Chapter 591: Breaking the Void, Proton Droplet!
The fifty-thousand-ton proton ball hurtled along the vacuum track on the planet's surface, constantly circling.
The circumference of this foreign planet was nowhere close to that of Eternal Star, measuring only around thirty thousand kilometers. Due to severe mass loss, the planet's own gravity was about half that of Eternal Star.
But a thirty-thousand-kilometer electromagnetic track was still terrifying!
Due to its enormous mass, the proton ball's initial speed was only one thousand kilometers per second, but its speed started to skyrocket under the influence of the electromagnetic acceleration ring that encircled the entire planet!
After completing the first circle, its speed had already broken through ten thousand kilometers per second!
Then came the second circle, the third, the fourth...
The speed became faster and faster. Initially, it took several seconds to orbit the planet once, but later on, it reversed—now, several orbits could be completed in just one second!
Below, Harrov and others faintly felt a wave of palpitations coming on. Initially, they thought it was some incredibly powerful being attempting to cross the void, but they soon realized this intense sense of danger did not stem from the space-time rift above, but rather from above their heads!
"What exactly is Chairman Lynn planning to do?" Sanchez asked, gazing at the sky. Although he could not see the incredibly small proton ball, he could feel the strong oppressive force and that bone-deep sense of crisis.
"It looks like a vacuum electromagnetic track..." Vittorio remarked thoughtfully. The strong magnetic field pervading the airspace above the foreign planet was unmistakable, so he recognized it at a glance.
"No, it's more like the particle collider that Chairman Lynn built in the North!" Rafael corrected him and then briefly explained its principle.
It was actually quite simple: it involved using electric and magnetic fields to accelerate charged particles, which would continually increase their velocity under the influence of the Lorentz force until they neared the speed of light!
Upon hearing this, Sanchez and the others were utterly astonished, vaguely guessing Lynn's plan.
Anthony was particularly shocked; this somewhat resembled the electromagnetic propulsion acceleration method he had proposed earlier—using the planet as a magnet, setting up a super-large strong magnetic field, and having the spaceship continuously speed up as it orbited the planet.
However, due to the cumbersome nature and the long duration of this acceleration method, it was directly vetoed at the meeting. He hadn't expected Lynn to suddenly come up with such an idea to use it here.
While everyone was discussing, the proton ball had already orbited the vacuum track around the planet a full fifty times, and its speed had risen to two hundred thousand kilometers per second!
In fact, had Lynn not created a long vacuum track in the sky of the foreign planet, the atmospheric waves generated would have been enough to annihilate hundreds of thousands of elite troops below.
A true divine war would never have allowed him to spend so long preparing a technique, but the current situation had granted him this precious opportunity!
"Two-thirds the speed of light, has it reached its limit?" Lynn waited a few more laps. As the speed continued to climb, Coulomb's force was increasingly slow in accelerating the proton ball.
Firstly, the planet's gravity inevitably had a certain impact; secondly, the speed of light was the upper limit that low-dimensional space could accommodate—the closer it got to the speed of light, the more difficult it was to continue to increase speed. This resistance was invisible and intangible, stemming from the most fundamental forces of space-time!
Luckily, even so, it was enough!
According to the kinetic energy conservation formula—Ek=(1/2)mv^2, the larger a body's mass and the faster its speed, the more terrifying the energy it unleashes!
The mass of the proton ball was more than a hundred times that of a single particle cannon, and its power would exceed a hundred times as well!
Lynn extended his hand, the electromagnetic track existing in the sky above the foreign planet began to adjust its position gradually, targeting a split space-time rift. Then, Lynn raised his hand in a trigger-pulling gesture and said coldly.
"Receive my gift, gods of another world!"
Weighing fifty thousand tons, yet surprisingly small in size, the proton ball had already flown into the space-time rift before Lynn's words could finish.
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Meanwhile, in the main world, within the domain of the Thunder and War God.
Six summoned deities were preparing for their final breakthrough against the space-time barrier!
The space-time rift torn open in front of them had expanded to several dozen meters in size, capable of accommodating beings of legendary stature, and it continued to expand relentlessly.
"It seems their resistance is at an end!" the Earth God Loto said in a light tone.
However, the new Moon God's ability to resist until now had completely exceeded his expectations. Despite the boundless void separating them, limiting the power they could exert, it was still not something a newly promoted deity could easily counter.
"Don't be too careless, Loto, the one dealing with us might not necessarily be the new Moon God!" the God of Life and Creation couldn't help but remind him. He had had encounters with the Moon Goddess Diana and was very familiar with her Divine Power, but when they had clashed across the void moments ago, what he sensed did not seem like Moon Divine Power.
This vaguely made him feel uneasy.
The God of Life and Creation was well aware that they were among the first batch of gods who invaded the Moon God Domain. Frankly speaking, they were no different from those Flame Demons who rushed into the space-time rift.
Now that two gods had fallen in succession, it was naturally better to be cautious.
"Even if it is not the new Moon God, what of it?" Earth God Loto scoffed. From their previous clash, they had deduced that the other party was a weaker deity, capable of withstanding their onslaught solely by virtue of control over the Divine Domain.
Once the space-time rift was fully open to accommodate their entrance, this bit of resistance would instantly crumble!
Suddenly, as if remembering something, Earth God Loto turned to the God of Life and Creation with considerable dissatisfaction. "If it hadn't been for your change of heart halfway last time, we would have already fulfilled the orders of our Lord God."
The other deities also nodded in agreement. Six gods joining forces to take on a newly empowered deity of the Moon Divine Power was indeed overestimating the opponent.
The God of Life and Creation was instantly at a loss for words, pondering whether he was being overly cautious, when a sudden premonition of alarm emerged in his heart.
Immediately afterward, a glaring beam of light burst forth abruptly from the space-time rift in front, instantly breaking through the swirling atmosphere and shredding a legendary behemoth that was about to squeeze its massive body through the rift…
Then it was Earth God Loto's turn to react, who, like the God of Life and Creation, sensed that intense feeling of danger the moment the Proton Ball flew out of the space-time rift.
The thought process of a god is incredibly fast; though it only took a millionth of a second for the Proton Ball to travel from the Space-Time Gate to his presence, Loto could react immediately. In just a brief moment, his body, appearing as a Mokolian, instantly turned into an immensely hard rock.
This was the Core of Earth, a Divine Art that replicated the planetary core's protective layer, and with a fraction of the Power of Earth enhancing himself, he could even survive the attack of higher level Divine Arts!
However, this incredibly solid defense was meaningless against the Proton Ball, which weighed fifty thousand tons and moved faster than two-thirds the speed of light. It did not provide any resistance and even pierced through the tens of thousands of Flame Demons behind it!
Accompanied by a deafening boom, the entirety of space-time was directly torn apart. The atmospheric plane was slashed open, creating a long vacuum zone that quickly closed up again. The continuously surging atmospheric waves obliterated everything in their vicinity!
The Proton Ball took only a ten-thousandth of a second to pass through the 'minor' obstacle in front of it, and then another thousandth of a second to cross the length of the invading legion, flying into the city located dozens of kilometers away.
This was the domain of the Thunder and War God, the realm of the fierce Mercians, people who were warlike, bloodthirsty, and revered honor in blood and fire. Under the leadership of their mighty deity, they had continuously waged war, flattening dozens of dimensions, and never before had anyone been able to breach into their Divine Domain.
Today, however, all that came to an end as a red streak flew by, severing the towering statue of God, while rows of sturdy houses collapsed thunderously amidst the explosions…
Before anyone could react, it plunged into the ground, but this was not the end, merely the beginning of a display of power!
In the vacuum, the destructive power brought by speed was not significant, and the plane's atmosphere merely manifested it. Only the solid earth could fully exhibit its power!
The moment it struck the surface, it was as if the entire continent was shaking and trembling, a supremely powerful force of destruction erupted, the shockwave alone sending half of the city soaring into the sky!
Countless Mercians, who dreamt of raiding another dimension as before, hadn't even grasped what occurred when they perished alongside their dreams!
In a total of one-tenth of a second, the attack had already concluded, the Proton Ball directly penetrating the entire dimension from beneath the ground and flying into the endless void!
On the surface, there was now a massive canyon extending over ten thousand kilometers, within which lava surged and spewed forth, making one wonder if the deepest part of the canyon reached straight down to the core…
Because everything happened so swiftly, in that instant, the few gods present could only manage to save themselves, utterly incapable of rendering any assistance, forced to merely watch helplessly as the domain of the Thunder and War God was utterly devastated.
The unfortunate Earth God, who had been conversing with them just a second ago, was now completely gone without a trace…
In the main world, being crushed in divine form and divinity did not necessarily mean total death, but it did mean falling into an endless slumber, even facing the possibility of having one's Divine Domain and divinity seized.
For a whole ten seconds, the Divine Domain fell into a silence as still as death, and even as the wide-open space-time rift began to quickly close, no one dared to intervene…