Chapter 261 Natural Disaster Awakens, Doomsday Arrives
Chapter 261 Natural Disaster Awakens, Doomsday Arrives
"What is he going to do?!"
On the bridge of the Pangu, I watched the ship trailing a long plume of black smoke on the screen.
As the "Shadow Claw" hurtled toward the giant gas planet as if committing suicide, Chen Zhou's brows furrowed deeply.
"He's going to wake up that monster."
Su Chen's voice was as cold as ice: "With his own ship, and his own life."
"Stop him!" Chen Zhou decided immediately. "We can't let him get close to that planet!"
"Order: All warships, concentrate fire!"
"Target: the engine and weapon systems of the 'Shadow Claw'! I want them alive!"
Su Chen's instructions followed immediately.
In an instant, the cannons of the Earth fleet spewed out destructive fury.
Hundreds of energy beams of varying thicknesses, like a net, shot towards the crazed flagship from all directions.
However, Shadow had anticipated this.
"Activate 'Shadow Veil'! Concentrate all shield energy at the stern!"
The hull of the "Shadow Claw" suddenly shuddered, and a surging energy field instantly enveloped the entire warship.
This veil seemed to swallow up light, making the warship's silhouette appear blurry on the detector.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Dense artillery fire bombarded the "Shadow Veil".
The black energy field churned and twisted violently, emitting a series of teeth-grinding cracking sounds.
The stern of the warship was blown to pieces in the first round of concentrated fire, with countless metal fragments flying outwards.
But the Shadow managed to withstand this deadly salvo by sacrificing its own hull.
Although the speed of the "Shadow Claw" was reduced sharply, it used the thrust from the attack to make it like a spinning top that had been whipped hard, and it charged towards the giant planet even more determinedly!
The distance is closing rapidly!
"Warning! Target is about to enter the planet's upper atmosphere!"
"Warning! Violent energy activity detected within the planet's interior! Level... incalculable!"
The piercing alarm blared wildly inside the bridge of the Pangu.
Everyone knew that if Shadow succeeded, the consequences would be unimaginable.
"Main guns, charge! Shoot it down!"
Su Chen's eyes sharpened, and he abandoned his plan to capture the prisoner alive.
The bow of the "Pangu" ship, with its terrifyingly large main gun, once again shone with a destructive light.
But it was too late.
"Now!"
A maniacal and satisfied smile appeared on the shadowy face:
"With my flagship as a sacrifice, with my soul as a catalyst! Ancient calamities, slumbering from your endless hunger... awaken!"
He pressed the red button that represented self-destruct.
Goodbye, this damn world!
The next second, the "Shadow Claw" disintegrated and burned up in the intense friction, like a meteor crashing into the atmosphere.
However, its core energy chamber, guided by the will of the shadow, precisely pierced through the thick gaseous clouds and plunged into the depths of that planet!
"boom--"
No sound.
But everyone present, whether it was the crew of the Earth Fleet or the last vestige of Shadow's consciousness.
On a spiritual level, they all felt a roar from ancient times that was powerful enough to tear the universe apart!
That giant gas planet, with a diameter of over 100,000 kilometers, shuddered violently, like a powder keg that had been ignited!
Next, the planet's surface, where the clouds had been flowing relatively smoothly.
It began to spin wildly at a speed visible to the naked eye, forming a super storm that covered the entire planet!
At the eye of the storm, an enormous, pitch-black "eye" slowly opened.
It wasn't a real eye, but a singularity made up of pure, twisted gravity.
It frantically devoured everything around it—light, gas, energy…
"Buzz—"
An invisible, terrifying wave, filled with a will to destroy and hunger.
Like a tsunami, it swept across the entire battlefield in an instant.
Faced with this will, the hundreds of steel warships of the Earth fleet were as insignificant as a few grains of sand on a beach.
Everyone's mind went completely blank at that moment.
Their souls seemed to be gripped by an invisible hand.
A primal fear, originating from the deepest part of their being, left them ice-cold and unable to move.
This is a Class A cosmic creature!
This is the Star Destroyer, known as the "walking natural disaster"!
It hadn't even fully revealed its form yet; the mere aftershocks of its awakening will were enough to completely render an elite interstellar fleet incapable of fighting!
"It...it's coming out..."
Chen Zhou's voice was somewhat hoarse. He forced himself to use his spatial ability to barely withstand the mental impact.
Within that enormous "eye of the storm," a colossal creature, beyond description, was slowly rising.
It has no fixed form; it seems to be a monster forcibly fused together by a powerful will from countless fragments of shattered planets, twisted metals, and pure dark energy.
Its body is covered with countless "mouths" that look like black holes.
Each "mouth" is frantically devouring the planet itself, turning matter into part of its body.
Its size is even larger than the moon!
This is the Star Destroyer! A cosmic cancer that feeds on planets and revels in destruction!
Shadow's plan succeeded.
With his own death, he awakened the apocalyptic catastrophe that was capable of destroying a galaxy.
Before his remaining consciousness completely dissipated, he let out a final, triumphant roar:
[Hahaha... Feel the despair, you natives! This monster will devour you and your ridiculous planet!]
However, just when he thought his revenge was about to unfold perfectly.
The colossal beast, which had just awakened and was radiating an endless will to destroy, slowly turned its countless "eyes" made of gravitational singularities toward the battlefield.
It did not immediately rush towards the distant solar system coordinates that the shadow had set for it at the last moment.
Its gaze, or rather its appetite, was drawn to the even more "delicious" food that was right in front of it.
In its chaotic and hungry perception, the Shadow's self-destructing wrecked ship was like a small, shriveled crumb of bread.
The hundreds of warships of the Earth fleet, filled with high-purity energy and shimmering with alluring light, were like a steaming Manchu Han Imperial Feast laid out before us!
The first thought the behemoth had after awakening was not to carry out the "instructions" left by the weaker creature.
Instead... let's eat!
[So much food...so much energy...]
An even more ferocious will locked onto the entire Earth fleet.
The Shadow's plan spiraled completely out of control from the very first step.
He thought he was the hunter who released the tiger, but he never expected that the tiger's first act after being released was to treat another group of people around him as an easier lunch.
At the center of the Star Destroyer's enormous body, the largest, abyss-like "mouth" slowly opened.
Dark, all-consuming energy began to gather within it.
That's its signature attack—Soul Breath!
A rule-based attack capable of ignoring any conventional physical defenses and directly annihilating material structures and the souls of life!
The Earth fleet is facing an unprecedented and real life-or-death crisis.
NIP