193: Prism, Prisoners, and Gods

Casper's handsome mental projection flickered violently, displaying cracks for the first time—cracks of fear.

He wanted to run!

"Can you escape?"

Lin Mo's voice was devoid of emotion, yet it made all the laws of this mental space tremble and submit.

His palm faced upwards, and emerald green light surged from the depths of his consciousness, weaving into an infinitely spreading net of Life.

Each emerald green thread pulsed with the veins of the World Tree, forcibly "healing" and mending every void rift Casper could have used to escape.

This space had been declared his absolute domain by the captain of the Natural Selection.

"It's our turn."

Gu Zhixia's voice rang out, her figure transforming into a pure purple destruction, appearing behind Casper.

The long spear, forged by the combined will of the three, thrust forward.

On the spear's shaft, green vitality, pink creation, and purple destruction rotated wildly. Where the spear tip pointed, space itself wailed and disintegrated.

This was the purest direct thrust, condensing all her fury and regret.

"No—!"

Casper let out his final roar, filled with unwillingness and despair.

"Pfft!"

The long spear pierced through his handsome mental projection without any obstruction.

There was no blood, no explosion.

Only a silent, absolute "collapse."

Centered on the spear tip, Casper's mental body, along with his proud "High-Dimensional Gallery" and the shimmering bubbles imprisoning countless souls, simultaneously developed spiderweb-like cracks.

"Crack... crack crack crack..."

Crisp shattering sounds echoed continuously throughout this mental world, like a dirge played for a god.

The desperate soul cages shattered one after another, turning into specks of starlight. The souls within them perhaps perished then, or perhaps found their final liberation.

The entire false illusionary world let out a mournful cry, unable to bear the strain.

Then, like glass smashed on the ground, it splintered into countless pieces and collapsed with a crash!

The moment before his consciousness returned to reality, Lin Mo caught the last remnants of resentment from The Collector, filled with malicious curses.

"You... will regret it... Leviathan's wrath... will... completely..."

The voice abruptly ceased.

The darkness receded.

The instant his consciousness returned to his body, an icy chill pierced him.

Lin Mo suddenly opened his eyes. The cold metallic deck of the Bridge pressed against his back, and the familiar emergency lights on the ceiling stung his eyes.

He found that at some point, he had slid from the throne of the main console and was now sitting against the deck.

"Brother Mo... Sister..."

A weak voice, heavy with sobs, came from beside him.

Lin Mo turned and saw Gu Nianqiu curled up in his arm, her small face pale without a trace of color, her long eyelashes wet and matted together, her eyes hollow and dazed.

She had just woken from that endless solitude and waiting, and the wounds deep within her soul were far from healed.

"Beep—beep—alert! Alert!"

"Detecting ultra-high-spec law fluctuations! 'Thunder Dragon' unit reactor out of control! Energy output is abnormally surging at a rate of 1300%!"

The piercing alarm tore through the silence in the Bridge!

Lin Mo didn't even have time to help his trembling sister in his arms; a thought pulled the external monitoring footage onto the main screen.

Against the dark cosmic background, the "Thunder Dragon" mecha, which had been silently hovering beside the Natural Selection, now came to Life!

From the gaps in its entire armor, towering dark purple lightning burst forth.

That was no longer mere energy, but a tangible, tyrannical rage, a materialized law filled with the will to destroy everything, causing visible spatial ripples to appear in the surrounding vacuum of space!

It was Gu Zhixia.

She had also awakened.

That overwhelming killing intent, meant to grind her enemies to dust, had not subsided after the illusion collapsed.

Instead, she had brought it back to reality, completely intact!

She wanted revenge!

Now, immediately, at once!