Building Interstellar Empire With Universal Synthesis
Chapter 226: Ignisius (2)Chapter 226: Chapter 226: Ignisius (2)
Neo floated in the silent vacuum of space. The arrogant words of the Fire God echoed through the cosmic ether, delivered by localized waves of localized divine mana. Ignis demanded surrender. He demanded that Neo kneel before a chariot pulled by glowing reptiles. He threatened to burn Neo to ashes.
Neo found the entire display deeply amusing.
From his new cosmic perspective, the Ashen Vanguard did not look like an unstoppable divine army. They looked like a buffet. His newly formed Demi God core pulsed with an insatiable hunger. The million points in his physical stats made the fabric of reality feel like fragile glass around his fingertips.
He slowly lifted his right hand. He did not draw his sword. He did not even bother to assume a fighting stance.
"You brought me ten thousand sparks and a few oversized lizards," Neo spoke. His voice was no longer restricted by human vocal cords. He projected his words using pure Nether Force. The dual toned demonic frequency hit the advancing divine army like a physical shockwave.
"I hope you brought your actual core, Ignis. I am incredibly hungry."
Ignis gripped the railing of his war chariot. His eyes burned with unhinged fury. A mortal was mocking him in front of his entire vanguard.
"Slaughter him! Burn him until not even his shadow remains!" Ignis bellowed, his voice causing localized solar flares to erupt in the void.
"Aye, your excellency!" High Commander Vulcan roared in compliance.
He spurred his massive magma hellhound forward. Behind him, the ten thousand elite fire elementals of the Ashen Vanguard charged. The Flame Behemoths stomped their burning hooves, creating invisible platforms of hardened heat to run across the vacuum.
Fwoooosh!
Up in the command bridge of the Zenith Vanguard fleet, the officers held their breath. The raw thermal output of the approaching army was melting the outer armor plating of their LORD class warships.
Dark Empress Noir simply crossed her legs on her throne. She rested her chin on her hand, a wicked smile playing on her lips. She knew exactly what was about to happen.
Down in the void, the tidal wave of divine fire crashed directly onto Neo.
BOOOOOOM"
The explosion was blinding. A sphere of pure white plasma expanded outward, swallowing Neo entirely. The heat was hot enough to vaporize adamantium in a microsecond.
"HAHAHA..." Vulcan laughed triumphantly, raising his molten axe to signal the victory.
Then, suddenly the laughter stopped.
The massive sphere of white plasma suddenly began to shrink. It did not dissipate naturally. It was being violently sucked inward.
At the center of the shrinking firestorm stood Neo. He had not moved a single inch. His S rank Infinite Void Shield Body was fully active.
The divine fire struck the barrier and simply ceased to exist. The laws of thermodynamics were being brutally overwritten by Neo’s cosmic authority.
Neo then lowered his hand and let out a disappointed sigh.
"Boring," Neo whispered.
After that, he activated his SS rank skill. [Abyssal Devour.]
It formed a collossal black hole directly behind Neo.
Buzz!
It was a manifestation of pure, gluttonous Nether Force.
Buzzzz! Buzzz! Buzzzzzz!
The black hole spanned hundreds of miles wide, rotating with a terrifying violence.
The gravitational pull was absolute. But ut specifically targeted the divine mana and life force of the attacking army.
"Ahhhhhhh!" Vulcan screamed as his hellhound was instantly violently dragged forward. The magma beast dissolved into a stream of pure red energy before it even crossed the event horizon.
Vulcan tried to plant his feet, trying to use his Type Three Immortal strength to resist the pull. It was utterly useless. Neo possessed nearly a million points in his Cosmic Force. The absolute gravity shredded Vulcan into glowing particles, sucking the High Commander into the void.
The rest of the Ashen Vanguard followed in a matter of seconds. Ten thousand elite fire elementals were ripped from their physical forms. They shrieked in terror as their essence was drained entirely.
The towering Flame Behemoths collapsed, their molten bodies turning to cold gray ash as Neo completely consumed their internal heat.
[ System Alert: Devouring Divine Fire Elementals. ]
[ Host has absorbed 15,000,000 Cosmic Energy Points. ]
[ Nether Force stat has increased by 12,000 points. ]
[ Devour complete. ]
In less than ten seconds, the pride of the Volcanic Pavilion was erased. There were no bodies left. There was no blood. There was only cold, dead ash drifting in the void.
Ignis stood frozen on his war chariot. His mouth was slightly open.
The four Sun dragons pulling his chariot whined in primitive terror, desperately trying to back away from the swirling black hole behind the mortal boy.
"Wh-What are you?" Ignis gasped.
"I am the predator," Neo answered simply. "And today, you’re my food."
He did not wait for Ignis to issue another command. Neo vanished.
With 991,000 Agility points, Neo entirely bypassed the concept of linear movement. He did not travel through space. He simply asserted his existence at his destination.
He reappeared standing directly on the front of Ignis’s war chariot.
The four sun dragons snapped at him in a blind panic.
FWOOOSHH!
They unleashed concentrated streams of pure stellar plasma at point blank range.
Yet, Neo did not even blink.
He calmly activated his Celestial Hellfire Eragon bloodline.
His eyes glowed with absolute, primordial authority.
Immediately, crimson hellfire erupted from his pores.
This was not the artificial, cultivated fire of the Pantheon. This was the fundamental flame that existed before the universe was even born. The crimson hellfire easily swallowed the solar plasma. The flames completely bypassed the dragons’ magical defenses, latching onto their scales.
The four majestic beasts screeched in agony. In the blink of an eye, the crimson hellfire burned away their flesh, leaving only perfectly intact, glowing skeletons. Neo absorbed their residual solar energy with a casual breath.
Ignis snapped out of his shock. Pure, unadulterated rage flooded his divine core. He was a God. He refused to be humiliated by a mortal.
Hummmmmm!
Ignis raised the World Roaster. The massive halberd glowed with the heat of a dying red giant. He poured every single drop of his divine authority into the weapon, intending to cleave Neo and the entire solar system in half.
"Die, you miserable pest!" Ignis roared, swinging the halberd downward with earth shattering force.
Neo looked at the descending blade of the Greater Deity. He did not draw his sword. He simply raised his left hand, presenting his open palm to the divine strike.
The World Roaster slammed directly into Neo’s bare hand.
BOOM!
A shockwave of golden fire rippled outward, entirely destroying the war chariot beneath their feet. The kinetic force was enough to shatter a moon.
Yet, when the smoke cleared, Ignis was staring at a physical impossibility.
Neo was holding the edge of the divine halberd with his bare fingers. His starlight bones glowed beneath his skin. His arm did not buckle. His knees did not bend. He caught the full, unrestricted strike of a Greater Deity as casually as a father catching a thrown ball from a toddler.
"Is this the absolute might of the Pantheon? How deeply disappointing."
Ignis tried to pull the halberd back. It did not budge. Neo’s grip was clamped around the metal like a vice made of collapsed stars.
"Let go!" Ignis panicked, flooding the halberd with more heat.
"If you insist," Neo smiled devilishly.
Then Neo squeezed his fingers.
CRACK.
The indestructible divine weapon, forged from a celestial core, shattered into a million useless pieces. Ignis stumbled forward from the sudden lack of resistance.
Neo stepped inside the deity’s guard. He drove his right fist directly into Ignis’s stomach.
The impact caused Ignis’s eyes to bulge out of their sockets. His indestructible divine armor violently caved in. Golden blood erupted from his mouth. The sheer kinetic force of 985,000 Strength points completely ruptured his internal meridians. Ignis was launched backward, tumbling uncontrollably through the vacuum of space.
Neo was already waiting for him.
He appeared above the tumbling deity and delivered a devastating axe kick straight down onto Ignis’s chest.
Ignis crashed violently onto the surface of the central planet Neo had just created.
Ka-BOOOOM!
The impact formed a crater thousands of miles wide, sending massive shockwaves across the newly formed crust.
Neo floated down slowly, landing at the edge of the smoking crater.
Ignis lay at the center, his true divine body completely broken. His golden flames were flickering weakly, replaced by the suffocating grip of Neo’s nether force.
"Aris," Ignis coughed up glowing blood. "That coward set me up."
Neo nodded,
"Yes he did. But you were greedy enough to walk through the door. And I am greedy enough to eat what walks into my home."
Ignis looked up, sheer terror finally breaking through his arrogant facade.
"Wait. We can negotiate. I am a Greater God! I can grant you authority over a hundred divine systems! I can make you a king in the Upper Heaven!"
"Hehs, I am already an Emperor. And kings do not negotiate with their food."
Without hesitation, Neo plunged his hand directly into Ignis’s chest.
He bypassed the shattered armor and flesh, reaching straight into the deepest sanctum of the deity’s soul. His fingers wrapped around a blazing, golden core that pulsed with the absolute authority of Searing Flame.
Ignis let out a final, pathetic scream as Neo violently ripped the complete Divine Spark from his body.
The Fire God instantly turned into cold, gray ash, scattering across the winds of the new planet.
Neo held the blazing golden spark in his hand. He did not hesitate. He crushed it into glowing powder and inhaled it directly into his lungs.
[ Supreme Energy Source Detected! ]
[ Absorbing Full Divine Spark: God of Searing Flame. ]
[ Host stats undergoing extreme evolutionary synthesis! ]
[ Strength increased by 500,000 points. ]
[ Cosmic Force increased by 800,000 points. ]
[ Acquired Divine Authority: Divine Flame. ]
Neo threw his head back and let out a roar of absolute triumph. His aura expanded outward, painting the entire solar system in a terrifying mixture of platinum light and crimson hellfire.
He was no longer just a Demi God. He was a walking cosmic catastrophe.
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