"What is this place?!"
I stared at the mysterious and majestic scene around me in astonishment. A stone platform that was about ten kilometers wide floated in the endless darkness by itself. Surrounding the platform were several gigantic planets that seemed to be within reach. I could even faintly see the mountains and ruins of civilizations on the surface of those planets. Further away, there were brilliant stars, vast galaxies, and beautiful nebulae. They were like colorful ribbons that added a bit of color to the dark and empty night sky.
"I'm not sure yet, but I have a very bad guess …" Monina had changed into her long black cloak and was holding a long and narrow dagger in each hand. Black smoke constantly rose from the dagger's edge. I even felt that if I came into contact with the smoke, even my soul would be incinerated into nothingness.
Later on, my guess was confirmed. The "Burning Spirit Blade" really could cut souls, even though its owner usually used that sharp divine weapon to cut vegetables and make dumplings …
"Idiot brother, I'll leave the task of opening the path to you!"
"Why me …" Eersson's expression stiffened. Then, his gaze drifted over to me. "Isn't there a more suitable … Ugh, okay, okay, leave it to me."
I looked at Monina in confusion. She smiled at me and explained, "Right now, we haven't really entered the alternate dimension in front of us. There's a barrier between the physical and the illusory that prevents any physical entity from stepping onto this platform. So, as long as we leave the shadowy area below us, the intruder will return to the gymnasium. Under normal circumstances, a special key is needed to pass through this barrier. But now, due to the destruction caused by the huge explosion, the barrier between the two dimensions is extremely weak. With a strong enough energy attack, the illusory wall between the two can be destroyed."
In other words, we needed a master of energy science. No wonder Eersson said that I was more suitable for this job. But who told you to be so hot-blooded as to say "I'll open the path"?
So, Yohei Haruhara had to die. All versions of him had to die.
Although he had an unwilling expression, Eersson still obediently took action under his sister's unrelenting gaze. He casually placed the gorgeous shield beside his leg and gripped the hilt of the holy feathered longsword tightly. He bent his waist and pointed his sword forward. Visible waves of holy energy peeled off from the surrounding void and gradually gathered on the blade of the sword of light. The increasingly intense energy even stirred up a whirlwind of pure light in this airless place, and the core of the whirlwind was the golden longsword in Eersson's hand.
If you dare to shout "Excalibur" now, do you believe that I won't smack you until you can't grow any hair for the rest of your life?!
You can't blame me for ridiculing. The main point is that Eersson's current appearance is too much. The main point is that it's because he looks too good.
Fortunately, even though it looked powerful, Eersson didn't use a move with a name. Instead, it was just a simple release of energy. Otherwise, I would be worried that he would shout out an oath …
After a few seconds of charging, a powerful storm of Holy Light instantly exploded from the tip of the greatsword. It was a pure release of energy without any fancy moves or targets. The unprecedented flash could even blind anyone who looked directly at it. Even if I closed my eyes in time, the light that was like another sun exploding in front of my eyes caused my retina to ache faintly. That was why I had to shout at Lin Xue, who had turned her head away from me.
Since you already knew, would it kill you to remind me, lass!
After everything gradually calmed down, I slowly opened my eyes. The moving shadows in front of me shook for a while before they gradually merged together, forming the huge platform that was floating in the air.
On the surface, nothing seemed to have changed. Even the dark gray stone slabs on the ground in front of Eersson didn't have a single scratch on them. However, I could sense something amiss with my spiritual senses, and I was certain that I was standing in another dimension.
"Alright, the barrier of nothingness has been destroyed."
Eersson rested his greatsword on his shoulder and turned his head around with a radiant smile. He looked as glorious as a team leader who had just slain a dragon and ordered his teammates to dismember the corpse and loot the equipment.
"Mm." Monina nodded before lifting her head blankly. "Then, Big Brother Idiot, you destroyed all the barriers and passageways. How are we going to get out later? This is a half-plane used to store 'that thing' … "
* Clang! * The greatsword in Eersson's hand smashed heavily on the ground. The mighty and majestic Greek War God from a second ago had now become a weathered War God.
It can't be!! Is this fellow's brain filled with tofu?!
"Phew, I knew it from the start." Monina shook her head and sighed sorrowfully. Then, her gaze drifted to the confident Lin Xue beside me. "Prophet, do you have the coordinates of the outside world?"
"How did you know?" Lin Xue made a surprised expression.
"Judging the personality of every person you come into contact with, grasping everyone's movement patterns, and determining what the target is thinking and doing based on the smallest clues is a skill that a Blade Ranger who specializes in infiltration and assassination must master." Monina had a proud expression on her face. "Otherwise, how could I have successfully skipped half a semester of classes in the military academy?"
Don't take that as your glorious history!
Fortunately, Lin Xue, who had foresight, had used her spiritual power to set up coordinates in the space outside so that we wouldn't get lost in this troublesome half-plane. According to Monina, this kind of half-plane wasn't naturally formed. It was a secret space specially used to store special 'items'. It had a high degree of security. Even if most of its defenses had been destroyed, without clear coordinates to the outside world, it would still be extremely dangerous to teleport out from here. There was a 50% chance that you would be thrown into a spatial dislocation.
The other 50% chance that you would fall into the endless void …
Of course, the above two kinds of trouble would probably be difficult to kill us, the outliers. But just like how a toad doesn't bite but it disgusts you, even if the spatial dislocation and the endless void didn't kill us, we would still be so dizzy that we would vomit all our guts out. And if some unlucky person with a poor sense of direction acted up, I'm afraid that we would really die in there … Well, that was also possible.
Not to mention that we had a burden, Artemis, by our side. Originally, I wanted her to stay outside as a normal human, or go back first. After all, the Awakeners were pretty much relying on her power to maintain themselves. As the leader of the Awakeners, it wasn't a good idea for her to leave the base for too long. Of course, the main reason was that she was still too weak. In the face of an unknown, forbidden zone where there wasn't even air, there was no way she could survive. But Eerson confidently gave this stubborn girl a layer of 'Grace of the Immortal Templar'. It was said that this Law level protection skill could put the protected in a state of eternal invincibility until the caster died in battle. With an immortal body, Artemis' curiosity towards the mysterious new world was fully aroused, and the result was that we had a little burden that wasn't easy to deal with …
And because of that, even though I knew that she was currently in a state of invincibility, I couldn't help but make every move as careful as possible. It wasn't that I had any doubts about Eerson's ability as a War God … Fine, I just felt that this stupid guy wasn't very reliable.
Eerson's job class was Star Region Garrison Officer, a warrior who specialized in defense. This was a bit similar to Sicarro, but the latter was better at using skills and formations to strengthen the entire army's defensive capabilities in army battles. On the other hand, Eerson was a Protoss warrior who strengthened his own defense and the ability to protect his team to the limit. In a small team operation like ours, Eerson was obviously more capable than that pirate pirate. Of course, in terms of idiocy, both of them had their own merits …
Eerson, who wielded a heavy shield, carefully opened a path in front of us, leading us slowly toward the center of the platform. In this aspect, the hot-blooded idiot Eerson also had a dedicated side: he wouldn't let down his guard under any circumstances, even if the surroundings were as calm as stagnant water.
"What exactly is in front of us?" As we gradually approached the center of the platform, Lin Xue's eyebrows tightened. Finally, she couldn't help but ask this question that hung over all of our heads.
At the very least, it was obvious that Monina knew something.
"As a prophet, can't you see anything?"
"I'm not very sure, but this is the key to uncovering the secret of the world fragment."
"Your power is indeed miraculous. Even as a Protoss, I can only rely on my experience to make such a judgment …" Monina suddenly sighed, then called out to the MT who was opening the path in front of us. "Idiot brother, you don't have to be on guard. If you didn't skip class when you graduated, you should know that it's impossible for there to be any enemies here."
"… In other words, Eerson was just pantomiming with his shield, right?"
This Dark Goddess really didn't give up on any opportunity to torment her brother.
At the same time, as Mo Nina's voice faded, the Greek God of War Iersen, who was holding his shield, stiffened, then petrified … erm, turned to ash, he really turned to ash!
The despicable Liliana even used a tree branch to stab Eerson's corpse twice, then turned to report to us. "Inform his family, I've tried my best."
Ignoring the interaction of these unscrupulous living treasures, Big Sister and I were already squatting on the ground, and we discovered something different.
Runes. Even though it was covered by the same dark gray stone slabs as the surroundings, there were many familiar runes on the stone slabs. After carefully recalling, I suddenly realized that these were the words of the Protoss. As Jingle frequently used it, and Liliana had released a Divine Art not too long ago, I was able to recognize these elegant but complicated ten plus signs.
"Divine Creation Space?"
Big Sister also recognized those words, frowning as she muttered to herself.
"There used to be a gigantic palace here."
Lin Xue used her fingers to gently caress the coarse rune slabs, then slowly stood up.
"A three-storey ancient baroque building, with two gothic spires attached, and two post-modern stone men standing at the entrance. Mu Cuo! That's it! "
Can't you save your spiritual power to make some useful predictions?
"A rather accurate description …" Monina was stunned. "Alright, as you said, there used to be a gigantic palace here, the Protoss Building, known as the Management Terminal of the Gloom Royal City."
"Management Terminal!?" My attention wasn't on the words' Protoss Building '. I didn't even care about those annoying fellows setting up stalls in the Third Ring to sell God Equipment, but the meaning behind the words' Management Terminal 'was different. "The world's XP mother?"
Big Sister knocked on my head lightly. "… Be serious, we are trying to save the world!" Then she turned her head away. "Windows?"
Monina was completely defeated by us, or rather, assimilated. She even nodded her head in agreement when she heard that the Gods called the world's XP mother. "More or less. The Gods in the Star Field use different operating systems to manage their worlds. Captain is used to using the classic idiot version of the World Tree, because that thing can load mods quickly and won't crash. The common functions can be done with scripts, but because it is troublesome to maintain, usually only the Life Gods would choose to use such a life-like management terminal. As for the … ruins in front of us, based on the runes that were once used to support the palace and gather the information of the world, it should be the third version of the Gloom Royal City. It is powerful and reliable, but it is a pity that the version is a little old, so the civilization evolution and transmigration functions have to be manually set up.
Usually, only fanatical technophiles would use such a thing to manage the world. "" Technological geeks' God Equipment. "I prostrated myself on the ground with tears streaming down my face. I pressed my hands on the rune slabs that seemed to have once been a God's palace, but only the foundation or OS was left." Alright, where is this palace now? "
"It disappeared."
Lin Xue's eyes shone with a deep light. All the blurry dots had disappeared, and the truth was presented before her eyes.
"All of this happened during the process of the world's important evolution. The Gloom Royal City, which was the center of management, was invaded, but for some reason, the world's management center, which should have been heavily guarded, didn't resist at all. The world's destruction was completed in a single second. It wasn't some super energy explosion, nor was it some apocalyptic flash from outside the world. It was the result of the world's system collapsing in an instant."
Did you just burn your CPU while you were at it?
"This is completely consistent with the information we've collected so far." Monina looked around. "I must report everything to the Gods. This should be the first time that the world's core has disappeared, but the relevant reports must have already been sent to the Glorious Divine Court. I need to see if they need this information."
"Who would be so powerful as to … steal the world's core?"
After hesitating for a moment, I decided to use the word "stolen" to describe this incident. The Gods' Holy Temple, which was in charge of the world's management, had disappeared into thin air just like that. This was too ridiculous …
"Actually, apart from the extremely high-security demiplane that was used to store the world's core and the guards stationed around it, the world's core's defensive capabilities aren't that strong. After all, it's only a management terminal. Who would stick two forbidden spell scrolls on the cover of their personal laptop?"
Yes, not only did Pandora install a miniature shield generator on every single laptop in the house, she even installed two laser guns under the digital camera lens that I bought last year!
"But even though the world's core's defensive capabilities aren't that strong, the security measures around it are also quite strong. Not only that, it's protected by an even more secure demiplane. Basically, apart from the Protoss themselves, the only ones capable of breaking through or even bypassing the demiplane's defenses and stealing it are …"
At this point, Monina suddenly paused for a moment. Her elder sister helped her finish her sentence, "The Fallen Apostle …"
"I'm afraid that I'll have to make a trip back to the God Realm right now." Monina sheathed the twin blades in her hands and picked up my elder brother who was lying beside her. "If the Fallen Apostle really has designs on the world's core, we must inform all Divine Worlds to be on high alert. Back when the Xiling Empire was at its peak, we imparted a large amount of technology related to demiplanes to the Shiring Apostles …"
For example, shadow space technology.
"How should I put it, I'm a little embarrassed." Even though I was the opposite of the Fallen Apostle, I still didn't know what to say in this complicated situation. The ancient Gods had imparted demiplane technology related to the world's core to the Schilling Empire without any reservations. In the end, after the Fallen Apostle appeared, one of the world's management terminals was ambushed without any resistance.
No matter how carefree I was, I wouldn't be able to laugh at this moment.
"No, you don't have to be troubled by this." Monina still had a polite smile on her face. The expression on her face didn't change at all. "That has nothing to do with you. We will never vent our anger on anyone, nor will we make matters worse because of our emotions. The Shiring Apostles and the Gods are friends, and they will always be friends."
If this was said by someone else, I might think that the other party was being hypocritical. However, coming from the mouth of a Star Region Protoss, the credibility of this statement increased by countless times. They were such a race. In certain aspects, they were perfect and fair to the point that it was a pain in the ass.
In any case, they could randomly pick one out and throw him into the crowd to be the Lord of Jesus.
"Wait a minute." Just as Monina was about to leave and we were about to return to the outside world, a voice suddenly interrupted us. "Why do I suddenly feel that … the conversation between you two is so strange?"
Artemis noticed the abnormality. Monina, did you drop the ball just now?
"A mistake! This is a mistake! "
Monina's face reddened. She rudely poked the lumbar disc of the impudent snickering Elson. "Well, it's nothing. Anyway, the matter will be resolved very soon. There's no harm in telling her."
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