Astral Express: I'm a Big Villain, Starting with the Annihilation of the Astral Express Crew

You further unleash the power of Suyang, using large-scale Illusion Arts to stimulate people's most primal fears.

Some see the ship's hull cracking, the deep cosmos about to swallow everything.

Some see hideous monsters crawling out of the walls, choosing people to devour.

Some see their loved ones and friends suddenly become twisted and strange, revealing malicious smiles.

The Queen instantly plummets from a luxurious paradise into a bloody hell.

Everyone exposes their ugliest side.

These usually high and mighty individuals are no different from beggars on the street in the face of death.

To snatch limited survival resources, they begin to attack each other, drawing swords.

A tragic and bloody "battle royale" begins to unfold within this giant metal cage.

You revel in this sea of negative emotions... These intense emotions are more delicious "food" to you than any substance.

Your Suyang fire grows at a visible rate, its color also becoming increasingly deep and eerie from cyan, as if burning with the flames of hell.

You watch this madness created by your own hands, feeling only boundless pleasure in your heart.

Battle royale successfully created! Villain value +500!

Chapter 32: Becoming an Emissary

The Queen's tragic state quickly alarmed the Interstellar Peace Corporation.

They cannot tolerate their most luxurious flagship becoming like this, nor can they tolerate the huge blow to the company's reputation.

An armed fleet is urgently mobilized from nearby starfields, rushing here aggressively.

Golden threads clearly capture the fleet's movements, troop deployments, and estimated arrival time.

You coldly calculate.

The energy has been absorbed almost completely.

It's time to leave the stage.

You have long since used the golden threads to scout out the next vessel.

It is an Interstellar Peace Corporation executive who just killed several people on the Queen and is preparing to take his private escape ship to leave in the chaos.

You sneak into his escape ship, and just before he starts the engine, a powerful consciousness suddenly rushes into his body.

Possession, complete.

At the same time, the puppet crew members in the Queen's main control room press the pre-set self-destruct sequence.

Soon after, just as the Interstellar Peace Corporation fleet arrives, preparing to clear this cruise ship that has become a ghost ship—

Boom—!!!

A deafening roar that shakes the starry sky.

The Queen, the luxurious flagship symbolizing the Interstellar Peace Corporation's wealth and strength, turns into the most magnificent and expensive fireworks in the universe in countless horrified gazes.

The huge explosive shockwave even causes the distant fleet to feel a tremor.

And you, controlling the body of that executive, mingle among the survivors who managed to escape, disappearing into the vast sea of stars.

This grand play of the Queen's fall, directed by you, is far beyond your expectations in terms of scale, cunning, and adverse impact.

It not only inflicts huge physical losses on the Interstellar Peace Corporation, but also causes irreparable damage to its reputation.

Countless eyes in the universe are focused on the destruction of this "ghost ship."

Just then, suddenly.

A gaze from the dark side of the universe, carrying the will of Destruction, locks onto you.

It is an indescribable feeling, as if the weight of the entire universe is pressing on the depths of your soul.

You know that you have been targeted by an incredibly terrifying existence.

But unexpectedly, the feeling of being targeted is not just fear.

There is also a strange... sense of recognition?

Before you can think about it, an irresistible force suddenly picks you up.

You feel everything around you become blurred and distorted.

When you come back to your senses, you find yourself thrown into a huge space filled with antimatter flames.

This is the legendary War Furnace.

Within the furnace, countless souls and monsters in the universe who crave Destruction and bear sins gather.

They kill and devour each other, and the entire space is filled with violent and chaotic Destruction energy.

A grand, cold will, carrying a sense of scrutiny, resounds throughout the furnace.

It is the will of the Aeon of Destruction, Nanook.

He proclaims: Only those individuals who pass the most brutal trials and demonstrate the purest and most unique "Destruction aesthetics" can become his Aeon of Destruction Emissary.

[A trial in the name of Destruction has begun.]

[In the War Furnace, survival is the only law.]

[You are engaged in endless slaughter and devouring with other individuals thrown into this place.]

[Surrounding you are crazed monsters and twisted souls, each trying to tear you apart and devour you.]

[Fortunately, you are strong enough to struggle for survival in the furnace.]

[You avoid those who are too powerful, focusing on dealing with relatively weaker opponents.]

[Each victory is accompanied by the devouring of the defeated.]

[At 1900 years old, your Suyang fire begins to undergo a peculiar transformation as it devours Destruction energy.]

[You discover that you can combine the power of Suyang with the Destruction energy drawn from the furnace.]

[Your flames begin to burn with a deep, eerie black luster.]

[The Illusion Arts woven from these flames are no longer just false images.]

[They can directly attack the target's mind, and even, to some extent, distort reality.]

[You can create the most realistic fears in your opponent's mind, causing them to self-destruct in the Illusion Arts. Or, you can have their bodies burned to ashes by your antimatter flames as their minds collapse.]

[At 2000 years old, this method of perfectly combining illusion and Destruction sets you apart in the furnace's slaughter.]

[Many monsters that try to devour you ultimately turn to ashes in the terrifying Illusion Arts you weave, filled with utter despair.]

[You are no longer just a Suyang; you are transforming into a higher, more terrifying being.]

[Time seems to have lost its meaning in the War Furnace.]

[All you know is that the slaughter never stops, and the devouring never stops.]

[At 3000 years old, you finally become one of the survivors of this brutal trial.]

[That immense will of Destruction descends once again.]

[It examines you, examining your unique path of Destruction: "using illusion to leverage reality, disintegrating all things from the mental level, and inducing self-destruction."]

[Then, It extends an olive branch to you.]

[Nanook invites you to become an Aeon of Destruction Emissary, one of the Lords of Ruin.]

[Do you choose?]

[1. Accept.]

[2. Refuse.]

After the simulation, Jiang Mo was filled with ecstasy.

An Emissary!

A Lord of Ruin!

This is the most top-tier villain identity in the universe, besides the Aeons, right?

And an Emissary of the Aeon of Destruction!

This is much better than being some useless Emperor!

I must accept!

I choose 1!

[You choose to accept the invitation of Nanook, the Aeon of Destruction.]

[An unimaginable, vast power is injected into your core.]

[Your form of existence is sublimated.]

[You no longer need to be attached to any host; you can conjure an even more powerful and bizarre form out of thin air.]

[You are promoted to "Lord of Ruin" and granted the name "Phantylia."]

[You feel more powerful than ever before.]

[You have become an Aeon of Destruction Emissary, Villain Value +500!]

Jiang Mo was stunned.

What? I'm Phantylia? Really?!

I originally thought I was just simulating some small-fry Suyang who wasn't even human, so I didn't have high expectations. I didn't expect it to actually be that Lord of Ruin, Phantylia?

This simulation is really interesting.

However, Phantylia's ending seems to be similar to Zhou Tian's, getting beaten up by the Astral Express Crew, right?

Hmm... I have to think of a way to change that ending.

By the way, isn't Phantylia a woman...? Oh, Suyang don't have genders.

So, it can be male or female?

Jiang Mo suddenly thought of an evil plan.

Hehe... Trailblazer, you're in big trouble this time.

Chapter 33: Vengeance on the Xianzhou

[Age 3100: As a newly appointed Lord of Ruin, you were quickly granted command of an Antimatter Legion.]

[Nanook's first task for you is to destroy a star system alliance protected by the power of Harmony, Hipe.]

[This alliance is renowned for its internal harmony and unity, considered a paragon of the Harmony's ideals.]

[But you scoff at such false harmony.

True Destruction is not merely physical annihilation.

You did not choose to lead the legion in a frontal assault.

That would be too boring.]

[Instead, you personally infiltrated the alliance.]

[You began to seek out fissures within the collective will of this alliance.]

[Using Illusion Arts, you concealed yourself within, slowly amplifying their hidden exclusivity and fear of the "other."]

[You wove illusions that made them suspect each other, making them see their "comrades" plotting betrayal.]

[You whispered in their minds, inciting them.]

[Soon, this alliance, once regarded as a model of Harmony, began to fester from within.]

[The purges began.]