Free Web NovelChapter 2696: Chapter 1823: The Dagger Revealed
In a way, the act of the Chaos Evil God tearing apart the Eye of Fear actually did Duanmu Huai a huge favor.
Originally, the construction phase of the Ether Synchronous Engine was as follows: In the first phase, the Ether Synchronous Engine would establish a fragile foothold in the subspace. In the second phase, the Engine’s tentacles would delve into the subspace, gradually invading and expanding this area. In the third phase, the Engine would tear open a massive hole between reality and subspace. Then comes the final phase, fully activating subspace energy to elevate the entire race.
Before the final phase, players need to resist the attacks from the demon army of the Evil Gods against the Ether Synchronous Engine and guard the foothold. However, now Duanmu Huai absolutely doesn’t need to do this; the Chaos Evil God’s "initiative" to let subspace engulf the Ether Synchronous Engine is exactly what he wants. Besides, Duanmu Huai’s intention was never to conduct the original Ether Synchronous Engine ceremony to achieve the spiritual energy ascension of the whole race - after all, in the real world, humans and demons still have battles to fight. But if they really went to subspace, the problem wouldn’t completely not exist.
This means that the Ether Synchronous Engine has already skipped phases one, two, and three. Next, what’s left to do is fully activate it.
But before that, Duanmu Huai has one last thing to do.
A burning, even larger star suddenly appeared, devouring the Ether Synchronous Engine. But it wasn’t an ordinary star; it was the core of Duanmu Huai’s Divine Realm as the God of Destruction. After becoming the God of Destruction, countless aliens and heretics were destroyed by him, and their souls were thrown into the massive star to enhance his divine power.
But now, Duanmu Huai’s ambition as the God of Destruction is even greater.
He wants to devour subspace itself!
Of course, you can’t gain weight in one bite; you need to eat one mouthful at a time. The Ether Synchronous Engine acts as this "mouthful." It will open a stable hole, continuously sending subspace into Duanmu Huai’s Divine Realm core, which will then be devoured and further enhance Duanmu Huai’s strength - this is why Duanmu Huai dares to confront the Four Great Evil Gods alone.
Both sides now have endless subspace energy as support, so now it’s a matter of who can fight better!
In terms of fighting, Duanmu Huai has never lost.
Then, the Ether Synchronous Engine activated.
The star that originally devoured the Ether Synchronous Engine turned pitch black in an instant, but then it returned to normal. Almost simultaneously, Duanmu Huai suddenly felt a powerful force emerge from deep within his soul. It was like a constant stream of reinforcements arising within him. This feeling was present when Duanmu Huai annihilated other aliens before, but back then, it felt like sipping on a cup of cola.
Now Duanmu Huai feels like he’s guzzling down an endless bottle of cola, drinking it to near ecstasy.
Then, he took a step forward.
With just one step, the scene in front of Duanmu Huai changed instantly. He went from the splendid flagship interior to the dark void, where the surrounding battle continued. But now, these battles were no longer within Duanmu Huai’s scope of concern. He stared into the depths of the dark void ahead, waiting for the imminent enemy.
He could feel the wrath of the Chaos Evil Gods in the subspace, which was normal. Put it this way, if the real world is the crust, and subspace is the ocean, then what Duanmu Huai is doing is drilling a hole in the crust, allowing massive waves of seawater to rush in, forming a gigantic vortex. And Duanmu Huai’s Divine Realm core is like the volcanic core beneath the crust, evaporating any seawater rushing inside at high temperatures.
This, of course, is absolutely unacceptable to the creatures in the sea.
What they want to do naturally is to block this Great Vortex. However, now that the Ether Synchronous Engine has been activated, ordinary fish can’t work anymore; approaching recklessly will only be sucked in. In fact, those demons already too close to the Divine Realm core are being attracted by a powerful force towards Duanmu Huai’s Divine Realm core, then incinerated to ashes.
Even the Great Demons can barely protect themselves in this rampant subspace vortex.
Hence, the only ones capable of blocking this opening are the enormous whales.
Finally, they arrived.
Duanmu Huai’s expression changed as he looked into the depths of subspace. He heard the roars and angry shouts filled with fury, along with the sound of battle and aggressive footsteps. Duanmu Huai tightened his grip on the war hammer in his hand, raised it high, and focused ahead – then forcefully swung downward!
At the same time, a large, heavily-armored warrior dressed in red and wielding a giant axe suddenly leapt out, without any pretense or introductory monologue or lines. It brandished its giant axe and swung it at Duanmu Huai with a furious roar, like thunder shaking the entire subspace.
"Boom!!"
The war hammer and the giant axe collided, seeming to shake even space itself. The remnants of warships around were sent flying like meteors in all directions by the shock waves from the impact of both sides.
"Good timing!"
Duanmu Huai was not the least surprised at the appearance of the Brutal Wrath. With his understanding of Chaos Evil Gods, Brutal Wrath will surely be the first to come knocking. Out of the other three, Corrupted Foil and Obsessive Sin might fight for second or third place, but that cunning blue birdman would definitely be the last to come.
Hence, all he needs to do now is to thoroughly enjoy the battle before him!
"Boom boom boom!!!"
Both sides possessed infinite subspace energy as backup, so Duanmu Huai also didn’t need to play tricks at this moment. He swung his war hammer and fought against Brutal Wrath. For a time, the war hammer and axe flew and shone in all directions, and the resounding and vibrating sounds throughout the Star Ocean even spread to every place within the Milky Way covered by subspace.
Whether humans or aliens, they all looked up with anxious and fearful eyes, gazing at the starry sky above them—listening to the sounds of conflict and rumbling from the distant depths of the Milky Way.
"Boom!"
Duanmu Huai once again smashed Brutal Wrath in front of him with his hammer. The latter remained extremely angry, and it could even be said that the fight with Duanmu Huai made it even angrier. However, this was useless, because Duanmu Huai was also a deity, and as the God of Destruction, any emotional power Brutal Wrath attempted to absorb was ruthlessly shattered by him.
"Roar—————"
Brutal Wrath let out another angry roar, followed by the appearance of other figures.
The Lord of All Things, both fat and skinny, with round eyes, crawled out of its corrupted, rotten, and foul-smelling garden. Its large belly occupied most of the space like a planet. It grinned widely, smilingly staring at Duanmu Huai with eyes full of benevolence and serenity.
On the other side, a being half male, half female, neither man nor woman, twisted like a long snake in distortion, its entire body filled with [Prohibited Content][FBI WARNING][Harmonized Words] of perverted pink loops, walked like a model amidst the pain and wails of countless beings. Its gaze at Duanmu Huai was full of disgust and ugliness, and that grotesquely distorted, blurry face thus revealed an unprecedentedly ferocious expression.
Behind them, a blue bird man hid in the blue mist, only a pair of bright eyes and a vague outline indicating its presence. Like an illusory shadow, it stared intently at the enemy in front.
Clearly, Brutal Wrath couldn’t handle it alone, so the other three planned to join in.
"Mad."
Duanmu Huai spat, then he unhesitatingly stepped back half a step, opened the inventory, and casually fetched the last Spirit race member frozen in stasis, then forcefully crushed its body.
The Spirit race member, already half-dead, perished completely under Duanmu Huai’s blow, and its soul fell into the hands of the androgynous dead demon.
"———————!"
The dead demon’s reaction was akin to having just opened its mouth in a yawn, and then a cockroach flew directly into its mouth. Its body suddenly shivered, followed by an ear-piercing scream, not inferior to the shriek born of Obsessive Sin during the Spirit race’s orgiastic fall.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!"
The sound was akin to nails scratching a blackboard, magnified a hundred million times in volume, ear-numbing and intolerable. Duanmu Huai finally experienced firsthand what the myth about Obsessive Sin’s first scream tearing subspace to create the Eye of Fear was all about.
But this time, the outcome was comparable.
Except it wasn’t the birth of Obsessive Sin.
Accompanied by Obsessive Sin’s scream, its body, supple and snake-like, began to writhe and bulge, and a human face emerged from within its belly, followed by hands, as if something was trying to break out from inside.
"Have fun."
Duanmu Huai gestured toward the suddenly suffering Obsessive Sin, then he turned back again, charging toward Brutal Wrath. Although he wasn’t sure if the Spirit race’s Death God’s birth would indeed eliminate Obsessive Sin — since the Spirit race’s idiot prophecies had almost never come true — at least for now, Obsessive Sin had to combat the imminent Spirit race’s Death God baby emerging from its belly rather than facing him. Therefore, Duanmu Huai decided to take this opportunity to deal with the others first, and see if there was a chance to let Obsessive Sin and the Spirit race’s Death God perish together, achieving a death with two victims.
As Duanmu Huai approached, Corrupted Foil, who had always been smiling, displayed a terrified expression for the first time — among the Four Great Evil Gods, it was the one most strongly countered by Duanmu Huai. Corrupted Foil governed death and decay; perhaps those uncultured folks would equate these with destruction. But in fact, they weren’t at all the same.
Death is part of the world’s laws, where animal carcases decay, transform, then are absorbed by flora, fauna, or earth, becoming part of new life. Death and rebirth are part of the world’s rules. Destruction, however, is completely opposite — thorough annihilation, complete obliteration, with no life able to escape this terrifying power intact.
Therefore, from one perspective, Duanmu Huai as the God of Destruction and Corrupted Foil are fundamentally incompatible. The latter, though twisted, could still be considered the God of Life. Yet, Duanmu Huai represents destruction, confined only to mankind’s enemies — but unfortunately, this dead fat man certainly falls within that scope.
Duanmu Huai swung the war hammer again, and explosive flames surged forward, effortlessly devouring the toxic gas and viral attack released by Corrupted Foil. His whole body was shrouded in icy black flames; the poisons capable of twisting life had no effect before such ultimate destruction.
But soon, the battle axe crashing from the side forced Duanmu Huai to shift his focus yet again. Clearly, if he didn’t eliminate Brutal Wrath ahead, he couldn’t pose any threat to the two behind.
Really troublesome.
Duanmu Huai frowned.
But what’s to be done must be done.
