Free Web NovelChapter 206: Chapter 206: Fall of The Arrogant Prince
The silence in the vacuum of space lasted for exactly three seconds.
Prince Phil’s flagship was gone. The pride of the Kentari Dominion, a massive, heavily shielded dreadnought, had simply ceased to exist in a silent flash of blue light.
The arrogant, whining prince was a compressed speck of dark matter floating in the void.
Lucifer stood on the balcony of Zephyria, his hand still raised. The black lightning faded from the Gauntlet of the Void King.
"I don’t think he finished his speech," Elara noted dryly, stepping up beside him. The Twilight Sovereign’s iridescent armor shifted seamlessly.
She leaned on her violet-flaming spear, a predatory smirk touching her lips. "He sounded very passionate about processing our crew."
"He was tedious," Lucifer said smoothly, lowering his arm. "I expedited the conversation."
[System Warning: Hostile Action Confirmed!]
[Faction Status Updated: Zephyrian Empire is now at War with the Kentari Dominion.]
The remaining hundreds of sleek, silver Kentari dreadnoughts finally recovered from their absolute, stunned paralysis.
Panic and outrage flooded their communication channels. Their sensors could not comprehend what had just happened to their command vessel. But they knew the massive black mountain hovering in front of them was the source. ƒreewebηoveℓ.com
The Kentari Armada did not ask for a parley.
"They are charging main batteries," Sarah reported over the comms rune. The Star-Touched Oracle was stationed on the Spire, her cosmic eyes tracking the massive spikes in aether-energy.
"The entire fleet is locking onto our coordinates. They are preparing a synchronized orbital bombardment."
"Let them shoot," Lucifer commanded smoothly.
He didn’t order the Paladin-Mechs to return fire. He didn’t unleash the Glacial Wyrms.
"Vexia. Thrain," Lucifer ordered. "Route all auxiliary power to the forward Void-shield. Absorb the barrage."
"Routing power now, Warlord!" Thrain roared from the forge.
The ten miles of empty space between Zephyria and the Kentari Armada lit up like a supernova.
Hundreds of dreadnoughts fired simultaneously. Massive, blinding beams of concentrated white plasma and blue aether-artillery ripped across the void, aiming directly for the central keep of the floating city.
The bombardment hit the pitch-black Void-shield.
*BOOM. BOOM. BOOM.*
The impact was deafening, even through the atmospheric dome. The entire five-mile-wide city shuddered under the sheer, kinetic and magical weight of an interstellar fleet unleashing its full payload.
The night sky outside the shield was a chaotic, blinding storm of exploding plasma and rippling dark matter.
But the shield held.
The Celestial Adamantine plating and the Sanguine Grid, powered by the infinite output of the Void-Core Reactor, absorbed the bombardment effortlessly.
The pitch-black energy field simply ate the incoming fire, dispersing the heat across the hull.
Lucifer stood on the balcony, completely untouched by the apocalyptic storm raging inches away from his face.
"Their weapons are impressive," Lucifer observed coldly, watching a plasma beam splash harmlessly against the barrier. "But they are fighting a mountain with flashlights."
"They will just keep firing until the reactor burns out," Lyra pointed out, stepping onto the balcony. The Dawn Saintess’s dual-toned eyes reflected the violent lightshow outside. "We cannot sit here and tank a fleet indefinitely."
"We aren’t going to," Lucifer said.
He turned away from the railing.
"I am not going to waste the Dragoons or the Wyrms in a disorganized dogfight against an entrenched fleet," Lucifer declared, his voice dropping into a low, echoing rumble of pure authority. "I am going to hit them with something they can’t shoot."
He tapped his comms rune.
"All units, hold position," Lucifer commanded the city. "Do not engage the fleet."
He raised the Gauntlet of the Void King. He didn’t point it at the Kentari ships. He pointed it directly at the empty space above the main courtyard of Zephyria.
"System," Lucifer whispered.
He tapped deeply into his *Viceroy of Shadows* title. He bypassed standard summoning rules. He reached directly into the darkest, most terrifying dimension he had conquered.
"Open the Umbra."
A colossal, jagged spatial rift tore open in the sky above the courtyard.
It was not a small portal. It was a massive, mile-wide tear that bled thick, suffocating gray Fog of Deceit and sickly purple light. The overwhelming stench of ancient dust and pure death magic flooded the pristine air of the floating city.
The thirteen million mortal soldiers huddled in the lower barracks gasped as the terrifying, familiar pressure of the Umbral Plane washed over them.
"What are you pulling through?" Elara asked, her golden eyes widening as she felt the immense, terrifying density of the magic gathering on the other side of the rift.
"Cavalry," Lucifer said smoothly.
He didn’t use the Apex Multiplier. He didn’t need to. He simply issued a command using the absolute, divine authority granted to him by the Father of the Void.
"Legion," Lucifer roared, his voice amplified by Void magic, carrying directly into the dark dimension. "Ride."
The Umbral Rift exploded with movement.
It was not a swarm of mindless bugs or slithering Leviathans.
A massive, terrifying army poured out of the portal.
They were Shadow Knights. Towering, spectral figures forged entirely of condensed dark matter and swirling purple fire. They wore jagged, heavy plate armor that absorbed the light, and they carried long, spectral lances that dripped with spatial distortion.
They did not ride standard horses. They rode Nightmares, massive, skeletal beasts wreathed in black smoke, their hooves leaving trails of burning violet ash in the air.
[System: Umbral Legion Summoned.]
[Entity: Shadow Knights (Level 60 - Elite Vanguard)]
[Quantity: 3,000,000,000,000 (3 Trillion)]
[Status: Bound to the Viceroy of Shadows.]
The sheer volume of the summoning was incomprehensible.
Three trillion Shadow Knights poured out of the rift like an endless, apocalyptic tidal wave of pure darkness. They did not land in the courtyard. They galloped straight out into the void of space.
"By the Light," Lyra breathed, her hands flying to her mouth in absolute shock. The Dawn Saintess stared at the endless stream of nightmare cavalry. "You summoned a dimension."
"I told you," Lucifer smirked coldly. "I don’t play fair."
The Shadow Knights did not need air or gravity to ride. As their skeletal mounts galloped into the vacuum, the dense, dark matter radiating from their hooves instantly solidified, creating massive, sprawling, invisible bridges of localized gravity.
They laid their own roads across the stars.
The Kentari Armada was still firing their main batteries at Zephyria’s shield when the dark wave hit them.
The Shadow Knights did not use complex tactics. They used sheer, overwhelming, impossible numbers.
Three trillion heavy cavalry units crashed into the hundreds of sleek, silver dreadnoughts. The impact was silent in the vacuum, but the visual destruction was absolute.
The glowing blue energy shields of the Kentari ships shattered instantly under the kinetic impact of billions of spectral lances.
The Shadow Knights didn’t just pierce the hulls; their spatial distortion weapons phased directly through the thick metal plating, butchering the crews inside without even scratching the paint.
Dreadnoughts were swarmed by millions of Nightmares. The massive ships were physically dragged out of formation by the sheer weight of the spectral cavalry clinging to their hulls.
"They are ripping the fleet apart," Celeste yelled over the comms, watching the tactical feed from the armory. "The Kentari are completely blind! Their scanners can’t lock onto pure dark matter! The Knights are invisible to their targeting matrices!"
Lucifer watched the slaughter from the balcony.
The majestic, disciplined Kentari Armada devolved into absolute, panicking chaos in less than a minute. Ships crashed into each other, attempting to evade the invisible enemy.
Plasma cannons fired wildly into empty space, missing the agile, phasing Shadow Knights entirely.
"The fleet is broken," Lucifer announced smoothly.
He didn’t recall the Shadow Knights. He let them continue to swarm the burning wreckage of the armada, ensuring no survivors escaped to warn the Ringworld.
"Isolde," Lucifer commanded, turning his void eyes toward the colossal, metallic continent of the Kentari Dominion looming in the distance.
"I am ready, Emperor," the Dragon Queen hissed eagerly.
"I need a ride," Lucifer said.
He didn’t wait for her to land. He activated Zephyr’s Grace and launched himself off the balcony, flying straight through the pitch-black Void-shield.
Isolde, in her massive, mountain-sized true form, swooped underneath him. Lucifer landed flawlessly between her crystal spikes, his iron boots locking onto her diamond scales.
"Elara. Lyra. Celeste," Lucifer ordered over the comms, standing tall on the dragon’s neck. "Hold Zephyria here. The fleet is dead, but the Ringworld’s main automated defenses are still active. I am going to clear the path."
"You are assaulting a planetary defense grid alone?" Elara asked, her voice tight with concern.
"I am not alone," Lucifer corrected her smoothly, patting the heavy dark leather pouch on his belt. "I brought fireworks."
Isolde roared, a massive, deafening sound that shook the void. The Winter Sovereign beat her colossal wings, launching herself away from the floating city and flying directly toward the massive, dark metallic band of the Kentari Dominion.
The Ringworld was staggering up close.
It was a continuous continent of durasteel and massive, glowing precursor cities. But separating the vacuum of space from the atmosphere of the Ringworld was a colossal, shimmering barrier of pure, concentrated energy.
[System Warning: Hostile Defense Grid Detected!]
[Name: Aegis of the Core (Mythic Barrier)]
[Status: Impenetrable. Designed to withstand planetary collisions.]
"The Aegis Wall," Isolde noted, her massive eyes narrowing as they approached the glowing barrier. "It is older than the gods, Warlord. My frostfire will not crack it. Your Shadow Knights cannot phase through it. It is absolute physical law."
"Nothing is absolute," Lucifer replied coldly.
As they flew closer, the automated defense grid of the Ringworld registered their approach.
Thousands of massive, heavy orbital cannons mounted along the edge of the Aegis Wall swiveled upward, tracking the solitary white dragon.
"They are locking on!" Isolde warned, banking sharply to avoid the first volley of heavy plasma fire. "I cannot dodge ten thousand cannons indefinitely, Emperor!"
"You don’t have to," Lucifer stated smoothly.
He didn’t draw a sword. He didn’t cast a spell.
He opened his Dimensional Vault.
Lucifer reached into the dark spatial rift and pulled out a heavy, glowing iron crate. It was the crate of Nova-Bombs he had received from the ghost of Emperor Hindley.
[Item: Nova-Bombs (Mythic Consumable)]
[Quantity: 100,000]
He didn’t take one out. He grabbed the entire crate.
"Fly directly over the center of the wall," Lucifer commanded.
"I will be flying straight into their firing lanes!" Isolde roared in protest, but she obeyed the system contract, pulling her massive body out of the evasive maneuver and diving straight down toward the glowing barrier.
Thousands of plasma beams ripped through the space around them, singeing Isolde’s diamond scales.
Lucifer didn’t flinch.
He held the heavy iron crate of Nova-Bombs over the edge of the dragon’s neck.
"System," Lucifer commanded, his void eyes locking onto the impenetrable Aegis Wall below.
"Apply the Apex Multiplier," Lucifer whispered. "Ten thousand times."
[Divine Talent: Apex Multiplier Activated!]
[Applying 10,000x multiplier to Explosive Yield...]
Lucifer dropped the crate.
The heavy iron box plummeted toward the glowing barrier.
"Pull up!" Lucifer roared to the dragon.
Isolde didn’t need to be told twice. She violently snapped her wings backward, executing a massive, high-G vertical climb, rocketing away from the wall with terrifying speed.
The crate hit the Aegis Wall.
One hundred thousand Mythic-tier nuclear explosives, multiplied ten thousand times, detonated simultaneously upon impact.
There was no sound in the vacuum of space.
But the visual was apocalyptic.
A blinding, pure white flash of absolute, unadulterated annihilation erased the stars. The explosion did not just crack the impenetrable Aegis Wall; it completely vaporized a five-hundred-mile section of the barrier, along with the ten thousand orbital cannons and the heavy durasteel crust beneath it. frёewebηovel.cѳm
The shockwave visibly rippled across the entire surface of the Ringworld, flattening massive, abandoned cities and throwing up a colossal cloud of burning dust and debris.
Isolde hovered high above the blast zone, panting heavily. The Winter Sovereign looked down at the massive, gaping, smoking hole Lucifer had just blown into the side of the continent.
She let out a low, rumbling purr of absolute, profound satisfaction.
"That," Isolde hissed, a terrifying smile on her draconic face, "was a very big rock."
"The door is open," Lucifer stated smoothly, resting his hand on his sword. "Let’s go say hello to the royal family."
