Collapse Iron: Cosplaying the Near-Death Star, but with a full destiny.

Through the high-strength glass that had been squeezed by the gale and even begun to groan, Bai Heng's face was contorted with shock.

The roar of the engine was deafening, but that didn't stop her from seeing the figure hanging upside down outside the cabin.

"madman……"

Bai Heng's lips trembled.

She slammed on the cockpit canopy release latch, trying to shoo these two reckless guys off.

This is the front line of the battlefield, the throat of death, not a tourist attraction for any interstellar tour group!

"Get out of here! Get away from here!!"

Bai Heng's voice was tearing in her throat, and even though she knew the people outside couldn't hear her, she was still screaming desperately.

Tears slid down the corners of my eyes, only to be quickly flung away by centrifugal force.

"It's too late...it's really too late!"

"If we delay any longer, the defensive line will collapse! Those ten thousand Cloud Cavalry brothers... they're still waiting for me to clear the way!"

She watched the dark sun draw ever closer.

That enormous, writhing mass of flesh was now emitting a nauseating, sweet-smelling odor.

Gravitational waves have begun to tear at the chariot's wings, and the warning lights are as red as blood.

Every second that passes means the demise of countless lives.

This heavy, suffocating sense of responsibility made it almost impossible for Bai Heng to breathe.

however.

The gray-haired woman hanging upside down simply tilted her head.

She seemed to hear Bai Heng's cries and even understand his despair.

But she felt no fear.

in contrast.

The corners of the woman's mouth curled up in an extremely malicious and arrogant arc.

She smiled.

They laughed as if they had heard a hilarious joke.

That smile carried a kind of contempt for the concept of "death" itself.

"die?"

Hoshino chewed over the word in her mind.

For her, who possesses the power of the end, death is nothing more than a new beginning, a pointer that can be turned at will.

"As long as I don't nod."

Hoshino loosened one hand, clinging to the smooth canopy with only one.

Even if Death comes, he'll have to hand me a cigarette.

In the blink of an eye.

The previously indistinct "black sun" in front of them suddenly underwent a strange change.

There were no signs whatsoever.

On the surface of that huge lump of flesh, countless thick blood vessels suddenly bulged out, as if something was about to burst out from inside.

Guji—

An extremely viscous and disgusting sound pierced through the vacuum environment and reverberated in everyone's mind.

The very center of the black sun.

A crack appeared.

Immediately afterwards, the gap suddenly opened to both sides.

It revealed the one below...

An eyeball large enough to cover half the sky.

It was a golden compound eye, full of divinity yet extremely twisted.

Deep within the pupil, countless tiny buds were proliferating and wriggling wildly.

Abundant resources, swiftly.

Or rather, it is an "organ" that manifests suddenly and is used to observe the world.

It woke up.

Because it smelled the scent.

On that tiny starship, besides the doomed fox-person pilot, there were two more...

variable.

Two variables that exude an aura that makes it uneasy, even greedy.

"An outcast..."

A massive wave of thought swept across the sky.

It possesses an irresistible, devouring desire.

The previously aimless, wandering black tentacles seemed to receive a unified command at this moment.

They instantly straightened, their tips transforming into sharp bone spurs.

They stopped paying attention to the starship loaded with explosives.

Instead, like tens of thousands of venomous snakes emerging from their holes, they swarmed and attacked the planet that was perched on the back of the aircraft.

The density was so high that there was no room left to hide.

Clearly, Sudden wanted to assimilate this greatest threat directly, making it a part of its own body.

"careful!!"

Bai Heng, inside the cockpit, closed his eyes in despair.

She could even imagine the horrific scene of those two people being pierced by tentacles and devoured by flesh and blood.

however.

The expected impact did not occur.

A crimson meteor shot out from the tail of the star raft with incredible speed.

Xing held a massive flaming spear that seemed completely out of proportion to his size.

The gun was engulfed in flames, the purest flames of will that "preserve" its destiny.

At this moment, the gaze of King Cripper of Amber transformed into an impregnable bulwark, and also into an invincible sharp edge.

"Get out of here."

Xing's voice was deep, yet incredibly clear.

She didn't make any fancy moves.

It was just a simple charge.

The flaming spear drew a straight line of fire in the air.

The tentacles, which were originally as hard as iron, became as fragile as withered grass in the face of this extreme heat and impact.

Puff puff puff puff—

A series of cracking sounds rang out.

The tentacles exploded into a cloud of blood mist and ashes the moment they touched the flame spear.

The star was like a red-hot knife cutting into butter.

They managed to tear a huge gap in that impenetrable web of tentacles.

The flames spread like wildfire.

Those granulation tissues that attempted to regenerate were burned to charcoal as soon as they sprouted, thanks to the protective fire attached to the wound.

"So...so strong..."

Bai Heng opened his eyes and stared blankly at the figure hovering in front of him, holding a gun in one hand.

That gray-gray figure, though not particularly broad-shouldered, gave off a sense of security that could withstand the collapse of the entire world.

Just then.

The planet moved.

She released her grip on the canopy.

At that altitude of ten thousand meters, amidst the turbulence of high-speed flight.

She stood up as steadily as if she were standing on flat ground.

Its feet seemed to be rooted to the back of the star raft.

The strong wind tousled her long hair, and her clothes fluttered in the wind.

She looked down at Bai Heng in the cockpit.

Their eyes met through the glass.

Bai Heng was stunned.

Because she noticed that the woman standing on the back of the plane was the same as the woman in front of her holding a gun...

They look exactly alike.

Except for that look in his eyes.

A person as calm as ice.

One who is as arrogant as fire.

"Hold on tight, Miss Fox."

Hoshino's voice came through the glass.

With a calm and composed demeanor, as if in complete control.

"The ride might be a bit bumpy from here on out."

She turned around.

Face that enormous eye, now even angrier because of its thwarted attack.

"The Envoy of Abundance?"

Hoshino gave a disdainful snort.

"The hardest to kill? The immortal one?"

"Today I'll show you what true...dimensional reduction attack really means."