A Core Ship From The Start-Chapter 2227 - 1509: Tricked Again (Haven’t Had Any New Games to Play Lately)
Duanmu Huai lay on the grass, looking at the night scene before him, yawning in boredom.
The Destructive Star God Nuuk was defeated.
This was not surprising, Duanmu Huai knew he would lose. In fact, Duanmu Huai also knew Nuuk’s rhetoric was just deceiving himself. This was not strange; as a Judge, Duanmu Huai had seen many cultists like this. They might have once pursued a beautiful goal, but reality repeatedly betrayed their expectations, leading them to choose degradation in the end.
Their reasoning is the same as Nuuk’s, fundamentally—this is the world’s rule; we can’t defy this rule. Everything we do is in vain, so we should submit to it instead of resisting it. Because resisting it is worthless, and meaningless.
Nuuk was no different. His civilization struggled bitterly, jumping back and forth on the brink of extinction, and ultimately couldn’t avoid the end of annihilation. It’s imaginable, when a country brings out something like an Iron Cavalry Plan, it surely means they are heading towards a dead fish and broken net situation.
In the end, the fish died, the net didn’t break.
So laughable.
At bottom, they only found an excuse to explain their failure.
Nuuk was the same. Even if he didn’t die at Duanmu Huai’s hands, he would die at the hands of other Star Gods. Just based on his experience, he was bound to die.
It’s one thing to fool others, but to fool yourself, there’s nothing to be done.
So in this respect, Duanmu Huai quite despises Nuuk. Look at the Empire, it has floated and sank over countless millennia; what great winds and waves have they not seen? Even in the end, when they activated the Black Hole Plan, they still chose to believe humans could rise again. Unlike Nuuk, who directly gave up, if you can’t win, just join.
This kind of thinking would be considered heretical in the Empire, directly executed. After all, this kind of person might turn to an Evil God out of despair at any moment.
Therefore, Duanmu Huai was determined to kill him. After all... he was a bit worried; if this guy didn’t die, he might become a lackey of the Chaos gods, which would be even more troublesome.
However, as a Destructive Star God, Nuuk was indeed not easy to deal with. Although Duanmu Huai defeated Nuuk, he also suffered some damage — but fortunately, the absorbed Power of Destruction could completely erase that loss.
What made Duanmu Huai most comfortable was that after absorbing the power of the Destructive Star God Nuuk, he gained control over the Anti-Matter Army, and Duanmu Huai destroyed them all without hesitation.
After all, Duanmu Huai’s Destruction Destiny is to destroy all threats to humans, and naturally the Anti-Matter Army is the first to be wiped out, exterminated at the thought of Duanmu Huai, not leaving a single piece. At that time, they danced so gracefully on the Destruction Destiny, now they die so miserably.
Moreover, this does not deviate from Duanmu Huai’s path of destruction, so even if these entire Anti-Matter Army died, it was no impact to Duanmu Huai.
So you see, destiny is this kind of thing, the difference lies in who uses it and how.
And not like Nuuk the coward, only knows to use grand principles to find excuses for himself. Fundamentally, if you can’t beat them, just join them, choosing to submit to the Destruction Destiny. What’s the use of becoming a Star God? In Duanmu Huai’s hands, the Destruction Destiny is just a tool, but Nuuk is the lackey of Destruction Destiny. The difference in superiority between the two is telling.
Control destiny, or be controlled by destiny?
Even Star Gods cannot escape this choice.
This shows that goals should not be overly grand.
The Tribunal did well in this regard. Duanmu Huai bound the Tribunal’s duty solely to human protection and to counter threats. He didn’t bother with any matters outside of this, nor did he care. Duanmu Huai didn’t plan to rebuild the Imperial like the Emperor. The Emperor’s failure is evident, knowing it’s a dead-end, naturally Duanmu Huai wouldn’t follow it.
The Tribunal’s branches on various planets mostly remain dormant. If someone tries to summon a Demon King or something, they will intervene to stop it. But most of the time, they let the opponent succeed, and then directly kill the summoned being on the spot.
Especially the various cults in the Faelun World, deeply harmed by it, that they now summon some devils and demons onto the Plane of Major Material, they don’t come at all.
Once they come, they’re killed, and being killed by the Tribunal, they can’t even be banished back to Hell, directly disintegrated into ashes. Who can withstand that?
In fact, Nuuk wasn’t completely dead either, Duanmu Huai absorbed sixty percent of his power, while the remaining forty percent scattered and flew away, whereabouts unknown. This is not Duanmu Huai’s carelessness, but the Destruction Destiny practiced by Nuuk was fundamentally different from Duanmu Huai’s. For example, the Extinguishing Monarchs under Nuuk, each person’s method of destroying the world is different.
But in Duanmu Huai’s view, these are all fancy tricks; pursuing ceremonial sense is not as convenient as directly using Neutron Annihilation or Destruction Magic to get things done quickly.
As for these Extinguishing Monarchs using natural disasters, spiritual pollution, electronic manipulation... it’s purely wasting time.
So this part of the power, even if Nuuk begged to give it to Duanmu Huai, Duanmu Huai wouldn’t want it, letting it scatter.
After this, Duanmu Huai returned to the Tribunal, dealt with those Iron Cavalry, and converted their destiny from reproduction to destruction, simultaneously removing their Entropy Loss.
As for the naming aspect, Duanmu Huai was too lazy to change it again, so he directly continued using the name Iron Cavalry, as long as it’s not called Gramer. 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝘦𝓌𝑒𝑏𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝘭.𝒸𝘰𝑚
Of course, what was most important to Duanmu Huai was... he finally got the blueprint he longed for, anticipated endlessly... the Ether Synchronous Engine!
That’s right, after annihilating the Anti-Matter Army, Duanmu Huai’s progress bar was finally filled, opening the final stage of Calamity Ascension!
Ether Synchronous Engine!
The end is right before you!
Upon holding this blueprint, Duanmu Huai was almost moved to tears. After countless days and nights, finally reached this step. Dealing with those bastards in the subspace... could be considered a conclusion...
So what to do after dealing with those bastards in the subspace?
I’ll talk about it later.
It’s just that Duanmu Huai didn’t immediately start the construction of the Ether Synchronous Engine, because the three large defense space stations haven’t been completed yet. Maria’s side has been working overtime, but it still needs quite some time to finish. Duanmu Huai plans to wait until all three defense space stations are completed, then shove them right in front of the Eye of Fear’s door, and build the Ether Synchronous Engine in front of them.
Hmm... it’s basically like having a disco outside the enemy’s spring.
But this doesn’t mean Duanmu Huai had nothing to do; in fact, he has a big problem.
Perhaps because Duanmu Huai invested too much in the divine position of the God of Destruction, plus he killed Nuuk and absorbed a large amount of Destruction Destiny’s strength. Right now, Duanmu Huai feels his God of Destruction’s Power is somewhat inefficient, simply put, it’s like indigestion from eating too much. He can feel the Destruction Destiny’s power flowing within him, but it seems to be a case of well water not mingling with river water with his God of Destruction’s Power, the fusion being very slow.
This makes Duanmu Huai somewhat worried. During the battle with Nuuk, Duanmu Huai naturally felt the gazes from other Star Gods. He is uncertain of these Star Gods’ attitude towards him, but these Star Gods are not as easy to deal with as the Gods of Faelun. After all, just dealing with Nuuk took quite a lot of effort from Duanmu Huai. If these Star Gods come to trouble him, then with Duanmu Huai’s current situation, it is very likely he would suffer.
Luckily, the system timely opened a trial task for Duanmu Huai, which gave him an opportunity. He just has to enter the trial task and quietly wait for the Destruction Destiny’s power and his own power to merge, then come out and it’s settled.
Moreover, the task name is "Refining God", and the task content is simply to wait for the Destruction Destiny to fuse in the trial world. It’s quite a simple task, seems rather routine.
Duanmu Huai even feels that this is the first time the system has become humanized, knowing how to tailor a task for him, so he happily entered.
Thus, currently, Duanmu Huai looks dead-eyed.
I’m so stupid, really, I should have known the system wouldn’t be so kind-hearted, it doesn’t even look like a kind system...
Duanmu Huai feels like he’s turning into Aunt Xianglin, mumbling nonstop.
There’s no problem with the task itself.
Duanmu Huai isn’t restricted or anything, or rather, the system just placed him in this world.
But the problem is this world...
It turns out to be a Martial Arts World!
This is why Duanmu Huai’s eyes are vacant, lying on the grass in a daze.
Honestly, even if the system threw Duanmu Huai into a cultivation world, he wouldn’t be afraid.
But a Martial Arts World... is really a place where Duanmu Huai can’t do anything!
The Tribunal’s duty is to eliminate Aliens, Heretics, and Demons.
What does the Martial Arts World have?
Ghosts? No.
Monsters and freaks? Also no.
Cultists?... The cultists in this world can’t even summon a Demon King.
As for the Martial World’s white path vs black path dispute, what does it have to do with the Tribunal?
This sect and that sect, fight if you want, kill if you want, who in the Tribunal cares?
Then, Duanmu Huai realized he encountered a big problem.
Which is... boredom!
Yes, too boring!
In a Martial Arts world, if you’re not interested in martial arts, it truly is a world that’s boring to the extreme!
Ah, you’d be better off throwing me into Fengshen Yanyi; fighting alongside the Jie Sect would be better than this.
Although back when Duanmu Huai was thrown into Journey to the West, it was also an ancient society, but at least that world had Immortals, Demons, Devils, and Buddhas; it felt lively, eating, drinking, sightseeing, and those monsters were quite tasty.
But what does the Martial Arts world have?
With Duanmu Huai’s physique that can bathe in lava, what martial arts skill can break his defense? Are you kidding?
"Sigh..."
Duanmu Huai silently sighed.
Sure enough, he is still being tricked by this damned system.
