Chapter 693: The Outsider, The Great Devourer, R'tan

The ground was trembling slightly; this tremor did not seem to come from the planet itself, but rather from the dragging of some massive object from afar.

The emergence of this situation further disordered the gravity within the entire star system. The Hive Fleet, the Imperial Fleet, the World Engine, and the Tyranid planetary-scale organisms swayed chaotically. Orikan, who had already torn apart three Tyranid planetary-scale organisms, was transforming into a cloud of flickering electric sparks, frantically drawing energy from the star to replenish his withered body.

This star system was shrouded by the Tyranid Hive Mind with a thick Shadow in the Warp. The Warp occupied an absolute dominant position in this system. As a god of the material universe, wielding power in this quagmire was like moving through thick mud for Orikan.

His authority was ultimately reliant on reality itself, and here, reality was riddled with holes. Every time he wielded his power, it meant a tremendous expenditure. He could only make minor replenishments by devouring the energy within the star.

Just at this moment, Orikan also sensed the disturbance brought about by that massive gravitational force.

It was a gravity well—a gravity well of unprecedented scale was pressing toward the Tiamat system.

This was a unique Warp travel method of the Tyranid Hive Fleet. They would borrow a large gravitational source to chisel out a gravity well tunnel, relying on that gravity well tunnel to move rapidly toward their target.

This gravity well was so massive that it was as if an entire Hive Fleet were about to descend upon the edge of this system. What on earth had the Hive Fleet used as a gravitational source to complete such a massive gravity well jump in one go?

Orikan could not think of a massive gravitational source that could satisfy this condition for a moment, but he understood what he had to do.

He had to distort this gravity well to stop the Hive Fleet's actions.

The star's light dimmed significantly in an instant. Intense light and heat were converted within Orikan's body. His will connected with the structure of reality itself, stabbing toward that gravity well, and also stabbing toward the gravitational source behind the gravity well.?

A nearly solid question mark appeared above Orikan's head.

He simply could not believe that what he was seeing was not an illusion. He followed the gravity well and looked, and saw... he saw a sun.

That, that was a star. Surrounding it were nearly infinite light and high-dimensional matter. These things wove into geometric shapes so complex that even the mind of a nascent C'tan would find them difficult to comprehend. These geometric shapes flickered constantly, as if the insane thoughts of that star were being projected all around.

Mad, Hive Mind, how dare You...

Orikan felt it; his peeping had been discovered.

The Mad King had sensed His existence. A gaze of hunger, impulse, madness, and despair traveled along the skeleton of reality, stabbing toward Orikan's direction.

Before that gaze even arrived, Orikan felt the madness contained within it. He felt those thoughts were like whistling razors, tearing Him apart and grinding Him to pieces at the most microscopic level, bringing Him a series of manic hallucinations.

He saw molten black-gray plastic, dice bouncing, scriptures written in unknown characters, a world inch by inch, pen and ink, keyboards, screens, everything.

Incomprehensible scenes jumped and splashed, and his thoughts were pulled into a fine line, spiraling, spiraling, spiraling...

"Holy shit, The Outsider!" In the Moonview Terrace, at the Nobi residence, Omnisia Xiao Fu roared in shock, the controller in his hand slipping away.

Zhou Yun grabbed the controller, taking over for Omnisia Xiao Fu. Meanwhile, Omnisia Xiao Fu looked at the reality dimension with horror. After Orikan, He was the second to realize what the Hive Mind was using to borrow gravity.

His last complete brother, that madman who had been driven insane by Xi Gaoqi.

The Laughing God had deceived Him with lies, causing Him to devour too many other C'tan. The wills of these C'tan had not completely disappeared; they resided within Him, constantly strengthening His power, torturing His spirit, and eventually driving His will mad, causing Him to drift to the outskirts of the galaxy and fall into autism.

He was The Outsider Tsara'noga, a god of autism, a Mad King, a complete C'tan who had fused with a large number of C'tan. Theoretically, no existence in the entire material universe could rival Him. Even if the gods of the Warp took action, they might not necessarily have His power in the material universe.

All living beings should be grateful for the high level of Xi Gaoqi's deceptive skills. After shaping such a monster, He actually calculated that it would be driven mad and fall into autism, self-sealing. Countless races in the galaxy had been fighting to the death for tens of millions of years, all tacitly agreeing not to touch this autistic bomb.

But in that very moment, the Hive Mind actually utilized The Outsider's own massive gravity to open a gravity well mouth leading directly to the Tiamat system, attempting to send the main tentacles of the Leviathan Hive Fleet into the Tiamat system.

"The outsider gang is too impolite!" Omnisia Xiao Fu cursed.

Oh, by the ass of a medieval knight, this is truly too much operation. It is so much operation that Uncle Omnisia Xiao Fu wants to use his big boots to kick the Hive Mind's ass hard.

Omnisia Xiao Fu's hand reached into the reality universe. The main body that constituted Him was the Dragon of Mars, or rather, He was essentially the Dragon of Mars.

His hand was placed on Orikan's back, and in just a single instant, He pulled Orikan's will back, quickly cutting off His peeping toward The Outsider from the past.

The Outsider's gaze fell into a brief confusion. Confusion quickly turned into perplexity, perplexity turned into irritability, and irritability turned into restlessness. The manic geometric bodies began to spread toward the surroundings.

Just at this moment, jeers, mockery, and ridicule sounded from the void. The clown's mask appeared before The Outsider, constantly attacking The Outsider's existence with words, inducing The Outsider's mental illness, and intensifying His autistic psychology.

A moment later, under the clown's mockery, The Outsider seemed to have a mental breakdown and quickly returned to a state of autism, no longer making any response.

During this process, no force in the galaxy or even the entire Warp dared to make a move against the clown, all holding their breath and watching the clown's operation.

In the Black Library, Xi Gaoqi used a handkerchief to wipe the sweat from his pale forehead.

Today is another day of saving the world; it is truly exhausting.

At the same time, Xi Gaoqi cursed the Hive Mind's madness and stupidity in his heart. He was completely gambling, betting that The Outsider would not lose control, betting that he could successfully borrow The Outsider's gravity to send his fleet to the Tiamat system without causing The Outsider to react.

What made Xi Gaoqi and Omnisia Xiao Fu uncomfortable was that the Hive Mind had actually won the bet.

The Leviathan Hive Fleet tore open a gravity well, rushing directly to the edge of the Tiamat system. A massive number of Hive Fleets poured directly into the system, replenishing the Tiamat Hive Fleet that was originally about to be crushed. The dense swarm of insects began to constantly surge toward the monolith fortress, surging toward Orikan who was entrenched in the center of the system.

Orikan's body was withered, his power receding. The thin reality, the mad whispers of The Outsider, and the ebb of energy were all consuming His power. He violently drew energy from the star to maintain his C'tan state, squeezing out bursts of power from the thin skeleton of reality.

Antimatter meteors were generated out of thin air beside Orikan, tearing through the void and crashing into the Hive Fleet. The blinding firelight formed by the annihilation of matter and antimatter formed a scorching wall of fire between the systems, blocking the Hive Fleet's pace.

But as more Hive Fleets arrived, the concentration of the Warp in the entire system rose by another layer. The entire system seemed to be soaked in the Shadow in the Warp.

The thick shadow directly extinguished the fire and heat in the void, as if swallowed by the shadow. The suppression of the Warp struck, and Orikan felt more and more that his link to reality was becoming weak. He ascended relying on reality; in the Warp, there was no place and no power for Him.

And the Leviathan Hive Fleet was flying toward Cypheria at a speed that was extremely fast for the swarm. The war situation had changed due to a micro-operation and a gamble by the Hive Mind.

Although Xi Gaoqi and Orikan were cursing, Zhou Yun's emotions were very stable. ===== CHAPTER 694 =====