Cataclysm: Undead Dragons and Zero Empire

The extinction-level weapon built around a black hole is now disintegrating from the inside out, like thin ice thrown into a furnace.

The instant the first wisp of dark red flame erupted from the crack, the monitoring system within the scientific hub fell into an endless loop of errors. The parameter curves resembled tattered paper torn by a gale; they were unable to analyze the nature of this force, and all physical models failed at that moment.

That black hole, which was originally used as the hull of a warship and from which even light could not escape, is now frantically releasing energy accumulated over countless years, a phenomenon no less powerful than the reversal of a star's death.

The horizon was torn apart, and the spacetime that should have collapsed inward suddenly expanded in the opposite direction. Endless light and heat surged out from the singularity, like a flood in a reservoir finally breaking through the dam.

Lin Ziming's dragon skeleton emerged from the disintegrating black hole warship. Three pairs of illusory eyes formed from raging flames slowly opened, each eye reflecting a stream of light deep within its flames, as if containing the birth and death of those stars that died in the black hole.

The violent energy, powerful enough to destroy an entire galaxy, flowed into the ocean like a gentle stream. Upon contact with the flames of "Death of Zero," it lost its ferocious nature and transformed into the purest fuel, which Lin Ziming devoured entirely.

As the black hole's energy was continuously devoured, the rays of light that had flown backward seemed to circle around and then return. The black and red flames around Lin Ziming grew increasingly intense until they formed a fireball centered on him, like a second sun in a galaxy.

This sun doesn't have the dazzling light produced by stellar nuclear fusion; it only has a pure and deep blackish-red halo. It doesn't radiate warmth, and its gravitational field instantly tears apart the surrounding asteroid belt.

The star at the center of the galaxy, in its prime, paled in comparison. Under the pull of gravity, it underwent significant deformation, and an unprecedentedly huge prominence was pulled out from the surface of the star, extending towards the dark red sun.

As the primary site of the black hole's demise, the scientific hub was already destroyed in the initial shockwave of the first energy release.

The collapse of the confinement field rendered the defense system, which was strong enough to withstand the frontal bombardment of a battleship's main guns, as fragile as paper. Before the scientists could even scream, they were torn into elementary particles by the turbulence. Along with their life's research data and accumulated scientific achievements, they were reduced to dust in the universe, their existence erased without a trace.

Just as these scientists believed, the black hole warship was indeed capable of destroying everything, and now that destruction has befallen its creators, putting an end to their confidence.

The second wave of impact followed immediately. In the orbit of the star in the parent system of the Homborian Consortium, a giant military space station was experiencing unprecedented gravitational tides, like a puppet being pulled by invisible threads, flying uncontrollably toward the black and red sun.

The fortress's gravity stabilization system was severely overloaded, but they still persisted in firing at the black and red sun. The power unleashed by the ion cannons pierced through the galaxy, like thunderbolts swung by a god's hammer.

The garrison fleet stationed in the home system was mobilized in full force. Perhaps for a long time they never thought that the home system of the Humboldt Consortium could be attacked, but these nearly dusty top-tier warships still demonstrated the power of the overlord of the star cluster.

The focusing lens opened, gathering and amplifying the energy output from the fleet's engines, ultimately transforming it into countless purple arcs of chaotic energy and blue tachyon beams that could pierce through everything, all of which hurtled toward the black and red sun.

These forces were more than enough to easily crush the fleet of the galactic overlord civilization, no more difficult than a boulder rolling down a mountain crushing a pebble. Yet, the moment these mighty torrents crashed into that black-red sun, they didn't even create the slightest ripple, vanishing into nothingness in the flames.

Faced with the insurmountable sun, the Humboldt Consortium urgently summoned other celestial weapons. One after another, warships made from neutron stars appeared in the star system via jumps. These celestial bodies, which also released electromagnetic pulses, brought terrifying gravitational fields.

The Humboldian Consortium understood one fact: their home planet would inevitably end in this historical event, no matter what. Even if a neutron star collided with the sun, there was no sense of security on their home planet, which was already in a state of panic.

Even a black hole warship, a weapon of annihilation, could be destroyed from the inside out. How could those neutron war stars possibly defeat the undead dragon? They only hoped to hold out a little longer and buy time for their home planet to escape.

This beautiful planet, which gave birth to the Covenant civilization and is covered by countless mountains and seas of clouds, activated its defense system in the first wave of the black hole warship explosion. The planetary shield generators surrounding the entire planet were simultaneously overloaded, and an eggshell-like energy shield firmly enveloped the entire mother planet.

It was this shield that withstood the devastating pulse, preventing the homeworld from following in the footsteps of the scientific hub, but they did not expect this shield to be able to directly confront the undead dragons.

Their home planet had to survive, so they initiated an emergency jump procedure, and the entire planet began to tremble.

This decision was unprecedented in the history of the alliance. They had never been so embarrassed. It was unimaginable that their noble and supreme home planet would be forced to such a point by the enemy. It was a great disrespectful desecration.

However, an emergency jump would inevitably cause irreversible damage to the planet's geological structure. If not handled carefully, the entire planet could be shattered. Yet, no ruling party raised any objection.

As the command was given, the warp drive, buried deep in the Earth's core, began to operate, and massive amounts of energy flowed into the warp beacon through a global network.

Spacetime began to distort around the mother planet, starlight became blurred, and the entire planet was like a giant ship about to enter a narrow channel, turbulent and uncomfortable, with its surface peeling off like rusted debris.

Lin Ziming stared indifferently at the planet being enveloped by the warp halo. He did not intervene, but simply hovered quietly in the core of the black-red sun, continuing to devour the remaining energy of the black hole.

To him, escaping this planet was irrelevant; the seeds of the end had already been sown, and no matter where they fled, they could not escape the final judgment of "death by zero".

The home planet's warp glow grew brighter and brighter, until finally, after a blinding flash, the entire planet, along with the shield that enveloped it, completely disappeared from its original orbit.

In this galaxy, only the purest violence remains. Neutron war stars, the garrison fleet, and Sky Fortress face the undead dragon together, as if the myth of ancient warriors fighting monsters is being reenacted at this moment.

In this time of crisis, the Homborian Consortium failed to consider the importance of its home system, and another long-range annihilation weapon was pointed at its own home system. The ruling party that issued this order will inevitably have to commit suicide to atone for its sins after this incident.

The spear-shaped weapon, which pierced through an entire giant star, was unleashed, burning enough energy in a short time to create several stars. The tip of the spear seemed to open layer upon layer of spatial gates, locking onto the distant starry sea beyond.

The dark red sun, which served as the target, burned ever more fiercely.