Chapter 1769: Sacrificing a Shipgirl’s Waist
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Studying on the battlefield was, of course, a joke. Hao Ren had wanted to ease the mood a little and let Rheia relax, but frankly speaking, he did not expect the weapon that Rheia had so painstakingly prepared was actually sothing like this.
He originally reckoned that she would create a new pair of divine blades, or so other “normal equipnt”, as the weapon she had used last ti against the madness was a sword, and her skill points in one-handed weapons must surely be higher than the rest. He had never thought that she would actually conjure out a sacred to... you won’t be wrong calling it a notebook.
Hao Ren felt like he may have overdone it when he tried to hamr “knowledge is power” into her head, and that caused her to have a distorted world view...
Then again, Hao Ren was not worried that Rheia would make a mistake with her choice of a new weapon. While she may look diminutive, she had lived for several million years, and had gone through the war against the Mad Lord, and the Godslaying War. For an ace student when it cos to academics, her choice of a ‘sacred to’ as her weapon must have been carefully thought through.
Hao Ren felt that he just needed to trust Rheia’s decision, just like how she had trusted his and Vivian’s plan.
“Actually... I had thought of tying the to up with a chain and use it as a flail just like mum,” Rheia said as she weighed the to in her hand. “But after so consideration, I’m just not adept at using a flail, and practically takes precedence, style over substance will inevitably cause problems.”
Hao Ren smacked his forehead. “I don’t think putting a chain around your to and using it as a flail as stylish at all...”
Rheia smiled as she kept her to and walked to the bridge’s exit. “It’s stylish, no doubt. Smashing soone in the face with any weapon is always stylish.”
Hao Ren shrugged as he hefted the Starbreaker Crowbar up to his shoulder. “I’ll lead. You still get lost in this ship.”
The Petrachelys was still moving within nothing but darkness and chaos, and the various twisted objects that appeared ceaselessly and the light from the starship’s shields made it look like the ship was riding into a storm, and before the starship, a bizarre “mirror dinsion” was closing in.
The “mirror dinsion” was awe-inspiring and terrifying at the sa ti, it looked like it was linked by various mirrors, forming an orb-like barrier so wide it was beyond imagination. So massive it was that even when the starship was still millions of kiloters away it already looked like an endless wall bearing down on it. It was as if the entire universe had reached an end, and everything stops before it.
Even when it was screened by the darkness and chaos, the image of the entire universe was reflected in the mirror. This was beyond all normal optical laws and was more like an information projection. Through the external sensors, Hao Ren noticed that the mirror was filled with starlight, and all of the stars of the Plane of Dreams were arrayed on it, but yet all of the light was twisted; and within the various angles of the “mirror”, the starlight was being overlapped and compressed, showing a darkening, pale hue, as if the stars were extinguishing slowly.
As they got close, the shadow of the Petrachelys finally appeared on the mirror, and from the various angles on the mirror, there were thousands of the ship’s projection, and each and every one of it was the mont the ship was destroyed: so were shattered, so were quartered, so were outright lted down into liquid tal.
“Whoa.” Nolan’s projection appeared beside Hao Ren. “That scared the sh*t out of .”
Hao Ren gave Nolan a side-eye as he yanked the tal plating before him. “Your tone isn’t all that convincing.”
“Still up to her party tricks.” Rheia looked rather dismissively at the images from the sensors. “Using this ‘mirror’ to show her ‘power’ that she’ll be destroying this world with? I can’t believe that sorry excuse of existence is actually my other half...”
This was the Petrachelys’ propulsion engine room, and normally this was maintained by the automated drones, and the human-sized passageway was not opened. But under Nolan’s control, Hao Ren and the rest had reached that special place.
They were ready to do sothing that was against all security protocols as planned.
The low hum of the engines running echoed all over and this humming was like Nolan’s heartbeat. They sounded stable and powerful, totally not like sothing that was about to be trashed with a stick.
The final plating was taken off, and a series of parallel crystal pipes were arrayed across like sticks of light, and that mont the crystallized energy tubes let out a blue glow, providing energy to the security systems.
At that mont, the ambient hum beca louder.
Nolan hugged her arm as her head shrunk in. “I... I’m a little nervous.”
Hao Ren lifted the Starbreak Crowbar and pointed toward the energy conduits. “No worries, the pain will be gone in a flash.”
“Only fools would trust you!” Nolan glared back, but as this was her own idea, even when she was nervous, she had to bite the bullet. “Just... Just keep your head steady when you do it. Those two tubes in the middle, don’t you go damaging the parts on the side!”
Hao Ren pouted as he lifted his crowbar. “Oh you, don’t worry. I’m adept in all weapons, and a re crowbar would be beyond ? Just make sure you’re in sync with , the mont I smash that it, you floor the accelerator toward that ‘mirror’, and blow this dinsional structure to kingdom co. If you do it too early or too late that’s just a waste of a good stick...”
Nolan glared again. “Bullsh*t, you are just wasting a stick, I’ll be wasting my own waist!”
Just like that, as Nolan’s voice trailed away, Hao Ren smashed the beak of the crowbar downward!
Nolan scread, “F*ccckkkkk, that hurtssss!!!”
Even when she was heavily damaged by the divine storm in Star Cluster X she had never sounded so painful. It seems like having her waist smashed by a crowbar did actually hurt.
The screaming aside, Nolan as an A.I. was still maintaining the usual precision and efficiency, and as soon as the safety systems of the void engine blared out its alert, the Petrachelys’ engines exuded bright particle stream, and the already decelerating speed suddenly beca a stream of light and smashed against the layer of chaotic dinsion masked by countless of mirrors.
With the safety system destroyed, a surge of energy was directed by Nolan to the void engine module, and the engine, originally cannot be deployed inside the world barrier was forcibly activated, and went into overdrive within a few seconds.
The waist of the ship let out orbs after orbs of bright light, as the unstable field of order tore holes throughout the starship’s protective barrier, and a large number of tal fragnts and crystalline dust spew out of the gaps, and at the sa ti, the space around the ship, too, was visibly collapsing, a large number of distorted light ford into an uneven surface, enveloping the Petrachelys.
And the mont the surface made contact with the ship, the ship lost control, and it started appearing and disappearing inside the dinsion, as the undefined dinsional structure had destroyed the continuity of its navigation, and making it impossible, but the void engine overload had reached its limit.
There was no terrifying explosion, and the mont the void engine went into ltdown, the Petrachelys’ waist simply just flashed, before an ethereal bubble-like structure appearing around the ship, and the thin mbrane expanded rapidly, spanning about ten kiloters wide before popping soundlessly like a bubble.
And the mirror surface at the nexus of the Dark Abyss too shattered, the information shock wave sent out by the void engine’s ltdown which complexity exceeded all dinsional laws totally unraveled that layer of chaotic dinsion. All of the twisted dinsional projection was wiped out by the information torrent, leaving it in its original form.
At the price of the shipgirl’s waist, Hao Ren had broken through the last gate before the Mad Lord.
As the chaotic dinsional unraveled, Hao Ren had a hallucination. He saw the mirror fragnts flying about, and the tiny, floating mirrors passed through the shield’s barrier and hull armor like a phantom, and filled the cabin, passing slowly in front of him.
Rheia and Vivian had disappeared.
He looked at the floating mirror fragnts in the air, and on it, he saw his face, he saw the stars in the distance, and the old, unkempt streets of the Southern Suburbs forgotten by the city.
He saw a pale figure in one of the fragnts, and the face was laughing at him. “What did you see? Did you see yourself? Did you see ?”
Hao Ren laughed back. “For a starter, this illusion sure lacks creativity.”
“What’s the difference between illusion and reality?” The pale, evil goddess continued laughing. “This universe will soon end, and your struggles only delay it for just that little bit. And when it cos, all reality is nothing but data floating in the chaos and void... If it is ant to end, what’s the aning of your insistence with the delineation of the border between illusion and reality?
“aning? I have never told you the aning of what I desire.” Hao Ren smiled as he grabbed and smashed a piece of the mirror in his palm. The image on it was of CARS being destroyed and countless broken crystal towers floated in space. “You have never seen the real image of the world outside. What I’m pursuing, even if I were to tell you, is totally beyond you.”
The pale face contorted as a terrifying smile appeared on it. “Mortal, flowery words will not save you. Before this world-ending power, how do your desires stand up to it?!”
“How much? The key is not what my desire is, it is how much your value is.”
Hao Ren broke into a laughing fit and smashed the mirror with the latter’s image. “To , you are nothing but a moving year-end bonus!!”
At that mont, all of the illusions disappeared.
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