Cyberterra Base, Special Star Throne Vessel Control Hall.
“Star Throne activating. Star King, the vessel is phasing into the spatial layer in three, two, one.”
“Connection Secured.”
“Now, we observe and wait.”
‘So the war started, eh?’ Star King blinked within a neon live bio-metal chamber, his face slightly resembling that of Neo Elvergarde.
Looking at at the Psylocke monitor observing the surrounding material world through the spatial layer, he only darkness.
[Star King requesting monitor into the formation area of the enemy.]
‘Hurry up. I can’t see anything.’
“Cyberzone Eye detaching within the formation area and activating in three seconds, Star King.”
‘Woah, that’s a lot of Mythical-rank items.’
‘So that’s the Arcane Champion of Earth.’
‘Damn, he killed that dark elf emperor a second time so soon?’
‘What’s wrong with this enemy? They disappear right when they are about to die and return. But I guess that dude’s two lives were gone. He isn’t coming back anymore with those body parts burning away.’
‘Crap, it looks like this Almond is more powerful than Dad expected. A tough nut to crack, hahahahaha.’
‘Wait, shit…our people are dying more. What is that crazy demonic bitch throwing around potions?’
‘And the last sneaky attempt also failed because of that six-handed demon…Why are they so powerful? This isn’t going as good as we expected.’
‘Yeah, we are actually losing this.’
‘Dad went all out, but only for two minutes. He will lose after that if he can’t finish off Almond soon.’
‘It looks like he’ll execute the plan B.’
‘Wuff! Time to get started, folks! Dad’s given the signal. Blast off the Earth’s base!’
[Star King activating the Hollow Spatial Burst.]
‘Let’s show them the pinnacle of magic and science!’
“Coordination of the Burst is being acquired.”
“Coordinations acquired from the Supreme Commander.”
“Input the target area.”
“Spatial X 2.49, Spatial Y 2.64. Compression Beginning.”
“Hollow Spatial Burst, executing in ten seconds.”
…
‘NO!’ Almond’s pupils enlarged to the extreme as he sensed a sudden burst of space compression and a familiar sensation right above the Earth’s base forty-eight kilometers away.
Whatever that was, Almond felt that it would destroy the base.
*Zaap!*
A spiraling vorpal laser shot at him along with a rain of bullets from above.
With his teleportation disruptive within this field, Almond was restricted.
Barely dodging by using a different type of spatial move skill heavily relied on his Spiral Edge intent, Almond dodged, his sword in his hand as he appeared beside Neo, slicing him.
‘Die, already!’ Almond’s bloodshot eyes indicated the urgency as he needed to prevent that threat.
But as if gaining the pace, Neo vanished like a light flickering, appearing ten meters away before shooting with his guns.
Left one glinted brightly as Almond was encased in a metal cage while the other one unleashed a bullet that struck the cage, which rang like a bell Almond saw a thumb-sized light appearing in the center right in front of his face, trembling violently briefly before exploding.
*BOOM!*
Almond exerted his full willpower as he negated the resistance and forcefully sliced the box into two along with that thumb-sized light.
‘It’s over, Almond.’
Neo’s voice rang in his head before Almond felt a burst of light overflooding his vision and senses.
Almond felt it as his heart suddenly silenced entirely.
‘No, I have to stop it!’ Almond’s eyes broke through everything and reached the Earth’s base, his whole being exerting control.
He saw a football-shaped black light with a bright sparkling dark silver stream inside it, right above the Earth’s base.
The whole Earth’s Base is strangely bent towards it. All people there saw themselves bending archways and getting sucked towards it.
It felt like they were trapped in a painting and this football-shaped orb was warping their perception along with their bodies.
Nobody could do anything as it felt like someone locked them entirely.
Neo saw Almond being vulnerable and struck him, conjoining his guns before unleashing an overloaded attack draining the last bit of his soul energy.
‘Goodbye, Almond. You proved to be tougher than I imagined, but I never fight a war I don’t win.’
Just one second and everything would be over. Earth’s base would vanish and Earth would lose.
The shot Neo released would strike Almond’s head and blow off this clone.
Earth and all its people would get kicked out of the battlefield.
Half of the Earth’s population would vanish randomly.
Just one second was left until all that happened.
The bullet arrived before Almond’s face, and the Hollow Spatial Burst was about to devour the Earth’s base, emptying a 5-kilometer radius of the area into nothingness.
One could even see the pitch-black darkness as the Hollow Spatial Burst unveiled.
It was then, that Almond’s golden eyes turned utterly dark, darker than black.
A pulse radiated from him, robbing all colors of the surroundings as everything turned black and white.
Time stopped, or rather, nulled.
All beings felt their senses turning off, turning nothing. Their sense of existence disappearing.
A large area covering over a hundred kilometers turned pitch black where space and time didn’t matter.
The only thing that mattered was nothing and something.
In this area, only five people’s consciousness managed to retain senses aside from Almond, but they also could not do anything, not even move.
These five were Kexell, Neo, Zanathriel, Lily, and Admiral Rudra.
‘Almond…’ Admiral Rudra looked at Almond, his fist flickering with dimensional blue as he tried to break free, but to no avail.
‘Al, babe, what’s going on?’ Lily quickly sent her thoughts to Almond as she turned to him.
‘Fuck, what did this bastard do?’ Zanathriel frowned. ‘What is this power?’
Neo stared at Almond, uncertain and befuddled, therefore angry.
‘No way. There is no way to prevent Hollow Spatial Burst!’
It consumed an unthinkable amount of energy and a special thing that took five years for him to complete with his variant Mythical-rank Metal!
He wanted to see the Hollow Spatial Burst, but his senses couldn’t reach there.
Meanwhile, Almond’s mind was overloaded as he wasn’t conscious.
In fact, he was between life and death, and his instincts chose life.
Choosing life resulted in the cancelation of this phenomenon that was produced due to his resonation with Void.
And that means all colors returned, time returned, space returned, and everyone’s senses returned.
Hollow Spatial Burst’s process returned.
Almond regained his consciousness, but his eyes froze, his face in the direction of Earth’s base.
“No…”