Star Odyssey

Chapter 2503: Voidforce

Chapter 2503: Voidforce

Lu Yin grabbed a corpse king's shoulder. A green light flashed out from his palm, and half of the corpse king’s body was crushed. He watched the corpse king fall and then looked around to see blue light constantly flashing around the platform. It all came from Shi Hong and the two boys who were guarding the platform on three different sides, creating an impenetrable defense.

However, their strength only drew even more corpse kings to the platform.

Corpse kings fell one after another, only for more to rush in before the humans could catch their breaths at all.

The adjacent platforms had all gone silent. All that remained on any of them was fresh gore.

"Sister Hong, we can't keep this up. We’re only going to keep attracting more monsters. As soon as some with power levels of over a million start showing up, we won't be able to hold them off any longer," one of the boys warned.

Shi Hong's face was grim. "We'll rotate. You keep using a blue energy converter while we switch to green. When you run out, we'll each take a turn using a blue energy converter."

"Got it."

With only a single person using a blue energy converter, the number of corpse kings drawn to their platform decreased noticeably.

Lu Yin and the others on the platform had not been lazing around either. They had been working hard to make sure that there were no gaps in the platform’s defenses while the corpse kings swarmed them. Fortunately, no Envoy-level corpse kings had appeared yet.

In the past, only Envoy-level corpse kings had successfully broken past the carrier's energy converters and weapons, but right now, corpse kings of all levels of strength were attacking them. Most of them were not particularly strong, and the corpses started to pile up.

"Brother-in-law, slow down. Use your energy more sparingly, or else we'll run out," Luo Lao'er cautioned Lu Yin. At some point in time, Luo Lao'er had equipped a piece of armor that was only about the size of a palm onto his chest. It shone colorfully.

"Is that an armor that uses the power of your Three Monarchs Universe?" Lu Yin asked as he glanced at it.

Luo Lao'er was surprised. "You can tell? You really are a cultivator. Others can't see it."Geett the latest novels at novelhall.com

Lu Yin looked at the battle armor on his chest again. "So that power works on equipment. It’s pretty good."

"Alright, brother-in-law, this is no time to chat. There’s another one coming—kill it!" Luo Lao'er shrieked.

Lu Yin's hands were already clenching a rod, and he swung out, sending a corpse king flying.

The corpse kings kept coming. From a distance, the entire platform appeared to be swarmed with the monsters.

"This is the end! We had so many platforms, but they’re all being slowly taken out. We’re already down to less than half, and the beams aren’t able to keep that monster back any longer. We're all going to die!" Luo Lao'er wailed. He was seriously considering tearing through the void and returning to the Three Monarch Dimension. He could certainly do it, but it would also be very troublesome. He would definitely be sent back to the Transcendent Universe, and he would also be labeled as a deserter. His life after that would be miserable.

This was the reason why the rest of the people on the platform did not dare to escape either. It was not that they did not want to, but rather that none of them dared do so.

Escaping meant certain death. Not even someone like Zuo Yu would have any chance of survival, as the Ruling Council did not spare any deserters. As long as the defenders remained on their platforms, they would have at least a glimmer of hope.

This was the most torturous part. Even if it was possible for them to avoid dying immediately, the path before them still led to death, just later on.

There were times when waiting for death could be even worse than death itself.

Lu Yin stepped back and others took his place. Everyone staggered their use of their energy converters in order to last for just a bit longer.

"Unless someone who can use a black energy converter shows up, we're all doomed," Mu Duo said as he looked at the distant Progenitor-level corpse king with terror in his eyes. The monster was just as strong as the carrier’s black beams.

Zuo Yu looked at Lu Yin. "Actually, you can leave."

Lu Yin's eyes flickered as he met Zuo Yu and Mu Duo's gazes.

"You're not from our Transcendent Universe, and everyone knows that Zi Jing has escaped from our universe before. If you leave, no one will say anything. On top of that, since Zi Jing is necessary, the Ruling Council might not even investigate your desertion," Zuo Yu explained.

Mu Duo remained silent. Compared to everyone else, Lu Yin was truly lucky. Even if he deserted the battlefield, he would still have a chance to survive, as long as Zi Jing remained irreplaceable to the Transcendent Universe.

To their surprise, they actually managed to block the flames.

Not only did this shock Shi Hong and her companions, but even the corpse king was astonished. Blue energy converters should not have been able to stop its flames.

The corpse king suddenly appeared in front of Shi Hong and the two young men. It stretched out its arms and instantly absorbed all of the flames into its hands. They transformed into two suns that put incredible pressure on the three people. These two suns lit up half of the carrier, and they burned so hot that the metal started to melt. As soon as they made contact with the platform, it would be completely destroyed.

"Voidforce," Shi Hong spat out through gritted teeth. No one knew what the three people did, but a whalebone, a meteorite, and a huge shield suddenly materialized on the platform and slammed into the corpse king.

Unbelievable heat collided with the three massive objects. The shield and meteorite both melted in a single moment, but while the whalebone melted as well, it also released a loud cracking sound. With the combination of the blue light, the bone was able to force back the corpse king and fling the monster back into outer space.

Lu Yin was shocked. What in the world had just happened?

"The power of the Voidforce Universe?" Luo Lao'er exclaimed.

Everyone felt amazed, and they all wondered just where those three items had come from.

After the corpse king was pushed away, Shi Hong stumbled. Burns covered her body, but the two young men were in even worse conditions. They fell to the floor of the platform, unable to even stand.

Despite their best efforts, their attacks had only managed to push the corpse king away from the platform.

The corpse king quickly stabilized itself. "Void- force..."

Flames erupted once again.

"Ants," the corpse king mocked the defenders as it raised a hand. Its palm held a light so bright that everyone instinctively closed their eyes.

Shi Hong felt bitter. All of their efforts were futile. Their voidforce power was completely unable to harm this corpse king.

The two boys felt their hearts plunge into despair. They both regretted coming to this battlefield.

Suddenly, the blazing light in the corpse king's hand started to dim, and then it disappeared entirely. Its scarlet eyes grew dull, and its head slowly slumped. No one had any idea when it had happened, but a deep wound had appeared in the monster’s chest, right where it had been struck by the whalebone. Cracks spread out from the wound, and the corpse king finally shattered.

This sudden turn of events stunned everyone. Even Qiu Zhan was surprised. He carefully appraised Shi Hong from where he was fighting. Had she really just used the power of the Voidforce Universe to do that? Was the fusion of the Sixfold Alliance’s different powers truly that powerful?

No one had expected the corpse king to die.

As they stared out into the suddenly empty space, everyone was momentarily unable to come to their senses.

Finally, Luo Lao'er managed to recover first. "Sister Hong, you're amazing! Sister Hong, I love you!"

The shout jolted Shi Hong back to her senses. Had- had she really done it? Was the combination of her voidforce puppet and a blue energy converter truly that powerful? The woman was completely confused by what she had accomplished.

The two boys both fell backwards so that they were lying flat on the platform. "Madam is truly wise. The complementing powers of different civilizations is indeed the right path forward. This is how we will defeat Aeternus!”

"Madam’s foresight is incredible.”

"Sister Hong, the voidforce puppet you chose was incredibly powerful. It's a shame that it's gone now."

Shi Hong finally averted her eyes.

"I'll go back and choose another." As she spoke, her brow furrowed. She stared down at her own hands. The power of that voidforce puppet should have been far from enough to kill that corpse king. How had things turned out like this?

A short distance away, Lu Yin observed Shi Hong and the two young men. Naturally, he had killed the corpse king himself, but he had given credit for the death to the strange objects that had pushed the monster back.

Still, what had that power even been?

"Luo Lao'er, what was that power that they just used?" Lu Yin asked. The three had used a power that exceeded their own, and Lu Yin was very curious about that.