[The host's righteous words have earned partial recognition from the inhabitants of the stars.] [Reward: 8,000 conquest points.] [The humans of Azure Star are praying devoutly to the host, hoping the Conqueror Legion can turn the tide.] [Reward: 10,000 conquest points.]
"Holy shit... is it really this easy? Eighteen thousand points in minutes?"
Lin Chen froze for a moment, hardly able to believe his ears.
Before this, he had racked his brains and even risked his life fighting uncanny monsters.
Yet dismantling that [Deep-Sea Nightmare] had only earned him 3,000 conquest points.
Stars Live had barely been running for a few minutes, and he had already earned 18,000?
Even Lin Chen, a die-hard Caelus fan, was taken aback.
Sure enough, this was the right way to use the system.
Worldwide influence was far more efficient than containing uncanny creations.
Using absolute military might to intimidate and suppress a world could only solve its immediate problems.
Ultimately, it was no lasting solution.
Earning the recognition and reverence of intelligent beings-
that was the true path of conquest.
Through Stars Live, he had won the hopes and recognition of countless intelligent beings.
Receiving so many rewards seemed perfectly reasonable.
"Lin Chen... do you see?"
"I'm about to crush Azure Star."
"A star exploding into pieces must be such a beautiful sight, don't you think?"
"Hahahahaha..."
Not far ahead of Lin Chen, Lilith's smile grew increasingly wild and brazen.
Excitement gleamed in her beautiful crimson eyes.
From their brief exchange earlier,
Lilith had discovered that this man named Lin Chen
seemed to have no means of attacking whatsoever, aside from being absurdly tough.
And in Lilith's eyes,
Lin Chen's life-form energy level was extremely low.
He could not even compare to the human girls she had earmarked for her collection.
So now,
Lilith was in no hurry to kill Lin Chen.
Instead, she was rather eager to see,
once she had crushed Azure Star completely,
just what wonderfully amusing expression Lin Chen would make.
"Sinful witch, you will pay in blood for your madness."
"The Conqueror Legion will pierce your wicked delusions with the spear of justice."
Facing Lilith's taunts, Lin Chen maintained an air of righteous resolve.
Stars Live was still running.
Lin Chen would not let this perfect opportunity slip by
to publicize the Conqueror Legion's name.
"Oh? Where is this Conqueror Legion you keep talking about?"
"Bluffing? You think you can frighten a god?"
"Don't tell me... you're the only person in the Conqueror Legion?"
"Hahahahaha..."
Her long, shapely legs stepped forward beneath her short black skirt.
Lilith walked straight up to Lin Chen.
An increasingly brazen, teasing smile spread across her exquisite face.
With her standing so close,
Lin Chen could clearly see,
beneath the neckline of her gothic dress,
her full, firm mounds of jelly jiggling wildly.
The sight was almost dizzying.
Of course, to March 7th and Asta as they watched from the sidelines,
that bizarre black vortex, whatever it was,
looked ready to suck Lin Chen in whole.
The girls could not help breaking into a nervous sweat for him.
"Look up. At the sky!"
Having already received advance notice from the system,
Lin Chen clasped his hands behind his back and assumed a solemn, serious gaze.
He looked toward the boundless sea of stars behind Azure Star.
The [Universal Countermeasure Card] was certainly useful,
but it was somewhat beyond his control.
Lin Chen himself had only just learned
what means the system would use to resolve the crisis before him.
"Enough of your theatrics!"
"What, has your Conqueror Legion finally arrived?"
Lilith raised her delicate brows and snorted.
Her beautiful crimson eyes brimmed with mockery and contempt.
She turned her head casually to look at the stars Lin Chen had indicated.
"It has indeed..."
In the very next instant,
countless dazzling streaks of light flared one after another across the vast heavens.
In a flash, the once-dark starry sky shone as brightly as day.
Once the fleeting lights faded,
Strategic Interstellar Cruisers numbering in the tens of thousands
filled the entire boundless expanse of space.
[The Conqueror Legion's 114th Star-Sea Combat Group has arrived at the designated stellar coordinates.] [Awaiting combat orders from Commander Lin Chen...]
The wave signals, transmitted instantaneously across the entire starfield by specialized means,
sounded cold and solemn, yet carried an inexplicable authority.
"Ah... what..."
The pupils of her beautiful crimson eyes contracted sharply.
At the sight of the heavy starship fleet that had just warped in, its numbers beyond belief,
Lilith was dumbstruck.
It was not as though she had never seen Star Destroyers.
Dozens had launched from Azure Star to intercept her just moments earlier.
She had already torn them apart with her meme entity's physical body.
But what was this terrifying number before her supposed to mean?
And compared with Azure Star's Star Destroyers,
Lilith felt that these hulks of metal belonging to the Conqueror Legion looked entirely different.
Their cross-shaped hulls were densely covered in weapons modules.
They looked extremely difficult to deal with.
Left utterly stupefied,
Lilith even forgot to activate her divine core and direct her enormous memetic body
to crush Azure Star, whose defenses had already been breached.
"The relevant combat orders have been transmitted."
"Operation codename: Save Azure Star!"
Ignoring Night Queen Lilith, who stood frozen in place,
Lin Chen spoke slowly, his expression as calm and impassive as ever.
[Orders received. The 114th Star-Sea Combat Group will strike the designated target!]
A voice that shook the cosmos rang out in every living being's ears at once.
The next moment, a dense storm of Orbital Neutron Pulse Beams
once again lit the dark, silent starfield as brightly as day.
Lilith's terrifyingly vast meme entity, powerful enough to tear Azure Star apart with her bare hands,
had her entire right arm vaporized and annihilated in an instant.
Beyond the primary target, neutron pulse beams assigned to secondary strikes
fell like a scattered meteor shower.
They completely melted away the starship wreckage still slowly falling through Azure Star's atmosphere.
With that, Azure Star, which had stood on the brink of destruction,
was temporarily out of mortal danger, like a patient brought back from emergency treatment in the ICU.
"Ugh... ah..."
"It hurts..."
Near the ruins of Herta Space Station,
the perpetually haughty Lilith clutched her right arm with her left hand.
Agony twisted her fair, jade-like face.
Even her rose-colored lips had gone somewhat pale from how tightly she bit them.
"So this is the power of a fleet, countless grains of sand building a tower? Terrifying..."
Watching Lilith howl in pain before him,
Lin Chen was somewhat shocked and bewildered himself.
He had only ordered the Star-Sea Combat Group to shatter Lilith's demonic claw.
And the result?
The very first salvo had vaporized her entire arm.
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