276: Chapter 276 Orion Star Flag Bearers

Sirius Sector, inside the [Heaven-Reaching Divine Domain] fortress.

Inside the hundred-fold time training ground, which was originally empty and deathly silent, set only with countless high-level virtual ferocious beasts, an unprecedented "blue meteor shower" suddenly began to fall.

Mental projections of tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of Earthlings, wearing the initial novice cloth clothes assigned by the system, landed densely at various spawn points within the Divine Domain.

"Roar—!!!"

A Tier 4 [Void Storm Bear] simulated by the Divine Domain looked at this group of humans as weak as ants, with levels no higher than Lv.20. It let out a cruel roar, and its massive paw, carrying a foul wind, slammed down fiercely, instantly crushing dozens of players into meat paste and turning them into white light as they dissipated.

If this were reality, faced with such an absolutely crushing and terrifying beast, the human army would have collapsed and fled long ago.

But at this moment...

The Earth players standing on the periphery of the resurrection point looked at that Tier 4 Void Storm Bear that had killed dozens with one paw. Not only did not a single person retreat, but their eyes lit up one by one, and they were almost drooling!

"Holy crap! Brothers, look! It's a Tier 4 World Boss!"

"The system just gave a prompt! This thing drops s-rank equipment materials and top-tier skill books!"

"It only has one health bar! What are we afraid of?! One paw can only kill fifty of us, but there are five million of us here! Even if each of us spits once, we can drown it!"

"Brothers! The raid is on! Fill it with your lives!!!"

"Charge!! For the s-rank equipment! For the villas by the sea!!"

"Healers, don't be freaking afraid to die! Heal the front line with everything you've got! Warriors, go grab its legs! Mages, empty your mana bars for me!!"

Madness.

Extreme madness.

These commoners, who were timid in reality and would take a detour even for a Tier 1 beast, completely unleashed the demonic nature of the 'fourth calamity' etched in the deepest part of human genes after confirming the rule that 'death only causes a headache for two hours'!

The arrogant Tier 4 Void Storm Bear discovered in horror that this group of insects in front of it was not afraid of death at all!

Those in front were crushed, and those behind continued to climb up over their companions' corpses; some even turned themselves into human bombs and stuffed themselves into its mouth just to jam its joints!

Ten minutes later, amidst a desperate wail, this Tier 4 beast was actually ground to death by a group of Earth players with an average level of less than 20, using their fingernails, teeth, and the lowest-level fireball spells!

"Grab the first kill!!!"

The ground full of glowing high-dimensional equipment and experience orbs that dropped instantly sent this group of players into an even more extreme frenzy.

With the buff of the [Hundred-fold Time Flow] of the Heaven-Reaching Divine Domain...

Only a mere day had passed in the outside world.

Inside the Divine Domain, however, a long and bloody hundred days had already passed!

During these hundred days, the horror of the "fourth calamity" was displayed to the fullest.

The Earth players were not crushed by the high-level beasts; instead, through this near-hellish infinite torture and resurrection, they actually honed their combat skills to a level comparable to battle-hardened veterans!

Their levels soared crazily like a rocket!

Lv.30... Lv.50... Lv.70!

Batch after batch of civilians who were unknown in reality stood out in the Divine Domain, becoming top-tier experts who controlled powerful rule-based forces!

The overall strength of Earth's civilization, with the addition of Chen Xi's unreasonable cheat, was undergoing an unprecedented [leap in technology and combat power], like a Big Bang of the universe!

At this time, Chen Xi, sitting on the highest throne of the Divine Domain, looked at the army of hundreds of millions below who had already completely lost themselves in the slaughter, and a cold arc of anticipation curled at the corner of his mouth.

"Grind mobs to your heart's content, my dear compatriots."

"Because the real enemy is about to knock on the door."

Time is often trivial on a cosmic scale.

In the real world, only a month had passed since Chen Xi launched the "fourth calamity" plan of [Interstellar Great Navigation for All].

But within the cheating barrier of the hundred-fold time flow of the [Heaven-Reaching Divine Domain], Earth's hundreds of millions of Vanguard had already experienced nearly ten years of baptism by blood and fire!

The first outpost of the Sirius Sector.

The originally desolate and dead surface of the broken planet had now undergone earth-shaking changes. A massive interstellar fortress cast from dark matter star-core alloy, stretching for thousands of kilometers, had begun to take shape. Countless magic-guided defense towers flashing with eerie blue light towered into the clouds, and hundreds of thousands of interstellar cruisers were lined up in neat formation in orbit.

And on the training ground of the fortress...

"Boom!!!"

With a loud bang, two burly men with muscles knotted like coiling dragons were engaged in extremely fierce hand-to-hand combat. Every time their fists collided, a visible sonic boom cloud would ripple through the void. These two were surprisingly high-level warriors who had broken through Lv.85! And experts like them could be seen everywhere in today's outpost fortress!

Ten years (Divine Domain time) of infinite life-and-death mob grinding had forcibly raised the average level of Earthlings from Lv.20 to a terrifying Lv.70 or higher!

This was the foundation of the fourth calamity!

Just as the entire outpost was conducting military drills in an orderly manner...

"Buzz—!!!"

In the cosmic space at the edge of the Sirius Sector, a sudden and extremely violent spatial distortion occurred without any warning!

This distortion was different from the opening of a star gate; it was some object with an extremely large mass forcibly tearing the spatial curvature, performing a violent physical jump from a very distant galaxy!

"Warning! Highest-level red alert!!!"

In the fortress control room, AI Morning Star's piercing electronic voice instantly echoed through the public channel of the entire Earth Expeditionary Force:

"In the area of coordinates X-774, Y-921, a large-scale unknown fleet jump signal has been detected! Energy level assessment: Star-destroyer class! The opponent's fleet has not turned on the friend-or-foe identification system; it is an illegal intrusion!"

"Guests have arrived?"

On the top floor of the Divine Domain fortress, Chen Xi slowly opened his scarlet-gold eyes. He did not appear panicked; instead, he rubbed his chin with interest. After boringly being a game GM for "a month," some blind alien natives had finally come to his door to provide some fun.

Through the ultra-long-distance holographic projection retrieved by Morning Star...

Everyone clearly saw that in that distorted space, as many as a thousand massive interstellar warships with extremely rough and savage designs swarmed out of the jump channel like locusts.

These warships were a rusty dark red color. Not only were the hulls equipped with thick and hideous high-dimensional energy cannons, but more horrifyingly, the armor of those warships was actually covered with the pale skeletons of various giant cosmic creatures!

And on top of the largest flagship, a pitch-black flag composed of a skull of some silicon-based creature and mechanical gears was hanging!

"That is... the battle flag of the [Orion Interstellar Raiders]!"