Chapter 2047 The End

When the center of the Dark Abyss erupted with the largest-scale divine power impact in the history of this universe, the battlefield between Order and Chaos on the periphery of the Dark Abyss also entered the most brutal stage since the start of the war.

The defense line began to collapse layer by layer.

As the Doomsday Engine entered an overload state in an almost self-destructive manner, the power of the maddened screams from the Dark Abyss instantly went berserk. The claws of Chaos no longer poured out from those twisted structures in batches, but instead filled the entire universe almost instantly—in every inch of space surrounding the Dark Abyss, countless derivatives appeared out of thin air every minute and every second, polluting the Order's defense line as quickly as paint spilled into a pond.

Faced with such a sudden and drastic change in the offensive, the first layer of the defense line, with Watch Fortress as its core, began to show loopholes after barely holding on for a short time, and then the entire defense line gradually collapsed with these loopholes as the center.

The powerful joint shield was corroded and disintegrated by the Chaos monsters, the drone swarms were submerged in the dark tide, and celestial bodies transformed into fortresses and strongholds were torn apart in explosions. The drone nests resisted for a while with dense fixed turrets, but soon lost connection with the cluster consciousness one by one.

Faced with the unstoppable offensive, the Guardian Fleet and the Night Watch Fleet could only temporarily retreat towards the second layer of the defense line, preparing to reorganize their defenses with the help of the still intact fortifications on the second layer.

Countless Star Citizens and Guardians turned into cosmic dust to cover the retreat of the main force.

A series of explosions spread from the central control tower to the surrounding areas, and except for the central building complex, most of the buildings in Watch Fortress had been completely extinguished. The maddened derivatives that emerged from all directions crossed those scrapped shield generators, devouring everything in front of them like gluttonous beasts, even space-time itself. This magnificent fortress, which was still brightly lit not long ago, was rapidly disappearing like a sandcastle being washed away by the waves.

In the upper control room of the central control tower, there was still the last bit of remaining light, which was the light emitted by several large terminals. The control room was now empty, with only the AI maintaining the final functional operations. Above one of the terminals, a hologram displayed the number of remaining turrets in the fortress.

That number had already fallen below double digits.

But suddenly, a new instruction appeared. The fortress AI immediately switched its work process. All the programs used to monitor the fortress's operating status were shut down, and all the holograms showed only one thing: the Annihilation Lance Matrix located in the core area of the fortress, which had not yet been completely destroyed.

"Instruction 1: Activate the Annihilation Lance and project firepower to coordinate XX."

"Instruction 2: Self-destruct."

"Executing."

The light in the control room flickered violently. Soon, two more terminals went dark after a series of sparks, but in the center of the fortress, the Annihilation Lance Matrix, which resembled peculiar buildings, had begun to slowly assemble.

Of the four Annihilation Lance launchers, two had been completely destroyed, while the other two re-illuminated after injecting energy. Dazzling white sparks jumped between the crystals and coils, gradually converging at the very front of the array.

A group of maddened derivatives were attracted by this sudden surge of energy, swarming like sharks smelling blood, but the energy had already reached the critical point. As the firing command was issued, two dazzling beams of light cut through the darkness that was gradually gathering, opened a space rift in the distant space, and then disappeared into it.

"Launch successful, entering self-destruct sequence. Glad to be of service, end of service."

The remaining energy furnaces and ammunition depots throughout the fortress were detonated simultaneously. An unprecedentedly huge explosion erupted in the universe, as if a new star was born in flames and flashes. That dazzling light even briefly suppressed the erosion of darkness and chaos, tearing countless maddened derivatives to pieces.

At the same moment, similar grand explosions occurred at various nodes on the first line of defense. The chain self-destruction of countless fortresses even suppressed the activity of the maddened forces in a short period of time, leaving the main force that had just retreated to the second line of defense with precious breathing space.

In the deepest part of the Dark Abyss, the golden and pale figures separated once again.

The surrounding spatial structure had disintegrated, and countless bright or dark band-shaped objects floated in space like wandering nightmares. Once the wreckage scattered across the battlefield came into contact with them, they would immediately disintegrate into the most basic data elements, dissipating into the endless chaos of time and space.

The Doom Goddess finally realized the existence of the conspiracy. She stopped her frantic attack and surveyed the collapsed battlefield.

A look of astonishment appeared on that pale face.

Under Leah's conscious control, countless pale-golden runes remained on the battlefield. These seemingly randomly arranged runes were originally just floating freely, but at this moment, they all froze and began to emit an increasingly bright golden light.

The ownership of the space-time structure was instantly transferred, and the authority of this universe temporarily fell into Leah's hands.

The Doom Goddess roared: "What do you want to do?!"

Leah did not answer. She opened her hands, and the pages floating around her were reorganized into the appearance of a holy book. At the same time, the divine writings floating across the battlefield emitted an even brighter light. From the distant space, it could be clearly seen that the characters had formed a sphere with a complex multi-layered structure - the Doom Goddess was in the center of this sphere.

Only then did Leah finally speak: "I command, all things cease to function."

And so, in the universe covered by golden runes, everything stopped.

Not only did matter cease to move, but time also stood still, the flow of information disappeared, and the evolution of the universe stagnated.

First came absolute zero, followed by boundless darkness—because even the movement of light had become still.

In the darkness, only the countless golden runes shone brightly.

But it all lasted only a very brief moment. The Doom Goddess, with the same rank, had enough power to resist Leah, who had mastered many new divine arts, with the blessing of the maddened power. In the counterattack of the Chaos forces, the still universe began to operate again. After the darkness receded, the Doom Goddess, located in the very center of the rune array, looked up: "You thought that was all..."

"I never said that was all," Leah said lightly, and in the space behind her, the Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace was emerging from the shadows.

The upper deck of that silver-white warship had been opened, and a specially made antenna device rose from it. As the antenna device was activated, countless space rifts of all sizes appeared behind her.

The brilliance of the Annihilation Lance crossed time and space, crashing down on the Doom Goddess.

The barrage of high-energy beams lasted for a full half-minute. Even Leah couldn't help but squint as she watched the torrent of light. By the time the bombardment was nearing its end, the area near the Doom Goddess had become "clean" as if it had been scrubbed.

All the wreckage fragments and space rifts were smoothed out by the power of the Annihilation Lance.

"Can it be resolved?" Data Terminal asked nervously.

"It won't be that easy," Hao Ren replied.

And almost as soon as Hao Ren's voice fell, the bombardment ended. In the depths of the gradually dissipating flames, a pale figure reappeared - she was indeed battered, with wounds emitting black smoke everywhere, and even half of her face had disappeared, leaving only a hideous dark outline, but she was still alive.

Or rather, she would never die.

"This is your trump card?" The Doom Goddess's body began to recover at an alarming rate. Her voice did not even sound weak, "Ridiculous, I even..."

She was interrupted by Leah before she could finish speaking: "What if we add this!"

The divine writings scattered everywhere had gathered together at some point, forming a hazy phantom like a spear beside Leah, while the heavy book disintegrated into countless light particles under the pull of some force and quickly "flowed" to the tip of the spear. Almost instantly, the originally illusory spear became a light-forged weapon as if it were a real entity.

Leah hugged the weapon, which was several times larger than her, from the side, and her whole body turned into the driving force of the weapon, rushing towards the Doom Goddess, who was temporarily unable to move due to recovering from her injuries, like a shooting star.

Her voice almost spread throughout the universe: "What if we add me?!"

The golden spear instantly pierced through that pale figure.

All of this happened in an instant, but it seemed to span countless time flows. Hao Ren felt as if a century had passed before the two clusters of golden and pale light separated again.

The pale-golden spear silently turned into countless light particles in the universe, and the black-skinned book reappeared beside Leah - compared to before, the light flowing on the surface of the holy book was obviously several times weaker.

And the Doom Goddess's pale figure froze for a few seconds, and then shattered into countless scattered fragments, disappearing into the universe.

Leah stared intently at the place where the Doom Goddess had disappeared. The excessive loss of power made her body tremble uncontrollably, and wisps of golden-red blood floated out of her wounds, but she couldn't bother to deal with them.

The next moment, her pupils contracted instantly.

A small piece of pale matter appeared out of thin air in space, and then, more pale fragments appeared out of thin air.

It was as if the moment just now was being played in reverse. The Doom Goddess's form was rapidly reshaping in space. Almost in the blink of an eye, she reappeared there intact.

"Ah... I have to say, admiring your expression right now isn't bad..." The Doom Goddess looked down at her restored hands, then looked up at Leah, "Interesting... you really prepared a lot of surprises..."

Leah stared intently into the Doom Goddess's eyes, but suddenly, all of her nervous and astonished expressions disappeared.

What replaced it was a smile that had been concealed for a long time: "But you haven't seen the real surprise yet."

"What..."

The Doom Goddess only had time to utter a syllable before she suddenly turned around, blocking two cosmic fragment longswords that were slashing at her with a hair's breadth.

Hao Ren gripped the Godslayer Sword and the Worldsplitter Blade tightly, a layer of divine radiance blessed by Raven 12345 enveloped him, protecting him from the Chaos power that leaked from the Doom Goddess. He pressed the longsword forward with all his strength: "The show has just begun!"

"This is the so-called surprise?" A pale light curtain opened in front of the Doom Goddess. The edge of the Godslayer Sword kept bursting out bright sparks on the light curtain, but it could not move forward, "You really think I didn't notice? This human who has been wandering around since just now, but hasn't really made a move..."

As she said that, she even yawned: "So your surprise is this? Letting such a weak human 'sneak attack' me? Such a weak and powerless attack... even if it's a sneak attack, what can it do?"

Hao Ren grinned and increased his strength again: "Don't you really recognize the sword in front of you?!"

"This sword?!" At this point, the Doom Goddess seemed to notice the distinct characteristics of the two longswords in Hao Ren's hand for the first time, and noticed the familiar aura emanating from one of them, "This... this is from back then..."

"This is the sword that 'killed' the Creator Goddess once back then." As the pressure he was under increased, Hao Ren's expression became more and more ferocious, but his eyes remained unwavering, "How is it? Does it give you a feeling that the past is about to repeat itself?"

The two swords pressed down again, and the layer of starlight on the surface of the Godslayer Sword gradually floated with a layer of blood color. Under the erosion of that layer of blood color, fine cracks began to appear on the pale shield in front of the Doom Goddess.

"We spent a lot of effort back then to forge a weapon sufficient to slay gods!"

The starlight on the surface of the Godslayer Sword finally turned completely blood-colored, and the pale shield shattered with a bang, but before the blade was about to touch the Doom Goddess's body, the latter suddenly raised her hand and directly grabbed the blades of the two swords.

"Forged a weapon sufficient to slay gods?" The Doom Goddess held the blades of the Godslayer Sword and the Worldsplitter Blade, and the blades that could cut through space-time now seemed to have lost their power, and could not even cut through the skin on her hands, "Ah, so that's how it is, I finally understand what you're thinking... but it's too disappointing..."

The Doom Goddess laughed, but her smile was full of madness and malice: "You actually put your hope on a sword! Did you think I really didn't know anything? Did you think I really didn't guard against this strange sword? As early as ten thousand years ago, when this sword seriously injured me, I guessed that the Creator Goddess would definitely do something to the sword!"

She clenched her hands hard, and the starlight on the surface of the Worldsplitter Blade and the Godslayer Sword suddenly flickered frantically, as if they could not bear the weight, and the voice of the Evil God continued to sound in Hao Ren's mind: "This sword can't kill me at all!"

Hao Ren stared intently into the Doom Goddess's eyes. In the space behind him, the Red Moon had completely suppressed the operation of the Dark Celestial Body, and a ray of moonlight separated from the surface of the Red Moon, shining directly on him.

In that gentle moonlight, came Vivian's soft whisper.

The next second, golden and red rays of light emerged from the moonlight, flowing onto Hao Ren's limbs like some kind of fluid, and quickly condensing into a set of golden-red armor. As a certain restriction in his soul was lifted, his face even began to gradually change.

Looking at the familiar golden-red armor and Hao Ren's changing appearance, the Doom Goddess finally vaguely realized something.

Hao Ren's voice echoed in her mind:

"Who told you... that the weapon we forged was that sword!"

Looking at the Godslayer in front of her, the Doom Goddess finally realized what the real weapon was.

Then, the longsword slashed down.

Whether it was the Godslayer Sword or the Worldsplitter Blade, there was actually no difference between the two. When they were held in the hands of the Godslayer, they were both the Godslayer Sword.

The blade struck the target without any hindrance, and the pale figure shattered with a bang, as fragile as a piece of glass that would shatter at a touch.

But Hao Ren knew very well how hard-won this blow was—

If it hadn't been for the deathmatch between Leah and the Doom Goddess, the latter wouldn't have focused all of her power together, leaving him with the opportunity to completely eliminate her;

If it hadn't been for Vivian using the power of the Creation Engine to collect data on the battlefield and reset the Doom Goddess's feature code, then even if he lifted the restrictions on his soul, he wouldn't have been able to cause effective damage to the Doom Goddess;

If calculated from that sword in the Godslayer War ten thousand years ago, his current blow had been brewing for ten thousand years.

The pale fragments scattered in space. In Hao Ren's special vision, he could see that the dark "matter" that was surging everywhere in the depths of the universe was also dissipating at a rapid rate.

The Dark Celestial Body, which had completely stopped operating under the Red Moon's light, finally began to collapse. The hideous giant cracks on its surface quickly evolved into deep valleys and trenches sufficient to tear the planet apart. Large chunks of celestial fragments peeled off from the planet due to its internal pressure. Along with continuous explosions, the dark-red light inside the celestial body gradually extinguished.

The twisted dark structures in the distant space also gradually disappeared. After Chaos receded, normal starlight finally shone into this place of eternal night.

Leah stared intently at the place where the Doom Goddess had disappeared. She still didn't dare to relax, because the indestructible nature of the Lord of Madness had brought her too much trouble. She didn't dare to be careless in the slightest, lest she leave the enemy with even the slightest chance to survive.

She stared intently like that, until she saw wisps of golden light appearing in space. The light slowly condensed to form a fuzzy, ever-changing "cloud of energy," and only then did she finally breathe a sigh of relief.

That wisp of divine power was the part she had separated back then, and it was also the essence of the "Doom Goddess." Its reappearance and purification meant the true dissipation of the Madness power.

"Is it over?" Hao Ren asked nervously, seeing that the other party didn't say a word for a long time, he finally couldn't help but ask.

As the Godslayer power receded, he had returned to his original appearance.

Leah summoned that cloud of golden light and held it carefully in her hands. She smiled and nodded: "It's over."

Then she raised her head and looked up at the infinite stars in the universe.

"Children, it's all over!"

In Tanagoth, in Aioi, in Holletta, in Coro... on every planet where life existed, the twisted Chaos creatures from nightmares were falling to the ground one after another.

Smoke erupted from their bodies, causing these monsters to dissipate quickly as if they were evaporating. The warriors, exhausted from the battle, looked at all of this in a somewhat dazed manner, as if they were still unable to determine what had happened.

Oprah flicked off the dirt on her longsword - the dirt began to turn into smoke and disappear before it was flicked off - she raised her head and saw the ominous black clouds in the sky fading away, and a ray of sunlight penetrated the thick clouds formed by Chaos power, shining on everyone.

Along with the sunlight that shone into their hearts, there was also a voice filled with joy and love: "Children, it's all over!"

A moment later, she heard deafening cheers.

...

After receiving Leah's confirmation, Hao Ren finally relaxed. He spread his arms and legs and floated in the vast space in a completely relaxed state.

Data Terminal circled around his head: "Hey... buddy, pay attention to the image of an Imperial employee!"

"Whatever... I just want to float now, just let me float like this..."

The Giant Tortoise Rock Terrace roamed in the distance: "Boss, I won't stop you from floating, but remember to report my work-related injury! I plan to replace it with a more powerful kidney later..."

"Okay, okay, replace the kidney, replace the kidney... damn it, how did a ship girl change her style like this?"

Lily's voice also sounded in Hao Ren's mind through Data Terminal's relay: "Landlord, landlord! It's over, it's over! When are we going home for dinner?"

Then came May's voice: "Landlord! I didn't chicken out this time! I'll send you the combat video later..."

Then came Izhaks: "I have a video here too, but I have to send Lanina back first..."

In Izhaks's voice, there was also Elizabeth's chattering voice.

The voices of his friends were noisy in his mind. Hao Ren listened and couldn't help but squint and smile.

A ray of moonlight focused beside him, and Vivian walked out of the moonlight, with a stream of golden runes floating behind her like wings - that was because her connection with the Red Moon-Creation Engine had not been interrupted, and she was surrounded by several excited little pixies, who were clamoring about the celebration.

"Your style is pretty cool." Hao Ren looked at Vivian and said with a smile.

Vivian also smiled and adjusted her position, "lying" in the universe with Hao Ren, basking in the starlight.

"It shouldn't be a flag to say this at this time, right?"

"I don't think so."

"Then... after we go back, will you marry me?"

Vivian thought carefully: "Although I'm very happy, I always feel that... shouldn't there be a gift for a proposal? After all, this is such a serious matter..."

Hao Ren couldn't help but laugh: "Then what do you want?"

Vivian tapped her chin with her finger: "I always feel that you're such a powerful guy, it seems like you can get me anything I ask for... how about you give me a star?"

Hao Ren thought for a while, reached out and called out to Leah, who was also floating in the distant space pretending to be a salted fish: "Leah! Come here for a moment, I'll leave you with some homework!"

(End of the main story)

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