The White Lion's charge was a pure, physical force, a rhapsody of tearing through the void!
There were no shields, no thruster plumes, only its massive, platinum-forged body carving a violent trajectory through the starry sky, slamming head-on into the geometric patterns glowing with dark-gold light on the surface of the Titan Remnant!
Bang—!!!!!!
At the moment of impact, there was no explosive fire, but a thunderous, more heart-shaking roar than a supernova explosion!
It was the most primitive, most savage collision of two cosmic era's embodiments of power!
A visible shockwave ring expanded violently from the point of impact, blowing away and tearing apart several nearby restraint field platforms like toys that had gotten too close!
Its enormous claw, capable of crushing planetary crusts, slammed heavily onto the seemingly smooth surface of the Titan Remnant, which was actually composed of countless tiny geometric structures.
The imagined scene of overwhelming destruction did not occur.
The dark-gold surface seemed to come alive, countless tiny geometric structures instantly reorganized, stacked, and hardened, forming an extremely dense defensive layer!
Crack!
The harsh shattering sound did not come from the Titan Remnant, but from the tip of the White Lion's claw.
The claw tip, comparable to starship main cannon material, actually cracked with fine fissures under the violent impact and recoil!
On the dark-gold surface of the Titan material, only a shallow, rapidly repairing white mark remained!
"Roar—!!!"
The intense pain and unprecedented frustration made the White Lion let out a furious roar!
Its golden eyes were instantly filled with violent bloodshot lines!
Instead of retreating, it stimulated the most primitive ferocity deep within its bloodline!
Its massive body twisted sharply, its thick tail like an apocalyptic steel whip, sweeping fiercely at the same spot with a space-tearing shriek!
Boom!
A larger shockwave erupted, the geometric patterns on the surface of the Titan Remnant fluctuated violently, the dark-gold light flickered erratically, and the dense defense seemed to be dented inwards, but it remained despairingly tough.
The White Lion's tail also cracked, and the seeping blood quickly froze into ice crystals in the vacuum!
The battle instantly entered its most tragic, most primitive rhythm!
At the center of this starfield, forcibly stabilized by space anchors and restraint fields, a peak duel of pure physical power, beyond human imagination, was unfolding!
The White Lion transformed into a storm of destruction, claws tearing, fangs gnawing, massive tail sweeping, shoulder ramming, knee striking!
Each attack condensed the full power of its primeval bloodline!
Its movements were as fast as lightning, its massive body displaying incredible agility and explosive power in the vacuum, space wailed under its claws and fangs, leaving behind dark cracks.
Blood continuously splattered like stellar Sui Xie (Debris), then froze in the vacuum!
The Titan Remnant, this colossal object that seemed to have been dormant for eons, had some kind of defensive instinct fully activated by the White Lion's frenzied attacks!
It no longer merely endured.
The dark-gold surface flowed and deformed like liquid metal, sometimes condensing into a massive, spiky metal fist to clash with the White Lion's claws!
Sometimes transforming into a shield covered in sharp edges to parry fatal bites!
Sometimes extending twisted, giant chain-like tentacles, attempting to entangle and strangle this beast that dared to desecrate it!
Each transformation and counterattack carried immense power, and the purely physical collisions shook the entire restraint field matrix, causing it to tremble and hum!
Impact! Tear! Block! Roll!
There was no dazzling display of energy beams, only the most savage, star-shaking power violently unleashed in the void!
The White Lion's platinum-like fur was scraped open with huge wounds by the Titan's edges, and blood stained its body.
The dark-gold surface of the Titan Remnant also showed more and more, deeper and deeper cracks and dents under its fearless, frenzied attacks, and the flowing dark-gold light became chaotic!
The space stabilization anchors were operating under overload, emitting a piercing wail, and the restraint field generator platforms continuously had nodes overload and explode, like death fireworks blooming in the night sky.
The Alliance fleet desperately resisted the even more frenzied assault of the Primordial Aberrations on the periphery, the roar of naval cannons intertwined with the silent shrieks of the Aberrations, forming a deadly background symphony!
Everyone's gaze was fixed on the core battlefield, on the two monsters who were shaking the rules of the universe in the most primitive way!
This struggle between flesh and star-remnant lasted for an unknown duration.
Time lost its meaning in the face of pure violence.
The White Lion's breathing was like a storm, each inhale seemingly drawing the surrounding vacuum dry.
Its body was covered in wounds, blood solidified in the vacuum, covering most of its body, as if it had donned a shattered red armor.
But the fire in its eyes never extinguished, instead burning even more fiercely amidst the pain and extreme battle!
Its attacks became even more frenzied, even carrying a desperate resolve for mutual destruction; it no longer sought to tear its opponent apart, but used every impact, every claw strike, to enlarge the cracks on the Titan Remnant!
Finally!
After a full-force headbutt, like a comet impact!
Crack—Rumble!!!
A duller, deeper roar than any previous impact erupted from inside the Titan Remnant.
A massive, penetrating crack, like an ugly scar, suddenly bloomed at the White Lion's impact point, and dark-gold light gushed out from the gap like blood, then quickly dimmed.
The flowing geometric patterns on the remnant's surface instantly solidified and lost their activity, and that heavy, heart-pounding active aura receded like a tide!
The White Lion was thrown backward by the immense recoil, its massive body tumbling and smashing several floating asteroid fragments before it barely managed to stabilize.
It panted heavily, its golden eyes fixed on the huge crack, filled with exhaustion, pain, and a near-collapsed, triumphant ecstasy of conquest!
It had done it!
With its claws and fangs, it had torn open the shell of the ancient Titan!
"Now!"
Trigg's cold voice rang out in the communication channel, without the slightest hesitation.
"Engineering team! Restraint field! Lock onto the inside of the crack! Drag it out!"
The colossal engineering ships, already prepared, pushed the remaining restraint field generators to their maximum power!
Invisible, massive energy tentacles, like greedy giant hands, plunged fiercely into the depths of the crack torn open by the White Lion with its flesh and blood.
Amidst a teeth-grinding cacophony of metal twisting and energy overload explosions, a massive, irregularly shaped, dark-gold core substance, covered with even more complex ancient patterns, was forcibly dragged out from the main body of the Titan Remnant!
The moment this core substance was dragged out, the entire colossal Titan Remnant seemed to die completely, the light on its surface extinguished entirely, turning into a cold, dead, massive space rock.
And that core, though equally dim, still emitted a heart-pounding sense of immense weight.
The White Lion looked at the core, enveloped by the field, letting out a low, satisfied roar, then its massive body swayed slightly as the exhaustion of spent strength washed over it like a tide.
It slowly closed its eyes, allowing the Alliance's tractor beam to pull its scarred body back to the Unyielding.
The Titan core was transported back to the Alliance's most cutting-edge laboratories.
Under Trigg's absolute will and deterrence, all resources were poured into it.
Scientists worked day and night, under immense pressure, analyzing it at an almost frantic pace.
The analysis process also came with risks.
Upon contact with the core substance, faint, mind-shattering ancient whispers and spacetime fragment information streams still leaked out, causing several top scientists to suffer mental breakdowns.
But the Alliance had no retreat.
Finally, after immense sacrifice, research results based on the Titan core substance's energy conduction properties and geometric structural stability were translated into practical applications.
The Titan's Fist weapon system was born.
This was not an energy weapon, but a special physical projectile weapon created by using a special force field to activate the intrinsic rule-stable properties of fragments of the Titan core substance.
It could be loaded into heavy missile warheads or used as an enhancement plug-in for close-combat weapons.
Its effect was simple and terrifying.
A target struck by the Titan's Fist would have its material structure instantly 'ruled,' becoming extremely fragile and losing energy conductivity.
In layman's terms, it would be temporarily reverted from a living or solid state to its most basic, most inert state of matter particles, as if instantly petrified or turned to sand!
In the subsequent battles against Primordial Aberrations clusters, the Titan's Fist made its debut!
Missiles loaded with Titan warheads struck the massive Aberration motherships; the motherships' twisted, writhing flesh and biological armor instantly lost activity, becoming as fragile as weathered rock, easily torn apart by subsequent conventional artillery fire!
Elite power armor warriors equipped with Titan claw gauntlets could easily tear apart Aberration elite units that were previously impervious to blades and bullets in close combat!
The White Lion's claws, after being enveloped in a thin layer of Titan material, reached an unbelievable level of destructive power.
One swing of its claw could directly disintegrate the rules of Aberrations in an entire area into dust!
The Alliance's front line, after paying a huge price to capture the Titan Remnant, achieved a truly significant advance for the first time!
Low morale was boosted!
Even long-absent, hopeful applause echoed in the Council Hall.
An optimistic sentiment of "we have found the key to fighting the Great Old Ones" began to spread within the Alliance.
Trigg's prestige, along with the combat achievements of the "Titan's Fist," climbed to its peak.
His eyes remained cold, but seemed to gain a hint of certainty in controlling the overall situation.
Just as the Alliance was immersed in this brief advantage, bought with blood and Titan Remnants, far from the Alliance's controlled territory, deep within the universe's most profound, darkest, desolate starfields.
A collision that would truly determine the fate of the universe erupted in an unknown corner!
The Great Old Ones.
That twisted, writhing mass, an ultimate existence aggregated from countless galaxy-level flesh and insane will, finally followed the last fading aura of its ancient nemesis and found the core region where the Titan civilization truly hid its last spark and secrets.
That was not a remnant, but a miniature cosmic bubble constructed from pure, highly condensed Titan rules!
A sanctuary hidden deep within spacetime folds, isolated for eons!
There was no probing, no communication.
Only an undying, unending hatred, etched at the dawn of the universe, flowing in the very essence of their existence!
The Great Old Ones' colossal, fleshly body, capable of obscuring galaxies, carrying the terrifying power to corrupt reality and distort rules, slammed fiercely into that miniature cosmic bubble, which shimmered with pure dark-gold light and was composed of countless perfect geometric structures, like a boiling sea of blood!
Boom!!!!!!!!
This impact transcended the physical level of sound!
It was the wail of the universe's fundamental rules!
It was the horrifying noise of spacetime structures being forcibly torn, shredded, and then reassembled!
Sound cannot travel in a vacuum, but the tremor instantly spread throughout the entire observable universe!
All sentient life, no matter where they were in the universe, felt an indescribable, suffocating palpitation and fear deep within their souls at the same instant!
As if the very foundation of the entire universe was trembling!
The desolate starfield at the point of impact instantly turned into absolute chaos!
Space was no longer space, time was no longer time!
Dimensions were folded, torn, and arbitrarily pieced together!
The boundary between reality and illusion was completely blurred!
The Great Old Ones' flesh turned into ashes in large swaths under the purification of Titan rules, emitting a silent, yet horrifying shriek capable of extinguishing stars!
And the Titan's miniature cosmic bubble, its indestructible rule-based barrier, also began to show spiderweb-like cracks under the erosion of the Great Old Ones' endless, corrupting, and distorting terrifying power!
Pure dark-gold light was frantically infiltrated and eroded by murky dark-red and twisted purplish-black!
The rulers of two cosmic eras engaged in an undying, unending struggle with the most primitive, most essential power!
Every one of their collisions, every struggle of power, was like plucking the strings of the universe, releasing destructive aftershocks!
These aftershocks ignored the distance of space, spreading to every corner of the universe in ways that defied the speed of light and common sense!
Alliance front line.
The fleet, having just achieved a minor victory, suddenly observed the Primordial Aberrations cluster ahead collectively self-destructing into pus and blood without warning, while all their own ships' spacetime engines inexplicably failed!
On a distant agricultural planet, the sky suddenly tore open a giant wound, gushing with foul blood and dark-gold light, the planetary magnetic field instantly became chaotic, triggering a global catastrophe!
And some lower civilizations discovered in terror that the stars they worshipped suddenly changed their orbits, or simply extinguished and disappeared in the night sky!
The universe, in their fated collision, let out a painful wail.
This wail, like a death knell, shattered the Alliance's newly ignited, illusory spark of hope.
Trigg stood on the Unyielding's bridge, looking at the monitoring screen showing abnormal readings from deep space, incomprehensible yet filled with destructive aura; the hint of certainty that had just appeared in his eyes instantly froze.
In its place was an unprecedented, cold solemnity.
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