I don't know how much time passed, but the light gradually dimmed.
The planet-sized Abyssal Star was shattered; countless spherical meat buds were wriggling and attracting each other.
The meat buds were growing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Some fragments of the meat buds drifted onto a Xianzhou battleship from the Luofu.
Golden branches and leaves grew without warning from the bodies, mouths, and noses of some Cloud Knights on the Xianzhou battleship.
Seeing this, the remaining Cloud Knights hurried to blockade the entire ship and escaped the area on starships.
It wasn't that they were afraid of death; it was simply that the Abyssal Star countered them too much, and staying would only cause trouble for the main force.
After the evacuation, Jing Yuan could only order the destruction of the corroded Xianzhou battleship with a heavy heart.
Jing Yuan looked at the rapidly "self-healing" Abyssal Star with a somewhat gloomy expression.
This recovery power was far too troublesome; even the Lightning-Lord probably couldn't completely eradicate it.
Otherwise, Azure City would not have been so easily swallowed by it back then.
At that moment, Kiana, who had been watching the show, suddenly moved.
Kiana turned into a silver meteor, weaving through the tumors and using her fists carrying a scorching aura to smash and Vaporize the small tumors one by one.
The Abyssal Star instinctively abandoned those tiny fragments and began to rapidly self-proliferate.
"My current power is not enough, more... release even greater power...! Haaah—!!!"
Kiana's eyes flickered slightly, and after retreating some distance, she looked up and let out a loud shout.
Her originally restrained aura instantly surged, and a large part of the Ultra Instinct seal was released.
With Kiana's rhythmic breathing, a silver scorching aura suddenly Swirl out from her center.
The entire barren star system was instantly lit up by the sacred silver glow, as if it were a brilliant galaxy.
[Pretty Cure: I'm so shocked I can't even speak a word.]
[Wangshang Funeral Parlor Workhorse: Looks like I can just slack off now. With my sister being so badass, I can sleep soundly!]
The fleets of the Luofu and the IPC were shaken by Kiana's aura and retreated a great distance.
At the same time, the imaginary energy in this star system surged abnormally, and several gazes descended upon this place simultaneously.
In the Interstice of the Paths, the single eye of a celestial-sized mechanical head flickered with a crimson light.
It was analyzing, it was thinking, it was calculating—this variable that had suddenly appeared outside of its calculations.
At the core of the sacred galaxy, Kiana took a deep breath, and the brilliant galaxy was instantly sucked into her body.
At this moment, only Kiana's silhouette, shrouded in silver light, remained.
As the silver glow gradually turned into light particles and dissipated, the Damselette hidden behind it was revealed.
Her Herrscher attire and long hair shimmering with silver light fluttered without wind.
Her two slender willow-leaf eyebrows were also tinged with a silver glow, and the cross patterns in her silver eyes became even brighter.
The space around Kiana was slightly distorted, scorched by her own sacred aura.
The Second herrscher core inside her body absorbed this sacred aura and vibrated at high speed.
All the original Honkai Energy was now replaced by Divine Breath.
Kiana's eyes moved slightly, looking indifferently at the Abyssal Star that had recovered and expanded to several times its original size.
"Have you ever been kicked by light?"
Leaning forward slightly, her body turned into a silver light that exceeded the speed of light, piercing directly through the Abyssal Star.
Without giving the Abyssal Star time to recover, Kiana turned sideways and gently snapped her slender fingers.
Countless Imaginary Gates, different from those used by the Queen, appeared; they were inlaid with purple light edges and had silver cyclones rotating in their centers.
"Go—!"
Countless silver light cannons carrying Imaginary power poured down on the Abyssal Star like a rainstorm, punching countless holes in its body.
Inside the wounded cavities, the Breath of God flames carrying spatial power acted like maggots on a bone, with the sensation of burning and corrosion quickly spreading to the surroundings.
This aura almost completely blocked its powerful recovery ability.
"Ugh... *cough cough*!"
After launching the attack, Kiana suddenly coughed and subconsciously covered her mouth with her hand.
"..."
Spreading open the palm that covered her mouth, she saw a pool of fresh blood.
The burden of the Pseudo-Perfect Ultra Instinct on her current body was still quite significant.
She knew she couldn't drag this on any longer.
Her right hand formed the shape of a pistol, her left eye squinted, and she aimed at the painfully struggling Abyssal Star. The three Spears of the Void floating behind her, which looked like spiral lances, slowly disappeared.
"Bang—"
The violently struggling Abyssal Star's body suddenly froze. Three planet-sized Spears of the Void, shimmering with Divine Breath, surrounded the Abyssal Star from three angles.
Kiana didn't even take a look; she simply turned around.
After Kiana turned around, the three Spears of the Void pierced into the Abyssal Star and then exploded together.
Three silver spherical spatial rifts expanded from the explosion, tearing the entire Abyssal Star to pieces.
Until the end, the last meat bud of the Abyssal Star was swallowed, and the spatial rifts disappeared as if they had fulfilled their mission.
The entire barren star belt was now full of the wreckage of starships and celestial bodies, while the Abyssal Star seemed as if it had never existed in the first place.
After the Abyssal Star was completely destroyed, the Cloud Knights of the Luofu were first stunned, and then a cheer that shook the skies erupted.
At the same time, many people were overcome with mixed emotions because of the deaths of their friends and the victory of the war.
Jing Yuan also looked intently at the silver glow shimmering like a star in the distance.
The losses in this battle were far smaller than expected, which was already a blessing in disguise.
(Jing Yuan's performance in the plot is too weak; he doesn't look like an Emanator at all. It always feels like the hereditary Emanators of the Xianzhou are a bit lacking...)
At this moment, far away in Pier Point, Diamond, the head of the Strategic Investment Department, couldn't help but curl his lips into a smile as he saw the images transmitted back by the fleet.
The gains from this aid to the ally, the Xianzhou Alliance, seemed to be far greater than the losses.
It seemed he would have to find an opportunity to personally visit this young and promising Damselette in the future.
With such a potential Damselette, it was necessary for the IPC to try and recruit her~
All for the Amber Lord~
...After destroying the Abyssal Star, Kiana felt the discomfort in her body becoming more and more severe.
Feeling the state of the herrscher core inside her, Kiana deactivated Ultra Instinct.
Having completed her Herrscher-fication, she didn't have to worry about her physical body being unable to stay in outer space.
The indifference on her face disappeared, replaced by a weak expression.
"It's finally settled... hehe... *cough-splat*!"
Kiana weakly scratched her cheek and chuckled, but as she laughed, her face turned pale and she spat out a mouthful of blood.
Fortunately, she only spat out some blood and didn't faint.
Kiana grabbed Bailu's Medicine Gourd hanging at her waist and took several large gulps from it.
"Phew... much better. This Young Lady thought I was going to die."
Kiana's originally pale little face regained a bit of color, and she patted her somewhat exposed chest with a look of lingering fear.
At this moment, Kiana's face was full of energy and innocence, looking like a completely different person from her Ultra Instinct state.
What Kiana didn't know was that Bailu's medicine only temporarily relieved her pain and replenished her blood and energy.
But the terrible condition inside her body had not been properly resolved.
Sure enough... before long, Kiana's smile froze.