Esper X Family – Chapter 476 – Heavens, Lord Ye Ge! (32/40)

“No! It’s not over yet!!!”

A final, desperate gamble!

This was the last thing it could do.

The fierce instinct of a cornered beast was fully ignited.

Reason? Awareness? Survival? Goals?

In that instant, Starscourge cast them all to the wind!

Only one thought remained, a hysterical, frantic thought:

Explode against her!

At that moment, Ye Ge deliberately released her restraint.

Starscourge flickered and reappeared above the atmosphere.

“ROAR—!”

Starscourge let out a roar as if its very soul was burning.

When had it ever suffered such humiliation?

The mighty Interstellar Overlord, the terror of countless cosmic civilizations, was told it wasn’t even worthy of being remembered?

It would be one thing if it were an ant.

In most cases, that would just be helpless rage.

Starscourge would’ve casually wiped them out.

But for a powerhouse capable of making it tremble to insult it like this?

The pride of an Interstellar Overlord would never allow it to swallow such disgrace!

“Take this! My full-force strike!”

Starscourge frantically compressed all the energy within its body in a self-destructive manner!

Normally, using its fully unleashed form wouldn’t carry the same self-destructive cost as Lou Wei and Fu Qi. At worst, it would just be a bit tired afterward.

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That was the advantage of its race.

Its inherent ceiling and floor were higher than those of many beings in the universe. One could even call it a natural-born Interstellar Overlord.

But if it entered collapse mode at the cost of self-destruction, it could boost its output to the two-hundred-percent level!

At its tier, even a ten-percent increase was enormous, let alone one hundred percent!

A terrifying power was brewing above the clouds.

Starscourge’s body began to emit a blinding, searing light.

A sphere of energy radiating destructive fluctuations rapidly took shape before its chest.

This was its strongest strike, staking everything, betting its very existence, an attempt to turn itself into a supernova!

Its target wasn’t just Ye Ge, but the entire solar system, along with the very starfield that had inflicted this ultimate humiliation! It would blast everything into smithereens!

On the ground, Lou Wei and Fu Qi felt this fluctuation and exchanged complicated looks.

Clearly, this was a power they couldn’t contend with even after activating their Solar Corona Form and Void Form.

It might be the Interstellar Overlord’s final, all-or-nothing counterattack.

The two of them might also comprehend that heaven-and-earth-shattering ultimate truth someday.

But which Bluestar guardian would decide to self-destruct and take the entire solar system with them?

It was the insane logic of an Interstellar Overlord.

It had nothing to protect, and none of that responsibility.

If Starscourge blew up, it blew up. It had no attachments anyway.

Fu Qi gave a self-deprecating smile, feeling more and more how insignificant his power was.

“Heh, Lou Wei, can you take that?”

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“Don’t ask such meaningless questions.”

Faced with energy fluctuations powerful enough to reduce Bluestar to ashes, neither of them showed the slightest tension, especially Fu Qi.

He almost wanted to laugh.

That alien bumpkin probably had no idea what it was up against.

“Go ahead, blow yourself up. Facing Ye Ge’s hundred million mental power, what’s your self-destruction worth? Just a clown.”

Fu Qi felt immense satisfaction.

He had thought that he would end up as mere fireworks.

Now, it was Starscourge’s turn to be the firework.

And it would be nothing more than a pop.

Nothing was more delightful than watching a powerful enemy fall to the same pathetic state as yourself.

Eat, drink, be merry!

“Supernova Annihilation!”

Starscourge’s consciousness screamed within the torrent of energy, filled with final madness and desperation.

The destructive power contained in that hyper-compressed energy sphere made even the distant lifeforms on Bluestar feel a tremor in their souls, as if the entire galaxy was about to be erased from the physical plane in the next second!

The energy sphere expanded to its limit. The destructive pulse was about to burst forth and reduce everything to nothing!

At that decisive moment, Ye Ge’s extended finger, the one she had been pointing all along, curled slightly.

Then, she gently closed her hand around the terrifying energy sphere that was about to erupt.

The motion was still effortless.

Time seemed to freeze again.

The cataclysmic energy at Starscourge’s chest had vanished, silently and ruthlessly stripped away.

The next instant, that destructive energy had already been reduced to the size of a ping-pong ball, casually and easily clutched in Ye Ge’s hand.

Yes, clutched.

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Like a child holding a firecracker that was about to go off.

Even the energy compressed to its critical point, on the verge of eruption, was brutally suppressed in Ye Ge’s hand!

“R—”

Starscourge’s roar cut off abruptly, its leaked emotions filled with extreme shock and absurdity.

Fu Qi burst out laughing on the spot.

“Haha! I knew it!”

Lou Wei, however, couldn’t laugh at all.

Soon, it might be his and Fu Qi’s turn.

Ignoring the exhausted Strongest of the Current Era and the Strongest in History on the ground.

Ye Ge lowered her head slightly. Her molten-gold vertical pupils coldly swept over the sphere of light in her palm, as if looking at a worthless toy.

She didn’t even apply any extra force. She just maintained that loose, grasping posture.

Absolute control. Absolute contempt.

For Starscourge, this effortless grip was a hundred times worse than being hacked to pieces.

It was nothing less than the ultimate humiliation!!!

Its strongest strike, one where it staked everything, betting its very existence, intending mutual destruction, was nothing more than a little trinket in the other’s eyes. Something to toy and crush at will.

Ye Ge’s demeanor was cold and detached.

She didn’t even think Starscourge deserved the honor of an energy clash.

After all, this Interstellar Overlord had apparently slaughtered countless lives and brought misery to many star systems.

Ye Ge didn’t feel any of that mutual respect between strong adversaries.

For her, no strong opponent had ever been able to excite her.

Faced with this random ant that had appeared from somewhere to disturb her slacking-off time, only utter annihilation suited its ending.

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“My turn.”

Ye Ge casually rendered the “artificial supernova” harmless, then raised two fingers and began to gather power.

In less than an instant.

A sphere of light with a value of one hundred million gathered at her fingertips.

There was no spatial distortion, no energy leakage.

Under absolutely perfect control, the entire world was bathed in dazzling brilliance.

At that moment, Starscourge suddenly understood.

“So… I was the ant…”

BOOM—

A beam of light shot from near the center of the solar system to far beyond the galaxy.

The destructive impact exceeding the speed of light annihilated every space rock in its path.

If Ye Ge hadn’t been protecting the celestial bodies, even planets would’ve been knocked out of their orbits.

As the light that enveloped the globe faded, Starscourge’s presence vanished completely. Even the debris of its bioship in space had been utterly obliterated.

At that moment, the interstellar overlord fell!

The bloodthirsty spectators were deeply shaken. Many hadn’t even processed what had happened.

Only that figure with black hair and golden eyes remained suspended in the air, robes fluttering, as if she had just done something utterly trivial.

“Heavens, Lord Ye Ge!”

Author Note

Feels like it’s going to rain again today. I hope it doesn’t last too long.

Text: Wanna fight?