Chapter 497

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Protagonist:

Lin En

Lena

The boundary between the Warp and Real Space, after being repeatedly torn apart by layers of illusions spawned from the Annihilation Ritual.

【Lena Link】 The Dominion Avatar barely stabilized its tottering form, its overall condition having plummeted to an extremely dangerous state.

Previously, to open a Passage between reality and the Warp, Lin En had staked all his Authority without hesitation, attempting to use Yaduoduo's body as a Modern World anchor point to forcibly bring about Brevis's Divine Power descent.

That attempt consumed a massive amount of Dominion Divine Power, and was then brutally interrupted by a wisp of Yi Su's remote projection; the invisible Backlash surged like a tide, washing over this Insect-transformed King Avatar again and again.

The towering 150-meter-tall body no longer possessed its former imposing might.

The outer layer of ceaselessly circulating purple light-flames flickered dimly, wavering uncertainly.

The originally unfurled and flamboyant three pairs of Flying Tyrant-style Chitinous Wings now had wing membranes crisscrossed with hideous cracks; many spines had snapped off and fallen away, and fine purple light-dust drifted into the surrounding Void like flying catkins.

The dragon head that fused Royal dignity with Bug Race ferocity had its carapace surface covered in dense traces of Psychic Energy scorching.

Beneath the charred Damage, one could faintly see the surging, restless, near-Uncontrolled Authority currents churning inside the Avatar.

Lin En's and Lena's Consciousnesses were deeply Bound, the two sharing all senses and mental feedback.

Lena could Clearly perceive that within the Avatar's core, Dominion Authority was being endlessly overdrawn and consumed.

Every instance of resisting illusion impacts, every attempt at tearing Space barriers, continuously wrung dry this newly completed Lower Godhead origin.

She could feel the Fatigue transmitted from Lin En's mental level, and also see the situation on the Battlefield sliding step by step toward an irretrievable defeat.

In Brevis's Direction, that layer of eerie blue mist representing the Annihilation Ritual was still slowly expanding.

That planet's life signals were still continuously plummeting; the time left to them was passing second by second.

Just when despair that the defeat was set had sprouted in Lena's heart, and she thought they would ultimately be completely swallowed by the tides of Chaos.

The pair of insect-transformed dragon heads on the Dominion Avatar suddenly erupted with two blinding beams of deep purple light.

The Dominion Power, suppressed by Backlash and illusions layer upon layer, broke through its shackles and returned to its wielder.

A brief thought, yet weighty as ten thousand catties, rang out in the Avatar's soul core, spreading across the entire Warp Crack.

"I'm back."

Merely four words, announcing that Lin En's Consciousness had completely broken free of the illusions' Entanglement and reclaimed full Dominance over this Void Refinement Avatar.

Lena, Bound within the same body, felt her Consciousness instantly burst with irrepressible joy.

Countless fine, warm mental ripples undulated across the soul tether between the two — her unique emotional feedback.

"Lin En, I knew it, you would definitely come back."

Two Consciousnesses tempered by life-and-death ordeals briefly embraced and mingled inside the Dominion Avatar.

Memory fragments of past shoulder-to-shoulder bloody battles flashed rapidly through each other's mental worlds — the first meeting in Necromunda, the bitter struggle in Brevis, multiple escapes from death's jaws; countless life-and-death bonds settled in this moment.

And Not Far Away, relying on Atia's residual soul Coordinate, barely sustaining existence by borrowing the Annihilation Ritual's overflowing energy — Yi Su's Avatar.

At this moment, sensing Lin En's state reviving, the myriad pupils covering its wings frantically contracted and trembled.

If this Evil God Avatar possessed jaws that could bite, it would likely have ground all its teeth to dust by now.

Its meticulously planned scheme of using illusions to exhaust the opponent now revealed a massive Loophole.

Yi Su knew very well that this newborn Lower God before him, after the previous round of overdrawing, no longer possessed peak strength.

But relying solely on this projected Avatar propped up on a Mortal anchor point, to completely Eradicate the combined entity of Lin En and Lena would still exact an incalculable price, and might even cause this very Modern World projection to be utterly Annihilated.

He was unwilling to bear such a losing-risk.

Without the slightest hesitation, the countless twisted tentacles behind Yi Su's Avatar danced wildly; a grand and bizarre Summoning Ritual abruptly unfolded in the Void.

One pitch-black, jagged Warp Rift after another tore open around the Battlefield; powerful existences from the depths of the Chaos Sea, drawn by his Authority.

Crossed Dimensions, and were batch-projected into this Crack Battlefield.

The first to charge out of the Rifts were dozens of Changebringers.

Each Greater Daemon wore constantly shifting, iridescent Psychic Energy armor, its body outline distorting and reshaping every moment.

They gripped Trickster Staves engraved with myriad bizarre Runes; howling Psychic Storms swirled around them, and the madness and cunning belonging to Greater Daemons poured ceaselessly outward through the Rifts.

Hot on the heels of the Changebringers, several Thousand Sons Legion Supreme Sorcerers stepped out of the Warp Rifts.

They were the most Top-tier Psychic Energy elites within Magnus's Thousand Sons War Group, clad in gold-and-blue interwoven Power Armor, their bodies covered in the secret ritual Runes passed down through generations of the Thousand Sons line.

As the Runes circulated, they continuously drew Warp magic power; they were versed in Fate calculation and flame-incineration Witchcraft, and moreover grasped the terrifying power to Distort Reality.

Several Supreme Sorcerers' Psychic Threads hooked into one another, constructing a massive Joint Casting Array Formation; their magic power converged in one place, multiplying in potency.

The Changebringers and Thousand Sons Supreme Sorcerers immediately formed an exquisite tactical coordination.

Some Changebringers waved their staves, pouring down sky-covering, earth-covering Chaos Legion Fire, wave after wave heavily bombarding the 【Lena Link】 Dominion Avatar's body surface.

Another portion of Greater Daemons morphed hideous claws and blades, charging forward under the cannon fire's cover to launch ferocious Close Combat.

The Thousand Sons' Joint Casting Array Formation Stably Output from the rear; strands of Curses entwined with Fate threads continuously shot out, Targeting Lin En's Dominion Authority origin.

Those Curses attempted to Penetrate the Law Layer, interfere with and dismantle the Operation Logic of Dominion Power, weakening this newborn Lower God from its foundation.

Lin En was forced to fight on two fronts.

On one side he had to tank the Changebringers' frenzied Close Combat harassment; on the other he had to continuously resolve the Fate Curses woven by the Thousand Sons Sorcerers.

To withstand the tide-like surging Chaos offensive, the Bug Swarm Shadow Barrier unfolded under Lena's lead saw its load multiply.

Layer after layer of Isolation Membranes continuously generated, only to be shredded under the impact of Chaos Cannon Fire and Witchcraft.

Lena mobilized all remaining Bug Swarm Will from their fusion, continuously Supplementing power to the Barrier.

Yet facing so many Chaos high-end combatants' rotating assaults, the Bug Swarm Shadow still thinned bit by bit, and the gaps in the Protection grew more and more numerous.

Across the distant space, the pale-blue Oblivion Mist of Brevis Planet continued to accumulate power, and the energy threshold of the God-slaying Witchcraft kept rising.

Lena's thoughts were filled with anxiety, transmitted through the soul bond into Lin En's consciousness.

【If this endless consumption continues, the Incarnation's power will eventually be completely exhausted. By then, both of us will be torn apart, and Brevis will completely become a sacrifice to the Oblivion Witchcraft.】

Just as the joint spell of the Thousand Sons Supreme Wizard was finally completed, the destructive Fate Destruction Curse condensed into form at the center of the array formation.

Dozens of Changebringers scattered simultaneously, sealing off every direction the Dominion Avatar could dodge, at the critical moment of life and death just before completing the encirclement to lock down the target.

Outside Brevis Planet, the massive Immaterium Vortex that endlessly sprayed out Oblivion Mist was suddenly struck by a destructive bombardment from the outside.

A brilliant golden Holy Light, as dazzling as a stellar explosion, burst open with a boom, and the barrier on the outer layer of the Chaos Vortex used to isolate Reality from the Warp shattered like thin ice.

The Emperor Incarnation—Dominic, in the posture of an Emperor Walker, broke through the boundary between the Material Universe and the Warp, forcibly charging into this battlefield of warfire.

Floating above his head was a Laurel Crown formed purely from converged Holy Light, his red hair flying, and his eyes burst forth with golden radiance.

His entire body was constructed from the psychic power of the Emperor of Mankind fused together with Dominic's remaining soul.

His right hand gripped a sacred Giant Sword personally forged by the Emperor, its blade flowing with radiant light that purified all Chaos Contamination.

A thick Faith Force Field swirled around his body, capable of isolating most Chaos Contamination and spiritual erosion.

Of course, this was not the Human Emperor's Main Body personally descending, but merely a power projection cast here.

But even as just a projection of an Incarnation, he had already reached the power level of a Lesser God, representing the will of the Human Lord of Terra, formally intervening in this Warp melee.

At the very moment Emperor Walker Dominic stepped onto the battlefield, the law layers of the entire Warp Layer once again stirred with a silent disturbance.

A Higher-dimensional Perspective belonging neither to Yi Su, nor to Lin En-Lena, nor to the Emperor of Mankind, cut into this battlefield without warning.

This mysterious existence released no attacks and took part in no side's scheming; it was merely a calm observer. It transcended the local Causal Chains within this rift, and everything on the battlefield had nowhere to hide beneath its gaze.

It saw Atia, the vessel of Yi Su's Incarnation—that mortal wizard's soul was already riddled with holes, and the container's walls were on the verge of complete collapse.

It saw through the Yi Su before its eyes as merely an Incarnation projected from afar; its true Main Body still lay deep in the Chaos Sea.

It understood the complete source structure of the Dominion Ability after Lin En and Lena's consciousnesses fused.

All conspiracies and trump cards behind the Extinction Ritual were laid bare beneath this gaze.

Every Causal Chain of each spell cast by the Thousand Sons Supreme Wizard, and the underlying logic of every transformation of the Changebringers, were completely analyzed.

The high-dimensional observer merely watched silently, like flipping through a fate script already written, not interfering, not intervening.

"So that's how it is." Dominic's remaining consciousness also followed the Emperor's perspective and saw clearly the relationship between Lin En and Lena.

In his final moment before dying, he took it quite well—it wasn't collusion, they were dating.

Huh? Dating?

That makes it even more wrong, doesn't it?!

Afterwards he also burst forth with a great joyful emotion; perhaps seeing the forbidden love between human and insect, he could die in peace.

But this existence that spied on everything was still keenly captured by the Yi Su Incarnation.

The myriad eyes on the Incarnation's body suddenly contracted violently, each pupil surging with strong unease.

The Lord of Change knew very well that an unknown External Force was spying on all his schemes plotted for so long.

But the current battlefield situation no longer allowed Him to divert attention to investigate that observer.

Dominic hesitated not at all, raising high the sacred Giant Sword in his hand; the surging, mighty flood of Emperor Faith swept across all directions like a golden tsunami, charging straight into the center of the melee.

Thus, two Lesser God Incarnations stood side by side on the battlefield.

One side was the Dominion Avatar 【Rena Link】 formed by Lin En and Lena's Fusion; the other side was Emperor Walker Dominic.

The two formed a battle line, facing the Yi Su Incarnation, as well as the Changebringers and Thousand Sons Supreme Wizards swarming toward them under His command.