After another attack, the headless Celestial fell. Its head flew beyond the Solar System, dragging metal conduits behind it from the impact, while its lifeless body lay across space, becoming floating debris.
Su Ming, his entire body covered in black tendrils, touched his face. Strangle had replaced the flesh there, and the armor and body were repairing themselves almost in sync.
Two machines remained before them. Wade had ridden the momentum to fly onto the blue Celestial's head, trying to break through its scalp through the gaps between the giant hand's slaps, so Su Ming went to deal with the orange one.
Whether Dark Celestials or Colorful Celestials, only a very small number had cauldron-like domed heads. Most Celestial heads were simply cylindrical, with circular platforms on top.
True Original Celestials could fire energy from any part of their bodies and use thought alone to disintegrate most matter around them. Close combat against them was practically suicide.
But these replicas from Single Universes lacked those functions.
Their disintegration rays could only be fired from their eyes, and the various functions built into their bodies were more like tools for maintaining planetary laboratories throughout the universe.
Put another way, true Celestials had once needed to fight Dark Celestials, so each of them was a Superweapon base. Their arsenal included, but was not limited to, concepts and energy, rule alteration, and causality.
These replica machines from Single Universes, meanwhile, were like gardeners sent into orchards. They came equipped with work toolkits containing pruning shears, lawn mowers, fertilizer, wire, pesticides, and the like.
They were essentially the Single Universe version of the "Your Life 3000." Could they kill enemies? Of course they could, but they certainly were not as useful as specialized weapons.
As for those counterfeit Celestials made by Eternity, they were