......
20 years later.
Over the past 20 years, Nao Long and the girls murdered everything in sight, unleashing manmade death beams like they were going out of style.
Almost every single planet within the massive Valeria System had a huge agping hole drilled through its center one way or another.
And with the millions of planets inside the system in question, everything was beginning to look like a big assortment of Swiss cheese.
That was especially the case when one noticed the large red sun located at the very center of the solar system—a sun that was over 10 thousand light years in diameter—a sun that was now in shambles...
"What did I say from the very first moment we noticed each other's presence...?"
A raspy voice echoed out from a deep pit located in a miniscule part of the star.
Similar to how a human looked at a worm, a man with long, flowing crimson-colored hair gazed down at a massive dragon-like creature.
"....."
The creature itself resembled a dragon, but if one were to be more accurate, its frame was more analogous to that of a snake—a serpent with a long, world-sized horn at the front of its sinuous head.
This snake was the entity that Azmodeus sensed when he arrived in Valeria. And it was also the thing with which he had been fighting for the last 5 years, trading blows like two gods of the sky.
In the beginning, the entity overwhelmed the young, immortal-like man with no question about who was going to win.
However, with millions of respawns made by Azmodeus, and with each one allowing him to come back even stronger than before, there was absolutely nothing that the entity could do to prevent the inevitable.
With the final stroke being made less than a few seconds ago, the entity was put on its last legs.
Half its existence faded in and out of reality while the other half slowly decayed with the death of the red sun...
For the entity, the red sun acted as a source of power, and it was also what allowed its power to reach the Peak Solar Dynasty Realm.
The Star Radiance and Solar Dynasty Realm Experts noticed the disturbance in time. But before they could escape their seclusions, their existences were wiped from the face of the Galaxy...
With the radiation and supernova bursts of energy reaching every inch of Valeria, it ultimately ended up extending beyond the reach of the Solar System, approaching the borders of the next system.
Following the vaporization of Valeria, the Solar System of Mosher was the next to follow...
Everything from the strongest of Solar Dynasty Realm Experts all the way down to the weakest of cultivators was unable to see death wash right past them...
With the destruction of Mosher, Echosomber was the next to be evaporated... Then there was Boofer... Sumeria... Ockon...
Dozens of Solar Systems were forever erased from the Galaxy of Neverdye, leaving nothing but a trail of fire and destruction in their wake...
And while this was happening, Azmodeus sat within a highly fortified Crimson Dimension, looking over all the pop-ups appearing in front of him.
BLING!
*Ding!* *You have erased dozens of Solar Systems within the Areola Quadrant of the Neverdye Galaxy!*
*Ding!* *Your Starry Evolution Essence multiplier for relevant increments has improved the amount you gained by a massive margin!*
*Ding!* *You have obtained 350 Starry Evolution Essence!*
*Ding!* *Would you like to use up this Starry Evolution Essence or save it in your Starry Evolution Essence Bank?*
"Save it for now."
Azmodeus did not yet have enough Starry Evolution Essence to reach Level 300, so there was not much of a point in spending the rest. That was especially the case when one saw that his Traits and Physiques were at an expensive bottleneck themselves.
His Traits were at Level 5 of the SSR Rank, while his Physiques were on the border between the Peak Solar Dynasty Rank and the Rank that came after.
Of course, all of these non-corporeal walls would be broken in due time.
However, that time was not right now...
......