Chapter 91: The Planet Came Alive! Ikon Illusion Opened Three Hundred Cheats with a Vengeance!
Ever since the Moon had several large craters cleaved into it last time,
Earth had entered a rare period of peace.
Rayne's days were extremely cozy.
Every day consisted of soaking in the library, drinking tea while browsing through various ancient magic tomes.
With the system, this super cheat, on him, reading books was like turning on an accelerator, and his magicattainments were skyrocketing every day at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Right now, he felt several tiers stronger than he was a few months ago.
However, as his strength grew, troubles followed suit.
He could no longer test new magic near Earth.
Because after he used the Moon as a target to cleave last time,
when Sorcerer Supreme Gu Yi returned, her gaze was simply terrifyingly scary, her eyeballs as red as a rabbit's, as if she were about to eat someone.
In all his years, it was the first time Rayne had seen this usually gentle and refined Guardian of Earth throw such a huge temper.
For the sake of his own little life, Rayne immediately decided that whenever he tested moves in the future, he must hide far away, preferably running out of the Milky Way Galaxy.
This afternoon,
Rayne found a dust-covered ancient book in the deepest corner of the library.
This book was not a manuscript from the past generations of Kamar-Taj ancestors, but a rare single copy that Ancient One had picked up from some different dimension. The book was titled "The Book of Ikon".
Inside was recorded an extremely rare high-tier secret art — Ikon Illusion.
Although it was called an illusion, the more Rayne looked at it, the more he felt that this thing was simply a super clone cheat!
It could instantly condense hundreds and thousands of phantom images using magic.
The most terrifying thing was that every phantom image could perfectly replicate one hundred percent of the main body's combat power!
This meant that as long as there was enough magic, the caster's strength could skyrocket several hundred times in an instant!
Such an outrageous skill mechanism was simply born for gang fights.
"Ding!"
"The host has browsed the ancient rare copy "The Book of Ikon" and successfully comprehended the high-tier magic[Ikon Illusion]!"
"Current skill level: Level 1."
Listening to the crisp electronic sound in his mind, Rayne rubbed his hands excitedly.
Good stuff!
If a group fight broke out like this, with hundreds of himself casting ultimate moves at the same time, even if Thanoscame, he would be blasted into slag, right?
With the skill in hand, Rayne felt like he was being scratched by a cat, and couldn't help wanting to find a place to test its power.
"Right, my comprehension of space laws has been pretty good lately; I might as well take the opportunity to test the extreme distance of the Portal."
Rayne made up his mind.
He closed his eyes, and his majestic mental power spread wildly into the depths of the Universe like a tsunami.
His hands quickly drew circles in the void.
Buzz!
A golden Portal, even more dazzling and profound than usual, formed with a boom in the corner of the library.
Rayne didn't hesitate at all, stepping right into it.
...
The next second,
Rayne appeared in an extremely unfamiliar and desolate star field.
There wasn't even a single star around, only endless darkness and coldness.
And not far ahead of Rayne,
a huge dark red Planet was quietly suspended.
Rayne released his mental power to casually scan it.
This Planet was covered with all kinds of bizarre red plants, but bizarrely, there wasn't even a single insect or animal on the entire Planet.
Devoid of any signs of life, it was dead silent.
"The Universe is truly vast, with all sorts of weird Planets. But it's just right to use as a target."
Rayne wasn't very interested in this dead Planet; he just wanted to quickly test his new skill now.
Floating in space,
Rayne formed hand seals and softly spit out the spell from his mouth: "Ikon Illusion!"
Buzz——!
A wondrous magical fluctuation rippled outward with Rayne as the center.
His body seemed to have been pressed with a ghosting key, constantly splitting toward both sides.
Only a few seconds later,
a full three hundred identical Raynes floated uniformly in the cold cosmic space!
"This feeling... is too wonderful."
Rayne closed his eyes and carefully experienced it.
These three hundred clones were not independent entities, but an extension of his consciousness.
He could simultaneously perceive images from three hundred perspectives, just like having three hundred pairs of eyes and three hundred pairs of hands.
Moreover, the strength of the magic flowing within each clone was actually identical to the main body!
"Simply a divine skill!"
Rayne nodded in satisfaction: "It's just a pity that it consumes too much mana."
Maintaining these three hundred full-level combat power clones extracted an astronomical amount of magic every second.
Even a freak like Rayne, whose magic was as vast as the sea, felt obvious pressure.
This kind of burst skill could only be used for quick victories and couldn't sustain a prolonged battle.
"Hurry up and check the output effect."
Rayne didn't delay any longer.
He raised his right hand, his five fingers suddenly spreading open.
The three hundred clones around him made the exact same motion like mirror reflections.
Bzzz, bzzz, bzz!
Three hundred clusters of violent yellow thunder simultaneously lit up in space.
"Bolts of Balthakk!"
Three hundred thick, destructive lightning bolts converged into a scalp-tingling yellow thunderstorm ocean, fiercely blasting toward the dark red dead Planet ahead!
Crack! Crack!
Accompanied by the frantic bombardment of thunder,
huge rift valleys instantly burst open on the surface of that dead Planet.
Countless gravel pieces as huge as mountain ranges were blown into space by the terrifying explosive power.
However,
looking at the battle results before him, Rayne was stunned.
"That's not right..."
Rayne frowned, full of confusion.
With three hundred of his clones simultaneously releasing the strongest forbidden spell, this kind of power, even if it couldn't instantly shatter this Planet on the spot, could at least blow up half of it, right?
Why did it only blow up a few mountain ranges' worth of topsoil now?
His strength had clearly improved a lot recently!
Could the material of this Planet be harder than Vibranium?
This completely defies common sense!
...
Just as Rayne was completely dumbfounded,
deep within this dark red Planet, there was also a consciousness even more dumbfounded and furious than Rayne!
This Planet was not an ordinary dead Planet.
It was a living ancient Celestial — Ego!
And also the biological father of the future Star-Lord.
At this moment,
Ego, who was sleeping deep within the core of the Earth, suddenly felt a sharp tingling sensation coming from his scalp!
Immediately afterwards, he found that a large chunk of his Planet's body on the surface had been blown away raw.
Ego woke up on the spot with a start.
How the hell is this possible?!
He was an ancient Celestial!
This Planet was his main body.
The rocks and soil on the surface were all high-density matter that he had spent hundreds of millions of years condensing and compressing using the power of God.
Its hardness far exceeded most known metals in the Universe.
Even if the Kree Empire's star-destroying cannon bombarded it head-on, it would at most leave a small pit on his topsoil.
But now,
he was just taking an afternoon nap, and upon waking up, several mountain-sized transparent holes had been blasted into his body!
What on Earth caused this kind of destruction?!
"Could it be that I accidentally collided with some unknown super cosmic ray?"
Ego endured the sharp pain while secretly guessing.
As soon as this thought popped up,
Boom!
Another round of dense yellow thunder frantic bombardment.
Ego's body burst open with a huge gap once again, and countless high-density matter was vaporized raw.
"Holy shit!!!"
Ego was completely enraged.
This was definitely not some cosmic ray!
Someone was deliberately using him as a target to bomb!
Ego's vast sea-like mental power instantly broke out of his body and swept across space.
Soon, he discovered those three hundred densely packed human figures in the starry sky.
Moreover, these fellows were still continuing to conjure yellow lightning in their hands, making it clear that they hadn't blown enough and were preparing to come for another round!
"Enough!!!"
Ego could bear it no longer, letting out a terrifying roar that shook the sea of stars.
Whom did he offend or provoke?
He was just a law-abiding, stay-at-home God sleeping quietly at the edge of the Universe.
Where did these lunatics pop out from?
As soon as they came up, they used lightning to blast him?
Did they really think he, a God, was made of clay!
Buzz——!
Accompanied by Ego's endless fury,
a massive mental power enough to distort space erupted with a roar!
The surface of the entire dark red Planet began to writhe violently.
This Celestial Planet that had slept for God knows how many years,
completely came alive!
Chapter 92 Ancient Ego the Living Planet! Power of the Infinity Stones reappears!
Ryan hovered in the Universe, full of astonishment.
He was just wondering why the power of the [Bolts of Balthakk] released simultaneously by his three hundred clones had become so pathetic.
The next second.
A divine power fluctuation so huge as to be suffocating, mixed with extremely violent mental power, erupted like a cosmic storm from the dark red Planet ahead!
This mental power even condensed into substance, directly distorting the surrounding interstellar space, and even caused weird deflection of the residual thunder released by Ryan.
"What the hell?"
"Is there still some hidden master hiding on this damn Planet?"
Ryan was really dumbfounded this time.
He had clearly scanned carefully with his mental power just now; apart from those red plants, there wasn't even a living creature on this Planet.
Why did such terrifying power suddenly erupt?
With a thought from Ryan, the surrounding three hundred clones instantly dissipated.
He reined in his mind, releasing his vast mental power like a tide, trying to probe the bottom of this Planet again.
However.
As soon as his mental power touched the Planet's atmosphere, it was abruptly bounced back by an extremely formidable energy!
This was the first time Ryan had suffered a setback in mental detection since coming to the Marvel Universe.
"Such terrifying life energy and mental barrier."
Ryan couldn't help being secretly shocked.
He had followed Ancient One to quite a few different dimensions and could be considered someone who had seen the World. He had also seen a few weird-looking dimensional demons.
However, it was definitely his first time seeing a creature with such majestic and thick vitality.
"What on earth is this thing?"
Ryan touched his chin.
Even Kamar-Taj's strongest forbidden spell could be withstood head-on; could this really be a Planet composed of some kind of high-strength ore rare in the Universe?
Just as Ryan was thinking to himself,
a sudden change occurred.
A figure, carrying dazzling blue divine light, soared directly into the sky from the interior of the Planet below, heading straight to attack Ryan!
This was an old man with a white beard.
His face was full of anger, and his eyes were spitting fire, as if Ryan had dug up his family's ancestral graves.
"Damn mortal! How dare you disturb my slumber! You must die today!"
The old man with a white beard didn't even want to say a word of nonsense.
He raised both hands, and the violent blue divine power instantly condensed into two dazzling light spheres, mercilessly smashing towards Ryan.
Ryan frowned slightly, waving his right hand casually.
A golden light flashed, directly shattering the incoming blue light spheres into pieces.
"Old mister, isn't it a bit too much to just resort to violence?"
Ryan spoke in a calm tone.
He admitted that he didn't see the place clearly when testing his move just now, and he was indeed in the wrong first. If the other party spoke nicely, it would be over with an apology.
But this old guy went for the kill right off the bat, so he couldn't be spoiled.
"Mortal!"
"Disturbing the slumber of God, Death is your only destination!"
Ego roared furiously.
He wasn't actually sleeping at all!
Just now, he was attaching his consciousness to clones all over the Universe, working hard to sow seeds everywhere, adding bricks and tiles to his great plan of "Universeassimilation".
As a result, Ryan's indiscriminate bombing directly shattered an important clone he left on a certain Planet!
That was a perfect clone he had cultivated with centuries of hard work!
How could he not be angry!
"I am a high and above God!"
"An ant like you in the Universe dares to provoke my majesty! Go to hell!"
Ego went completely berserk.
He suddenly raised his hands above his head.
Even more violent and vast blue energy gushed out from the surface of the Planet below like a breached flood, turning into a blue ocean of energy that swept overwhelmingly toward Ryan.
This power seemed endless, carrying a terrifying might that crushed everything.
Just at this moment,
in Ryan's mind, that crisp electronic sound rang out again.
"Ding!"
"[Sword of Vishanti] sensed a pure Planet-grade energy impact!"
"[Sword of Vishanti] automatically activated the underlying laws, and began to crazily extract the foundation of the Infinity Stones in the host's body!"
"Ding!"
"Energy extraction complete! The power of the [Sword of Vishanti] has gained a massive leap!"
Hearing the system prompt, Ryan's eyes lit up.
Good fellow.
There is such a good thing? This skill can actually automatically draw on the laws of the Power Stone to strengthen itself?
In that case.
Ryan gripped empty space with his right hand, the corners of his mouth curving into a cold arc.
The sky lit up again.
Splendid amethyst feathers all over the sky drifted out of thin air in the cold cosmic vacuum.
An amethyst longsword flickering with enchanting purple light and carrying a terrifying aura of destruction on its blade slowly condensed and formed in Ryan's hand.
"You damn..."
Ego was still shouting frantically.
But when he saw the amethyst longsword in Ryan's hand clearly, his voice stopped abruptly.
Ego stared fixedly at that sword.
From that sword, he felt an energy fluctuation that was extremely familiar, but also extremely fatal.
This...
What kind of weapon is this?!
Why did the energy fluctuation on it make even a God who had lived for tens of billions of years feel an uncontrollable heart-palpitating shock?
How could this power, which could threaten his life source, appear in the hands of a mortal!
Before Ego could figure it out,
Ryan had already moved.
With a gentle flick of his wrist, the amethyst longswordtraced a perfect trajectory in space.
Swish!
An extremely condensed purple light blade, like a purple lightning bolt, broke out from the blade's edge.
Boom!
There is no sound propagation in space.
But Ego truly felt a violent shock deep within his soul.
The purple light blade collided head-on with the blue energy ocean he released.
No stalemate, no contention.
The purple light blade tore through the blue energy sea as easily as cutting butter. Moreover, the purple energy attached to the light blade actually began to crazily corrode and devour the surrounding blue divine power!
"Impossible!"
Ego let out a sharp, strange scream, his face full of an expression of having seen a ghost.
What kind of ghost power is this!
He was an ancient Celestial!
His power level was extremely high, possessing absolute priority and suppression throughout the entire Universe. It was always his divine power that assimilated and eroded others.
When was it time for someone else's power to backlash against him?!
"Damn bug! What kind of evil art are you using?!" Egoquestioned angrily.
"Why do you think I would tell a dead person? Ego?"
Ryan looked at him coldly.
Just a moment ago, he finally guessed the other party's identity from the old man's appearance and that special blue energy.
Ego!
In the Guardians of the Galaxy, Star-Lord's perverted biological father who wanted to turn the entire Universeinto himself!
An ancient God who had existed since the beginning of the Big Bang!
Knowing that he was an unpardonable supervillain, Ryan acted with even fewer scruples.
Eliminating this old monster would save countless galaxies of living beings.
Ryan waved the longsword again.
The purple light blade, like the sickle of the God of Death, instantly crossed the distance of space and fiercely slashed onto Ego's body.
Crack!
Ego's body was like a fragile glass person, directly divided into two from the middle by the purple light.
The cut was as smooth as a mirror, and not even a drop of blood flowed out.
Because this body was originally an energy avatar he condensed using the power of God.
"This power... impossible... this is..."
Ego's remaining half body floated in space, staring fixedly at the amethyst longsword in Ryan's hand.
His eyes were filled with unprecedented shock and disbelief.
"This is the power of the Infinity Stones!"
Ego finally recognized it!
How could this be!
Borrowing the power of the Infinity Stones, many powerhouses in the Universe could do it, and even manufacturing some artifacts could guide the energy of the stones.
But!
Like the mortal in front of him, stripping, absorbing, and completely integrating the extremely violent core laws of the Infinity Stones into his own magic system so perfectly.
This was absolutely impossible!
"How did you do it! How could you perfectly integrate the laws of the Infinity Stones!"
"Such a thing, even the five Gods of the Universe could absolutely not do it!"
Ego roared frantically.
His proud worldview suffered an unprecedented and violent impact at this moment.
However, after extreme shock,
an extremely greedy, extremely blazing, and mad light suddenly burst out in Ego's eyes.
"Such a perfect fusion method..."
"Such pure ultimate power..."
"If I can get this power!"
"The entire Universe will bow at my feet!"
"As long as I fuse with the Infinity Stones, I am the only true God of the Universe!"
Ego stared fixedly at Ryan, his gaze looking like he was looking at an unrivaled treasure, wishing he could tear him apart and swallow him alive.
Being stared at by an old man with a white beard with such a gaze.
Ryan only felt a chill down his back and a churning stomach.
This old pervert, his gaze is really fucking disgusting!
Ryan raised his hand with full disgust, slashing back with another sword.
The purple light blade flashed again, directly twisting Ego's remaining half body into the finest energy fragments.
"Finally quiet."
Ryan curled his lips.
However, in less than two seconds,
the surface of the dark red Planet below rolled again.
Accompanied by a violent surge of energy, an intact old man with a white beard soared into the sky from the interior of the Planet again.
"Your power is mine!"
Chapter 93: Ikon Illusion Goes Berserk! The Kree Empire's Supreme Intelligence is Terrified Out of Its Wits!
Snap!
Yet another sword strike.
A purple blade of light slashed across space, and the newly reassembled white-bearded old man was once again cleaved in two.
Ryan hovered in the vacuum, his expression looking somewhat impatient.
"These ancient living fossils are really like cockroaches; no matter what, they just won't die."
Ryan casually dispersed the residual energy, looking at the huge dark red Planet below, his brows furrowing slightly.
He had continuously beheaded this old man several dozen times already.
But after just a few seconds, this old man would borrow the energy of the Planet below to rush up again completely unscathed.
Not only did he suffer not a scratch, but with every reassembly, the blue divine power on his body seemed to become even more violent.
This is simply disgusting.
Ego's true body was an entire Planet!
As long as this Planet was not destroyed, his divine power was truly endless.
"It seems that if I want to thoroughly kill him, I have to completely obliterate his Earth-sized true body."
Ryan rubbed his chin.
However.
Looking at the behemoth before him.
Ryan couldn't help but feel a bit doubtful in his heart.
Right now, he was like an ant trying to shake an elephant.
Even if the divine sword in his hand could cut through iron like mud, wanting to chop an elephant into minced meat was still a time-consuming and labor-intensive colossal project.
"How did that idiot Star-Lord wind up with such a perverted dad?"
Ryan muttered inwardly.
Snap!
Accompanied by a soft sound, Ryan casually shattered one of Ego's clones again.
"Don't waste your effort!"
"My power originates from this Planet, vast and boundless! And your magic is limited!"
"When your strength is exhausted, I will tear your soul apart inch by inch!"
Ego's arrogant voice, mixed with immense mental power, exploded directly in Ryan's mind.
"Exhausted?"
"Do you think that if I want to leave, you can stop me?"
The corners of Ryan's mouth curled up slightly, his face full of disdain.
If I can't break your tortoise shell, can't I run away?
If I can't afford to offend you, I can at least hide from you.
"Leave?!"
"Since you've come, stay here forever!"
Ego let out an angry roar.
Immediately following that.
The surface of the dark red Planet below churned violently like boiling water.
Swish! Whoosh! Swish!
Streaks of blue flowing light soared into the sky.
In just a few short seconds.
Hundreds of identical white-bearded old men flew out from inside the Planet like a swarm of bees leaving their nest.
Some of these old men were similar in size to ordinary people, while others reached a height of over a dozen meters, resembling enraged blue giants.
They dispersed instantly.
Up, down, left, right, in all directions, tightly surrounding Ryan right in the center.
Everyone emitted extremely terrifying blue divine power fluctuations.
"Now, you have no way to fly away!"
Ego's voice came from all directions simultaneously, filled with complacency and mockery.
"Divine power clones? Playing the human wave tactic with me?"
Ryan looked around, watching these hundreds of white-bearded old men, and couldn't help laughing.
"Ding!"
"[Ikon Illusion] detected that the host is being besieged by the enemy using cheap human wave tactics!"
"[Ikon Illusion], as a master-protecting mad demon, firmly refuses to endure this grievance!"
"[Ikon Illusion] automatically reduces mana consumption by eighty percent, strongly demanding that the host summon thousands of troops and horses!"
Hearing the system prompt, Ryan's eyes instantly lit up.
Good fellow.
Eighty percent reduction in consumption!
This meant that the mana with which he could originally only maintain three hundred clones could now maintain over a thousand clones simultaneously, while also ensuring combat endurance!
This cheat was simply thoughtful to the extreme!
Ryan looked at those arrogant Ego clones around him, the smile on his face becoming increasingly brilliant.
"Hahaha!"
"Death is at hand, are you scared out of your wits?"
Ego looked at the laughing Ryan and heavily mocked: "Within my Planet domain, my divine power clones are endless! What do you have to fight me?"
"Comparing numbers of people, right?"
"What a coincidence, I know this move too."
Ryan spoke in a cold voice.
His hands suddenly formed seals in front of his chest.
"Ikon Illusion! Fully activated!"
Hum——!
A wave of magic power dozens of times greater than before exploded violently!
Ryan's figure instantly became blurry and indistinct.
Just like a jammed old-fashioned projector, countless figures of Ryan frantically split and diffused toward the surroundings at an extremely terrifying speed!
One hundred! Five hundred! One thousand!
In just a few breaths of time.
Over a thousand Ryans, like divine soldiers descending from heaven, densely paved this starry sky!
Furthermore.
In the hand of every single Ryan, they grasped a [Sword of Vishanti] shining with dazzling light!
The terrifying pressure emitted by more than a thousand amethyst longswords directly crushed the momentum of Ego's hundreds of clones completely.
"Now, who do you think is surrounding whom?"
Over a thousand Ryans spoke in unison, their voices rolling like thunder, echoing through the sea of stars.
Ego's expression changed drastically.
Looking at the more than a thousand greatsword-wielding Ryans around him, a chill inexplicably rose from the bottom of his heart.
But he was still unwilling to believe it.
"Bluffing!"
"You mere mortal, no matter how strong your magic is, it is impossible to simultaneously maintain so many clones with practical combat capabilities!"
Ego roared angrily, attempting to overwhelm the opponent in momentum.
As an ancient God, he knew the principle of clones all too well.
He could create hundreds of clones because he possessed a Planet-like massive energy reserve, and the strength of each clone was less than one percent of his true body!
Yet this human before him.
Over a thousand clones, how could these possibly all be real!
"They are all illusions! Shatter for me!"
Ego gave an order.
Hundreds of blue old men raised both hands simultaneously, and the violent blue divine power swept toward Ryan's army like a tsunami.
In Ego's view, this strike was enough to completely destroy these paper-mâché illusions.
However.
Facing the overwhelming blue divine power.
More than a thousand Ryans moved in uniform unison.
They simultaneously raised the amethyst longswords in their hands high, and then hacked down fiercely!
Swish!
Over a thousand purple blade beams dozens of meters long slashed out explosively like a dense purple meteor shower!
At this moment.
The entire starry sky was reflected into a dazzling purple. The terrifying purple light even illuminated other star systems several light-years away.
"This... this is impossible!"
Ego let out a hysterical scream, his voice completely distorted due to extreme fear.
He simply couldn't believe his eyes!
These clones were actually all real!
Moreover, the energy contained in every single blade beam had actually reached the peak standard of his true body!
Ego's pupils instantly contracted.
He had lived for billions of years, what kind of great storms and waves had he not seen?
But he swore that even those top-tier Gods of the multiverse he had once encountered would absolutely never be able to cast this kind of perverted magic that defied universal common sense!
How could the total combat power of a person's clones exceed the true body by more than a thousand times?!
Does this still obey the law of conservation of energy?! This is simply rubbing the cosmic laws on the ground!
Ego's brain completely crashed.
...
Deep in the distant starry sky.
The Kree Empire, home Planet Hala.
Within the Empire's most core underground hub.
The supreme ruler of the Kree — the Supreme Intelligence. A super artificial intelligence formed by the fusion of the most outstanding brains of past Kree Empire generations was processing massive amounts of intelligence.
Several Kree high-ranking generals rushed into the hub hall with panicked expressions.
"Great Supreme Intelligence! Emergency situation!"
"Near the G15 Restricted Area, we detected an extremely terrifying high-dimensional energy outbreak!"
"According to energy spectrum analysis, the target is precisely the G35 hazardous celestial body!"
A general reported anxiously.
The G15 Restricted Area was an absolute dead zone marked on the Kree Empire's star chart.
For hundreds of years, any Kree fleet approaching that area would mysteriously disappear. Later, they found out that a violent Planet possessing life was entrenched there.
For the safety of the Imperial fleet, that place was permanently designated as a restricted zone.
"Immediately retrieve the real-time footage of the outpost space probe."
The Supreme Intelligence's huge green virtual face emerged above the hall.
Very quickly.
The frontline probe transmitted high-definition footage back.
When seeing clearly the scene within the footage.
These usually lofty Kree generals, including even the Supreme Intelligence which claimed to possess the strongest computing power in the entire Universe, all fell into a death-like silence.
On the screen.
A seemingly weak human.
Had actually summoned over a thousand clones, waving purple greatswords in their hands, and was pinning that living Planet that terrified the Kree Empire down in space to hack wildly!
"This... this is a human?!"
"Impossible! How could carbon-based life burst out with this level of energy!"
"What kind of unknown cosmic black technology is this? Or some kind of lost God magic?"
The blue cheeks of several Kree generals became distorted due to fear.
On the Supreme Intelligence's huge green face, extremely chaotic data streams also flickered, obviously exceeding its calculation limit.
"Immediately encrypt this top-secret recording!"
In the Supreme Intelligence's voice, against all odds, there was a trace of undisguisable fear.
"Order the first to fifth expedition fleets to all enter the highest alert state!"
"No matter what price is paid, absolutely do not let this human approach the territory of the Kree Empire!"
Chapter 94: Ancient God Ego Panics! Bolts of BalthakkShows Its Might! Ego, this ancient God, has lived since the very beginning of the Universe.
Throughout the long years, he has encountered countless powerful cosmic races and dimensional overlords.
But something as absurd as today is definitely the first time he has ever seen it!
A mere mortal can actually split into over a thousand clones with peak combat power in an instant?
This is simply rubbing the fundamental laws of the Universe against the ground!
Ego felt like his brain matter was about to boil; even though his true body was a Planet, he now felt like this Planet was smoking wildly.
Ryan didn't care whether Ego's worldview had collapsed or not.
Over a thousand clones swung their swords simultaneously.
The terrifying purple blade lights were like a dense fishing net, directly shredding and wiping out the hundreds of Egoclones that surrounded him!
In space, it was instantly covered with blue energy fragments of all sizes.
Although these clones looked like flesh and blood, they were actually the materialized energy of the high-density matter of Ego's true body.
Now they had all become space debris.
After clearing out the mobs, Ryan's mood did not relax at all.
Because the huge dark red Planet ahead suddenly began to roll violently!
Ego's Planet did not have blue oceans and white clouds like Earth.
This was a dark red dead Planet.
At this moment, without the influence of any stellar gravity, this dead Planet actually began to flip on its own.
Accompanied by the flipping of the Planet, a breathtakingly huge human face suddenly emerged on the surface of the Planet!
It was as if a huge human skin mask had been put on this Planet!
"Mortal!!!"
The deafening sound, mixed with a terrifying mental shock, exploded directly in Ryan's mind.
The huge human face on the surface of the Planet opened its abyss-like giant mouth, its expression angry to the extreme.
"Do you think that destroying a few divine power clones allows you to provoke God's majesty?"
"Delusional!"
"Today, I will let you witness what true Universe-level power is!"
Ego was thoroughly enraged.
On the surface of the entire dark red Planet, extremely viscous blue energy began to surge wildly.
This energy was so immense that the surrounding cosmic space began to be unable to bear it, emitting bursts of violent tremors.
Black spatial cracks even appeared, ruthlessly swallowing the surrounding interstellar dust.
Looking at the huge living Planet in front of him,
Ryan couldn't help but click his tongue inwardly.
As expected of an ancient God who has lived from the Big Bang to the present.
Just the sheer volume of this energy was probably not inferior to Ancient One, the Sorcerer Supreme of Kamar-Taj.
But!
Having a lot of energy does not mean being invincible.
Ego's biggest asset was this Planet, but his biggest weakness was also this Planet!
The target was too massive, making it impossible to dodge attacks.
Moreover, if Ryan wanted to run, he could open a Portaland leave at any time; Ego's clumsy broken stone couldn't stop him at all.
Therefore, facing Ego's heaven-destroying and Earth-shattering stance, Ryan was not flustered at all in his heart.
"Ding!"
"[Bolts of Balthakk] keenly captured the ancient energy from the early days of the Universe's creation!"
"[Bolts of Balthakk] is extremely thirsty for this ancient power and urgently wants to swallow it to grow stronger!"
"[Bolts of Balthakk] automatically absorbed the remains of Ego's clones scattered in space!"
"Ding!"
"Absorption complete! [Bolts of Balthakk] has unlocked the exclusive entry: [Homologous Destruction]!"
"The destruction effect caused by the host to Ego's true body is forcibly increased by one hundred percent!"
Listening to the electronic sound in his mind, Ryan couldn't help but gasp a breath of cold air.
Good grief!
This forbidden spell is too fierce!
It can actually analyze the opponent's power origin by devouring the enemy's energy remains, and then put on an exclusive defense-breaking BUFF with 100% armor piercing for itself?
This is simply the ultimate divine skill for fighting bosses!
With this BUFF, Ryan's confidence instantly surged.
Ego ahead naturally didn't know that Ryan's magic had just undergone an extremely perverted upgrade.
"Damned bug!"
"Since you forced me to reveal my true body, then go to hell!"
"For billions of years, you are the first living person to see my planetary form!"
"You must never leave alive!"
Ego roared madly.
He was truly moved to kill now.
Planetary form was his biggest trump card and his most fatal weakness.
There were too many people in the Universe coveting the power of Gods. He knew very well what happened to the remains of the Celestials in the Land of Nihility.
If those Bandits or lunatics in the Universe, such as Thanos, knew that his Planet was a living God's head,
then he would definitely be hunted down by the entire Universe, hacked into pieces to be studied or used as an energy source!
Therefore...
Ryan must die!
Furthermore, he still had a grand plan to assimilate the entire Universe, and he must never be exposed at this juncture!
"Die! Mortal!"
Ego roared, and the vast blue divine power on the surface of the Planet swept towards Ryan overwhelmingly like a raging sea and monstrous waves!
Facing this heaven-destroying and Earth-shattering divine power tsunami,
Ryan snorted coldly and casually waved his left hand.
A purple Magic Shield only a few meters in diameter—[Deified Shield of the Seraphim]—steadily blocked in front of him.
Rumble!
The blue divine power tsunami crazily impacted this small shield.
However, no matter how the external energy raged,
Ryan, hiding behind the shield, was like a reef standing tall in the storm, motionless, not even a single hair blown by the wind.
"The so-called God has only this little ability."
Ryan was somewhat disdainful.
Relying on living long and having a lot of energy, this kind of ancient deity only knew this kind of simple and crude energy suppression, and didn't understand what refined energy control was at all.
In the eyes of someone like Ryan who had mastered the Universe's top magic system, this attack method was simply ridiculously crude.
"Ego, since you've finished attacking, it's my turn!"
Ryan withdrew the Magic Shield.
His right hand pointed forward abruptly.
Zizizi!
A violent thunder interwoven with purple and gold colors crazily compressed and condensed at his fingertips!
Next second,
this purple and gold interweaving lightning, like a light of creation tearing apart the primordial Universe, carrying an incomparable aura of destruction, shot straight towards Ego's massive planetary true body!
Ego was shocked in his heart and immediately mobilized a massive amount of blue divine power to form a thick defense layer in front.
Unfortunately,
it was useless!
The Bolts of Balthakk attached with the [Homologous Destruction] BUFF, the moment it contacted Ego's divine power shield, passed through it as easily as a hot knife cutting through butter!
Ego didn't even have time to react.
Crack!
A crisp sound of thunder exploded directly inside Ego's massive planetary body!
The purple-gold thunder, like bone-eating maggots, spread wildly on the surface of the Planet!
Boom!
A rock layer hundreds of kilometers long, resembling a giant mountain range, directly detached from the Planet's surface and shattered in space!
"Ahhhhhh!!!"
Ego let out a heart-wrenching scream.
The huge human face on the surface of the Planet twisted in pain, its huge eyes filled with unconcealable panic.
"How is this possible!"
"What kind of sorcery did you use to actually damage my true body!"
Ego let out an out-of-tune weird scream.
As an ancient God, he had absolute confidence in the defense of his planetary true body!
This was ultra-high-density matter condensed by him with God's power for hundreds of millions of years! Even the star-destroying main cannon of the Kree Empire wouldn't even think about easily breaking his outer shell!
But now!
A bolt of lightning!
actually blew away a mountain range on his body directly!
This simply didn't conform to cosmic common sense!
What made him even more terrified was that
that purple-gold thunder was still continuously eroding at his wound. His proud regenerative ability had actually failed at this moment! The wound simply couldn't heal!
"No!!!"
"This is absolutely impossible!"
Ego roared frantically, trying to use his roar to conceal the panic in his heart.
He stared fixedly at the tiny human floating in space before him.
Ego, the ancient God who had lived for over ten billion years,
at this moment,
finally experienced what true fear was!
Chapter 95: Slaying an Ancient God! Old Monsters Across the Universe Awaken! At this very moment, Ego discovered in despair.
The seemingly insignificant human before him truly had the ability to completely obliterate him!
The purple-gold thunder imbued with the [Homologous Destruction] buff was practically a fatal poison to him.
His planetary body was collapsing and shattering on a large scale, and the God's divine power that he had painstakingly accumulated for hundreds of millions of years was being ruthlessly torn apart and evaporated by the lightning.
The pain of having his divine power forcibly ripped away made Ego wish he were dead.
But!
What drove him to the absolute brink of breakdown was that he was completely helpless against Ryan!
His violent divine power impact, which was enough to instantly crush a small asteroid, crashed against the small purple shield only tens of centimeters in size before Ryan, yet it couldn't even make a sound!
What kind of unreasonable magic is this?!
How could it possibly withstand this level of energy outpouring?!
Ego was completely numb.
Having lived for so long, he had relied on his vast divine power to devour God knows how many Planets.
Today, he couldn't even break a tiny shield?
If word of this got out, what face would he, an ancient God, have left!
"Damn bug! Why did I have to run into a monster like this!"
Ego roared, grinding his teeth.
Cursing aside, Ego knew very well in his heart that he had to bow his head.
If he didn't admit defeat, he would really die in this desolate star domain today!
"Mortal!"
"Why on Earth do you insist on fighting me to the Death?"
"As long as you turn around and leave now, I can pretend that everything that happened today never happened!"
Ego's huge voice echoed in space.
At the same time, his huge face covering the Planet's surface had become pockmarked and horrifying to look at due to the peeling of the rock layers.
Ryan floated in space without even lifting an eyelid.
This old thing is so arrogant even when begging for mercy?
Does he really think he is a high and mighty God?
Ryan had no intention of letting him go at all.
If you don't cut the weeds by the root, they will grow back with the spring breeze.
Furthermore, this old pervert Ego had also left avatar seeds on Earth.
Once his so-called "assimilation plan" was initiated, Earthwould definitely be doomed.
Although Ryan wasn't some holy saint, he would absolutely not allow anyone to touch his home base.
Anyway, killing this old fellow didn't take much effort, at most it would just consume a bit more magic power; consider it getting rid of a pest for the Universe.
Ryan didn't say a word, and the magic power within his body surged frantically like floodwaters breaking through a dam.
Rumble!
Even denser purple-gold [Bolts of Balthakk] poured out from his hands like a violent storm, continuously bombarding Ego's huge planetary body.
At this point, countless terrifying abysses had been blasted into Ego's body.
If not for the huge gravitational pull still remaining on the Planet itself, those shattered rock layers hundreds of kilometers long would have long floated off into the depths of the Universe.
In just this short while, Ego's volume was forcibly shaved down by a circle!
"No!"
"You can't kill me! I am a God born at the very beginning of the Universe!"
"Spare me! I can give you unimaginable rewards!"
"I'll give you all the wealth accumulated across the entire galaxy!"
Ego finally panicked completely, his voice filled with desperate entreaties.
In front of an impervious monster like Ryan, he truly had no room left to resist.
Hearing Ego's begging for mercy, Ryan only found it funny in his heart.
Has this old man gone senile?
Not to mention that he didn't look down on those lousy alien treasures at all.
Even if he really wanted them, wouldn't all the dropped equipment after killing you be mine?
Ryan remained completely unmoved.
The purple-gold thunder in his hand not only didn't stop, but instead became even more violent.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Countless heavy rock layers peeled off from the Planet's surface, and Ego's true body had reached the verge of collapse.
"Are you really going to exterminate me completely?!"
Ego let out a final, shrill roar.
"That's right."
Ryan nodded cleanly and decisively.
Seeing Ryan be so resolute, Ego was actually choked so much that he couldn't say a single word.
This human was simply bullying a God too much!
"No!"
"Even if I die, I will absolutely not let you off easily!"
The giant face on Ego's Planet instantly became extremely ferocious, resembling a fierce beast driven into a desperate situation.
Immediately after, the entire dark red Planet began to expand rapidly, emitting an extremely violent destructive light, looking as if it was preparing to self-detonate!
Ryan's eyes narrowed, but he wasn't panicked in the slightest.
He suddenly waved his right hand.
"Multiple Mirror Dimensions!"
Hum—!
Transparent ripples like water waves instantly spread wildly centered on Ryan, directly wrapping up this huge Planet completely.
However.
The heaven-shaking explosion anticipated did not happen.
At the moment the Mirror Dimension closed.
A translucent blue phantom, like a ghost, suddenly darted out from inside the Planet, attempting to escape into the depths of the Universe.
Ryan's brows slightly raised.
So this old fox was trying to escape by shedding its shell like a cicada!
What dying together, it was all bullshit!
"How is this possible?!"
"What kind of ghost magic is this?! It can actually trap my God soul!"
"I don't belong to the material plane, what right do you have to imprison me!"
Ego's phantom trapped in the Mirror Dimension let out an exasperated and impotent fury.
His proud spiritual body escape technique was actually blocked tightly by this bizarre space!
Ryan couldn't be bothered to listen to his nonsense.
Since he had come out, then he should completely be on his way.
He raised his hand and pointed.
A bucket-thick streak of purple-gold thunder roared out, accurately hitting Ego's translucent soul.
Bang!
Accompanied by a crisp sound like glass shattering.
Ego's soul was directly blasted into blue fragments all over the sky, completely vanishing into ashes.
A generation of ancient Gods thus fell!
"Ding!"
"[Multiple Mirror Dimensions] absorbed extremely pure ancient God spiritual energy!"
"[Multiple Mirror Dimensions] obtained breakthrough evolution: can be transformed into a virtual consciousness space!"
Hearing the prompt tone, Ryan was overjoyed in his heart.
This was an unexpected harvest! Killing a God could actually upgrade a support skill.
However, the surprises weren't over yet.
After Ego's soul died, that huge planetary true body also completely disintegrated along with it, splitting into countless huge fragments that quietly floated in the Mirror Dimension.
"Ding!"
"[Bolts of Balthakk] shuttled wantonly among the ruins of the God's fall!"
"[Bolts of Balthakk] greedily devoured the laws of nirvana left behind after the deity's Death!"
"[Bolts of Balthakk] power obtained an ultimate transformation, accompanied by an irreversible destruction attribute!"
Ryan looked at the system prompts popping up one after another, the corners of his mouth curving up frantically.
No wonder in the movies, The Collector could become wealthier than a nation just by occupying the skull remains of a God.
From head to toe, even when dead, the Celestials were all top-tier experience packs!
Bringing perverted-level enhancements to two skills in one breath, this deal was simply earning a fortune!
Ryan looked with satisfaction at the planetary fragments floating around.
These were all good things and couldn't be wasted.
With a wave of his hand, he directly swept all these Celestial body remains into the storage space attached to the system.
"This trip today was truly not in vain; I've made a killing."
Ryan clapped his hands, in high spirits.
Not only did he test the new magic, but he also incidentally strengthened a forbidden spell and conveniently collected a bunch of top-tier materials.
Content and satisfied, Ryan directly tore open a Portal and leisurely returned to Earth.
However.
He had no idea at all.
What kind of terrifying super storm his casual act of slaying Ego today had stirred up in the vast Universe!
Countless ancient beings sleeping in remote corners of the Universe opened their eyes at this very moment.
They felt in terror that...
An ancient aura that had existed since the very beginning of the Universe...
Had actually completely disappeared!
Land of Nihility.
One of the Elders of the Universe, The Collector, was trembling all over with excitement.
He directly issued an astronomical bounty worth tens of billions of credits on the cosmic black market!
Just begging to exchange for even a shred of intelligence regarding this battle!
Ryan's sword completely stirred up the murky waters of the entire Universe.