Chapter 1381 - 1125: I’m Back

If the damage to the first core had merely surprised the new and old Prophets, then the complete destruction of the second core filled them both with boundless fury!

After all, a damaged core could be repaired, but a completely destroyed core could never be rebuilt!

"That bastard plans to ruin us all?" the new Prophet roared.

"It seems it had planned this from the start," the old Prophet said.

"At all costs, the core must be protected, even if it means using your own lives to do so!" the two Prophets simultaneously issued the deadly command.

This Mechanical Planet was the foundation of everything they had; not even the slightest loss could be tolerated!

At this moment, the tide of the Emperor’s elite warriors had finally been stemmed. The defenders, having regained their composure, were vastly outnumbered; elite as they might be, it was still difficult for them to break through when facing enemies several or even dozens of times their number. Casualties started to mount, but these completely controlled warriors charged forward undaunted.

"Burn your lives! My warriors! Use your lives to demonstrate your loyalty to me!"

The Emperor shouted loudly, and the elite warriors, who had been in a slump, suddenly roared wildly, their bodies radiating dazzling light, and their energy alloy armor emanating a fierce boom! The elite warriors gathered together, focusing their energy like a sharp sword, tearing through the defense in front of them, and colliding with the giant core.

The explosion immediately swept through everything around it, and the Emperor was blasted away by the shockwave, protected by several elite warriors. When he came to, everything before his eyes was shredded. They had been too close; the tens of thousands of defensive warriors and most of his elite warriors were wiped out in the blast!

News came from the warriors attacking the fourth core that their assault had failed; some had decided to self-destruct in an attempt to destroy the core, but even that ended in failure.

"Ah... I always thought that what was prophesied must happen. I clearly saw this ugly planet falling into ruin, but I never expected it to end this way," the Emperor said, sitting there with a bitter smile and helplessness on his face. Meanwhile, the red glow in the eyes of those elite warriors around him was fading. Since they had always been carrying out a mission they resisted, and the Divine Worm that applied the control had died, the control could not continue, so now these warriors were about to break free.

"Go, defend your Emperor with your lives," the Emperor said, pointing toward the gathering enemies in the ruins ahead.

But the surrounding elite warriors were unmoved; on the contrary, one of them raised their energy greatsword high.

"The one losing life is you, traitor!"

The Emperor was taken aback, then shook his head in resignation, lowering it, ready to accept his fate.

Clang!

The sound of metal colliding came, followed by a scream. The energy greatsword did not fall upon the Emperor’s head, but that arm was sent flying.

"Did you think to harm my father without asking me?"

A familiar yet strange voice came, and the Emperor looked up in astonishment to see Elsa hurtling toward him. And what had just severed the warrior’s arm was a segment of a gray Light Wing!

The Emperor shook his head, believing he was hallucinating. But as energy roared and screams ensued, the elite warriors who had broken free of control began to fall in droves!

This wasn’t an illusion!

"Let’s go!"

"No! We can’t just leave!"

Elsa grabbed the still-struggling Emperor, and their energies swelled as they disappeared in an instant, then teleported into outer space.

"No, we can’t just leave!" the Emperor shouted.

"Yes, of course, we can’t just leave," Elsa said, and she fiercely broke off a piece of a gray Light Wing. The power of Ghost Spirits expanded rapidly, turning the Light Wing into a Light Spear tens of meters long; in the blink of an eye, the glow was a hundred meters massive!

"Because I haven’t destroyed its last energy core yet!"

Boom!

Elsa threw the Light Spear with all her might, the horrific energy disturbance causing the surrounding space to crack instantaneously.

"High Energy Impact from outside!" someone shouted beside the two Prophets.

With a thunderous noise, the hundred-meter-long giant Light Spear pierced through the rune armor on the Mechanical Planet’s surface, shrinking just a little in size. Then it ripped through various layers of armor and soldiers’ defenses, continually reducing in size. Still, it ultimately pierced directly into the heart of the giant energy core.

"Damn it."

The warriors guarding the energy core had thought there would be no more problems here, but they never expected the attack to come from outside the spaceship!

Boom!

The core exploded, and everything around it, along with those warriors, was instantly shredded. Part of the mechanical planet was torn apart.

Thus, three of the four gigantic energy cores were destroyed, and the only one left couldn’t function. The energy that sustained the planet had completely vanished!

Collapse, begun.

The ground cracked apart, energy overflowed. The mechanical devices that had functioned orderly with energy were now all at a standstill. With the additional damage from before, the planet couldn’t hold on much longer!

They had arrived full of confidence, planning to turn this place into their new colony. But they hadn’t even gone into battle before a minor oversight led to this disaster!

Damn it!

Damn it!!

But anger was futile. What to do now?

The two Prophets quickly exchanged opinions, and then they immediately gave the command: everyone was to abandon the Mechanical Planet and prepare to board the nearest spaceship to leave. At the same time, the war began. All warriors were to be authorized to use crystalline beams!

Crystalline beams—weapons that could crystallize life in an instant. The Divine Worm, who had been disguised as a Prophet, didn’t want to use the crystalline beams because doing so meant transforming all life on this Plane into Crazy Demons, resulting in uncontrollable chaos. However, now it seemed more important whether they could conquer the Plane at all.

Elsa received the news from Gulu and then took the Emperor away, but the impending war didn’t affect her at all. On the contrary, she appeared incredibly excited at this moment!

With flickering lights, Elsa and the Emperor appeared simultaneously from a Teleportation Gate. The warrior guarding the gate hesitated, having been intentionally knocked out by Elsa before for letting her leave, and now Elsa had returned with the Emperor? What did this mean?

Seeing the Emperor appear, a group of defending warriors naturally saluted. However, the Emperor shook his head slightly and left quickly with a smile.

The warrior was even more bewildered. Since the Emperor’s last return, it had been a long time since he had seen such a smile on his face. Every time he saw the Emperor, his expression was either sinister or crazy. What exactly had happened now?

The Emperor’s return disturbed no one, but in the harem, Selena and Sajia were extremely excited. They stood opposite the Emperor with Elsa, wanting to say something, but nobody knew how to start. So much had happened in this Imperial family, so complex that no one knew where to begin.

Finally, Elsa began slowly.

"I’ve returned, Father."

This was the first time Elsa had spoken to the Emperor of the Celestial Clan since her return to the Heaven Realm. The Emperor, who feared neither heaven nor earth, trembled with excitement as he looked at Elsa.

"I... have sinned..." the Emperor murmured.

"I’m back! Father!" Elsa’s eyes filled with tears as she raised her voice, trying to suppress the sob in her throat.

The Emperor was startled, then his face broke into a relieved smile. He opened his arms and said softly, "Yes, you’ve come home, my daughter."

The Emperor of the Celestial Clan had returned, and with Elsa. Not only had he returned with Elsa, but he had also come back with a smile, suggesting that everything that had happened before was perhaps an illusion or just another tedious Imperial family drama?

Half an hour after the Emperor’s return, the Emperor urgently summoned all the Ministers into the Imperial Palace. An hour later, the Emperor issued a decree.

The decree was brief, but the content was very clear. It said that for some time, the Emperor’s mind had been controlled by an evil alien race, his thoughts mad. The aliens sought to use the power of the Emperor of the Celestial Clan to rule the entire Heaven Realm. Fortunately, the brave and resolute Princess Elsa had rescued him from the aliens’ control, and at this moment the alien race was already threatening the Heaven Realm. Thus, the Heaven Realm was in grave danger. Therefore, the Emperor declared the entire Heaven Realm in a state of emergency, and due to the exceptional abilities demonstrated by Elsa in fighting against the Ghost Spirits and in this crisis, the Emperor entrusted the command of the fight against the aliens to Elsa. All the allies of the Heaven Realm must assist with full strength, without any selfishness, or else the Heaven Realm could fall into the enemy’s hands at any moment.

The declaration was released and everyone was suddenly enlightened. All the madness that had happened in the past now had an explanation, and what followed was tension about the war.

The Heaven Realm had been without war for so long that many races had completely abandoned their armies. And now, with the specter of war returning, many races felt at a loss.

Some races quickly prepared for war, while others conscientiously took on logistical tasks. Because some well-informed individuals had sensed that something big was about to happen and aside from war, there could not be anything else.

Of course, there were those who expressed dissatisfaction because, in their view, all this was trouble started by the Emperor of the Celestial Clan himself, and he should deal with it without dragging others into it.

However, Elsa also issued a declaration saying that this war would not involve the forces of other races. The Celestial Clan would face this adversity together with their most steadfast allies.

As everyone wondered which race it would be that Elsa referred to as their most steadfast ally, an unbelievable gigantic space rift was torn open, and then an asteroid made entirely of crystal slowly emerged from it! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for it on Qidian (qidian.com), your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)