Chapter 185: Accelerating to Lightspeed

Around Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, there are rings composed of rocky fragments, planetary rings.

The Kuiper Belt is the stellar ring of the solar system, located at the outer edge of the solar system, resembling a doughnut, with a distance of 4.488 billion kilometers from the Sun.

In astronomical terms, this distance is commonly expressed as 30 astronomical units, or 0.5 light-years.

The Kuiper Belt stellar ring circulates, dotted with numerous icy asteroids, huge meteoroids, and many failed planetary cores, all slowly orbiting around the solar system, forming the stellar ring of the solar system.

"He wants to turn the Kuiper Belt into a superluminal particle accelerator pipeline."

Scar's face, a mix of blue and green, was shocked. The surrounding meteoroids began to spin rapidly, crashing into her back. Some asteroids collided with her manifested Green Lantern body, shattering into large chunks of meteoroids.

Some large meteoroids broke into smaller pieces, and the smaller ones turned into dust, eventually becoming countless particles that started moving more and more frenetically.

Every second, the Kuiper Belt accelerated by ten thousand kilometers.

Looking from the distant interstellar space, one would see the stellar ring slowly beginning to rotate and soon accelerating to the speed of light, engaging in countless high-energy particle collisions.

This also meant that every moment, there would be enough nuclear explosion energy to destroy the Earth, and the energy would not dissipate but continue to move, maintaining high energy as it progressed. At some point, it would spread outward, making the solar system resemble the calm center of a storm.

"We cannot leave the Kuiper Belt. The periphery of the Kuiper Belt has formed a barrier that disrupts spatial teleportation channels."

Athena's words echoed in the minds of the people, weighing heavily on them.

She had just tried to leave the Kuiper Belt, but it had already begun to form barriers, disrupting spatial teleportation reactions. They were trapped inside.

"He's trapping us here to sap our strength."

Artemis held her golden bow, her hand resting on the bowstring. Her cold figure resembled a lunar rabbit, lightly jumping over several incoming asteroids, standing in the void, surrounded by constantly flowing meteoroids.

Among the people present, each one's strength could be considered stellar-level, and the difference was not significant. Their control and recovery abilities reached an incredible level, unimaginable to ordinary beings.

They were nearly immortal, and as stellar-level beings, they possessed an incredibly resilient will and means of recovery.

Even if they were to fight for another hundred years, they might not be able to deplete the energy of these stellar-level beings present.

Artemis saw through what H'el intended to do.

He used his own power to pull the Kuiper Belt, causing it to form a pattern similar to a superluminal particle accelerator on Earth. Entering into the high-energy particle motion at the speed of light, the asteroids and meteoroids of the Kuiper Belt, along with metallic minerals, would become countless high-energy particles striking their bodies.

No one could withstand collisions with these particles in a superluminal particle accelerator. Everything would be shattered into high-energy particles upon collision.

Even they would suffer severe depletion from the collisions and die due to inability to keep up with recovery.

"We have to leave here, or kill him and stop the movement of the stellar ring."

Apollo, his arm restored, stood up from the meteorite with a somber expression, his gaze icy with suppressed rage.

His eyes looked into the distance, seeing H'el standing above, his black cloak billowing in front of him, his face expressionless, his gaze cold and unforgiving, not even focused on him.

Apollo felt a tremendous sense of humiliation.

This man disregarded him!

All of Apollo's arrogance was shattered completely.

His entire body ignited once again with the temperature of the solar core.

"Then let's kill him!

Artemis, shoot arrows toward the direction of the Kuiper Belt's movement. As the speed increases, the returning arrows will unleash the power no less than that of the solar system's gravity slingshot. We must stop him before the speed of light arrives."

In a brief moment, as the others spoke, Yak made the best tactical decision for the moment.

Artemis glanced at Apollo, acknowledging with a response, then turned with her golden bow and arrow, shooting countless golden arrows in the direction of the moving meteorites.

The arrows, trailing golden threads, began to accelerate within the superluminal accelerator loop of the Kuiper Belt, accelerating along with the asteroids and metallic meteoroids.

At this point, the speed of the Kuiper Belt had reached 89,937,737 meters per second, 264,289 times the speed of sound, and 0.3 times the speed of light.

Countless asteroids and meteoroids were disintegrating at high speed, turning into microscopic high-energy particles and continuing to move. Even the slightly harder metallic meteoroids and stellar cores, when struck, would deliver devastating blows capable of destroying planets.

Scar manifested herself and merged with her original self, as if wearing a green coat, and, along with Apollo leading the charge, rushed towards H'el.

She manifested a green, condensed cosmic battleship and crashed toward H'el.

H'el deep black pupil's flashed with crimson light like a demonic god. He extended his hands in the universe, encompassing the cosmos. Ten crimson hot beams flashed from his fingertips, bursting forth as ten thick, compressed beams of heat, shooting towards the group.

Scar's green, condensed cosmic battleship was unable to collide with H'el before being hit by the hot beams. She hastily used her mental power and the Green Lantern ring to manifest a super-dense neutron star shield, blocking the incoming heat beams.

"Hmm!"

Scar grunted softly as the green-silver neutron star shield continued to emit sparks of fiery red, the tremendous impact hitting her hard.

Yak and Apollo rushed towards H'el, maneuvering irregularly with anti-gravity around the hot beams.

In the next moment, the heat beams scattered irregularly from H'el's fingertips. The starry sky resembled a disco ball, with red hot beams dancing around, occasionally brushing past Yak and Apollo nearby, but never hitting them directly.

After all, the hot beams from H'el's fingertips, though numerous, were still relatively predictable for them.

Artemis also had to periodically stop drawing her bow and dodge the heat beams, continuously leaping and maneuvering in the void.

Athena hid very covertly, and the random heat beams didn't find her.

Seeing this, H'el's crimson eyes flickered slightly, and the heat beams from his fingertips stopped. He opened his hands, and searing heat overflowed from his palms.

"Boom!"

A massive torrent of heat beams, carrying tremendous impact, engulfed Yak and Apollo directly. The two couldn't dodge in time and were directly struck by the massive heat beams, thrown seventy million miles away in an instant, feeling disoriented and dizzy.

Countless golden arrows began to swirl. After completing a round of acceleration, they carried a speed exceeding 0.3 times the speed of light from behind H'el, shooting toward him like a torrent.

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