"This thing … is truly magnificent …"
Even though I was standing at the edge of the crater, hundreds of kilometers away from the pitch-black fragment, I couldn't help but exclaim in amazement. Like a mountain that had fallen from the heavens, the fragment of the star ring stabbed into the glassy ground that had been melted by the sand. The hundred-kilometer-long body stretched across the land, tearing a terrifying scar in the desert. One end of the fragment was deeply embedded into the ground, while the other end was raised several kilometers into the sky. From time to time, huge black-purple lightning bolts would burst out from the fragment, sweeping across the ground and leaving a crimson trail. Dark smoke was still rising, even spreading to a radius of hundreds of kilometers. With my enhanced vision, even though I was hundreds of kilometers away, I could still see the complex mechanical structure exposed after the fragment broke, as well as the severely distorted isolation cabin inside. It was hard to imagine what kind of power could damage such a gigantic object to such a state.
Around the fragment of the star ring was an impact crater with a radius of hundreds of kilometers. Even with the anti-gravity engine as a buffer, it was normal for a metal lump that had the mass of several asteroids to collide with Earth from outer space to create such an impact crater.
Due to the interference of the powerful energy field, the sky above the impact crater appeared to be abnormally distorted. The thick clouds formed a huge whirlpool, within which strong lightning flashed continuously. Muffled thunder sounded from time to time, filling the surroundings with an oppressive atmosphere.
Standing at the edge of the impact crater, we could feel the strong radiation energy in the air even without the detection equipment sounding an alarm. However, this energy couldn't be detected by human detection equipment. Before they were irreversibly damaged, they wouldn't even have any way to discover that their surroundings were filled with lethal radiation. Furthermore, Earthlings couldn't create special materials that could resist this kind of radiation. This was why all the research teams turned into zombies without exception. They had no idea how dangerous the place they had entered was!
"Those human research teams were so brave."
Sandora shrugged. Although her tone was a little careless, it was sincere praise. To the Shiring Apostles, researchers who sacrificed their lives for science and warriors who died on the battlefield were the two types of people most worthy of respect.
After waiting quietly for a while, the message that the recovery ship was in position finally came. Sandora combed her blonde hair that was blown about by the wind and said, "They're already close to the world barrier. They'll appear in the east in ten minutes. Visca —"
"Understood."
Without waiting for Shadora's instruction, the cat eyed little girl nodded in response and closed her eyes. When she opened her eyes again, they were filled with turbid, ominous blood. Even her pupils that were as narrow as a cat's were distorted into a strange symbol.
"Initiating a call to Visca's second corridor, quarantine zone thirty-three to quarantine zone thirty-four. Response times three times. Estimated time to complete the call is five minutes …"
"Now, it's Jingle's turn!"
The little goddess's energetic voice rang in my ears in the next second. Then, Little Bean, who had been sitting on my shoulder and drinking tea, flew into the air and hovered a few meters in front of us.
Traces of light green light flowed out from the air and gradually gathered under Jingle's feet, forming an extremely complicated and mysterious rune. The rune continued to perfect and started to grow in all directions. Finally, it took on an image that I could understand: a small throne that represented God's position.
The miniature throne that was formed from life energy emitted a faint green fluorescence as though it was alive. It gradually expanded out of the ground beneath it to symbolize God's territory. Then, the ground extended upwards and formed a semi-circular roof to symbolize God's authority in the heavens. Finally, a thick vine suddenly grew out of the sand below and steadily lifted the miniature 'temple' that was floating in midair. This didn't symbolize anything except that Jingle was afraid that the house would fall and break.
In fact, the so-called temple that Jingle had built was actually a treehouse, and it looked just like a watermelon …
The reason why a temple was called a temple wasn't because of how luxurious or grand it was, but because it was "God's residence." Conversely, it was because God lived there that it was called a temple. Therefore, as long as Jingle treated a place as her palace on earth, even if it was just a birdcage, it would be recognized as a temple by the world. Even if a cathedral was built with all of humanity's power, filled with statues of the Goddess of Life and the Bible, with billions of people praying to it day and night, as long as Jingle wasn't willing to live in it, it would just be a huge house. Therefore, don't think that the treehouse in front of us was just the size of a watermelon. Under Jingle's recognition, it was a temple!
By the way, due to many reasons, the pocket on my right hand was also a temple, and … in a way, my clothes could also be defined as an extension of the God's Realm …
The completion of the treehouse was only the first step. The next step was to give this ordinary residence the meaning of a temple. This was all knowledge that Jingle had instilled into us on the way here. Of course, I was quite curious about these secrets that came from the mouth of a God. Now, I didn't even dare to blink as I watched Jingle work.
In the end, Jingle shouted in a soft voice from inside the treehouse, "Jingle will be staying here for now!"
And then, a certain voice suddenly filled the world. Of course, this could just be an illusion. It could be some kind of will that suddenly carried through the entire world. It was as if a certain truth had been added to the fixed laws of the world, and then we suddenly sensed it. This information swiftly rushed into my memory, and finally transformed into a holy and gentle sentence: "God said, I will stay here, because this is my palace on earth. The land beneath your feet is the land of heaven."
This sentence that suddenly appeared in my heart appeared like an illusion for a moment, and then disappeared. Following that, the time that I had ignored earlier continued to pass, and space also returned to normal. However, I discovered that in my perception, the world outside the edge of the desert had become completely different. This feeling was very strange, as if I was using my own spiritual power to connect with Schilling's home planet in another dimension. However, according to Jingle's previous description, it shouldn't be the outside world that had changed, but the space that we were in. It was just that the instant the "God's Realm" was born, we, who were standing in the desert, were inevitably assimilated by the Holy Sanctuary, which was why we had the illusion that the outside world had been distorted.
And in the outside world, the human factions that were focusing their attention on this desert, trying to see how the "aliens" were going to retrieve the mountain-sized fragment, suddenly forgot their original goal, and even forgot the existence of the gigantic desert. They looked at the unfamiliar image displayed on the device in front of them as if it was a matter of course, and didn't realize that a piece of this world had been "stolen" away.
The nameless desert had already disappeared from the world's system.
This process was indeed miraculous, but …
Looking at the small watermelon-sized treehouse in front of me, listening to Jingle's giggling voice, feeling the incongruity between the two worlds, why did I want to cry so much …
Despair, I finally completely, completely, despaired of the Gods!
"Let's get to work." Sandora also had a strange expression on her face, but she was still the Schilling Queen who had often dealt with the Gods in the past. At this moment, she was only expressing her helplessness at Jingle's unconventional Divine Realm construction ceremony. "The recovery ship is out!"
I also shifted my attention away from the watermelon treehouse … the temple, and turned my gaze to the east. The sky there was gradually distorting, like a canvas being twisted from the back. This was the interference phenomenon caused by a large number of space containers passing through the world barrier. The Avalon class was a specialized cargo ship, but cargo ships created by Schilling technology were not as heavy and bulky as we imagined them to be. Although it had a frighteningly large cargo hold, its size was only equivalent to a medium-sized destroyer. The Avalon's hull was filled with high-power spatial rift generators, and the space created by these generators was where things were stored. Because it could "drag" a large number of space spaces at any time, Avalon was also known as a space tug ship. This extremely advanced storage method ensured that the cargo ship itself had a large capacity, and it could also transport dangerous items in the safest way, including explosives and highly radioactive items, such as thousands of tons of psionic crystals, or vector bombs that could cause a star explosion with the slightest collision, or non-flammable garbage that a cat-eyed loli accidentally dropped on Earth …
Overnight, Bubble modified the blueprints of the Avalon-class cargo ship, combining several independent storage spaces into a huge cargo hold. Due to the sharp increase in energy consumption, this modification affected the overall cargo capacity of Avalon. But unless this was done, no one would be able to pack away a fragment of the star ring that was more than a hundred kilometers long …
A minute later, the Avalon cargo ship, which looked like a shuttle that had its two ends cut off and then flattened, finally completed a space jump and quietly floated above the mountain-like wreckage.
"Begin recovery."
After receiving the action request from the cargo ship, Sandora first looked at Visca, who had completed the "roll call". After receiving a positive response from him, she issued the recovery order.
Waves of ear-piercing friction sounds came from the receiving port at the bottom of the Avalon, and then a large halo enveloped the entire star ring fragment. A huge spatial crack appeared at one end of the wreckage and began to move slowly, cutting off the entire star ring fragment, including part of the glass below it, from the ground. As the spatial crack moved, the huge wreckage was gradually absorbed into the hyperspace cargo hold. This process was slow at first, but it became faster and faster. In the end, the rapidly moving spatial crack even produced a clear energy whistle. After only ten minutes, the entire process was over.
Only a huge charred impact crater and the wound at the bottom of the crater were left after a piece of it was obviously dug out.
"Then, it's time to purify the polluted impact crater and the area around it." After Avalon ascended to a safe distance, I moved my fingers and got ready to work. I said to Shadora and Weska, "Do you need to leave?"
Sandora shook her head and gave me a confident smile. "Don't underestimate my strength. I've also stayed in a planet's core before! Also, Visca won't care about this temperature. Being able to observe the messy abilities that Ah Jun created at a close distance is one of my few interests … "
Jingle's voice came from the watermelon-sized treehouse. "It's okay! The temple is absolutely safe! "
I smiled and took a few steps forward to lightly tap on the outer wall of the 'Divine Palace'. Following a slight tremor in the treehouse, cries of "Aiya, it's an earthquake!" could be heard from within, making me not know whether to laugh or cry.
Even though the surrounding space was abnormally firm, the temple's essence was still a watermelon …
To purify such a large area that had become a source of radiation, it was of course not easy to use ordinary methods. Even sending a fleet to bombard the entire desert might not be effective. That would also cause the radiation here to worsen. Radioactive leakage was always the most troublesome thing to deal with. But to me, it wasn't that troublesome.
Radioactive energy was also energy. This was why Sandora had said that I was the only one who could do it.
"Energy mark …"
I bent down and pressed my right hand on the semi-vitreous sand. Then, I carefully felt the surging radioactive energy inside.
The composition was extremely complicated. Not only did it include weakened psionic energy, but there was also a portion of void energy mixed in from who knew where. There were also many forms of energy that I had never seen before. It was probably the mutated energy produced by the explosion of the anti-gravity engine. But that didn't matter. I had never understood the essence of the energy I controlled …
After marking a few energy samples that needed "attention", I quickly spread out my mental power. I only stopped when I encountered a firm barrier. That should be the border of the desert, the temporary God Realm's barrier. Since I was going to do it, I decided to do it to the best of my ability. I decided to use up all the radioactive energy in the entire desert, even if some places were too dense to cause any harm.
"Energy Explosion!"
I spat out these four words. Then, I unhesitatingly jumped next to Sandora and the others and instantly activated my mental barrier to the maximum. At the same time, Sandora and Visca also activated their own mental and psionic shields. A green light flashed on Jingle's watermelon temple, and a fourth barrier was erected.
While all of this was happening, the entire desert underwent a tremendous change. A dark red light spread out from under the sand, and an astonishingly high temperature instantly filled the entire space. Even light was distorted, and all sorts of bizarre scenes appeared in front of us.
This scene only lasted for less than two seconds, until a certain critical point was broken, and the balance instantly collapsed.
Several types of energy in the air were catalyzed by my mental power. In the blink of an eye, their activity increased by countless times, and then they spontaneously combusted. Everything in our field of vision was instantly covered in an overwhelming crimson color. This was the color produced by the extremely high temperature that couldn't be vented in the form of flames. The air was completely decomposed in a few seconds, and the sand visibly melted into a liquid. The chain reaction caused by the energy explosion even caused some things that weren't flammable to join the high-temperature reaction. In the blinding red light, it was as if the entire world was gradually melting …
However, a mere few minutes later, the hellish heat on the surface of this star suddenly disappeared. Even the lava that flowed freely on the ground condensed into black glass that was as smooth as a mirror. The blinding red world from earlier seemed to have disappeared like an illusion.
In my senses, the density of the energy here had already dropped to an astonishing level.
The radiation that would have taken several hundred years to completely release was compressed into a few minutes by me. I called this new ability: Energy Explosion.
Actually, I originally wanted to call it Flame Nova …
When the tyrannical energy explosion finally calmed down, we removed the layers of shields. Of course, those shields weren't really put to use. They were originally just a backup plan to prevent my control from failing. Looking at it now, it seemed that the controllability of Energy Explosion had far exceeded my expectations.
"Although it's a flaw that it can't be released from a long distance, its power is indeed shocking." Looking at the endless land that looked like a piece of obsidian, Sandora couldn't help but be speechless. "Ah Jun, you just burned a desert that was as big as a country into a piece of glass. It seems that as long as you have enough energy and time, it wouldn't be a problem to destroy a planet, right?"
"Who would be so bored that they would want to destroy the world all day long!"
Just as I said that, Visca, who was beside me, raised his hand cheerfully.
… This girl is even more dangerous than her sister.
Although I was very confident that the Energy Explosion just now had completely consumed all the radiation energy in this desert, in order to be sure, Sandora still checked the energy distribution in the surroundings. The results were satisfactory. Now, this place was almost turned into an energy vacuum zone by me. Even the heat that was emitted was completely absorbed by the cargo ship above us.
After confirming that the ground was safe, Sandora gave the order for Avalon to land. We planned to directly take the cargo ship back, so we didn't bid farewell to the various countries' governments. As for the reason, cough cough, don't you think that it's really embarrassing to almost cause the extinction of a human race because of something that you own, and then go over to be a savior with a clear conscience?
With a gradually lowering roar, the Avalon cargo ship landed steadily on the bright and clean glass floor. As the crew cabin door at the front of the ship opened, a small figure emerged from inside and then nimbly jumped to the ground.
It's actually Pandora!?
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