368 Sovereign Irene

"Aren't you here too fast, Irene?" Despair Queen looked at her archival and chuckled.

"Cunning bitch." Irene Nial glared at the female Abyssal in front of her.

Seven feet tall, beautiful grey skin and voluptuous body, she wore a green dress that seemed to be made of vines.

At the moment, she looked innocent and harmless. But in reality, she was insidious and ruthless.

Irene rushed to the RL-34 planetoid after learning about the appearance of Sequoia plants.

But Despair Queen, the ruler of Despair Abyss and her archival appeared just in time.

Thankfully, Irene was still a moment early. For a Sovereign, even that little time was significant.

Irene already used her gravity powers and secured the high awakeners. As for level 6s and below?

There were thousands of them and she had her limits. Her choice was the high awakeners.

If only Despair Queen was a moment late, then perhaps…

"Oya~blaming me now? Why should we interfere in the kids' fight?" Despair Queen smiled and narrowed her eyes.

Boom!

Despair Queen's body vanished and the space she was previously standing at twisted wildly.

Then, like it was crushed by a force, cracks appeared and the space collapsed.

The shockwaves from the spread outwards, some traveling to the planetoid and others asteroids.

Ka!

The shockwaves travelled for almost a hundred miles before they hit the planetoid, but when they did, it seemed like the herald of an apocalypse.

RL-34 had only one supercontinent. But once the shockwaves struck, the world map suddenly had small and medium islands.

There were great rifts everywhere. New lakes were formed, mountain ranges were destroyed and every awakener in the hundred mile vicinity of the attacks suffered serious damage.

If they weren't at least level 4, they died on spot.

Tens of thousands of soldiers from both sides were instantly killed and the numbers were only rising with each moment.

"Fallback to the bases! Fallback I say!"

"Evacuate! Evacuate!"

Both humans and Abyssals didn't bother fighting as they withdrew to their respective borders.

Of course, the high awakeners still remained active as they locked onto each other.

"To think that this scene is repeating again…" Irene sighed and summoned the artifact.

"Hehe. You can't defeat me with your power anyway. Let's destroy this planetoid, how about it?" Despair Queen proposed with a smile.

"I can't send you off with my power, but—" Irene's body flashed a blinding light and a sleek white armor covered her body.

The moment it appeared, Irene felt her gravity power rise significantly. The warm armor gave her a sense of security and filled her with additional strength.

Due to Heaven's will, Abyssals had a strength reduction on planets and moons.

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As such, while humans could drive Abyssals off planets and moons, they were in stalemate on planetoids and space.

But, the strength of Abyssals was in fact higher than of humans.

Until Artifacts were used.

"Your Crystal Armor is way better than my Vine Armor." Despair Queen's eyes flashed with envy as she licked her lips.

"But your base strength isn't as good as mine." The Abyssal woman laughed and her body flashed a dazzling green.

The next moment, a huge tree ten kilometers tall was standing in front of Irene Nial. It overshadowed her by many, many, many folds.

"I'll kill you one day." Irene Nial muttered and her armor flashed a white light.

Kacha!

The asteroids across hundreds of miles broke apart and turned into sharp spikes.

Boom!

Then breaking the speed limit multiple times, they shot at the huge tree.

"Hahaha!" Despair Queen's laughter resounded throughout the planetoid as the huge tree simply waved its branches.

The branches turned into red vines and extended for dozens of miles. Like muscles flexed, the branches swelled and transformed into heavy vines filled with poisonous thorns all over.

Then with a simply flap, hundreds of vines covered the tall tree and shielded it from the lethal bullets.

Ka!

Despite blocking a significant portion of the bullets, the shield couldn't hold most.

So, when the vine shield was removed, the tall tree was riddled with holes all over.

Violet liquid spilled out of the tall tree as Despair Queen's breath weakened slightly.

The previous attack would've pulverized even level 9s into pieces of flesh, but to take down a Sovereign, it was far from enough.

"Pest race!" Despair Queen cursed. The tall tree wriggled and all the bullets were expelled.

Not even a second passed, and every injury of the Despair Queen healed.

"Plant Morphers…you guys are fucking annoying."

Irene cursed as she channeled her gravity power and locked onto Despair Queen.

The space suddenly started shaking and Despair Queen's expression changed.

Each of her body parts were experienced different, but dangerous amounts of gravity.

She lost control of some of her vine-branches. They were attracted to the mid-section of her body—the gravity acting on them dictated them to and following its influence, those vines fell towards her mid-section and slapped heavily.

"Gahh!" Despair Queen howled in pain.

A small river of violet blood was formed from the huge wound on the tree's midsection.

The wound wriggled and was about to heal.

"Not under my watch." Irene spat and waved her hand.

The gravity on the vines changed and they were repelled by the mid-section.

Then it reversed again and they were forcibly pushed towards the mid-section.

"Stop!" Despair Queen yelled and pulled her other vines to block the attack.

Ka!

The vines collided with each other and the ones under Irene's control were completely destroyed.

Despair Queen wasn't in a good mood as a new set of vines went out of control despite her best attempts.

"You!"

Ka!

Their fight continued for hours as neither of them were willing to give up. Even though Despair Queen was injured from time to time, her plantae powers meant she healed almost instantly.

Their stalemate was finally broken when Despair Queen withdrew causing Irene to sigh in relief.