Chapter 27: Chapter27-Fragment of the Goddess of Space’s Authority
"They’re all Level 100 Astral Colossi."
Even John was slightly shaken when he saw those terrifying stats.
With his current HP, he could only withstand two attacks from these Astral Colossi at most.
Worse still, the HP of these Astral Colossi had reached a terrifying figure of over one hundred million.
The only stat that was relatively low was their Agility.
Rumble!
At that moment, the Astral Colossi stomped down at the same time, crushing the stone layers covering their legs.
As they moved, the towering wall collapsed even further, exposing more and more of the cosmic space behind it.
What made things even more despairing was that these Astral Colossi could actually unleash other types of attacks as well.
Zzzzzzz!
With a buzzing sound, beams of light as thick as tree trunks suddenly shot out from the hollow eyes of the Astral Colossi.
Every living being exposed within their field of vision was attacked.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Every time an Astral Colossus took a step, the ground around it completely caved in, as though it was about to be trampled into the void itself.
"Damn it, don’t kill me!"
"I surrender! Help!"
"Waaah, I don’t want to die here!"
Blinding white pillars of light shot from the eyes of the Astral Colossi.
Any creature struck by them was, without exception, evaporated into nothingness.
The earth split into countless fragments. Without the shelter of the trees, thousands upon thousands of NPCs and players were swept into outer space by the cosmic void.
When an Astral Colossus brought one foot down, its sky-covering shadow instantly crushed hundreds of players into white light.
"Hold steady! Don’t panic! Maintain formation!"
Lord roared at the top of his lungs, but his voice was instantly swallowed by the chaos.
The guild leaders were also doing their best to maintain order, but under the pressure of sheer terror, the players could no longer receive any commands at all.
The situation was rapidly collapsing.
Just as the entire scene descended into chaos, John, who had remained firmly in place, suddenly turned solemn. He entered a strange state, as if everything around him had faded into nothingness.
Screams, explosions, collapsing walls, frantic shouts...
All kinds of sounds gradually vanished from his ears.
Until finally, he could no longer hear anything at all.
John’s consciousness fell into a brief trance, and special images surfaced in his mind one after another.
Within those images, figures of the Goddess of Space appeared.
The Goddess of Space wore a white dress as pure as snow, and her silver hair flowed down like a cascading river.
Her back was magnificent and majestic, radiating a kind of dignity that rejected all beings from billions of miles away.
When John saw that figure, there was no fear in his expression. Instead, a hint of confusion appeared.
In his previous life, during the final War of Ascension, the Goddess of Space had been one of the few allies who stood on John’s side.
She had also been the benefactor who first truly guided him onto the path of godhood.
But now, the situation seemed vastly different from his previous life.
This former ally was now nowhere to be found.
And why had her divine servants been corrupted into such a state?
Boom!!!
At that moment, a violent explosion and a wave of screams interrupted his thoughts.
His attention returned to reality.
Everything before his eyes was like hell. The ground was collapsing, and the sky was burning.
The cosmic void was continuously devouring everything here.
This place was already on the verge of total collapse.
Even though John now possessed extremely powerful attributes, in the face of a law-level calamity of this scale, they were of no use at all.
Despair.
A nearly unsolvable despair.
John knew very clearly that the true nature of the entire Starter Village was actually an incomparably massive World Bubble.
Even the Old Empire beyond the towering wall just now was nothing more than a remnant illusion and residue left behind after the collapse of the main world.
There was hardly anything in this world that could truly be called real.
The Lord of Starter Village could already be considered fortunate. For some unknown reason, his castle and territory had managed to remain isolated and survive after the collapse of the main world.
They had barely continued to exist inside this lonely cosmic World Bubble.
But now, the final calamity and reckoning had arrived after all.
It left no room for luck.
Even John could not see any hope of survival.
Just as he was almost ready to give up and prepare for his first death—
Suddenly, an ear-piercing sound of twisting metal rang out.
John looked up. The sound came from the bronze gate connected to the space of the Old Empire.
When the towering wall collapsed earlier, this bronze gate had also suffered the impact. Its overall structure was already completely warped.
At this moment, it was letting out a sharp, grating noise.
But very soon, John sensed that something was wrong.
Because from that bronze gate, he felt an aura that was extremely familiar.
Buzz—
At that moment, the bronze gate shattered completely.
A silver-white fragment emerged from deep within the gate, hovering in midair as if frozen in place.
Even as everything around it was devoured and sucked away by the cosmic void, the fragment remained fixed in place, unmoving.
The instant John saw the silver-white fragment clearly, his pupils contracted sharply.
Because he recognized what it was.
"It’s actually a broken fragment of the Goddess of Space’s Authority!"
Although this was only a fragment, the vast spatial energy contained within it allowed John to instantly confirm that this was undoubtedly the Authority of the Goddess of Space.
No one understood the Goddess of Space better than him.
She was famous for her caution. She would never casually scatter her own Authority, nor would she allow it to fall into the outside world and be used by others.
Unless she had personally left it here.
In other words, the space of the Old Empire had actually been deliberately preserved by the Goddess of Space.
John’s eyes gradually lit up.
Based on this point, he could further deduce that since an Authority Fragment existed here, there were very likely other Authority Fragments around this World Bubble.
If he could grasp even one fragment of the Goddess of Space’s Authority at this moment, even if it was only one-tenth of the whole, there was a chance he could resolve the apocalypse before him.
With that thought, John immediately activated Detect once more.
At the same time, he added all of his stored 100,000 free attribute points into Spirit.
[You have consumed 1,000 free attribute points. Spirit has increased to 1,020!]
[You have consumed 10,000 free attribute points. Spirit has increased to 11,020!]
[You have consumed...]
As his attribute points were consumed at high speed, his perception range began to expand madly.
By the time he had added all his remaining attribute points into Spirit, John’s divine sense had completely covered the entire range of the Starter Village World Bubble.
Under such an exaggerated perception range, John instantly detected the abnormalities within this area.
Sure enough, beneath the towering wall surrounding the World Bubble, there was not only one spatial anomaly hidden.
As the towering wall gradually collapsed, more and more spatial fluctuations spread out.
According to John’s detection, a total of four Goddess of Space Authority Fragments had been exposed.
The problem was that these four fragments were located at the four cardinal extremes of the World Bubble: east, west, south, and north.
Even though John now knew their locations, under normal circumstances, it was impossible for him to go and collect them.
With his current Agility, even if his movement speed was extremely fast under ordinary conditions, by the time he finished collecting all four Spatial Authority Fragments, everything would already be far too late.
"Should I gamble on this?"
