Chapter 480: Oh, My Perfect Creation!
Vegapunk's projection lunged at the energy barrier, both hands pressing hard against the cold alloy arm. His holographic image erupted in patches of static from emotional overload. That was the fruit of more than thirty failed attempts by Qi Bai!
At that moment, Vegapunk felt his heart shatter. All those years of effort were gone, without so much as a scrap left behind!
Before his words had faded, the spatial rift closed completely. There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a faint ripple of sound, like a bubble bursting.
The golden core, which could have powered an entire fleet for half a year, was compressed into a quantum glimmer along with the Red Seraph's final trace of consciousness, then utterly annihilated in the gap between dimensions.
A deathly silence settled over the combat chamber, broken only by the lingering hum of the energy barrier. Alloy fragments along the crater's edge still crackled with sparks, their patterns, modeled after Buss Bird feathers, blackening and crumbling before their eyes.
Mu Chen blinked slowly. The crimson faded from his Mangekyō Blood Sharingan, revealing his original black eyes.
He flexed his wrist, as though he had merely crushed an ant and suffered no ill effects whatsoever.
"Done!"
That single, casually spoken word struck Vegapunk's heart like a sledgehammer.
His projection froze in place, his hands still pressed against the barrier and his eyes wide as he kept muttering, "Gone."
"How could it vanish into thin air?"
Mu Chen strolled over to the refreshment counter.
Picking up a coffee cup from the table, Mu Chen took a sip, frowned, and said flatly, "Instant?"
"Is this cheap stuff all you have on Egghead Island?"
The man who had just been demonstrating the Space Destruction Art was now complaining about coffee!
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