Devouring World Dragon

Chapter 279 The Vanished Miracle

"It's coming! It's coming!"

"What should we do? Sumer will be eaten..."

"Don't panic... stay calm..."

……

At the Summer Dyson Sphere control center, chaos reigned. Staring at the image of a monster with its gaping maw, attempting to swallow an entire star, many were pale, trembling, and utterly bewildered. Although some desperately shouted for calm, it was to no avail.

"Listen up, everyone! Activate weapon defense mechanisms!"

But just then, a rough voice rang out.

An elderly man stood on the second floor, his large, round eyes staring down at the technicians below, shouting.

"On your marks! Prepare for the counterattack!"

The raw, primal sound waves reached everyone's ears.

After a brief period of chaos, the technicians managed to suppress their fear and, with the help of AI, re-emerged the Dyson sphere.

Thus, after ten thousand years, the Dyson sphere, which had disappeared for ten thousand years thanks to optical deflection technology, reappeared. Outside this hot and massive blue giant star, a spherical structure resembling an iron cage appeared.

The complex and peculiar stellar confinement device is like a bridle binding this raging beast.

In that pre-human era, a time of star system fragmentation, a scholar had a sudden inspiration, and scholars throughout the human world echoed his idea, thus beginning the construction of a great space project.

This miraculous project has put a bridle on the stars, taming them into docile livestock; it has dismantled the stars and reconstructed them into an unprecedented ring world.

For ten thousand years, the star has silently provided the entire ring-shaped world with boundless energy, thus enabling the later golden age. Often, people even forget its true name:
Star control device.

More than just extracting energy from a star, this ancient and magnificent device was originally designed to control the star. Horses can certainly be used to cultivate fields, but they can also be mounts for charging into battle.

In space, a colossal serpent opened its jaws, attempting to swallow the entire blue star. But the tranquil blue star suddenly became restless. Under some peculiar mechanism, its fiery corona suddenly swelled, as if a sleeping tiger had been awakened from its long slumber.

A large number of scorching solar prominences shot out, reaching thousands of miles away. Among them, there was a strange gathering of large numbers of blue solar prominences that then surged outwards.

The solar prominences, numbering in the trillions, formed intense energy particle lines that shot straight toward the giant serpent's head.

This energy and kinetic force were so immense that it was equivalent to hundreds of planets being thrown directly at the giant snake's head, causing it to deflect.

"call……"

The giant serpent, about to feast, was met with a counterattack from the star. It shook its head, seemingly unaccustomed to the retaliation. It let out a low growl of discontent, then abandoned its attempt to swallow and began circling the star.

"Oh hoo..."

To the technicians at the control center, the serpent's retreat appeared as a reaction to a threat, eliciting cheers from the crowd. Meanwhile, in other parts of the world, countless people were celebrating, rejoicing at the serpent's retreat.

But the old man's face was ashen. He was not as optimistic as the other researchers, because he had witnessed the "monster's" battles.

He stared at the monster in the image, which was coiling around Sumer.

Then, the giant serpent coiled halfway around and opened its mouth again, attempting to swallow the star from another angle.

"Prepare!"

The old man scolded again.

While the solar prominences of a star are powerful, they shouldn't be wasted; it's best to release them at close range. And so, once again, the star's fangs snapped at the giant serpent.

Under the impact of the intense torrent of energy particles, the giant serpent once again dodged, seemingly disliking the star's counterattack.

Cheers erupted again in the control center.

The stellar control device demonstrated its extraordinary power; powered by a superstar, its explosive force was so great that it seemed to offer a glimmer of hope against the giant serpent.

The massive star reacted violently, its intense corona rising ever higher, like a cricket that had defeated its opponent, strutting about triumphantly, its fighting spirit soaring.

In the following few instances, the stellar weapon displayed its might, and the giant serpent dodged it several times. Each time it dodged, it aroused cheers from countless people around the world.

However, no one could perceive that with each concession, the giant serpent's vertical pupils grew increasingly cold.

Finally, after dodging once again, the giant snake's pupils began to turn red.

"Roar!!!!!"

Unlike its previous low growls, this time the giant snake let out an unprecedentedly fierce roar.

With this roar, numerous aerial cities across the ring world crashed to the ground under the immense impact, while trillions of interstellar humans were also struck by an invisible psionic shock. Mad and twisted beings cried and wailed on the ground, scales involuntarily growing from their bodies; some even had their legs transform into snake tails.

With a roar, the giant serpent suddenly lunged at the star in front of it.

"not good……"

Before the elderly could make a decision, the AI ​​had already made its judgment.

The entire star suddenly expanded, with hot stellar material rolling across its surface and ejecting thousands, even tens of thousands, of violent prominences. These prominences were unimaginably long, with some even able to be ejected as far as half a light-year away.

It was like a mysterious monster that had suddenly sprouted millions of tentacles, which were waving around as if to fight against its powerful enemy.

But before those tentacles could unfold, a gigantic maw from the abyss had already bitten into the unimaginably enormous blue giant star.

"boom……"

The gushing solar prominences were incredibly hot, casting a clear red glow in the giant serpent's mouth.

As if aware of its own impending death, the star erupted with unprecedented ferocity, attempting to fight against the monster that had swallowed it.

The star's fangs were tearing at it; it not only had fangs, but millions of them. But the monster in front of it was oblivious, as if everything was just the struggle of an infant.

The monster completely disregarded its gaping jaws, greedily biting down on the star, refusing to let go of it. Its crimson pupils were filled with only madness and greed as it slowly swallowed the enormous star.

The blazing star surged wildly, its overflowing energy spraying out into the vast cosmos to form prominences, yet it could not withstand the monster's resolute and powerful swallowing.

As the star fell into the monster's mouth, the faint red light gradually dimmed until it disappeared completely.

In the control center, the technicians stared blankly at space, while the old man's clenched fists trembled involuntarily.

That miracle, the miracle created by humankind more than 10,000 years ago, has vanished completely at this moment.

Not long after a glimmer of hope was ignited, it was swallowed up before the very eyes of all humanity in the RimWorld, plunging the entire world into utter despair.

Eternal night descends, but it will not last long.

(End of this chapter)