It was not easy to separate the scepter from the giant.
In fact, it would be easier for Hao Ren to destroy the two things at the same time. He had enough firepower to solve this problem. But now he wanted to get the divine artifact intact, which meant he had to give up almost all of his heavy firepower.
Even using ordinary attacks was a little difficult, because every time the black giant took an attack, the surrounding dark cracks and shadow army would grow stronger.
"Boom!" After another huge explosion, Hao Ren blew up hundreds of shadow servants in front of the giant and then put some distance between him and the massive enemy. The giant waved his deformed upper body clumsily and roared at them. More and more shadowy monsters were splitting out of the dark domain around him as he roared.
The battle had been going on for a while, and Hao Ren felt his strength beginning to drain. But as the battle went on, his mind became more alert, and a vague idea gradually became clear:
The giant seemed to be an enemy. The corrupted and distorted Hercules had completely lost his mind and humanity. But the fact that he split into shadow servants after being attacked seemed to be suspicious. It felt as if the dark and evil forces were not released by him but imprisoned in his body. When his body was damaged, these forces would leak out.
Otherwise, the giant would have released an army several times larger by self-mutilation.
There was no evidence for this idea. It was almost wishful thinking. Under normal circumstances, Hao Ren should not place his hope on such an idealistic thing. But some kind of sixth sense was working so strongly that he could not help but believe that there was still a soul in the dark, twisted body. Perhaps it was this soul that maintained the giant's form and limited the number of shadow servants.
At this time, the MDT suddenly said, "Buddy, you are a demigod. Your intuition is sometimes more than intuition."
"Nolan, clear the battlefield again!" Hao Ren gave an order to the spacecraft high in the sky. At the same time, he leaped up and rushed toward the opponent again. "All drones, fire at will. Except for the scepter, fire anywhere!"
The Petrachelys activated a series of small sentry cannons on both sides of the hull. These cannons were the least powerful weapons on the spacecraft, and they were not even considered weapons in the spacecraft's inventory. These things were used to clean up space junk, but they were still enough to produce a considerable effect on the battlefield. A large number of shadow servants were smashed under the artillery fire, and even the dark cracks around the giant had shrunk a little.
At the same time, drones and autonomous robots began to fire at the giant. Although this would cause more monsters to split, Hao Ren had given the order, and the AI did not have to worry about anything else.
The giant's body burst open with countless black and red wounds. This terrifying monster, whose physical strength was more than ten times stronger than the guardian, staggered. It howled wildly and shook its arms to try to regain its balance. At this moment, Hao Ren was close to its feet.
Like a mouse challenging an elephant, Hao Ren suddenly realized how small he was when he rushed up to the giant's huge limbs. But he had been in contact with guardian giants like Muru many times, and the discomfort caused by the size difference was quickly forgotten. He looked up, and there was only one goal: the scepter embedded in the opponent's chest.
The red crystal at the top of the scepter shone with an ominous light. There was a black spot in it that looked like a crack in space. A crazy and evil aura leaked out of it, shaking the demigod's spiritual world.
The closer he got, the more he felt the strange aura in the crystal. Hao Ren could not help but be shocked. What the hell is this thing? It has power very similar to Vivian, but why is it showing such terrible fluctuations?
The giant, of course, immediately launched a counterattack. He tried to get rid of the "bugs" on his body, and from the cracks on his skin came out dangerous high-temperature, high-pressure, and poisonous air. But this was just the beginning. Soon, the power of the shadows spread out from all directions. Countless shadow arrows appeared out of thin air and hit Hao Ren's Steel Membrane Shield like a storm.
Just when Hao Ren put up his Steel Membrane Shield to resist, he suddenly heard a flapping sound and a sharp chirp. A large swarm of bats appeared around him, and these bats immediately blocked the giant's counterattack.
In just a few breaths, he was less than three meters away from the scepter.
The scepter unleashed a destructive power. Around it, space was broken, time was distorted, and the laws of matter were almost non-existent. Hao Ren finally felt it from where he was. He sensed an aura similar to that of the big rift in the center of the Scarred Nebula.
This was a phenomenon caused by a fierce conflict between the laws of the two worlds.
Of course, the annihilation aura here could not be compared with the annihilation aura in the Scarred Nebula. But even if the scale was many times smaller, they were still essentially of the same level.
The giant seemed to feel threatened, or the scepter felt threatened and immediately stimulated its host. In short, Hao Ren felt a strong energy reaction in the space around him, and the skin of the giant's chest was also covered with a dark red light.
This seemed to mean a powerful counterattack.
"Hercules!" He pressed his hand hard on the giant's body, concentrating all his mental power. "If you can still hear it, try for the last time!"
His previous "intuition" was quickly verified, because the giant's body stiffened for an instant, almost imperceptibly.
It was a very short moment, but it was in this moment that Hao Ren felt the negative power released by the scepter was suppressed. The soul of the giant seemed to have squeezed out all its strength and finally regained the initiative.
The next second, Hao Ren put his hand on the scepter. Almost at the same time, the scepter trembled violently. The overwhelming negative power once again broke through the blockade and began to erode everything around it.
Hao Ren almost lost control of his body at that moment. But the part of his body that was blessed by the goddess immediately worked, temporarily blocking the erosion of the crazy will. He took out the highest-grade dangerous goods safe from his dimensional pocket as fast as he could, then pulled the scepter out of the giant's flesh and threw it into the safe.
The moment the safe was closed, he felt the world spinning around him.
The scenery around him shook rapidly, and all kinds of colors filled his vision. Then there was an endless feeling of falling. His mind seemed to sink into the darkness and lost its response.
But the fall only lasted for a short time. Hao Ren suddenly woke up and found himself standing in a strange place.
It was a vast wasteland that stretched as far as the eye could see and was overgrown with weeds. Two small rivers meandered through the wasteland and finally converged into one. Looking up, the sky was clear and cloudless, and the sun was shining brightly. A magnificent and mysterious mountain was suspended in the sky, and the mountain was shrouded in clouds and light.
"When I returned home for the first time, my stepmother cursed me with the most vicious language. My brothers and sisters who were related to me by blood openly despised me. A few people responded to me with indifference. As for my father, he was sitting on the golden throne. He told me, 'Welcome home, don't care about the others.'"
Hao Ren looked back in horror. He saw a man standing behind him. It was a tall, strong, rough-looking man with a smile.
The man had light brown curly hair, a chiseled face, and his body was almost as strong as Y 'zaks. His muscles bulged under the simple gray shirt, containing infinite strength. There was a long scar on his face, which seemed to represent a glorious battle.
Other than that, there were no other features or ornaments on him.
"Hercules?"
"It's me." The strong man laughed. "After so much effort, we can finally meet and talk."
"Is this your spiritual world?" Hao Ren looked around. "Well … I didn't expect your spiritual world to be so … robust."
"This is the last time I recall. I want to make it clearer."
Hao Ren frowned. "You have something to tell me?"
"Yes, about the 'divine artifact', about the core, and about your partner … I don't know how much you know about her, but since you fought side by side, I will tell you everything I know."
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