164: Chapter 164 New Power! Talent Skill - Starfall

"A mere fourth-tier trash, what are you acting so tough for!"

The fifth-tier Queen behind Anserwe shouted disdainfully. Before her voice could fade, her bone wings vibrated, and she lunged forward.

Julia, Anserwe's adjutant, was also a Peak Fifth Tier Queen, ranked in the top ten of the Fourth Mother Nest's Queens Guard. Her bone wings were not just flight organs but her strongest weapon—their ten edges were as sharp as blades, with a ghostly green psionic luster flowing over the surface, capable of slicing through armor and tearing through shields.

At this moment, she rushed ahead of Anserwe, her ten bone wings like ten long spears, stabbing fiercely at Aria from different angles!

"Julia, don't be impulsive!"

Anserwe's combat intuition had been screaming warnings. From the moment Aria broke through, the chill in her heart had grown thicker. It wasn't fear of strength, but an instinctive dread of a more latent risk.

But her warning was a step too late.

Julia had already charged out.

Aria remained expressionless.

Having entered her Goddess Form, her heart was as still as water, devoid of self and thought. Julia's rapidly approaching figure was reflected in her ice-blue eyes, yet they didn't show the slightest ripple.

She swung the sword in her hand.

The Divine Sword, Wangshu.

It was a translucent sword flowing with silver starlight. The blade was slender, with faint Moonlight Power flowing along the edge, and the vague phantoms of countless stars could be seen on the spine, brightening and dimming with her breath.

Aria swung the sword gently.

There were no fancy movements, no charging wind-up, just a simple horizontal slash.

A streak of silver light flashed by.

As if cutting through tofu.

Julia's ten bone wings were all severed at the base.

"Ah—!!!"

Julia let out a shrill scream. Those ten bone wings were not just her weapons, but a part of her body and vital nodes for the psionic circulation within her. Being severed by a single sword strike caused intense pain and instantly threw her internal energy circulation into chaos.

The confusion from her weapon's destruction and the agonizing pain of her severed wings allowed the fear of death to surround her.

She retreated violently. The innate combat intuition of the Zerg saved her life—if she hadn't backed away quickly, that slash would have cut through more than just her wings; it would have taken her head.

Before the severed bone wings could hit the ground, they were frozen into ice crystals by the residual Moonlight Power in mid-air, then shattered into a cloud of ice shards with a 'snap'.

Julia looked at Aria in horror, her eyes filled with disbelief.

During her evolution process, her bone wings had been reinforced multiple times with Life Divine Energy; their hardness far exceeded any conventional materials or humans! Even Her Majesty the Empress of the Fourth Mother Nest couldn't have severed them in one hit!

This human... this third-tier... no, this now fourth-tier human, what on earth was that sword in her hand?!

But she had no time to think.

Because Aria moved.

She performed a simple skill wind-up, raising the Wangshu Sword and pointing the tip directly at the firmament.

This was the brand-new power brought to her by her upgraded talent.

"Talent Skill—"

"Starfall."

The moment the words fell, the world changed color.

The originally dusky sky seemed to be pulled back like a curtain by an invisible giant hand. The clouds scattered frantically in all directions, revealing the deep, pitch-black cosmic void behind them, dotted with countless specks of starlight.

That starlight was originally just the faint glow from distant suns, no different from the starry sky over Earth.

But at this moment, they changed.

They began to brighten.

One point, two points, ten, a hundred... thousands of points of starlight brightened simultaneously at the same moment.

The speed at which the brightness increased was staggering.

In less than three seconds, those stars that were once just faint points of light were now as bright as moons hanging overhead.

The entire night sky of Planet G-77-3 was illuminated by this sudden radiance as bright as day. No, brighter than day. It was the brilliance of countless 'suns' shining at once, a magnificence that words simply could not describe.

On the ground, both sides in the heat of battle stopped their movements in unison.

Everyone looked up at the sky.

Looking at the falling... stars.

Yes, falling.

That light wasn't true starlight, yet it carried... the power of true stars.

Beams of silver light shot out from those suddenly brightening stars, piercing through the endless cosmic void, through the atmosphere of Planet G-77-3, and falling toward the battlefield below.

The first beam fell.

It landed on the head of a fifth-tier Queen.

That Queen instinctively raised her arms to block, her psionic shield instantly flaring to maximum power.

The beam pierced her shield.

Without any resistance, without any sound, like a hot knife through butter.

The beam struck her shoulder.

Then, it vanished.

The Queen was stunned.

She looked down at her shoulder—there, a burn mark the size of a fingernail appeared. it was very shallow, very light, and hadn't even fully broken the skin.

Only this much power?

Just as she was about to mock it, the second beam fell.

Then the third, the fourth, the tenth, the hundredth...

Countless silver beams poured down from the thousands of 'stars' in the sky, like the Milky Way hanging upside down, like a torrential downpour of stars.

They were as dense as a summer rainstorm. Every second, tens of thousands of beams landed on the battlefield, and every enemy character endured the continuous bombardment of starlight.

The power of the beams was indeed not great.

The damage caused by each beam was roughly equivalent to being hit by a small-caliber energy gun. For a fifth-tier Queen, this damage was like a pinprick, at most leaving a shallow scorch mark on the body.

But the problem was—

There were too many.

So many that they were impossible to dodge.

One Queen tried to use her movement techniques to evade the beams, but the moment she dodged one, ten more would land on her simultaneously. She propped up her shield, but the beams ignored all defenses, passing directly through the shield to strike her flesh.

The most terrifying thing was that the damage caused by these beams ignored all resistances.

The Queens' psionic shields couldn't block it, and their gene-enhanced bodies couldn't resist it. They could only rely on the regenerative abilities of their life source to endure it, quickly healing these wounds.

Every beam dealt pure, irreducible true damage, which placed a massive energy burden on them.

On the battlefield, energy was an exceptionally precious resource; once used, it was gone. Moreover, they had to stay focused to deal with the Trial Trainees' attacks, the harassment of the Zerg Bioweapons, and the base's fire coverage.

As one side waxed and the other waned, the battle situation began to undergo a subtle change.

"Damn it! What the hell is this!"

The Queens roared in anger, but it was to no avail.

In the sky, those thousands of 'stars' remained bright, continuing to pour down beams incessantly.

They seemed infinite, as if they would never stop.

The entire planetary battlefield, from the surface to the low altitude, from the base to the wasteland, was completely covered by this silver star rain.

That was no ordinary attack.

It was the judgment from the Great Yin Diviner.

It was the power of the stars, manifesting its might in this world for the first time.