Chapter 41: The Soul of Nothingness I (8000, 1st Update)
In the distance, the surface of the Ross 128 is still rumbling and roaring.
Eloat's extraction of stellar energy for his own use has apparently caused irreversible damage to the red dwarf, greatly affecting its lifespan and possibly even causing a quick demise in a short period of time.
But it's all over.
Facing the corpse of the Star Eater in front of him, which was gradually collapsing into a point of light in the sky, Su Sun calmly let go of his hand.
The arm guards on his hands quickly cracked, and the charred roots of the plant shattered like a cloud of smoke, revealing the crystalline arm bones that had been wrapped in outer armor and flesh, leaving only a charred black appearance and cracked crystal arm bones.
After all, the antimatter engine on Su Sun's arms was not a giant vent on the back of the moon, but was temporarily shaped by non-core divine wood materials, and the protection ability was indeed insufficient, and it was impossible to support it for too long under such strong firepower.
However, even if it is only a dozen seconds, it is completely sufficient.
As the killer blow of the Su Sun Cosmic Warfare Planetary Engine Formation Form, the Extinction Star Slash Blade is indeed incomparably powerful.
The enhanced antimatter jet was enough to destroy the shell of the Star Eater, and completely burned its internal structure, and the Celestial Thunder contained inside could even annihilate the soul, which can be described as a powerful blow that can cut everything in two.
And let's be honest.
As the name suggests, the Star Slash is indeed something that can only cut planets.
The essence of its technology is very simple, it is to use a planetary engine-level engine to drive a super large thermal energy cutting knife...... But how to make the knife so big is also a profound technology, and how to use this knife to cut people is the most advanced technology.
If it weren't for the fact that Iloart, the Star Eater, was too confident in himself, and it was difficult to move with his back to the star to draw energy, the time it took for the Star Slashing Blade to charge would be enough for an opponent of Su Sun's level to run away for at least tens of thousands of kilometers.
If you are fast, you can escape by turning into light, and you will run away for millions of kilometers - can this cut a yarn?
Naturally, you can only cut the stars.
"It's worthy of the Dusk Clan......"
Staring at the shattered fragments of the Star Eater in front of him, and slowly lifting the Divine Wood Formation Formation, Su Sun stripped off the layer of Divine Wood armor that had been completely overloaded.
He couldn't help but shake his head slightly: "I'm really not afraid of death." ”
No matter how much the other party shouted at the parishioners to help him before, and his head was not good.
But at the end of the day, Eloart is a member of the Order of the Void.
His method of fighting obviously has nothing to do with the core idea of 'keeping oneself safe' that most practitioners fulfill.
If Su Sun relied on his immortal blood, modular body, and various transformations to transfer damage, he would not use the combat method of injuring 1,000 enemies and injuring 100 himself on a daily basis - just like that, he didn't dare to raise the damage too high, because if he accidentally got rid of it, he might not be able to save him from immortal blood.
But the members of the Order of the Void, their methods of fighting, locked themselves in their souls if they couldn't beat them.
Fortunately, Su Sun slashed quickly, otherwise the Star Eater would definitely stage such a good show.
Boom...... The oscillation comes from the surface of the star.
After finishing his contemplation, Su Tian turned his head sideways and saw that Ross 128 was close to the side of the battlefield, and a large number of coronas began to sound—the dazzling firelight was like a giant dragon soaring up, running through a distance of millions of meters, extending towards the distant deep space of the universe.
It just so happened that a corona swept in the direction of the youth.
But Su Sun didn't care.
Thermal storms are like torrents, and solar storms mixed with hot stellar gas can easily burn the surface of a planet into rock vapor.
But the body of Candlelight stood in the frenzy of the stars, like a reef that had been beaten by the waves but did not move.
Endless light, and a black dragon form, imprinted in the vacuum of the universe, like an eternal seal.
Su Sun allowed the storm to wash away the debris and powder on the surface of his body, like bathing in a rare hot bath.
The power of the earth immortal can walk on the stars and protect itself in the corona; The power of the immortals can ignore almost all natural phenomena in the universe and enter the interior of the stars to explore.
Above the immortals, they can use this original cradle of all life as their own energy source, and cosmic giants like the Star Eater, including the Aether Dragon, can use it as food if they evolve into a complete body.
【Rustle...... Marshal, how are you now? 】
Because of the shattering of the spirit world and the ravages of the solar storm, it took a lot of effort for the Earth Fleet to connect with Su Sun through the reinforcement frequency: [We have observed a very terrible explosion, and the aftermath has even destroyed the surface of the Fire Sunset, which is really terrifying. 】
Are you alright? 】
"I'm fine."
Hearing Tang Yuan's familiar voice, Su Yan smiled, he took his eyes off Rose 128, where corona and flare eruptions were becoming more and more frequent, and then said with some apologies: "Yes, I may need you to tell Xiang De and all the Huoxi people." ”
"The stars of the Fire Evening Field...... It's probably going to blow up. ”
[Huh? 】
For a moment, all the members of the Earth Fleet who heard this, as well as Xiang De, the only member of the Huoxi Civilization, were all stunned for a moment.
My family's star, Ross 128...... Going to blow up?
But this is not strange news.
The existence of Eloat, the Star Eater, had already shaken the foundation of this star.
As we all know, red dwarfs burn differently from ordinary yellow main-sequence stars, and the matter and energy produced by the fusion of their core nuclei will move in a cycle between the 'core' and the 'surface of the star', heating up repeatedly.
Coupled with its small mass and weak nuclear reactions, this star has an extremely long lifespan, which can easily reach hundreds of billions or even trillions of years, making it one of the most stable species of stars.
This is also the reason why Star Eaters choose red dwarfs as their nests.
However, the existence of the Star Dome has replaced part of the star's ability to stabilize itself and has become the second core of the star.
This greatly accelerated its nuclear fusion phenomenon, and for thousands of years, Eloart's unbridled sucking and devouring of the star's energy brought the already fragile red dwarf to its death.
And when the Starry Sky Dome shattered, the remnants of the moon scattered, and after the battle between Su Sun and the Star Eater, the aftermath set off by the two of them, although insignificant to a star, still caused a cyclical oscillation that had been circulating inside the star for a long time, further accelerating its self-destruction.
Now, from Su Tian's perspective, the star in front of him has basically entered the final stage - it is about to accelerate its burning, volatilize its mass into interstellar matter, and then turn into a brown dwarf.
Because the mass is too low, there will be no supernova explosion in the process, which is probably a blessing in disguise.
Although it is said that if Su Sun does not come, the fire sunset star will be burned to ashes in the stellar explosion created by the Star Eater, but in the final analysis, the life of Ross 128 is now over, and it does have something to do with him.
【…… How can I blame you for this kind of thing? 】
Digesting this news, the stunned Xiang De couldn't help but show a wry smile, he let out a long sigh, and then calmed down instead: [Originally, the best ending we guessed was that the eight wandering arks could start normally, leave the Jedi with nearly 10 million Huoxi people, and find the planet that rekindled the fire on the other side of the distant sea of stars...... To put it bluntly, it's nothing more than gambling. 】
[And now, what we have lost is only the hometown and star that we have long given up in our hearts, but what we have gained is the survival of 6.5 billion Huoxi people-real gains. 】
[I can only thank you, Marshal, for helping us get out of the predicament we couldn't get out of and saving everyone. 】
On the battleship, even if Su Sun didn't see it, the Huoxi leader with the blood of the green dragon still bowed deeply in the direction where Su Sun was.
Indeed, the Fire Sunset was destroyed – and was about to be burned out in the self-destruction of Ross 128.
But as the hometown of the Huoxi people, the star that used to be approaching dusk...... It will always be engraved in the memories of the people of Huoxi, and even in the DNA!
At the same time, Su Sun sensed that there was a very pure and pure wish power, which was crossing time and space and throwing itself towards him.
He couldn't help but smile.
Of course, he knew that when all the Huoxi people woke up, the gratitude and admiration of the 6.5 billion people who had reacted would become another huge source of merit for him.
Naturally, there will be some abnormal guys who will blame his existence for causing the Huoxi people to lose their hometown, the number of such people will not be small, after all, there are no stupid people among the six and a half billion people, I am afraid that the Huoxi civilization has already become the overlord of the galaxy.
However, young people have long since forgotten about this.
How can the merit and wish of billions of people compare to the firm will of a heavenly immortal?
But...... There is no need to think too much about medals.
Su Ri smiled now, just because he had helped a lot of people because his path was uneven, and he had succeeded in crushing the Star Eater, a monster sleeping in the place where the Earth civilization was sitting, to ashes.
"Now, it's over...... It's time to see what these Dusk Clans are planning. ”
Taking his mind off the Earth Fleet channel for a moment, Su Sun turned his head, he looked in front of him, and then reached out and pulled the oversized ghast spirit of the Star Eater into his hand.
The ghast of Eloat, the Star Eater, was by far the largest ghast Su Sun had ever obtained.
This thing is as long as 2,400 meters in diameter, and although it is not worth mentioning compared to the original 20,000-kilometer-diameter giant dome and the total length of more than 100,000 meters, it can be said to be incredibly large compared to most of the original ghasts that are only the size of fists.
This is not a soul ball, but a soul mountain.
Even a giant dragon in the form of a cosmic battle with a height of more than six thousand meters couldn't help but feel distressed when he saw this ghast.
"How the hell is this going to be eaten......
Despite his words, Su Sun's last choice was to create a large straw—a hollow divine wooden tube that was four hundred meters long—and inserted it into the ghast.
Since you can't eat it, drink it!
At first, the taste is very bland and tasteless, like boiling water mixed with lime, with a dry taste.
But soon, this dryness turned into hot, scorching like a star.
The scorching heat ran down the throat and into the abdomen, and the negative entropy taste was a little sweet, with a faint aroma, making the taste of the Star Eater's ghast somewhat close to the high-concentration inferior liquor, but it was more hot and pure, but still with an irrepressible astringency.
【Ghost of Eloart the Star Eater】
[Ghasts that are different from their kind, different from all beings, pure and alien. 】
[Gain wisdom but can't communicate, body full but spirit empty, looking for the ultimate soul of nothingness]
[After use, increase the maximum amount of aura affinity and spiritual power by an incredible amount]
[Spiritual calcination, which can be turned into a spirit that swallows the world and swallows the sky, attached to all equipment items]
[Forging with a special technique, it can be cast into the soul cannon of 'Star Devouring Sky Cannon']
[Devour, devour, devour, devour, devour, endless devouring...... If this is meaning, what is the difference between that and no meaning? 】
How is life different from the universe itself? The celestial bodies also eat, and they also have anger, sorrow, love, birth, old age, sickness and death. 】
[Reflection is meaningless, wisdom is the source of trouble...... Therefore, instead of waiting for nothingness, believers in nothingness will choose to act. 】
And this is the biggest difference between nothingness and nihilistic believers. 】
Although the ghast of the Star Eater was very large, and it was the first time, Su Sun saw the affix 'incredible magnitude'.
However, he did not condense the legacy—a testament to the fact that even though Iloart had gained wisdom, the anomalous Star Eater had not figured out his own path.
This made Su Sun a little disappointed, he looked at the eight-headed etheric dragon body condensed by the other party, and thought that this Star Eater had accidentally embarked on a similar path to his Candle Day, and could freely cut the body of the cosmic giant beast for his own use, and he could be regarded as his 'fellow believer'.
But now it seems that it may really be that Iloart ate a lot of aether dragons and simply copied the body structure of those aether dragons.
"But that's not the most important thing."
Burning with the soul power belonging to the Star Eater in his abdomen, Su Sun closed his eyes.
As he traveled to the increasingly turbulent stellar turbulence, he began to meditate, dissecting the endless memories within himself that belonged to Eloat.
"As the Annihilator of the Void Order, there must be important information in the soul of this Star Eater!"
The surging soul power is surging, millions of years of memories are burning, and the light and shadow created by the stareater's long memories are intertwined.
Su Sun forcibly eliminated a large number of meaningless memories of his own will, and began to refine Iloart's life.
- The Star Eater spends most of his life eating.
This cosmic beast, in its very existence, is equivalent to a small star, and it is a very burning star.
If they don't eat, the young Star Eater will burn itself out - in fact, there are many Star Eater cubs who are unable to grow up healthy because they do not start eating immediately after birth, and eventually become a cloud of dust between the stars.
In the beginning, Iloart, a sound stareater, was no different from his other compatriots.
So, when He was conceived by His Mother and thrown into a brown dwarf, He began to eat, devour, bite, and suck without stopping...... Until it becomes powerful, becomes a behemoth, becomes a real little star, and can survive for a long time.
But at that point, the instincts of the Star Eaters are fully aroused, and even if they don't need to, they will continue to devour the stars, strengthen themselves, and turn themselves into a wandering star wandering the universe.
Everything changes in a 'short' feeding process.
Having just arrived at the 'Perfect Body', Eloat chose a yellow main-sequence star for his food.
It just so happens that the second planet of this main-sequence star is home to many primitive life.
The Star Eater, who has just advanced to a complete body and can devour the energy of the stars, does not eat slowly in his own opinion, but for the short-lived species, it is not a matter of speed or slowness.
Iloart, in the process of eating, watched the birth and rise and fall of a civilization.
It was a long-forgotten name, known only as a winged being with wings and the ability to fly.
This people are born with a love of flying and exploring, and their desire for the stars was manifested in the ancient wilderness era.
The sun is their guide, the beacon of exploration, the god of watch, the god of watch, the god of the future who believes that they are the children of the sun, and that their wings exist so that one day they can break free from the constraints of the earth and go to the dazzling source of light.
There is no doubt that such a belief can save many detours for a civilization, allowing them to smoothly move all the way to the interstellar age.
However, just as they could explore the alien planet, the race was shocked to discover that above their 'gods' and 'guides' lay a monstrous and abominable, but equally massive beast...... Eating the flesh of the stars.
Needless to say, how to destroy this giant beast has become the 'meaning' of this civilization to continue to move forward.
And not just for myths, beliefs, beliefs.
Just to ensure the stability of the home star field, for the future of civilization, they must also fight the Star Eaters and drive each other away!
To this end, this civilization has worked together to study technology and learn psionic energy - because you can see the existence of the Star Eater as soon as you look up, there is no forgetting, there is no slacking, and every member of the civilization is conscientiously working hard to expel the Star Eater, just so that one day in the future, the Star Eater can be banished.
They have developed generations of brand-new ships, powerful weapons of all kinds, they have spent a long time forging huge fleets, and their practices have become more and more radical, but also more and more powerful.
Their progress rate is far faster than any civilization, and it can even be said that they are among the best in the universe.
But the stars are still dimming.
Whether it's a glossy cannon big enough to burn planets to glass, or an antimatter bomb; Whether it's psykers capable of tearing continents apart and destroying ecosystems, or nanobot weapons capable of mesoscopic erosion......
None of this will work against the Star Eater.
One offensive tactic after another was invented, then it turned out to be useless, one idea after another was proposed, and then it was thrown into the trash.
In the process, many heroes and heroes who can change the world have emerged, leading this civilization to continue to advance, constantly exploring and progressing, and even sacrificing themselves to fight against the monsters of the sun umbrella.
However, all efforts, all struggles, all blood, hopes and even sacrifices are meaningless.
While the tiny ones struggled, the Star Eater finished eating.
Stars are starting to expand – red giantization is about to begin.
Despair has gripped this nameless civilization so much that they have chosen madness, or rather, the most decisive means.
They built a huge warship like never before, and it fluctuated according to the Spirit Power of the Star Eaters, as well as the frequency of their suns...... A stellar bomb was created.
As Iloat momentarily felt full and detached from the expanding star, he could only notice with bewilderment that a group of tiny things, not even ants, had created a small cloud of meaningless sparks at the edge of the crevices in his carapace.
It seemed to be an artillery attack to attract the attention of the behemoth.
But apparently, this was pointless, because the Star Eater didn't understand what the little ants were trying to do, and he just kept his eyes open as the battleship loaded with the star bomb sank into the interior of the star that was about to become a red giant.
And then...... It's a dazzling supernova explosion.
There is also a cosmic giant beast that was seriously injured by the explosion for some reason.
[Why?] 】
[Is it to grab food? 】
At that time, His simple mind could not understand this phenomenon at all: "I haven't eaten all the stars, they are so small, they should have eaten some, and they can even eat for a long, long time." 】
[That's weird, isn't it?] 】
Because of confusion, doubts arise.
Because of the question, so seek answers.
Because of the answer, wisdom is needed.
For the first time, the giant beast that can cross the starry sky and devour the stars without wisdom begins to crave the 'meaningless things' that are not needed for their lives.
But a long time passed, when the ignorant Star Eaters of the past could understand in front of them why that small race would regard themselves as enemies, and would rather choose to detonate the stars than run away.
The giant beast fell into a great confusion again.
[However, with their technology, they can build an ark and leave that galaxy tomorrow morning, right? 】
[If the meaning of life was to exist, they would have fled a long time ago - for thousands of years, their technical level is higher than that of many interstellar civilizations I have seen! 】
[But they still chose to die with the stars without hesitation...... Could it be that there is any higher meaning that is above 'existence'?! 】
[But all this is meaningless! 】
There is something closer to the truth than 'being'.
There is something that can make a life that clearly takes 'survival' as its first priority be willing to give and sacrifice his own life.
What stareaters could not comprehend that led to the birth of everything, the universe, the stars, all life—all of this, everything in the universe today, in the multiverse, that made all things come into being and exist!
So what is it exactly? Even asking the same kind of people will not get answers.
Where can we find the answer? All civilizations in the universe are reluctant to discuss philosophical issues with a star-eater.
What is the end of it all? Why does it take so hard for all things to exist, but there are beings willing to sacrifice their existence for the sake of ethereal things?
Unable to find an answer, wandering beasts wander through the dark universe.
[I, why do I live? 】
The star-eater, who was entangled in this problem, even thought about suicide at one point...... No, it's not that he really committed suicide several times, but he was too strong to die.
Until a gentle twilight light came up and cleared Eloat's consciousness.
[O dazed Star Eater, why are you standing here? 】
At this moment, Iloat realized that he was at the edge of the galaxy.
A remote, yet heavily armed, star system completely encased in psionic matrices and steel fortresses.
At this moment, he was on the edge of the Twilight Clan's headquarters.
However, the Cult of the Void, which is rumored to destroy everything and send everything to nothingness, has not taken a single action against the Star Eater, who even knows why he is alive.
A gentle, respectable voice, after patiently listening to the Star Eater's upside-down verbal explanations, nodded knowingly: "I see, you are thirsting for meaning. 】
[But poor little Iloart, I want to tell you the truth of this multiverse: the birth of all things is only a coincidence, and the existence of all beings is only an accident. 】
[You and me, life, all existence, and even all the miracles in the universe, those shining souls and glory, shining wills and beliefs, are all things that were born by accident because the multiverse is too large. 】
In other words, it's all meaningless. 】
[Not true!] 】
Hearing this answer, the Star Eater at that time retorted fiercely: "Absolutely! 】
[Otherwise, why would there be life that is not afraid of death, and why is there a civilization that is not afraid of sacrifice and destruction?] 】
[There must be a supreme meaning guiding them, ignoring the 'truth of existence', so they can be so righteous!] 】
[Yes.] 】
Eloat, who thought he would get a rebuttal.
But what he received was a crisp and sharp approval: "That's right—that's right!] 】
He heard the gentle voice and smiled faintly, "Therefore, we must bring sacrifice and destruction, death and the end, to those who think they are 'meaningful'. 】
Only in this way can they realize their true meaning and show us a higher truth than 'existence', the supreme thing!] 】
Speaking of which, that gentle voice even became a little fanatical:
[If we succeed, it proves that the multiverse is such a meaningless thing, it is really the true meaning of nothingness - but if we fail, it proves that we are the prelude to the achievement of the 'ultimate meaning', we are the bones under its feet, the road we have trodden!] 】
[What nothingness, and what a meaningful action!] The Order of the Void was born to achieve all this! 】
【……】
Maybe it's because no one has ever wanted to talk to Eloat before.
Or maybe it's because what the other party said is really reasonable and logical.
There are a lot of maybes and maybes.
But, all in all.
Stareater, convinced.
Eloat, so far, chose to join the Void Order, becoming the first starry sky giant beast in this universe to join the Void Order.
Under Su Sun's frowning gaze, he saw that this star eater, who was most likely to be fooled and lame, launched a random annihilation of civilizations in the entire galaxy.
He flew across the starry sky and leapt through the sea of stars, and the behemoths wiped out civilization after civilization, attacking planet after planet, intending to recreate the rebellion of the civilization he had ever seen, but whose name he had forgotten.
Death, destruction, and non-existence are 'nothingness'.
However, it is precisely because of these existences that 'meaningless life' will burst out with sparks that transcend 'existence'!
For all living creatures, using absolute destruction as an oppression, allowing them to burn their lives and burst out of the 'sacrifice' beyond life, we can see that these souls are the thickest, even beyond the existence of life and death, and even the meaning of 'nothingness'!
The Order of the Void, which insisted on acting like this, finally discovered its limits.
They, in the final analysis, are the outliers of the aliens, even if they accidentally get the crumbs of the power of the great beings outside the void and do their best, the Void Order is only a draw with a few galactic kingdoms, and it can even be called a failure.
Those Galactic Lords didn't even spend all their strength against them, and spent most of their time guarding each other.
We need more power. 】
This is a common idea within the entire Order.
But where is the stronger power?
The Void Order, which has many Ω psionic beings, has reached the extreme in terms of psionic energy, and the path to the next step is not impossible to think of, but it will be at least hundreds of thousands of years, a long, long time later, and it is mainly a matter of luck.
In terms of science and technology, the Order of the Void has also reached the extreme, after all, the extraordinary power has the same end, plus the Order of the Void itself is also a team with strong cohesion, never intrigues, suppresses each other, and harmony in the multiverse can be regarded as an excellent organization, so the results of their scientific research team are also extremely remarkable.
Only the Galactic Star, the Sennostian who created it, and has a holy relic that transcends most of the things in this universe, can inspire the Order of the Void!
But the Order of the Void needed power because they couldn't defeat the Galactic Realm—but if they wanted to gain power, they had to defeat a Galactic Realm first?
This set of dolls is a little too classic, so the upper echelons of the Void Order simply gave up this option.
They choose, on the confines of the entire universe, to look for similar things.
And so, the Order of Nothingness found out.
The ancient ruins of a subspace star field beyond the Milky Way.
The remains of the Herald Fortress that sealed the 'Fragment of the Seal'.
Traces of a fragment called the 'Seal of the End of the Town'.