Esper X Family – Chapter 409 – Solar Storm Sword

Ye Tong took a deep breath, her gaze turning exceptionally fierce.

So what if it’s 1.5 million?!

So what if it’s the power of a star?

At her peak, she could use the Milky Way as a cup!

The solar system was nothing but cosmic dust in the grand scheme of things!

The current Lou Wei wasn’t even qualified to polish her shoes back then!

Driven by the intimidation of the Ruler Form, Ye Tong could no longer think calmly.

Facing an opponent whose mental power surpassed hers by a factor of ten, all Ye Tong could do was hiss, hiss again, and then charge!

Surrender without a fight?

That wasn’t her style.

Retreat was a disgrace even more unbearable than defeat!

“HISS—!!!”

A zero-frame hiss!

Ye Tong struck first.

Her will surged like a raging tide, not directly toward the “humanoid sun”, but sweeping toward the cold, dead, floating space debris drifting in distant orbits.

Myriad Things Fission!

Wherever her ability reached, every locked-on meteoroid multiplied exponentially in an instant.

The sparse meteoroid belt suddenly transformed into a pitch-black torrent of countless rocks and iron.

Like an enraged swarm, or a heavy punch thrown by the universe itself, they converged, collided, and enveloped Lou Wei from all sides!

If this attack had been aimed at Bluestar, it would undoubtedly trigger a mass extinction event.

Rеaԁ on ΚαtReаⅾinɡСafе

But her opponent was Lou Wei, who had already undergone a transformation.

Ye Tong knew very well that against Lou Wei in his current state, this kind of purely physical, stacked attack would likely have little to no effect.

But she had to try it, and she desperately needed even an instant of distraction.

Just as the meteor torrent was about to engulf the golden-red figure, Ye Tong’s vast mental power began to condense in space.

She was going to use Myriad Things Fission on tangible mental power!

Condense a thousand orbs of mental power, each with a value of one thousand, then square and multiply that number of one thousand.

If she succeeded, that would be a full one billion in value, a manual power of three!

Unfortunately, mental power multiplied through this method wasn’t as versatile as natural mental power.

Otherwise, Ye Tong could even casually extinguish the sun.

But in a clash of the strong, fortunes shift in a flash.

If Ye Tong succeeded, she might turn defeat into victory.

Yet, success for Ye Tong was highly unlikely.

The gap between their stats had already grown far too wide.

A half-second charging window on this battlefield was akin to baring her most vulnerable chest before the blazing flames of the sun.

Her “meteor seal” hadn’t even touched the coronal light belt around Lou Wei.

The dark sphere, formed by countless meteors merging into something akin to a small celestial body, suddenly erupted with an unbearably brilliant light!

There was no loud sound, only a dull, rupturing sensation of space itself being forcefully pried open.

BOOM—!

Like a supernova explosion, the golden-red radiance easily tore apart the thick rock-iron prison from within.

The so-called seal hadn’t bought even a tenth of a second.

Reаⅾ on ΚatReаⅾіոɡСαfе

The aggregate instantly burst apart, not into powder, but largely melted and vaporized by that explosive corona energy.

The rest was blasted by the violent shockwave into countless fragments of varying sizes.

They shot outward in all directions at terrifying speed.

A considerable number were hurtling straight toward the azure Bluestar!

If these fragments, still carrying high residual energy, entered the atmosphere, it would undoubtedly trigger a terrifying global meteor shower.

But Lou Wei didn’t even glance at the fragments flying toward Bluestar.

He simply raised the hand encircled by the coronal light belt and gave a gentle squeeze toward the direction of the fragments.

An invisible force field, mixed with pure stellar heat and overwhelming mental power, instantly enveloped all the meteor debris heading for Bluestar.

There was no explosion, no flash of light. Those fragments suddenly froze mid-flight.

Then, like a sandcastle crushed by an invisible giant hand, they silently turned into the finest cosmic dust.

Even while dueling Ye Tong, he still had the spare capacity to handle such a crisis.

And the moment he casually averted this potential global catastrophe.

Lou Wei’s figure fully emerged from the center of the scattered meteorite debris.

In his hand, a “sword” had appeared at some point.

It wasn’t solid metal, but a highly concentrated form of “solar wind” and coronal energy, forged into the shape of a weapon under the tempering of extreme will.

Its entire body flowed with molten-gold fiery light.

The blade seemed to be woven from countless compressed solar prominences ¹ This loop on the Sun. If the loop is disturbed, it might launch particles into space instead, which is called Solar Flare. .

Inside, blazing electric plasma coursed like blood.

Space showed rippling distortions from the intense heat at the edge of the sword.

Reаⅾ оո ΚatReаԁіոɡCαfe

Its mere presence caused the surrounding vacuum to wail and burn.

Given Lou Wei’s combat style, he didn’t actually need such a thing.

But his instincts compelled him to form this sword.

When Ye Yao played certain games with him before, she was very interested in such flashy, cool-looking things.

In her words, a cool weapon could increase one’s coolness factor.

Simply put, it was about coolness.

Coolness factor was a hallmark of the strong. What she loved most were those with excessive coolness factor.

Not just a cool weapon, but also cool techniques.

If you could defeat an opponent stylishly, your coolness factor would soar.

Like that mysterious hair gel guy running his hand through his hair for a complete makeover ² Either Vergil or Aizen. Maybe Naoya if it’s about styling on others mid-fight. . Super cool, right?

If you had raw stats but crawled around on the ground with moves lacking any aesthetic appeal, you might as well be a mere worm.

Lou Wei remembered this very clearly.

He hadn’t cared about such things at first.

But now, he used every shred of his mind to understand.

If the battle became more magnificent, if the “coolness factor” was higher, would that earn her recognition?

What Ye Yao liked, there was no reason Ye Tong wouldn’t like.

So, only one answer remained.

Do everything possible to satisfy her competitive spirit.

Lou Wei’s gaze was incomparably blazing, literally blazing. The “sword” in his hand was emitting a terrifying aura.

Rеаd oո KаtRеаⅾiոɡСαfe

Under normal circumstances, once Ye Tong activated Myriad Things Fission, he could counterattack with an even greater stat value.

But the activation time was a fatal flaw.

Back when Ye Tong used Gu Wenxin’s stats to first enter Apotheosis Mode, she forcibly stopped molecular motion with a value of one hundred thousand, essentially stopping time.

Such a forceful move proved that once mental power was high enough, anything truly became possible.

Right now, Ye Tong’s mental power was one hundred sixty thousand, stronger than the first time she activated Apotheosis Mode.

If she could activate Myriad Things Fission, it wasn’t entirely impossible to overcome a superior opponent.

But right now… Lou Wei’s mental power was one and a half million!

Ye Tong had reached that level before. She knew how ridiculously powerful such high mental power could be.

A tenfold gap could achieve things even more exaggerated than stopping molecular motion.

Ye Tong had barely started the wind-up of Myriad Things Fission when that figure appeared before her, the massive sword in hand.

Clearly, she had no time to use Myriad Things Fission, nor could she “cheat” in front of this stern father at this moment.

The scorching heat seemed to burn her very will.

She saw it.

Three words almost uncontrollably surfaced from the depths of Ye Tong’s mind:

Solar Storm Sword ³ The ultimate move of Flame Star God Gaia from the Chinese mecha anime《宇宙星神》(Cosmic Star God). !

Author Note

Four chapters in a row.

Text: Give up ⁴ Short for the word 开始摆烂kaishi bailan (start giving up/tanking). It’s basically the term for giving up and doing nothing on a game like CS:GO when you think you can’t win anymore.