CHAPTER 511: CHAPTER 510: KRYPTON GOLD BEAM

Black Hole Lu Chen never expected that his Information Pulse would be intercepted by the advanced weapons of the Krypton Gold Civilization.

And in another part of the nebula battlefield, the Entropy Beast encountered a similar situation, which was even more perilous than that of Black Hole Lu Chen.

In the starry sky, the Entropy Beast stood proudly, its massive mouth agape, launching a powerful Information Pulse toward the Krypton Gold Battle Star ahead.

Yet the Krypton Gold Battle Star remained unfazed. Having fought to this point, they had become fully acquainted with the Entropy Beast’s offensive techniques. So, they immediately activated their Jump Engine and teleported elsewhere.

However, the Entropy Beast’s tactics weren’t that simple.

After all, the Entropy Beast knew that a mere Information Pulse wouldn’t likely destroy a fifth-level civilization’s Battle Star. Even if the enemy Battle Star had no time to use its weapons for interception, it could at least use the Jump Engine to dodge or flee, so wars between fifth-level civilizations wouldn’t easily lead to complete annihilation of the opponent.

The Entropy Beast had anticipated this point in advance, which is why it used a series of chained attacks to corner the Krypton Gold Battle Star into a deadlock. When the Krypton Gold Battle Star employed the Jump Engine, the Entropy Beast would leverage its advantage, carefully calculating the changes in information entropy and predicting the coordinates of the Krypton Gold Battle Star’s reappearance. Then, controlling its massive tail, it aimed ahead of time at the anticipated coordinates of the Krypton Gold Battle Star.

The Entropy Beast’s tactics were extremely tight and, having been rehearsed by the Atomic Computer, they were generally bound to succeed. Yet the Entropy Beast hadn’t anticipated that the Krypton Gold Battle Star it faced wasn’t exerting its full strength and still had some tactics in reserve. When confronted with the surprise attack of the Entropy Beast’s massive tail, the Krypton Gold Battle Star, in desperation, activated another set of weapons and shot a golden Energy Beam at the incoming tail.

Sizzle!

The golden beam and the Entropy Beast’s massive tail clashed in a narrow encounter in space, emitting a series of strange, grating sounds.

Amid the bizarre noise, a change so shocking to the Entropy Beast itself appeared on the tail. The tail, originally made up of countless neutrons, began to turn from black to gold. The touch of gold, like a miraculous dye, spread from the tip of the tail backward.

Although this transformation was already astonishing, what shocked the Entropy Beast the most was yet to come.

The Entropy Beast was shaken to find that when it tried to control those parts that had turned gold, it couldn’t. It seemed as though it was no longer its own tail.

Having dominated the Universe for billions of years, the Entropy Beast had never encountered such a bizarre scenario and was utterly astounded.

The Entropy Beast’s body was based on the Entropy Beast principle, entirely composed of neutrons, covered in a layer of neutron skin that didn’t interact with the electromagnetic force. Generally speaking, conventional Energy Weapons and physical weapons shouldn’t be able to harm it. Yet unexpectedly, a mere gold beam had changed its color and stripped control of that part away. Moreover, a closer examination revealed it was not just a simple color change; the fundamental property of the material had also changed. The individual neutrons had miraculously turned into Metal Elements!

This was nothing short of a scientific version of alchemy.

This also seemed to be the fundamental reason why that part had turned from black to gold.

The more the Entropy Beast discovered these truths, the more perplexed it became. The defense provided by the neutron skin was already formidable, irreproachable by anything other than high technology. Yet, not only had the neutron skin been broken through, but even the basic constituent element, the neutron, had been altered into a Metal Element.

How could this be possible?

How could individual neutrons spontaneously transform into Metal Elements?

After all, there are considerable differences in structure, mass, size, and properties between the two, with neutrons being one of the essential particles composing Metal Elements. Yet now they had directly transformed from neutrons into Metal Elements, effectively conjuring the necessary number of protons and electrons from nothing. While mastering the unifying force could allow for the creation of matter, this process would at least need to be gradual and observable. How could it be so magical that not even a hint of detail could be detected?

Despite being utterly reluctant to believe it, the facts were right before the Entropy Beast’s eyes, and it could only deduce the process and reasons based on the facts.

If the transformation from neutrons into Metal Elements was an ironclad fact, then from superficial observations, the Entropy Beast could rule out the method of controlling neutrons, protons, and electrons with the unifying force to combine into matter. If such conventional methods were indeed discounted, then the only explanation left was one.

The weapons of the Krypton Gold Civilization must fundamentally transform the material from within.

Analyzing the structural hierarchy of the Universe informs us that the true essence of matter, including macroscopic matter and microscopic particles, should be the Information Particles from the underlying world of Source Material. The key factor in the formation of matter is the projection capsule formed by Information Particles. If the Krypton Gold Civilization could directly infuse energy into the Information Sea World and alter the Information Particles, tuning them to the frequency of the capsule corresponding to Metal Elements, then it is feasible that no surface process would be observable, resulting in the direct transmutation into Metal Elements.

Because all the changes had already occurred internally, what appeared externally was simply the outcome.

If the method through the unifying force to create matter is a superficial one, then this technique of directly altering the Information Particles carried by the Source Material is a more advanced inner technology. The Krypton Gold Civilization truly lived up to the reputation of a longstanding fifth-level civilization—this understanding was something the Wandering Alliance had yet to reach.

After figuring out the primary cause.

The Entropy Beast quickly transitioned from shock to composure.

Simultaneously, it observed that the gold area at the tip of its tail was rapidly spreading towards its belly, seemingly contagious, and had already devoured a significant length of its tail.

With no other choice, the Entropy Beast made an immediate and painful decision. Its horns and eyes launched attacks, utilizing the Information Zero Domain—not to attack the Krypton Gold Battle Star, but to target its own tail. More specifically, it aimed at the border where the tail met the gold, chiefly to sever the path and trend of the gold’s spread, to preserve the rest of its body. Although this method resulted in the loss of a portion of its tail, it was much better than complete annihilation.

The Information Zero Domain neatly split the Entropy Beast’s tail into two, precisely severing the part that had turned gold. Since the Information Zero Domain is similar to the Absolute Zero Domain but a level higher, specializing as a weapon against the Information Sea, there are no Information Particles within it. The Krypton Gold Beam used by the Krypton Gold Battle Star required altering Information Particles to be effective.

Therefore, when the Krypton Gold Beam encountered the Information Zero Domain, the spreading trend finally came to a halt.

However, the price paid was not small. The Entropy Beast now looked like a black dragon with its tail cut off!