The Heavenly Martial Empress Returns: An OP Xianxia Returnee LitRPG

Chapter 218: Black Calamity Dragon: Burst Mode

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Above the skies, the gigantic mothership of the Saurians hovered through the stratosphere, slowly trying to descend into the “new Earth” they discovered within this parallel world. One that was filled with much weaker monkeys and with a more tamed wilderness, but that was also filled with precious resources they desired.

Inside of it, a Martian possessed by an ancient, primal god of all dinosaurs closed his eyes, focusing on the battle he was having on the surface of the planet. The vessels he was controlling had finally met their match, a being of unfathomable power, a power he could not absorb, and a being he couldn’t possess, no matter how hard he tried.

It was definitely not just prey anymore, but an ENEMY.

An enemy that had to be slain if he wanted to continue his conquest of this planet, a being that had to be eliminated at all costs, which he had been lured to confront by his previous prey.

“My Divine Lord, your face…!” The Saurian woman by his side panicked; Lady Bloodclaw seemed to notice that her lord was struggling a bit.

“Don’t mind me!” he roared angrily. “Remain focused, not your task; continue gathering forces… That planet must be mine no matter what… but dammit! If only I'd obtained the Speedium Particles powers, I would’ve become invincible…! Now I’m stuck in this damned fight.”

Despite being an ancient god, his existence was driven by the savagery and overwhelming power of the Dinosaurs of the Primal Earth. He was cunning and calculative to an extent, but he would rapidly grow stressed once things didn’t go his way, and his rage and savage nature would surge alongside his bloodlust.

He had been waiting for a moment like this his entire life, since the Saurians achieved the ability to leave Earth altogether and spread through the other planets of the solar system, but he had yet to find a planet with enough life to assimilate.

Until now, with all of this life and mysterious, supernatural powers he could absorb, he simply couldn’t let it get away from him, nor he could allow himself to be defeated…

“I’ll put everything I have into this battle…” His eyes suddenly opened, glowing bright red. “Whatever that thing is, I shall eliminate it! Bloodclaw, assemble your troops; we are descending within the next ten minutes! Our entire army must fight this thing if needed! Deploy more spaceships!”

“Y-Yes, Divine Lord!”

As the Saurian Primal God spoke through the body of the Martian Man he made his true vessel; he quickly expanded his Psychic Powers, enhanced through the combination of his Divine Primal Power and the Martian Man’s abilities.

FLAAASH!

As he did, the entire world was rapidly scanned by his eyes as he analyzed it and sought things that could help him defeat the Dark Storm Dragon… He saw Bing Xue and her family, the giant spaceship beneath the heroes he was controlling, and where Wingspeed was most likely hiding.

“…There he is, that bastard.”

But that wasn’t all; he saw a huge battle in a large city in the north area of the continent where this was happening, a place known as Washington D.C., where the human ruler of that country was fighting an invader and his army.

“What is this?”

He was surprised and slightly weirded out as he saw these soldiers… They were wearing strange makeup over their faces. With painted white faces, red noses, and cross-shaped blue painting around their eyes.

“What in the world am I seeing?”

They were constantly laughing while chasing off others, fighting like crazed beasts, completely insane. The more he heard that laughter, the more disgusted he felt.

“This disgusting feeling… Is this some kind of psychic attack? No… This is similar but different—some sort of supernatural power? An illusion? No… not that either! This feeling… how revolting!”

He quickly pulled away his eyes from the scene without wanting to hear another laughter, which he felt might drive him mad as well if he were much weaker mentally and not a divine being.

“Whoever has activated such a powerful and contagious technique must possess psychic abilities of some sort and supernatural “magic” as well… But wait, perhaps both?”

He wondered for a moment, realizing that the origin of this “contagious laughter” might be deeper than just a psychic attack, but something regarding the deeper subconscious of an intelligent being, something that could be described as “memetic”.

“A subconscious, unaware imitation of an aspect of culture, emotions, and suffering…” He calculated. “It is contagious, spreading the more mentally vulnerable the targets are, who will rapidly get infected, laugh, and attack others. As long as your will is powerful enough, it is hard to get infected, but not impossible either. The minds of mortals are weak. After all, with enough push, even the bravest man will succumb to insanity.”

But then he smiled, suddenly realizing the potential of such a weapon.

“Interesting…”

He considered using it against his foe, but it would likely not work either, as the foe he was fighting seemed to be the embodiment of a concept, which would be immune to a memetic infection, as their minds would never waver and never change, or they would simply cease to exist if they did.

“But this… this might be useful.”

He managed to find several giant fragments of a massive monster spread around the world, though some of them were very far away from the battle, some rather close by.

Two out of the five were already being taken away by some other forces, but two others remained, with the fifth being with that Red Gaoranger he saw helping Wingspeed.

“I will give you the coordinates to something very interesting I found; quickly send all available troops towards these coordinates,” he said, waving his claws and quickly pinpointing two locations within the holographic map of Earth.

“Yes, right away, my Divine Lord.” Bloodclaw nodded.

“And hurry, before others take them away…” He squinted his eyes. “There is surprisingly a lot of fierce competition on this planet…”

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RUMBLE!

Meanwhile, the skies above Bing Xue’s golden pagoda erupted with several shockwaves as a massive, over two-hundred-meter-long dragon made of shadows and darkness clashed constantly against a group of superheroes from another world, now having become the puppets of the Saurian God.

“We’ll hunt you down no matter what!”

Jade Star unleashed the powers of his Jade, constructing a massive mechanical giant made of green psionic energies and assembling it with several barriers stacked together to add durability.

“Haaahh!”

With a furious roar, he thrust a giant spear wielded by the mechanical projection, piercing through the body of the Dark Storm Dragon’s Darkness, leaving behind several holes.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

“GRRRHHH…!”

The Dark Storm Dragon grew annoyed as he quickly manifested the power of the Seven Dark Heavenly Paths, unleashing seven layers of dark clouds of different darkened colors.

And then he turned them into gigantic dragons, rushing towards Jade Star and surrounding him all at once.

“Aaahh!”

Jade Star screamed as he saw the dragons destroy his construction and quickly began to coil around his body, their jaws beginning to gnaw at his arms and legs, tearing them apart.

CRAAASH!

“Uuaaggh!”

As he screamed in agony, the Dark Storm Dragon quickly aimed to grab the jewel on Jade Star’s chest and shatter it if necessary.

“THAT JEWEL MUST BE THE ORIGIN OF YOUR POWERS, RIGHT? I’LL SHATTER IT AND SCATTER ITS PIECES LIKE DUST!”

His massive claws were about to reach the agonizing Jade Star, but he quickly manifested several gigantic barriers layered together, his claw hitting them instead.

BAAAM!

As they began to shatter one after another, Marvelous Woman appeared, beheading the dragons that the Dark Storm Dragon summoned with her sword and then grabbing Jade Star and running away.

“DON’T YOU DARE…!”

The Dark Storm Dragon grew furious, only to be stopped by someone grabbing the tip of his tail and dragging him back to him.

“Where do you think you’re going?!”

Galaxy Man used his ridiculous strength to drag the cosmic dragon back to him, encompassing his hands with his Cosmic Radiation to allow him to grab an ethereal being, even without magic of his own.

“UUNNGGH?! BASTARD!”

The Dark Storm Dragon didn’t take it lightly though; to be grabbed by his tail and dragged back was a terrible offense! With a furious roar, he opened his three jaws, firing three Primordial Chaos Beams after gathering and fusing the Seven Dark Heavenly Paths within the interior of his body—something not even Fang Gu Lan could do, effectively surpassing him.

BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!

The three beams impacted Galaxy Man’s body head-on, explosive beams capable of easily wiping out an entire city in a matter of seconds or decimating a mountain into dust.

And yet, the man remained alive; although his body released smoke, his clothes were slightly tattered too but were holding just fine.

“I’ll show you my true power, which I was only able to unlock once my Lord Awakened my Mind and Body!” Galaxy Man smiled viciously, reaching the Dark Storm Dragon and piercing through his body with his own.

CRAASH!

“UNGH?!”

And then again!

CRAASH!

“AARGH!”

And again.

CRAASH!

And again!

CRAAASH!

Constantly, Galaxy Man didn’t stop, using his body as a weapon due to its ridiculous durability, piercing through his foe’s body constantly, destroying the Darkness Essence by burning it with his Cosmic Radiation.

Each time he pierced through the Dark Storm Dragon, cosmic explosions erupted, nullifying part of his Darkness at the same time!

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

“UNNGGH?!”

The Dark Storm Dragon was shocked that this little human could have such an incredibly high molecular density. His claws rushed down as Galaxy Man gritted his teeth, intercepting them with his arms and bare hands.

BAAAM!

“Human! Just how strong are you?!”

BAAAM!

“I sense no supernatural power within you!”

BAAAM!

“There’s not an ounce of magical powers either?!”

BAAAM!

“And yet… why are you this powerful?! WHO ARE YOU?!”

Galaxy Man’s hair waved by the wind, his blood covering a lot of his body. Despite how he seemed so superior in the battle, he was taking a lot of damage.

“I am Galaxy Man…”

He smiled viciously, not with the honest and humble bravery of the hero of the galaxy…

But as the God he was.

While being possessed by the Saurian God, he realized that he himself was a God.

His humility was gone, and so was his value on bonds.

His Ego grew as he came to accept the tremendous might he held.

“And I am a God.”

The Dark Storm Dragon smiled, obsessed with this tiny puny human!

He found him fascinating.

“INTERESTING…!”

His gigantic body rapidly began to compress itself as Galaxy Man was pushed away by an immense shockwave of pure darkness, sending him flying away.

TRUUUMMM!!!

“Then let me show you…!”

The Darkness condensed to a subatomic level into a much smaller, humanoid body!

Galaxy Man and the other possessed heroes glanced at the scene with utter disbelief.

“What I can do as well!”

RUMBLE!

The skies trembled as Galaxy Man saw a humanoid-like being of four meters of height, no longer hundreds of meters.

He had a muscular body, with six gigantic arms, covered on black scales, and with three draconic heads, alongside several crimson eyes across his muscular, black body.

It was as if he was made of black metal…

By compressing all his Darkness into a single point, the Dark Storm Dragon managed to manifest himself physically and became even stronger as a result.

“THIS IS MY ALL!”

As he roared, he pointed his claws at Galaxy Man, his Darkness Aura overflowing with Cosmic Power, his body glowed, with several vein-like areas of his body glowing bright purple, releasing electricity.

“{BLACK CALAMITY DRAGON: BURST MODE}”

TRUUUM!

By kicking the skies, he rushed towards Galaxy Man, swinging all six of his claws against him! Galaxy Man quickly placed his arms at the front of his head and chest, aiming to defend.

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

And yet…

“Urgh! Ahh?!”

Galaxy Man gasped in disbelief, screaming in agony as he saw his arms being torn to shreds; his muscles were easily sliced, revealing the white bone beneath, which gained several cracks.

“Oh? Did you suddenly become much weaker? Or maybe… I am stronger than a god?”

The Dark Storm Dragon smiled viciously as Galaxy Mana’s crimson eyes began to spiral around, the powers of the Saurian God overflowing through his body.

“You will regret those words.”

CRAAASH!

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