Poverty makes me capable of anything.

One is to rescue Virginia, [Break Through the Siege], and the other is to be the Star Domain Overlord - Veteran (1), with the target being Yega's Nightmare Nest.

It's probably because Barriel's level is too high that Anran didn't trigger the tempered quests targeting him.

"One more or one less makes no difference!"

Barriel, having regained his resolve, launched another attack. However, just as he made his move, Anran had already jumped out of the center of the battlefield.

Although she was a mechanic, An Ran deeply understood—

At this time, she played the role of a meat shield in the team, used to block deadly attacks at crucial moments.

We need to get our health back up quickly.

……

Near Silent City.

After the initial shock, Yega quickly calmed down.

Although it couldn't figure out why a Barriel clone would suddenly appear and beat him up, it didn't have time to think about it too much.

All it needs to know is that this is an enemy that must be killed!

Nightmare Nest is a god-level artifact that Yega crafted from the shell he shed during his evolution.

Although it is an object, when Yega manipulates it, the Nightmare Nest comes alive and becomes incredibly dynamic.

Its whale-like body was covered with honeycomb-like nests.

Each lair holds the power of nightmares.

Very naughty.

However, this time the Nightmare Nest is facing an opponent consisting of a city, a bunch of small robots, a large robot, and a cloned tool.

nightmare?

What is a nightmare? Can you eat it?

"WDNMD!"

Jehovah was furious.

The battle had barely begun when the Nightmare Nest's advance was halted by the onslaught of the psionic war golems.

Silent City simply opened its body and created a huge arena in deep space.

This is less of an arena and more of a cage to prevent the Nightmare Nest from escaping.

Anran, the psionic servant, stood above the arena, not getting close. Like a mecha specially designed for setting up artillery turrets, several enhanced life breath cannons on his body fired alternately, and the rotating particle beams were like high-speed spinning blades, constantly peeling off fragments from the Nightmare Nest.

"Buzzing—"

The Nightmare's Lair roared incessantly.

The black clouds emanating from its body disturbed everything in the cage. As the clouds spread, countless illusory monsters began to rise up and fight back against the violent psionic war puppets.

Just as Nightmare's Nest was about to drive away the obstacles in its path with a fierce battle, Barriel's clone took advantage of the moment and rushed out again. This time, he unceremoniously rode directly onto Nightmare's Nest's back.

This scene is quite similar to Ultraman fighting monsters.

With one hand gripping the scales on the Nightmare's Nest, the other hand channeled its full power of revelation, raining down on the Nightmare's Nest like a torrential downpour.

Slap! Slap!

"Keep the efforts going and intensify them!"

Under An Ran's command, the psionic war golems seized the opportunity, formed an offensive formation, and clung to the Nightmare Nest, slashing incessantly.

With the power of ether, the psionic war golems' armor-piercing ability was greatly enhanced. Although a single war golem could not cause much damage, hundreds of them attacking together still gave the Nightmare Nest a lot of trouble.

Boom!

It swung its two fins on its sides and slapped the war puppet attached to its mouth into a puddle of mud.

But the war puppet seemed to have a life of its own, twisting and turning until it formed a new body.

It's not impossible to destroy the psionic war golem using sheer force, but the Nightmare Nest's power is still somewhat insufficient.

Unless it can ride on a psionic warp and beat it up.

"Damn it, let go of me!"

As Barriel grabbed at the Nightmare Nest and began to pluck its scales, Yega couldn't help but curse angrily.

"Barril, what are you doing?"

"What's it to me!"

Barriel, who was entangled with the giant controlled by Tsukiya, replied unhappily.

Yega's face was gloomy, wishing he could appear near Silent City immediately.

However, his territory was quite far from the Silent Land, and even if he took the somewhat risky fast passage, it would still take him half a day to get there.

No matter how much Yega cursed Balir's clones, no matter how much he controlled the Nightmare to invade Balir's clones, it was all in vain.

It's a bit like a scholar encountering a soldier—there's no way to reason with him.

In less than a minute, a bald patch appeared on the back of the Nightmare's Nest.

As time went on, the bald patch grew larger and larger, spreading forward and then to the sides.

It's clear that he's starting to lose his hair.

The side of the Nightmare Nest was littered with "hair" plucked from Barriel's clones.

Using the tyrannical power of the Apocalypse for "plucking hair" was something even Barriel himself had never attempted.

His clone got to enjoy himself first.

It has to be said that plucking scales is just as addictive as popping bubbles on bubble wrap!

"Awoooooo!"

The Nightmare Nest struggled helplessly.

The more it struggled, the faster Barry's clone pulled away, as if it were disciplining a disobedient underling.

Once the scales fall off, the exposed brown muscle becomes much less defensive.

The psionic war puppet could chisel through this muscle in just over ten seconds.

Barry's clone easily shattered hundreds of small nests with a single punch.

The Nightmare Nest originally took damage in the thousands, but without that layer of scales, a psionic servant can take away nearly 20,000 of its health with a single psionic breath, and can also land a critical hit from time to time.

The ten-layer mark of [Ether Convergence] had already been stacked, successfully triggering the passive effect of [Metal Turmoil]. A single critical hit could take away 1% of the Nightmare Nest's health.

Within ten seconds, Yega's face turned extremely pale.

It found that the aura of its nightmare nest was getting weaker and weaker, and the connection between it and the nest seemed to be broken.

"stop!"

Yega's voice rang out on the public channel.

"It's too late!"

An Ran snorted coldly.

Once the project starts, there's no turning back.

Whether or not the Nightmare Nest is destroyed, Yega will never greet her with a smile, so let's beat it up!

Each critical hit felt like a knife twisting in Yega's heart. No matter how Yega roared in the public chat, An Ran showed no sign of stopping.

The argument escalated to the point that even Barry himself got annoyed.

If you lose, just fight back. I really don't know what Yega is thinking.

Barriel has left the group chat.

Barriel shut down all communication channels and threw himself into the battle at hand.

A little over a minute later, with a low, long wail, the last remaining biological instincts in the Nightmare Nest were finally extinguished.

Without the support of that spark, the moment the life force breathed down, the Nightmare Nest was instantly shattered into tens of thousands of small pieces, scattered all over the ground.

At the same time, a notification sounded in An Ran's mind.

【Mission [Star Domain Overlord - Veteran (1)] Completed】

Including the experience gained from destruction, Anran earned a total of 580 billion free experience points. If this were a Star Domain Overlord of level 205, this number would at least be twice as high.

However, in the heat of the moment, An Ran wouldn't care about such things.

In addition to experience, the Challenger quest also rewards Anran with a Nightmare Coated Metal blueprint, which can effectively reduce mental shock, as well as a Cell Enhancement Potion.

Anran took out the medicine and was about to inject herself with it.

It suddenly occurred to her.

"Damn it, I haven't been a human being for many years."

For the Void, there is no concept of cells; what she needs to strengthen is her own Void origin.

It seems we have no choice but to confront those energy-based star system rulers.

Anran found the direction of evolution.

However, we can't waste this medicine now.

Although the Nightmare Nest was destroyed, Barriel fought with increasing ferocity, and Virginia was eventually seriously injured and could no longer withstand Tsikia's powerful strength.

An Ran turned around and went to the room where Virginia was lying.

Latina, who was standing guard at the door, nodded in a friendly manner to An Ran, who returned the smile. As soon as An Ran entered the house, she closed the door.

"..."

Latina was taken aback.

Could it be that An Ran was not satisfied with Tsycia City's advances and wanted to take the opportunity to make advances on the injured Virginia City as well?

Virginia opened her eyes and saw An Ran walk up to her.

"Don't move."