Chapter 149
Ayla floated in the peaceful, silent vacuum of the Astraeus sector, her translucent blue body expanding and contracting with a deep, heavy rhythm as the nineteen unmanaged stellar cores dissolved inside her center. The raw, untamed cosmic energy flooded her biological framework like a roaring river of pure liquid starlight. Her Crown Primordial Sovereign Core spun at an astronomical velocity, greedily absorbing every single scrap of the ancient world code to solidify her new rank.
Her glossy jelly surface glowed with a blinding golden-silver radiance that lit up the surrounding dark space debris for miles. The deep, insatiable hunger that had plagued her throughout her stay in the academy’s synthetic simulation maps was finally completely satisfied.
"System notice: Real-world cosmic targets neutralized," Nexus’s automated voice chimed in her mind, carrying a tone of absolute, unbridled praise. "Nineteen Crown-grade stellar leviathan cores successfully digested. Your internal mana pool capacity has increased by a massive ninety-five percent. Your Primordial Sovereign foundation is now completely saturated with authentic void laws."
Ayla bobbled her round blue mass in deep, quiet satisfaction. She felt denser, heavier, and infinitely more stable than she had ever felt on the academy grounds. The untamed cosmic mana of the void world was far superior to the refined, fragile cores of the senior students or the artificial energy matrices of the mechanical drones.
"This void world is very good, Nexus," Ayla communicated through the mind link, her multi-layered mental voice carrying her standard flat, deadpan tone. "The meat here is very rich. There are no fragile professors giving speeches, and no seniors shouting about their faction dignity."
"I told you so, little monster!" Nexus giggled loudly inside her head, flashing a series of bright purple victory graphics across Ayla’s right holographic vision. "The academy is just a small, artificial garden built by the infinite races to pamper their young nobles. The true universe belongs to absolute predators who can hunt in the raw, unmanaged cosmic sectors. But do not relax just yet. Your massive feeding frenzy has successfully triggered the ultimate defense mechanism of this ruined world!"
Ayla tilted her round body slightly, her golden-ringed pupils scanning the pitch-black horizon of the Astraeus sector.
The vast, shattered asteroid belt three thousand kilometers ahead suddenly began to buckle and crack. The drifting mountain-sized rocks were forcefully dragged toward a single central point by an intense, overwhelming gravitational pull. The rivers of liquid starlight that flowed through the void were violently pulled into a massive, swirling spatial vortex that opened in the center of the dark sky.
The vacuum parameters around Ayla’s coordinates grew impossibly heavy, warping the local light and creating a localized gravity field that threatened to crush the surrounding space debris into fine atomic powder.
"Warning: Spatial anomaly detected," Nexus’s voice turned perfectly serious, projecting a massive, deep-red warning interface over Ayla’s eye. "The collective death of twenty stellar leviathans has awakened the absolute apex entity of this primitive world. Target signature confirmed: The Void Core Sovereign. Its core density is sitting firmly at the Peak Crown Rank tier, backed by the raw, unrefined planetary authority of the Astraeus sector."
From the center of the swirling spatial vortex, a truly colossal entity slowly emerged into the vacuum.
It was a giant, humanoid construct over six hundred feet tall, completely composed of dark, indestructible stellar iron and condensed dark matter. Its chest featured a massive, exposed core cavity that burned with a blinding, white-hot stellar flame that radiated the terrifying heat of a collapsing sun. Its head was a smooth, featureless mask of polished celestial obsidian, illuminated by three glowing golden eyes that burned with an ancient, territorial wrath.
In its massive, rock-plated right hand, the Void Core Sovereign held a colossal, thousand-foot greatsword forged from compressed spatial rift edge metal, crackling with violent arcs of purple void lightning.
The ancient sovereign opened its mouth-line, unleashing a spatial shockwave roar that shattered the surrounding asteroid fragments into fine dust. The sheer kinetic force of the roar rippled through the vacuum, tearing through space parameters and heading straight toward Ayla’s small blue coordinates.
To this ancient, six-hundred-foot guardian of the void, Ayla looked like nothing more than a microscopic, stray piece of blue fluid that had dared to butcher its subjects and pollute its domain.
Ayla looked up at the towering, six-hundred-foot void giant, her golden-ringed pupils expanding to their absolute maximum width. She did not feel a single drop of intimidation or fear. Instead, a wild, manic joy and a dark, prehistoric bloodlust erupted from her Crown Primordial Sovereign Core. The blinding white-hot stellar flame inside the giant’s chest cavity smelled impossibly rich, savory, and deep. It was the absolute ultimate meal this primitive world had to offer.
"Nexus," Ayla whispered into the cold vacuum, her blue fluid mass sinking slightly as she prepared to launch her body into zero gravity. "That big core is going to be my lunch."
"Deploying full law attribute synchronization now!" Nexus cheered hysterically inside her head. "Show this primitive world sovereign who the real apex predator of the universe is, little monster!"
The six-hundred-foot Void Core Sovereign did not waste a single microsecond. It raised its massive, thousand-foot spatial rift greatsword, bringing the colossal blade down toward Ayla with a thunderous, space-tearing speed. The physical force of the strike compressed the surrounding void, creating an inescapable gravitational trap around her position.
Ayla did not try to dodge the space-cleaving strike, and she did not use her Abyssal Shadow Blink to escape the gravitational trap. She activated her Gale Acceleration trait, her Crown-ranked body becoming an unstoppable, high-speed golden-blue projectile that shot straight toward the descending thousand-foot blade.
"Rend of the World-Order," Ayla commanded flatly inside her mind.
Five majestic, pitch-black claws instantly extended from her front fluid mass with a sharp, synchronized metallic click. The intricate golden runes covering her claws flared with a blinding, divine light that completely eclipsed the starlight in the sector.
She slammed directly into the edge of the thousand-foot spatial rift greatsword.
Clang. Tearing sound. Crash.
A terrifyingly crisp metallic sound echoed across the silent void. Ayla’s pitch-black claws, backed by her newly evolved Crown Primordial Sovereign authority, completely ignored eighty percent of the greatsword’s spatial and physical protections. The sharp claws sliced cleanly through the compressed rift metal, tearing the thousand-foot weapon into two giant, useless fragments that drifted limply into space.
The giant Void Core Sovereign let out a silent, shocked spatial gasp, its three golden eyes flashing with a wave of sudden, primitive confusion. It had wielded that spatial blade for millions of years to slay invading void entities, yet a tiny piece of blue jelly had just shattered it like a piece of brittle glass in a single millisecond.
Ayla did not pause her movement for a fraction of a second. She used the momentum of her upward charge to soar straight toward the six-hundred-foot giant’s chest cavity, aiming directly for the white-hot stellar core that was burning inside its torso.
The void giant reacted with battle-hardened, primitive instincts. It brought its massive left hand around, slamming its heavy, rock-plated fist toward herCoordinates to squash her into fine paste.
Ayla focused her Twin Lens of the Weaver directly onto the giant’s left arm parameters.
"Removal," she ordered smoothly.
She forcefully erased the core concept of kinetic momentum from the giant’s left limb.
Instantly, the colossal, three-hundred-foot rock-plated arm froze completely mid-motion, losing all of its crushing physical momentum and drifting uselessly in zero gravity. The sudden, unexpected loss of physical control threw the massive six-hundred-foot sovereign off balance, leaving its exposed chest cavity wide open.
Ayla materialized directly in front of the white-hot stellar core. She extended her five pitch-black claws to their maximum length and drove her fluid hand deep into the giant’s chest cavity.
Her grip locked tightly around the pulsating, cathedral-sized white-hot master core.
"Removal," Ayla commanded once more, her multi-layered mental voice booming like a divine decree directly inside the void sovereign’s ancient mind pathways.
She forcefully erased the concept of life retention from its primitive core framework.
The results were immediate, silent, and completely absolute.
The Void Core Sovereign’s three glowing golden eyes instantly lost their light, turning into dull, expressionless gray obsidian. The blinding stellar flames running through its rock-plated skin flickered and died out completely. The colossal six-hundred-foot dark matter construct surrendered its entire physical and spiritual framework to her control, its massive body going completely limp and drifting aimlessly among the space debris.
Ayla did not hesitate. She twisted her fluid tendrils, forcefully ripping the massive white-hot master core straight out of the giant’s chest, and pulled the cathedral-sized entity directly into her golden center.
She opened her translucent blue mass wide and swallowed the Peak Crown master core whole.
The moment her fluids wrapped around the apex stellar core, a blinding, multi-colored explosion of pure cosmic light erupted from Ayla’s body, illuminating the entire Astraeus sector for tens of thousands of kilometers.
The massive influx of Peak Crown world code and raw stellar authority flooded her biological framework, triggering a massive, permanent expansion of her internal foundation. Her translucent blue jelly form became impossibly clear, glossy, and dense, radiating a calm, absolute sovereign pressure that permanently stabilized her rank at the absolute pinnacle of the Crown tier.
[ System Notice: Void Core Sovereign eliminated ]
[ Peak Crown Master Core successfully digested ]
[ Your internal mana pool capacity has increased by a massive one hundred and fifty percent ]
[ The Void Ruin World of Astraeus has been one hundred percent conquered ]
Ayla floated quietly in the center of the silent, ruined void, letting out a deep, satisfied ripple as the blinding light around her body slowly settled down. The entire sector was completely clear now. The ancient guardian was dead, the leviathan herd was digested, and the raw cosmic authority of the primitive world was securely locked within her center.
"That was a very excellent lunch, Nexus," Ayla muttered flatly, her golden-ringed pupils glowing like twin miniature suns in the pitch-black void. "My core is completely satisfied now."
"You did it, little monster!" Nexus cheered happily, popping millions of digital celebration trophies across her vision screen. "You successfully solo-conquered a Class 4 Void Ruin world and defeated a Peak Crown apex sovereign! You are now physically and conceptually superior to every single student and professor back at the Ascendant Academy!"
Ayla bobbled her round blue body in complete, deadpan satisfaction. She looked back toward the pitch-black spatial tear that Nexus was opening in the vacuum, completely ready to return to her private residential suite to rest after her grand feast.
She dropped her heavy, glossy blue form straight into the spatial crack, leaving the empty, conquered void world of Astraeus behind in absolute silence.