Mo Yuan was momentarily surprised, but then he began to laugh.
“Interesting. Learning from your mistakes, are you? Did you move the engine and hide its location while you were busy repairing the spaceship?”
He did not even have to think to know that this was most likely the handiwork of A Zhen and Scarlet.
Scarlet’s supernatural power allowed her to manipulate electromagnetism, which could generate an electromagnetic field to interfere with power-sensing abilities.
“But just doing that isn’t enough!”
Mo Yuan had been using Lin Zhen’s Metal Reconstruction power to intercept the spaceship only because it was incredibly convenient, but that did not mean it was his only option.
He raised both hands high.
Purple light flashed across the surface of the spaceship, and the vessel’s overall gravity suddenly increased several times over.
The spaceship, which had already risen several meters off the ground, suddenly sank. The jolt sent everyone inside crashing into the ceiling.
‘A gravity-type supernatural power?’
At that moment, Lin Zhen felt incredibly grateful that his spaceship was small and that the engines he had prepared had enough redundant power.
He pushed the control lever, and the engines roared to life. Several one-meter-long, crystal-blue flames erupted from the bottom of the ship.
The powerful thrust forced the spaceship to begin its ascent once more.
But in the next second, the spaceship emitted the agonizing screech of deforming metal.
The front, middle, and rear sections of the ship began to warp in different directions and to varying degrees at the same time.
*Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!*
The self-diagnostic lights on the control console flashed red, and the alarm buzzer began to blare.
‘What’s going on? Did Mo Yuan increase the gravity?’
Lin Zhen pushed the control lever with a puzzled expression, only to find that the deformation of the ship worsened.
Resting his right hand on the engine exposed inside the ship, he seemed to realize something and suddenly shouted, “He changed the gravity of each individual section! He’s trying to make you tear this spaceship apart yourself!”
‘He changed the gravity of each section?’
Lin Zhen reacted instantly. He slammed the control lever upward, slowing the ship’s ascent.
A bead of sweat rolled down his temple.
That was close. He had almost fallen for the trap!
“Oh, did you figure it out?”
Mo Yuan noticed the jet flames at the bottom of the ship suddenly shrink and immediately understood that his trap had been seen through by Lin Zhen and the others.
But it did not matter; he had other methods.
Mo Yuan maintained the gravitational pressure on the spaceship and then switched to Xingcaiai’s power. He leaped into the air, transforming into a massive seven-colored star as he charged toward the ship.
He intended to use this high-impact ability to smash the spaceship into two!
Through the dome window, Lin Zhen watched the seven-colored star hurtling toward them. He did not look surprised at all.
As if he had anticipated this long ago, he turned and shouted, “Kaos! Are you ready?”
“I’ve been ready!”
Kaos, whose face was flushed red for some reason, responded loudly. He glared at Mo Yuan with a cold, mocking smile.
“This is the trump card I’ve been preparing for you for a long time! Take this — World-Ending Tornado!”
Kaos shouted the somewhat melodramatic move name, but no one cared.
Because the storm had arrived.
From the beginning until now, the tornado had been gathering strength for nearly twenty minutes. Having absorbed a massive amount of surrounding air, it was like a balloon filled to the bursting point.
Now, under Kaos’s deliberate control, the tornado released all its accumulated airflow in a single instant.
It formed a terrifying whirlwind powerful enough to end the world.
It spun.
It tore.
It swallowed.
Only Yun Ruoxi, lying on the ground, was kept from being sucked into the gale by Kaos’s control.
“Aaaaaah!”
The veins on Kaos’s forehead bulged violently.
He clenched his hands together with extreme force, swinging them toward Mo Yuan as if he were pulling a weight of a thousand pounds.
***
In the next second, the gale capable of destroying everything on the surface was forcibly steered toward the star that Mo Yuan had become.
The seven-colored star’s rapid charge was instantly frozen in mid-air. It wobbled up and down like a bee dancing in the wind.
The light on the star’s surface flickered repeatedly.
Kaos could almost see Mo Yuan himself roaring, trying to pit his strength against the wind.
He was tenaciously terrifying.
But Mo Yuan was not Yun Ruoxi. How could the strength of a single First-tier star energy user ever defeat the power of nature?
Finally, the light on the star dimmed, and it was swept away by the whirlwind toward the horizon.
“Huff… huff…”
Kaos panted heavily as his body went limp. Zi Jiu quickly reached out to support him, preventing him from collapsing to the ground.
He looked up at the others and managed a difficult smile. “Mission accomplished!”
“You did well, Kaos. Rest for now. Leave the rest to us,” Lin Zhen said softly.
Simply maintaining a growing tornado for twenty minutes was no easy feat, let alone Kaos having to stay focused on the battle at the same time.
He had truly created a path to survival for the team.
And he had succeeded!
As Mo Yuan was blown away to parts unknown, the extra gravity he had placed on the spaceship vanished.
The ship swayed violently before continuing its ascent.
The street, no longer ravaged by the tornado, returned to a state of silence.
However, the area was now a wasteland of ruins. It was so scarred that not a single intact building could be seen.
The blue-haired girl who had both harmed and saved them lay quietly in the middle of the street like a Sleeping Beauty from a fairy tale, her blue long hair scattered across the ground.
The group watched her through the portholes, remaining silent.
Before setting out, Lin Zhen had already told them that the goal of this plan was to get everyone out of this hellhole.
Considering the current abysmal success rate and the pressing time, he would not force Yun Ruoxi to join them.
But they had all seen with their own eyes just how obsessed Yun Ruoxi became with the battle camp after her mind control.
If they didn’t force her, how could the brainwashed Yun Ruoxi ever agree to leave with them?
Lin Zhen’s implication had been clear — he did not intend to take Yun Ruoxi with them when they fled the battle camp.
He had given up on… Yun Ruoxi.
Of course, Aili would never agree to this.
In her heart, the importance of her sister, Yun Ruoxi, was higher than everyone else combined. If Yun Ruoxi didn’t leave, she would rather be brainwashed and stay in the battle camp with her.
So, when Aili had been crying and screaming to go out and be with her sister, Lin Zhen had been forced to knock her unconscious.
He knew that to get Aili out of this place, if Yun Ruoxi remained awake, she would certainly have insisted that they…