161: Chapter 161 The Moon-Devouring Wolf's Defense and the Consumption of the Thunder God Sword
The moment he put away the blueprints, the boiling sea of stars in Su Chen's eyes returned to silence, turning into two bottomless pools of cold water.
The fall of Vohn was merely the beginning of the conquest of this divine kingdom's ruins.
That Magic Puppet Temple was the greatest harvest of this trip, the cornerstone for the Zerg Swarm civilization to step toward a higher dimension.
His consciousness swept across the bridge of the Leviathan Mothership, and cold commands echoed throughout the Zerg Swarm network.
No pause.
No rest.
For a Scourge, war was no different from breathing.
The massive Leviathan Mothership turned its direction, and beneath its hull, countless smaller Zerg warships gathered like a swarm of bees, forming a torrent of steel and flesh that spanned the Void Realm, advancing toward the deepest part of the ruins.
There lay the core area of the divine kingdom's ruins.
An ancient city shrouded in bright moonlight floated in the center of the darkness, exuding an air of aloofness and sanctity.
The city's building material was not stone, but a strange silver-white bone. Every inch of the walls was engraved with complex Moon Runes. In the center of the city, a towering spire reached into the clouds, the moonlight gathered at its Peak so dense it couldn't be dispersed, like a silver moon that would never fall.
According to the final intelligence leaked during Vohn's Soul wails before his fall, the strongest remnant Soul in these ruins was entrenched here.
The Moon-Devouring Demonic Wolf.
A powerful deity who once followed the Moon Goddess, it had died in battle alongside her during the Age of Divine Fall. However, due to its obsession and the special rules of this divine kingdom, its remnant Soul had turned into a being like a Bound Spirit, guarding the Moon Goddess's final legacy.
“Awoooo—!!!”
The approach of the Zerg Swarm army stirred the moonlight that had been silent for ten thousand years.
A desolate, ancient, yet infinitely hostile wolf howl exploded from the city. The sound waves turned into visible silver ripples, piercing through the Void Realm.
The sound waves contained a terrifying divine pressure. Under this roar, the Soul fires of the weaker Zerglings and Hydralisks were instantly extinguished, and the flesh beneath their carapaces rapidly necrotized and collapsed.
Immediately after, a silver-white translucent light dome abruptly rose above the ancient city.
Upon the dome, billions of Moon Runes flowed incessantly, weaving into a sacred canopy of light that exuded an eternal aura of indestructibility and immunity to all magic.
lower divine artifact—Moonlight Protection!
“Invaders, begone!”
A towering phantom slowly rose from the city wall.
It was a giant silver wolf over three hundred meters tall. Its body was not physical but composed of the purest moonlight and Divine Soul power. Within its translucent body, one could see countless star-like energy points flowing.
Its pair of eyes, however, were a piercing crimson, burning with inextinguishable fury and a mad obsession.
Even though it was only a remnant Soul, the pressure it exuded was still firmly at the Peak of a Ninth-Turn Demigod.
“Somewhat interesting.”
Su Chen stood on the bridge of the Leviathan Mothership. Outside the massive crystal viewport was the moonlight city guarded by the dome.
His eyes showed no flicker of emotion; he merely watched calmly.
Just moments ago, a Thunder Beast King, as large as a mountain, had followed his will and performed a tentative charge.
The Thunder Beast King was a heavy assault unit of the Zerg Swarm. A single full-speed charge was enough to knock a small planet out of orbit, and the horns on its head could even tear through fragile spatial structures.
However, when its body, imbued with the power to shatter stars, slammed into that seemingly thin moonlight shield, it was completely repelled by an irresistible, flexible force.
The kinetic energy of the impact was instantly absorbed by the runes flowing on the shield, converted, and then discharged into the endless Void Realm.
The Thunder Beast King's massive body flew backward, tumbling several times in the air before barely stabilizing itself and letting out an unwilling roar.
“An absolute defense type Divine Artifact?”
Su Chen's fingertips tapped lightly on the control console as the data stream before him refreshed like a waterfall.
His gaze pierced through that magnificent dome, locking directly onto the core of its energy operation.
“Extremely high energy intensity, stable structure, almost no weaknesses.”
“But...”
His gaze shifted slightly, landing on the energy chain between the dome and the Moon-Devouring Demonic Wolf inside the city.
“The recovery speed... doesn't seem to keep up with the consumption.”
With every attack resisted, the energy of the dome itself suffered a microscopic loss. This loss required the Moon-Devouring Demonic Wolf to use its own Divine Power to replenish it.
Since it couldn't be killed in one blow, then—
Wear it down to death!
For Su Chen, who had the entire Zerg Swarm as his backing, a war of attrition was his favorite and most proficient mode of warfare.
“Activate the biological weapon ‘sword of the thunder god’.”
A cold, emotionless command was issued through the mental network.
“Buzz—”
The abyss-like belly of the Leviathan Mothership slowly split open. Amidst the teeth-gritting sound of flesh and metal friction, a thousand-meter-long, hideously shaped giant sword was slowly lowered by countless thick biological cables.
It was composed entirely of a living metal with a dark purple luster. The blade was not a smooth surface but was covered in pulsing purple flesh-tendons and bone spikes flickering with lightning.
The entire giant sword was less a weapon and more a living thing, a hideous creature forcibly molded into the shape of a sword.
At the position of the hilt, a large, irregular purple crystal was wrapped and buried deep within countless flesh tentacles.
That was the godhead shard Su Chen had seized after the fall of the Thunder God MacDonald!
At this moment, this shard served as the core energy source for the ‘sword of the thunder god’, continuously drawing lightning elements from the Void Realm and converting them into the purest Divine Lightning of Destruction.
The giant sword hovered directly above the moonlight city. The purple tendons around the blade flickered, and a terrifying lightning storm gathered at the tip, causing the surrounding space to sizzle with ionization.
“First shot, fall!”
Su Chen's will was the trigger.
Rumble!
A deafening roar like the world was splitting apart.
A bolt of purple Divine Lightning as thick as a barrel, like a spear of divine punishment, struck down fiercely from the sword's tip a thousand meters high. It tore through the darkness and slammed hard against the silver-white moonlight shield.
“Buzz—!”
The shield vibrated violently, like a great bell struck by a giant hammer.
Purple lightning and silver moonlight clashed and annihilated each other madly, erupting in a blindingly brilliant light.
The brightness of the dome dimmed for a fleeting moment, visible to the naked eye.
Inside the city, the phantom of the Moon-Devouring Demonic Wolf let out a muffled groan. The Divine Power within its body immediately surged out, pouring into the ‘Moonlight Protection’ along the energy chain, restoring the dimmed light to its Peak.
“Blocked it? Then let's see how many times you can block.”
Su Chen's face was hidden in the shadows of the bridge, calm to a heart-palpitating degree.
“Full automatic mode, one shot every three seconds.”
“Don't stop.”
His command was the absolute Law.
Boom!
Three seconds later, the second Divine Lightning bolt fell precisely.
Boom!
Another three seconds, and the third bolt followed.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The lightning was like a never-ending rainstorm, pouring accurately and ruthlessly onto the same point of the moonlight shield.
Each strike was equivalent to the full-power blow of an Eighth-Rank Demigod.
Never-ending.
Without pause.
Inside the city, for the first time, a solemn expression appeared in the crimson eyes of the Moon-Devouring Demonic Wolf.
It stared fixedly at the hideous giant sword above that was constantly raining down divine punishment. Feeling the rapid loss of Divine Power within its body, its expression became extremely ugly.
As a remnant Soul, its Divine Power was like water without a source; once used, it was gone.
It could erupt with world-destroying attacks in an instant, but what it feared most was this kind of endless consumption.
And that damn invader had clearly seen through its weakness from the start and chosen the most shameless yet effective tactic.
Using an absolute resource advantage to drain it dry!
Just as the Moon-Devouring Demonic Wolf was fuming with rage and considering a countermeasure, a cold and calm voice crossed the spatial barrier and rang directly in the depths of its Soul.
“At this frequency, if the bombardment continues for half a year, your turtle shell will shatter like an eggshell.”
Su Chen's voice carried no mockery or threat; he was simply stating a cold fact, a calculated and despairing future.