Chapter 27 — Breaking the Track: Starfall

In the center of the concave plaza.

Advanced Divine Envoy Gar, wielding his gravity halberd, arrogantly stepped over the second ruined defense line of smashed corrugated iron. Behind him, three junior divine envoys holding battle lances looked relaxed, stepping down the void stairs to close in step by step.

In the eyes of these three junior divine envoys, this concave plaza was already a dead-end colosseum with no cover left whatsoever. These mortal ants stubbornly resisting in a corner had absolutely no possibility of escaping, save for kneeling and begging for mercy. They seemed to have already envisioned the tragic image of mortals being crushed into blood foam by gravity, the smirks on their lips growing increasingly cruel.

"Distance to Node Three in the dead corner... three meters! Two meters! One meter!"

Behind the high platform cover, Lyra's tear-soaked eyes stared fixedly at the polarization deviation angle in the mercury lens. Seeing the sole of Divine Envoy Gar's massive battle boot step exactly onto the deviation wire buried underground, the girl let out a sharp, rapid roar:

"Now! Detonate—!"

Behind the scrap iron in the distance, veteran Caleb erupted with a hysterical, angry roar. That overloaded mechanical iron arm, sparking wildly, exerted a frantic force, pushing the red master switch of the "Black Pulse Trigger" all the way to the bottom! His electronic prosthetic eye spewed violent red light!

Boom-boom-boom-boom—!

The four "Prototype Shell" prototypes buried secretly in the four dead corners around the concave plaza detonated simultaneously in an instant!

There was no blindingly bright firelight like ordinary high-explosive gunpowder. In its place were four pitch-black, ink-like high-dimensional black pulses containing extremely high microfrequency resonance amplitudes. Like four furious high-dimensional black dragons, they instantly broke through the soil from several meters below the surface, soaring into the sky with a boom! The high-energy waste ore crystal cores buried underground underwent Akashic-level decay resonance induced by the black pulses, tearing the void apart with violent negative energy! The physical surface of the entire concave plaza violently caved in a full three meters in an instant!

Hum—!

The pitch-black pulse resonance amplitude swept across the entire concave plaza at the speed of light! The gravitational constant in the air underwent a bizarre, violent warping and collapse in a split second!

Advanced Divine Envoy Gar, bearing the brunt of it, had his expression change drastically in an instant! Those pale silver eyes of his, originally filled with arrogance and contempt, erupted for the first time with extreme terror and disbelief! For he horrifyingly discovered that the moment his proud holy gravity shield touched this black pulse, the high-dimensional rune calculation tracks inside the shield began to violently short-circuit!

"What deviation amplitude is this?! It can actually resonate and erode the Sanctum's gravity calculation tracks?! How could this gang of waste mortals possibly create something like this?!"

Before Gar could make any evasive reaction, the four black pulse resonance waves intersected in mid-air, slamming with pinpoint precision into Node Three on the left shoulder of Gar's gravity shield!

Crack—! Crash—!

Accompanied by an ear-piercing, tragic sound like ten thousand pounds of glazed glass violently shattering!

The holy gravity shield surrounding Divine Envoy Gar—originally indestructible, easily deflecting hundreds of overloaded electromagnetic rounds—was like a frozen surface struck by a heavy hammer under that violent black pulse resonance. It became covered in densely packed high-dimensional cracks, then boomed and shattered into sky-filling golden light shavings in an instant! The shattered golden stream fell like a golden rainstorm, crashing down into the wet wasteland mud, emitting an ear-piercing sound of evaporation.

"The shield is broken! The gods' invincible high-dimensional gravity shield was blown to pieces by us mortals!"

The mortal warriors behind the cover, who had originally fallen into despair, watched the sky-filling shattered golden light shavings and erupted with deafening, heart-rending, earth-shattering cheers and roars!

"Do it!"

Within a thousandth of a second of the shield shattering, Elias on the high platform moved!

The boy's body instantly transformed into an incredibly ruthless black lightning bolt tearing through the night sky! In his legs and muscle meridians, his blood vessels writhed frantically, and the [Anomaly Frequency] erupted with world-destroying pitch-black negative energy in that instant! The agonizing scars on the boy's body violently engorged with blood due to the surging high negative energy, but the killing intent burning in his black eyes was enough to freeze a soul!

"Die—!"

Elias, wielding the heavy industrial cutting knife with its serrated edge, leaped high into the air. The boy's tactical cloak whipped piercingly in the gale. The cutting knife in his hand, wrapped in black-extreme negative energy, looked like a god-slaying absolute blade forged from black death laws. Carrying an unmatched, destructive dominance, he slashed viciously toward Gar's head!

"Courting death, low-dimensional ant!"

Divine Envoy Gar was both shocked and enraged. Although the shield's shattering made his blood and qi surge, he was, after all, an advanced divine envoy who had experienced a hundred battles! He fiercely hefted the holy gravity halberd in his hand, pouring high-dimensional gravity into the shaft, and thrust it viciously upward to meet the horizontal slash of the cutting knife head-on!

Clang—!

The two weapons clashed violently in mid-air! The golden holy gravity and the pitch-black Anomaly negative energy generated a world-destroying microscopic physical annihilation!

The blinding high-dimensional shockwave directly and cleanly lifted the scrap iron ground within a hundred-meter radius! The extremely high-intensity burst of negative energy sent the other three junior divine envoys staggering back several steps!

Under Divine Envoy Gar's terrified, despairing gaze, his holy gravity halberd—cast from high-density gold and holy runes—strangely melted and snapped at its high-dimensional polarization array runes the moment it touched the pitch-black negative energy on Elias's cutting knife. Then, with a crack, it was forcibly split into two halves by the boy's industrial cutting knife!

"What?! A holy artifact was actually... by this scrap iron..."

Before Gar could recover from the shock of his weapon being broken, Elias's blade followed through downwards, drawing a secret black arc of light that tore the void and severed causality! That crude edge modified from a heavy industrial cutting knife, driven by the boy's resolute will to fight to the death, violently slashed diagonally into Gar's chest, following the seams of Gar's silver holy armor! The sound of tearing flesh was teeth-jarring!

Squeltch—!

The hard holy silver armor was violently sliced open in an instant!

A tragic wound half a meter long, deep enough to expose bone, exploded open on Divine Envoy Gar's chest! The noble, blazing golden divine blood of a high-dimensional divine envoy sprayed violently outward like a volcanic eruption, turning into specks of golden light, scattering into this lowly, filthy mortal mud that they had once trampled upon at will! Some divine blood landed on the red-hot scrap iron, even melting directly through the iron, emitting wisps of white smoke!

"Ahhhhhh—!"

Advanced Divine Envoy Gar let out a shrill, agonizing scream of pain, shock, and rage. His body flew backward for dozens of meters, crashing heavily into a pile of scrap iron, smashing several explosion-proof armor plates to pieces! His originally pristine white holy armor was dyed full of mud and scalding golden divine blood!

Behind him, the three junior divine envoys who had originally worn mocking, wild laughs now had faces as pale as paper. Their bodies froze in mid-air, their silvery-white divine eyes filled with unprecedented, violent tremors and panic! They stared fixedly at the severed golden halberd and their Captain fallen into the mud, unable to believe that a noble advanced divine envoy had actually been hacked through with a single slash by a low-dimensional mortal!

Behind the high platform cover, Lyra was so excited she covered her lips, her eyes flushing red, tears flowing freely down her delicate cheeks. The girl looked at the boy standing proudly; the haze of divine might that had weighed heavily on her heart for over a decade was swept away in an instant!

The entire plaza fell into a deathly silence!

Then, it was followed by the fanatic, sky-piercing roars of hundreds of mortals in the Embers Camp, blotting out the sky! Veteran Caleb's eyes flushed red. He slammed a fist onto the bunker, tears of ecstasy springing from the corners of his eyes: "Everyone open fire! Empty your bullets into that dog envoy!"

"D-Divine blood! The gods are bleeding! They're not gods; they are also bodies of flesh that can be killed!"

"Elias wounded a divine envoy! Kill every last one of these dog bastards!"

The final traces of fear in the mortals' eyes completely vanished, replaced by endless fanaticism suppressed for over a decade and ignited by a blood feud! Dozens of overloaded electromagnetic rifles roared simultaneously, dense blue tongues of fire sweeping toward Gar on the ground, blotting out the sky! The first drop of divine blood falling into the soil of the lower realm announced that the myth of the gods' invincibility... was thoroughly shattered!

Amidst the violently focused sweeping fire, Elias landed heavily from mid-air, his feet drawing two deep trenches several meters long in the mud. The boy's breathing was rapid and heavy. The berserk Anomaly negative energy in his blood vessels caused the radioactive scars on his back to violently twist and twitch, large beads of cold sweat sliding down his forehead. The eruption of high negative energy brought an extremely terrifying physical backlash, but he still stood rigidly straight, his heavy cutting knife pointing diagonally at the ground, the tip dripping with golden divine blood!

Disregarding the surging gravitational aftershocks, Lyra rushed down from the high platform carrying her herbal tranquilizer kit, supporting the boy's arm with her powder-stained hands. "Elias! How are you? Are your meridians still berserk?!"

"I'm fine..." Elias's voice was hoarse as iron, his eyes cold as ice. "While they're in chaos, keep killing!"

Meanwhile, deep in the shadows below the high platform.

"Vespera" looked at Gar coughing up mouthfuls of golden divine blood in the mud, a faint ripple flashing deep in her eyes.

The high-and-mighty God of Darkness, Umbra, slowly raised her slender, fair jade hand and gently, extremely subtly waved it in the void.

Hum—!

An imperceptible high-dimensional shadow amplitude rippled out with the night wind, instantly wrapping around and thoroughly concealing the residual black pulse aftershocks from the [Prototype Shell's] detonation just now, as well as the Anomaly frequency within Elias's body! Had she not done so, that amplitude capable of oscillating the Sanctum's calculation tracks would have been instantly captured by the heavenly eye of the [Golden Saint Patrol Boat] hovering ten thousand fathoms in the sky, perhaps even alerting Astra, the God of Light sitting high in the Inner Cabinet.

However, almost at the exact same time Umbra waved this dark wave of concealment...

In the depths of the high-dimensional Holy Temple of Light, an unknown number of light-years away.

Massive white jade divine pillars reached from heaven to earth. Incomparably pure holy light converged into a flowing river of light. Above the highest heavens, millions of angels chanted songs of the heavenly principles of light.

A supreme deity sitting cross-legged in the center of the radiant Holy Wheel, her eyes flowing with the ultimate order of light—The God of Light, Astra—those eyes that had been closed for several eras, suddenly slowly opened! The divine ring of light behind her erupted with brilliant golden brilliance.

In those divine eyes of light, filled with grand mercy and cold heavenly principles, flashed a trace of incredibly deep suspicion:

"The Tartarus annihilation blind spot... actually showed an amplitude of residual high-dimensional dark energy from within Umbra's body? Could it be... that cold-blooded madwoman is really hiding in the lower realms? What exactly is she plotting? Could she be betraying the Sanctum's calculation tracks?"

The suspicion of the God of Light and the secret cover of the God of Darkness quietly intertwined in deep space.

And on the wasteland, Advanced Divine Envoy Gar, his lance severed and having shed the first drop of divine blood, was furiously rising from the ruinous mud, bloodshot and enraged. His silver armor was covered in filth and his own divine blood. In those originally cold silver pupils, there was now an out-of-control, berserk rage and killing intent.

"Despicable mud ants... you actually... injured a holy body?!" Gar roared, the holy gravitational field around him erupting with a blinding scarlet pressure. "I will skin you all alive and thoroughly blast this scrap iron planet into dead ash!"

An even bloodier, more cruel struggle of cornered beasts instantly unfolded amidst the blizzard and gunsmoke! The ultimate contest of life and death between mortals and gods entered its most white-hot, life-and-death phase! The teeth and battle knives of both sides were locked dead onto each other's throats!