"Zerg Scourge? What was that?"
"Looking at this description... it didn't seem all that impressive."
"Yeah! Wasn't it just some kind of organism that reproduced very quickly?"
"It felt... inferior to demons."
"Hey, hey, hey, what did you mean by that? Watch out, or the great Queen Morgana will tear you into eight pieces!"
"But that aside, just how absurdly powerful was this Zerg Scourge for the Ranking List to recognize Immortal Qin Empire Civilization's contribution?"
Exactly!
That single remark woke everyone up.
Only then did people realize something.
This was a contribution ranking!
In other words, by the Ranking List's standards—
Killing the Zerg Scourge counted as a contribution to the universe!
That was extremely strange.
Whether it was Blue Star Civilization or Angel Civilization, their contributions to the universe had come from creating something, such as the Justice Order or the Big Clock.
Yet the reason Immortal Qin Empire Civilization had made the list this time was extermination.
Why?
Everyone was filled with confusion.
At that moment, as explanatory text appeared, images began to emerge on the Light Screen.
It was an utterly ordinary-looking star system, with only one star and three planets orbiting it in simple celestial motion.
Then, the scene abruptly changed!
A strangely muffled whisper began to sound through the vacuum.
"Hiss—hissss—"
The sound ignored the vacuum, seeming to seep out from the screen and bore into the ears of every intelligent life-form throughout the universe.
"So noisy... it hurts!"
"What was that sound?"
"Just listening to it makes my brain feel like mush. How was that even possible??"
At Death Academy, Carl rose directly to her feet. Her brows were deeply furrowed, and her eyes were filled with shock!
"Unknown Universe... Ultimate Fear?"
That was absolutely not something any civilization or intelligent life-form in the Known Universe could accomplish.
Carl was familiar with such methods. This was a trait of subspace organisms. They possessed special structures that allowed them to easily accomplish things intelligent life-forms could not achieve through physical bodies alone.
For the first time, Carl's face revealed a trace of solemnity, even greater than when she had seen the Immortal Qin Empire's enormous body.
Because what she had always pursued... was the Void!
That was, Ultimate Fear!
"Look, something's appearing!"
Pale purple translucent particles gradually gathered, forming an incomparably massive spatial rift.
The rift's diameter was even greater than the enormous star beside it!
Thump—
Thump—
"No... that didn't look like a rift!"
Within the eerie purple fissure was a terrifyingly deep blackness.
Then—
Under everyone's watchful gaze, an enormous...
Eye?!
It truly could be called an eye.
Pale purple eyelids, a clear yellow eyeball, and a pitch-black pupil.
Judging from its appearance, it was an eye.
But...
"Big... so big!!"
Its diameter was simply too vast!
That star was by no means small on a cosmic scale, yet this eye's diameter was even larger than the star itself!
Was that really an eye?
If it truly was an eye, then just how large was its owner??
That incomparably massive eyeball blinked.
Then, the star abruptly changed color.
Everyone instinctively tensed, their hearts suddenly sinking.
Even though it was only a recording, they could still feel an unparalleled pressure from it. That pressure made them afraid to even breathe, leaving them only able to watch helplessly as the eye emerged from the fissure.
Only at this moment did the intelligent life-forms finally see the creature's full appearance.
Its body was not built like any God River Body known to mankind. The enormous eyeball seemed to be its entire body, its eyelids seemed to be the skin covering its surface, and its skin was no different from flesh and blood. Dozens of fleshy, tumor-like tentacles grew from its body.
It looked down upon the entire universe with contempt, its gaze devoid of all intellect and reason.
Then, those tentacles suddenly extended, moving far beyond the speed of light until they enveloped a neighboring star system.
And within one of those star systems, there was a civilization.
That civilization had already ventured into space. A massive Space Fortress orbited beside its star, while nearly ten enormous space warships were docked outside the fortress.
The moment that civilization saw the tentacles reaching toward their star system, it detected the anomaly. Every space warship aimed its main cannons at the incoming tentacles.
Dozens of beams burst forth at once, every single one precisely locking onto the tentacle moving beyond the speed of light.
"Beautiful!"
Quite a few people blurted it out instinctively.
For a target moving that quickly, the hardest part was landing a hit.
Clearly, that civilization possessed an extremely advanced level of technology, capable of accurately locking onto even such speed.
BANG!!!
Dozens of colossal beams struck the tentacle simultaneously. The tentacle instantly shuddered and froze in space.
However, that civilization's assault did not stop.
The Space Fortress began to transform. More warships that had been docked within it streamed out, launching attacks on the tentacle at the same time!
Laser fire on a cosmic scale looked elegant and dazzling!
This strike, which had gathered an unknown amount of energy, lasted a full twenty seconds!
"An attack like that could completely shatter a planetary energy shield, right?"
"More than that! Didn't you look carefully? Those massive beams struck the tentacle almost instantly, and they even possessed annihilating and dissolving properties... Those were genuine continental-level attacks!"
"Continental-level attacks?"
Some civilizations, such as Blue Star Civilization, still did not understand what that meant.
"What was a continental-level attack?"
"Do you even need to ask? Oh... you people still seemed to be pre-nuclear civilizations. Fine, I never expected this would need explaining. Simply put, a single shot from such a weapon could destroy an entire continent on a habitable planet! Converted, that was equivalent to one hundred trillion tons of nuclear bombs."
Ge Xiaolun's jaw nearly dropped. "That strong??"
Space-Time Qiang Wei: Could you stop talking nonsense... we can't afford to embarrass ourselves like this...
Galaxy Power Ge Xiaolun: Y-you knew?
Space-Time Qiang Wei: Of course I knew!
Of course, Liang Bing had told her.
Nearly a hundred continental-level attacks struck the tentacle solidly, continuing for a full twenty seconds.
After twenty seconds, everything returned to silence.
"Even a huge planet would probably have been destroyed by that attack... So strong. Was this Immortal Qin Empire Civilization?"
"So that was it. If this really was Immortal Qin Empire, I had no objections to them being ranked first!"
"Wait, something seemed wrong!"
"Look... that tentacle didn't seem to have disappeared!"
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