Interstellar Survival: Invasion
Chapter 309: Core's Power

A bitter fight unfolded before our eyes. The fiend utilized its flames to form a ball of fire around its body, burning any part of the super virus that approached it. The red flame it released seemed extremely destructive; the super virus would immediately pull its tentacle back upon touching the flame. With the ball of flame around its body, the super virus was unable to land any attack on the fiend. For a moment, the fiend seemed to occupy the upper hand.

"I don't know what the ball of flames from before do, but I don't think they're anything simple," said Baron Sisse.

"Maybe those balls are a planted signal from the fiend. The moment the signal appears, we need to join it in attacking the super virus," Zhang Xingxing guessed.

Amid the raging storm, the super virus fought both the robotic army and the fiend at the same time. Even so, it still did not look like it was at that much of a disadvantage. It was truly a powerful being. Before long, Markus's system indicated that another Nebula-class cruiser had left the city in the sky. The ship was heading in the battlefield's direction to reinforce the robotic army.

On the ground, the fiend attacked with its unique red flame, burning a large part of the super virus's body. However, the blue flame burning within its body seemed to be getting stronger as well. It was unknown if the fiend could last until the very end.

Suddenly, an odd scene appeared. On the ground, several blue dots of light appeared in the super virus's body. The dots rapidly expanded, madly devouring their surroundings to grow in size. The devoured parts of the super virus were turned into blue, shining holes.

"Blue balls of light. The fiend's signal has appeared," said Baron Sisse.

What we saw was the work of the fiend of Pluto. The six blue balls of light that had sunken into the super virus's body displayed an extreme corrosive effect, damaging the super virus from within while the fiend attacked from the outside.

The blue balls spread faster and faster, and before long, the entire ground below us looked like a festering piece of skin. Due to the corrosion, the massive super virus twisted its body and released an odd scream.

The fiend would not miss such a good opportunity to attack. While the super virus was tortured by intense pain, it started spouting fire at the undamaged parts of the super virus. The two different attacks coupled with the firepower of the robotic army, the super virus started turning sluggish.

"This really looks like a chance. We need to join the fight as well. Maybe we can fully defeat the super virus after all. Temo, take out your ship's trump card and blast this monster to death," suggested Zhang Bao'er in excitement.

"Brother Bao'er is right. This is the perfect opportunity to attack," Baron Sisse agreed.

"Temo, bring Markus into combat mode and attack the super virus with everything you have," ordered Zhang Xingxing.

This time, Temo did not say anything and brought Markus out of invisibility. All the ship's energy was focused on the offensive system. Hundreds of miniature missiles flew out of the ship, heading toward the different parts of the super virus. Before long, hundreds of red explosions erupted on the super virus's body as Temo attacked alongside the fiend.

"Looks like the super virus's body is weakening and can't mount an effective defense. This is our chance!" said Kelly in excitement.

Hearing Kelly's words, Temo unleashed even more missiles at the super virus. At the same time, numerous beams also shot out toward the super virus.

"Remember to not use the vigor bomb anymore. We don't want the super virus absorbing the energy again," Zhang Bao'er suddenly said.

Temo ignored Zhang Bao'er and continued attacking with every weapon at his disposal apart from the vigor bomb.

"This is bad. A group of fighter drones is flying toward us," said Old Du.

"Looks like this three-way fight is unavoidable in spite of everything," I said.

"I'll try to establish contact with these robots and see if we can reach a temporary agreement to join hands against the super virus," Temo said.

The approaching fighter drones surrounded Markus and entered a battle formation. But a few minutes later, they actually left.

"Why did the drones leave? I didn't see you send any messages to them," said Zhang Bao'er in astonishment.

"The message has been sent. I can send a message with my brain waves. Do you think we need to perform manual message transmission like planet-level civilizations?" said Temo smugly.

"Temo, how did you convince the robotic army to agree?" asked Zhang Xingxing.

"I told them that we should prioritize defeating the super virus since that is our common enemy. They agreed," replied Temo.

"That's way too simple and completely unlike the empire," said Old Du. He had always been a cautious one.

"Of course, there is an additional term. After destroying the super virus, we need to surrender unconditionally to the robotic army," said Temo, instantly triggering all of us.

"What? We need to surrender? Have you gone mad?" said Domo. He had stayed silent for a bit but had finally found another chance to criticize Temo without straying from the topic.

"If we don't agree, we won't be able to win this battle. The robotic army hasn't even used their full strength," said Temo.

"Don't worry. It's a fake surrender. When the time comes, we can just ignore them," said Zhang Bao'er uncaringly.

"That absolutely won't do. The promise of the Sacred Wing race is sacred and must not be broken," said Temo.

"The Sacred Wing race never breaks promises? Why don't you think back on your history and recall your broken promises," said Domo, who was instantly triggered.

"This—" Temo was rendered speechless, which rarely happened.

"Let's put that aside for now. Focus on attacking the super virus. We'll decide on what to do after defeating the monster," said Zhang Xingxing, moving our focus back to the battle.

"Attack with everything you have. Don't give that monster any respite," I said.

Under Temo's control, Markus's attack intensified. Apart from the vigor bomb, every weapon available was already put to use. Under the attack of Markus, the robotic army, and the fiend, even something as powerful as the super virus looked to be on the brink of collapse.

The burning blue holes were spreading deeper and deeper into the virus's body, creating deep, dark holes in its body with a rim of blue flame. The rim constantly burned and devoured the body of the super virus.

"Looks like this fellow won't hold on for long. A freak billions of years old will finally be defeated," said Old Du.

"We'll kill it and avenge Master Crystal. This fellow has taken a lot of lives," said Zhang Bao'er furiously.

"I don't think things will end so easily. My intuition is telling me that this fellow wouldn't be so weak," said Temo.

The intense attack continued while the holes the super virus's body continued growing. Gradually, the holes created by the six blue balls spread enough to link up and form a massive hole.

Abruptly, a blast of icy fog erupted from the hole. The fog reached high into the sky, creating a circular opening in the middle of the intense storm.

"That's too intense. It doesn't look like something an organic life form can do. This is something only the core of the planet can create," said Old Du.

"So the fiend's corrosive flame was able to devour even the ground? Just how long had it taken to accumulate enough energy to unleash such an attack?" asked Baron Sisse.

Right at that moment, an odd scene appeared. As a burst of icy fog rose into the sky, the super virus's rotting body abruptly rose and gathered around the icy fog, as though that was its final hope.

The super virus seemed completely unaffected by the icy fog. Instead, the flames all over its body were rapidly being extinguished. After obtaining the energy contained in the icy fog, the super virus's badly damaged body regained its vitality.

"This is bad! The super virus is using the energy of Pluto's core to heal. We need to stop it or everything we have done up to now will be wasted," said Zhang Xingxing anxiously.

"How can our single ship control such a violent eruption? I doubt even the fiend can do anything about it," said Temo.

He was right. The distant fiend also saw what was happening. It slowed down its attacks before stopping completely.