"This is..."
"A blue sky, sothing I’ve never seen before."
"Is that the sky’s true color?"
Beep, beep, beep...
The countdown for the hydrogen bomb was almost complete, and Li Aozi, who had torn open the heavens, raised his hand and plunged it into the sky ahead.
Ersha instantly engulfed the hydrogen bomb, as if a clay ox had entered the sea, without the slightest stir. Seconds later, Li Aozi turned around and swiftly flew in the opposite direction.
—————————— Boom!
The next mont, a trendous explosion resounded across the planet, and for the first ti in five hundred years, the fate that had been suppressed by the Sovereign cried out angrily against the darkness, deploring the light that rightfully belonged to them but had faded.
The fiery fireball spread out like a mushroom, hundreds, thousands of tis brighter than artificial suns. In an instant, the storm on the surface of the Outer World slowed slightly, and the fireball spread tens of kiloters, even engulfed everything, forcing the entropy-maximizing Ersha to dissipate under this sacred scientific fire.
Fire itself is a process of increasing entropy—how do you make a dead person die again?
The shockwave instantly flung Li Aozi hundreds of kiloters away, and his speed instantaneously exceeded the second cosmic velocity, continuing to hurl him into the distant sky. Li Aozi imdiately activated the "King’s Carriage Displacent," swapping places with the phantom on his spacecraft.
Carried by the initial speed provided by the nuclear explosion, Li Aozi returned to the "Future Sentinel." He shouted:
"The path ahead is clear; we’re heading to paradise! Hold on tight, everyone!"
At that mont, Li Aozi’s live broadcast reached its peak. The terminal in the biological pool wasn’t destroyed by the EMP but continued to stream, allowing most people to see the Ersha Sky being blasted open by the fiery fireball.
Those on the ground looked up; as the fireball dissipating all things faded, what responded to them was not the darkness they rembered.
Warmth.
The golden sunlight of the afternoon fell upon the earth, lting the ice and snow, as everyone gazed fondly at the sky—gazing at that azure high.
The soldiers halted their combat, looking at the sky, uttering childlike innocent murmurs:
"So, there really is a sun in the world."
The sunlight was warm, gentle, not like artificial sunlight that felt like a cage, confining them within the walled city.
The sun was a compassionate mother, selflessly scattering light and warmth toward the people, which for those of the Outer World, was heat regarded as life.
The people of Triangle Town took to the streets, radiant light filling their eyes— for the first ti in their lives, they felt their bodies brimming with strength, a sensation no drug could match.
"This is the light we once possessed."
Gretto reached out his hand, attempting to grasp the light, murmuring:
"So glorious, so beautiful... Mirror, did you see? Light really isn’t just an adjective."
Alicxia lifted her head, her shadow stretched infinitely long, her braids unraveling in the wind. She squinted her eyes, lazily stretching:
"Dear motherland, don’t worry about ."
She whispered to the sun, identical to the one from the old days:
"Now, people have hope."
As the long night was torn open by the first glimpse of dawn, countless people stared dumbly at the sun, even enduring eye pain and dizziness before stopping, with tears overflowing from the corners of their eyes, unable to contain themselves anymore.
"We have light! There really is light in the world!"
Du Zexin’s chanical body collapsed to the ground; he wasn’t sure why, but he felt an indescribable urge.
"Why don’t the eyes leak oil... such a perfect flaw."
While people on the ground were celebrating jubilantly, for the mbers of the "Future Sentinel" who had sped into the atmosphere, the real test had just begun.
"Ah!" A player couldn’t withstand the sudden increase in overload and collapsed instantly. Just as soone nearby thought of helping, the entire biological pool began vibrating violently.
"What’s happening?!"
Li Aozi quickly asked the ground:
"Ersha—it must be that the Ersha particles in the airspace weren’t completely cleared, so have even corrupted the engine. We must quickly jettison it, or else Ersha will contaminate all of you!"
Du Zexin said:
"How is the airspace ahead of you?"
"The Ersha is gathering quickly, I think it’s at least 4 kiloters per second."
"Then there’s still ti—Li Aozi, what’s your current speed?!"
"Mach 34! We have surpassed the second Mach!"
"It’s not enough!" Du Zexin said. "Detonate the reactor, and then you must do everything you can to break out of the Ersha range."
"...Is there enough ti?"
"If you’re asking, barely."
As Du Zexin spoke, in the next mont, the head of the Future Sentinel suddenly lit up, and Du Zexin’s voice transmitted through the ch’s broadcast:
"If I do it, just right."
The deep blue sky tinged with black was closing in relentlessly, forcing players to start taking oxygen, burying their bodies in the nutrient fluid emitted from the biological pools to prevent dying from the unbalanced air pressure. The fireproof material of the mobile armor had already turned red-hot due to excessive friction.
"Du Zexin, are you planning to detonate the nuclear reactor yourself? You’re fucking committing suicide! If you’re a second too slow in transferring consciousness back, you’re dead!"
Li Aozi imdiately cursed:
"I forbid you to do this! We still have a chance, don’t gamble on this—"
"—trust ."
Du Zexin’s speech took a literary turn:
"A chanic will not lose our noble digital souls due to the frailty of our bodies."
"You’re gambling with your life!"
"A science and engineering man doesn’t believe in fate." Du Zexin said romantically: "Let the Almighty try guessing with quantum chanics—let say a few words to your audience."
Li Aozi, speechlessly choked up, aid the cara at Du Zexin.
"Hello everyone, there are n remaining at Frost Plated too."
Du Zexin’s voice, an unchanging electronic synthesis, ca through the broadcast, lifelessly shouting:
"Long live the future, long live humanity, long live Azure Star!"
The next mont, Du Zexin’s reactor lted down, triggering another chain reaction.
"Li Aozi, go tell the universe, we are coming!"
The fierce atomic energy burst forth with bright radiance, the wild energy accelerating Li Aozi and the others again. The outer shell of the biological pool was rapidly incinerated to combat the friction, and Li Aozi stood at the forefront, like the mythical Pegasus dragging the chariot of the deities.
Genetic outbreak!
Li Aozi had no ti to worry about Du Zexin’s ssage, he turned around, and to make use of every second, he surged out of the gradually gathering Ersha cloud, his elbow imdiately releasing the Special Ability Pod.
[Gravity],[Severing Life],[Inscription Saint Swordmaster],[Blood of Eternity],[Spontaneous Combustion],[Mountain Armor],[Eye of Truth],[Pegasus Power],[King’s Carriage Displacent],[Death Link],[Physical Strengthening]!
He mastered all the Arcane Energy skills he had acquired so far, all combined!
"Eleven as one—"
Li Aozi’s voice was diluted by the thin atmosphere, his body quickly combusted in the ionosphere, then it bathed in the cosmic radiance, covered with a layer of vague but real Azure Armor.
All wildness and violence were stripped from him, the red-black Crystallization rapidly disintegrated and shattered under the radiation of the Cosmic Energy, entering into the orbit of Azure Star, silently revolving around Earth’s Core.
Li Aozi’s will seed to beco ethereal all at once, his Armor self-assembled, his body suddenly grew over three ters tall, deep blue Armor covered with complex and arcane golden Runes, the barbaric and ugly tentacles dissipated, replaced by the Stardust rapidly revolving around him.
His head no longer bore any features, completely enveloped by a solid helt, shattered teorites crossing and colliding, bound by Gravity like a crown around his head, forming an inconspicuous crown.
The entire universe was extrely quiet, completely a vacuum, the searing Sun heated his body to two hundred degrees, fully capable of combating the cold cosmos, yet in the entire universe, no one could hear the latter half of the skill nas he was reciting:
[Armor of Leoz]
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