Chapter 318: Stellar Core Fragment

"I originally wanted to use you guys to fish out a big fish, but in the end it looks like you guys have been abandoned." That person's voice in the communication channel continued to sound out.

The people beside the captain aimed their firearms at those warships. Although they had the support of armor, they still felt their bodies lacked strength.

How were they supposed to fight this?

"How did they hack into our communication channel? We clearly checked many times," the girl said through gritted teeth.

As an elite squad, their mission experience was exceptionally rich; it was impossible for a situation where someone left a backdoor to occur.

"Because... not everyone is as stupid as that captain." The voice echoing in the channel delivered a heavy psychological blow to them.

"There is always someone who still hopes to survive..."

Everyone's pupils shrank. Did this sentence mean there was an internal traitor among them!?

But... these teammates had all gone through a long period of familiarization with each other, and had also experienced dangerous situations several times; how could someone betray them this time!?

"Haha... no need to guess anymore, Jay... aren't you going to clear up the confusion for your former teammates?" The person in the channel directly pointed out the internal traitor.

Everyone looked in disbelief at the person carrying a black sniper rifle on his back. Jay... the sniper in the team. On the battlefield, everyone safely entrusted their backs to him.

He had also never let everyone down; no one thought the betrayer would be him.

"Jay... you!?" The girl abruptly turned her head, hoping to hear a refutation from his mouth, but unfortunately there was none.

"Why?" Jay asked back in astonishment: "Didn't we agree previously to let me hide my identity until they... were annihilated?"

"I just wanted to see what kind of reactions they would have after learning about this matter."

Hearing this sentence, Jay couldn't help but curse angrily in the dark. Looking at the man-eating gazes of the teammates around him, he couldn't help but defend himself.

"The other party has already dispatched an A-Tier Lifeform, it's impossible for us to escape, and the support we applied for is nowhere in sight..." Jay's voice grew lower and lower: "I didn't have any other way either."

"Jay... sigh..." The heavily injured captain barely spoke, but merely sighed heavily.

Although there weren't any words of accountability, this sigh caused Jay to react even more fiercely than a sharp knife.

"Captain Stanley!" He shouted loudly: "You are loyal to Returning Star, not sparing your life, but you also have to think about us."

"Those high and mighty big shots don't treat our lives as a matter of importance at all."

"Can Amethyst's technology really enhance us? We clearly have already far surpassed them, why covet these technologies."

Perhaps betrayers all wanted to find a high-sounding reason for themselves; Jay was also like this.

"You view yourselves as heroes, however in Amethyst's eyes, how are we not guilty of heinous crimes!?"

"Is this..." Stanley spoke up: "your reason for betrayal?"

"If you frankly admitted it, I would still consider you a guy with deep thoughts. Being so hysterical like this only makes me look down on you."

Betrayal had never been a fresh drama; instead, it occurred all the time.

The person in the channel seemed to quickly lose interest.

"Forget it, there's nothing good to see. You guys can complete the sacrifice you revere."

"But unfortunately, Returning Star won't commemorate you for this, because they won't admit to sending people into the Amethyst Civilization to plunder wantonly."

This was a fact, smashing onto everyone's bodies like a heavy hammer, yet leaving them unable to refute.

"Attack, leave no one alive!" The cold voice continued to transmit over.

Jay's eyes abruptly widened, and then he said loudly: "Wait... wait..."

"We agreed, you have to spare my life!"

"But I've gone back on my word now..." The last sentence transmitting from the channel left Jay staring blankly, his entire body trembling.

The surrounding warships had long finished charging up. Just waiting for this order, dense purple energy cannons shot over from all directions.

Amethyst wanted to use the most direct destructive means to let this group of people vanish into thin air in the universe.

The blinding light made everyone involuntarily close their eyes. All sorts of emotions brewed in their hearts, difficult to vent out.

However, the expected destruction did not descend for a long time. Everyone opened their eyes again, their pupils shrinking, as if they saw something unbelievable.

They only saw that surrounding the meteorite they were docked on, a transparent protective shield had formed, blocking all the energy outside, unable to advance even a fraction.

"What happened?" Someone couldn't help but ask.

"What is going on here?"

"..."

The feeling of surviving after a disaster rose in their hearts, simultaneously accompanied by confusion and puzzlement.

"Who are you!?" A shocked voice brought everyone back to their senses.

Only then did everyone discover that, unknown since when, an extra person had suddenly appeared on this meteorite. He had his back to everyone, wearing a black windbreaker, hands stuffed in his pockets, looking up at the surrounding warships.

The windbreaker fluttered without wind in the temporarily created gravity environment.

The surrounding energy gradually dissipated, and that person's voice sounded in the communication channel again, sounding slightly excited.

"An A-Tier Lifeform, I didn't expect to actually catch a big fish. Killing you, Returning Star should feel very heartbroken, right."

"An A-Tier Lifeform, is it support!?" The expressions of everyone instantly became roused. Previously they thought Returning Star had abandoned them.

They didn't expect support to actually descend at the last moment.

Jay was somewhat in disbelief. Was there really support? It didn't come early or late, but happened to come right now!?

The girl Olena quickly approached Li Yu. Only after getting close did she discover that the other party wore a grimace mask on his face, seemingly smiling yet not smiling, seemingly crying yet not crying, very bizarre.

It should be for concealing his identity; after all, their actions couldn't see the light of day.

She organized her thoughts and said in a low voice: "The opponent's A-Tier Lifeform is an Esper, known as 'Fen Jin'.

His superpower is manipulating flames. He carries Stellar Core Fragments that he collected on his person. Its power is very terrifying, and he can fight above his energy level."

This was the enemy's basic information, to prevent this A-Tier Lifeform from being unclear about the opponent's abilities.

The newcomer was naturally Li Yu; it took him more than ten days to arrive here.

He took a lap around the Bassa Star System, but ended up not finding anyone at the rendezvous point, only discovering traces of battle.

Since he didn't find anyone, he originally planned to leave here, but coincidentally discovered energy fluctuations here, so he rushed over.

The military literacy of this group of people was indeed very high, knowing to report enemy information at the first moment.

"Which faction do you belong to, Prince Saster, or the Amethyst King?" Li Yu inquired.

"You should first care about how you can leave here alive instead." The other party didn't answer this question.

The surrounding warships began to change formations. Purple crystals poked out from the bottoms of the cabins, extending dense rays that outlined and linked together with each other.

"Not good!" Olena's expression slightly changed, and she hurriedly said: "This is the Amethyst Matrix, specifically used to deal with A-Tier Lifeforms. Once formed, it is indestructible, and the opponent can then slowly deal with you."

Li Yu's brows slightly raised. He only saw a crimson light flash in front of a certain warship, and a figure wearing crimson combat armor appeared.

Clearly, he intended to keep an eye on Li Yu to prevent him from destroying the soon-to-be-formed Amethyst Matrix.

"Even if Amethyst has declined, it's not a place where any random cat or dog can run rampant at will." The opponent's voice sounded again.

Hearing this, Li Yu chuckled lightly. He looked around, then raised his hand, his palm grasping at the air as if catching something, and then abruptly clenched it into a fist.

However, nothing happened.

All the squad members including Olena were somewhat confused. What was this big shot doing?

Subsequently, the surrounding purple rays suddenly began to collapse, and the soon-to-be-formed Amethyst Matrix also gradually disappeared.

The nearly one hundred warships surrounding this place began to tremble. Alarms sounded in every warship. Thick metal outer shells twisted, emitting screeching sounds within the warships.

The next moment, everyone's eyes widened. Those warships surrounding them erupted with blazing crimson light, like blooming fireworks, actually exploding directly.

Sound couldn't travel in the starry sky of the universe, but it didn't prevent everyone from simulating the rumbling sounds in their hearts.

Nearly one hundred warships exploding simultaneously, the magnificence of the scene left everyone's expressions sluggish, the shock in their hearts unable to be surpassed.

Fen Jin was even more astonished. Looking at this scene before him, what kind of method was this?

A superpower?

This kind of large-scale superpower, and without any activation characteristics, exactly what was it?

Regardless of what the opponent's method was, the outcome had already been determined: the small fleet he brought was completely annihilated.

Fen Jin stared closely at the grimace-masked man on the meteorite, a wave of pent-up anger rushing straight to his mind.

He spread his hands open. The thermal energy produced by the explosions all around was gathered by him, turning into a large area of crimson light, surging towards Li Yu, just like a red tide undulating on the surface of a star.

There was no oxygen in the universe, so flames couldn't be produced. However, for Fen Jin, his superpower was already no longer simply manipulating flames; the high temperature was similarly a part of it.

However, Li Yu merely raised his hand. An invisible force blocked in front of him, effortlessly stopping the pouring crimson light.

Wisps of golden thunder gathered in his hand, forming a lightning spear up to three meters long, which was thrown towards Fen Jin by Li Yu.

The lightning spear's speed was extremely fast, instantly crossing the not-too-distant distance between the two and appearing in front of Fen Jin.

Fen Jin's heart jolted violently in shock, and then his body abruptly turned crimson. The lightning spear directly pierced through his armor and came out, disappearing into the vast starry sky.

Elementalization... This was a point that the vast majority of Espers who manipulated elemental energy could achieve after reaching A-Tier Lifeform.

Electric arc sparks shot out from his armor, clearly having suffered no small amount of damage.

Fen Jin stared closely at the opponent. This opponent was more powerful than he imagined; just a casual strike left him rather disheveled.

"Powerful, it's only more fun to torture you!" Fen Jin snorted coldly, taking out an extremely dazzling object from his compressed space.

As this object was taken out, Li Yu could clearly feel the surrounding temperature begin to rise.

"That's a Stellar Core Fragment, the temperature is extremely high... coordinated with his superpower, he can erupt with combat power far exceeding his own energy level," Olena nervously reminded.

Utilizing external forces in combat was very common in this interstellar society.

The temperature surpassing the limits turned the light into a crimson-gold color. Li Yu slightly frowned and raised his hand. The invisible Force approached that Stellar Core Fragment.

However, it was all melted by the extremely high temperature. The temperature carried by that tiny stellar core was beyond imagination.

It was also precisely because of this that this Stellar Core Fragment was somewhat strenuous for Fen Jin to grasp; the armored palm holding the stellar fragment even began to melt.

The Stellar Core Fragment fell into his hand. He gritted his teeth tightly and stretched out his other hand. Crimson-gold light beams resembling snakes shot out from his five fingers, whipping towards Li Yu.

This kind of attack method he used, amplified by the Stellar Core Fragment, could erupt with an attack nearing two hundred thousand Cal.

Even a Second-Stage Evolutionist wouldn't dare to take it head-on easily.

Li Yu's body was instantly covered by the 【Titan Colonization Armor】. The propulsion engine activated, and he rushed out of the air bubble, arriving in outer space.

Five crimson-gold high-temperature line bodies whipped towards him. He stretched out his left hand and directly grabbed these line bodies.

Instantly... high temperature warnings transmitted from the 【Titan Colonization Armor】. The places where the arm armor made contact turned crimson, and it was continuously extending.

The places that made contact initially already had a trend of dissolving.

The Force surged into the 【Titan Colonization Armor】, and the white-gold armor instantly turned into a chaos color. Its defensive power abruptly rose a level, and those crimson areas also gradually dissipated.

Only the palm clenching the crimson-gold line bodies tightly was still crimson.

"What... kind of armor is this!?" Fen Jin's mentality lost balance, and he was exceptionally shocked.

The 【Titan Colonization Armor】 exhibited a chaos color overall, while simultaneously emitting a bizarre light, forming its own force field, with the Force as its energy source, similar to a lightsaber.

However, a lightsaber was for offense, whereas this was for defense.

Abruptly tugging the crimson-gold line bodies in his hand, Fen Jin's body involuntarily shot towards him. Unknowingly since when, Li Yu's right hand had already grasped Thor's Hammer.

Golden thunder surged, and the silver-white short-handled hammer smashed towards the opponent's armor.

A muffled sensation of impact transmitted over. Fen Jin was like a football, directly sent flying away, his combat armor splitting into pieces.

He was an Esper and didn't rely on armor for combat; many times armor was even a restriction, so the armor on his body wasn't powerful.

Fen Jin's body condensed into an entity again. He now completely understood that this guy in front of his eyes wasn't any ordinary A-Tier Lifeform.

Motherf*cker, for a mere elite squad where the most formidable was only a B-Tier Lifeform, how could they attract this kind of figure for support.

He couldn't be forcefully antagonized. He also had no desire to continue fighting. He turned around to flee, his body turning into crimson light, rapidly shooting towards the pale blue planet in the distance.

However, Li Yu wouldn't give him this kind of opportunity. The gemstone emblem on his chest flashed, and he used a spatial leap to appear directly in front of Fen Jin.

"Spatial Leap!?" Fen Jin was even more astonished. The enemy's methods truly emerged in an endless stream. Was there really no problem using this kind of figure to support this broken squad?

Fen Jin's expression was ugly. The Stellar Core Fragment in his hand emitted a blazing temperature.

A massive amount of crimson-gold high-temperature line bodies resembling a spider web rushed towards his face, but were torn apart by Li Yu using Thor's Hammer.

Bang!

The hammer head heavily struck Fen Jin's abdomen. His internal organs were like drumheads, smashed to produce a muffled thunder-like sound that only transmitted within his body, shaking Fen Jin's eardrums until they buzzed.

Taking this hammer strike, Fen Jin, a squishy Esper, instantly couldn't take it.

Before the heavily struck Fen Jin could bend over and curl up like a shrimp...

His head was instantly grabbed by a large hand, and the five fingers gripping his skull began to tighten.

"Don't, don't, don't—" Fen Jin's head throbbed with a splitting pain, his face full of terror, and he hurriedly spoke up to beg for mercy. However, no sound could be produced in the vacuum at all.

Li Yu tilted his head. The 【Titan Colonization Armor】 ejected an air bubble, enveloping the two of them.

"Don't kill me!" Fen Jin's voice immediately transmitted over.

"Is this all you want to say?" Li Yu was somewhat disappointed.

"You can't kill me... I... I am a high-level combat force of Amethyst..." Fen Jin spoke incoherently in a panic.

Li Yu shook his head. The Force erupted, and Fen Jin's head directly exploded into pieces. A large amount of red and white matter was blocked outside the 【Titan Colonization Armor】.

Only the Stellar Core Fragment emitting a blazing temperature was left behind.

(End of this chapter)