Amid faint wingbeats, a smaller but equally brutal humanoid figure descended from the sky. Drill-shaped hands retracted as lightning wrapped around the horn on its head, and its armored body gleamed. This Crimson God had already devoured its previous victims and followed the scent here.
The three formed a tense triangle, each aware that this feast had only three real contenders. None intended to stop while prey remained. Greed was the only shared thought, and it was the reason they had survived this long.
They stared at each other in silence, then all three suddenly looked behind themselves, faces tightening further. Three more powerful presences were approaching fast, each carrying the fresh scent of consumed Crimson Soul. Before they could identify them, attacks struck from three different directions at once.
The red beast roared and dove deep into the Rift of Abyss beneath its Divine Kingdom. In the next moment, a blue-green Charged Particle Cannon and a high-power vibration blast stripped away the surface, flattening mountains. The charged particle beam pierced underground, struck the fleeing body, and exploded with Rend, sending waves across the land.
A seed wrapped in Crystal fell from the sky and rooted into the ground. From the shattered crystal shell spread invasive roots, and a massive dark-green giant slowly raised its head. Though the land rejected it and magma surged upward in fury, it calmly extended its arms.
Invisible force spread outward, and when the earth tried to trap it, the answer was simple. Gravity took hold. The vast Divine Kingdom split apart as a colossal Rift was torn open with Rend, blue-green light shining from deep below while roots spread across the wasteland.
A landmass the size of The Continent was ripped open from the depths, leaving an unavoidable scar. This was not the end. The other two attackers followed, and roaring flames and Lightning Magic collided, throwing up blockbuster sparks and fragments of Shard.
Meteor-like fire and untraceable shadows crashed together, and each collision between hardened Crystal and drilling spikes burst into brilliant blockbuster flashes.
The tall Insectoid kept its ferocious face, but it let out an even sharper screech as it opened its mouth. A red laser swept across like a meteor, but it only managed to slice off a corner. In the next instant, invisible gravity pinned Insectoid in place, followed by a simple yet extremely effective Starburst Crash as searing Solar Corona Line poured down onto its body.
At once, blockbuster sparks scattered everywhere, its carapace shattered into Shard, and foul blood was squeezed out and blasted hard into a stretch of shadow. In an emergency, it unfolded its own Divine Kingdom, and a vague, indescribable mass of drifting ruins appeared beneath it. To buffer the force, it smashed a massive crater into the ground.
At the same time, the Crystal shattered as well, breaking into blockbuster Crystal Shard that turned into countless seeds. They slammed into the ruins and spread thick roots and vines outward, while the massive weight struck its weak point and threw up towering clouds of dust and flying Shard stone.
A roar echoed as a similar glow lit up again. With enormous Crystal blocks growing from its shoulders and a faint red hue showing through its forward body, a wildly brutal presence descended from Cosmic Destroyer God onto this land. The aura and form were unmistakable.
The deafening roar came with invisible gravity and a photon storm that ripped up the drifting blockbuster structures and flung them away. A vast flat expanse was blasted clear, and it continued to spread outward. Massive amounts of Crystal rose directly from beneath its feet, forming towering spires that pierced the sky like a stone circle and enclosed it while forcefully plundering the surrounding power.
A sharp cry rang out as the local the Lord refused to allow this. It spread its wings again, and the horn on its head erupted with Lightning Magic, but inside its own Divine Kingdom the scene was completely different. Nearly every surface refracted dense lightning, which turned into a rain of Lightning Magic crashing downward with power far greater than before.
The grotesque beast only glanced up and lightly stamped its foot. A Wall of Sighs appeared, a massive shield made of countless folded prism faces, standing between the two. Countless Lightning Magic strikes slammed into it and were all deflected, even absorbed in reverse and gathered along a specific angle to form a thicker Lightning Magic that blasted back toward the original the Lord.
The result was obvious. The the Lord emerged unscathed, but it leaned forward slightly and raised its hands a little, clearly taking things more seriously than before. In the next moment, its figure vanished from its spot.
In the blink of an eye, it seemed to be everywhere at once, as if it had split into countless Clone, each nearly equal to the original. Every one of them moved, every one felt real, and the noise was just as convincing. This kind of trick could not fool cosmic perception.
The beast simply flicked its tail and swung it hard. A crystal-tipped spear at the end detonated in a Crystal burst and struck the true body squarely in the chest. With a muffled cry, it was blasted far away, and along the way it was generously hit by several Solar Corona Line.
Within the Crystal array, Lightning Magic light coiled again, and a rain of Lightning Magic no smaller than before poured down on the landing point. There was no chance to escape, since every strike covered a wide area and could explode at any moment to guarantee full coverage. The attack pressed on relentlessly.
Then the beast lightly raised its right hand. Several Crystal High Tower floated up out of thin air and accelerated in an instant to an unbelievable speed, shooting toward the empty Void. They suddenly struck something unseen, burst apart with Rend, and the figure that had just taken flight was smashed back to the ground without a sound.
The beast opened its mouth again, blazing light gathering inside, but it immediately closed it and dropped its hands. Using Space Claw, it blocked a sudden cross-shaped slash that appeared in front of its chest. The one who did all this, Crimson God, landed lightly on the ground as the armor restraining its speed peeled away and fell, revealing a slimmer body beneath.
The battle was far from over. What followed was a sky-filling swarm of insects. A terrified and furious screech came from the greedy giant insect at the center of the storm.
The aura of the newcomer was painfully familiar, impossible to mistake. It was that revolting stench that it could never bring itself to devour. A supernova-like sphere radiating terrifying heat and blazing flames smashed toward it.
Even insect swarms that could devour extreme heat wailed and died when faced with that light. This was not something that could be eaten, and the image of decay carried within would only cause rapid death, killing even the spawned offspring. It was a complete loss, and the phenomenon spread through the swarm at an exponential pace.
blockbuster insects died in droves, falling into the furnace of that sun and being burned down to nothing. The old tactic of devouring others, multiplying, and reviving proved useless against this sun. The concept of decay gnawed at every level, and at the microscopic scale of individual insects it was utterly lethal.
Meanwhile, the opponent used this as fuel to burn even hotter flames. Under this growing imbalance, the outcome could only be one-sided. The swarm had no answer.
A gigantic winged reptile wreathed in blazing white fire, its color faintly collapsing toward black, burst out from the sun. Wherever it passed, the millions-of-degrees heat clinging to its body left every insect swarm with only one fate: total incineration. It spread its wings again, and a nearly solid solar corona expanded at high speed.
As it beat its wings, the scorching edges turned into blades of light that slashed forward. A deep, burning scar was instantly carved into the greedy giant insect's body. The pain was so intense that it drove nearly every insect mad, as every unit making up the giant creature screamed together.
Before it could recover, the opponent was already in front of it. Those merciless eyes looked down at the giant insect as if it were nothing more than a bug. Fire had always been effective against insects.
"You three master and disciple against our three master and disciple," a voice said calmly. "From the look of it, you still have some strength, and it is within what I can handle."
Belial nodded with satisfaction while collecting data and watching the battlefield. Three massive ecological Clone were already locked in fierce combat with the three deeply hidden predators. He sounded almost amused as he spoke again.
"Still, the ones with names and roles are usually the real strong opponents. Let me give some comments first." Belial looked at the red-armored giant facing the Planetary Ecological Avatar. He recognized the design at a glance, since one of his own templates was related to it.