Chapter 105: Chapter 105: Sandora’s Wrath
The black energy blade blasted at Caesar’s location, yet it didn’t create any explosion, there wasn’t even a sound to be heard. All the matter it touched along its path simply vanished into thin air, completely devoured. This silent black blade highlighted its terrifying nature.
The black energy constantly devoured and assimilated the surrounding matter until a half-kilometer-long horrifying rift formed on the ground before finally dissipating.
“Void energy?!” Sandora exclaimed upon seeing my attack.
So this energy, with its devouring and assimilating attributes, was the legendary void energy? No wonder it was so powerful. The mere trickle of energy I had managed to draw forth had obliterated so much matter, leaving a half-kilometer rift on the ground.
“Such a waste of an attack method…” Sandora clicked her tongue and lamented my crude use of energy, “If we could harness this energy, it would be enough to power a ‘Faith’ class destroyer for half a month. Yet, you’ve squandered it in an annihilation reaction…”
…No wonder Pandora told me that even Xyrin Technology has difficulty directly utilizing high-order energy sources like void energy. I might not know how formidable a ‘Faith’ class destroyer is, but I can be sure that the energy needed to run a Xyrin warship for half a month must be far more than the annual electricity generation of the entire United States. Now that I think about it, I feel somewhat guilty for being so wasteful.
After Sandora finished lamenting my wastefulness, she suddenly turned to me with a question.
I nodded and then realized something was amiss.
“Why didn’t you say earlier!!” As I expected, Sandora immediately complained loudly, “If you had told me earlier, why would we go through all this trouble? Or do you find it amusing to keep me in the dark?”
“I wanted to surprise you,” I quickly explained, “Besides, I’m not familiar with this ability…”
“Never mind,” Sandora’s mood brightened when I mentioned I wanted to give her a surprise, “Just remember to tell us in advance when you have a new ability. If one day your own ability backfires and puts you in danger…”
“You two,” Qianqian’s ominous voice interjected, “Is this the time to chat? Or are you challenging my patience?”
…Cough cough, I made a mistake again.
Sandora and I carefully approached the edge of the massive rift, peering into the dark abyss below, unsure whether Caesar was truly gone.
If that was the case, then his end was quite unremarkable, or perhaps our success had come too easily. Despite the effort it took to kill him, as a final boss, shouldn’t he at least resurrect on the spot or undergo a second transformation?
“Lin Xue, can you tell if Caesar is gone?”
For a master of stealth that could evade Pandora’s full-spectrum radar, conventional observation methods were useless. Only Lin Xue’s mysterious and unknown ability was reliable.
But this time, Lin Xue’s surreal radar feature failed.
“I don’t know,” Lin Xue’s voice carried a hint of frustration and even more confusion, “I can’t see the future of your area at all. When you launched the attack, it shattered all images of the future…”
Sandora furrowed her brows in thought and spoke, “It might be because the timeline and the laws of causality were devoured.”
Sandora’s high-end explanation left me totally confused. Honestly, I could barely pass my science comprehensive exams; such advanced technical terms didn’t fit within the structure of my brain.
Qianqian and her sister both expressed their confusion; although their science was strong, unfortunately, Earth’s technology had not yet reached Xyrin Technology’s level, where one could assemble a Terminator out of a pile of scrap copper and iron.
The one who opened her mouth to clarify our doubts was not Sandora, but Dingdang, who had been lying on my head and looking around. The little thing cleared its throat, then kicked my hair to signal me to listen carefully, “Void Energy is the most fundamental power. Apart from beings like us from the Divine Race that are of the Law-Energy type, everything else has evolved from this origin power. Therefore, Void Energy has the ability to devour and assimilate all things in the world. The strand of Void Energy that Ah Jun summoned earlier not only devoured the ground but also consumed a very brief flow of time and certain causal relationships. Prediction abilities are built on the continuity of time and the integrity of causality, so Lin Xue’s abilities were rendered useless!”
“So that’s how it is,” I finally remembered that the little thing on top of my head was actually a Goddess, understood her explanation, and then took five seconds to marvel at my own awesomeness. I then poked Dingdang and asked, “Then, our Lady Goddess, could you confirm whether Caesar is dead or not?”
What I got was not an answer but a sharp scream from Dingdang.
Almost simultaneously, I saw a black shadow suddenly split from the darkness of the Rift and pounced toward me.
In that instant, I thought of Qiu Shaoyun, Liu Hulan, and Huang Jiguang, and of the many revolutionary predecessors who died tragically under a pool of ink…
Okay, I admit, at that moment, I thought of nothing because I just couldn’t react in time.
Caesar, embodying the tyranny of the Abyss, came at me like a tidal wave of thought. In an instant, it seemed like the space around me became mad and filled with a desire for Destruction. I felt as if I were being targeted by a fierce beast selecting its prey, and in the next second, I would lose my life.
Qianqian desperately tried to stop the flow of time on the entire battlefield, but the energy emanating from the enraged Caesar had reached an astonishing level. Her Superpower was effortlessly nullified, and his figure barely paused as he continued to leap towards me.
Just as I thought I was about to die in such a suffocating manner, the enemy’s attack was blocked.
A giant claw engulfed in black mist interposed in front of me.
An Abyssalized Sandora blocked Caesar’s lethal strike with her mutated arm. The immense impact couldn’t make her waver even slightly; in that moment, numerous cracks appeared on the ground beneath her feet, and the dust within a hundred meters around her was blown away by the suddenly erupting shockwave.
Caesar had lost half his body and looked even more hideous and terrifying as he roared furiously, seemingly out of his mind. His remaining arm transformed into a burning black Blade, pressed against Sandora’s giant claw, creating a hair-raising and earsplitting noise.
The standoff lasted less than three seconds before Sandora’s voice, which carried the sound of Flames crackling and metal vibrating, rang out. She growled lowly, “Get… away from me!”
Suddenly, violent black flames erupted from Sandora’s giant claw. Then with a forceful sweep, she sent Caesar flying away.
The sent flying Caesar didn’t pause at all, but with a hoarse roar, he pounced again. Just then, a blue-white beam of light struck from the side, once more sending him flying.
Pandora made her hit without hesitation, allowing her fire control system to overload, she forcibly fired the Ghost Energy Cannon again before it could cool down. Caesar, just getting up, couldn’t react in time and was squarely blasted by the cannon. Simultaneously, bright energy sparks flashed on Pandora’s arm, and her delicate face slightly revealed a pained expression.
Sandora stood with her back to me, slightly hunched over, breathing lowly, like a fierce beast ready to pounce on its prey. After Queen Sandora and Energy Sandora, Sandra’s Rampage made its dazzling entrance…
Okay, this was indeed not the right time for snide remarks.
“I had already decided…” Sandora suddenly spoke, her voice filled with intense rage, “I didn’t want him to see this ghostly appearance of mine again… Caesar, you have completely enraged me! You must pay the price!!!”
As Sandora’s words ended, she charged at the enemy like lightning.