Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 557: The Immortal in the Painting

The war between these two great powers was without a doubt extremely intense. This could be seen from the shattered celestial bodies around the battlefield and the omnipresent stellar dust in space. Centered on these two great powers, within thirty light years, there was no longer any intact existence. Several star systems had turned into two-dimensional existences, like a painting on this dark universe, and even more stars had turned into planetary nebulae, diffusing through the cosmos.

After a star explodes, vast stellar material is scattered, forming this kind of planetary nebula. Clearly, in the previous war, these stars were affected and blasted into explosions.

This region of cosmic void had completely become a cosmic deadland. The evil consequences brought by stellar explosions were manifesting. All kinds of cosmic rays containing tremendous destructive power were raging here, so intense that even the ships of a Level 3 Civilization could not approach. Even a Level 4 Civilization’s ship had to be extremely careful here to avoid damage.

Yet this harsh environment had no effect on the two great powers in the field. The spatial lifeform continuously changed its body, like a painting drifting in the wind, while that Neutron War Star, invisible to the visible band of light, hung quietly in space without any movement.

It seemed the gravity of this neutron star had already been shielded. The interstellar matter around this neutron star was not affected and did not converge toward it due to the neutron star’s powerful gravity.

“Spatial lifeforms are exceedingly rare and have consistently shown no interest in the disputes between technological civilizations or Alien Beast Civilizations. So I am very curious, what exactly made you cross a distance of one million light years to come here and make trouble for me?” 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

From within the Neutron War Star, a signal fluctuation was transmitted outward. Then the spatial lifeform immediately responded.

“You do not need to know that. I must admit, your strength exceeded my expectations, but I still have confidence in defeating you. As long as the Neutron War Star is destroyed, your Sweeper Civilization will be completely annihilated under the siege of the powerful beings across the Milky Way. So today you will leave the Neutron War Star here and become a figure in a painting.”

After sending this message, the spatial lifeform did not linger. Accompanied by a faint spatial fluctuation, its body drifted like willow catkins in the wind, yet its speed was so fast there was no time to react. At that moment, its speed reached at least five hundred times the speed of light. The Neutron War Star also reacted instantly, but was still a bit slower.

The spatial lifeform’s vast body unfolded in an instant. Like a piece of cloth, it completely wrapped around the Neutron War Star. Then that cloth slowly stretched out and finally spread flat, and in that one contraction and one extension, the Neutron War Star had already vanished without a trace.

It was all like performing magic, as if a master magician used a piece of cloth to cover a basketball, then shook the cloth once and spread it open, and the basketball disappeared without a trace, no one knew where it went.

No, the basketball had not actually disappeared. It had appeared on that piece of cloth. It transformed from a solid entity into a two-dimensional existence.

Such was the scene in the universe at this moment. The Neutron War Star had disappeared. It appeared on the body of the spatial lifeform. In the boundless dark universe, there was a faint light screen. This light screen had only length and width and no height. At its center was a faint white spot. This white spot was almost a perfect circle, emitting a faint glow, like a patch added to a piece of cloth.

The Neutron War Star had disappeared. It had entered this painting and become an existence within the painting.

At that moment, time itself seemed to congeal and cease to flow.

Within a few to dozens of light years of the battlefield, many powerful existences had gathered. Xiao Yu had heard of many of these powerful existences. For example, there was a spaceship about the size of the Moon, radiating a holy brilliance throughout. That was the Radiance flagship of the Guardian Civilization. There was another spaceship, also about the size of the Moon, which was Technology Taihao’s the Meson spaceship. Besides these two ships, there were several Alien Beasts with extremely vast bodies, and several things that seemed as insubstantial as ghosts, slowly drifting in the universe.

“Should we make a move?” Alien Beast Taihao was somewhat itching to try at this moment. “The Neutron War Star has already been swallowed into the body of the spatial lifeform and turned into a two-dimensional existence. If we strike now, everyone will surge forward, and we will have a great chance to destroy the Neutron War Star.”

“Wait a bit longer.” Technology Taihao immediately responded, stopping the eager Alien Beast Taihao. In Technology Taihao’s tone there was an irresistible, exceedingly dignified air, with much wisdom flowing within. “When an object falls from three dimensions to two dimensions, it releases tremendous energy. Yet now, although this Neutron War Star appears to have become two-dimensional, there is no energy being released. Most importantly, two-dimensional objects are completely visible to three-dimensional objects. We reside in a three-dimensional world, yet we still cannot observe the internal structure of the Neutron War Star. There is something strange here. We must not act rashly. Let us wait a bit longer and speak again when the situation becomes clear.”

“Fine.” Alien Beast Taihao said dejectedly.

At this moment, no one knew how many powerful existences had gathered near the battlefield, nor how many undercurrents surged among them. Yet no matter how violent the outside fluctuations were, they could never affect the core of the battlefield. The spatial lifeform seemed to have lost its life. Its body, as if blown by the wind, continued to drift in the void. That white circular point of light continued to exist upon its body.

It was like an exquisite painting. The painting was still and beautiful, but all the existences present knew that behind this stillness and beauty lurked countless perilous undercurrents.

Time passed bit by bit. One hundred years passed, two hundred years passed, three hundred years passed…

Three hundred years, in cosmic terms or to these powerful existences, were insignificant. Their patience was excellent. The painting drifted in the cosmic void for three hundred years, and they waited around it for three hundred years.

After more than three hundred long years finally passed, the painting suddenly stirred. It no longer drifted in the void. It suddenly stretched out and stood still in the vacuum. A strange atmosphere began to spread through the void. All the powerful existences watching around understood very clearly what this meant.

“The final result is about to come out.” At this moment, Technology Taihao actually felt a little nervous.

Regarding the arrival of the spatial lifeform, the Taihao Alliance, or the Alien Beasts, or the Guardian Civilization, all adopted an attitude of welcoming the development. For countless years under the oppression of the Sweeper Civilization, they could only eke out a miserable existence. They were not without resistance, but any meticulous planning, any plan deemed foolproof, would be crushed like ants under the rolling of the Neutron War Star.

Just like last time, when the half four-dimensional Taihao arrived in the Milky Way, the Guardian Civilization took the lead, and many powerful existences in the Milky Way participated in that war. In that war, the Taihao Alliance did not make a move, but the three great Alien Beasts roamed around. Though they did not strike directly, they exerted an enormous constraint on the Neutron War Star.

Even before such powerful forces, the Neutron War Star still did not fail. After breaking out of the body of the half four-dimensional Taihao, it surged forward like a torrential flood, shattering all existences standing in its way.

The three great Alien Beasts immediately fled. The Guardian Civilization fled. The powerful coalition forces collapsed in an instant. From that time on, the Guardian Civilization made up its mind that before the situation became clear, it would never again take the initiative to strike at the Neutron War Star.

The Taihao Alliance was undoubtedly a bit smarter than the Guardian Civilization. In fact, when the half four-dimensional Taihao arrived last time, the Taihao Alliance did not participate at all. By not participating, they avoided losses.

But the situation this time was simply too favorable. The spatial lifeform from the Andromeda Galaxy was powerful to a certain degree. Even the Taihao Alliance could not resist the temptation this time.

It had reached the final moment. The ultimate result was about to appear.

The body of the spatial lifeform had fully stretched out. Its two-dimensional body became extremely smooth. At the center of its body, the white point of light that represented the Neutron War Star grew ever brighter, brighter and brighter. It even gradually developed a slight protrusion from what had originally been a two-dimensional structure, gaining a bit of three-dimensional structure.

This scene was exceedingly uncanny. It was like a figure on a painting striving desperately to break free from the constraints of the canvas and come into the real world.

The spatial lifeform remained motionless, still quietly suspended in the void, but that tension so suffocating it made one’s chest tighten continued to spread.

When that tension reached a limit, as if the gate of time had been half reopened, suddenly the motionless scene came alive. That white point of light finally broke free from the constraints of the canvas and suddenly leaped out.

Having regained its three-dimensional structure, it once again returned to being invisible in the visible band. However, a vast and suffocatingly murderous aura began to spread through the void.

It was like a king who gazed proudly in all directions, looking down arrogantly upon all the powerful existences around it.

[T/N: Doing a mass release for the holidays, 20 chapters are coming right up hope you enjoy. I’ll also be doing it for my other novels too in the next few days so make sure to check them out!]