From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

Chapter 656 "Someone has already paid the ransom for her soul."

The lava island continued to crack under the clash of energies, and scorching magma gushed out from the cracks in the ground like fountains, turning the battlefield into a scene of purgatory.

The battle between Athena and Amon has reached a fever pitch, with each clash causing the heavens and earth to tremble.

boom--! ! !
Golden and purple-blue psionic torrents collided in mid-air, and the resulting shockwave swept across dozens of kilometers, leveling the nearby volcanoes.

Athena's spear of victory drew a dazzling golden arc, shattering space like glass in its wake and revealing dark void rifts.

Amon's Blade Queen retreated rapidly, her bone wings vibrating. Psionic energy condensed into layers of barriers in front of her, but the aftershocks of the spear still tore open several gaps, and psionic blood rained down.

Your struggles are pointless.

Amon's voice was forced from Kerrigan's throat, distorted and echoing inhumanly, "The will of the Xel'Naga, is it something you can contend with?"

Athena did not respond. Her golden eyes locked onto Amon, and her figure vanished abruptly. When she reappeared, she was already above Amon's head, and her battle boots, imbued with divine power, stomped down heavily.

Amon hastily raised his hand, his psionic energy coalescing into a massive, purplish-black claw to meet the attack—

boom! !

The moment the two forces collided, the foundation of the entire isolated island sank with a deafening roar, and the lava sea unleashed a giant wave hundreds of meters high.

The shockwave spread in a ring, tearing a gap in Char's atmosphere, and the fleet in orbit could even clearly see the energy storm erupting on the surface.

Amon's body was slammed deep into the rock by this blow, but he grinned and opened his arms. Brownish-yellow energy was forcibly drawn from the depths of the Earth's core and flowed through his fingertips, repairing Kerrigan's shattered body.

At the same time, Char's swarm sensed the call of the true "Overlord," and hundreds of millions of Zerg self-destructed simultaneously. Their biomass was converted into pure energy, which flowed across space into Amon's body.

"see it?"

Amon's voice grew increasingly distorted, and Kerrigan's body began to swell, her bone wings sprouting more ferocious spikes. "As long as the Swarm exists, my power is inexhaustible!"

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Athena watched all this with cold eyes. The tip of the Spear of Victory was slightly lowered, but this was not a sign of weakness; rather, it was a sign of gathering even more terrifying power.

Her psychic energy burned like a star, its golden radiance gradually solidifying, forming a faint, ethereal shadow behind her—

That was her divine incarnation, a projection of the heavenly realm, a Valkyrie clad in armor and wielding a spear, whose oppressive aura solidified the surrounding lava.

"Your power is built upon devouring," Athena finally spoke, her voice like a cold judgment. "And my power comes from the faith of billions of living beings."

Before she finished speaking, she suddenly threw the spear of victory.

This strike transcended the concept of speed.

The spear pierced Amon's chest, sending him flying backward, crashing through several mountains before finally embedding itself in a deep crevice in Char.

Furthermore, the moment the spear of victory pierced Amon's chest, time seemed to freeze in a thick, viscous stillness.

The ancient divine runes on the spear lit up one by one, each line bursting with dazzling golden light. Chains in the void coiled up like serpents, binding Amon's limbs tightly to the crack.

"Do you think this is the end?"

Eamon's voice suddenly became unusually calm.

At the point where Kerrigan's body was pierced through the chest, brownish-yellow energy writhed like a living thing, beginning to corrode the sacred metal of the Spear of Victory.
However, Amon's attempt to corrupt and seize the Spear of Victory was doomed to failure.

But the void chains groaned under the strain, and fine cracks appeared on their surface.

Athena saw Amon's lips twist into an inhuman arc, and Kerrigan's body undergoing a horrific transformation—

Countless writhing energy veins protruded beneath the skin, the thorns on the bone wings grew forked sharp points, and even the edges of the wound pierced by the spear began to crystallize.

boom--!
The sound of the first void chain snapping was like a death knell.

Immediately afterwards, the second and third of Eamon's right arms suddenly broke free of their restraints, their five fingers spread wide, and they forcefully ripped the Spear of Victory off his chest.

"False God!"

Amon looked disdainful as a torrent of brownish-yellow energy erupted from the depths of Char's core, flowing upstream along Amon's arm.

Athena, however, suddenly raised her right hand and summoned back the Spear of Victory.

However, more and more torrents of energy erupted and began to condense in the void of the universe, turning into countless flickering, eerie points of light, which, like a reversed galaxy, were re-injected into Kerrigan's body.

Athena immediately changed her tactics.

She waved her hands, and the divine phantom behind her raised its greatsword in sync, but Amon moved faster—it controlled Kerrigan's hands to slam them down.

Boom! Boom!

The entire crust of Char emitted a dying groan.

Centered on the crack where they were, spiderweb-like cracks instantly spread to the entire planet.

The lava sea was whipped up by an invisible force, creating waves thousands of meters high. Hundreds of volcanoes erupted simultaneously, and columns of gray-black smoke rose from the ground like giant trees.

The "high-energy space folds" that Matt Horner saw on the bridge have now evolved into a vortex that devours everything.

The continental plate shattered like a fragile biscuit, spewing forth a torrent of brownish-yellow energy from the newly formed abyss. This energy intertwined in the air to form a giant neural network, with each "nerve" connected to a collapsing geological structure.

"Can you feel it?" Amon's voice was twisted with pleasure. "This planet is my sacrifice!"

What spurted from its wound was no longer psionic blood, but pure void energy, which condensed in the air into countless sharp crystals, shooting towards Athena like a torrential rain.

The goddess swung her divine phantom sword to parry, and each shattered crystal released a corrosive void mist in the explosion.

Even more problematic is that the energy released by Char's collapse, along with the increasing number of Zerg being "devoured," is continuously strengthening Amon—

Its size has swelled to more than ten times its original size, and Kerrigan's human characteristics have almost completely disappeared, replaced by a terrifying form that exists between matter and energy.

"Now, it's my turn."

Eamon's figure suddenly blurred.

When it reappeared, it was already standing directly above Athena, its mutated forelimbs transforming into a giant energy blade that cleaved down from above.

The goddess raised her spear to meet the attack, and the collision of the two forces directly caused a localized spatial collapse.

Click. Click—!
With a sickening cracking sound, the rock beneath their feet completely crumbled.

The two plunged into the boiling magma of the Earth's core, yet they continued to clash fiercely during the process. Every collision between the spear shadows and the energy blades accelerated Charles's collapse.

When Athena seized the opportunity to kick Amon out of the lava pool, the entire planet was already on the verge of destruction.

The atmosphere began to escape, and the Earth's core energy leaked out uncontrollably. Even the fleet in orbit had to continue to retreat to distant places to avoid being caught up in the disaster.

"You've lost, false god."

Amon hovered between the collapsing heavens and earth, his voice brimming with confident arrogance, "The destruction of this planet will provide me with enough energy, and you... heh heh."

Kerrigan, now possessed by Amon, had eyes that gleamed with greed, clearly eyeing Athena's body to facilitate her movements within the physical universe. Athena wiped away a few drops of golden divine blood from her lips, and the Spear of Victory shone brightly once more.

She looked at the crazed, depraved man before her, then at Charles who was dying, and suddenly shook her head and smiled.

boom--!
Before Athena's cold laugh had faded, her body suddenly burst forth with a supernova-like brilliance.

The divine phantom no longer hovered behind her, but began to merge with her real physical body—

Every plate of the golden armor was expanding and reorganizing, and the spear of victory was rapidly extending to a length of a kilometer.

? ? ! !
Amon's pupils suddenly contracted as he saw Athena's form breaking free from the constraints of physical laws and expanding wildly exponentially.

boom--! ! !
Char's atmosphere was torn apart by the divine body, and the clouds were ripped apart like fragile veils.

Athena's foot armor shattered continental plates, her knee armor flattened mountains, and her shoulder armor grazed the debris floating in the orbit, sending it flying like dust.

When her head broke through the atmosphere, the entire planet could no longer support its presence.

Her colossal form was the size of a planet, and Char looked like a ball of mud about to be crushed beneath her feet.

The prelude to planetary collapse.
Charles's doomsday had arrived.

The Earth's core was completely detonated by the pressure of the divine body, and the movement of tectonic plates accelerated to a catastrophic degree.

The continent was shattered like a broken porcelain plate, with magma gushing out from the cracks and forming pillars of fire hundreds of kilometers high.

The murky, viscous ocean of biomass boiled and evaporated, the steam mixing with volcanic ash to form a deadly poisonous cloud that shrouded the fragmented surface.

The fleet at a distance detected terrifying data fluctuations—

With the magnetic field gone and the rotation axis shifted, the structural stress of the entire planet has exceeded the critical point.

A massive crack spread from where Athena's boots had struck to the entire globe, and Char began to disintegrate from the inside out, like an overloaded engine.

"No, that's impossible."

For the first time, Eamon's voice trembled.

It tried to detach itself from consciousness and return to the void, only to discover to its horror that Kerrigan's body had become an inescapable cage.

Athena's divinity sealed off all avenues of retreat; the psychic bonds that were originally meant to sustain the physical body now became chains binding it.

The colossal Athena looked down at Amon, her gaze as cold as a star.

Her right hand slowly rose, her palm covering the entire collapsing continent. This simple action triggered a "tide" in the vacuum, drawing away the remaining atmosphere to form a spiral cyclone.

"Do you think you can do whatever you want just by parasitizing a physical entity?"

The goddess's voice transcended physical dimensions, resounding directly deep within Amon's consciousness.

The moment her five fingers closed, Char's last intact structure finally collapsed, and the end of a planet finally arrived.

The moment the Earth's core was exposed to space, the entire planet exploded completely.

Trillions upon trillions of tons of rock and magma scattered and splashed in the vacuum, forming a magnificent yet deadly "nebula." The nests that once nurtured the insect swarms and the mining capital of the Terran Federation—all traces of them were reduced to cosmic dust in this collapse.

Amon's consciousness surged wildly within Kerrigan's body, but he could only watch helplessly as the divine hand drew ever closer.

When the palm completely envelops it, or Kerrigan's body which it controls, all sensory input is submerged in pure golden light.
Meanwhile, deep within the void rift of the StarCraft universe, a black and gold figure transcending time and space quietly appeared.

The armor of the human emperor Sui Yang flowed with a liquid starlight-like luster, and every step he took created tangible ripples in the void. Moreover, his arrival did not cause any energy fluctuations.

Sui Yang's consciousness solidified in the void, and star-like light patterns flowed across the surface of his black and gold armor.

His very existence is a paradox.

Not belonging to this universe, yet with absolute power, it inscribed its mark at this moment.

Athena's devouring of Amon not only provided Sui Yang with an anchor point to transcend dimensions, but also acted as a key, completely unlocking the barrier of the void.

But the void began to "tremble".

An invisible repulsive force surged from all directions, and space itself seemed to be trying to squeeze this outsider as if it were a living thing.

The energy that was originally in the void suddenly became violent, and the twisted cracks burst open like wounds, spewing out turbulent currents of matter powerful enough to tear apart stars.

This is the universe's instinctive defense mechanism, a dimensional repulsion response to intruders.

However, Sui Yang simply raised his right hand calmly.

Om-!
A subtle tremor spread out from him.

What began as mere ripples quickly transformed into a golden tidal wave that devoured everything.

Wherever the radiance passed, the chaos of the void was forcibly reconstructed, darkness was plated with sacred patterns, disordered energy condensed into geometric crystals, and even the cracks that tried to attack Sui Yang were healed into smooth mirror surfaces in the light.

This is not confrontation, but rather a higher-dimensional "coverage".

The entire void began to collapse, converging towards Sui Yang like light being swallowed by a black hole.

On an indescribable dimensional level, Sui Yang's Paradise Domain is undergoing a terrifying expansion, with each purified void unit becoming a new cornerstone of the domain.

Those corners that were once polluted by Emon are now blooming with pure golden light.

As the last piece of void was swallowed up, Sui Yang's figure had already become blurred.

His consciousness, carrying the most fundamental secrets of this universe, returned to the main universe like the receding tide.

This is Charles's perspective at this moment.
Athena's divine body had long since returned to normal, and her golden armor still shone brightly in the afterglow of the stars.

A golden force field floated in front of her, encasing her in a cocoon. Sarah Kerrigan's human body was curled up inside, her pale skin devoid of psionic markings, rising and falling slightly with her breath.

"ended."

The goddess lightly touched the surface of the force field, and countless runes flowed through Kerrigan's body, ensuring that every part of her body contaminated by Amon was purified.

In the distant starry sky, Charles's remains are forming a ring of "asteroids," with lava occasionally solidifying into bizarre sculptures in the vacuum.

The fleet, which was far away, finally drew closer.

The Hyperion was responsible for "retrieving" the Goddess of War and the Queen of Blades, who had been purified by psychic energy.

The moment the hatch opened, Jim Raynor strode out, and when he saw Kerrigan unharmed within the golden force field, the battle-hardened commander staggered.

“She needs rest,” Athena said calmly. “Aemon has corrupted her too deeply, however…”

The goddess of war suddenly turned her head to the depths of the void outside the plasma valve, where a trace of lingering golden light seemed to remain.

"Someone has already paid the ransom for her soul."

(End of this chapter)