Free Web NovelChapter 2692: Chapter 1820: Tsunami (If You Have Indigestion, Take Some Digestive Pills)
For this plan, Duanmu Huai had set up layers of defense. From the very start, the fleets and planet fortresses, reality stabilizing anchors, the Ancient Dominator and divine seals were all interconnected pieces, all capable of exerting influence in the real world. After all, the real world was Duanmu Huai’s main stage. As long as there were reality stabilizing anchors, the chaos evil gods in subspace could not invade the Ether Synchronous Engine construction area without being detected.
And indeed, the Chaos Legion’s first attack ended in complete failure. Those chaos warriors who invaded the planet fortress were dragged away by the divine seals to become corpse variants. Unfortunately, their numbers were too few to transform into a blood moon.
However, Duanmu Huai didn’t let down his guard. He knew that the Four Gods had an ultimate move. At this stage of the game, players easily held off the invasion of Chaos. After all, this was the real world, with only Duanmu Huai’s fleet present. But in the game, billions of players and countless fleets tightly blocked the entire Eye of Fear, which was even more exaggerated than the firepower blockade of Aikute. Basically, anything daring to emerge from the Eye of Fear was met by countless gun barrels eager to fire and snatch experience points.
Even elite bosses were taken down the moment they showed their face.
At that time, although players didn’t have planet fortresses or Duanmu Huai’s divine position, their sheer numbers greatly surpassed Duanmu Huai’s Tribunal. Not to mention those aliens and Heretic Judges specializing in Insect Swarm or Mecha Servant strategies—well, it was a game after all. Duanmu Huai, if faced in reality with someone shouting "I am the swarm," would straight away slash them without a word.
So for Duanmu Huai, being able to fend off this level of attack was not outside his expectations. In the game, attacks during the construction phase were indeed not very intense until the Ether Synchronous Engine was activated and the chaos evil gods finally played their trump card—now Duanmu Huai just hoped that the evil gods in reality also shared the same trump card as in the game; otherwise, things might get a bit troubling.
"Maria, progress?"
"Currently at 45% progress, no delays, and no ahead of schedule, everything is proceeding normally."
"Whew......"
Upon hearing Maria’s report, Duanmu Huai exhaled a breath. His feelings were very conflicted, akin to those just prior to taking a major exam. He wanted the exam to start quickly to get it over with, yet also wished for it to start later to give himself more mental preparation... In short, his mood was truly complex.
"Master, drink some water."
"Oh, thank you."
Duanmu Huai took the cup handed over by Ogis and drank it down in one go, only to spit it out in a burst.
"Cough cough, what’s this stuff?"
Duanmu Huai stared at the cup in his hand; from the color, it appeared to be coffee... It was coffee, right?
"Mary said you like coffee."
"Ah, um... It’s alright, I guess?"
"So I brewed the strongest possible."
"The strongest? How strong?"
"Ten packets, instant."
Ogis, with a gesture of triumph, flashed the V sign at Duanmu Huai.
"I thought the master would really enjoy this."
"......"
A considerate cozy presence brewed the beloved coffee, two likes overlapping should bring the utmost happiness, right? But why, why like this?
"Not tasty, Master?"
"...Next time, just use one packet."
Duanmu Huai sighed silently. If you had ground the coffee yourself, I’d consider it an effort. But using instant and adding ten packets, Duanmu couldn’t help but wonder if his cozy presence was having one of its usual lapses. Though for the cozy presence, this seemed to be an often occurrence.
Duanmu Huai took another sip of the overwhelmingly strong coffee, all the while watching the screen before him. Following this, the Chaos Fleet didn’t show up again. After that wave of attacks from the Spaceship Wreck, they seemed to have realized that trying to take this tough nut head-on was unlikely to succeed.
So, what are those guys thinking now? Or are they busy dealing with the orcs and insect race in the Eye of Fear? It’s not impossible, but unfortunately, Duanmu Huai couldn’t see the situation inside the Eye of Fear now, nor did he know how far the orcs and insect swarms had progressed. Honestly, he hoped the two sides would fight to mutual destruction; however, even if one side, either the insect swarm or orcs, gained the upper hand, it didn’t matter. The Insect Nest Will couldn’t possibly bow to the chaos evil gods.
After all, from Duanmu Huai’s brief interaction with the Insect Nest Will, it was at least of Yog Sothoth or Azathoth’s Outer God Level, so for the Insect Nest Will, those petty chaos evil gods, coiled up within the Milky Way’s subspace, were simply not worth acknowledging.
Perhaps someday the Insect Nest Will would become an adversary too, though at least not now.
Duanmu Huai withdrew his thoughts and once again looked at the star map. Everything was running perfectly without any issues, but at this moment, he was inexplicably feeling a sense of unease in his heart. It seemed to be a kind of intuition belonging to a deity. Although Duanmu Huai disliked prophecies and had no interest in things that foresaw the future, he now had a bad premonition deeply rooted in his heart.
It was like that moment when rushing through a yellow light and suddenly seeing the traffic light turn red, your heart skips a beat realizing the trouble you’ve caused.
Or rather, it’s not an unexpected type of trouble, but rather an expected one—running a red light results in penalties and fines, things within anticipation. What Duanmu Huai was feeling right now was this kind of expected trouble.
"———————!"
Suddenly, the screen started shaking violently, and then Lumiaire’s voice sounded.
"Sir Judge, we’ve detected subspace fluctuations from the Eye of Fear!"
These bastards have decided to act so soon?
Upon hearing Lumiaire’s call, Duanmu Huai was shocked internally. He instantly understood what the opposition planned to do, and hurriedly activated communications.
"Everyone, prepare for impact!"
"—————————!"
Just as Duanmu Huai finished speaking, an unimaginable horrific scene appeared unannounced in front of everyone.
The entire Eye of Fear suddenly expanded, burst, and then split apart. It was as if it had ripped apart the entire Milky Way, stretching towards both sides. Meanwhile, pitch-black darkness, mixed with scarlet glow, surged forth directly towards the direction where Duanmu Huai was located.
"Mad, these bastards actually did it!"
Although he cursed angrily aloud, Duanmu Huai completely relaxed at this point, like the moment the exam bell rings for a major test, and no matter what you think, all that remains is to focus desperately on answering the paper.
Indeed, this is the ultimate trick the Evil Gods use. They tear open the Eye of Fear, forcibly throwing a portion of subspace into the real world like dumping garbage. In the game, players suffer because they didn’t anticipate this, and the battlefield, which originally held an advantage, becomes chaotic immediately upon being dragged into subspace.
This forces players to shift to countering subspace corrosion and chaotic battles—after all, when warships enter subspace, even the Geller Field struggles to protect against corrosion, not to mention the Four Gods personally taking action. Back then, a large number of demons appeared within the player’s fleet, causing chaos among the players.
Duanmu Huai, having been bitten by snakes once, was cautious even of ropes for ten years—he was guarding against this move by the Four Gods. Hence, earlier, no matter how many fleets he mobilized, he kept them firmly within the range of the reality stabilizing anchor.
After all, these warships only contain puppet soul cards with combat power less than 5 (literally), truly the kind that breaks at the slightest touch.
They couldn’t withstand long against the Demon Army.
The dark tide instantly engulfed the entire galaxy, plunging the surroundings into complete darkness, nearly impossible to see one’s hand before them. Only the light from the star outside the window remained bright, a sole guiding light amidst the dark tide. The reality stabilizing anchor firmly blocked the subspace waste pouring from the Eye of Fear, securing reality tightly here.
Duanmu Huai stared at the Hume Index meter in front of him, which was frantically swinging back and forth like an epileptic patient. It was oscillating desperately between extremely low and extremely high reality index, so much that Duanmu Huai even suspected it might break free of the meter on its own.
As for other areas of the Milky Way, what they become due to this garbage tsunami, Duanmu Huai won’t think of it—if the Tribunal can survive, there is hope. If it can’t, then it’ll be back to how things were. Hopefully, the system’s creator can find another unfortunate individual like himself to come through and deliver.
When the most intense part passed, the entire galaxy was enveloped in darkness. Of course, vision was not the most important thing; what mattered was something else.
That, aside from the current core area where Duanmu Huai was located, everywhere else was completely swallowed by subspace. This meant, unlike the previous small skirmishes, the Chaos Evil Gods could summon endless demons from all directions to launch attacks against them.
And all they could do was defend.
Until the moment the Ether Synchronous Engine was completed.
"———————!!"
Piercing screams sounded from outside; originally, in the universe, Duanmu Huai couldn’t hear these demons’ roars. But evidently, now it wasn’t just simply being in the universe. He raised his head, staring at the floor-to-ceiling window before him, seeing countless twisted, filthy shadows emerging from the darkness outside the glass, rushing over overwhelmingly.
Although it was as he imagined, the speed was unexpectedly fast. In the game, the Evil Gods only initiated this stage after players completed the Ether Synchronous Engine construction and started it. It seems his reality stabilizing anchor posed such a great threat that the Chaos Evil Gods decided they must stop his actions at all costs.
Thinking of this, Duanmu Huai activated communications and gave a command calmly.
"Operation enters the second phase."
