HISS HISS HISS!
Irregular shapes of sapphire-blue high-energy plasma arcs, carrying surging and swirling hot energy waves, continuously leaped and exploded across Cadelon's pure white body, which had become a singular entity.
At first glance, it resembled the constant eruption of solar flares across the surface of the sun.
Her faintly radiating aura, completely unlike 'calm' pure white, seemed infused with an indescribable dry heat and an overwhelmingly dominant sensation.
It was as if her very existence was intrinsically designed to shatter worlds and annihilate stars.
All these manifestations amplified Cadelon's divine and majestic presence.
"Ogulafata, you are quite commendable."
Cadelon raised her similarly brilliant, pure white single eye, which perfectly blended with her body's color, and looked towards the distant figure resembling a vast giant, seemingly formed from countless illusory crystal shards, speaking with complete indifference, "You are now worthy of me employing my full power."
Ogulafata's gaze narrowed, and he stated coldly: "Using your full power?"
"What you just shattered was merely my outer shell. However, that armor was not intended to protect me, but rather to shield this fragile cosmic domain."
Cadelon slightly tilted her head, gazing into the boundless dark void surrounding her, with tens of thousands of stars faintly visible within her eyes:
"After all, whether it's a planet, a gas giant, or a white dwarf or neutron star, to me, they are as brittle and weak as the air, capable of being destroyed by the slightest touch."
She spoke leisurely:
"Furthermore, the Ether environment outside the galactic core is truly too impoverished; it only manages to nurture one low-level civilization and race after another, all of which can be extinguished with a mere wave of the hand.
For those worthless entities that cannot even withstand the insignificant temperature of a star's surface, I don't even require a warm-up. With just a glance, I can vaporize countless millions.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, I fundamentally abstain from revealing my true form, because doing so, beyond consuming more of my energy, is entirely meaningless.
Simply put, using just that lowest-tier vessel, I am sufficient to engulf the Milky Way, single-handedly wiping out tens of millions of races."
Concluding her statement, she slightly bowed her head, focusing on the distant Ogulafata, and declared with surging battle intent:
"However... for this engagement, I have decided to unleash my true might.
I must employ... Star God Mode!"
Upon that declaration, Cadelon's body, already scorching and dazzling to the extreme, began to rapidly collapse, contracting furiously towards its central core.
During this collapse, Cadelon, initially as bright and dazzling as a searing star, suddenly erupted with waves of terrifying heat, measured in hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius, which swept over and enveloped large sectors of the surrounding cosmos.
Some comets of icy mist, randomly drifting through this space, along with larger, 'bodied' rogue planets, were instantly 'vaporized' by this vast and intimidating surge of heat into even finer, scorching red meteorites, which then stormed away in all four cardinal directions of the cosmos.
And in the even more distant depths of space, Ogulafata, witnessing his opponent's transformation, also displayed a look of profound suspicion and uncertainty:
"So this is the might of Star God Mode? Even the prelude to the transformation is this immense."
BUZZ!
The speed of the transformation was incredibly rapid.
In an instant, Cadelon, from her original height of several tens of meters, collapsed and shrank to a mere 3 meters tall.
Her previous brilliant, scorching appearance, like a human-shaped sun, had completely vanished.
She had transformed from turbulent pure white to a translucent black-blue.
Cadelon, having successfully transformed, now resembled a cosmic deity seemingly condensed from thousands of dazzling nebulae and the vast, gloomy void itself.
From apex to base, she exuded boundless, infinite splendor, coupled with supreme and ultimate majesty.
This was the Yonruk clan's ultimate evolution, metamorphosis to its absolute limit, a leap into a naturally high-energy Ether-Crystalline Nuclear Molecule body.
"Hmm..."
She slowly raised her slender, graceful arm, which resembled black jade, opened her hand, and slowly formed a fist.
BOOM!
A surge of terrifyingly dense, vast energy instantly erupted. Centered on Cadelon's clenched fist, guided by a single thought, it swept across tens of thousands of kilometers at the speed of light.
Everything within this radius was instantly and utterly vaporized into scattered high-energy particle streams due to the sudden onset of terrifying high temperatures.
"Ogulafata, I can sense the power contained within your body is only slightly inferior to mine. Therefore..."
Cadelon looked towards Ogulafata from afar, and chuckled chillingly: "Unleash your true strength then, and let us fight a battle without any reservations."
"Ah, intriguing."
The latter replied with a fierce smile, "I originally supposed you were just a brainless battle fanatic, but I did not anticipate your perceptive abilities to be so acute.
Very well, my true form hasn't been displayed for a hundred thousand years, but since you are so 'sincere,' I shall no longer remain in my composed state."
Having uttered this, Ogulafata's crystalline body suddenly blurred and became illusory, with hundreds of thousands of dim cracks appearing across its surface.
Next, these cracks, which were distinctly jet black yet constantly radiated a strange 'dark' light, suddenly erupted with an extremely powerful devouring force.
BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ!
Amidst the twisting and vibrating void, Ogulafata's sturdy physique, his skin, muscles, bones... and his entire being, was suddenly greedily dismembered by thousands of seams and fissures, bizarrely devoured from the outside in, leaving barely any recognizable trace.
Finally, what remained were those thousands of baseless black fissures, mysteriously suspended in the cosmic air. They appeared somewhat bloated after being 'satiated,' but overall remained relatively slender.
"What is transpiring?"
The distant Cadelon was slightly taken aback, "He actually consumed himself..."
Before she could finish speaking, the thousands of delicate black fissures quickly self-assembled, realigned, and embedded themselves, bizarrely condensing into a jet-black, engraved humanoid figure, resembling a simple stick figure, yet brimming with absurdity and a palpable dangerous aura.
"Unbelievable."
Sensing Ogulafata's aura emanating from the merely several-meter-tall engraved humanoid figure, Cadelon chuckled eagerly, "So bizarre and abnormal, worthy of being one of the Cult of the Evil Eye's sole ten Dark Archbishops."
"Very good, you are worth a vigorous fight!"
Saying this, she suddenly tore through the reality barrier, fleeing into the Symbolic Domain, and simultaneously accelerated towards Ogulafata at tens of thousands of times the speed of light.
At the same time, this rapid flight was not entirely confined to the Sentience Realm, but rather a super-frequency jump between physical reality and the Sentience Realm.
One moment in reality, the next moment within the Sentience Realm.
The specific sequence revealed Cadelon, trailed by hundreds of thousands of illusory afterimages, traversing a vast expanse of cosmic void in merely one-thousandth of a second, fiercely impacting Ogulafata's skeletal, ink-black chest with a single punch.
BOOM!!!
Large swathes of dark space, where floating meteorites, comets, and cosmic dust resided, instantly vaporized and disintegrated, transforming into countless high-energy particles scattering and flying in all directions.
And Ogulafata, struck directly by this frontal blow, simultaneously 'crashed through' the barrier between realms.
He was forcibly punched by Cadelon straight into the vast Sentience Realm.
WHOOSH!
Weak and chaotic, dazed and hollowed out.
In this hazy space-time where the constraints of light speed were greatly relaxed, in just one second, Ogulafata was violently propelled billions of kilometers by this unimaginable punch.
As he stormed forward at super-light speed, exceeding ten thousand times, his body continuously smashed through and shattered hundreds of thousands of sparse particle clouds (BANG! BANG! BANG!).
During this period, Cadelon also pursued, following closely at almost the same tens of thousands of times the speed of light. She manipulated the already familiar strong interaction force between her four hands, landing hundreds of thousands of punches per second.
In just over ten seconds, Ogulafata's body, resembling a skeleton made of dark matter, endured over ten million impacts across its entire form.
Each of these ten million punches condensed a terrifying force capable of piercing a star and shattering a universe.
Thus, he was relentlessly beaten back into the vast material universe.
BOOM!!!
The moment he materialized in space, Ogulafata's body uncontrollably slammed into a hard, scorching carbon-oxygen White Dwarf.
CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!
Instantly, an enormous, terrifying surge of energy erupted from the point of contact between the two, roaring and howling as it swept into the boundless space in all four directions.
Simultaneously, Ogulafata had rapidly pierced through all the layers of this White Dwarf, from the exterior to the core, erupting from the opposite side of the planet.
Cadelon, biting fiercely at his rear, after piercing through that unlucky White Dwarf, fully engaged her energy. Her fingers came together and pointed towards the hazy void ahead.
"Super World-Incinerating Death Ray."
A beam of ink-black light, equivalent to the total energy of hundreds of suns, instantly emitted from her fingertip, shooting straight through the space ahead at 99.99% the speed of light, targeting Ogulafata.
WHOOSH!
In less than a second, the black light precisely struck his chest.
But just then, a bizarre event instantly occurred.
That Super World-Incinerating Death Ray, capable of vaporizing a magnificent sun back and forth dozens or hundreds of times, actually passed directly through Ogulafata's 'skeletal' chest like an illusion, inflicting no damage. It then 'raced' towards the boundless end of the cosmos without deviation.
"Hmm?"
Cadelon's figure paused, and she remarked with slight surprise, "He actually immunized against the attack?"
It was only at this moment that she noticed that despite enduring so many assaults, the surface of his body showed no sign of injury or even deformation.
"Do you feel extremely surprised?"
Ogulafata abruptly shifted from near-light speed to absolute stillness. He looked up at Cadelon and chuckled chillingly, "Actually, those attacks of yours just now, to me, weren't even a tickle."
"No." His tone turned indifferent, "I should say, those seemingly elaborate and splendid attacks of yours are only effective against ordinary matter.
But for me, who possesses a dark matter body, if I myself do not wish to move, even if ten thousand stars explode in front of me, they cannot propel me even a millimeter."
Cadelon's eyes flashed, revealing a rare solemnity:
"Dark matter body?"
"Indeed."
"So-called tangible matter is merely a tiny fraction of the true universe, a negligible drop in the ocean.
The true majority of the universe is composed of dark matter and dark energy."
Ogulafata spread his hands, his hazy, empty body seeming to dissolve into the vast, dark universe. "And I represent the 'majority' of the true universe's power!"
What he possessed was the Body of the Dark Realm, centered on a dark energy framework, meticulously edited and manipulated. It relied on a substantial amount of synchronous Ether-Crystalline dark matter, finally consolidated and formed, rendering it completely unaffected by the electromagnetic force, strong interaction force, or weak interaction force...
This body was Ogulafata's ultimate trump card.
Having declared this, he suddenly raised his right arm, his palm held loosely. In his palm, a hazy, indistinct long spear materialized with a hum.
Dozens of thousands of kilometers away, Cadelon faintly sensed an extremely malicious, turbulent, almost rule-breaking power emanating from that strange long spear.
Most terrifying was that on the dark spear shaft, hideous, terrifying crimson bulging eyes had opened.
As soon as these eerily malicious eyes appeared, they rapidly shifted their positions, all staring intently at Cadelon.
Their gaze was filled with endless malice.
"This extremely defiled power..."
She stated in a cold voice, filled with both disgust and apprehension, "It's the power of that Evil God!"
This malice contained a powerful, twisted mental force, almost capable of 'washing' the souls and consciousness of hundreds of thousands of Milky Way Overlords into blank slates.
But Cadelon felt that these fiercely staring crimson eyes seemed to be confirming all her intelligence.
"Spear of Calamity!"
Ogulafata shouted, and the long spear instantly vanished between his palms.
At that exact instant, Cadelon, who absolutely did not wish to be contaminated by the Evil God's power, had her slender, black-jade-like body instantly blur and become illusory, abruptly disappearing from the vacuum of space, fleeing deep into the Sentience Realm.
Upon entering the Symbolic Domain and breaking free from the shackles of light speed, her velocity suddenly surged. In a single second, she traversed tens of billions of kilometers, then breached the barrier between realms to return to the real universe.
But even with such astonishing speed, she could not escape that strange Spear of Calamity.
When Cadelon reappeared in cosmic space, that grey spear mysteriously, as if transcending vast distances, materialized behind her in barely half a second.
Cadelon vanished again, and the Spear of Calamity disappeared simultaneously.
SWISH!
When she reappeared, she was on the scorching, boiling surface of a Red Giant star billions of kilometers away.
That spear also appeared at the same instant, and with extreme viciousness, it shot over, accurately striking Cadelon's broad back, which resembled black jade.
WHOOSH!
In an instant, this extremely colossal Red Giant star was mercilessly pierced by one spear and one person.
BOOM!!!
This aging star, in an instant, began to violently tremble, and then suddenly collapsed from the inside out in all directions. In a short while, it rushed toward its demise.
RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE!!!
The setting sun looked like blood, the void like ink.
In the vast explosion, Cadelon only felt that this spear seemed to completely disregard her formidable physical defense, directly 'squeezing' through all obstacles, like passing through empty space, stabbing and wounding her internal organs.
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha!"
In the distance, Ogulafata's almost hollowed-out face revealed a somewhat twisted smile. "No matter how strong your body is, it's meaningless, because..."
"Oh? Fifth fundamental force."
A clear and supreme voice suddenly manifested around Ogulafata.
"What should I call this force? It possesses characteristics and effects opposite to gravity, and it resonates with dark matter and dark energy. Hmm, how about [Vacuum Force]?
The various dark matter and dark energy abilities you employed earlier were also born from this fundamental cosmic force."
A clear and supreme voice, filled with profound divinity and arrogant aura, ignored all space-time barriers, and suddenly exploded deep within Ogulafata's soul.
"Uh... Uh..."
Ogulafata remained motionless, 'stalled' in the vast universe, maintaining his original posture, utterly rigid.
Whether it was his ink-black, hazy, carved face, or his silent, empty eye sockets, all were now frantically spewing forth extremely intense emotions to the outside world.
This overwhelming emotion was fear.
An intense, deranged terror.
In fact, after this strange and distant voice appeared, all of Ogulafata's perceptions and emotions within his mind suddenly dissolved, becoming meager and hollow, swaying precariously, almost collapsing.
From soul to spirit, all his sinister schemes, treacherous plots, warrior's grandeur, and demonic arrogance vanished into thin air in a single instant.
Everything, absolutely everything, was filled and tightly suppressed by two words.
That was...
Fear! Fear! Fear! Fear! Fear! Fear! Fear! Fear! Fear!
Boundless, profound fear, like gravity itself, grinned and crawled out from the deepest part of space-time, tightly locking onto every single particle of mass constituting his entire being. It deeply permeated him, abruptly displacing the electromagnetic force, and also replacing the Strong and Weak Nuclear Forces, dominantly becoming the fundamental basis for the existence of all particles in his entire life entity.
Ogulafata vaguely realized that as long as he dared to harbor a trace of defiance toward the unknown being, dared to harbor a trace of indomitable thought toward the unknown being, then he would surely, from the micro to the macro, from soul to flesh, descend into an absolutely massive collapse.
Inch by inch, his flesh and blood slowly disintegrated, strand by strand, his soul gradually faded.
This outcome was not inflicted by the unknown being, but by his own complete surrender and the resulting lamentation from body to soul.
Ogulafata even sensed that the boundless universe surrounding him, whether time or space, whether matter or energy, and even the vast Dirac Sea faintly fading behind the boundless three-dimensional space-time, now all inexplicably entered an extremely terrifying, extremely anomalous, hazy state.
That state was named terror, and also dread.
"But... But how can space-time and matter exhibit fear?! This... This defies logic! It makes no sense!" Ogulafata's chaotic thoughts cried out as they collapsed.
But at this moment, the truth was so bizarre, so far beyond the norm.
Logic and common sense, as if fearing the arrival of this being, hastily escaped reality, fleeing the boundless Milky Way at super-light speed.
He could clearly sense the boundless space-time and endless matter's submission to the unknown being, their utmost reverence toward the unknown being.
BUZZ!
Suddenly, an enormous eye, so vast that it far exceeded the limits of Ogulafata's spiritual perception, abruptly manifested in the boundless void and slowly gazed toward him.
"Uh... Uh..."
Ogulafata looked up in a daze, staring at that colossal eye facing him in the boundless sky above, so immense that it could no longer be accurately described by words or imagination.
His thoughts and consciousness rapidly dissolved.
He only felt as if his soul was about to be forcibly torn into detailed and ferocious cracks by the opponent's sheer immensity.
From these cracks, wisps of profound soul power, capable of easily piercing the earth and vaporizing stars, writhed and screamed as if possessing their own will, escaping in utter despair and perishing.
Hundreds of thousands of years of arduous cultivation, yet he couldn't even withstand a mere trace of the unknown being's gaze.
"I... I am actually so weak!"
Ogulafata's spiritual perception was normally constrained by the shackles of the universe's light speed, covering a range of less than a second's distance. Even utilizing complex and obscure Sentience Realm exploration techniques, it could only extend to a radius of a few billion kilometers.
But when Seraphine's second-tier body, this Eye of Transcendence, tens of trillions of kilometers across in all directions, larger than a true star system, suddenly and forcibly invaded Ogulafata's spiritual perception range, that immense, superhuman power, that superior wisdom, instantly and irrevocably crushed his powerful soul and consciousness.
In an instant, Ogulafata tragically embarked on the path of annihilation, both in body and spirit.
No communication, no dialogue.
The King of Didrogutin, Dark Archbishop of the Cult of the Evil Eye, the supreme expert of the Orion Arm, Ogulafata's existence deserved nothing more than a cold glance from Seraphine.
His existence deserved only this treatment.
But even this single glance, Ogulafata could not endure.
His last trace of thought before death involuntarily looked upward and asked sorrowfully:
"Why, why is just one eye so colossal and vast?! Why can the information from such an immense object be transmitted into my eyes countless times faster than the speed of light?! That's fundamentally illogical, this... How do the rules of the universe permit such a thing to occur?!"
He did not know that within a 1000 light-year radius centered on Seraphine, her will alone reigned supreme, completely independent of the universe's authority.
Even if the universe did not permit the effective transmission of information faster than light, Seraphine would not care whether the universe sanctioned it or not.
Of course, Ogulafata, now utterly deceased, would never have the chance to know these things.
And all his memories, everything he had witnessed over hundreds of thousands of years, a vast trove of information concerning the depths of the galactic halo, along with the various secrets of the Cult of the Evil Eye, and the items he possessed within his warped space, including that mature Void Whale, all fell directly into Seraphine's hands.
"A minuscule life form, unable to even withstand my full presence. Truly pathetic."
After Seraphine's serene and cold words, she immediately looked towards Cadelon and Godshell, who were respectfully kneeling several hundred thousand kilometers away in the boundless void, and said coldly:
"Now I grant you a new mission: go conquer the galactic core region. Whoever resists, eliminate them all.
Not long from now, when I have assimilated all the Milky Way's spiral arms and every structure, I will naturally traverse the vast universe and descend upon the galactic core.
I hope by then, across all continents of Sanchegues, there will only be those who kneel in submission, and no one who defiantly raises their head.
You two, especially Godshell, do not disappoint me."
"Your command shall be obeyed!" The two accepted the order respectfully.
Upon hearing this decree, Cadelon immediately knew that this mission would primarily be spearheaded by Godshell.
Although deeply reluctant, she possessed a clear understanding: given her current strength, she could probably only contend with entities below the Sage tier.
As for those true high-level members of the six races who had already attained the Sage domain, only a superpower like Godshell, who had long walked the path of a Sage, could effectively challenge them.
Godshell did not harbor many grand strategic thoughts.
He was exceedingly confident in his personal power.
Especially after gradually recovering many fragmented memories of his original self, Saknussim, he thoroughly understood that even within the Sage tier, he was certainly a formidable expert.
Even though the body he currently inherited was severely damaged, it remained terrifyingly potent.
Immediately, the pair retrieved the Divine Throne from warped space once more.
After entering the vessel, they activated the shaped warp field. Under their control, the hull shimmered and vanished from sight, warping space-time as it accelerated toward the galactic core.
And Seraphine redirected her focus to her research on the Fifth Fundamental Force.
...
Carbon-based humans living on Earth are incredibly small and insignificant on a cosmic scale.
Every chemical reaction inside and outside the human body, from metabolism to the movement of hands and feet, even the friction against the ground, is governed by the electromagnetic force.
This force, along with the other three fundamental forces, is derived from the unified force that spans all space-time and matter.
In a sense, a single underlying principle rules them all.
For a long time, Seraphine believed there were only four fundamental forces in the universe.
Every other interaction, known or undiscovered, was simply a branch of these four.
For example, the electroweak force, which merges the electromagnetic and weak interaction forces, is just a derivation.
But after surviving Ogulafata's ambush during the "Epoch of World Erasure," she was surprised. Perhaps the universe held more than four fundamental forces, with other interactions hiding behind the layers of space-time, matter, and energy.
After deep thought, Seraphine theorized that trillions of light-years away, in the deepest frontiers of space where reality itself was collapsing and the laws of physics were entirely different, the four fundamental forces had no power. Instead, they were likely replaced by entirely alien forces that dominated space-time and matter.
It was a fascinating concept: advanced civilizations capable of looking beyond the observable universe might genuinely believe their home was the absolute center of reality, the beginning and end of everything.
They would be convinced that the physical laws they mastered over eons, whether they counted three, seven, or nine fundamental forces, represented the ultimate truth of the cosmos.
Any region beyond their explored borders would be dismissed as a "Frontier Wasteland," existing outside the laws of reality and physics.
They might even believe that our observable universe, the one visible from the Milky Way, was a bizarre, lawless place of rebellion, a chaotic and dangerous anomaly distinct from their "true" reality.
But Seraphine knew the universe had no such things as a "center" or a "wasteland."
Long ago, she understood that space-time was actually a finite, borderless, four-dimensional hypersphere.
Any point on the surface of this massive sphere was simultaneously the center of the universe and its absolute edge.
There were only relative positions, with no absolute beginning or end.
Every domain and entity held equal standing in the cosmos.
Whether they were carbon-based, silicon-based, or iron-based life, whether they were the Six Scourges of the Milky Way or the Six Races of the galactic core, everyone was just a tiny, slow, three-dimensional ant crawling on the surface of this colossal four-dimensional hypersphere.
Alive or dead, they meant nothing to the vast universe.
Only Seraphine was different.
Only she, having transcended into a true four-dimensional being, was equal to the universe itself.
Indeed.
The only difference between her and the cosmos was scale and mass-energy.
After surviving the localized great tearing attack during the "Epoch of World Erasure," Seraphine's wisdom allowed her to glimpse the nature of the Fifth Fundamental Force.
She instantly mastered the ability to perform this great tearing herself, a power unlocked only by understanding this new force.
Now, after studying Ogulafata's control over dark matter and dark energy during his battle with Cadelon, Seraphine mapped the workings of this Fifth Fundamental Force, which operated on entirely different principles than the known four.
Normally, a fundamental force requires messenger particles to transmit its influence across space-time and matter.
For example, gravity and the electromagnetic force, which operate across infinite distances, use massless gravitons and photons as their messenger particles.
The short-range strong and weak nuclear forces operate on subatomic scales, using massive gluons and bosons to transmit their power.
But as Ogulafata used his dark energy techniques, Seraphine discovered that the [Fifth Fundamental Force] used a scalar boson that could couple with electrons and protons. More importantly, its range spanned both subatomic levels and interstellar distances. It was a full-spectrum force, operating at both long and short ranges.
Simply miraculous.
She realized that by mastering this force and combining it with the power of Ether, she could easily convert dark matter into dark energy, unlocking a massive new level of cosmic power.
But she also uncovered a terrifying truth about this power.
The [Fifth Fundamental Force] was actually artificially created.
It was likely a [False] force, engineered by the Great Eyes using the reality-warping power of an Evil God.
But if a false force can replicate the effects of reality, who could truly call it false?
This realization gave Seraphine a profound revelation.
"Yes, why limit ourselves to the four known forces? Why be bound by the laws of a unified force?"
Seraphine's eyes flashed with divine light as she laughed, "What electromagnetism? What gravity? Whatever force I declare to exist, that is the force that will rule!"
BUZZ!
The Light of Infinity burst forth with blinding brilliance.
Instantly, every atom and inch of space within a thousand light-years fell into a bizarre state.
First, the black void transformed into a glowing, sapphire-blue sky stretching across quadrillions of kilometers.
Next, millions of massive shapes, billions of kilometers wide, appeared in this giant sky. They showered the azure expanse with seven-colored clouds that smelled of sweet cream, chocolate cake, strawberry mousse, and fruit yogurt.
One does not question why light can carry scent.
When Seraphine willed it, reality obeyed.
Every intelligent being touched by this warm light smelled the sweet fragrances.
In their mouths, whatever dessert they desired, ice cream sundaes, cakes, mousses, or fruit salads, spontaneously appeared. They could eat as much as they wanted without getting sick, gaining weight, or suffering from high blood sugar.
"Yaya!"
"Yaya!"
As giant clouds took shape, tens of billions of bizarre, thousands-winged angels the size of planetary cities poured out at impossible speeds.
Flying across the blue sky, these strange angels sang rhythmic hymns in praise of Seraphine.
As their voices echoed, countless solid, golden musical notes flickered across the vast emptiness of the void.
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!
Like a divine trumpet starting the chapter of creation, colossal, brilliant stars, trillions of kilometers in diameter, materialized from sheer nothingness in the boundless sky, numbering in the thousands.
These stars, non-existent a second ago and completely born this very instant, were neither rocky planets, gaseous giants, nor scorching main-sequence stars.
They glowed naturally, yet they were not excessively hot.
Everything was perfectly balanced, warm and comfortable.
Each of these countless stars possessed a multi-layered structure.
From the deepest core to the outermost shell, there were thousands of strata.
Miraculously, whether innermost or outermost, every layer occupied the exact same space.
It was as if their structural complexity had transcended three-dimensional limits, reaching a higher dimension incomprehensible to mortal beings.
Simultaneously, every layer within these brilliant stars was covered with millions of colossal oceans and continents.
The distance separating the land layers spanned trillions of miles.
Yet, this massive accumulation of matter generated no crushing gravitational pull.
Under Seraphine's will, all gravitational forces exceeding a certain limit magically transformed into warm, pleasing light. This light flowed freely between every level of these stars, from inside to out, traveling countless times faster than ordinary light, never halting.
These streaks of brilliant light served as both an invisible energy source and a grand synonym for matter itself.
On each colossal star, countless sentient beings in various forms sprang into existence across trillions of landmasses and oceans. Upon birth, they instinctively knew how to harness this light.
They could reach out and pull a segment of light, instantly transforming it into delicious food like steak, roasted lamb, ham, or fish. They could weave the light into threads, crafting mystical armor and robes, or with a thought, shape it into wind, water, fire, thunder, and magnetism.
This light, generated from gravity, was akin to the chaotic qi of myths, possessing near-omnipotent effects.
SWISH SWISH SWISH!
Thousands of stars drifted through the void, occasionally grazing against one another.
Astonishingly, when these massive stars moving faster than light collided, they produced no chaos.
There was no explosion, no sound.
Instead, they behaved like super-elastic rubber spheres. After emitting a soft impact sound that echoed across light-years of void, they casually bounced away, traveling toward opposite directions.
Everything felt like a grand farce, completely abnormal.
Despite their chaotic motion, the stars moved with underlying order, all orbiting Seraphine's majestic form, which stood seven hundred and seventy-seven trillion kilometers tall.
It was a perfect paradox.
Thousands of stars moving at super-light speed were chaotic, yet perfectly neat and orderly as they interacted.
Bizarre, unpredictable, and contrary to logic.
But under Seraphine's supreme will, all of this became reality.
Just as the universe does not stop expanding because mortals fail to understand its laws.
Seraphine, holding a Hypostasis equal to the vast universe, would not let the constraints of [Perception] and [Common Sense] restrict the expansion of her power.
Perhaps even the Universal Sages, who walked the final evolutionary path, could not comprehend her entire being.
They could only conclude that Seraphine had become utterly bizarre and ineffable.
But she never lived for others, she existed only for herself.
The thoughts of others were like dust to Seraphine.
No, they were less than dust.
To achieve supreme power, discarding her humanity was merely the first step.
The very concept of being human carried heavy constraints.
If one's limbs are bound, how can they run?
As this azure sky, spanning a thousand light-years, underwent these changes, many of Seraphine's three-dimensional cells underwent dramatic transformations.
The Sanchegues super-giant structure that once occupied a unit cell collapsed and faded, along with its internal black hole, in a single breath.
After transmitting that singularity, which was exposed when her vision shattered, into a specific four-dimensional cell.
In that vacant cell, a brilliant star, tens of trillions of kilometers wide, materialized from nothingness.
Like the external cosmos, this star possessed a multi-layered structure of thousands of strata, separated by trillions of miles.
Every layer was covered with colossal landmasses and vast oceans.
Between all layers, excess gravity converted into brilliant light, flowing freely from inside to out faster than normal light speed, never halting.
The ten trillion intelligent beings that lived in the old structure were reborn unharmed across the new one, enjoying their lives without issue.
No one felt disoriented, nor was anyone shaken.
Countless beings revered Seraphine with all their hearts as their supreme mother and sovereign.
In their minds:
The Empress is omnipotent.
Everything she commands is just and reasonable.
So even if the world shook, what difference did it make? Those with absolute faith felt no shock.
In the azure sky.
"I have indulged myself enough."
Seraphine's Eye of Transcendence flashed with divine light as she swept her gaze over the countless stars and clouds. "Be annihilated."
Her words were a divine decree.
Instantly, the blue sky completely vanished.
The vast universe returned to darkness.
The colorful clouds, the massive stars, the living beings, and the winged angels all dissolved into nothingness.
Everything returned to how it was a few minutes ago.
The bustling world reverted to quiet stillness.
Seraphine stood still for a moment, then took another step, moving through the dark matter toward the Perseus Arm, which was even larger than the Orion Arm.
BOOM!
A giant foot, spanning trillions of kilometers, stomped down. It kicked up space-time waves that tore through the void at tens of thousands of times the speed of light.
Everything in range was turned to energy, swept toward Seraphine's majestic body, or torn apart into basic particles.
Under the power of the Light of Infinity, every step she took covered ten quadrillion kilometers, moving deeper into the Milky Way's dark matter realm.
Near the Orion Arm, dark matter was present but minor, with normal matter dominating.
Near the edges, its presence grew slightly but not significantly.
But once she left the spiral arm, normal matter rapidly declined.
Instead, the mass of dark matter surged.
The surge accelerated with distance.
50%, 60%, 70%, 80%... until it reached 99%.
Thousands of light-years from the spiral arm, dark matter was completely dominant.
Therefore, this interstellar region represented the dizzying zone within the Milky Way's dark matter.
Generally speaking, within the vast Dark Matter Halo region, besides a large quantity of unperceivable and untouchable dark matter, comets, planets, and even stars and star systems formed from visible matter also existed.
However, star systems here were typically extremely sparse and widely scattered.
Moreover, the vitality of Ether here was generally slightly lower. Non-Ether Ash Zones were interconnected, Low-Ether Sectors were even scarcer, and Sectors of Inner Spirit or higher were essentially non-existent.
Therefore, in the Dark Matter Halo region, although intelligent races were not entirely extinct, they were exceptionally rare and desolate.
Because even simply structured life forms were extremely uncommon here; the vast majority were barren and desolate stars.
But perhaps the vast universe always held surprises, always favoring actions that left observers astonished and awestruck.
Therefore, even in this region where the total amount of visible matter could be deemed meager, comparable to the Milky Way's desolate zones, there still existed life that could be termed a cosmic miracle.
For instance, in Ogulafata's memory, he once encountered a species that was perhaps the largest in the Milky Way within the desolate Dark Matter Halo: the Light-Year Dragon.
This species was a super-celestial level entity, almost impossible to be naturally generated according to celestial mechanics.
It possessed a colossal, exaggeratedly majestic body, measured in trillions of kilometers.
Like the Light-Year Dragon that Ogulafata observed many tens of thousands of years ago, it was a gigantic creature, approximately five light-years in length, three light-years in width, and one light-year in height or thickness.
This was nearly equivalent to a 'living' star system capable of independent movement.
The Light-Year Dragon's material composition was extremely complex, primarily derived from Ether-Crystalline lithium elements and various compounds, Ether-Crystalline hydrogen elements and various compounds, as well as astonishingly massive gaseous colloids formed from silicon and oxygen elements, combined with a large quantity of Ether-Crystalline dark matter and conventional dark matter.
It did not collapse into a scorching star or even a neutron star due to its colossal mass. According to Ogulafata's research, he concluded that this was mainly because its overall density was very low, only slightly higher than Earth's atmosphere.
Suddenly, just as Seraphine was observing Ogulafata's vast memories, an extremely slow-moving colossal creature, moving at only tens of thousands of kilometers per second, entered her perception.
"Oh?"
Seraphine turned her head and looked toward the direction the giant beast was swimming, chuckling with a hint of interest, "What a coincidence; I just read about it and now I encounter this giant beast."
Indeed.
At this moment, another Light-Year Dragon, seven light-years long, with its long, narrow body, was majestically swimming toward this location.
However, at its infuriatingly slow speed, for it to swim all the way here, it would probably take thousands or tens of thousands of years to reach Seraphine's position.
Therefore...
BUZZ!
Space-time warped, dimensions blurred.
This Light-Year Dragon, leisurely traversing the boundless Dark Matter Halo ocean, was instantly and forcibly transmitted before Seraphine.
As soon as this epic giant beast, resembling a dragon-whale, appeared before Seraphine, it was pierced through by her gaze.
Its colossal body's overall structure, from macro to micro, and then the interaction between this structure and the external dark matter environment's matter and energy, all unfolded before Seraphine's mind.
"Interesting, this is another cosmic sunfish."
A sunfish, a giant fish species in Earth's ocean, famously known as the 'ocean's buffet.'
It is renowned for its extremely unappetizing taste and its completely non-aggressive biological habits.
Similar to the sunfish.
Under Seraphine's powerful perception, the Light-Year Dragon's habits were also clearly visible.
This colossal creature, due to its immense size and low body density, rendered conventional destruction meaningless to it.
Therefore, the Light-Year Dragon essentially had no natural predators.
Furthermore, even if some interstellar battleship were to fire a star-piercing cannon at it, firstly, setting aside whether the several-thousand-kilometer destruction range would even register against its tens of trillions of kilometers long body; it would take several years, or even tens of years, just for it to register the sensation of 'Oh, someone's attacking me.'
Its rudimentary intellect was almost non-existent; it fundamentally couldn't even process the concept of 'Oh, someone's attacking me.'
However, after Seraphine thoroughly researched its essence and drew inspiration from its body structure, instantly devising several light-year-sized Nebula structure war fortresses, she lost interest in this Light-Year Dragon.
She was even more surprised that a star system existed within this Dark Matter Halo giant beast's body.
"Interesting, another low-level civilization parasitic within the Light-Year Dragon's body."
With a flicker of her gaze, Seraphine suddenly activated a trace of her perception to sink into this Light-Year Dragon's body, flying straight toward that somewhat barren star system.