# Chapter 27: The Far Light Star System Chase Battle (Part 2)
The tide of flesh formed by the Plague Evil God's minions surged rapidly toward Joshua and Nostradamus, violent energy ripples crashing like waves against the ground where the two stood.
The energy waves raised by these hundreds and thousands of super-monster individuals churned through the cosmic void, their power sufficient to twist the sturdiest warships into pretzels, to crush a metallic asteroid into a thin pancake. If it were a mortal's flesh and blood body, it would likely be instantly compressed into an ultra-thin sheet of organic matter, scattered as dust throughout the vacuum.
But neither of the two Legendary experts present possessed a body of mere flesh and blood. Thus, neither Joshua nor Nostradamus dodged. The warrior even stopped in his tracks, turned to face the surging tide of chaos rushing toward him, and extended all four of his arms.
"Right... here!"
A massive steel wheel materialized behind Joshua, spinning rapidly as it gathered countless free-floating energy particles and matter from the surrounding cosmic space, channeling them into the warrior's furnace core. Powerful liquid high-energy aggregates flowed from the furnace, then surged into his four arms. In the next instant, four thick, condensed energy beams were released, slicing toward a super-monster individual. The slender energy beams, several kilometers long, merely swung once, and countless energy shields were torn apart. The leading super-monster was split into four pieces.
But for the chaotic monster swarm, which had already begun burning their life essence for temporary fusion, even a super-individual was less than cannon fodder. A quarter of a second later, several more super-monster individuals burst forth from behind the remains of the first, ferociously pouncing toward Joshua.
What awaited them, however, were the ultra-temporal fusion heavy punches unleashed once again by the combined force of two Legendary experts.
Boom boom boom boom boom! As if happening in the same instant, within nearly the same second, massive craters measuring hundreds of meters appeared on five super-monster individuals that had charged first. Deep green blood and shredded flesh, mixed with fragments of shattered psionic shields, scattered through space. Under the scorching heat of millions of degrees, the steel hides, muscles, nerves, and all manner of indescribable, grotesque tumor tissues inside these monsters were completely incinerated to ash. Crimson flames, like clinging bone cancer, continued to burn within their bodies.
Joshua did not stop punching, and the old mage did not stop assisting. The warrior had thrown far more than five punches. In fact, in the brief tens of seconds prior, his four arms had shuttled back and forth between the two sides of the teleportation channel nearly ten thousand times, like golden-red lightning, blasting apart one void monster and mother beast tentacle after another. But to the many Midgardians watching from the distant Neptune Star Fortress, it seemed as if time had frozen, all happening in a single, unified instant.
Before long, the entire cosmic space seemed submerged in a mist of green blood. Dozens of giant void monsters and kilometer-class void monsters were more than half dead or wounded. Their mangled bodies, even their corpses, continuously burst forth large clumps of viscous blood. Yet this blood was evaporated by the ultra-high temperatures Joshua released, forming seemingly nebula-like, beautiful yet dangerously hallucinogenic forms.
With this series of rapid punches delivered within seconds, Joshua had already beaten down all the Evil God's minions daring to pounce on him. Void monsters still charging from afar existed, but reaching him would take time.
"Now, Nostradamus!"
Seizing the moment when the surrounding field was clear, Joshua immediately called the old mage's name through the psychic link. The Legendary mage did not hesitate. Two streams of light, like cascading waterfalls, lit up in the eyes of the blue humanoid form. He surveyed the surrounding cosmic space, searching for their target. Seconds later, Nostradamus quickly found a suitable target.
"Found it, Joshua!"
The old mage swiftly responded to Joshua's inquiry. Then, he raised his hands. Intense space-time fluctuations gathered and spun above his hands, as if trying to tear the fabric of spacetime, summoning something from the distant beyond. He spoke with some effort: "Cover me! I need time to channel!"
At this moment, because the two had stopped, the void mother beast and the many void monsters that had been closely pursuing the warrior and the old mage had already passed them by some distance. Now, these minions of chaos were rapidly turning around, preparing to continue their pursuit of Joshua and Nostradamus.
But at this moment, the old mage was casting a spell, guiding something across spacetime. Only Joshua faced the returning tide of monsters. Although he had lost the ability for long-range superluminal strikes and the support of void resonance, the warrior's expression did not change. He simply took a deep breath. Then, from key nodes all over his body—elbows, back, shoulders, and soles—a total of ten intense golden energy flames erupted. If this were within an atmosphere, the speed of these flames would create supersonic waves, sharp enough to kill life forms kilometers away. But here, it was the force propelling Joshua forward!
Boom! With the eruption of the flames, Joshua transformed entirely into a rocket accelerated to the extreme, charging head-on toward the countless monsters. But unlike the previous spiral charge using the Steel Sword and Giant Axe, this time the warrior simply charged in a straight line, using no technique, relying solely on brute force to crash into the monster horde!
Suddenly, like a golden spark swallowed by black seawater, the light representing Joshua was instantly engulfed by the monster swarm. This sight not only terrified the Midgardian soldiers at the distant Neptune Star Fortress but also shook Nostradamus, who was casting behind. Joshua had only said he would hold off the enemy to create an opportunity for his spell, but that guy never said he would charge in the opposite direction!
But before their hearts could hang high for long, ripples suddenly burst from within the black tide of monsters that had swallowed Joshua. It was as if explosives had detonated within. Countless charred void monster corpses, like splashing water droplets, were blasted out of the swarm by violent explosions and impacts. They didn't even have time to form a psionic cage before being sent flying by the continuous, intense shocks. Because of this, the front of the monster horde visibly thinned and receded, even allowing a faint glimpse of the warrior's form at the center, which had turned into countless afterimages, attacking who knows how many monsters simultaneously.
"Energy peak has exceeded the city-scale giant psionic engine!"
"Even the core detonation of dozens of warships doesn't have this much impact force!"
"What is happening?! How are those monsters being sent flying?!"
At the Neptune Star Fortress, every location with a view of this scene erupted in various sounds of shock and confusion. All the Midgardians either scratched their heads in a daze or stared blankly at the screens, their faces full of disbelief.
They had already repeatedly overestimated the strength of these two void lifeforms, but they found that the so-called limits they set were meaningless. Based on size, they had calculated that the combined strength of these two reinforcements from the homeworld couldn't withstand millions of void monsters, let alone the mother beast. But now, it seemed that aside from the mother beast holding a slight advantage due to its massive size, the originally most troublesome endless void monsters posed no threat to them. In fact, they were even being used as fuel to replenish energy!
And at that moment, on the other side of the barrier, at the other end of spacetime, Joshua did something that was routine for him but shocked everyone, including the old mage and even the void mother beast.
"Sword, come!"
Shouting in the vacuum, Joshua transformed into a surging golden-red stream of light. In an instant, he arrived beside a super-monster individual over five kilometers long. In that instant, the four arms of the Steel Giant God began to rapidly merge, transforming into two even stronger, more powerful arms. These arms, flowing with the silver light of Steel Force, grabbed the super-monster individual's body. The thick psionic gravity shield was breached as easily as a soaked, crispy pancake.
In the second second of grabbing the giant monster, the silver light spread like a plague virus across the bodies of these Plague Evil God's minions. In the next instant, a thin layer of metallic luster completely covered the super-monster individual, and it itself began the most violent transformation!
"Grrraaahhhh—"
The super-monster individual, formed from the fusion of over a dozen giant monsters, over five kilometers long and resembling a disc, sprayed nearly endless deep green blood mist from its entire body. Its miserable, agonized wails spread through its own blood mist. Amidst the most desperate screams of this Evil God's minion, it rapidly changed its form like a lump of Play-Doh, then, obeying Joshua's will, compressed and shaped itself into a massive, kilometer-class giant weapon—whether axe or sword was unclear!
A true mass weapon!
The new skill honed using the Flame Demon Syndicate as forging material worked just as well on the Chaos minions! Amidst the blood of the Evil God's minions filling the cosmic vacuum, Joshua laughed heartily, his face even more ferocious in the rain of blood. Holding this super-giant ship-cutter blade, dozens or even hundreds of times larger than his own Giant God form, he began to spin violently, to the terror and horror of the Midgardian soldiers, Nostradamus, the void monsters, and the void mother beast!
True Whirlwind Slash—
"This can also be called a Whirlwind Slash!?"
In the psychic link, hearing the technique name Joshua reported, even Nostradamus, with most of his mind focused on channeling the spell, couldn't help but curse: "Even the super typhoons raging across the Eastern Sea aren't this big a deal!"
He clearly saw that at the center of the distant battlefield, tens of thousands of void monsters, as if fleeing hell, frantically distanced themselves from the silver vortex formed by Joshua's spinning super-giant sword. But a powerful gravitational pull dragged them all into that terrifying meat grinder. In an instant, the cosmic space within a range of tens of kilometers was cleared. The tide-like monster swarm was more than half scattered. The violent energy fluctuations, accompanied by continuously splashing and spreading green blood mist, churned the entire cosmic void!
If this move occurred on the surface near a coastline, it would be enough to create a super typhoon ravaging the entire coast, shaking the entire sea. The resulting disaster would be several times more terrifying than a natural calamity. Sinking several large islands would not be difficult.
At this moment, even the mother beast had to order the monster swarm to retreat. After all, the monster swarm was a biological resource produced by the mother beast. Sending them to die for nothing was a complete waste of resources. Even with its limited intelligence, it could see that cannon fodder was meaningless against Joshua—it was even giving him weapons.
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A large mass of garbled code flashed through its central processing unit, like a program encountering countless errors. At this moment, the void mother beast didn't know what this feeling was—what kind of indignant thought. In any case, the void mother beast understood that only by acting itself could it pose a threat to those two small super-lifeforms. Soon, the countless void monsters in the sky stopped coalescing into a black tide. Instead, they scattered, becoming countless star-like particles, spreading in all directions throughout the star system.
"Terrible!"
At the Neptune Star Fortress, the Midgardians' faces changed drastically. The three leading commanders could no longer sit still; they all stood up. They exchanged anxious glances but didn't know what to say for a moment. They could only pace back and forth in the meeting room while frantically issuing sweeping orders to their fleets.
They absolutely could not let these void monsters truly spread within the star system! This was a threat second only to the invasion of the void mother beast itself!
Although, based on the Midgardians' current understanding of the enemy, void monsters lacked the ability to reproduce and self-propagate—they were essentially biological weapons created by the void mother beast—who knew if these monsters carried some part of the mother beast's own flesh and blood? If so, even if they defeated the void mother beast, they couldn't completely destroy it!
As for whether they could destroy it or not, that wasn't a question for soldiers to consider. If they couldn't defeat it, they would all become organic resources for the mother beast to create cannon fodder. What follow-up thoughts would there be? Only a victorious future needed to be considered.
However, Joshua and Nostradamus were not thrown off by this sight. For these two Legendary experts, the only thing worth paying attention to and being wary of was the void mother beast, which had yet to use its full power, not even revealing the trump card it had used in another colony star system!
"Hah!"
Seeing that the surrounding void monsters had mostly retreated, and continuing to spin would not kill more enemies, Joshua decisively stopped spinning. The moment he stopped, the man threw the super-monster individual's giant sword—now completely dead, a compressed corpse—like a shot put, aiming it at the void mother beast, which was now not far away, and hurled it with all his might!
At this moment, how strong was Joshua? With the Fusion Core Heart operating at full capacity, even he didn't know his own limit. But regardless, when a super-lifeform, powered by nuclear fusion, weighing over a million tons, wielding a giant weapon several kilometers long, throws a mass weapon the size of an asteroid with full force at a target, the minimum, weakest result is a 'strategic-level' super weapon!
Moreover, the force of this attack was far from weak!
Boom!
A brief, sharp detonation echoed through the space filled with monster blood mist for an instant. Then, all that could be seen was a massive silver object, faintly glowing, disappearing into the cosmic vacuum at a hypervelocity of thousands of kilometers per second. The moment the mass weapon left Joshua's hand, even Nostradamus felt his vision blur. As for the distant Midgardians at the Neptune Star Fortress, they collected almost no data before discovering that the warrior's attack had already been launched. This speed exceeded the sensitivity limits of their detectors.
And in the distance, when the giant monster corpse, crossing endless space like a teleporting silver line splitting the dark universe in two, slammed into the void mother beast's shield, the Midgardians' detectors completely exploded. Countless screens twisted and vanished.
Because the intensity of the energy burst had disrupted the psionic particles, causing even the subspace communication, which shouldn't have been affected by the real universe, to malfunction.
On this side of cosmic space, Joshua and Nostradamus could see a violent explosion, like a supernova, erupting on the mother beast's shield. The layers of psionic shields, several kilometers thick, shattered one after another. The defense system, stacked eight thousand layers deep, was penetrated by over six thousand layers in an instant. The terrifying impact force caused the shields elsewhere on the mother beast to ripple like ocean tides. Violent shockwaves swept in all directions from the point of impact, forming a spectacular ring of energy.
The monster corpse, strengthened by Steel Force, was annihilated in the violent clash with the mother beast's shield, completely dissipating into countless basic material particles. But in return, the void mother beast's nearly invincible super shield began to flicker like a faulty light bulb. It was clear that although the shield wasn't breached, it was greatly weakened. The mother beast itself also fell into a standstill. Most of the ruby-like crystal veins on its surface had shattered. These were the organs supporting the mother beast's psionic shield—they had suffered heavy damage.
"...I'm out of energy."
Staying in place, Joshua exited the arm fusion form and returned to his four-armed giant form. The golden vortex on his chest only had light at its very core. The warrior spoke in a somewhat weak voice for the first time. Then, while activating a spiral suction vortex to collect surrounding matter to replenish his spark, he said in the psychic link: "I'll rest for a bit. It's your turn now, Master Nostradamus."
"No problem. Rest for a while."
Having channeled for a long time and completely finished the spell in his hands, Nostradamus replied with a laugh. He looked confidently at the distant void mother beast, whose shield had become much dimmer, a light blue light flickering in his eyes: "This time, watch me!"
As he spoke, between the old mage's raised hands, a flash of deep blue light suddenly lit up. This light cut straight through the cosmic vacuum, opening a super-massive space-time rift tens of kilometers long. The rift rapidly expanded, forming a deep, long, swirling space-time tunnel. In the next instant, a spindle-shaped giant meteor, over a dozen kilometers long, carrying a speed that made the space-time tunnel tremble as if about to collapse, shot toward the distant, stalled void mother beast!
[Nostradamus's Star]!
Not long ago, at the central homeworld, in the Far Light Star System data provided by the Mother Tree, Joshua and Nostradamus learned that there was a long asteroid belt orbiting the entire star system in its central region. It was likely the remains of a planet shattered by a giant asteroid flying in from another star system.
This asteroid belt contained numerous materials very suitable for use as weapons. With the power of a Legendary mage, Nostradamus could guide them to descend from the other end of spacetime to bombard the void mother beast. But their initial speed was insufficient, their power too weak. So the old mage needed time to use his power to guide these asteroids at the other end of spacetime, using the gravity of other planets and the sun to continuously accelerate them, accelerate them to the limit, to the point where they could damage and harm the void mother beast's shield. This required a long time, so Joshua had to hold off the other void monsters to make it possible.
Joshua had perfectly completed his task, even exceeding expectations by weakening the void mother beast's shield and even causing it to stall. So this long-planned, world-ending strike, capable of destroying a planetary surface, would surely severely wound the opponent!
Thus, it could be seen. The meteor, accelerated to 0.0035 times the speed of light, crashed head-on into the void mother beast's shield without any tricks. A white light, illuminating the star system, bloomed.
Then came a 'shattering sound' clearly perceptible even in the cosmic vacuum.
Crack—Boom boom boom rumble rumble rumble!!!!!
In the vacuum, sound waves cannot travel. But powerful energy fluctuations far surpass any sound wave. The countless monster corpses and blood mist that had filled the cosmic void were blown away by a light far stronger than the sun and violent energy impacts. Earth-shattering, planet-trembling explosions continuously lit up the dark cosmic space, forming circular energy domes. The powerful aftershocks were so strong that even Joshua and Nostradamus had to focus to stay in place without being swept away, let alone the smaller void monsters that hadn't fled far enough.
Seconds later, the light from the impact dimmed. Steadying themselves, Joshua and Nostradamus both looked toward the void mother beast. What unfolded before them was a cosmic scene of unbelievable devastation.
The void mother beast's thick psionic shield had completely shattered. Its massive body was torn with countless huge, gruesome wounds. Clearly visible within the wounds were shattered psionic shield crystals and deep green tumor tissue. Green blood, gushing out like ocean tides, scattered through the weightless vacuum, forming giant green blood globules. Further away were countless torn chunks of flesh, completely inert, flying deeper into the cosmic void.
The entire front of the void mother beast that had received the meteor impact was destroyed. A huge chunk of flesh mass, hundreds of square kilometers, was incinerated to nothing by the high temperature. The consequences of this strike shocked even Joshua and Nostradamus. They both involuntarily clenched their fists, because what unfolded before them was the violence capable of erasing a civilization from a planet's surface.
And this violence was the work of their own hands.
Leveraging the favorable time and place, and the unity brought by psionic ascension, the two Legendary experts had inflicted truly significant damage on the void mother beast.
But, without a doubt, although this attack was extremely effective, it was not enough to kill the void mother beast. Accompanied by a surge of furious, black malevolent psychic energy from the mother beast's body, a thick, nearly black deep green psionic energy once again enveloped the mother beast. This black, furious psionic energy was extremely unstable, unable to even form a solid defense, because the emotion of rage itself conflicted with the 'calm' emphasized by psionics. But the void mother beast's unreasonable amount of psionic energy forcibly turned this unstable energy into a temporary defensive layer.
And beneath this faint, flickering black psionic layer, the severely wounded side of the void mother beast could be seen regenerating at an astonishing speed. The price was the shrinking of its body, originally nearly a million meters in size. As one tumor tissue regenerated, one reproductive cavity reconstructed, the void mother beast shrank by about a quarter. Layers of deep green, wrinkled flesh surged at the wound site. In the distance, the countless void monsters that the mother beast had dispersed began to surge back. They were called by the mother to become materials for its own healing.
At the same time, before Joshua and Nostradamus, who had only just recovered some energy, could pursue, the massive void mother beast decisively turned around on the spot, locked onto a direction, and rapidly propelled itself with psionic energy. This decisive, incredibly swift action caught both the warrior and the old mage off guard. A second later, as the void mother beast began spewing massive psionic streams to propel itself, Nostradamus's face changed drastically. He shouted loudly in the psychic link: "Terrible! The direction the void mother beast is heading is the asteroid belt! And a bit further beyond that is the Midgardians' Neptune Star Fortress!"
"It wants to obtain resources from the asteroid belt to repair its psionic shield crystals, then eat the Midgardians to recover biological mass, and then fight us to the death!"
"We must not let it succeed!" Joshua's face also darkened. "If it recovers, who knows how long this battle will drag on! Inside a star system, a material-rich area, a war of attrition could last for years without being strange!"
So, the old mage once again grabbed the warrior and began rapid teleportation, chasing the gradually accelerating void mother beast.