The vacuum of the Silver Nebula didn't just vibrate; it ignited. As the Shadow Fleet was being crushed by Fang Yuan's gravitational well, the massive flagship, The Void-Eater, suddenly disintegrated—not from Fang Yuan's power, but from an internal eruption of blinding, crimson light.
From the heart of the exploding ship, a figure emerged that made the surrounding stars seem dim. The Abyssal Overlord had arrived in his true form. He was no longer a distant voice; he was a titan of shifting dark plasma, his soul-core burning with the intensity of a Rank 3: 5th Star - Supernova.
"You play with gravity like a child plays with sand, Fang Yuan," the Overlord's voice resonated, vibrating every atom in the nebula.
With a simple wave of his hand, the Overlord neutralized Fang Yuan's gravitational bomb. The crushed ships and lunar debris didn't just stop; they vaporized into pure energy, which the Overlord then inhaled.
"I have consumed five suns to reach this stage," the Overlord roared, his crimson aura expanding until it covered the entire sector. "A 2nd Star Pulsar is nothing but a flickering candle before my Supernova!"
Fang Yuan felt the skin of his dark matter suit begin to peel. The heat was absolute. At the 5th Star, the Overlord could force the atoms in Fang Yuan's own body to undergo nuclear fusion.
Beside him, Lia was only alive because Fang Yuan had wrapped her in a Null-Field of negative mass, but even that was cracking under the Overlord's radiation.
"Master... his frequency... it's too high!" Lia gasped, her eyes bleeding from the sheer brightness of the Overlord's presence.
Fang Yuan's face remained a mask of frozen obsidian. He knew he couldn't win a battle of raw power against a Supernova. He was a 2nd Star Pulsar; his strength was not in total energy, but in Concentration and Frequency.
"You consume suns to grow large, Overlord," Fang Yuan whispered, his indigo soul-core spinning at a rate that threatened to tear his spirit apart. "But a Pulsar is the densest object in the universe. I don't need to be bigger than you... I just need to be sharper."
Fang Yuan ignored the heat. He didn't attack the Overlord's body. Instead, he used his Pulsar Frequency to target the "Golden Residue" still clinging to the fabric of space from the previous rift. He was going to use the Overlord's own massive energy to blow a hole into the 4th Dimension.