Fleet that came to support us with authority on par with mine, organizing the most effective attack. Defense loopholes that could potentially be exploited accidentally by the Abyss were promptly sealed, and I must admit, compared to my own half-baked self, "Battle Song Princess" Sandora Kaelvi Orasis represents a being on a completely different level—people can make you green with envy!

"Ah Jun, how are you? Are you hurt? What’s the damage to the flagship?"

After issuing a series of commands, Sandora’s anxious voice suddenly came through on the public channel. She had even forgotten to send a private message. It was clear she was genuinely worried.

"I’m fine, tough as nails," I figured my face must be beaming at the moment. After all, being so concerned and cared for by a girl, especially the combination of a beautiful girl and a queen, is indeed refreshing. "But the situation is really precarious; I was just about to go out and fight to the death, shield in hand—hey, don’t worry, I’m joking... Uh, the flagship is not doing too bad, the Abyss Gate launched two strong frontal attacks, but they were desperately blocked by the Federation Army’s Holy Mother Ship, we didn’t get hit, and the damage rate is within thirteen percent—but..."

I’ve got to say, thanks to Sandora’s Avengers, these insane DPS that can act as an entire fleet within ten minutes had practically acted as our main force in the past few hours of intense battle. Their massive sacrifices managed to keep the spread of Abyss Energy at an extremely low level.

"It’s okay," Sandora sounded considerably relieved. "I’m transferring over now!"

Almost the moment she finished speaking, the air behind me shimmered with the glow of transportation, and as soon as the transportation finished, Her Majesty in a sky-blue dress with a gust of wind pounced straight at me.

A minute later, we sat in the hover device, moving from the command hall below back up to the officer’s platform...

"Darling, I think I might have twisted my lumbar muscles a bit."

I made a slight protest to Sandora’s signature Flying Pounce with a pained expression.

"Ah-ha, Ah Jun’s body was strengthened under my personal supervision. A little bump like that is nothing to worry about!"

Predictably, I received a response from the goofy and cheerful Queen who had no clue how serious it was to knock her lover off the bridge with a dive!

But considering she was excessively worried and more importantly, that she was too accustomed to it, all I could do was purse my lips and silently add "+1 meter" to the "distance flown by a queen’s pounce" in my achievement record.

Looking down at the projection below the bridge, the situation was very comforting. Under the concentrated fire of the Imperial Fleet’s spectator group, which nearly engulfed the entire Sky Zone in a spherical formation, the Abyss Gate finally began to materialize rapidly—The Abyss Energy, capable of destroying the entire universe, was nearly depleted.

Deep blue Ghost Energy Torrents, dazzling orange-red Proton Beams wrapped in an energy field, non-material Space Internal Bombs shining like small clusters of light, and a rain of death washing over the black island floating in the universe. The huge black spheres that were densely populating the area were depleted in the first volley of fire, and before the Abyss Gate could generate more defensive energy, the Imperial Fleet’s attack landed directly on its body—or more accurately, on the barrier that surrounded it.

Now the shipboard AI still couldn’t analyze what that barrier was made of, it’s state after being eroded by the Abyss was not recorded in any of our databases. After synthesizing all the data, the AI only proposed one hypothesis: the barrier might not have been the Abyss Gate’s protective layer originally, but rather the opposite—it could be a prison, sealing the Abyss Gate tightly within this star, only now it seems, even the best Prison Warden cannot resist the erosion of the Abyss, turning what was once shackles into armor.

Ah, right, speaking of a certain planet...

It seems now there’s not a single bit of it left...

In the initial attack where planets were melted, due to the resonance of Abyss Energy, the entire Earth was burnt into a molten state, which is essentially a huge mass of space liquid drops weighing quadrillions of tons. These were also among the first things to be infected by the Abyss, a pity that you can’t expect a pool of liquid to have much resistance to impact—just now, the Royal Flagship’s concentrated fire has already blasted away a third of its mass, and now the combined attack of the Imperial Fleet has completely vaporized it.

Only a black, spherical object, about half the size of Earth’s core, remained in the same spot, persisting through the sky filled with lasers and bombardments.

"I’ve never seen anything like this," Sandora hugged my arm tightly, frowning, "Neither the barrier that resisted our concentrated shooting for so long, nor what you mentioned, Ah Jun, about the previous self-concealment of the Abyss Gate—both are beyond my comprehension..."

I, on the other hand, was a bit gloomy, "Seriously, how powerful can the power of the Abyss Gate be? Are they all like this thing, able to withstand the entire Imperial Fleet’s scrutiny for so long without falling?"

"About that, we have to start with the story of the first Abyss Gate research expert among us," Sandora thought for a moment and then nodded firmly at me, "About 167 million years ago..."

I quickly waved my hands, "Stop, stop, just talk about something more recent."

Sandora rolled her eyes at me, "Fine, so we opted for a second method of classification."

Me: "...That’s it?"

"That’s it."

"Baby, I was wrong. Let’s go back to talking about things from 100 million years ago..."

"Alright, alright, I was just kidding," Sandora bared her teeth at me, cheerfully saying, "Classifying the strength of Abyss Gates is very troublesome, because they never manifest in the way we imagine, but each one is an absolute threat. Militarily, such ’gates’ are equivalent to the Great Base of the Abyss, similar to the significance of the Shadow Base for the Imperial Legion. To destroy them, it would take the power of a regular army. The appearance of an Abyss Gate often means the entire ’Abyss Legion’ has entered the Main Material Plane. The largest Abyss Gate on record was an ultimate entity that occupied the core white hole of a star system. It not only destroyed the universe it was in but also caused contamination in dozens of surrounding worlds. It was only after the Imperial Army and the Divine Race regular army assembled an unprecedented force that they were able to destroy the Abyss, which had almost filled the entire universe. Of course, that kind of situation has only ever appeared in ancient records. I have never encountered it, and this one before us now... would probably be considered medium-sized, right, Ah Jun? You are really unlucky, leading hundreds of civilian ships into this thing..."

Bringing up a sore subject, can’t you see I’m depressed!

With a light "pop" sound, I gently knocked on Sandora’s head, then gave her a light kiss on the face—

"Ah, Wood, looks like I’ve come at a bad time?"

As the reunion kiss had just been imprinted, a voice completely devoid of apology came from behind, "You two could at least be a bit mindful of your public displays."

I was wondering why Lin Xue hadn’t come out to cause trouble yet, turns out this girl was specifically "watching" this scene unfold just to interfere!

"And to think, I nearly got killed because of you!"

No need to be courteous with Lin Xue, grumbling, I didn’t even turn my head, and threw a careless karate chop her way—after all, this girl has that insanely overpowered attribute of a +100% dodge rate. If she wanted to avoid it, I couldn’t hit her even if I tried until doomsday...

"Bang!"

Eh? I hit her?

Feelings of real touch came from my hand, and there was no doubt it was someone’s head. I was wondering why Lin Xue didn’t dodge this time when the exclamations behind me made it clear: "Wow! You lowlife dare to hit the King! And you, you deceitful woman! You actually pushed the King to the front!"

"Jier?" I was startled by the sudden intrusion of Heroic King, then turned around, staring dumbfounded at the figures emerging one by one from the transporter.

Qianqian, Big Sister, Lin Xue, Bubbles, Little Baobao and her pet Sister Jier, Pandora, Visca, Sivis, Little Scorpion, Magic Girl... Uh, Raven 001...

No way! Are you guys here to watch the Abyss or to watch me?

"Don’t look at me," Lin Xue, who had been hiding behind Big Sister from the start trying to make herself less noticeable, immediately shrank back, "I just called Sandora, and then they all followed!"

"I saw that Sandora and Lin Xue looked distressed, so I felt something was wrong and followed them." Big Sister was the first to raise her hand and say.

"I saw Big Sister in a hurry, got curious and followed her," Qianqian immediately added.

"Me and this guy were dragged here by Bubbles!" Visca pointed at their twin sister and then at Bubbles.

Bubbles, playing a game with her head down and sucking on a lollipop, mumbled indistinctly, "Because Qianqian was gathering a team everywhere to brush... uh, to help you brush levels."

Little Baobao tugged at her mother (Bubbles)’s clothes and gesticulated babblingly.

"I was brought by..." Gilgamesh, still fuming from the chop on the head, hummed unhappily, about to speak when I interrupted: "You’re Bubbles’ bound equipment, you don’t have the right to speak."

"You bastard!"

The scene in front of me was as noisy as a marketplace, and it took me a while to straighten things out. In short, it was a chain reaction triggered by a certain Prophet and a certain Queen failing to keep a secret which led to the establishment of this most ostentatious Spectator Group in history.

"Don’t blame me," even Sandora started to try to clear her own name, "When Lin Xue came to me, she was almost crying, and the situation she described was so dire, how could I not worry!"

Eh?

The revelation from Sandora immediately drew my gaze to Lin Xue’s face, who couldn’t dodge in time and could only throw me a grin, "Hmph, you suddenly disappeared from the future scenes, Miss thought you had crashed or something, just a little startled!"

This girl, she sure blushes easily these days - but could you explain to me what ’crashed’ means?

Leading this group that might rank among the strongest in the entire multi-universe, I felt bolder yet also a headache coming on, hoping that Little Baobao doesn’t wander around later and Qianqian doesn’t have any new plans...

Fortunately, the broadcast from the ship-borne mainframe suddenly sounded, silencing everyone, including Little Baobao who had somehow made her way under the transporter, preparing to climb up, and was timely grabbed back by Big Sister: "Attention, the protective layer of the Abyss Gate has been breached, an energy shock is coming, the Gravity Cage is activated."

In the vastness of space, the intensive bombardment had achieved the desired effect, the Abyss Mutants that had once spread to the entire Earth-Moon System and those spaceborne melting objects contaminated were finally eradicated by the fleet’s saturation bombing after about fifteen minutes. And in the place where Earth once was, the black spherical object, about half the volume of Earth’s core, now has strange blood-colored lines on its surface, signaling that the defense system of the Abyss Gate was about to collapse.

With the combined suppression of numerous Ravens, the nuclear reactions of the Sun had been reduced below the warning level, and now this constant star was maintained intact under astonishing magic power, its dim sunlight slanting across the battered surface of that sphere, looking rather solemn.

Holding their breath in anticipation, half a minute later, the expected explosion finally occurred.

Explosions in space were silent, marked only by the splendid light and shadow that attested to their grandeur. The black sphere hovering at the center of the Imperial Spectator Group was covered in crimson cracks. The entire sphere visibly contracted for a moment, then violently expanded.

In the minute before that, the Ghost Energy Barrier formed by the entire fleet had already activated. Under the assault of strong energy, the barrier erupted into bright light, much like a crystal eggshell radiating intense luminosity, separating the Abyssal Aura inside from the Imperial Fleet outside. In that instant, numerous eyes made of hardened Star Gold Stone teared up in the crowd—damn, it was blinding...

"Oh, this king admits, this scene is indeed spectacular!" The Heroic King, who had just been in a slump without the right to speak as a bound equipment, immediately perked up. She herself, with her golden radiance, was likely resonating now with the shimmering scene before her, "Is this what you’ve been referring to as space war? Truly an awe-inspiring spectacle not even seen in the ages of mythology!"

"Death... and... madness..."

"This thing is finally over," Lian Shandora let out a long sigh of relief, "The information from that layer of barrier has been saved. Hopefully, we can analyze something when we get back."

"Coldness... as I fall into... the Abyss..."

"Talk about thorough," Big Sister leaned on the railing, watching the massive holographic projection repeatedly replaying the moment of the explosion, "They could’ve at least left some fragments to analyze. Now there’s nothing left."

"I... watch you... die..."

"Hey, is anyone else hearing something?" I nudged Qianqian’s arm, frowning, "Is someone talking in the Spiritual Connection?"

"No~~~" Qianqian was busy teasing Little Baobao to jump around on the spot with a lollipop, not even looking back as she spoke, "Ah Jun, are you over-stressed and having illusions?"

What’s up with this girl’s sudden change of tone?

"No, there definitely is something," Lin Xue said, furrowing her brow and her eyes faintly glowing, "Something is watching this place... Ugh, it’s trying to interfere with my vision... Inside, something’s moving in the center of the explosion... Don’t lower the barrier!"

It was already too late.

Almost the moment Lin Xue’s words trailed off, an unprecedented energy reaction appeared in my spiritual power perception, carrying some mad and dark force, and charged straight toward the command bridge of the Imperial Admiral!

"Alert, an ultra-high energy reaction detected ahead, joint barrier regeneration in progress..."

"Alert, destructive law-breaking strike detected, initiating counter-law barriers... failure, corresponding components severely damaged and unable to start."

"Alert, a spatial collapse is forming, flagship phase evasion failed, spatial interference failed, maneuvering failed, contact with the target in five seconds, four seconds, three seconds..."

At least half the people here would likely not be able to withstand this kind of attack!

"Teleport me and that thing together!" Almost without thinking, as the strongest attacker here, and more importantly, the only one completely immune to energy attacks, I made what might have been the wisest decision at this dire juncture, "Any coordinates, the farther the better! This is an order, an Emperor’s order!"

"Dangerous order, enforcement—Space Transmission commencing."

Despite a series of logical errors, the shipboard main computer still forcibly executed this command representing absolute authority. Lian Shandora frantically attempted to correct the order, but it was too late. The next second, along with the super energy body that was about to pierce through the flagship, I was already in a completely unfamiliar space environment. (To be continued. If you wish to know what happens next, please visit www.qidian.com. There are more Chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!)