Chapter 388

Seventh Quadrant, Zephyr Star Sector.

This was once a rich star system with nine habitable planets.

The three main sequence stars in the star system emitted warm brilliance, providing energy for countless intelligent lives.

But now, this place had become hell.

The war, which had lasted for thirteen standard years, had completely changed the appearance of this star system.

The light of the three main sequence stars became dim and blood-red.

The surface of the stars constantly erupted with abnormal flares, which were the wounds left by large-scale energy bombardments.

Countless asteroid belts were like giant snakes, circling in space.

Mixed within them were broken warship wrecks, the skeletons of star-sky giant beasts, and those completely vaporized planetary fragments.

In the center of this dead battlefield, a contest determining the survival of a civilization was still continuing.

At this moment, a biological warship was slowly turning its direction.

This was not a cold metal creation, but a living thing in the true sense.

The shell of the warship was made of semi-transparent cartilage material, the surface covered with dense neural patterns.

Inside, one could clearly see energy conduction pipes like blood vessels, pulsing rhythmically, each contraction pushing the circulation of life fluids within the ship.

The huge compound eye at the bow of the ship turned like a living thing.

Deep blue light flashed, emitting spiritual detection waves invisible to the naked eye into the surrounding space.

Whenever the detection waves swept over the wizard fleet, the pupil of the compound eye would shrink slightly, showing a certain biological instinct of vigilance.

This was the main warship of the Vital Republic—the "Symbiote" class biological mothership.

As a recognized hegemon-level civilization in this quadrant, the Vitals had developed a unique biological technology system.

Their racial appearance was similar to an octopus, but their size was much larger, and the tentacles of adult individuals could reach several meters.

What was even more amazing was that the nobles of the Vitals would sign a "Soul Contract" with a star-sky giant beast from birth, forming a symbiotic relationship.

Inside the biological warship, thousands of Vital warriors were directly connected to the neural network of the ship's body through tentacles.

They didn't need any instruments or equipment; every inch of the warship's flesh and blood became an extension of their senses, and every heartbeat resonated with the ship's body.

"Detected enemy reinforcement signal..."

The intention of a Vital commander fluctuated in the collective consciousness network:

"It's those damn wizards again... this time there are more of them..."

In their shared perception, the distant space was distorting.

Cracks as brilliant as auroras were tearing open in the starry sky, emitting disturbing colorful halos.

These were the signs of cross-dimensional portals, meaning that a new round of reinforcements from the wizard civilization was about to arrive.

First to surge out from the cracks was the vanguard of the wizard fleet.

Unlike the biological aesthetics of the Vitals, these warships displayed another kind of twisted and eerie technological style.

The hull was made of some kind of liquid metal that could autonomously reconstruct, the surface covered with dense rune circuits like spider webs.

Whenever these runes lit up, the surrounding space would undergo subtle distortions, and the boundaries of reality became blurry here.

But what was most disturbing was the hundreds of eyeballs embedded on the surface of the warship.

These eyeballs came from different creatures.

Some were the compound eyes of abyss monsters emitting chaotic light;

Some were the single eyes of intelligent races from conquered civilizations;

And some even came from high-dimensional creatures, which would cause dizziness in observers just by looking at them.

They kept turning, providing the warship with an omnidirectional super-perception field of vision.

"The 37th Fleet, space battleship formation deployment complete."

A calm mechanical voice came from the communication channel of the wizard fleet:

"Slave Legion 4th, 7th, and 12th detachments ready. Otherworld summoning gate activated, abyss creature deployment countdown begins."

Immediately after, more strange existences surged out from the portal.

First were the slave legions composed of vassal races conquered by the wizard civilization.

Lava giants from the fire elemental plane, each hundreds of meters tall, their bodies made of pure magma.

They wielded burning war hammers and battle axes, leaving molten traces just by walking.

Frost elementals from the frost plane, they had no fixed form, sometimes crystal human shapes, sometimes turning into howling blizzards.

And shadow creatures from the dark dimension, they were like living darkness, having no physical form but capable of swallowing light.

The most terrifying were those abyss creatures.

Huge tentacle monsters crawled out from the portal, each tentacle thicker than a warship, the surface covered with mouthparts that could autonomously wriggle.

Their bodies emitted the chaotic aura unique to the abyss, and just approaching them would cause the surrounding space to distort.

Flesh-and-blood constructs followed closely behind; these were war machines stitched together by wizards using various biological remains.

They had dragon wings, giant arms, tentacles of deep-sea monsters, and various unrecognizable alien organs.

Each construct was unique, because their creators would perform "upgrade modifications" at any time according to battlefield needs.

But what truly made the Vitals fear were the Great Wizard Void Remains that began to manifest.

The first Void Remains to manifest made the entire battlefield tremble.

It was a mass of liquid metal constantly changing shape.

Sometimes condensing into a huge human silhouette, sometimes turning into countless metal tentacles swimming like snakes, and sometimes reconstructing into complex geometric structures.

Every time the form changed, it produced a tooth-aching metal friction sound, a sound that could even propagate in space without a medium.

This was the manifestation of the Void Remains of the Great Wizard Melvis, who was proficient in alchemy—"Meltdown Configuration."

Under his influence, all metal substances in a huge range began to "activate."

The metal decorations on the Vital warship's armor suddenly detached from their original positions, turning into millions of sharp blades and stabbing inward.

Even the meteorites floating in space, as long as they contained metal components, began to twist and deform, reshaping into various ferocious weapons.

"Damn it... it's that metal lunatic again!"

The anger of the Vital fleet commander erupted in the collective consciousness:

"Activate the anti-metal modification of the biological armor! Quick!"

But Melvis's attack was just the beginning.

The manifestation of the second Void Remains was even more eerie.

It was a breathing shadow, like the shadow cast by some huge creature.

The edges of the shadow constantly wriggled, occasionally stretching out pale, corpse-like arms, grabbing at certain targets in space.

Every time those arms "touched" something, the touched object would instantly age.

Metal rusted and decayed rapidly, energy began to dissipate, and even starlight would become dim and lusterless.

What was most terrifying was that this aging effect would also spread.

Touched Vital warriors would find their life force rapidly draining, their tentacles becoming withered, and their compound eyes gradually going blind.

This was the Void Remains of the time-series Great Wizard Caldwin—"Time Eater."

"All units pay attention! Immediately cut off the neural connection with the infected area!"

The Vital fleet issued an emergency order, but it was too late.

The terrifying thing about time-series spells is their irreversibility; the time taken away never returns.

The appearance of the third Void Remains almost impacted the sanity of all observers.

It was a three-dimensional figure stitched together by countless "impossibilities."

It was both a sphere and a cube, both here and there, both existing and non-existing.

Just seeing it would cause a sharp pain in the observer's brain.

Because the cognitive systems of ordinary living beings simply could not process this contradictory existence.

This was the Void Remains of the Great Wizard Erica, who specialized in space spells—"Paradox Geometry."

Under her influence, the space on the battlefield began to become chaotic.

Some Vital warships found that they were clearly flying forward, but appeared in the rear;

Attacks were fired toward the east, but hit the target from the west;

Some spaceships even split into multiple versions, existing simultaneously at different spatial coordinates.

The combined attack of the three Great Wizard Void Remains instantly destroyed a Vital main battleship.

But the Vitals' counterattack was equally astonishing.

"Call the Child of God!"

The spiritual roar of the Vital supreme commander Azalos penetrated the entire battlefield:

"Let these invaders see what true cosmic power is!"

A low hum came from the depths of the stars.

That sound was low and distant, as if the galaxy itself were sighing.

Immediately after, a figure as huge as a planet slowly swam out from the space turbulence.

Whale King—one of the kings among star-sky giant beasts.

Its body was made of semi-transparent energy, and inside, one could clearly see organ structures rotating like nebulae.

Each heartbeat produced visible energy ripples, spreading in all directions.

The Whale King opened its huge mouth and let out a silent roar.

The sound waves spread in all directions in an instant.

Wherever it went, the runes on the wizard warships began to flicker unstably.

Those eyeballs used as sensory organs exploded one after another, splashing colorful body fluids.

What was even more terrifying was that the Whale King's roar contained strong "anti-magic" characteristics.

The spell structures carefully woven by the wizards began to disintegrate.

Even the Great Wizard's Void Remains were affected, becoming transparent and unstable, as if they could dissipate at any time.

"Damn primitive beast!"

Melvis's metal Void Remains emitted angry mental fluctuations, the sound like millions of sharp swords rubbing:

"The anti-spell ability of these beasts is far stronger than described in the intelligence! Who was responsible for the pre-war research?!"

But complaints couldn't solve the problem.

Around the Whale King, more star-sky creatures began to gather.

Some were shaped like giant jellyfish, with tentacles extending for thousands of miles, the ends of each tentacle flashing with biological electricity of different frequencies;