Ego's struggle didn't last long. Soon, the entire planet began to collapse, with vast amounts of energy surging across it. The planet gradually developed countless massive cracks, ultimately shattering completely.
Galactus devoured the primary core energy cleanly. Seeing the remaining planetary fragments, Galactus had no way to extract energy from them. Shin stretched out his hand, using the Dark-Dark Fruit, and a huge black hole instantly absorbed those fragments.
A moment later, the black hole spat out the residual fragments, while Shin condensed the extracted planetary life energy into a ball and handed it to Galacta.
Galacta looked longingly at the energy crystal, which was more than ten times taller than herself and the size of a house. Then, she took this large mass of energy and went to Galactus.
Galactus hadn't expected Shin to have such an ability, capable of squeezing out more energy from the planetary remnants he had already drained. This mass of energy might not seem like much, but it was actually compressed planetary life force, almost six or seven tenths of the planetary energy he had just absorbed.
This efficiency was considerably higher than when he used his energy siphon, almost an extra 10% of energy.
For Galactus, this was extremely important. The spaceship he originally built had less combat power than his main body and was not meant for fighting at all. Its biggest role was to assist him in absorbing energy.
For a moment, Galactus even considered making Shin his herald.
Soon, Galactus discarded that wild idea. Shin's strength was no less than his own at full power, so there was no way he would become his herald. This left Galactus feeling a little regretful.
After draining the energy crystal in his hand, Galactus, who was already at full power, sensed his energy reserves. He would not need to devour other planets for at least a year to maintain his full state.
Now that the buffs were applied, the rest was naturally to fight the boss. The group was now ready to cause trouble for the Zerg Emperor.
This Zerg Emperor fellow hides very deeply, but he holds the Cosmic Control Rod, a divine artifact that can control the universe. In some ways, he is a localized personification of the universe, and Galactus, at full power, can naturally sense the location of the Cosmic Control Rod.
Originally, Galactus had no idea this divine artifact existed. Now that he had been captured once and understood its essence, locating it became much easier.
Plus, they still held the space stone. Once the location was clear, they could instantly warp there.
Galactus held the space stone and slightly closed his eyes. In fact, as one of the cosmic deities, if Galactus were to truly manifest as an abstract entity, he wouldn't even need the space stone to teleport anywhere in the universe.
However, Galactus, who consumes planets daily in the universe, is in some ways just a humanoid terminal, or perhaps a divine being in a saintly state, descended into the material world. Therefore, he needed the assistance of the space stone.
But no matter what, Galactus's inherent realm was still there. With his exceptionally high realm, he could probably even wield all six infinity stones directly without auxiliary devices like the Infinity Gauntlet, let alone a single space stone.
"I see it, that damned bug!" Opening his eyes, Galactus snorted coldly, then casually opened a massive space portal and pulled out a spherical object several thousand meters high from it.
"What is this thing?" Shin quietly asked the little loli Galacta. Galacta, having eaten their food, thought for a moment with a finger on her chin and said, "It seems to be a degenerate ionic Fermi-ion bomb made by Father? Its blast radius can shatter a star system."
Damn! Galactus actually has such a superweapon?
Thinking about it, it's quite normal. As a full-level scientist with an intelligence rating of seven and having absorbed the knowledge of two universes, it would be ridiculous if Galactus didn't know how to create explosives.
The Galactus of the main universe even invented the Ultimate Nullifier! A blast radius of merely a star system is really not a big deal.
As for why he didn't use it before, Galactus's goal was to devour planets, so he naturally wouldn't directly blow up his own 'restaurants'.
In fact, Galactus invented this bomb purely out of scientific curiosity and had never used it since its creation.
However, it's clear that the Annihilation Zerg's act of capturing Galactus and turning him into an energy converter completely enraged this cosmic deity. He was preparing to use this thing to teach those bugs a thorough lesson.
Sensing the location of the Zerg, Galactus first opened a massive space portal. On the other side of the portal, countless high-level Zerg and the Zerg Emperor could be seen. Then, without waiting for them to react, Galactus threw the giant bomb over and immediately closed the space portal.
After waiting for about ten seconds, Galactus waved his hand and reopened the space portal.
On the other side of the space portal, it wasn't the chaotic scene filled with energy turbulence that Shin had imagined. Instead, it was a void of nothingness, completely devoid of any matter. Only a lone light shield floated there, and within it was the Annihilation Zerg Emperor, who had escaped death by relying on an energy shield formed by the Cosmic Control Rod.
Such terrifying power, Shin secretly marveled. Even with his Kryptonian bloodline, taking a direct hit from a bomb capable of turning an entire star system into nothingness would likely leave him crippled if not dead.
If this were replaced with villains who understood Superman deeply, by mixing in some kryptonite powder or red sun wavelengths, 100 Supermen could be directly blown to death!
In the Marvel Universe, there are no so-called invincible people. Most famous Superheroes have both their moments of glory and their moments of weakness, and basically, every time they falter, it's due to intelligence leaks.
When Superman first appeared, he was truly invincible, but after being thoroughly studied, a large number of counter-items like kryptonite, mind control, red sun wavelengths, and magic were developed. He then began to routinely falter, often being suppressed and taken offline at the beginning of any incident.
The Annihilation Zerg are the same now. After all their trump cards were exposed, they were directly pushed to a dead end.
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