53: Are we doomed?!

Beside him, the officer who had Awakened the "True Sight Eye" Talent turned pale as paper, his lips trembling violently, his fingers digging into the edge of the console, his knuckles turning white from the force!

He stared fixedly at the screen, pupils dilated, as if he had seen some incomprehensible terror!

"What's going on?!"

Qin Zheng's heart sank to the bottom in an instant!

"Po... Power... is... is skyrocketing!"

The officer's voice was shaking uncontrollably, laced with a sob,

"Th... That World-Ending Spider Queen's power... is exploding!"

"8000... 12000... 30000... 60000!!! It's still rising!!!"

He stumbled back two steps, as if struck by an invisible giant hammer, letting out a cry of collapse:

"Aria's stats... have broken through 60,000 points!!!!"

"Boom—!"

It was as if a bomb had detonated in the command center!

Dead silence!

A dead silence, colder and more absolute than before!

All the cheers, excitement, and smiles of survival instantly froze and shattered!

Like fragile glass struck by a heavy blow!

Countless gazes, filled with incredulous horror, were drawn like magnets, turning in unison and stiffly toward the central screen!

On the screen, at the center of the bottomless crater, a terrifying Aura that made the Soul tremble was rising into the sky like an ancient demon god Awakening!

On the battlefield, Su Chen's massive crimson eyes were locked onto the depths of the crater!

The rapidly climbing, terrifying pressure, like a volcano about to erupt, made every inch of his muscles tense up!

A fatal warning signal, like a steel needle, pierced deeply into his nerves!

He couldn't wait!

Su Chen's massive body sank slightly.

The next moment, that thickest tentacle, covered in gruesome bone spurs, like a world-ending magic whip, tore through the air with a piercing sonic boom, lashing down fiercely toward the spot where Aria had fallen in the center of the crater!

(C-Rank Skill — Death Whip!)

However!

"Puchi—!!!" A casual, crisp sound, as if slicing through air!

That tentacle, capable of shattering mountains and indestructible under the enhancement of Su Chen's 5000-point terrifying Physique, was, while still dozens of meters from the bottom of the crater, sliced cleanly off as if by a hot knife through butter, by an intangible, formless, yet dark purple blade of light that made space itself wail!

The severed end was as smooth as a mirror!

Dark purple blood gushed out like a waterfall!

Immediately after!

Boom—!!! In the center of the crater, it was as if billions of suns had detonated!

Violent energy exploded outward!

Countless rocks, soil, and steel bars were instantly vaporized!

A slender figure, radiating an Aura of world-destroying devastation, slowly floated up like a demon god breaking free from the shackles of Hell!

It was Aria!

But she was completely different!

On her slender humanoid upper body, the dark purple cursed carapace was spreading and thickening crazily!

Like a gruesome living creature, it crawled all over her fair neck, even eroding more than half of her beautiful face!

Jet-black, writhing cursed power, like viscous oil, flowed and boiled on her skin! It exuded an Aura of ominousness and destruction!

Her pair of dark purple pupils had now turned into a pure abyss devoid of any emotion!

She looked down coldly at Su Chen, her voice like the grinding of ten-thousand-year-old ice:

"I really didn't expect... the power of the Hundredth Order couldn't crush you, this bug."

The excruciating pain of the curse made her voice tremble almost imperceptibly, but the killing intent within it was condensed to the extreme!

"Then... what about the power of the Awakening Level?!"

(Ranks 1-100 are the Ordinary Level; above the Hundredth Order, life undergoes a qualitative change to become — the Awakening Level!)

At this moment, Aria was enduring the backlash of the curse, forcibly pushing her power up to the Awakening Level.

The moment her voice fell!

Aria's right hand, covered in the cursed carapace, waved casually toward Su Chen's location!

There was no earth-shattering momentum, no blinding light!

In Su Chen's massive crimson eyes, his pupils suddenly contracted to pinpoints!

An unprecedented omen of death, stemming from life's instinct, instantly engulfed him like ice water!

Almost relying on battle instincts that transcended his limits, he forced his massive body to twist violently to the right!

Rip—!!! A teeth-grinding wail of space, like cloth being forcibly torn, rang out at the spot where Su Chen had originally been!

The space on his left, along with everything within that space—air, dust, light—was torn open by an invisible giant hand like a fragile canvas!

A terrifying spatial rift, hundreds of meters long with edges flickering in unstable dark purple light, suddenly appeared!

Along with it, Su Chen's mountain-like body was also torn!

Puchi—!!!! Indescribable agony instantly swept through Su Chen's nerves!

The small left half of his body, along with four huge tentacles, vanished into the gruesome spatial rift in an instant, as if thrown into a space shredder!

Dark purple blood gushed out like a bursting river from the smooth, mirror-like wound!

(A+-Rank Skill — Dimensional Slash!)

Awakening Level!

She was actually an entity of the Awakening Level!!!

Su Chen's mind roared!

The pain and extreme shock almost swallowed him whole!

It was only the sixth day of the Origin Qi recovery!

How could a monster of this level appear on Blue Star?!

In the memories of his previous life, there had never been such a terrifying entity descending during the Early Stage!

However, despite his extreme shock, Su Chen understood that he was now truly hanging by a thread; fighting head-on with an entity of the Awakening Level was absolutely a death sentence.

Doomed?

No!

There was still a way to survive!

Su Chen's only remaining crimson right eye instantly locked onto the black cursed power on Aria's body that was surging crazily and eroding her like a living creature!

That curse boiled violently along with the eruption of her power!

The Spider Spirit clearly possessed the power to crush everything, yet she only dared to use the power of the Hundredth Order; the root cause lay in this curse!

As long as... as long as he could completely detonate this curse!

Making her unable to maintain this Awakening Level power, or even... making the curse backfire on her!

And to detonate this curse, others might not have a way, but I have the SSS-Rank Talent capable of altering and guiding genes — Ocean Dominator!

Thinking of this, a crazy, desperate determination suddenly ignited in Su Chen's giant eyes!

"Roar—!!!" Su Chen let out a roar that tore through the sky!

His remaining six tentacles exerted force with a boom, slamming deep into the earth!

His massive body compressed the air, emitting a deafening sonic boom!

His tattered, bleeding body transformed into a meteor of flesh and blood burning with the flames of revenge, ignoring the lingering power of the Dimensional Slash, ignoring his own terrifying injuries, and with a tragic Aura of mutual destruction, he crashed fiercely toward Aria, who was floating in the air!

"Big Guy! Your courage is commendable! But in the face of absolute strength, this is nothing but a futile struggle!"

Aria's voice remained cold, and the black spider patterns spreading across her face gave her a demonic and fatal beauty.