Chapter 698: Chapter 580: Gods Clashing with Starships
“Summon the Moon Goddess Diana?”
Harrov and the others on the interstellar warship had naturally heard Eira’s furious roar. They all looked at each other with strange expressions, involuntarily turning their heads to glance at the Moon God Body within the Alchemy Array that supplied the spaceship’s energy.
“The Moon God probably can’t come out anymore, but we can certainly send you to meet her!” Vittorio laughed heartily, his voice conveyed to the skies of the foreign realm through the spaceship’s amplification system.
Eira couldn’t help but frown. Before she even had time to think, she saw a large opening suddenly split open at the front end of the disk-shaped massive spaceship—it was Vittorio activating the ship’s built-in weapon system—the Scattering Particle Cannon!
The next moment, a full hundred thousand neutron clusters erupted within the atmosphere!
Unlike the calm waves when fired in the vacuum of space, the neutron clusters reached a terrifying might the moment they left the muzzle, accelerating to one-third the speed of light!
The molecules in the atmosphere didn’t even have time to react and form a sound barrier before they were torn apart, creating a hundred thousand long vacuum areas. Then, these torn molecules were turned into plasma by the extremely high temperatures generated from the immense speed!
The mere shockwaves from the aftermath were more powerful than the energy produced by a nuclear explosion!
With the powerful perception granted by the Divine Realm, Eira clearly saw the approaching neutron clusters and reacted instantly. However, the distance between them was less than fifty kilometers, and at one-third the speed of light, it would only take 0.0005 seconds to reach her!
The hastily constructed stance defense could not deflect so many and so densely packed scattering neutrons. In almost an instant, her body was engulfed in the horrific neutron strike!
Then came the Shattered City—Akana—behind her!
The Divine Barrier, which remained steady against seven hundred hydrogen explosions, was as weak as paper and shattered in the blink of an eye!
The Moon God believers within the city, who had recently become Priests, Bishops, and High Priests, and had no time to expand their ambitious plans, met their fate serenely.
The moment they saw the ship as majestic as a floating city, the attack had already arrived!
Resistance was futile; without experiencing any pain, everyone vanished from the world in the blink of an eye as the scattering neutron clusters zoomed past.
In this terrible strike, their spirits and souls were annihilated!
The ground was plowed with tens of thousands of bottomless trenches, spanning tens of millions of meters, adding terrifying scars to the already ravaged planet!
Only the invincible neutron clusters could inflict such a horrifying impact at unimaginable high speeds!
Only now did the atmosphere gradually surge up to fill the vacuum tunnels left by the neutron clusters, while the elements in the void churned like tides. Traces of plasma flickered inside, and even just the remnants of the force still exuded an extremely powerful aura…
“She couldn’t possibly have died just like that, could she?” Harrov, looking at the tragic scene outside through the Magic Projection, couldn’t help saying.
At that moment, all that remained before them was the scarred land; Eira’s trace was nowhere to be seen, yet Harrov had clearly seen her being hit directly by the scattering neutrons!
This was an attack powerful enough to dismantle a massive satellite!
Aurora also appeared relaxed; she felt that even if this strike didn’t utterly kill Eira, it would have severely wounded her.
The being they had once dreaded so much that they went to war, rallying the combined might of an entire continent with little hope of victory, now seemed to be not so fearsome after all…
“Would it really be that easy?” Lynn, who was also within the spaceship but had not taken action, interrupted their illusions.
The power of a god is never so simple. If it were so easily killed, the alien fleet that reached the moon wouldn’t have been annihilated!
And let’s not forget, this is Eira’s Divine Realm!
As expected, the moment Lynn’s voice echoed, a terrifying oppression emerged over the shattered city, and the raging elements that filled space and earth instantly gathered together.
Alerted by Lynn’s warning, Vittorio, now on edge, looked through the Magic Projection, searching the surroundings for any trace of the new Moon God.
However, Eira’s figure did not reappear; the danger was emanating from every part of the world!
Storms… Incredibly fierce storms began to blow above the foreign realm!
The elements of the void had now become the most dangerous weapons, and intense hurricanes sliced through everything around like blades…
This was the counterattack of the plane and the wrath of a god. Eira not appearing was precisely because the entire plane was her body, and these three ships were inside her body!
Without a target to fight against, the massive size of the ships undoubtedly became enormous targets!
But these targets were tough, with a shield powered by Moon Divine Power that was very sturdy, and the ship’s hull could easily withstand attacks from nuclear bombs at close range!
But even so, facing the increasingly intense storm, there was still the risk of falling. Violent thunder vaguely flickered within the storm, and arcs of lightning ten-odd meters thick struck the energy shield on the exterior of the spacecraft continuously, creating ripples after ripples. Energy was rapidly depleting as the storm and lightning grew ever more powerful…
Following that, a huge elemental hand, covering the entire sky, had already formed, with strange starfire burning around it, fiercely grabbing towards the largest starship battle cruiser at the center.
“Don’t fight her here, take it outside the Divine Realm!” Lynn reminded, still showing no intention of taking action. After all, this time the opponent was Elara, who had just entered the God Realm; it was a good opportunity to test the spacecraft’s capabilities and accumulate combat experience!
Vittorio had already taken action even before Lynn spoke. Inside the counter-fusion reactor, a vast amount of energy was siphoned out, converging in the chamber at the launching port. As they mingled and annihilated each other, a dazzling Annihilation Cannon burst forth!
The beam of light met the gigantic elemental hand head-on and instantly pierced through the starfire ignited in the void, boring a large hole in the palm of that colossal hand, and the residual wave flew across the sky, striking a mountain far behind!
Accompanying a series of intense explosions, that towering mountain had completely disappeared from view, the barren ground inch by inch collapsed, and endless dust rose to obscure half of the sky…
The moment Vittorio fired the Annihilation Cannon, he activated the spacecraft’s propulsion system.
After modifications, the Curvature Engine could now preliminarily adjust the cruising speed without switching to nuclear engines within the atmosphere.
Vittorio directly stretched the speed to one-tenth of the speed of light, ready to burst out in one go!
At such a high speed, the spacecraft would only need 0.3 seconds to exit the atmosphere of the Eternal Star. However, this time, it took them a full three seconds to leave the area completely.
“Could this planet be even larger than the Eternal Star?” Harrov couldn’t help furrowing his brow, sensing something was off.
“No, it’s our speed that has slowed down!” said Vittorio with a grave expression.
Although there were no reference points nearby, judging by the rate at which the ground below was shrinking, the spacecraft’s speed was far from as fast as imagined, not even reaching one percent of the expected speed…
“It’s Elara’s Divine Barrier solidifying the space-time around here!” Lynn spoke up with an explanation. Unlike Harrov and the others, who could only rely on conjectures, he could clearly sense Elara’s Divine Power attached to the space-time threads nearby.
That is to say, the entire space had been sealed off, as if the seawater had been replaced with some kind of viscous fluid, and naturally, the speed of the ships within it had dropped.
They would need to expend far more energy to achieve even a tenth or a hundredth of their original cruising speed!
In a sense, the Divine Realm was the bane of the Curvature Engine…
However, Lynn quickly dismissed this conclusion because if they were using conventional propulsion systems, they would hardly be able to move at all within the Divine Realm!
“Then let’s go even faster!” Vittorio immediately cast aside any reservations and cranked the spacecraft’s cruising speed to the max!
At that moment, the ten-meter-tall pile of lunar soil within the Alchemy Array had shrunk considerably, and the spacecraft’s speed multiplied several times over!
A cold voice tinged with anger echoed throughout the entire planet.
“Stay here with me—Star Explosion!”
Within a region sprawling millions of kilometers, all magic-transformed matter disintegrated under the stern admonition, and boundless energy surged, sweeping across the entire area!
This so-called Star Explosion was a Divine Art that Elara had developed by mimicking the Sky Vaulting technique, only differing in the manner of its release.
Whether it’s nuclear, hydrogen explosions, or even antimatter annihilation, these three are essentially applications of the universe’s own rules, which is why Lynn and the others needed to expend only a limited amount of Magic Power to cast their spells.
Elara, unaware of the principle that large masses of uranium-235 would spontaneously fission upon aggregation, completely relied on the might of a god, detonating atoms in the most direct way!
Though this method was horrifically energy-intensive, the conversion ratio of matter to energy directly jumped to fifteen percent, far surpassing a hydrogen explosion!
Inside the spacecraft, the piercing alarm sounded incessantly, a harbinger of the energy shield nearing collapse!
Lynn had already raised his hand, ready to intervene, but then abruptly relaxed it…
Because the spacecraft had finally burst out of the exotic atmosphere!
The universe beyond the exotic world was an endless darkness, with no stars in sight, and a hazy fog obscured everything.
Aboard the spacecraft, Harrov and others heaved a sigh of relief. The main vessel had emerged intact, though it had lost a great deal of energy, with only half of the hundred tons of lunar soil remaining.
The other two newly constructed starships, however, looked far more pitiable, with their energy shields directly shattered and their hulls covered in dents.
Without a doubt, it was the alien special materials, capable of withstanding nuclear explosions, that saved the two ships; otherwise, the moment the energy shields failed, they would have been nothing but destroyed, plummeting wreckage!