Sky Curtain: The Darwin Incident at the outset, the Declaration of the People's League

On the screen, the ship, stretching three thousand kilometers across the void, was covered by dark gold armor, with its outline shrouded in darkness. The honeycomb array, like billions of compound eyes, hummed in unison.

It hovered above and to the side of the star.

The singularity core, located at the bow of the ship, slowly rotated as a "pupil," pointing towards the center of the sun.

The next moment, his pupils opened.

It's as if a gaze from another dimension is being cast onto this shore through this wedge driven into reality.

Rainbows bloom.

Liquid amethyst, solidified deep space, are compressed into a tangible concept.

The rainbow's diameter exceeds the planet's orbit, piercing the star's surface.

There was no explosion.

There was no impact.

Rainbow only "touched" the Japanese nuclear system.

Then, the star began to flow.

The mass accumulated over billions of years of fusion, flowing along an iridescent spiral path, is injected into the singularity core of the Heavenly Weapon at a rate of millions of tons per second.

The honeycomb array lights up layer by layer, progressing from the outer edge to the core.

Each time a ring lights up, a purple halo bursts forth from the surface of the ship—that is the manifestation of the virtual energy in the real world.

The color of the stars is fading.

Blazing white, golden yellow, orange-red, dark red, grayish brown—

Extinguished.

The corona dissipated, the radiative layer fell silent, and the last storm in the troposphere was powerless to subside in the void.

The sun's core no longer pulses, no longer burns, and no longer sends light and heat into deep space.

That star once illuminated seven planets, protected three civilizations, and marked on nautical charts for billions of years.

At this moment, it is a mass of gray-black wreckage.

Mass remains, gravity remains, and death remains.

Only the light is gone.

The pupils of the Heavenly Blazing Weapon slowly closed.

The rainbow faded, the honeycomb array went out, and the purple halo on the ship's surface disappeared into the depths of the armor.

It turned its bow and headed toward the next star.

Behind them, seven planets drifted aimlessly in the darkness.

The dead star floats silently in the center of the void, like a tombstone.

The deep purple and dark gold imperial territory extended an inch forward on this coordinate that had just lost its light.

Star World

"Heaven-Burning Divine Weapon—"

The Grand Marshal stared intently at the outline of the ship, his Adam's apple bobbing.

greedy.

I'm so damn hungry.

Detonating a starship of stellar magnitude? Capable of single-handedly taking on an entire elite fleet? A mobile space fortress existing solely to harvest energy?

He wants it too!

[Super God World]

The blazing sun.

Pan Zhen, the sun god, suddenly contracted his pupils.

As a race whose civilization is based on harnessing the power of stars, he understands better than anyone what "harvesting solar energy" means.

"They are not collecting."

His voice was low, suppressing a kind of ancient anger: "They are using stars as ammunition, as fuel, as sacrifices to the illusory realm. We, the Fiery Sun, revere the sun and control fire with the way of heaven—we never desecrate stars."

Is this really the source of his anger?

No.

His anger was accompanied by fear.

Their status as the sun depends on their control over the stars.

This technology... poses a far greater threat to them than to other civilizations!

Chapter 26 A Glimpse of War

[Recognizing the threat we have presented, the wretched creatures of the Starsea Community have passed a resolution condemning our actions and declaring us a 'galaxy-wide crisis'.]

On the celestial canopy, inside the conference hall of the Starry Sea Community.

Countless alien representatives raised their arms, fluorescent tentacles, arthropods, or energy projections—all organs and tools that could express "approval" pointed to the empty human seats.

The moment the bill passed, the entire hall erupted in a thunderous uproar—not cheers, but hysteria born from fear finally finding an outlet.

The member states of the Star Community have demonstrated an exceptionally rare unity.

They have united all forces to declare war on us!

In deep space, fleets from thousands of civilizations set sail from their respective capital star systems.

Mushroom-shaped silicon-based warships, spindle-shaped psionic arks, living motherships with a hive mentality, and circular megastructures of ancient lost empires.

Those enemies who have been sworn enemies for hundreds of years and have clashed countless times in the border star systems are now converging on the same star map.

The fleet assembled.

Their fleets assembled and launched an attack on our territory.

The war that will sweep across the entire galaxy has finally begun.

The coalition forces leaped out of the hyper-light channel.

The fleet was so large that the star map couldn't display it all.

The cursor on the sensor is formed by overlapping triangles into color blocks, then the color blocks merge into a light band, and finally the light band expands into white that fills the entire field of view.

[Boundless Glory!]

They showed no fear in the face of the oath displayed on the communication screen; instead, they were filled with fervor.

Because the human race under the command of this natural disaster does indeed possess sufficient strength.

Numerous weapons of war appeared on the sky, along with descriptions of the various weapons and images of them being used in the war.

[Neutron Annihilation - Colossus-level - Planet-Destroying Weapon]

[A high-energy neutron jet is launched, penetrating the Earth's surface, atmosphere, and oceans, instantly annihilating the entire planet's inhabitants—organic matter, mechanical beings, and insectoids—without exception.]

On the flank of the coalition forces, an industrial planet is supplying alloys to the front lines.

The colossus appeared suddenly, emerging from the jump tunnel.

It was a silent behemoth with a base hull value of 30,000 and armor as thick as a mountain.

It has no conventional weapons, only a launcher on the bow aimed at the planet's pole.

After charging for three seconds.

The neutron jet fell silently.

There was no explosion, no fire, and no ruins.

The city is intact, the factories are running, dinner is still steaming on the table, and the pet on the sofa is curled up as if fast asleep.

But no one will ever wake up again.

The entire planet, its 3.2 billion inhabitants, the individual sub-organisms of the hive mind, the processors of mechanical units, the neurons of organic life—faced with neutron annihilation, consciousness has only one fate.

【Planetary Devastation Star - Colossus-class - Planet-destroying Weapon】

[It blasts the entire planet into pulverized fragments, transforming them into mineral deposits in space. Complete, irreversible, leaving not even a trace.]

Next scene.

The third planet in the star system where the main force of the coalition forces is assembled serves as their temporary command center.

The surface is equipped with an array of intercontinental ballistic missiles, planetary shield launchers, and three elite army units.

The human colossus is anchored outside firing range.

It did not come close.

Because it is not necessary.

The cannon of the Earth-Exploding Star is aimed at the planet's equator, and its charging time is much longer than that of neutron annihilation—a full ten seconds.

In those ten seconds, the Allied fleet unleashed a frenzied barrage of fire on the Colossus, causing its shields to overload, armor to peel off, and fireballs from its explosions to burst forth across the ship's surface.

But the colossus did not retreat.

The tenth second.

A beam of blazing white energy pierced through the planet's core.

That wasn't an explosion, it disintegrated.

The planet split open from the inside, the mantle peeled away like a hard-boiled egg, magma spewed out from thousands of fissures, and the atmosphere escaped into the vacuum like a deflated balloon.

Just three seconds, barely enough time for one charge.

The entire planet disintegrated into hundreds of millions of fragments, forming a slowly spreading belt of debris along its original orbit.

The planet disappeared.

In the cold space, only dust and minerals remain.