"Your true body's proportions are much bigger than I imagined."
"Absolutely terrifying..."
"I underestimated you."
His brows drawing together, Lin Chen put on a grave expression.
"My memetic body gathered the power of dreams from hundreds of billions of living beings."
"Combined with those amusing little toys in Herta Space Station."
"Only then could I recreate the might of the Dream Gods within such a brief span of time."
"Now... insignificant human, do you know fear?"
Lilith's voice rang out, brimming with even greater pride and triumph.
"Sorry... I think you misunderstood."
"When I said big, I was only talking about your figure."
"So without clothes holding you back, your true proportions finally show."
"Absolutely terrifying..."
Lin Chen's lips parted in a brazen grin.
Scared? Scared, my ass.
With the system backing him up, he honestly had no idea what fear even meant.
A moment ago, Lin Chen had simply been admiring the view.
He wanted a clear look at Lilith's figure.
To see just how hot she was.
"You! Human... you're courting death!"
"Do you realize? Because of your arrogance and provocation."
"This planet called Azure Star is about to cease to exist."
An unprecedented look flashed through her beautiful scarlet eyes.
Lilith seemed utterly enraged.
Her slender, delicate hand curled into a claw and reached toward the boundless starry sky behind her.
Beyond Azure Star's orbit.
A demonic claw spanning more than a hundred thousand kilometers.
Began moving slowly, reaching toward Azure Star.
[Ding! An extinction-level crisis has been detected.] [Host, would you like to begin a Starstream livestream?] [Let the living beings of the cosmos witness the might of the Conqueror Legion firsthand.] [This can effectively earn you substantial rewards and large amounts of conquest points.]
Suddenly, the system's voice rang out in Lin Chen's mind.
"Do you even have to ask? Start it! Right now!"
"Looks like this [Universal Countermeasure Card] wasn't a total waste."
"I should at least rake in enough rewards to do justice to this once-in-a-lifetime lucky break."
His heartbeat quickened slightly.
Lin Chen felt an inexplicable surge of delight and excitement.
The [Universal Countermeasure Card] was badass, but unfortunately, its power lasted only an instant.
What he truly needed was to accumulate more solid strength and reserves.
Now thoroughly enraged, Lilith, the Queen of the Night.
Seemed to have abandoned the idea of continuing to enslave living beings through dreams.
Instead, she intended to use a much more brutal method and crush Azure Star outright.
The situation before him really was the perfect opportunity to turn his fortunes around.
Lin Chen had never expected his trash talk.
To actually make this Queen of the Night lose her composure completely.
[Host, please name the Starstream Livestream Room!]
"Let me think... let's go with this..."
An instant later, centered on the star system containing Azure Star.
Across every world within a radius of several thousand light-years, on every device capable of playing video.
A live broadcast appeared, without the slightest delay.
In the footage, lurking beneath the boundless starry sky.
Was a dark silhouette so immense that she blotted out the heavens.
She was reaching her demonic claw toward Azure Star.
The eerie monster's form bore the faint outline of a human woman.
The wings behind her spread across nearly a million kilometers.
Around Azure Star, a barrier composed of countless orange energy lattices.
Used the planet's low orbit as its boundary.
And formed its final defensive shield.
Across the continents on Azure Star's surface.
All manner of heavy orbital weapons fired furiously toward the stars.
Dazzling streams of multicolored fire.
Exploded into dense, brilliant fireworks in space.
From Azure Star's surface, starships rose in swarms as dense as bees...
This mysterious livestream room that had suddenly appeared.
Had no fewer than three titles floating across its top.
[Shocking! An eerie evil goddess actually did this to Azure Star-everything you thought you knew is shattered!]
[Disaster looms over Herta's homeworld, Azure Star, and the mastermind is none other than her...]
[Is that man now the only one who can save Azure Star?]
The Seat of Divine Foresight, Xianzhou Luofu.
In a vast, stately courtyard of classical design, beside a grove of emerald bamboo.
A valiant, white-haired man in battle armor rested his cheek on one hand.
As he studied the position on the chessboard before him, a faintly smug smile appeared on his lips.
"Fu, why are you taking so long to make your move?"
"Have my surprise tactics really left you with nowhere to go?"
The white-haired general spoke slowly, his gaze never leaving the board.
"General! You scoundrel!"
"My divine eye saw everything. You secretly took an extra turn just now!"
"But this isn't the time to argue over the game."
"General, look! That seems to be Azure Star..."
Her delicate brows knitted, the girl wore her long pinkish-purple hair in a crescent bun behind her head.
She pointed toward the holographic display beside the chess table.
Her dreamlike, beautiful eyes were filled with shock.
After seeing the horrifying, staggering footage.
The third divine eye on the forehead of the girl named Fu Xuan lit up.
It allowed her to ascertain the broad facts of what was happening in a distant region of space.
The scene in the livestream was no illusion.
At that moment, Azure Star was facing a world-ending catastrophe.
Although her divine eye could perceive the course of events, it could not perceive their exact form.
Fu Xuan had already realized how serious the situation was.
"That thing... some unnamed Lord Ravager of the Antimatter Legion?"
"No... according to the Xianzhou Luofu's records stretching back ten thousand years."
"No Lord Ravager has ever wielded power in such a form..."
As the leader of the Xianzhou Luofu, General Jing Yuan froze as well.
His formerly relaxed, carefree expression vanished, replaced by extraordinary solemnity.
"Ms. Herta hasn't appeared?"
"It seems there was some truth to those earlier rumors. Herta herself has probably run into trouble."
"I'm afraid Azure Star can no longer escape destruction..."
"A new pawn of the Annihilation Calamity Ancestor? How despicable!"
Fu Xuan let out a long sigh, sorrow showing on her delicate, adorable face.
Across the boundless cosmos.
There were far too many variables and crises that could neither be calculated nor predicted.
Even a force as powerful as the Xianzhou Alliance could not ward off every calamity.
Much less Azure Star, whose reserves and strength fell far short of the Xianzhou Luofu's.
To the vast universe, the disappearance of a single world was no more than a fleeting glimmer.
Yet behind that glimmer lay the loss of tens of billions of intelligent lives.
"At this point, all we can do is watch how things unfold."
"The Cloud Knights should enter a state of full alert as well."
"If Azure Star is erased, that terrifying evil goddess of unfathomable power."
"May well choose our Xianzhou Luofu as her next target..."
With his hands clasped behind his back, leaning against the wall of the bamboo courtyard.
The grayish-white-haired General Jing Yuan stood deep in thought.
As though he was already considering how to deal with the crisis that might descend upon them.
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