From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

Chapter 570 "Taking Control"

The central city area of ​​Mos Eisley still seemed to be detached from reality.

The air between Darth Vader and Pallas Athena twisted and deformed, and two completely different supernatural force fields wrestled silently.

The dark side of the Force surged like sticky asphalt, while Athena's power was like sunlight piercing through dark clouds, tearing open dazzling cracks in the chaos.

The ground cracked under the pressure of energy, and the rubble floated up against gravity, forming a slowly rotating storm between the two people.

At this time, Darth Vader's breathing became unusually slow, the fingers of his left hand trembled slightly, and the light pink chaos energy gathered into an ominous ball of light in his palm.

The light reflected on his pale cheeks, adding a hint of evil to his handsome yet cold face.

He was not in a hurry to attack. As long as the opponent made a move, he could seize the flaw in the moment of blocking and then counterattack instantly.

After all, even gods are bound to make mistakes for a moment when attacking with all their might.

But Athena seemed to see through his thoughts.

The goddess just smiled faintly.

There was no anger or contempt in that smile, only a mockery that was almost compassionate.

It was like the gods were looking down upon the trapped ghosts who were still fighting.

Her slender fingers turned lightly, and the spear of victory drew a dazzling arc of light in her palm, and the tip of the spear left a series of gradually dissipating afterimages in the air.

"what are you waiting for?"

Her voice was like an arctic wind blowing across steel, with every syllable carrying a chill to the bone.

"Waiting for the Chaos Gods to whisper the secret of victory in your ear?" She tilted her head slightly, her blonde bangs cascading down. "It's disappointing that the Sith Lord who received the blessing has become so timid."

She deliberately stretched out the last word, like a blunt knife slowly grinding over your nerves.

Darth Vader's pupils suddenly contracted.

The dark blue crystal nails suddenly expanded, and the spiritual energy ball on the palm flashed violently.

But before he could react, Athena suddenly took a step forward.

Click!

The ground beneath her feet cracked into spider-web-like patterns, and the balance between holiness and chaos was instantly broken.

The suspended sand and debris shot out in all directions like bullets, making sharp screams as they pierced through the surrounding ruins.

"Let me see—" She raised the spear horizontally, with the tip of the spear pointed directly at Vida's throat, "How much courage has your god given you?"

The moment the last syllable fell, the gravity field of the entire block suddenly reversed.

!

This caused the Dark Lord to stagger and almost lose his balance.

However, Darth Vader quickly adjusted and forcibly reversed the counter-force of gravity.

Then he suddenly raised his hand, and the chaotic spiritual energy in the palm of his left hand suddenly surged. The pink and purple energy and the dark force intertwined into ferocious lightning, biting towards Athena's face like a venomous snake.

At the same time, he grabbed the void with his right hand, and the lightsaber summoned by the Force returned to his palm with a buzzing sound. The scarlet blade drew a deadly arc of light, slashing from bottom to top, trying to cut off the damn spear.

The moment the two magical weapons touched, time seemed to stand still for a second.

Immediately afterwards——

Buzz——~Boom————!!!
A pure white "light ball" with a diameter of 500 meters exploded in the central urban area. If an ordinary person looked directly at the dazzling light, he would be blinded instantly and then burned to ashes.

The shock wave spread out in a circular shape, causing ruins and buildings to collapse like building blocks wherever it passed. The corrupted tanks and walkers that were still near the central city were thrown directly into the sky and disintegrated in mid-air.

The ground collapsed layer by layer like a fragile eggshell, forming a huge pit hundreds of meters deep.

Thick smoke and gravel rolled up, forming a hideous mushroom cloud above the city. The top of the cloud even broke through the atmosphere and was clearly visible in low-Earth orbit.

The shock wave swept through the entire city like a tsunami, and even the psychic barrier set up by Hera began to flicker violently.

The Spartans closest to the center of the explosion were the first to be hit.

"Buzz~buzz!"

John's Thor's hammer armor made a sharp buzzing sound, and the energy shield dropped to the critical value the moment it came into contact with the shock wave.

He was forced to one knee, his magnetic boots digging into the ground while the alloy knee deck plowed a deep groove in the earth.

Douglas was knocked to the ground and only managed to stick his hands into the ground to avoid being blown away, while Jerome supported himself on the ground with the butt of his rifle, which left a trail of sparks in the rock.

The most deadly thing is——

The barrier separating the central city began to crack under this impact.

Corrupted energy seeped out of the cracks like pus and blood, and all matter it came into contact with began to distort and mutate.

A certain clone soldier who had died long ago suddenly stood up twitching, tumors growing on its mechanical skeleton and armor shell, and its gun twisted into the shape of tentacles.

Hera immediately noticed something was wrong. She raised her hands and new psychic runes lit up in the sky.

But the speed of repair and purification is far behind the spread of corruption.

The battle between Darth Vader and Athena is tearing apart the boundary between reality and chaos.

On the smoke-filled battlefield, a ray of scarlet light pierced through the dust.

Darth Vader's figure slowly rose, and the broken fragments of his cloak fell like a withered black butterfly.

The dark side of the Force and the psionic energy of chaos intertwined around him, forming a twisted force field that lifted him up into the air and suspended above a deep pit like a nuclear explosion.

His breathing was heavy and slow, and his vertical pupils flashed dangerously.

And at the bottom of the pit, Athena stood proudly.

She held the Spear of Victory in one hand, and the ground beneath her feet melted into a "glass"-like mirror due to the high temperature, reflecting her unharmed figure.

Although she is not good at "magic", her "divine body" and armor are enough to withstand almost any form of physical impact, even the world-destroying chaos impact.

After all, every inch of her armor was tempered by Emperor Sui Yang himself.

The Spear of Victory and the Armor of Victory were "reforged" by Sui Yang, and with the help of the legendary dwarf craftsmen from Terrala, Athena, who was not good at using divine power or psychic energy, became the true top combat force in the human empire.

Darth Vader's fingertips twitched slightly.

He could feel the huge gap in equipment between the two sides.

Although the lightsaber in his hand was forged by Sith alchemy, it was as "crude" as a child's toy in front of Athena's spear of victory that contained pure psychic energy.

Fortunately, after being blessed by the Chaos Gods, the lightsaber's blade is no longer simply plasma, but also contains extremely high-energy chaos power.

But although his armor was covered with chaos runes, it was far inferior to the goddess' golden armor that radiated divine light.

However, true power never comes from external things.

Vida suddenly raised his left hand, spread his five fingers, and began to gather spiritual energy in his palm again, and a ball of scarlet flame appeared out of thin air.

That flame was not ordinary fire, but was compressed from the resentment of tens of billions of dead souls.

The painful cries of innocent civilians who fell when Coruscant fell, loyal soldiers who would rather die than surrender, etc., were materialized in the flames, forming countless distorted human faces, with their mouths open and screaming silently. "Taste the true gift of chaos."

Darth Vader's heavily nasal voice became an overlapping of hundreds of voices, as if the souls of the dead were speaking through his throat.

At this moment, his five fingers suddenly closed together——

boom! !

“Hoo~——!!”

The flames exploded, transforming into a wave of vengeful spirits that covered the sky.

Those suffering faces rushed towards the deep pit like a tsunami. Wherever they passed, black frost formed on the ground, the air was dyed blood red, and even the light was swallowed up.

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Seeing this, Sparta's communication channel fell into silence.

Those closest to the scene seemed to be able to hear the sound of their own blood rushing through their veins, and their adrenaline levels exceeded the threshold.

What frightened them even more was that even their hands were shaking slightly uncontrollably.

This is not fear, but the trembling after one's cognition has been completely overturned.

Dr. Halsey's teachings are still ringing in my ears——

"Always stay humble, kids. The universe is much bigger than you think."

They thought they understood this sentence very well.

But as Spartan warriors, they do have the capital to be proud. After all, they have the strength comparable to that of Astartes at such a young age, and they are also a more "rare" unit than Astartes. Anyone would feel proud.

But at this moment, after witnessing the aftermath of the battle between gods, the sense of superiority deeply rooted in his heart was crushed to pieces.

Douglas's visor reflected the flashes of the distant energy storm, and he subconsciously touched the plasma grenade at his waist.

This weapon, which can easily blow up the remnant tanks of the Covenant, is probably not even a firework in a battle of that level.

Cortana calculated the predicted data of any Spartan if he were to fight Darth Vader alone based on the data obtained from the first confrontation between Darth Vader and Athena, and presented it on the helmet screens of John and others.

"0.3 seconds: The Dark Lord will tear open their energy shields,

0.5 seconds: The Force choke will shatter their cervical vertebrae,

In 1 second: The entire Spartan army will be reduced to a pile of steaming meat."

This calculation result made the Spartans feel scared. They actually wanted to snatch people from that kind of existence before? ? ?
It's just ridiculous.

And the reason they can stand here alive is purely because——

Darth Vader didn't even bother to step on the "ants"

Athena intervened in time to draw all the firepower, and the Emperor's portal opened just in time.

This also indirectly proves that they are very lucky.

It seems that Halsey's decision to include a "coin tossing" test when selecting and recruiting young Spartans to prove that each candidate has better luck than others was a very correct one.

At the same time, the goddess of war faced the overwhelming tide of resentful spirits with a face as calm as water.

She grasped the Spear of Victory in both hands, the tip of the spear gleaming with dazzling golden light, and then suddenly pierced into the molten crystal ground beneath her feet—

Om-!
A brilliant golden halo suddenly erupted with the tip of the spear as the center and spread rapidly like ripples.

Wherever the halo passed, intricate Greek divine patterns emerged on the "glazed" bottom of the pit, and ancient defensive runes flowed and shone in the high-temperature crystallization, forming a giant array with a diameter of hundreds of meters.

Divine energy veins flowed between the array patterns, illuminating the entire deep pit like a divine realm.

However, the wave of evil spirits released by Vader was too terrifying—

When the first wave of impact came, the golden halo trembled violently, and the divine patterns on the edge of the formation diagram flickered;
The second wave of impact followed, and the filthy resentment gnawed at the runes like corrosive acid, and spider-web-like black cracks began to appear on the surface of the formation;

The third wave of vengeful spirits crushed down with overwhelming force—

Snap——whoosh——!!

With a teeth-grinding sound of shattering, the defensive formation completely collapsed.

The crystalline ground beneath Athena's feet exploded with hideous cracks, and the golden divine patterns fell apart like fragile glass.

The purified fragments of the evil spirits re-condensed into even more distorted and terrifying faces, which pounced towards her with bloody mouths wide open.

Athena frowned slightly.

As the goddess of wisdom and war, she has always disdained to rely on complicated magic, and even believed that those are just tricks used by the weak. She prefers to rely on strength and tactics to defeat the enemy head-on.

But at this moment, facing the death wave composed of tens of billions of resentful spirits, she desperately wished that she had more psychic skills.

She was indeed not good at "magic", and this was already the highest-level defensive method she could use.

However, as the goddess of war, she has a more direct way to deal with it, which is "hard fight" and
Please ask God to possess you.

Her five fingers suddenly tightened, and the spear of Victory made a crisp metallic deformation sound.

The weapon created by the emperor stretched and reshaped under the impetus of divine power, and in the blink of an eye it turned into a six-sided Han-style heavy sword that was two meters and four meters long.

The sword was flowing with a luster like liquid gold all over the body, and the Chinese characters engraved on the sword spine all lit up at this moment, and pure spiritual energy wrapped around the sword edge like thunder and flames.

Then Athena assumed the standard Greek fighting posture.

Step forward with your left leg, withdraw your right foot, and raise the sword tip to the level of your eyebrows.

This opening move, which had killed countless "heroes" on the battlefield of gods ten thousand years ago, now carried unprecedented divine pressure.

boom! ! !
At the moment the heavy sword fell, time seemed to stand still for a second.

The moment the sword came into contact with the tide of evil spirits, what erupted was not an explosion, but a more bizarre scene—

The face of the vengeful spirit suddenly froze when it touched the sword light, and the scarlet chaotic spiritual energy was forcibly "nailed" in mid-air, and a crisp sound like some kind of broken glass rang out throughout the battlefield.

Darth Vader was the first to notice something was wrong.

Athena's azure eyes had completely turned golden at some point, and what was pulsating in her pupils was not the divine fire, but a deeper and more "terrifying" power.

What shocked the Sith Lord even more was that the heavy sword was actually devouring the vengeful spirits in reverse? ? ?

Every distorted face that was sucked into the sword's edge would lose its filth in the golden light and turn into a pure stream of energy.

The air around the sword was distorted due to energy overload, forming a golden vortex like a miniature black hole.

All the attacking ghosts were sucked into the sword, as if they had turned into Athena.
In other words, it has transformed into the operator who has taken over the "control" of the Goddess of War, that is, the power of the Human Emperor Sui Yang.

Boom——! ! !
After the seemingly endless vengeful spirits were completely absorbed by the heavy sword, an even more dazzling burst of light immediately occurred.

The next moment, Athena grasped the hilt of the heavy sword with both hands, bent her knees and bent her body, and then -

call out----! !

The goddess of war flew like a golden meteor towards Darth Vader who was still suspended in the air.
(End of this chapter)