74: Chapter 74 The Great Perfection of the Law of Calamity and the Hatching of Leviathan
The dead silence of the outside world and the horror of the demigods had nothing to do with Su Chen.
His consciousness had long since withdrawn from that boiling battlefield of magma.
Those praises or jealousies that would drive any demigod insane were nothing but meaningless noise to him.
The glaring new ranking on the light screen stele was, in his eyes, not even worth as much as a single Drone in his God's Domain.
Victory was just a process.
The spoils of war were his only goal.
[Clear successful! Current ranking: 3600th on the Demigod Leaderboard!]
[Calculating clear rewards...]
Su Chen ignored all the tremors in the outside world; his will was like a cold, sharp blade, stabbing directly at the reward options.
Six opportunities to enter the "Rule Space" to comprehend a divine portfolio.
This was the entire purpose of his trip.
"Use rewards."
His voice rang out in the space of consciousness without a hint of hesitation.
"Target: Calamity divine portfolio, Slaughter divine portfolio!"
Hum—
The world instantly lost its color and form.
Su Chen's will was pulled away by an irresistible, great force and thrown into a mysterious sea that could not be described in words.
There was no up, down, left, or right here, nor the passage of time.
There were only rules.
Pure, primordial rules that formed the cornerstone of the entire multiverse.
Countless bright or dim lines flowed, intertwined, and collided before his "eyes."
Each line represented a supreme law.
Among them, two of the thickest "trunks" attracted all his attention.
One displayed an ominous, gray-green color mixed with decay and rot; that was [Calamity]. Death, Plague, famine, war, doomsday... the embodiment of all endings floated within it.
The other was a pure, extreme blood-red, filled with the violent aura of destruction and ending. That was [Slaughter]. Every swing of a blade, every slaughter, every end of a life, turned into the most insignificant speck of light within this line.
Su Chen's godhead, a crystal that was originally dark green, floated in the center of this ocean.
It was like a black hole that had been starving for billions of years, erupting with infinite suction.
"Analyze!"
"Absorb!"
Su Chen's will operated crazily, greedily pulling these rule lines over and forcefully branding them onto his godhead.
This process was no different from pouring molten iron directly onto his soul.
Every second, a massive amount of information and insights washed over his will, enough to cause any Gold-tier demigod to instantly suffer a mental breakdown and become a mindless fool.
But Su Chen's soul had long been tempered to be indestructible through endless battles and evolution.
Pain only made him more focused.
He could clearly "see" that his dark green godhead was undergoing earth-shaking changes.
Under the baptism and scouring of countless rule lines, the impurities on its surface were peeled away bit by bit, and it became increasingly crystal clear.
Thin strands and wisps of complex, sacred patterns began to emerge on the crystal's surface by themselves.
That was not decoration.
That was the divine rune.
It was the ultimate proof that a god had mastered a law and made it their own!
One day. Two days.
When only forty-eight hours had passed in the outside world, Su Chen seemed to have spent several centuries in the Rule Space.
He finally opened his eyes again.
Within his God's Domain, his physical body sat cross-legged, not moving an inch.
But the moment those eyes opened, the sky of the entire God's Domain dimmed.
Deep within his pupils, it was no longer the scene of his God's Domain that was reflected.
There, it seemed as if endless mountains of corpses and seas of blood were undulating, billions of living beings were wailing in the Calamity, and countless worlds were sinking in destruction.
An indescribable pressure swept through the entire God's Domain with him at the center!
[Congratulations, Overlord! The mastery of the dual divine portfolios of Calamity and Slaughter has increased to 6%!]
[Realm barrier broken!]
[Realm breakthrough! Promoted to Fifth-Turn Demigod (Gold-tier threshold)!]
Boom!
A divine power, several times larger than before, exploded within his body.
His soul was like refined steel thrown into a furnace; after being tempered a thousand times, it was instantly quenched, becoming incomparably condensed and resilient.
Power!
An unprecedented sense of power filled every one of his thoughts.
If he was a rushing river before.
Then now, he was a bottomless ocean!
Just as Su Chen was preparing to spend some time carefully adapting to this surging power.
An extremely urgent, even slightly trembling emergency mental link crossed space and exploded directly in his mind.
This link came from the Hive.
"Overlord!"
The Hive's voice rarely lost its usual calmness, filled with uncontrollable excitement.
"Hatching... complete!"
"That big guy... that big guy... it has awakened!"
Su Chen's body trembled slightly.
The mountains of corpses and seas of blood undulating in his eyes instantly vanished, replaced by an extreme, burning ecstasy.
It's here!
The thing he had waited for for too long!
The next instant, his figure disappeared from where he stood.
High above the God's Domain, space twisted without warning, and Su Chen's figure appeared out of thin air.
He looked down.
With just one glance, his breath stalled.
In the core area of his God's Domain, the giant incubation pool, which he had poured countless resources into and built to the highest specifications, had completely disappeared at this moment.
No, not disappeared.
It was burst open.
Countless fragments of metal and biological tissue were scattered around a ridiculously huge pit.
Replacing it was a... shadow.
A terrifying shadow that covered half the sky.
That was a giant beast.
A terrifying giant beast that was enough to make a god feel small just by floating there quietly!
Its body length exceeded five kilometers!
Its entire body presented a deep, extreme jet-black color, as if it were condensed from the vacuum of the universe itself, capable of devouring all light.
Its main outline presented a flat, giant ray-like posture, full of streamlined biological beauty, yet exuding a cold aura of war.
Extremely thick biological armor covered every inch of its body, and at the seams of the armor, deep blue energy patterns flowed slowly, like breathing.
At the edges of its massive body, countless black tentacles of varying lengths swayed slowly in the void.
Each sway did not stir the airflow.
Instead, it directly caused a weak tremor in space, and visible ripples constantly spread out with those tentacles as the center.
[Void psionic energy Mothership · leviathan (Larva)]
[Rank: Low-level True God-tier creature (Pseudo)]
[Abilities: Interstellar Warp, psionic energy Shield, Biological Zerg Swarm Hangar (Can accommodate one million Zerg Swarm units)...]
"This is... the leviathan!"
Su Chen's figure instantly appeared on the giant beast's back.
He reached out and gently stroked the cold, hard biological armor.
From his fingertips came the touch of ten-thousand-year black ice, as well as the terrifying energy reaction pulsating like a star core beneath the armor.
Success.
After investing massive amounts of rare resources and under the catalysis of his "Infinite Gene Evolution" talent, its final evolutionary path did not head towards an ordinary cosmic transport beast.
Instead, it mutated into... a real, living war fortress that could traverse the sea of stars!
Just at the moment he touched the leviathan, a massive stream of information was transmitted from the giant beast's consciousness core into his mind.
He "saw" into the interior of the leviathan.
Inside that body, which was as huge as a city, besides the biological Zerg Swarm hangar that could accommodate a million Zerg Swarm units, there was also a brand new type of self-destruct unit that he had never ordered to be designed.
It was the ultimate trump card born specifically for the cold, vacuum space battlefield.
[psionic energy Fighter] (Advanced version of the Self-Destruct Flying Mosquito).