Chapter 2510

2510 - The Event from Outside

Outside the Shell—

Sakaar spread his heavy soul sense and activated all his reconnaissance techniques and tools, directing his face toward Universe B-14.

He still maintained his sweat-covered armor; Sakaar's expression could not be seen at this moment…

But it could be inferred from all the demons around him, all of them with their large mouths hanging open in sheer astonishment.

…Three years ago, a report reached Marshal Sakaar about a luminous point in the desert of the Void. He immediately went to investigate the rumors of the Vanguard, and indeed, his sense was able to pick it up. There truly was a luminous point there, and nothing reached them from it except its light, which had traveled alone through the Void for an unknown number of years.

Sakaar immediately decided to leave the expansion mission and the protection of the Shell to Amon and the rest of the Demon Emperors, while he took a small number of his personal followers and moved toward the light for one purpose: to use it as a bearing to determine their course through the desert of the Void.

Three years… three years using extremely fast spacecraft to travel.

A craft like that could circle the entire Sector within a few hours, yet it had been moving nonstop at full power for three years.

And still, they had noticed nothing along the entire way, and the light had not grown larger.

What terrified them even more was the shape of the universe behind them…

Before they set off, The Shell had looked like a colossal wall with a slight curvature at the top, filled with luminous dust that turned out to be galaxies and nebulae.

Now, after traveling for three years using the fastest vessel model the empire possessed… the circular shape of the universe was barely beginning to appear.

They could now barely see the central bulge and clearer curvatures at the top and bottom, and only if they craned their necks while directing their senses toward the farthest directions!

Sakaar's aides asked him to stop more than once, for time here seemed almost frozen—they were merely sitting and scarcely anything happened. Their only proof that the vessel had been moving all that time was the slight change in the shape of the Shell of the Universe behind them. Had it not been for the fact that they themselves spent their time eating from their supplies, talking, and exchanging experiences, they would have gone mad!

But Sakaar did not stop; he continued.

Attacking other universes… these were The Master's instructions.

If that luminous point represented the nearest universe, then they had to explore it somehow.

But that distance… the distance made Sakaar lean toward abandoning the mission more than once, were it not for his iron resolve. Every time he decided to turn back, he fell silent and pressed on.

The Master has no need for them in the universe; he expelled them in a refined manner… yes, they have a mission, a safe place, and food, but they have no place within the universe, so why would they want to return?

His only problem is the lack of food before reaching the next universe, and—

…As Sakaar was thinking this way, something behind him happened that made him stand frozen in place, he and all his followers.

The fixed, hard Shell of Universe B-14 was emitting golden lights at this moment.

The Golden Light first erupted from a single point and began branching out at an incredible speed until it filled The Shell, then a Light Purple Light appeared and changed it into a certain pattern, and a kind of battle began between the two lights in an astonishing manner until the purple light was destroyed and the pattern was broken. At that moment, several cracks appeared across the entire Shell and it began to tremble.

Then the golden glow began to devour the Light Purple Light!

Only a small part of the Light Purple Light managed to escape the digestion process; it separated from The Shell and rushed far away at high speed, leaving everything else to happen as it would.

And indeed, the Golden Light seized control of The Shell swiftly and ended the disturbances on its surface before it formed a giant pattern… during that brief period, the glow could diminish at a rapid rate—it could be seen weakening, but not entirely.

Then, within just a few seconds, the remaining Golden Light retracted once more to the same point from which it had erupted.

"What… just happened?"

One of Sakaar's followers asked.

"Is the universe ending? …Perhaps it already has?"

"That Golden Light, that feeling…" Sakaar's deep voice was clearly hesitant. "I felt it when I was beside The Master last time… when he was purifying for me the blood of The Executioner that he had given you."

"…?!"

"Is this The Master's power?"

"Impossible, right? He is… The Master!"

"Are you saying The Master is weak?!" Sakaar turned to those beside him and slapped the one who had said those words. "Would we have been serving him until now if he were weak?"

"I… didn't mean that!" That demon stammered, clutching his cheek in pain and shame. "It's just… that level…"

"…." Sakaar turned to the ground for a few seconds, clearly thinking about something.

Then he raised his head toward the nearest aide. "Since The Master is the one who won that brief battle, there is no need to worry about anything. Return to The Shell and continue the expansion process."

"Go back?" The deputy picked up on the word. "What about you?"

Kkkshhh—

The vehicle's door opened and Sakaar floated out, not appearing the least bit uncomfortable.

Then his voice came again: "It's clear The Master is facing difficulties inside. Clearly he's taking big steps… Even if we were banished here in an elegant manner, we have a mission and we weren't able to complete it. I cannot return to meet him empty-handed."

Then whoosh—he vanished.

"Marshal!!" one of the deputies shouted.

Every one of them had taken particles from the Executioner's blood droplet, so their affinity for The Void was high. However, compared to Lord Sakaar, who had already digested four droplets, they were slower and weaker in the true Void.

So they were able to notice his trajectory, but they wouldn't be able to follow it—until they all set off behind him.

Even this vehicle wouldn't be able to match his speed in the Void Desert.

"Where exactly is he going?!"

"That's not even the direction of the bright spot!"

Gulp.

Everyone turned toward one person—the only one who had swallowed his saliva nervously.

Under the pressure of their gazes, that Demon pointed in the direction Sakaar had launched toward. "He's…"

Then he pointed toward the cloud of purple light escaping from The Shell. It was advancing in a specific direction at a terrifying speed, growing larger every second until it had become nearly the size of the Galaxy itself, even while still far away.

The rest of the assistants looked toward the pale purple cloud, then toward Sakaar's Path, then back toward the cloud…

At that, all of them made the same sound: a gulp.