From the outside, the enormous Space Wormhole resembled a thin soap bubble. Once inside, however, it felt as if everything was being stretched infinitely, like a never-ending road through the stars.
Endless starlight stretched into visible beams of light, radiating around one’s body. For a moment, it felt as if a lifetime had passed.
Then, the scene before him transformed into a vast, boundless starry sky. In the zero-gravity environment, everything felt weightless. He had passed through the Space Wormhole.
Shen Feng knew that not even a microsecond had actually passed. The perceived time dilation was merely a side effect of crossing the Wormhole, which had momentarily disrupted his sense of time.
Thruster flames erupted from the back of the Zero Armor. The Super Giant War Armor hovered in space, and behind it, the Space Wormhole it had just traversed shimmered—a hundred-kilometer-wide, mirror-like patch of light.
Looking around, he saw asteroids of all sizes drifting everywhere. Some were smaller than a fist, while others were tens of kilometers wide.
This was a Meteorite Belt, similar to the Oort Nebula at the edge of the Solar System.
Gazing into the distance, past the Meteorite Belt, he could see faraway planets that looked like mere points of light. But even farther away was a crimson star so massive it occupied half his field of view!
The star was so enormous it felt as if it were rushing right at him. Anyone with megalophobia would have likely died of fright on the spot.
Shen Feng knew. This was their destination: the legendary Red Supergiant Star, Shield UY!
This Red Supergiant Star’s volume was a full 4.5 billion times that of Solar—a size that simply defied human imagination.
What’s more, this Red Supergiant Star was still expanding!
Shield UY once possessed a star system with dozens of planets. Now, it seemed only a few remained—those that had once orbited at the system’s periphery. Most of the inner planets had likely been devoured by the ever-expanding Red Supergiant Star.
The surrounding Meteorite Belt might have been formed from a planet torn asunder by immense gravitational waves, or perhaps from the collision of two worlds.
Among the remaining planets, those closer to Shield UY had already transformed into molten Hells.
Given enough time, the Red Supergiant Star Shield UY would likely expand until it had completely consumed its own star system, including this Meteorite Belt.
’Is this why the World Beasts fled their home and traveled to Earth through the Space Wormhole?’
’Were they simply trying to escape their inevitable doom?’
These thoughts flashed through his mind in an instant. Behind him, the Space Wormhole flickered again. Dozens of streaks of light shot out, and the remaining Super Giant War Armors materialized in space, arranging themselves around Shen Feng.
Upon seeing the scene before them, the crews of every Super Giant War Armor were stunned, awestruck by the magnificent and bizarre spectacle of the Cosmos!
This was the Shield UY Star Realm, home of the World Beasts, and the origin of humanity’s disaster!
"Form up on me! We’re in for a tough fight!" Shen Feng yelled.
The electromagnetic environment here was relatively calm, and radio communications were restored.
The Super Giant War Armors immediately formed an arrowhead formation around Shen Feng’s Zero Armor, aiming their main cannons and missiles at the placid Space Wormhole.
At the same time, the Zero Armor’s missile pods launched hundreds more missiles. They flew toward the surrounding asteroids—those over a kilometer in diameter—and upon impact, used their explosions to burrow inside, disappearing from view.
Time seemed to flow differently across the Space Wormhole. After a full five or six minutes, the portal suddenly flashed. Shen Feng barked, "They’re here!"
The next instant, the long-range weapons of over thirty Super Giant War Armors opened fire simultaneously. Energy Beams from their Energy Concentration Cannons, volleys of shells and missiles, and brilliant lasers and death rays all shot toward the Space Wormhole!
Dozens of World Beasts had just crossed through the Space Wormhole, materializing in this Star Realm.
Their massive, furious eyes had barely opened before they were met with a concentrated barrage from the humans!
Flashes of light and brilliant fireballs erupted, shining silently in the black vacuum. The World Beasts suffered heavy damage before they even had a chance to react.
They roared in fury, but the sound couldn’t travel in the airless void. Only bursts of green blood and fire blossomed in all directions, like a brilliant, colorful pantomime.
But while the attack had heavily wounded these World Beasts, it was far from enough to kill them.
The Space Wormhole continued to flash as more and more World Beasts swarmed through. They immediately scattered, dispersing the Super Giant War Armors’ fire. Though their bodies were torn by fresh wounds, the attacks were no longer having a significant effect.
The World Beasts seemed disoriented at first, but they quickly began to wave their massive tentacles. Like octopuses, they "swam" through space toward the human Super Giant War Armors!
They even ejected jets of gas from their rears as a propellant.
Now, free from Earth’s gravity, the World Beasts fully unfurled themselves in the weightless environment of space. They looked even larger than before, like entire mountains hurtling toward the fleet.
"Focus fire!" Shen Feng ordered, his face expressionless.
Immediately, the firepower of dozens of Super Giant War Armors followed the Zero Battle Armor’s lead, concentrating on a single World Beast.
The World Beast was instantly engulfed by a storm of energy beams and Kinetic Energy Bullets. A moment later, it was blasted into thousands of fragments.
Shen Feng nodded. ’It’s a massive energy drain,’ he thought, ’but this tactic works.’
They could only dare to use such firepower in space. On Earth, the devastation would be enough to trigger a global tsunami!
Furthermore, in space, the World Beasts had nothing to brace against, making them less agile. This was an advantage for the humans.
Immediately, streams of Energy Beams and Kinetic Energy Bullets flew toward the advancing World Beasts, dismembering several of them in the blink of an eye.
Just then, the Space Wormhole behind them flashed once more. Several tentacles, with a combined thickness of over a hundred kilometers, squeezed through. They were followed by the rest of its body, including its colossal limbs, which were gradually emerging from the Space Wormhole.
It was the Beast Ancestor!
"Focus fire on the Wormhole!" Shen Feng’s face turned grim as he roared. The chest-mounted Energy Cannon on his Zero Armor opened up, firing a blast at the Beast Ancestor emerging from the portal.
The surrounding Super Giant War Armors immediately followed suit, concentrating their fire on the incoming Beast Ancestor.
The regular World Beasts began to rally, forming a barrier between the human forces and the Space Wormhole, apparently to protect the Beast Ancestor.
The electromagnetic interference, which had previously vanished, returned!
Against the colossal Beast Ancestor, more than half of the human attacks were blocked, having almost no effect. In just a few moments, the enormous life-form had completely passed through the Space Wormhole and entered open space.
The Beast Ancestor then unfurled its tentacles and limbs, stretching out in space. Its body, thousands of kilometers long, now appeared before them like a giant planet!
Even the regular World Beasts, including the ten-thousand-meter-class behemoths, seemed like mere insects, able to do nothing more than hover and drift beside the Beast Ancestor.
Even with the Red Supergiant Star Shield UY as a backdrop, the humans inside the War Armors, Shen Feng included, were all profoundly shaken by the sight.
’Big. This thing is just too fucking big!’
’How the hell did it even grow this big?’
Looking from the distant Red Supergiant Star Shield UY to the World Beasts and the planet-sized Beast Ancestor before them, many of those present felt as if they had stumbled into a kingdom of titans.
They could even feel the gravitational pull from the Beast Ancestor!
Shen Feng took a deep breath and spoke to Jingwei.
"We can’t win this fight... Jingwei, initiate the combination sequence!"