A Core Ship From The Start

Chapter 168: Chapter 139 Two Choices_1

For demons, nothing fascinates them more than power. Power, violence, killing, conquest — this is everything they possess. Whenever they invade other worlds, watching their opponents tremble and shriek in pain due to their power, these demons feel utmost pleasure.

However, now, the figure before them evokes another emotion within the demons — fear.

“Splat!!!”

The demon in front of them falls to the ground, flails its arms, seemingly trying to counterattack. But the very next moment, the black steel giant steps on it, effortlessly squashing its head into a mush of blood and flesh.

He clenches his fists, his entire body soaked red in demon blood. The brilliance gleaming from beneath the terrifying helmet, even fiercer than a demon’s face, is filled with cold murderous intent. The demonic flesh and blood held between the gaps of the steel giant’s gauntlet, make the typically fearless demons shiver in dread.

Yet, even so, these demons do not retreat.

This is their home, this is hell, their holy land lies behind them! They have no way to run, but to fight to the death!!

“Roar!!!!!”

The tall demon roars, opens its arms and lunges at the steel giant in front of it, but the latter just lowers his head, grabs the demon’s waist, and directly charges it into the wall. With a massive thud, the demon’s towering figure is slammed into the wall, even crushing unsuspecting pests behind it into a paste. However, the steel giant doesn’t care, he reaches out, grabs the demon’s open mouth, grips its jaw, and pulls down!

“Rip!!!”

The demon’s gaping jaw is torn right off by the steel giant, and the latter’s other hand squeezes tightly, reducing the top half of the demon’s head into a pile of debris like a crushed tomato.

At this moment, seeing this terrifying black figure, the demons finally experience something…. an unspeakable fear.

Just standing there, it seems like a beast that wants to destroy the world, opening its mouth wide, revealing a bloody maw, chewing their world, and destroying everything……!!

“———————!!!”

The fear reaches its limit, the demons finally give up resistance, they scream, turn around and flee, completely breaking down and disappearing into the air. Meanwhile, Duanmu Huai watches the fleeing demons coldly, snorts, and casually tosses away the demon corpse in his hand.

And those shivering in the face of this spectacle are not just demons.

“Is this… the power of the aliens?”

Watching the scene of Duanmu Huai tearing apart demons on screen, the commander of the Reaction Armed Alliance turns pale, and involuntarily swallows his spit. He originally thought that these aliens could be defeated, they just had more advanced technology and stronger firepower. But watching Duanmu Huai slaughter relentlessly without weapons in his hand, causing even the demons to run away in terror, the shock and fear he felt far exceed the threat that the demons posed.

In fact, at this moment, in the command room of the Reaction Armed Alliance, several staff members even chose to sneak out. Although at the beginning, they were quite thrilled to see the demons who slaughtered humans, get killed so brutally themselves, but gradually, with Duanmu Huai’s relentless advance, they too, felt a deep fear for this ruthless steel warrior. There were even a few young staff members who fainted on the spot just by looking at that terrifying figure bathed in blood.

As for the girls on the other side, only a few of them are left by now.

Other than Ogis, who as always, calmly sat in front of the screen, only Ann was left. As for Lorena and Greiya, they had declared quite early on that they couldn’t take it anymore, choosing to leave the scene like viewers of a B-grade gore film — after all, this was far more disgusting than any B-grade gore film.

Not everyone enjoys watching splatter films after all.

Only Ann remains on the couch, covering her eyes with both her hands, sneakily peaking from between her fingers. She screams as she sees something horrifying, then closes her eyes.

“Ogis, is it over?”

“Yes, the master’s battle has ended.”

Only after receiving Ogis’s response, does Ann dare to open her eyes again, continuing to excitedly stare at the screen.

At this point, Duanmu Huai finally arrives in the sanctuary located deep within hell.

“So this is the sanctuary…”

Looking at the scene before him, Duanmu Huai raises his eyebrows. He originally thought that the place where the Ball of Life of the Father of Heaven was kept would be a temple or something. But unexpectedly, what appears before Duanmu Huai, is just a circular platform. On the platform are several pillars, with different colored orbs placed on them. The large golden and purple orb in the middle is surrounded by several smaller orbs.

“Yes, that is the Ball of Life of the Father of Heaven!!”

Dr. Hyden’s voice comes through his ear, perhaps because he saw the Ball of Life of the Father of Heaven, his voice at the moment is trembling incessantly.

“Take it to Urdaco and it will resurrect the Father of Heaven!”

“Hmph……”

Duanmu Huai walks over to the basketball-sized golden ball of light, lifting it up, carefully scrutinising it.

“What then? What will the Father of Heaven do? Teach the Demon King a lesson as before and then, heartbroken, seal him again?”

“This…………”

Faced with Duanmu Huai’s question, Dr. Hyden isn’t sure how to respond, after all, he really doesn’t know how the Father of Heaven plans to deal with these demons.

“I don’t trust the Father of Heaven, and certainly not the demons.”

Duanmu Huai toys with the Ball of Life in his hand, scoffing at this. It’s a joke, have the lessons of the Space Undead and Star Gods not been harsh enough?

Originally, Star Gods were only spiritual beings that liked to lie by the stars, absorbing radiation, idly living off their resources. However, to fight the Ancient Saints, the Space Undead created bodies for the Star Gods and that eventually led to the extermination of the entire Space Undead, leaving only a bunch of machines behind.

It is evident that those not of our kind, have hearts that differ.

The Father of Heaven has nothing to do with humans. Even if it were capable of sealing the demon, it doesn’t mean it would protect humans afterwards. As a judge, Duanmu Huai’s actions prioritized humans. Any threats to human existence, whether they were evil gods, star gods, or even the Father of Heaven himself, all were to be eradicated!

The purpose of the Tribunal was to protect human souls and identify then destroy any potential threats that the empire and humans face.

Any existence that threatened humans must be eradicated!

The Father of Heaven was no exception!

In fact, when Duanmu Huai learned from Queen Mek’s memory that the Father of Heaven didn’t kill the Demon King after defeating him but sealed it instead, he already listed the Father of Heaven as a target. Being kind to one’s enemies could be cruel to oneself. If the Father of Heaven hadn’t foolishly spared the Demon King because it was his own creature, humans wouldn’t have suffered the demon’s attacks and destruction.

Therefore, both the Father of Heaven and the Demon King were to blame and must be eradicated!

As for your problems, I couldn’t care less.

The judge only cares about issues related to humans. The problems that occur among the Alien Race have nothing to do with him.

So…

“I will gain the power of the Father of Heaven and annihilate the Mek Tribe and the demons!”

Eventually, Duanmu Huai made his decision.

“What?!”

Upon hearing Duanmu Huai’s response, Dr. Hyden was taken aback, and Ann wore a surprised look, curiously staring at the screen – well, she was just a spectator.

“You…you can’t do this!”

“Why can’t I? I don’t trust the Father of Heaven. If humans want to achieve victory, they must rely on their own strength.”

Duanmu Huai said, looking at the system in front of him. As he made his decision, a prompt appeared in the system as expected.

[Activate Hidden Upgrade Mission “Power of Destruction” Final Option]

[Choose to absorb the power of the Ball of Life]

[Choose to destroy the Ball of Life completely]

“You can’t do it!!! ”

At the same time, Dr. Hyden’s crazed shriek sounded in Duanmu Huai’s ears.

“The Ball of Life contains the memory, power, and soul of the Father of Heaven, along with the essential self-consciousness of life itself. Ordinary people can’t extract power from the Ball of Life, let alone you, a mere mortal. If you dare to proceed, you’ll be engulfed by the Father of Heaven’s consciousness and become his vessel! Foolish mortal, don’t defy God’s will with your arrogance!”

You’ve stopped acting, haven’t you.

“I’m surprised, Dr. Hyden. I didn’t expect a human-born scholar like you to know so much about the Father of Heaven’s secrets.”

“Uh…”

Upon hearing Duanmu Huai’s response, Dr. Hyden was speechless, and others from the Reaction Armed Alliance also gazed at him, a broken robot, with curiosity. Indeed, what he was saying exceeded what a human should know. Where did Dr. Hyden learn so much from? Why had he kept it a secret?

And… Is this robot really Dr. Hyden?

Although what Dr. Hyden said was correct, Duanmu Huai wasn’t worried because it was basically the system’s responsibility to extract the power from the Ball of Life.

Many tasks were like this. For example, if a task requires a player to shut down a machine, players would wonder how to do so with so many buttons. At this point… just press E to shut down the machine.

The same was true for creating weapons. You open the blueprint, click on materials for autoassembly. A game wouldn’t really teach you how to manufacture firearms and ammo, would it?

Now that the system has provided the options, all Duanmu Huai needed to do was to make a choice and then the system would deal with the rest.

So, should he choose to absorb or to destroy?

Leaving behind Dr. Hyden’s howling, Duanmu Huai started to carefully consider the choices before him. n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

Absorbing was a tempting choice as it was the power of the Father of Heaven. He wasn’t sure how powerful it was, but it shouldn’t differ much from the Star Gods.

On the other hand, Dr. Hyden had a point. Being a mere human being, it was hard to say whether he could absorb so much knowledge and memories from the Father of Heaven.

If it was a game, Duanmu Huai would choose directly, as it was a do-or-die situation. But in reality, he had to proceed cautiously.

Destroying the Ball of Life was a safer choice. Duanmu Huai was unsure whether the destruction of the Ball of Life would cause the demon to disappear as well.

So, which one should he choose?