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Chapter 436 Authority and Return

The next moment, Zhang Qi activated the first line of defense that had already been deployed outside the atmosphere.

Hundreds of metal containers disguised as space debris orbiting Earth opened simultaneously, revealing warheads within that contained the most destructive power of human civilization.

In a vacuum, electromagnetic orbiters launch nuclear bombs with extreme efficiency, transforming them into silent streaks of light that hurtle toward the crimson giant eye.

When the first nuclear bomb touched the surface of Hellstar, which seemed to be made of nebula and flesh, a silent, extremely dazzling ball of light suddenly exploded.

Then came the second, the third, hundreds and thousands...

The cores of countless suns were ignited in the same instant, and the energy, enough to wipe out all life and civilization on Earth's surface several times over, was transformed into a destructive wave of light that swept across everything.

A violent gamma-ray burst, a stream of high-energy particles, and pure thermal radiation constituted a storm on a cosmic scale, attempting to completely evaporate this eerie star from existence.

Inside the [Cyclical Armor], Zhang Qi calmly observed the entire field of vision filled with pure white light.

The sensors were screaming wildly on the verge of overload, and the temperature readings of the external armor were soaring exponentially.

However, as the light, powerful enough to melt stars, gradually faded, the scene revealed shattered any remaining hope.

The surface of Hellstar was only covered with patches of slightly dark areas, as if it had been sanded with sandpaper.

Those explosions that are powerful enough to level mountains and evaporate oceans only destroy its outermost "skin".

The damage was negligible.

But the insulting aspect reached its peak.

An indescribable rage, originating from the ancient primordial chaos of the universe, awakens from the very core of Hellstar.

The dark red flesh and blood tissue on the planet's surface began to writhe and multiply violently, like an enraged beehive.

Countless flesh-like spikes surged wildly from its surface, each one larger than the Himalayas. They twisted and grew, spreading outwards and swarming towards Zhang Qi's tiny location.

"Energy unit, operating at full power."

Seeing this, Zhang Qi did not dodge, but instead activated all the energy units of his bio-armor.

The giant's original deep black armor suddenly lit up with countless energy conduction lines, like blood vessels that had been ignited.

The light shifted from a deep blue to a blazing white, and finally, it was tinged with an ominous crimson.

Under the violent surge of energy, the form of the [Biosuit] began its second transformation.

Its body, originally several meters tall, gradually increased in height, its skeletal structure extending and reorganizing under the influence of energy, and its armor modules continuously multiplying and covering the body.

It transformed into a real, hundreds-of-meters-tall red giant god.

[Giant Armor, activate.]

[Core S2 mechanism, restrictions lifted.]

At the core of the armor's chest, the unit simulating the Spear of Longinus was completely exposed, revealing an abyss that seemed to connect to another dimension.

Vast, almost inexhaustible energy began to be forcibly extracted from the Dirac Sea.

Then, accompanied by the surge of energy, a pattern known as the Kabbalah Tree of Life appeared.

The chest armor of the Colossus armor slid open to the sides, revealing the particle cannon firing unit with an extremely complex internal structure.

Light, even more dazzling than that of a star's core, condensed and compressed within it, reaching a critical point.

The earth-shattering blow transformed into an indescribably thick crimson beam of light, which shot out fiercely.

The beam of light collided head-on with the "forest" of billions of fleshy spikes. (No further information provided.)
Those spikes, powerful enough to pierce a planet, were instantly vaporized and decomposed before the crimson beam of light, like ice and snow thrown into a furnace, leaving not even the most basic particles behind.

The torrent of particles swept through everything in its path, finally crashing heavily onto the main body of Hellstar.

This time, it's no longer a painless scraping treatment.

The massive body of Hellstar shuddered violently. In the area hit by the particle cannon, a huge, bottomless wound thousands of kilometers in diameter suddenly appeared, and dark red "blood"—high-energy nebula matter—gushed out like a flood.

"Ow—"

A silent, yet soul-shaking wail spread throughout the entire solar system in the form of a concept.

On Earth, all the surviving humans, no matter how deep they hid in underground bunkers, felt at that moment that their souls were being gripped tightly by an invisible hand.

Their mental defenses completely collapsed, and countless people bled from all seven orifices on the spot, their consciousness extinguished.

On the surface, the "familiars" transformed by Zhang Jie under the impact of this wail underwent another mutation, becoming even more violent and twisted.

Inside the shelter, Zheng Zha and the others fought desperately against the mental shock, their faces as pale as paper.

All they could do was place all their hopes on that lone figure fighting in the depths of the universe, praying for his victory and for him to return alive to the main divine space.

In space, Zhang Qi looked at the enormous wound on Hellstar, which was still tiny relative to its total volume, and its terrifying regenerative ability that was healing at a visible speed, without any fluctuation in his eyes.

He knew that conventional energy attacks had reached their limit.

“In that case…” Inside the Colossus Armor, the S2 mechanism and amplification unit operated at unprecedented power, pouring all the endless energy into another unit located at the core of the machine—the gravity control unit.

"...Then let's try something different."

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A strange, water-like ripple began to appear in the space in front of the Colossus armor.

Immediately afterwards, the light in that space was irresistibly distorted, and all the starlight and all the colors were sucked into a single point.

An absolute, pure nothingness that does not reflect any light.

A singularity, resembling a black hole, was born.

It was originally only the size of a pinhead, so quiet it was almost an illusion.

But the next moment, it began to frantically pull at everything around it, centering on itself.

Space, time, matter, energy...

For the first time, a clearly discernible emotion was conveyed in Hellstar's chaotic giant eyes.

It wasn't anger, it wasn't pain, but surprise and...fear.

It cannot be understood.

In its understanding, the ultimate celestial body in the universe, the black hole, is the end of mass and a miracle of natural evolution.

How could such a tiny life form, which is not even a speck of dust, possibly create such a calamity out of thin air?

Fear stems from the unknown.

The next moment, the pseudo-black hole began to frantically devour the energy and matter overflowing from Hellstar, and its event horizon began to expand exponentially.

For the first time, Hellstar felt its "life" being taken away in an irresistible way.

It wanted to escape, and its massive body began to wriggle backward, trying to get rid of the ever-expanding zone of death.

Zhang Qi naturally wouldn't give it that chance.

"It's your turn to step up."

With a thought, the fist-sized, dazzling crystal, formed from countless "soul gems," stored in the subspace of the [Armor], appeared out of thin air in the palm of the Colossus Armor.

This crystal is a high-purity energy aggregate created by combining the technology of the "Incubators" in the world of Puella Magi Madoka Magica with the "Hogyoku's" analysis of souls and concepts, as well as some of the essence of the "Soul Gem".

In that world, a pure blend of hope and despair is enough to trigger miracles and even reshape the laws of the universe.

The one before us is the energy transformed from the endless curses and negative emotions of the entire Earth, rewritten by Zhang Jie's concept of "magical girl".

Although it is a product that has been degraded countless times, it cannot do something as outrageous as reshaping the universe.

However, it's enough as fuel to enhance a simulated black hole!

Zhang Qi crushed the crystal in his hand.

An indescribable, conceptually vast amount of energy surged into the giant's armor like a burst dam.

Having absorbed this immense energy, the crimson body of the colossus armor shone brightly, and its size began to expand inconceivably once again.

Hundreds of meters, thousands of meters... In the end, it transformed into a majestic being that was still small compared to Hell Star, but was already enough to be called a "giant god".

At the same time, the pseudo-black hole also completely broke free from its constraints.

Its event horizon expanded at the speed of light, transforming into a massive black vortex several kilometers in diameter, like an open maw of an abyss, biting down hard on the body of Hellstar.

A massive black vortex raged wildly across the surface of Hell Star, greedily devouring everything in its path.

The flesh and blood tissue, the size of a continental plate, was easily torn apart, turning into a stream of red particles that spiraled and fell into that eternal darkness.

The strange matter that makes up its body is stretched, crushed, and ground into basic particles in the face of that unparalleled gravity.

Hellstar let out its final, terrifying, and resentful wail.

It twisted its body frantically, trying to break free, but like a flying insect stuck in a spider web, all its struggles were in vain.

The black hole's gravity has locked its core in place.

Finally, in a cataclysmic spatial collapse, the strange core that gave birth to the consciousness and existence of the Hell Star, along with its immeasurably massive body, was completely swallowed and pulverized by the pseudo-black hole, returning to eternal nothingness.

[Smash Hell Star to receive an S-rank side quest and 12000 reward points.]

[Successfully redeemed the plane, obtained one F-level authority, 10000 reward points, and one A-level side quest.]

[Mission complete, initiating return...]

(End of this chapter)