War had begun.
The Combatants who surrendered themselves to [Chaos] had entered the Mystic Zones and surrounded the Bramble Bird Kingdom creating multiple encirclements.
They were conducting probing attacks.
âBahahaha, so the legendary Iron Fist Barry was only at this level after all!â
Someone maniacally laughed.
700-800 carriers of [Chaos] chased after Iron Fist Barry and occasionally unleashed colorful beams of attacks.
Barry fought while keeping his distance and occasionally found a chance to deal with the most arrogant of his enemies.
Whenever that happened, numerous attacks would soon follow and send him flying.
He appeared to be struggling, or perhaps even near-death.
This couldnât be helped, there were simply too many people who surrendered themselves to [Chaos] within the infinite worlds, compared to that, the Bramble Bird Kingdomâs personnel were much more limited.
Finally, they had fully completed their encirclement around Barry.
Thousands of carriers of [Chaos] had surrounded Barry from all sides, ensuring that he had nowhere to retreat.
At this point, the carriers of [Chaos] were in no hurry to finish him off, instead choosing to attack Barry in single waves making sure not to face him alone.
ââafter all, the name Iron Fist Barry wasnât just for show, any single person among them facing Barry would only ensure that they end up dead.
This was the wild dog strategy, designed to chip away at Barryâs strength bit by bit while ensuring he couldnât escape.
A powerful carrier of [Chaos] flew out from their ranks, the commander of this operation, and observed Barry from above: âTsk tsk, pitiful Iron Fist, your era had already passedââ- however, in consideration of how much you were respected in the past, you may now state your final wordsâ
Barry spat out a bit of blood, held back the carriers of [Chaos] with one hand while taking a walkie-talkie looking item with the other hand, casually speaking into it: âFei Li, Iâve drawn enough firepowerâ
Ye Fei Liâs voice emerged from inside:
[Nicely done. Sure enough, my mob aggro & grind strategy is still the best]
As soon as he said that.
A cold, thin ray of light flashed briefly through the void of space.
This cold ray of light struck a certain carrier of [Chaos]
He was fine.
He paused a bit, but after he found that nothing happened, he couldnât help but mock: âDid you really expect such an attack to do anything to this great one?â
Before he could finish his words, the commander from before suddenly changed his expression and shouted: âOh no, retreat!â
âââit was already too late!
Another cold ray of light flashed through the void of space and struck another carrier of [Chaos].
Followed by a barrage of countless rays of light similar to the one prior, all of which were shot from the direction of the Bramble Bird Kingdom, completely enveloping this area of several thousand carriers of [Chaos].
Infallible Magic Death Ray.
This was an attack that had a certain chance to immediately kill the enemy.
If it was performed by a powerful Shadow Wizard, the chance of inflicting instant-death would increase following the casterâs level of strength.
On the other hand, when it was performed through magic tools, the chance to inflict instant-death would be extremely low.
But that didnât matter.
The Bramble Bird Kingdom was currently using a total of three million Infallible Magic Death Ray machines at once to completely cover this entire area without any breaks in-between.
This way, no matter how low the chance of instant-death was, the sheer number of attacks would make sure that nobody was leaving this place alive.
Soon enough, all the carriers of [Chaos] here turned into floating corpses.
Only Barry remained standing.
He was completely fine.
Becauseââ-
While he was still in a fighting state, he wouldnât die.
âA bunch of idiots, remember to bring your brains with you next timeâ Barry coldly said.
He glanced towards the faraway space; a bit of worry could be seen within his cold gaze.
Tens of hundreds of thousands of carriers of [Chaos] were stationed at the faraway space, where they had built a temporary fort.
They didnât try to initiate any attacks and simply maintained a defensive posture.
Carriers of [Chaos] who had spatial abilities were joining their efforts to create a gigantic warp gate.
The Soul Shrieker, God of Life, and the Demon Dragon were traveling back through time and would soon return to the present.
...
The Bramble Bird Kingdom.
The royal palace.
âReportââ your majesty, enemies are arriving from all corners of the 900 million World Layers, there are too many of them. We cannot forcefully break through to destroy their gigantic warp gate!â
Hearing that, Laura couldnât help but feel worried.
Although the Bramble Bird Kingdom was the richest and most prosperous country of the 900 million World Layers, the Era of [Chaos] had already taken over the majority of the 900 million World Layers.
Billions of worlds, countless Combatants.
Even the Bramble Bird Kingdom couldnât hold off such an enemy for too long.
âThereâs no other wayâ Laura clapped her hands, âIlya, take all super-distance weapons we have from the vault and distribute them to our menâ
âYes!â
âFurthermore, set up a group to prepare our single-use artifacts, when we canât hold out any longer, weâll be throwing all of them away at once!â
âUnderstood!â
âIâll contact the Great Bramble Tree as well, telling it to be prepared for any situationsâ
At this point, the main gate of the palace was pushed open and Barry walked in while covered in blood.
âââ-wait, we canât keep going like thisâ
Barry said.
âHow was it? Uncle Barry?â Laura asked.
Barry casually replied: âThere are too many enemies. Iâm not afraid to die, nor can I actually die, but this type of ongoing fighting is meaningless. Earlier, each time I charged forward I would feel every inch of my body being destroyed countless times, then sent flyingâ
Barry had fought numerous wars in countless worlds, so he was a highly experienced fighter.
If even he felt this way, who else would be willing to fight?
Not only that, the Soul Shrieker had undergone apotheosis, as well as the support of the God of Life and Demon Dragon; they were quite literally impossible to defeat with the power of the 900 million World Layers alone.
Barry hesitated for a bit, then continued: âUnless you have an artifact that had surpassed the regular meaning of the word, capable of overturning the entire war by itselfâââ- like that Divine Artifact of the pixiesâ
Laura sighed and regretfully said: âUnfortunately, the majority of artifacts Iâve seen are still within the realm of the 900 million World Layers. Iâve not seen many artifacts that surpass this limit, so thereâs very little chance for me to grab them from the voidâ
Everyone remained silent.
ââ-Laura must witness and examine artifacts of a certain level before she could grab artifacts of the same level.
Furthermore, the more of them sheâd seen, the higher chances she had to grab them.
Regretfully, there werenât many artifacts within the 900 million World Layers that were at the same level as the pixiesâ powerful Divine Artifact.
Even if there were, they werenât easy to come across.
Thinking about it briefly, Boss took out the black trident and showed it to Laura: âTry and touch thisâ
Laura sighed and told him: âIt is only one good weapon. Clasping at Buddhaâs feet only when danger arises like this is quite meaningless, it wouldnât increase our chances by muchâ
While saying that, she still picked the black trident up and examined it.
âThis thing had killed so many things indiscriminately, I feel kind of nauseating just touching itâ Laura said in disgust.
A few moments later.
âAlright, weâve examined it, does anyone have any artifacts?â
Laura glanced at everyone.
Barry looked to Kitty, Kitty looked to Ye Fei Li, Ye Fei Li looked to Zhang Ying Hao, Zhang Ying Hao looked down at his light-weight assault rifle, shook his head, and turned back to Barry.
Barry shrugged: âMy only pair of gauntlets was something your majesty gave me, so I have nothing better. As for my brothers and sisters in arms that are still fighting outside, while each of them has a bit of wealth from managing a few hundred World Layers by themselves, none of them have ever seen any artifacts that surpass the limit of the 900 million World Layersâ
He turned to âGu Qing Shanâ.
âGu Qing Shanâ told her very seriously: âLaura, youâve already examined me, I donât have anything else for you to touchâ
Everyone: â...â
How come that sounds a bit wrong?
Anna frowned but didnât say anything.
The person standing there wasnât the real Gu Qing Shan, but rather this sword spiritâââ Shannu.
A pure and innocent sword spirit.
That was why Anna just ignored that without trying to nitpick her words.
Everyone became silent again.
Anna waved her hand.
A long-handled scythe that exuded dark flames appeared in her hand.
âTry and touch thisâ
She gave it to Laura.
Lauraâs eyes lit up and asked: âWhoa, this weapon is so stylish, what is it?â
âThe Scythe of Death. It came from the Inner Plane, a Divine Armament from the Pantheon, the only one of its kindâ Anna explained.
Laura excitedly took the scythe and carefully examined it.
Boss stood on one side, hugging his black trident, and glanced at her: âOi, thatâs the weapon of Death, it killed a lot of people as wellâ
Laura looked at Anna.
âDonât worryâ Anna curtly replied: âThis weapon only kill souls, and souls are usually pureâ
âAwesome!â Laura praised.
Boss opened his eyes wide.
After Laura examined the Scythe of Death for a while, she reached her hand into the void of space and swiped.
Everyone looked at her anxiously.
Laura struggled to pull her hand back.
Bam!
A set of heavy armor fell to the ground.
âHahâââ
Everyone sighed in disappointment.
âHey, did you really expect me to pull a powerful weapon right from the start?â Laura asked in displeasure.
After that, she reached her hand into the void of space again and swiped with some force.
Zi zi ziââ-
A burning bomb appeared in her hand.
âA Space Mine!â
She screamed in a high-pitched voice and threw the bomb back into the void.
The void shook intensely.
ââ-Space Mines were the most notorious technological living weapons, known to destroy everything within the range of 10 miles at a single touch.
Everyone was still fearful from that.
âStop! We canât keep randomly grabbing things like this. Find me a certain item first, I want to prepare a contingency planâ
Kitty called out.
Laura stopped and asked: âBig sis Kitty, what kind of item do you want?â
âI need an artifact that can make me largerâ
âHow large?â
âAround the size of a worldâ
Laura pondered: âI have a few artifacts like that, but they all have a certain level of side effectsâ
Kitty replied: âThen something that can shrink works as wellââ an artifact that can shrink a world down to the size of a tableâ
Laura said: âI have something like thatâ
She opened her backpack, searched through it, and took out a small dice.
This was an 8-sided dice with a number [1] on every face.
Laura gave Kitty the dice and explained: âIf you want to shrink anything down to the size of your palm, just put this dice on that itââ- it will even work on a worldâ
âAre you sure itâll work?â
âItâll definitely work. In the past, I shrank Tristeâs collection world down to the size of an orb and hid it inside a cakeâ
Kitty received the dice and glanced at Barry.
Barry nodded, seemingly a lot more relaxed now.
âAlright, we have a contingency plan now, try againâ Kitty said.
Ye Fei Li handed Laura a canned drink.
Laura drank everything at once and loudly said: âGod please, grant this empress a good artifact that can change the tide of this war!â
Under everyoneâs scrutinizing eyes, she reached her hand into the void of space again.
...
At another location.
A ship was hurriedly flying through the space vortex towards the Bramble Bird Kingdom.
This was the Bramble Bird Kingdomâs fastest ship!
ââ-in truth, Impartial Goddessâs ship had incorporated super-distance warp technology into it, so it was faster, but Impartial Goddess had taken Su Xue Er to the Starlight war base already.
On the ship.
No one was here.
Only a single orange cat sitting on the pilot seat with its eyes half-closed.
At some point, the orange cat opened his eyes and looked at the screen.
His tail lifted.
Soon.
Iâll be there soon.