Cataclysm: Undead Dragons and Zero Empire

Boundless darkness is the most common description of black holes in the universe.

When Lin Ziming was truly inside the event horizon of this black hole, he discovered that behind the extreme darkness that appeared from the outside was endless light.

This is a prison for light.

The reason why black holes are pitch black is essentially because the escape velocity within the event horizon exceeds the speed of light. Photons cannot escape the gravitational pull and can only fall endlessly toward the singularity at the center of the black hole.

Thus, all the captured light was trapped within this field of vision. Unable to escape, it could only collide and surge wildly in the distorted spacetime, eventually converging into an ocean of light.

Lin Ziming was suspended in this ocean of light.

Time and space lose their original meaning here. To an observer outside the event horizon, everything beyond the event horizon is stretched infinitely, eventually freezing at the boundary of the event horizon, forever frozen at the moment of falling into the black hole.

For Lin Ziming, who was within the horizon, the passage of time presented a strange sense of division. In the direction of falling towards the singularity, time was accelerated infinitely, while in the direction of retracing back towards the boundary of the horizon, time was slowed down infinitely.

He felt as if he were standing in the middle of a surging river, the water beneath his feet rushing unstoppably towards the abyss downstream.

Lin Ziming vibrated his bone wings, attempting to fly towards the edge of his field of vision. A surge of powerful spiritual energy propelled his massive body upwards against the collapsing spacetime.

However, his outward flight speed could never keep up with the speed of space collapse, as if he were floating towards the ocean in a river of light.

Each attempt yielded the same result: the distance between himself and the horizon did not shorten but instead continued to widen, dragging him toward the end of this spacetime, namely the singularity with infinitely small volume and infinitely large density.

The surrounding light grew increasingly intense, and the photons were continuously accelerated as they fell toward the singularity, with their energy density also increasing. Eventually, those originally gentle photons transformed into an energy torrent powerful enough to tear everything apart, washing over and carrying Lin Ziming as he continued to fall toward the abyss.

However, Lin Zimo was no longer the young dragon who relied on his flesh and blood to bear power in his previous life. Those surging streams of light crashed into his dragon bones and were instantly annihilated, not even causing a ripple.

Instead of panicking because he couldn't break through the event horizon, he calmed down in this extreme environment and began to study this strange black hole weapon, curiously looking at the world inside the black hole's event horizon.

Lin Ziming felt the collapse of spacetime, the deflection of photons in the gravitational field, and the gravitational pull of the singularity that was enough to devour everything.

The edges of the flames of "Death of Zero" began to show subtle ripples in spacetime, and the trajectory of the burning flames began to resonate strangely with the collapsing spacetime inside the black hole.

Beyond passive bursts, Lin Ziming began to learn to control "Death of Zero".

His previous attempt to hone his control using the "Death of Zero" sealed in living metal was unsuccessful, but now, by chance, he is continuing.

A slender wisp of blackish-red flame separated from the dragon bone, climbing upwards against the flow of light like a nimble little snake. Wherever the flame passed, the collapsing spacetime paused for a moment, as if an indestructible reef had suddenly appeared in a rushing river, forcefully blocking part of the flow.

So Lin Ziming stopped trying to fly towards the edge of the horizon and instead retracted his bone wings, hovering in the torrent of light, extinguishing his illusory fiery eyes, and letting himself fall toward the singularity.

Black and red flames continuously surged from his skeleton, spreading out and gradually seeping into every inch of space and time within this field of vision. Instead of uncontrollably decaying, they flowed like static flames, without temperature or explosion.

Beyond the event horizon, the black hole warship imprisoning the undead dragon completed a faster-than-light jump and successfully arrived at the home star system of the Humboldt Consortium.

The habitable planet has endless mountains, while a colossal space structure of unprecedented scale floats silently in the sea of ​​stars within the parent system.

This is the scientific research hall of the Hamborghia Convention, a scientific hub where countless laboratories and databases are generating scientific research power.

This research hub is far larger than the Boros World Foundation's City of a Thousand Stars, with ports connecting to the outside world. Countless research ships and cargo ships shuttle between the ports, like a swarm of bees flying around a hive.

From physics and biology to psionic theory, this place encompasses almost all cutting-edge disciplines. Scientists from the Covenant gather here, making it the heart of the entire galaxy cluster's technological development and the foundation upon which the Humboldt Covenant has been able to dominate the galaxy cluster.

This place also contains a sealed area prepared for the Black Hole Battleship and the Undead Dragon. The Black Hole Battleship will not be deployed again until this Leviathan is thoroughly studied.

A large amount of parameters read from the black hole warship flowed through the scientific hub. They almost temporarily put aside all other research and focused all their energy on the undead dragon, burning with an almost insane thirst for knowledge.

The death technology originating from the sky burial culture of the Hamborya Convention can be used to revive the dead and keep them working forever. Now, these stagnant technologies finally have a reference point.

The constraint field was activated at full power to ensure the absolute stability of the black hole warship. The entire scientific hub was operating at its limit, attempting to capture signals from within the horizon that belonged to the undead dragon.

In their vision, they would analyze the essence of His power, gradually unravel the mysterious power of death, and even help the Homborian Covenant go further, launching a conquest of the outer galaxy clusters and seeking more say in this supercluster.

However, their repeated searches yielded no abnormal data, as if the black hole warship was completely empty, leading to a heated debate and chaos in the control room.

Some scientists believe that the psychic energy of the undead dragon interfered with the detection equipment, while others suggest that the undead dragon may have already been torn apart by the gravity of the singularity inside the event horizon.

However, from the beginning, no scientist doubted that the Black Hole warship had failed to capture the Undead Dragon; they had considerable confidence in this weapon of annihilation.

The debate continued for a long time without any results, until a piercing alarm sounded throughout the scientific hub, and the previously stable parameter curve suddenly began to fluctuate violently.

"Warning! Warning! Anomalous radiation detected at the event horizon of the black hole! Mass readings are starting to drop!"

"Constraint field load is skyrocketing! It's about to exceed the limit!"

"Visible light radiation appears at the horizon boundary! Repeat! Visible light radiation appears at the horizon boundary!"

The urgent reports from the intelligent system brought the argument to a halt, and the black hole warship's hull, which was originally pitch black and from which even light could not escape, began to emit a faint halo.

The halo was initially just a faint ring, like the corona at the edge of the sun during a total solar eclipse, enveloping the dark central horizon. However, it quickly became brighter and more dazzling, with countless high-energy rays bursting out from the edge of the horizon.

The black hole's mass is being lost at an alarming rate. The originally extremely long evaporation time is now rapidly shortening, like a punctured balloon frantically pouring its contents out.

The scientific hub immediately increased the confinement field on the black hole warship, and even caused large areas of the laboratories within the scientific hub to shut down or lose their light.

The confinement field, which exceeded its limits, attempted to re-bind the black hole, which was rapidly losing mass, but all efforts were in vain.

"Warning! The constraint field is about to collapse! The horizon radius is beginning to shrink!"

Something even more terrifying happened.

The once pitch-black warship suddenly developed a fine, dark red crack, like volcanic lava solidifying and breaking apart.

Those cracks were like scars, a second, a third, a fourth... countless black and red cracks spread out like a spider web, covering the entire Black Hole warship.

From those cracks, a blackish-red, flame-like light was continuously overflowing, escaping from the event horizon of the black hole.

The science hub activated the highest level of emergency isolation protocols, but it was too late.

The black and red cracks that covered the entire black hole warship suddenly expanded at this moment, and a silent roar exploded deep in the souls of all living beings in this galaxy.

The black hole warship shattered completely, like an eggshell that had been burst open.

Endless black and red flames erupted from it, engulfing everything.