Wizard: Stronger through Marriage

Chapter 1264: Chapter 587: First Appearance of the Star Devourer (Part 2)

The spacecraft navigates the chaos at the center of the turbulence, each lightning-fast leap accompanied by the hull trembling and a slight feeling of weightlessness. Soldiers grip the handrails tightly, some with grim faces while others close their eyes to meditate, trying not to let this otherworldly environment disturb their minds.

”It feels like being sucked into the center of a cosmic torrent, with an invisible hand twisting space and tearing us to pieces,” Annie whispered, her voice mingled with fear yet tinged with excitement, ”but it’s also the gateway to unknown forces, we have no retreat.”

During a brief passage through the storm, the boundless dark sky suddenly reveals a shattered radiant light; it is the gigantic wreckage floating in the star domain—a silence of several colossal, bizarre, and severely broken unidentified structures suspended in the endless void, seemingly once glorious, now reduced to eternally drifting objects among the fallen stars.

David captures the details through enhanced vision, noting the wreckage surfaces riddled with cracks and burn marks, along with many irregular scattered pits that seemed to have endured powerful impacts or explosions. He frowned, ”These are not ordinary battlefield relics; it’s more like they were ravaged by some extreme force.”

Liya adds, ”The residual rune fluctuations emitted from these ruins are unusually chaotic, completely different from the imprints left by known civilizations... More worrisome is the suspected presence of insect activity signs here. They excel at eroding and devouring spatial biological creations, their destructive methods exceptionally fierce, and this location certainly matches the characteristics.”

Upon hearing this, the atmosphere inside the ship turned tense. A technical wizard immediately activated precision analytical instruments to monitor the radiation from the wreckage and the spatial curvature, preventing any sudden attacks from the insect race or other unknown threats.

Meanwhile, the ”Silver Wing Ark” continued to sail swiftly, but the ether storm was far from subsiding—spiritual hallucinations frequently attacked some members, with some feeling enveloped by shadows of hesitance, while others heard whispers calling from the void’s depths. This supernatural pressure can easily lead people into panic or even mental collapse.

Cynthia, enduring the pain brought by bloodline beastification while also suffering from this mental disturbance, knitted her brows with sweat beading on her forehead; wave after wave of vibrations nearly caused her to lose control, yet she persisted by sheer will, resisting the erosion. ”I cannot fall; we must complete the mission.” She murmured to herself, eyes flickering with unyielding flames.

David remained constantly alert, continually adjusting protective spells to shield the core team, simultaneously using his demigod power to stabilize the entire ship’s magic field. ”Everyone must focus, no slack!” His voice was calm yet carried a pressing force, ”The current peril is not ordinary, every step forward is a test of life and death!”

As time passed, they gradually approached the most hazardous area—dense with complex temporal ripples and gravity traps, known as the ”Drifting Cluster,” where giant stellar ruins amassed into mountain-like piles. Starting from here, not only was the spatial structure extremely unstable, but they might also encounter insect race raids and patrols by other ancient unknown beings...

The Silver Wing Ark gently rocked, plunging the entire ship into a transient loss of gravity. Soldiers quickly grabbed handrails or leaned on each other to prevent falls and injuries. Momentarily, the cabin resonated with various gasping knight guard sounds, as David remained as solid as a rock, his gaze fixed firmly outside the window on the gradually ever-changing, dreamlike mysterious yet peril-ridden new cosmic vista:

Purple-blue radiation clouds intertwined into maze-like passages;

Drifting with faint fluorescent dust;

Intermittently hanging several small damaged meteors emitting cold blue flames;

Even vaguely visible enormous mysterious biological silhouettes looming in the shadows...

All of this resembled the door to cyclic renewal in ancient legendary tales!

Just as everyone held their breath, gazing into the future, a more intense and oppressive presence suddenly surged from afar, leaving a strong imprint by some extraordinary existence, enveloping the entire path like the Grim Reaper wielding a black scythe...

David clenched his fists, aware this journey had just begun, also marking the prelude of a thorn-filled, hope-laden new epoch:

”Is everyone prepared? We are about to enter a realm previously untrodden!”

The crowd responded in unison, ”Ready!”

The Silver Wing Ark cut through with a dazzling trajectory, rushing again into that vast, ethereal, infinitely dangerous yet potentially infinitely possible new cosmic abyss...

The Silver Wing Ark traversed the dark star domain void, gradually nearing the coordinates known as the ”Lonely Islands.” Outside the porthole, the starry brilliance became increasingly sparse, and a shadow enveloped the vast star domain ahead, like a ghostly veil sweeping across the endless night. David stood in the center of the control room, his gaze fixed on the gradually expanding scene on the projection crystal, which was a rolling, deep, eerie ”Shadow Mantle.”

This black-purple cloud layer was as substantial as it was heavy, yet filled with an eerie sense of flow, with countless fine tentacle-like structures faintly visible within it, continually twisting and spreading. The projection crystal’s psionic sensor emitted continuous alarms—

”Detected ultra-high energy life signals! Gravity field intensity is abnormal, absorbing all matter and energy throughout the domain!”

The air suddenly felt frozen, and the atmosphere within the cabin quickly turned tense. Liya furrowed her brows deeply, slowly extending her hand to adjust the navigation array, hoping to use star gnomon fragments to discern more details, but confronted with this vast terrifying dark cloud layer, she could only glimpse the tip of the iceberg.

”Are these... could they be the legendary insect race nest?” Annie’s face turned pale, her eyes filled with shock and fear, ”The number far exceeds imagination, they are like colossal houses patrolling the ’Mantle’ edge.”

The projection crystal suddenly flashed a shape resembling a rift, a rare blank spot on the ”Shadow Mantle.” Through the gap, an awe-inspiring scene abruptly appeared—

Dozens of mountain-like thick tentacles covered in hard chitinous shells slowly unfurled, resembling ancient giant beasts spanning the void. These tentacles were agile and powerful, easily encircling a small planet, then shredding and crushing it with astonishing force.

With deafening blasts, the shattered planet was delivered into an unimaginably vast mouth—a maw built of countless sharp crystals, capable of devouring an entire planet! It lay at the edge of a massive structure’s core, reportedly the nest—a corner of the ancient existence known as the ”Star Devourer.”

David’s eyes narrowed, feeling the oppressive force radiating from that maw, like invisible sinister claws pulling the surrounding space into a destructive vortex. This was no ordinary creature to contend with, but rather an ominous monster capable of tearing through star energy and engulfing world will.

Inside the cabin, everyone’s expressions became solemn, intimidated by this horrifying power, yet more acutely aware of the extreme situation they were about to face. Liya clenched her fist, her voice low yet resolute, ”The enemy is not only fierce but possesses high intelligence and destructive potential; we must respond cautiously.”

Annie turned to look at David, ”Lord, given the scale and threat level, if we arrive a step too late... we might be unable to recover.”

Alia maintained a silent focus, her eyes blazing with the fire of the blood prison world, facing the depths of the screen, ”Similar entities exist within the Blood Prison World; we must exert all our strength to break the encirclement using the ’Silver Wing Ark’ as the breakthrough core swiftly.”

David nodded, knowing this battle was extremely dangerous, but only by winning it would they have the right to protect all life. He calmly commanded, ”Activate the ship’s defense array; everyone be on alert! Report any unusual signs immediately!”

As his voice fell, the ”Silver Wing Ark” surrounded by rune metal plates merged into a multilayered shield, emitting a faint blue electricity glow; the internal rune array simultaneously accelerated, enhancing the ship’s shield to maximum state.