As the largest divine shockwave in the history of the universe erupted from the heart of the Dark Abyss, the battle between Order and Chaos outside the Dark Abyss had also entered its most brutal phase since the start of the war.
The defensive perimeter began to crumble.
As the Annihilation Engine entered an almost self-destructing state, the power of madness from the Dark Abyss instantly went berserk. The minions of Chaos no longer surged out of the distorted structures in batches, but almost instantly filled the entire region. In every inch of space around the Dark Abyss, innumerable minions appeared out of thin air every second, and like paint splashed into a pond, they rapidly tainted the defenses of Order.
In the face of such a sudden and drastic attack, the first line of defense with the Overwatch Bastion at its core did not last long before cracks began to appear, and the entire defensive perimeter began to crumble around these cracks.
The powerful Combined Shield was corroded by the monsters of Chaos, the droid swarms were drowned in the tide of darkness, and the celestial bodies that had been modified into fortresses and fortresses were blasted apart in the explosion. The droid nests used their concentrated cannons to hold out for a while, but soon enough, they lost contact with the collective consciousness.
In the face of the unstoppable attack, the Guardian and Nightwatchers could only retreat to the second line of defense, and prepare to use the still intact fortifications on the second line of defense to regroup.
Countless Denizens of the Stars and Guardians were reduced to dust in the universe to cover the retreat of the main fleet.
A series of explosions spread out from the central control tower, and aside from the central building complex, most of the buildings in the Overwatch Bastion had been completely extinguished. The minions of madness that emerged from all directions passed through the defunct shield generators, and devoured everything before them like a gluttonous beast, even space itself. The majestic fortress that was lit up not long ago was now rapidly disappearing like a sandcastle being washed away by the waves.
In the upper control room of the central control tower, there was still one last bit of light, and that was the light emitted by several large terminals. The control room was now empty, and only the AI was maintaining the last bit of functionality. On top of one of the terminals, a holographic projection was showing the number of remaining cannons in the fortress.
The number had fallen below two digits.
But suddenly, a new command appeared, and the fortress AI immediately switched its work process. The programs used to monitor the operation of the fortress were all shut down, and there was only one thing left on the holographic projection: the Annihilation Lance array in the heart of the fortress that had not been completely destroyed.
"Command 1: Activate the Annihilation Lance, and fire at XX coordinates.
"Command 2: Self-destruct.
"Commencing."
The light in the control room flickered violently. Soon, another two terminals fell into darkness after a series of sparks, but in the heart of the fortress, the Annihilation Lance array that resembled a unique building was slowly assembling.
Of the four Annihilation Lance launchers, two had been completely destroyed, and the other two lit up after being injected with energy. The other two lit up the other terminals, and lit up a rift in space before vanish of light.
A group of Mad Lord minions were attracted by the sudden surge of energy and swarmed over like sharks smelling blood. But the energy had reached the critical point, and as the firing command was issued, two dazzling beams of light pierced through the gathering darkness and opened a spatial rift in the distant space before disappearing into it.
"Launch successful. Entering self-destruct sequence. Pleased to serve you. End of service. "
The remaining energy furnaces and ammunition depots in the fortress detonated at the same time, and an unprecedented explosion erupted in space. It was as if a new star was born amidst flames and flashes of light. The blinding light even temporarily suppressed the corruption of darkness and chaos, and tore the countless minions of madness into shreds.
At the same time, similar explosions occurred at various nodes of the first defense line. The chain self-destruction of countless fortresses even suppressed the activities of the forces of madness for a short period of time, leaving precious breathing time for the main army that had just retreated to the second defense line.
In the deepest part of the dark abyss, the golden and pale silhouettes separated once again.
The dimensional structure around them had fallen apart, and countless bright and dark ribbons floated in space like nightmares. The moment the wreckage on the battlefield came into contact with them, it would immediately disintegrate into the most basic of data units, and dissipate into the endless chaos of space and time.
The goddess of annihilation finally realized the existence of a conspiracy. She stopped her frenzied attack, and looked at the battlefield that had collapsed.
A look of shock appeared on her pale face.
Under Rheia's conscious control, countless pale golden runes were left on the battlefield, and these seemingly random runes were originally just floating around freely, but at that moment, they all stopped, and were glowing brighter and brighter.
The control of the dimensional structure was instantly transferred, and the authority of this region temporarily fell into Rheia's hands.
The goddess of annihilation roared, "What are you trying to do?!"
Rheia did not answer. She opened her arms, and the floating pages around her rearranged themselves into the shape of a holy bible, and the divine runes floating around the battlefield also glowed even brighter. Looking from afar, one could clearly see that the runes had formed into a complicated multi-layered sphere, and the goddess of annihilation was in the center of the sphere.
Only then did Rheia finally spoke, "I command, all things stop moving."
And in the region covered by the golden runes, everything stopped.
Not only did matter stop moving, but time also stopped. The flow of information disappeared, and the evolution of the universe came to a standstill.
The first to descend was absolute zero, followed by endless darkness, as even the movement of light had stopped.
In the darkness, only the countless golden runes shone brightly.
But that only lasted for a short moment, and the goddess of annihilation, who was of the same level, had enough power to fight against Rheia, who had mastered many new divine spells. In the counterattack of the power of Chaos, the still universe began to move again, and as the darkness faded, the goddess of annihilation in the center of the runic circle looked up, "You think that's …"
"I didn't say that's all." Rheia said plainly, and behind her, the Petrachelys appeared from the shadows.
The upper deck of the silver-white warship had opened up, and a special antenna rose from within, and as the antenna was activated, countless dimensional rifts of various sizes appeared behind her.
The light of the Annihilation Lance crossed through the dimensions and landed on the goddess of annihilation.
The storm of high-energy beams lasted for a full half a minute, and even Rheia could not help but narrow her eyes as she stared at the torrent of light, and as the bombardment came to an end, the area around the goddess of annihilation had become "clean" as if it had been scrubbed clean.
All the debris and dimensional rifts had been wiped clean by the power of the Annihilation Lance.
"Can it be done?" The MDT asked nervously.
"It won't be that easy," Hao Ren replied.
And just as Hao Ren's voice trailed off, the bombardment ended, and in the depths of the slowly dissipating flames, a pale figure reappeared. She was indeed in a sorry state, and her body was covered in black smoky wounds, and even half of her face was gone, leaving only a hideous black silhouette, but she was still alive.
Or rather, she was not going to die in the first place.
"This is your trump card?" The goddess of annihilation's body began to recover at an alarming rate, and there was not even a hint of weakness in her voice, "What a joke, I even …"
Before she could finish, Rheia cut her off, "Then what if we add this!"
The scattered divine runes had somehow gathered together and formed a spear-like phantom beside Rheia, and the thick tome had disintegrated into light particles under the guidance of some kind of power, and they "flowed" to the tip of the spear, and almost instantly, the illusory spear had turned into a weapon of light that looked like it was made of solid light.
Rheia hugged the weapon that was a few times bigger than her from the side, and her entire body became the weapon's propelling force, as she charged like a comet towards the goddess of annihilation who was temporarily unable to move due to her injuries.
Her voice was heard throughout the entire dimension, "What if I add in!?"
The golden lance pierced through the pale figure in an instant.
Everything happened in an instant, but it felt like time had passed, and Hao Ren felt like a century had passed before the golden and pale light separated again.
The pale golden lance silently disintegrated into light particles in space, and the black tome reappeared beside Rheia, and compared to before, the light on the surface of the tome was a few times weaker.
The pale figure of the goddess of annihilation stood still for a few seconds before disintegrating into countless fragments and disappearing into space.
Rheia stared at the spot where the goddess of annihilation had disappeared, and the excessive exhaustion of her power caused her body to tremble uncontrollably. Strands of golden-red blood flowed out of her wounds, but she could not be bothered to deal with them.
The next moment, her pupils constricted.
A small piece of pale object appeared out of thin air, and following that, more pale fragments appeared out of thin air.
As if that moment had been rewound, the goddess of annihilation's body quickly reformed in space, and in the blink of an eye, she reappeared unscathed.
"Ah … It feels good to admire your expression now …" The goddess of annihilation looked down at her recovered hands before looking up at Rheia, "Interesting … You've prepared quite a few surprises …"
Rheia stared into the eyes of the goddess of annihilation, and suddenly, her nervous expression disappeared.
What replaced it was a smile that she had been trying to hide for a long time, "But you haven't seen the real surprise yet."
"Wha …"
The goddess of annihilation only managed to utter a single syllable before she suddenly turned around and blocked the two Cosmic Shard swords by a hair's breadth.
Hao Ren gripped the Godslayer and Worldbreaker tightly as a layer of divine light blessed by Raven 12345 enveloped him, protecting him from the corruption of the power of chaos that the goddess of annihilation was emitting. He used all his might to push the swords forward, "The show has just begun!"
"So this is the so-called surprise?" The goddess of annihilation opened up a pale screen of light before her, and the Godslayer's blade continued to produce bright sparks on the screen, but it could not move an inch forward. "You really think I didn't notice? This human who has been wandering around since the beginning, but has not done anything … "
As she said that, she even yawned, "And this is your surprise? Letting such a weak human 'ambush' me? Such a weak attack … so what if it's an ambush? "
Hao Ren grinned as he increased his strength, "You really don't recognize the sword in front of you?!"
"This sword?!" Only then did the goddess of annihilation noticed the distinct features of the two swords in Hao Ren's hands, and noticed the familiar presence that one of the swords exuded. "This … This was back then …"
"This is the sword that 'killed' the goddess of creation once." As the pressure increased, Hao Ren's expression became more and more menacing, but his eyes remained unwavering, "How is it? Do you feel like the past is about to repeat itself? "
The two swords came crashing down again, and the starlight on the Godslayer's blade was tinged with a layer of blood, and under the taint, the pale shield in front of the goddess of annihilation began to crack.
"Back then … we spent a lot of effort … to create a weapon that could kill a god!"
The starlight on the surface of the Godslayer finally turned blood-red, and the pale shield shattered, but just as the blades were about to touch the goddess of annihilation, she suddenly raised her hands and grabbed the blades of the two swords.
"Created a weapon that could kill a god?" The goddess of annihilation held the blades of the Godslayer and the Worldbreaker, but the blades that could slice through space and time seemed to have lost their power, and could not even cut through the skin on her hands. "Ah, so that's how it is. I finally understand what you were thinking … But this is too disappointing …"
The goddess of annihilation laughed, but her laughter was filled with madness and malice, "You placed your hopes on a sword! You really thought I didn't know anything? You really thought I didn't have my guard up against this strange sword? As early as 10,000 years ago, when this sword severely injured me, I guessed that the goddess of creation must have tampered with the sword! "
She clenched her fists, and the starlight on the surface of the Worldbreaker and Godslayer flickered wildly, as if they were overwhelmed, and the voice of the evil goddess continued to ring in Hao Ren's mind, "This sword cannot kill me!"
Hao Ren stared into the eyes of the goddess of annihilation, and in the space behind him, the Crimson Moon had completely suppressed the movement of the dark star, and a ray of moonlight separated from the Crimson Moon and shone on him.
In that ray of moonlight, Vivian's soft whisper could be heard.
In the next second, gold and red light appeared from the moonlight, and like some kind of liquid, it flowed onto Hao Ren's limbs, and quickly formed a golden-red armor. As a certain restriction on his soul was removed, his face began to change.
Looking at the familiar golden-red armor, and Hao Ren's changing face, the goddess of annihilation finally realized something.
Hao Ren's voice rang in her mind.
"Who told you … that the weapon we forged was that sword!"
Looking at the Godslayer before her, the goddess of annihilation finally realized what the real weapon was.
Then, the longsword slashed down.
Whether it was the Godslayer or the Worldbreaker, there was no difference between the two. When they were held in the hands of the Godslayer, they were both Godslayer.
The blade struck the target without any resistance, and the pale figure shattered with a bang. It was as fragile as a piece of glass that would shatter at the slightest touch.
But Hao Ren knew very well how difficult it was for that strike to come.
If not for Rheia and the goddess of annihilation's duel, the latter would not have focused all her power, giving him the chance to destroy her completely.
If not for Vivian using the Creation's Engine to collect data on the battlefield and reset the goddess of annihilation's signature code, then even if he removed the restriction on his soul, he would not have been able to deal any damage to the goddess of annihilation.
If he were to start calculating from that strike during the Godslaying War ten thousand years ago, then this strike of his had been brewing for ten thousand years.
The pale fragments scattered in space, and in Hao Ren's special vision, he could see the dark "matter" that was surging around in the depths of the universe was also dispersing at a rapid pace.
Under the illumination of the Crimson Moon, the dark celestial body that had completely stopped moving finally began to crumble, and the huge cracks on its surface quickly turned into deep ravines that could tear a planet apart. Large pieces of celestial body were peeled off from the planet due to the internal pressure, and following a series of explosions, the dark red light within the celestial body was also slowly extinguished.
The twisted dark structures in the distant space also slowly dissipated, and after the chaos faded, normal starlight finally shone into this place of eternal night.
Rheia stared intently at the spot where the goddess of annihilation disappeared. She did not dare to let her guard down, as the Mad Lord's indestructible trait had given her too much trouble. She dared not let her guard down even the slightest bit, in case she gave the enemy a chance to linger on.
She just stared at it until she saw strands of golden light appear in space, and the light slowly condensed into a blurry, shifting "air mass", and she finally let out a sigh of relief.
That strand of divine power was the part that she had separated from herself, and it was the essence of the "goddess of annihilation". Its reappearance and purification meant that the power of the Mad Lord had truly dissipated.
"So this is the end?" Hao Ren nervously looked at Rheia's reaction, and seeing that she did not say a word, he could not help but ask.
As the power of the godslayer faded, he had returned to his original form.
Rheia summoned the golden light and carefully held it in her hand as she smiled and nodded. "It's over."
Then, she raised her head and looked up at the endless stars in the universe.
"Children, it's over!"
In Tannagost, in Io, in Holletta, in Collow … On every planet with life, the twisted creatures of chaos from nightmares were falling to the ground one by one.
Smoke and dust erupted from the surface of their bodies, causing these monsters to quickly dissipate as if they were evaporating. The warriors who were exhausted from the battle looked on blankly, as if they were not sure what had happened.
Ophra shook off the filth on her sword. The filth began to turn into dust before it could be shaken off. She looked up and saw that the ominous dark clouds in the sky were fading away. A ray of sunlight pierced through the thick clouds formed by the power of Chaos and shone on everyone.
Along with the sunlight, there was also a joyful and loving voice that shone into his heart. "Children, it's over!"
A moment later, she heard a deafening cheer.
…
After getting Rheia's confirmation, Hao Ren finally relaxed, and he spread his arms and legs as he floated in space like a salted fish.
The MDT circled around his head. "Hey … partner, mind your image as an imperial employee!"
"Whatever … I want to float now, let me float like this …"
The Petrachelys patrolled in the distance. "Boss, I won't stop you if you want to float, but remember to file a work-related injury report! I plan to get a more powerful kidney later … "
"Fine fine fine, get a kidney, get a kidney … Damn it, how did a ship girl turn out like this?"
Lily's voice also rang in Hao Ren's mind through the MDT. "Mr. Landlord! Mr. Landlord! It's over! It's over! When are you coming home for dinner? "
Then it was Wuyue's voice. "Mr. Landlord! I'm not backing down this time! I'll send you the battle footage later … "
And then Y 'zaks. "I have the footage here too, but I need to send Lanina back first …"
Y 'lisabet's chatter could be faintly heard in Y' zaks's voice.
His friends' voices rang in his mind, and as Hao Ren listened, he could not help but smile.
A ray of moonlight gathered beside him, and Vivian walked out from the moonlight, and the golden runes that looked like wings were still floating behind her. That was because her connection to the Crimson Moon, the Creation's Engine had not been broken, and around her were a few excited sprites, and the little ones were chattering about the celebration.
"You look pretty cool." Hao Ren glanced at Vivian and smiled.
Vivian smiled back, and adjusted her position as she and Hao Ren 'lay' in space, bathing in the starlight.
"Saying this now shouldn't be a flag, right?"
"I don't think so."
"Then … when we get back, will you marry me?"
Vivian thought for a moment. "While I'm quite happy, but I still feel … shouldn't there be a gift for a proposal? After all, it's such a serious matter … "
Hao Ren could not help but chuckle. "Then what do you want?"
Vivian rubbed her chin with her finger. "You're such a powerful guy, and you can get anything I want … Why don't you give me a star?"
Hao Ren thought for a moment, and waved to Rheia, who was also floating in space pretending to be a salted fish. "Rheia! Come over here, I'll leave you a manual assignment! "
(Main Ending)
(That's the end of the book, Sightings of Abnormal Creatures. Thank you all for your support. I also thank the moderators, Sorrow of Sorrow, Shen Shen Qianqian, and Kei Kato for helping me manage the reviews and comments section all these years. The book has ended, but the story of the abnormal creatures will continue forever. I need to rest a little, give myself a holiday or something, and prepare for the new book. If I have the energy … I might even write a side story or the day after tomorrow.
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