Global Crossing: Empire of Stars

The Mind World echoed with a soul-shaking Dragon's Roar. A crimson breath of flame descended from the sky, pouring like a waterfall over the star that was turning into flesh.

"Ah—!"

A shrill scream echoed through the air. The moment the flames touched the fungal mat, it ignited. Countless biological structures scattered across the surface writhed violently, but withered in the scorching heat and quickly crumbled into ash.

The extreme heat incinerated the fungal mat and even melted the ground into magma. The dragon's breath enveloped the entire star, turning its surface into charred wasteland in a matter of seconds.

Under the intense heat, the star's entire surface became a sea of magma, and the rocky planet quickly melted away.

It became a ball of liquid lava.

This was the ultimate sterilization. Under the Aether Dragon's influence, dragonfire had an extraordinary lethality against life. Not a single cell survived anywhere on the planet.

With its breath spent, the Aether Dragon's enormous body slowly withdrew into High-Dimensional Space-Time. Having finished cleansing the star, the Imperial Fleet continued on its way.

Even with the enhancement of numerous domains, the Death squad that had been dispatched needed a full three days to cleanse the entire star system. Most of that time had been wasted on travel.

After thoroughly testing the Combat Power of the Devouring Bee Swarm, Link quickly divided up the combat mission. The vast Expeditionary Fleet was split into combat groups numbering in the hundreds of millions. Around 1,200 groups spread out along the borders of the Hive Star Sector and attacked their target systems simultaneously.

The entire Hive Star Sector erupted into chaos. The swarms often encountered resistance as they expanded, but they had never faced an attack on this scale. Under the onslaught of the vast fleet, they lost