Chapter 686 - 28: Deep Space, Unstoppable

"Satisfying my own desire to kill? The United International has granted me the right to enforce the law and even execute dangerous criminals on the spot in over a hundred member nations. I’ll be straight with you: I have the authority to enforce the law. What I do is a complete, streamlined process of lawful arrest, Judgment, and execution. It’s fair, legal, and reasonable."

"As for you, John Harrison, you’re a classic case of someone with ’Extraordinary Disease.’ You get a little power and suddenly you don’t see other people as human anymore? From the looks of it, you’re even planning on becoming a traitor to humanity..."

In the middle of speaking, Su Zhou suddenly sprang into action. He had used their previous Soul communication to pinpoint the area where the Deep Space Caller’s Soul density was greatest.

Even with the Deep Space Caller’s perception, it could only see Su Zhou’s figure flash for an instant. Immediately after, a force like a missile explosion erupted on the Moon Surface. All the rocks on the ground were suddenly blasted away, exposing a part of the body it had hidden underground.

It was still a huge, silver, gelatinous Demon with a crystallized outer layer. Faced with Su Zhou’s surprise attack, it roared and shot out a thick tentacle over ten meters in diameter and seventy meters long. The tentacle whipped toward Su Zhou at hypersonic speeds, a single strike powerful enough to level a small hill.

But Su Zhou simply drew his blade and slashed again. A golden flash of light that seemed to split the sky streaked past. CRACK! With force enough to shatter cities and break armies, it severed the tentacle completely.

At this moment, the Deep Space Caller finally realized something was wrong. Just as Su Zhou had been shocked to realize it was draining his power earlier, the Deep Space Caller now noticed that Su Zhou’s power wasn’t being drained at all. Not only was he maintaining his peak state, but he was also growing stronger as the fight went on!

’The Shapeless form has tenacious Life Force, but it’s impossible to defeat Su Zhou with it. He’ll just slaughter it like an animal.’

Realizing this, the Deep Space Caller immediately changed its strategy. Su Zhou, too, sensed a vast energy coming from all corners of the underground within a radius of dozens of kilometers, then rapidly Gathering in one spot!

"It’s time to get serious with you, Su Zhou."

The ground trembled and collapsed. As Ring Mountains crumbled and countless clouds of dust billowed up, an enormous, fortress-like, super-giant Demon began to rise slowly from beneath the earth. It was a colossal Giant Beast resembling a snail, carrying a massive silver shell on its back as it slithered forward.

This giant silver alien snail was over a hundred meters tall. With a body that massive, even a Commander Powerhouse on Earth probably couldn’t maintain it for long and might even collapse directly. This was an ultimate combat form that could only be used on the Moon!

Su Zhou stared at the snail in shock.

It wasn’t because of its size. If it were just about size, this snail was far smaller than the Water God of the past. That was an ultimate behemoth nearly a kilometer long, and hadn’t he slain it all the same?

What truly shocked Su Zhou were the joyful and happy human faces emerging from the Giant Beast’s shell. The silver Shapeless could transform into any form, but those hundreds, thousands, even countless faces were not something it had created. They were real, living human faces.

Su Zhou’s Evil-Devouring Demon Lord and Thoughtless Mind Divine Techniques could even sense the tangible Souls and incomparably clear inner voices behind each of those happy faces.

"Praise, praise be to you... Praise you, John, my God..."

"Glory to you. May you be powerful, solemn, holy, and pure..."

"You are my joy, my happiness..."

Su Zhou could hear that the voices of these Souls were filled with sincere joy and praise. They were genuinely, without a hint of falsehood, praising the Deep Space Caller. But not all of them. Su Zhou also saw that some faces were twisted in extreme pain and despair. Their expressions were struggling, and their inner voices were mostly howls of agony and fear.

Su Zhou realized that some of the pained faces were familiar. They were the faces of the researchers from the Antarctic Research Station. Among them, he even found Dr. Mensele and Lady Elizabeth, as well as some of the Zhengguo researchers. They were in agony, their inner voices screaming, ’Quick, kill me!’ along with a multitude of meaningless cries.

But whether they were cries of praise or screams of pain, all the faces had only one thing on their minds.

Praise, or Curse.

They were all single-mindedly repeating the name ’John Harrison’.

’So that’s how it is!’

A series of fragmented pieces of information began to connect in Su Zhou’s mind.

’The Monster the Deep Space Caller first summoned, the ’Shapeless,’ devoured seventeen hundred people from its hometown, forcing the American Federation to resort to a nuclear strike...’

’Everyone at the Antarctica Research Station died, but no bodies were ever found, only their clothes...’

’The Deep Space Caller must have an ability that lets it use ’other people’s emotions or attention to increase its own power’...’

"You... you’ve kept everyone you devoured inside the Shapeless, making them praise you for eternity to increase your power?"

"So this is your Divine Technique... No wonder you said I was similar to you..."

Floating high in the air, tightly gripping the Blade of Annihilation, Su Zhou looked down at the giant snail writhing on the surface as it adapted to its new form. He spoke in a low voice filled with utter disbelief, "The pain, I can understand. But the praise... How on earth did you manage that?"