Planet Avitan di Sistem Bintang Eternal Night bukanlah planet induk Ras Suci Bintang Cemerlang. Planet ini adalah sebuah planet administrasi yang sangat maju. Lokasinya sangat strategis, dan merupakan pusat keuangan penting. Lebih dari dua belas miliar penduduk tinggal di planet ini.
Di sebuah kota utama di Planet Avitan, kapal-pesawat pengangkut terbang mengelantas di antara gedung-gedung tinggi. Orang-orang dari Suku Bintang Cemerlang yang lahir dengan kemampuan terbang sedang berkelana di langit sambil mengikuti aturan lalu lintas. Kota ini damai dan makmur.
Namun, pada hari ini, ketenangan di Planet Avitan justru runtuh.
Seketika saja, sebuah meteor bersaing membara muncul dan mulai jatuh dengan cepat dari angkasa. Radar tidak mendeteksi gerakan meteor ini sama sekali sebelumnya, seolah-olah meteor ini muncul dari ketiadaan.
Meteor itu jatuh dengan kecepatan extrem, langsung menuju kota ini. Waktu yang tersedia bagi armada yang berada di Planet Avitan untuk bereaksi sangatlah singkat.
Ribuan formasi pertahanan planet otomatis yang tersebar di luar atmosfer planet segera merespons, melepas lusin ribu sinar pemusnah homing, berusaha mengubah meteor menjadi debu, namun sia-sia. Seolah-olah meteor ini mustahil dilenyapkan, sekaligus memiliki kemampuan anti-lock on yang mengakibatkan sebagian besar sinar meleset.
Dari atas, tanda-tanda hitam aneh yang disebarkan oleh sinar pemusnah bisa dilihat jelas. Woo!
Pada saat yang sama, bel alarm serangan udara berbunyi di seluruh kota yang dituju oleh meteor. Ribuan pintu tempat penyimpanan bawah tanah muncul di permukaan kota. Kebanyakan warga kota segera bersembunyi di tempat penyimpanan bawah tanah terdekat. Tak lama kemudian, jalan-jalan menjadi kosong.
Mereka mengaktifkan sebuah pelindung energi raksaksa yang meliputi seluruh kota, berusaha menghentikan dampak langsung meteor. Ribuan senapan antiterbang muncul dari bawah tanah di pinggir kota dan menembak secara bersamaan ke arah meteor di langit.
Di luar perisai pelindung kota, seorang Calamity Grade Super yang bertanggung jawab melindungi kota melayang di udara itu memandang meteor yang membakar.
Meteor bersaing hitam-merah yang dipenuhi oleh api membengkak dengan cepat di mata birunya.
"Api terlalu tebal. Aku tidak bisa melihat bentuk pasti dari meteor ini. Ia hampir sampai di tanah. Aku harus menghentikannya sekarang!"
Penjaganya adalah seorang Calamity Grade Psychic. Ia menoleh ke langit dan melepas seluruh energi psikisnya, berharap bisa menghentikan atau setidaknya mengalihkan arah meteor.
Namun, dengan keterkejutannya yang tak tergabarkan, ia menyadari bahwa energi psikisnya menghilang begitu menyentuh meteor. Ia tidak bisa mendekatinya sama sekali.
"Apa ini..."
Beberapa saat kemudian, kecepatan meteor tiba-tiba meningkat lagi, menembus perisai pelindung dengan paksa, lalu jatuh tepat di tengah kota.
Bang!
Seorang krater se lebar beberapa ratus meter muncul di tanah. Api seperti angik tumbuh mengelilingi kawasan, lalu cepat pudar, mengungkapkan identitas sebenarnya dari 'meteor' ini. Ia adalah seksa manusia mustahil yang hitam sepenuhnya, seperti sebuah kelompok kabut yang mengeluarkan asap hitam dari seluruh tubuhnya. Ia tidak memiliki wajah, hanya sebuah lubang berputar di bagian kepalanya dengan titik cahaya merah di tengahnya, seperti intip intinya.
Itu adalah EsGod doppelganger!
Stasiun pengamatan Planet Avitan merekam dan menyiarkan secara langsung ke kota-kota lain di planet ini. Lebih dari sepuluh miliar orang menyaksikan EsGod doppelganger ini.
Pasukan pengaman di Planet Avitan telah menyadar ini. Penjaga kota dan unit keamanannya sedang berusaha mengokupasi EsGod doppelganger. Armada yang ada di sana juga mulai bergerak. Kapal-kapal pesawat segera berkumpul di area ini, lebih dari setengah dari total kekuatan militer seluruh planet bergegas menuju kota ini.
Namun, pada momen berikutnya, apa yang dilakukan EsGod doppelganger membuat seluruh planet ketakutan.
Saat ia membuka lengan-lebarnya, tingkat energinya meningkat dengan cepat yang sangat. Energi mengerikan mengumpul seperti binten supernova yang akan meledak!
Hum!
Sekali munculnya cahaya senter yang amat terang membuat seluruh warga Planet Avitan yang menyaksikan siaran menutup mata. Lalu, energi radiasi yang meledak memaksa memutuskan siaran tersebut.
Namun, meskipun tanpa siaran, seluruh orang di Planet Avitan merasakan hal yang sama.
Tanah di bawah kaki mereka bergetar!
Dengan EsGod doppelganger sebagai pusat, sebuah bola energi hitam-merah cepat membesar hingga raksaksa, menelan seluruh kota. Bahkan terlihat dari luar angkasa.
Bola energi itu merebak hingga seluruh kota, sepertinya sudah mencapai batasnya.
Kali ini, bola energi tiba-tiba terbelah menjadi dua lapis. Lapisan luar menjadi lemah, warnanya pun melayu, tetap mempertahankan ukuran semula. Lapisan dalam segera menyempit.
Ketika lapisan dalam mencapai setengah ukuran lapisan luar, seluruh bola energi sepertinya kehilangan keseimbangannya. Baik lapisan dalam maupun luar, keduanya meledak dengan hebat, berubah menjadi gelombang dampak radioaktif yang menyapu semua yang ada di jalannya!
Boom!
Retak-retak besar terbentuk tepat di kota ini. Baik penjaga kota, pasukan Darat, maupun warga di tempat penyimpanan bawah tanah, semuanya berubah jadi abu di ledakan itu.
Seperti hari pengkhianatan!
Setelah gempa ledakan pun surut, kota ini pun musnah. Semua gedung-gedung tinggi menghilang, hanya tersisa krater raksaksa dan retak-retak besar di tanah.
Tidak ada satu jiwa pun selamat.
EsGod doppelganger itu perlahan-lahan terbang naik dari dasar krater raksaksa, keluar dari debu yang menutupi langit, dan memamerakan dirinya di depan kamera satelit.
Ia berhenti sejenak di udara sebelum tiba-tiba terbang ke arah lain—ke arah kota lain.
Saat siaran satelit pulih, seluruh warga Planet Avitan melihat ini, dan semua orang sepertinya lupa cara bernapas.
Ketakutan yang tak berujung menguasai hati mereka.
Beberapa menit setelah 'ledakan raksaksa', setiap saluran berita galaksi dari Suku Bintang Cemerlang melaporkan berita ini, menyiarkan apa yang terjadi di Planet Avitan ke seluruh peradaban.
Pada saat yang sama, sebuah armada dengan kapal Psyker di tengahnya meluncur dari planet induk Suku Bintang Cemerlang dan menuju Planet Avitan untuk membantu.
Tiga kapal luar angkasa 'Light Fox' dalam mode stealth lambat laun parkir di area tidak jauh dari planet induk Suku Bintang Cemerlang.
"Psyker sudah bertindak. Langkah pertama berhasil!"
Colin tersenyum mengamuk dan meregangkan kakinya sambil menggigit jari-jemarinya.
Psyker senantiasa menjaga planet induknya, dan Kubus Evolusi berada di planet induknya. Mereka hanya akan mendapatkan kesempatan untuk mencuri Kubus Evolusi jika berhasil menggoda Psyker pergi.
Kelemahan Psyker adalah betapa pentingnya rasanya bagi dirinya. Hanya perlu untuk menaruh seorang EsGod doppelganger dengan kekuatan Beyond Grade A di sebuah planet koloni penting, dan biarkan EsGod doppelganger itu menghancurkan warga Suku Bintang Cemerlang. Psyker pasti akan meninggalkan planet induknya untuk memberikan bantuan.
Kecuali Psyker memilih untuk tidak peduli dengan nyawa rakyatnya di planet itu, ia tidak punya pilihan.
Untuk doppelganger pertama ini, EsGod telah memberikan kepadanya kemampuan Esper yang sangat kuat dengan kekuatan destruktif.
EsGod bisa menciptakan banyak doppelganger, namun tidak tak terbatas. Meskipun ia menguasai kekuatan Esper yang tak terhitung jumlahnya, doppeljangannya tidak bisa menggunakan semuanya. Hanya setelah tubuh aslinya memberikan kekuatan Esper kepada doppeljangannya, doppeljangannya pun bisa menggunakan kekuatan tersebut. Tubuh aslinya tidak bisa menggunakan kekuatan Esper yang diberikan kepada doppeljangannya, sampai doppeljangannya mati atau tubuh aslinya dengan sengaja membuatnya menghilang.
Misalnya, jika ia memberikan sepuluh kekuatan Esper kepada doppeljangannya, maka ia tidak bisa menggunakan sepuluh kekuatan Esper itu, dan juga tidak bisa memberikannya kepada doppelganger lainnya.
Inilah sebabnya, EsGod terus-menerus mengumpulkan kekuatan Esper, bahkan yang berulang-ulang. Fusi Daftar Esper dengan Risiko Tinggi bukanlah satu-satunya alasannya.
"Setelah Psyker tiba di Planet Avitan, saatnya bagi kita untuk bertindak." Orozen tersenyum.
Colin mengangguk, memandang doppelganger EsGod kedua di sisinya, lalu berkata, "Your Excellency EsGod, tolong tunggu sebentar lagi. Kami akan bertindak ketika waktunya tepat."
"Hmm." Doppelganger EsGod kedua mengangguk.
Doppelganger ini dikendalikan oleh tubuh aslinya. Colin dan orang-orang lainnya berkomunikasi langsung dengan EsGod, yang tinggal jauh di Galaksi Pusat.
Doppelganger kedua ini diberikan dengan kemampuan Esper seperti stealth, teleportasi, anti-detect, dan berbagai kekuatan Esper yang berkaitan dengan pengintikan. Ia telah menyimpan tim ini serta memblokir seluruh niagari niagari besar Psyker dengan kekuatan Espernya. Inilah sebabnya, mereka bisa bersembunyi tepat di bawah mata Psyker dan tidak terdeteksi dekat dengan planet induknya.
Pasukan utama untuk mencuri Kubus Evolusi juga adalah doppelganger kedua
748 Target: Evolution Cube!
Planet Avitan of the Eternal Night Star System was not the Star Pupil Holy Race’s mother planet. It was a highly developed administrative planet. Its location was optimal, and it was an important financial center. There were more than twelve billion residents on this planet.
In a certain main city on Planet Avitan, hovering carriers flitted between the tall buildings. The Star Pupil Holy Race people who were born with the ability to fly were travelling in the sky following the traffic rules. The city was peaceful and prosperous.
However, on this day, the peace on Planet Avitan was shattered.
A crimson meteor suddenly appeared and started descending extremely quickly from outer space. The radars did not detect the movement of this meteor before this at all, as if it had appeared out of nowhere.
The meteor descended at an extremely high speed, right toward this main city. The time in which the fleet stationed at Planet Avitan could react was very little.
Countless fully automatic planetary defense formations deployed outside the planet’s atmosphere quickly responded, releasing an enormous amount of dark energy and forming a net that extended more than a hundred miles, standing in the path of the meteor’s descent.
Such devices were usually used to stop meteor showers. The dark energy was close to materializing. It had extremely strong elasticity, toughness, and extensibility. The net could make use of the tens of thousands of meters between the atmosphere and the ground as the buffer zone to shroud the meteor and stop it.
However, the meteor penetrated this dark energy net instantly like a knife cutting through silk.
The automatic defense formation immediately started executing the second plan. It launched countless homing annihilation beams, attempting to turn the meteor into dust midair, but to no avail. It was as if the meteor was indestructible while at the same time having some kind of anti-lock on ability, causing the majority of the beams to miss.
Looking down from above, the blocks of strange black marks caused by the annihilation beams could clearly be seen. Woo!
At the same time, an air strike alarm rang throughout the city that the meteor was falling toward. Countless entrances of underground shelters appeared on the city surface. Most of the citizens quickly hid in the underground shelters nearby. Very soon, the streets became empty.
They activated a gigantic protective shield, which shrouded the entire city, in an attempt to stop the impact of the meteor head-on. Thousands of antiaircraft cannons extended from below the ground of the edges of the city and fired simultaneously at the meteor in the sky.
Outside the city’s protective shield, the Calamity Grade Star Pupil Holy Race Super protecting the city floated in midair.
The black-red meteor covered in burning flames enlarged quickly in his blue eyes.
“The flames are too thick. I can’t see the exact shape of this meteor. It’s almost reached the ground. I have to stop it now!”
The protector was a Calamity Grade Psychic. He looked up at the accelerating meteor and released all his psychic energy, hoping to stop the meteor or at least alter its course.
However, to his absolute shock, he realized that his psychic energy disappeared as soon as it touched the meteor. He could not do anything to it at all.
“What the hell is this thin...”
The next moment, the speed of the meteor suddenly increased again as it strongly penetrated the protective shield and landing right in the city.
Bang!
A several-hundred-meter-wide crater appeared on the ground. The tornado-like flames quickly dissipated, showing the true identity of this ‘meteor’. It was a completely black human-shaped being, like a cluster of fog, emitting black smoke from all over its body. It had no face, only a vortex on its head with a red dot of light in the middle, as if that was its core.
It was an EsGod doppelganger!
The observation satellite of Planet Avitan recorded this and broadcasted it live to the other cities on the planet. The EsGod doppelganger was being watched by more than ten billion people.
The garrison on Planet Avitan had already noticed this. The protector of the city and the guards were trying to surround the EsGod doppelganger. The fleet stationed there started moving as well. Spaceships quickly gathered in the area, and more than half of the military forces on the entire planet were hurrying toward this city.
However, the next moment, what the EsGod doppelganger did terrified the entire planet.
As he opened his arms wide, his energy level increased at an extremely high speed. Horrifying energy gathered like a supernova that was about to explode!
Hum!
The next instant, the blinding light made all the people of Planet Avitan watching the broadcast close their eyes. Then, the exploding radiation forcefully cut off the broadcast.
However, even without the broadcast, everyone on the Planet Avitan felt it.
The ground beneath their feet trembled!
With the EsGod doppelganger as the center, a black and red energy sphere quickly expanded into an enormous size, devouring the entire city. It could even be seen from outer space.
The energy sphere expanded over the entire city, seemingly having reached its limit.
This time, the energy sphere suddenly split into two layers of energy. The outer layer became weaker, and its color became lighter, still maintaining its original size. The inner layer quickly constricted.
When the inner layer was half of the size of the outer layer, the entire energy sphere seemed to lose its balance. Be it the inner or the outer layer, they both exploded violently, turning into a radioactive impact wave, sweeping across everything in its path!
Boom!
Great rifts were created right in this city. Be it the city protector, the ground troops, or the citizens in the underground shelters, they all turned into ash in the explosion.
It was like doomsday!
When the aftershock of the explosion finally ended, this main city was wiped off the surface of the planet, erased of its existence.
All the tall buildings disappeared, only the enormous crater and great rifts were left.
Not a single soul survived.
The EsGod doppelganger slowly flew up from the bottom of the enormous crater, out of the dust that covered the sky, and exposed himself in the satellite image.
He paused for a short moment in midair before suddenly flying in another direction—toward another city.
As the satellite broadcast recovered, everyone on Planet Avitan saw this, and everyone seemed to have forgotten how to breath.
Endless fear grasped everyone’s heart.
A few minutes after the ‘gigantic explosion’, every galactic news channel of the Star Pupil Holy Race reported the news, broadcasting what was happening on Planet Avitan to the entire civilization.
At the same time, a fleet with Psyker’s ship in the middle took off from the Star Pupil Holy Race mother planet and headed to help Planet Avitan.
Three ‘Light Fox’ spaceships in stealth mode slowly parked in an area not far from the Star Pupil Holy Race mother planet.
“Psyker’s made his move. The first step is a success!”
Colin smiled ferociously and clenched his fists in excitement.
Psyker guarded his mother planet all the time, and the Evolution Cube was on his mother planet. They would only have a chance to steal the Evolution Cube if they could lure Psyker away.
Psyker’s weakness was how important his race was to him. All they had to do was place an EsGod doppelganger with Beyond Grade A strength on an important colonial planet and let the EsGod doppelganger massacre the Star Pupil Holy Race people. Psyker would undoubtedly leave his mother planet to provide aid.
Unless Psyker chose not to care about the lives of his people on that planet, he did not have a choice.
For this first doppelganger, EsGod had gifted it Esper abilities with very strong destructive powers.
EsGod could create many doppelgangers but not infinite. Although he possessed countless Esper abilities, his doppelgangers could not use all of them. Only after his original body gifted Esper abilities to his doppelgangers would the doppelgangers be able to use those abilities. His original body would not be able to use the Esper abilities that were given to the doppelgangers until the doppelgangers were dead or if he actively made them disappear.
For example, if he gave ten Esper abilities to his doppelgangers, he would then not be able to use those ten Esper abilities, nor would he be able to give those ten Esper abilities to another doppelganger.
Therefore, EsGod kept collecting Esper abilities, even duplicates. Fusing the Super High Risk Esper Ability List was not the only reason.
“Once Psyker arrives at Planet Avitan, it’ll be the time for us to move.” Orozen smiled.
Colin nodded, looked at the second EsGod doppelganger beside him, and said, “Your Excellency EsGod, please wait awhile. We will move when the time is right.”
“Hmm.” The second EsGod doppelganger nodded.
This doppelganger was controlled by the original. Colin and the others were communicating directly with EsGod, who was far away in the Central Galaxy.
This second doppelganger was gifted stealth, teleportation, anti-detection, and various Esper abilities related to espionage.
He had been hiding this team as well as blocking Psyker’s large area Psychic senses with his Esper abilities. This was why they could hide right under Psyker’s nose and remain undetected near his mother planet.
The main force of stealing the Evolution Cube was also this second EsGod doppelganger—he was the only one that could send Colin and the others to where the Evolution Cube was stored unnoticed.
As for the third doppelganger, he had hidden on Planet Avitan long ago. His plan was to work together with the first doppelganger to stall Psyker.
The third doppelganger had mostly control-type Esper abilities.
Although his doppelgangers all had Beyond Grade A level strength, they were still just doppelgangers, and they would not be able to match Psyker. One doppelganger would not be able to last long; only two doppelgangers working together would be able to stall Psyker long enough to keep him from his mother planet.
As for why EsGod was confident in stealing the Evolution Cube, it was because he had the only detailed information about the Evolution Cube.
The Evolution Cube was no small item.
Without the instruction manual, no one knew how to carry the Evolution Cube around!
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