An Unreasonable Conceptual Neck Twist-Even the Hidden Data Backup Gets Snapped! (Continued)
[Warning... warning... third-generation body damage detected... attempting repairs... divine body data damaged by unknown energy.] [Attempting repairs!] [Warning... unknown energy blocking repair data.] [Repair data cannot be restored! Attempting to download backup data from the Dark Universe... warning... Dark Universe data damaged by unknown energy... download failed!] [Warning... unable to obtain third-generation divine body data. Divine body cannot be repaired! Life force fading...] [80%... 50%... 30%... depleted!] [...]
Angel Yan lay motionless in space, her neck snapped by SCP-173. A string of mechanical warnings kept sounding in her mind...
As her life drained away, her consciousness grew hazier.
Was this the end?
Who would have thought? I'm Angel Yan, Queen Kaisa's Holy Left Wing. I didn't die in the war against the Demons. I was killed by a sculpture made of concrete and steel...
How ironic!
That conceptual-level neck-snapping ability is absurdly overpowered!
It didn't just snap my third-generation body's neck with ease. It even "snapped" the repair data for that body.
It "snapped" the backup data in the Dark Universe too.
A conceptual-level ability really is that unreasonably powerful!
With that thought, Angel Yan gathered the last of her energy and tried to upload the record of her life, along with the data she had collected on SCP-173...
To the Holy Knowledge Treasury.
It was what every Angel chose to do before death: preserve her story and help her comrades understand the enemy that had killed her.
But just as Angel Yan tried to upload her data, the mechanical voice sounded again.
[Warning... unknown energy is blocking the connection... unable to connect to the Holy Knowledge Treasury... unable to upload any data!] [Attempting to reconnect... warning: insufficient energy... attempt failed!] [...]
Hearing the warnings in her mind, Angel Yan sighed. Then her consciousness sank into darkness.
Just before it vanished completely, she glimpsed a Void Passage suddenly opening nearby. A figure in golden armor emerged...
Leading a host of Angel warriors out of the Void Passage and racing toward her!
"Your Majesty, run!"
Angel Yan's lips moved. She wanted to warn Holy Kesha to flee, but before she could make a sound, she could hold on no longer.
She lost consciousness completely and fell into darkness.
The powerful figures from native planets watching the livestream all breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Kesha arrive with her squad of Angels.
How could they not?
That was Holy Kesha!
She stood at the very pinnacle of the Super God Crossover Universe. The Angel Civilization she ruled was an overlord of the cosmos, rivaled only by the Underworld Civilization and the Demon Civilization.
[Kaido: Kesha's here. Now they can finally deal with that bizarre SCP-173.] [Monster King Orochi: I don't agree with Kesha's Order of Justice, but there's no denying her strength.] [Tatsumaki: Monster King Orochi, quit hiding. Come fight me one-on-one if you dare.] [Ash: Kesha, can you save Yan?] [Misty: Of course! Kesha can do it.] [Whitebeard: I'm afraid not. Even Holy Kesha can't bring the dead back to life, can she?] [Naruto: I believe she can! If it's possible, I want to bring my parents back too!] [Tsunade: Impure World Reincarnation?] [Orochimaru: Exactly!] [...]
While the powerful figures from native planets celebrated Holy Kesha's arrival, she stepped up to Angel Yan's body...
"I already implanted a Void Engine in you."
Holy Kesha looked at Angel Yan's body. A flicker of surprise crossed her otherwise calm eyes. "Even if your body was completely destroyed," she murmured,
"you should still be able to come back."
"Let me see what's preventing the Void Engine from starting."
As she spoke, the pupils vanished from Holy Kesha's eyes, replaced by a soft, glowing silver-white.
Hearing her, Angel Leng and Zhixin felt a sudden stir of hope.
They hoped Queen Kaisa could bring Yan back.
At the same time, as Angels with extensive combat experience, they had not forgotten to stay on guard. Following the plan they had made before arriving, the Angel warriors...
Surrounded SCP-173 and kept their eyes fixed on it!
They would not let it slip from sight and kill again.
[Examining Angel Yan's divine body... physical neck shattered... divine body neck data shattered... Dark Universe backup neck data shattered...] [Void Engine neck data shattered... startup failed!] [Void Engine neck data backed up in the Holy Knowledge Treasury shattered... unable to download and restore!] [Attempting to restore Void Engine data... restoration complete!] [Warning... Void Engine neck data shattered... unable to restore!] [Warning...] [...]
Holy Kesha froze as the mechanical alerts kept sounding in her mind. She had dared to send Angel Yan to Earth, where Morgana was hiding, for one reason.
It was the Void Engine she and Heavenly Foundation King He Xi had developed.
The Void Engine was not only the key to upgrading to a Fourth-Generation Divine Body. It could also grant an Angel one chance at resurrection.
When activated, the Void Engine would automatically overwrite the original divine body's data.
It would draw energy from the Dark Universe and use it to repair the damaged body during the divine body's upgrade.
So even if Angel Yan fell,
she could be revived.
That would give Kesha time to bring an Angel army to her aid.
But she had never imagined this.
Angel Yan had not fallen to Morgana. A statue made of concrete and steel had snapped her neck and killed her.
And when it snapped her physical neck,
it had also snapped the neck data in her third-generation divine body, the Dark Universe backup, the Holy Knowledge Treasury backup, and the Void Engine.
Was this the power of a conceptual-level neck-snapping ability?
It defied belief.
After repeated attempts, Holy Kesha had to accept that no technology they possessed could revive Angel Yan.
Yan—the Thunder War God, the Holy Left Wing who had stood beside her for seven thousand years and fought in three Angel-Demon wars—was truly gone.
Holy Kesha flew to Angel Yan's body and gently lifted her into her arms. "Yan, thank you for everything you've done over these seven thousand years," she whispered.
"Rest now."
"The universe will always remember what you did for Justice."
As she spoke, Holy Kesha gently closed Angel Yan's eyes, which had remained open in death.
At Holy Kesha's side, Angel Leng and Zhixin heard her words. Their last shred of hope vanished.
They had to accept that Yan was dead.
She could never be revived.
Neither could bear it. If Holy Kesha had not been right there before them, they might have thought they were dreaming.
Angel Yan was the Holy Left Wing, a warrior whose strength stood at the pinnacle of the Super God Crossover Universe.
And yet she had fallen just like that.
There had been no earth-shaking battle, no flawless scheme, no other chief god involved. There was only SCP-173, a statue of concrete and steel.
One small twist of her neck, and she was gone.
How...
How could they accept it?
As warrior Angels, they had long been prepared to give their lives for Justice. But such a humiliating death felt unworthy of Angel Yan.
After a brief silence, a hatred that cut to the bone erupted from deep within Angel Leng and Zhixin.
They swore they would avenge Angel Yan.
Whatever it took, they would destroy SCP-173.
If one God-Slaying Flame Judgment could not destroy SCP-173, they would unleash ten, a hundred, a thousand. They refused to believe it could withstand them forever.
And if God-Slaying Flame Judgment failed, they would use Heavenly Blade Judgment!
With Holy Kesha's tacit approval, Angel Leng and Zhixin flew toward SCP-173 and led the Angel warriors in launching God-Slaying Flame Judgment.
But something strange happened. Zhixin, the Holy Right Wing, had already received authorization. Apart from her,
every other Angel, Leng included,
heard the same mechanical alert in her mind:
[Unable to establish communication with Holy Kesha... attempting to analyze the problem... analysis failed...] [Unable to connect to the Holy Knowledge Treasury... unable to establish communication... retrying... connection failed...] [Angel Civilization highest-level warning... Holy Kesha may have fallen!] [Angel Civilization highest-level warning!]
Every Angel froze at the alerts.
They stared in shock at Holy Kesha, who stood nearby holding Angel Yan's body, her face expressionless. Even with the resolve of warrior Angels, they were stunned.
Their queen, Holy Kesha, stood right before them.
Yet they could not establish communication with her.
Worse, the system had issued its highest-level warning: Holy Kesha might have fallen!
What was going on?
What they did not know was that they were not alone. The moment Holy Kesha appeared beside SCP-173, every Angel warrior in the Super God Crossover Universe...
Lost the ability to communicate with her.
Every attempt brought up the highest-level warning. If they had not been able to see Holy Kesha unharmed on the livestream,
the entire Angel Civilization might already have descended into unprecedented chaos.
Even so, a storm swept through the Angel Galaxy. If the Heavenly Foundation King had not stepped in to maintain order, everything would have fallen apart.