A behemoth as wide as an aircraft carrier exploded high in the sky. It burst out with endless light and heat, and tens of thousands of wreckage fragments swept across the land like a storm. The debris with powerful kinetic energy was no less than a saturated bombardment. In just a few seconds, the entire woodland was filled with a deafening roar and a chain of explosions. In such a violent storm, everyone's eyes couldn't see, and their ears couldn't hear. They were as helpless as a small boat in a tsunami.
But the divine barrier that Rheia had left behind was a testament to the goddess of creation's learning, and even though the world outside was collapsing, the barrier itself did not waver, and even if the people within it were greatly frightened, but for a veteran like them, fright was not fatal.
When everything finally calmed down, the entire land of fire was beyond recognition, and aside from a small area covered by the divine barrier, the ground had sunk by more than two meters. The Gorgon Lord's remains were scattered all over the crater, and they were still shockingly hot as they were twisted beyond recognition, and the power of the self-destruction was clear to see.
Perhaps this self-destruction was one of the Gorgonian Demons' attack methods.
Lily was so shocked by the explosion that even her ears and tail were popping out, and while Charlemagne and the rest were not looking, she quickly retracted her tail and turned her head to look for Hao Ren. "Mr. Landlord, this explosion sure is lively … Say, where's Mr. Landlord? Don't tell me he got blown up too … "
Vivian glared at the canine maiden. "Don't mess around, with his job and persona, he can die any way he wants in this life, but he can't be blown up."
As if to prove her theory, just as she finished, Hao Ren's voice rang from behind her. "Yeah, Vivian knows me best …"
Vivian quickly turned around, and checked on Hao Ren who had just stepped out of the teleportation beam with concern. "Are you alright? Say, why did it suddenly blow up? Was this your plan from the start? "
"What plan, if I really wanted to get rid of that thing, do I need to go in there for so long? Just call Nolan out to settle the score, it'd save me a lot of trouble. "Hao Ren coughed as he spat out a mouthful of black smoke. While he was not caught in the explosion, but he had inhaled quite a bit of the fumes that came along with the portal." It was a complete accident, this thing is too explosive, I just touched it and it self-destructed … But it's fine, there are two Gorgon Lords, and Rheia will leave one … "
As Hao Ren spoke, he looked up at the insectoid Gorgon Lord in the sky on the other side of the forest, and before he could finish, the insectoid Lord's body suddenly flashed a series of bright lightning bolts, and a crimson flame burst out from the alloy monster's body.
"… Whole body …" Hao Ren blurted out the last two words out of habit, before jumping three feet high. "How did it blow up too!!"
The Gorgon Lord's self-destruction was like a battleship exploding at close range, and the entire land of fire was once again ravaged, and when the smoke finally dissipated, Rheia was already standing awkwardly before Hao Ren.
"I don't know what happened either," the little goddess of creation said awkwardly, "I just casually patted it a few times, and it just shattered …"
So she did not cause the Gorgon Lord to self-destruct, and it was purely because she did not control her own power?
Hao Ren sighed. "Sigh … Let's not talk about it, just go back and do all the questions at the back of the third lesson on self-control …"
Rheia's face fell, but as if she had thought of something, she quickly added, "But I brought something out! While I don't know what it is for, but I think it's important! "
Hao Ren was stunned, Rheia's intuition told him it was important?
"What is it? Let me take a look! "
"It's this … It was installed in a place that looks like the main control room, and I don't know how to dismantle it, so I roughly cut it along with the shelves around it," Rheia said as she opened up a dimension, and pulled out a piece of metal that was obviously disassembled by brute force and placed it in front of Hao Ren, "See if it can still be used?"
It was a half-meter-tall metal structure, and it had a mostly intact, hemispherical silver-white body, as well as a large number of cables and supports that extended out from the main body, and while it had been through rough treatment, the structure was still in good shape.
Charlemagne and Awenna had finally calmed down from their shock, and they stared at it for a while before looking at the twisted metal that Rheia had tossed out in shock. "This is … something taken from the Gorgon Lord's body?"
"That's right, its stomach is also metal," Hao Ren said as he squatted down beside the wreckage with an excited expression. The thing that Rheia had brought out was a pleasant surprise, as the MDT had almost instantly scanned the internal structure of the device, and it was the storage device that Hao Ren had not found in the 'manta ray' before. "Let me see … It looks intact on the outside, maybe it can still be used! MDT — "
"I know, I know. My life is so tiring …" the MDT muttered as it flew to the metal wreckage and established a temporary data link with it. "Well, I can't help it. Who asked me to have such a high performance … Sigh, this thing is a little interesting. Let me take a look at it …"
Seeing the MDT begin to analyze the wreckage in the scorched ground, Awenna could not help but look nervously at the dark forest in the distance. "We … are we going to start work on this battlefield? Why don't we find a place to hide first … "
"It's fine, after the death of the Gorgon Lord, all the splits were paralyzed, and the battle earlier had chased away all possible monsters, so this place is much safer than other places." Graeme's voice came from the side as he looked curiously at the wreckage of the storage unit and the MDT lying on top of it. "What … is this?"
"Are you talking about the brick or the lump of metal underneath it?" Hao Ren raised an eyebrow. "This brick is my personal equipment, but don't call it a brick, it has a bad temper. And this lump of metal was taken from the body of a Gorgon Lord."
"An organ … from the body of a Gorgon Lord?" Graeme's eyes were filled with disbelief. "I've never … seen such a thing."
Hao Ren was in disbelief. "You guys have been fighting the Gorgon Demons for so many years, and you've never gotten a sample of something like this?"
"The ones that wander outside are usually the middle to lower tier Gorgon Demons, and the lords would never leave their lair, and every time a Gorgon Lord comes, it's always a terrible battle." Graeme frowned. "And even if we can take it out, it will self-destruct, and the remaining parts will be burnt beyond analysis. So in the long war, the number of Lord samples we could get were few and far between. Today, two Gorgon Lords have fallen here, and this is like a fantasy. "
"From what I see, these so-called Gorgon Demons are actually ancient weapons that have gone out of control, and our Basilica of the World Tree specializes in dealing with these 'relics'." Hao Ren shook his head. "But this is hard to explain to you … MDT, have you found anything?"
"Motherf * cker, didn't you just call me a brick? Can a brick do so much for you!" The MDT flew into the air angrily as it projected a huge chunk of garbled code and unrecognizable image fragments. "Most of the data is destroyed, which is to be expected. The database is scrapped, the controller is dead, and the program is in chaos. That's why these Gorgons are acting so irrationally. But after removing most of the garbled code, I did find one useful piece of information. "
Hao Ren's eyes lit up. "What is it?"
"Judging from the time in the log, it should be the last external communication the Gorgons received before they lost control," the MDT said as it displayed the message.
"… Completely destroyed, the enemy is approaching the Star Fortress Terk, the fortress will self-destruct in XXX … After that, you will be the last soldiers."
"… Glory to Tiamat the Great, long live our race."
There were only two incomplete sentences that looked like last words, and that made Hao Ren frown. "That's all?"
"That's better than nothing," Vivian said. "At least we know that the Gorgon Demons are the remnants of an ancient army that has gone out of control, and that they once had a 'Great Emperor Tiamat'."
The corner of Hao Ren's mouth twitched as he turned to look at Charlemagne and his sister, who had been listening to Hao Ren's speech. "I guess you don't know what Tiamat means, do you?"
But to Hao Ren's surprise, Awenna had a hesitant look on her face. "Err, actually … I have heard of this name …"
Hao Ren did not expect to get any valuable information from her, and he was shocked. "… What?! You've heard of it? "
"In the royal library of Izzo, there is an ancient elven book of prophecy passed down by the royal family of Izzo. It is called 'The Records of Origin', and it says that the world was destroyed twelve times, and reborn twelve times, and the culprit that caused the world to be destroyed twelve times was the great tyrant of the origin, and the tyrant's name was Tiamat. He had the body of a mountain, and in his veins flowed molten copper and lead. From the day he was born, he was filled with rage, and because of that rage, he destroyed himself, and in his rage, he unleashed the twelve most vicious curses on the world, and each curse caused the world to be destroyed once … "
"Twelve times?!" After listening to Awenna, Hao Ren's eyes widened. "Did the book really say that?!"
"Yes … Yes." Awenna was shocked, and her tone softened. "That's what the Records of Origins said. Although it was stored in the Royal Library of Izzo, it was classified as a 'myth'. It was derived from the primitive religious beliefs of the Elven Empire in the ancient times, and it was not accepted by the scholars."
"Is that so …" Of course, Hao Ren did not believe Awenna's last few words. But from those few words, he could tell that even if there were some prehistoric records like the Records of Origins in this world, they had probably been mixed with myths and legends over a long period of time, and had become completely distorted into strange stories that could not be sorted out. So, for the time being, Hao Ren had no interest in pursuing the matter.
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