The Abyss of Nothingness, like a wound in the universe, churned with dark purple energy turbulence and the ominous glow of core magma.
On both sides of the abyss, Trigg stood like a mountain, his violent eyes locked onto Nolan, who was convulsing and roaring on the opposite side, but beneath his silver-grey heavy armor, his muscles trembled imperceptibly.
The whispers of the Great Old Ones, originating from the depths of his soul, continuously pierced his fortress of will like billions of icy steel needles.
"Ignorant…flesh…"
"Order…shackles…"
"Integrate…into nothingness…eternity…"
Chaotic geometric patterns, cold fragments of logic, pure desire to devour…
These insane whispers were not an attack, but more like a cold statement of cosmic truth, constantly eroding Trigg's iron will, which was built on conquest and power.
The Conqueror's pride was fighting against the primal terror from his very being, like a beast roaring and struggling within an invisible mental cage.
"Shut…up, you bastard!"
Trigg violently shook his head, letting out a suppressed growl, trying to dispel the noise in his mind with the pure ferocity of his Viltrum bloodline.
He forced himself to refocus on Nolan, the source who had defiled his bloodline and attracted the evil entities!
As long as he tore him apart, everything would end!
Just as Trigg gathered his remaining will, preparing to charge again!
Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!
At the bottom of the abyss, in the churning dark purple energy turbulence, dozens of shadows shot out without warning!
They were not energy beams, but gigantic tentacles made of pure, viscous, pulsating dark purple biomass!
Their surfaces were covered with constantly opening and closing suction cups dripping with slime and glowing bone spurs. They moved like lightning, with a shriek that tore through space, aiming directly at Trigg, who had just been distracted resisting the whispers!
These tentacles were not physical attacks; they were imbued with dense Great Old Ones' corruption and spatial distortion fields. They ignored Trigg's heavy armor defense, piercing through the silver-grey alloy like ghostly phantoms, instantly coiling around Trigg's massive body!
Sizzle—!
The moment the tentacles made contact, the heavy silver-grey armor covering Trigg's body hissed as if being corroded by strong acid!
Even more terrifying, a mental corruption with a strong will to assimilate surged along the coiling tentacles, like a potent venom, into Trigg's mental world!
"Ugh, ah—!"
Trigg let out a roar mixed with intense pain and fury, his massive body suddenly stiffening.
His violent eyes were instantly covered by a layer of chaotic dark purple glow!
He tried to struggle, but the tentacles contained terrifying immense power and spatial confinement, binding him tightly in place!
Even with the Regent's strength, he couldn't break free immediately!
The whispers of the Great Old Ones, amplified tenfold by the mental corruption, crashed against his crumbling fortress of will like a tsunami!
"Regent!"
Inside the battleship above, the Conqueror warriors, seeing the situation, let out cries of alarm and anger, trying to rush to his rescue, but were immediately entangled by more corrupted guards and sub-tentacle monsters, even more twisted in form, that surged from the abyss, falling into a bitter struggle!
"Gak…gak gak…"
On the opposite side of the abyss, Nolan stopped convulsing. He floated in mid-air, the pupil of his normal eye, covered in a grey haze, unfocused, while his single eye, burning with a faint purple flame, fixed on Trigg, who was bound by tentacles and struggling in pain, with a twisted sense of pleasure.
"Do you see…Trigg…this is…true power…order…will eventually…return to…chaos…"
His voice was hoarse and chaotic, as if two consciousnesses were vying for control.
At the bottom of the abyss, the unnamable shadow of the Great Old Ones seemed to solidify further.
Countless dark purple star-like points spun wildly on its twisted body, like billions of cold eyes, watching this sacrifice.
The power of the tentacles binding Trigg intensified again, trying to drag his massive body towards the bottom of the abyss, into the energy turbulence that resembled a stomach!
Trigg's eyes were bloodshot, veins bulging on his forehead like coiled dragons. His massive body erupted with terrifying power that shattered surrounding alloy fragments, wrestling with the coiling tentacles!
But the tentacles were too numerous, their power too bizarre. His struggle was like a giant beast caught in a swamp, being dragged little by little towards the abyss of destruction!
"No…I…will never…yield!"
Trigg let out an unyielding roar, but his voice was already hoarse with exhaustion.
Under the dual assault of mental corruption and physical restraint, this most powerful Conqueror of Viltrum felt unprecedented pressure.
Just as Trigg's massive body was about to be dragged to the edge of the abyss, with half a foot already suspended in the air!
On the other side of the abyss, on a relatively flat alloy plate.
The unconscious Mark's body suddenly twitched!
It wasn't an awakening, but a deeper, more primal instinct being roused by the stimulation of intense pain and mental corruption!
His left arm was completely gone, the stump a bloody mess. The bone of his right arm was exposed, the wound gaping, and his entire body was covered in bone-deep gashes.
"Can't…die…"
In the depths of his unconscious mind, an obsession burned like a star.
To protect!
To protect Eve and Rudy!
To protect Allen's last hope!
To protect the blue planet behind him!
To protect…life itself!
This will, surpassing limits and burning life, acted like a fuse, instantly igniting a deeper power slumbering in the depths of his bloodline!
"Ugh…ah ah ah ah—!!!"
A non-human roar, mixed with extreme pain and unyielding fury, erupted from Mark's shattered chest!
He suddenly opened his eyes!
But they were no longer human pupils!
Two intensely condensed, golden-red heat vision beams, forged like molten liquid gold, shot out wildly from his eyes!
Their brightness and destructive energy far surpassed any previous instance!
They even caused the surrounding space to undergo severe light distortion!
The target of the heat vision was neither Nolan on the opposite side nor the shadow of the Great Old Ones at the bottom of the abyss!
But the dark purple tentacles that were tightly coiled around Trigg, dragging him into the abyss!
Sizzle!!!!!!!
The golden-red beams of destruction cut through like a red-hot carving knife through butter, precisely striking the core main tentacles binding Trigg!
The high temperature and destructive energy, containing pure solar power, were the absolute bane of this Great Old Ones' biomass, originating from the dark corners of the universe, full of decay and entropy!
"Hiss—!!!"
A teeth-grinding, piercing shriek, like billions of insects being thrown into boiling water, erupted from the bottom of the abyss. The tentacles hit by the heat vision instantly carbonized and broke!
Dark purple viscous fluid shot out like a fountain, then instantly vaporized under the terrifying high temperature. The immense force coiling around Trigg suddenly loosened!
"Roar—!!!"
Trigg instantly broke free from the suppression of the purple glow. Feeling the weakening of the binding force, the Conqueror's power and will erupted like a volcano!
He let out a furious roar that shattered the void, his massive body shaking violently!
Crack!
The remaining coiling tentacles, weakened by Trigg's explosive brute force and the residual high temperature of Mark's heat vision, were all forcibly torn apart!
Dark purple severed limbs fell limply like lifeless vines, plummeting into the abyss!
Trigg's massive body landed heavily back on the edge of the abyss, the alloy ground beneath his feet cracking again. He panted heavily, his grey-silver heavy armor covered in pits corroded by the tentacles and dark purple slime, but his violent silver eyes, like a fierce beast freed from its shackles, erupted with an even more terrifying light.
He suddenly turned his head, his gaze like a tangible blade, instantly fixing on the shattered figure on the alloy plate, who, after unleashing an astonishing strike, had his heat vision dim rapidly, falling back into unconsciousness, his aura even weaker than before.
"…Kid…"
Trigg's voice was hoarse, carrying an unprecedented complexity.
It was this kid…whose power erupted in desperation, tearing open the Great Old Ones' bindings and saving his life!
A strange warrior, flowing with Viltrum blood…possessed such power and courage?!
"Gak…ah ah ah—!!!"
On the opposite side of the abyss, Nolan let out an even more painful and frantic roar. Mark's heat vision, containing pure solar power, not only severely damaged the tentacles, but its dissipated energy also seemed to interfere with the chaotic Great Old Ones' power within him through some connection.
The dark purple energy lines on his body flashed wildly, the light from his single eye burning with purple flame flickered erratically, and the unfocused pupil in his grey-hazed eye seemed to be attempting to focus, his struggle intensifying!
At the bottom of the abyss, the shadow of the Great Old Ones seemed to be completely enraged by this sudden attack, full of order and life energy!
Countless dark purple star-like points spun wildly. In the churning energy turbulence, more, thicker, and more terrifying tentacles, covered with bony carapaces and sharp blade-like thorns, grew out like a furious forest!
They were no longer targeting only Trigg, but swept wildly like countless man-eating pythons towards all living beings on both sides of the abyss, even including the chaotic Nolan!
The entire abyss seemed to have transformed into the greedy maw of the Great Old Ones!
Trigg looked at the tidal wave of tentacles surging forth, covering the sky, then glanced at the unconscious and dying Mark, a flicker of resolve in his eyes.
"Conquerors! Rally to me!"
Trigg's roar, like rolling thunder, exploded across the chaotic battlefield!
The scarred Conqueror warriors, hearing his voice, unleashed their last ferocity, desperately tearing through their entangled enemies, converging towards Trigg!
Trigg's massive body shielded the unconscious Mark. His heavy-armored right fist clenched again.
He looked at the surging tidal wave of tentacles and Nolan, in his chaotic state on the opposite side of the abyss, a ferocious grin, mixed with violence, madness, and a hint of excitement at meeting a worthy opponent, spread across his lips.
"Bugs! And a madman possessed by bugs! Want to devour me? Then let's see…whose teeth are harder!"