Gaia's seed was quietly rooted in the huge root debris where she fell, emitting a steady and hopeful emerald light, like the only star in the depths of the dead earth.
Gravekeeper Fleet. Void Forge Control Center.
The piercing alarm had transformed into a high-pitched shriek! The entire control center was engulfed in a flashing crimson light.
"The furnace core has lost 97% of its energy! The restraint field is on the verge of collapse! The intensity of the internal abnormal energy field has exceeded the threshold! Detected... a high-dimensional life form is about to complete its transformation! Threat level: 'stellar level'! Repeat! 'stellar level'! The furnace core forced overload program has failed! Failed! Unable to annihilate the target!" The operator's electronic voice was filled with undisguised fear.
On the huge main screen, the energy reading representing the core of the furnace dropped like an avalanche, and a dark ball of light symbolizing an "abnormal body" was constantly twisting and expanding, swallowing up everything like a black hole!
"Activate final plan: Strip the furnace core containment module! Forcefully eject the 'anomaly' along with the remaining energy within the furnace core... to the nearest abandoned dimension—'Shattered Star Abyss'!" From the center of the bridge, a figure clad in a dark golden energy robe, his face hidden beneath the shadows of a hood (the commander of the Gravekeeper Fleet) issued a cold, ruthless command. The voice wasn't electronic, but rather carried an inhuman, metallic quality.
"Execute!" The high-level executor pressed a scarlet button covered with a transparent energy shield without hesitation!
Buzz——!!!!
The entire Gravekeeper fleet shook violently! The outer structure of the Void Furnace, located in the core area of the fleet, the huge restraining rings and energy conduits instantly overloaded and exploded! Dazzling energy turbulence splashed in all directions like an out-of-control python!
Immediately afterwards, the space surrounding the furnace's core was forcibly ripped apart! A massive "bubble" of dark light (Pei Du) and raging void energy was violently squeezed out of the main universe's membrane by the Gravekeeper's powerful spatial technology. Like excreting garbage, it was thrown into an unknown, abandoned dimension filled with spatial turbulence—the Shattered Star Abyss!
"Target expelled. 99.8% damage to the furnace core. Mission losses...significant." The commander's voice rang out coldly, and the shadow beneath his hood seemed to turn towards another stasis coffin nearby—the one that sealed the ancient Covenant tablet. "The only valid recovery item: the 'Covenant Fragment.' Prepare for in-depth analysis and..."
Before he finished speaking——
Buzz!
Within that stagnant coffin, the ancient stone tablet, whose mysterious patterns suddenly, without warning, lit up with a faint, stardust-like light! The light shone, as if... resonating? Resonating with some distant being?
Then, an indecipherable, extremely ancient fragment of thought, as if composed of the whispers of the stars, ignored the blockade of the stasis field and resounded directly in the consciousness cores of all the gravekeeper commanders and high-level executors:
[The key... is not lost... the star core... has been burned...]
The Eye of the Covenant...is watching...you...blasphemy...
[The thorns...will eventually...pierce...the cage...]
This thought was cold, majestic, and carried an indifference that penetrated time and space, like the whisper of a god!
"What?!" The shadow beneath the Gravekeeper Commander's hood trembled violently! For the first time, the inhuman voice carried a hint of anger and... a hint of disbelief! "The target creature... has a hidden will agreement?! Lock onto the source of the thought! Now!"
However, the light of the stone tablet has gone out, and the fragments of thought have disappeared without a trace, as if they had never appeared.
Inside the control center, only the shrill echoes of alarms and a depressing silence remained. The fragments of the ancient covenant seemed far more complex than they had grasped. And that "key" they had deemed contaminated waste, thrown into the furnace, and ultimately cast into a discarded dimension... had it truly vanished completely?
Shattered Star Abyss. Dimensional Crack.
This was a junkyard abandoned by the main universe, a desolate place with a fragile spatial structure riddled with cracks. Violent spatial turbulence sliced through everything like an invisible razor. Shattered stellar debris, twisted space fragments, and even strange matter leaking from other dimensions drifted and collided in the chaotic void like meteorites.
A huge "bubble" wrapped in dark light and violent void energy was forcibly thrown here by the gravekeeper. Like an ice cube thrown into boiling water, it instantly caused violent space ripples.
Under the impact of the violent turbulence, the bubbles quickly became unstable and their surfaces were covered with cracks.
Boo——!
The bubbles burst!
Pure void energy rushed in all directions like a flood that broke through a dam, and was instantly diluted and swallowed up by the chaotic dimensional environment.
And in the center of the energy torrent, a figure slowly floated in the chaotic void.
Pei Du - or rather, the newly born void star core.
His body, covered in deep, obsidian-black skin, stood motionless amidst the dimensional turbulence. Lines of a dark, ethereal sheen shimmered on his surface, silently obliterating the incoming spatial turbulence. In his left eye, dark stardust and vortexes of the void slowly swirled, coldly surveying this chaotic, abandoned land. In his right, a crimson stream of data flickered frantically, like an overloaded processor analyzing, recording, and comprehending the chaotic laws of this unfamiliar dimension.
He slowly raised his right arm, reshaped from pure void energy. The dark purple energy circuits on his arm lit up, and he spread his fingers, pointing at the mountain-sized shattered celestial debris hurtling toward him.
No energy beams, no space collapse.
Only...it's what you think!
Buzz!
As if wiped by an invisible eraser, the massive stellar debris instantly disintegrated and vanished, returning to the most basic spatial particle flow and merging into the surrounding turbulence, as if it had never existed.
Pei Du lowered his arm, and a cold sense of control flashed across the depths of the vortex in his left eye.
He slowly turned his head, his dark gaze seemed to penetrate the chaotic dimensional turbulence, penetrate the endless space barriers, and "look" in a certain direction - the direction of Gaia.
A chaotic thought, a mixture of icy stardust will, void-devouring instinct, unyielding battle marks, and precise data streams, slowly reverberated in this shattered abyss:
"I'm back……"
"Wait..."
The star's core has burned, and the thorns will return. The day the cage is broken, that will be the gravekeeper's end!
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