Global Era of Star trekking Chapter 1737: 847: [Mythic War] _2

Previously on Global Era of Star trekking...
As two Ninth Rank Dominators clash over a three-colored Fire Seed, Song Chi utilizes the mirrored Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong and the enhanced Void Warehouse to steal the treasure from under their noses. The successful heist confirms the overwhelming power of his new component combinations, though he remains focused on securing more resources before his mission on the Origin Star concludes. With his eyes set on eventually repairing the Creation and Transformation Eight Trigrams Furnace, Song Chi shifts his attention toward more dangerous territories. After centuries of looting the open areas, he now prepares to explore the mysterious Time Scar Rift, a site of ancient warfare rumored to house a time-related Chaos Wonder.

Capítulo 1737: Chapter 847: [Mythic War] _2

Due to these circumstances, the Mirror Image Warship Fleet has encountered more peril in the last few decades than in the preceding several hundred years combined. Even the copied “Time Chess Board” is down to its final seven uses of the “Twelve Lives Life and Death Chess,” yet Song Chi harbors no regrets. The Origin Star’s diameter rivals a River System Community within the Shattered Starry Sea; thus, the small regions traditionally opened for exploration by those below the mythical level represent a mere fraction of its vastness.

To put it plainly, the untapped zones are the ones possessing true worth, concealing a bounty of extraordinary treasures.

On this occasion, Song Chi has selected the Crevice Area as his primary objective.

The Mirror Image Warship plunges through a fissure in the crust and into the “Time Abyss.” Utilizing the replicated “Eye of Truth,” Song Chi maintains a constant watch over the stunning environment around him—

The entire canyon consists of a multitude of fragmented time-space mirrors, each one displaying glimpses of different exploration parties throughout the Origin Star’s history. As the vessel navigates through the seventh spatial fold, it suddenly picks up three distinct pulses of mythical energy.

Within the control center of the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong, situated in the Zhu Tian Ruins Market Firmament, Song Chi’s expression instantly turns sharp.

At the trench's lowest depth, nestled within a dark rift saturated with time rupture rules and existing in a dimension that seems to belong to a separate epoch, a crystal platform hangs in the air. Three formidable figures stand in silent opposition at different corners of the structure.

To the left stands a mechanical lifeform forged entirely from alloy and dark purple crystal. Quantum-state runes flow across its exterior, and every motion leaves a lingering “data afterimage” within the fabric of space-time.

This entity is Heavenly Destruction, a mythical machine from the Creation Mechanical Civilization; its intelligent brain is armed with a logic virus capable of altering the very laws of reality.

Coiled on the right is a nine-headed time-space worm. Each of its heads corresponds to a unique temporal flow rate, while the primary head appears translucent in a “void state,” seemingly prepared to exit the current timeline at a moment's notice.

This unique being is known as the Mother of Time Erosion, a tenth-rank mythical unit and a terrifying creature that sustains itself on Time Law and Rules.

Nevertheless, Song Chi is most focused on the third figure hovering apart from the others.

It is a humanoid form draped in a gray robe, its features hidden behind a swirling mist of time. Its right hand grips a Bronze Hall Gate covered in rust.

The gate's surface is etched with a dense array of dimensional coordinates, and every minor vibration it emits triggers a chain reaction of collapses among the nearby time-space mirrors.

“Broken Door of the Temple of Time…” Song Chi’s pupils shrink in surprise.

Through the replicated “Eye of Truth,” he immediately perceives the true nature of the Bronze Hall Gate—it is a fractured portal leading back to the remnants of the Time Divine Hall.

His ability to identify the gate’s origin so rapidly is not solely due to the replicated “Eye of Truth” or the eighth-rank Heavy Pupil; it is largely because Song Chi himself holds another relic of the Time Divine Hall—the Key of Time Divine Hall Inheritance.

Having retrieved the Key of Time Divine Hall Inheritance from the depths of the fractured River of Time millennia ago without ever finding the hall itself, acquiring this Bronze Hall Gate would significantly improve his prospects of finding the Time Divine Hall later on.

Furthermore, an irregular polyhedral crystal floats at the heart of the three-way standoff.

Sealed inside this crystal is a single drop of silver-white fluid. When external energy touches the crystal's surface, it projects phantom images of civilizations from across various eras.

“Time Source Liquid!” Song Chi’s breath hitches.

Classified alongside the Time Source Crystal as a specialized resource, both can actively minimize the cooldown periods of Starry Sea Oddity features. However, unlike the solid Time Source Crystal, this liquid is formed by the liquefaction of such crystals under unique conditions. Song Chi estimates that the amount of Time Source Liquid in that polyhedron would require at least a ton of Time Source Crystal to produce.

A ton of Time Source Crystal can reduce a cooldown by a million years, making its worth immeasurable. It is obvious why all three entities are vying for it.

Just as the rune-covered tendrils of Heavenly Destruction’s mechanical frame reach aggressively toward the crystal, the gray-robed figure abruptly raises the Bronze Hall Gate.

A silent wave of time ripples outward, paralyzing the Heavenly Destruction Mirage Machine of the Creation Mechanical Civilization and causing its quantum runes to go still.

“Time Freeze…” Song Chi is struck with alarm.

Even though the Mirror Image Warship is hidden far away within a spatial fold, Song Chi feels a strange sluggishness through the mental connection in the ship's cockpit!

While the replicated “Time Chess Board” makes this sluggishness almost unnoticeable, he remembers that the Void Warehouse’s remote collection ability requires influencing the target's specific location. Song Chi is uncertain if the Time Freeze will interfere with it.

“I cannot force this.”

Song Chi swiftly changes his plan; since both the Time Source Liquid and the Broken Door of the Temple of Time are vital to him, he refuses to take an unnecessary risk.

He carefully moves the Mirror Image Warship further into the shadows of the space-time folds while beginning to charge the replicated Void Warehouse.

Simultaneously, the Ethereal Body inside the warship prepares the Ruins Market Projection Rank, ready for immediate deployment.

With preparations complete, Song Chi waits for the three mythical entities on the platform to engage in combat.

Belonging to different factions, these three beings will never agree to a peaceful split, making a mythical battle unavoidable.

As he expected, the conflict between the three soon erupts.

A blast of cosmic breath, originally aimed at the gray-robed figure, suddenly swerves to strike the quantum shield of the Heavenly Destruction Divine Machine.

The runes on the machine flicker violently, forcing it to stop its attempt to claim the Time Source Liquid.

At that same moment, the gray-robed figure acts. The temporal energy of the Bronze Hall Gate swells to a massive scale, nearly halting time in the surrounding area. Seizing the gap, a limb made of gray mist reaches out from the robe toward the polyhedral crystal.

Just as the gray-robed entity is about to grasp the Time Source Liquid, a cold light flashes in Song Chi’s eyes!

“The moment is now!”

The Mirror Image Warship’s replicated Void Warehouse activates, using high-tier multi-colored space law to rip open a hidden crack above the platform.

However, just as the collection force begins to surround the Time Source Liquid, the gray-robed figure suddenly looks up—

“Who is there!”

The Bronze Hall Gate radiates a blinding light, seemingly hitting a pause button on the entire space-time fold. The Mirror Image Warship’s engines seize up, and even the Void Warehouse’s beam of light visibly slows down.

Song Chi’s heart races.

The gray-robed being’s mastery over time is far greater than he imagined; it can even stall the effects of high-tier space law!

While this is partly because the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong is currently only a ninth-rank Torch Warship, Song Chi has no time to dwell on that.

Without hesitation, he triggers the Ruins Market Projection Rank.

Hum—

Tendrils of purple mist erupt from the Mirror Image Warship, briefly manifesting the purple projection of the Zhu Tian Ruins Market over the Time Crevice Area.

Though the projection takes longer than usual to form, the genuine mythical power—boosted by the previously activated Dao Origin Totem Pole—succeeds in distracting the gray-robed figure for a moment.

“Boom!”

Exploiting this opening, the replicated Heavenly Authority Control Ring emits a three-colored glow.

“Absolute Enslavement” manifests as blood-red chains, striking directly into the leftmost head of the Mother of Time Erosion.

The time-space worm screams in agony. With the temporary hundredfold success rate provided by the Light of Slavery, even this mythical creature's mind falters. All nine of its heads begin to vomit corrosive time acid, striking the gray-robed figure and the Heavenly Destruction Divine Machine without distinction.