The Dark Realm is an extremely huge space. It is around the Void Vortex and stretches for at least a dozen long strips the size of Mycroft's world. Worlds No. 1 to No. 8 are distributed in it in sequence, and there are also other areas around it. There are many scattered worlds of absolute silence.
In this realm, all worlds are dim, and even if they exist, they cannot be observed by other areas. Even the coordinates are difficult to determine, and it is almost as if they do not exist, so it is called darkness.
But now, the Northern Empire's External Exploration Department is using the highest-power signal to call the No. 3 World Team in this non-existent realm to immediately stop exploring and stay where they are, waiting for the return transmission.
"Call the third team. According to the judgment of the empire's official research team, your current situation is extremely dangerous and poses a huge life safety risk. Please immediately stop all exploration operations, repair the light beam, stay in place, and wait for the teleportation light beam to return. Your All information has been recorded, so please don’t worry about your contribution. I repeat, please stop all exploration operations immediately, start repairing the light beam and stay in place, and please be careful."
The correspondent of the Grand Sefa communicated with the Ten Thousand Realms Sacrificial Site and relied on the power of this ancient wonder to send messages to distant places. His expression was extremely serious, not only because this message related to the life and death of an elite team of five people, but also because now he was in his Behind him, there were four legendary powerhouses talking in low voices.
To be honest, his nervous legs were paralyzed.
"What happened? Why did the exploration suddenly end?"
Behind the nearly paralyzed correspondent, Nostradamus said this. He had just received news from the soldiers and hurried over from the Xibanert Plateau. He was not very clear about the situation yet. On the side, because he was originally at the Ten Thousand Realms Sacrificial Site Barnier and William, who were doing research, kindly explained: "Joshua found information about the enemy he had fought against before in World No. 3. He is indeed a troublesome guy, so he should be cautious."
"Yeah, when we teamed up to deal with it, we almost got it out of the siege."
Hearing this, Nostradamus glanced sideways at Joshua: "Your former enemies? Strange, haven't they become ashes now? This is not in line with your character."
"It's become ashes. The problem is that there are a group of enemies like this, not just one."
Joshua shook his head in response to his friend's ridicule. Nostradamus was also someone who knew about the existence of Black Mist. After he roughly explained the current situation, the old mage expressed his knowledge: "You suspect that World No. 3 is the former lair of Black Mist." , or a battlefield with the evil god? That is indeed very dangerous."
There is no doubt that Black Mist has legendary-level combat effectiveness. As a microscopic cluster of magical rune creations, it has extremely strong corrosive power and energy-devouring ability. In theory, it should also have wisdom beyond ordinary humans.
As for the beings under the Legend, it is basically impossible to defeat the Legend unless they have mastered Legend-level technology... And the densely packed wreckage of World No. 3, which even piled up into a desert, proves that in this place, the black mist once fell like rain. Typically, thousands were destroyed. In the eyes of everyone, the only beings who can do such a thing are evil gods, or even multiple evil gods.
"I want to go over and see the situation myself."
After the four legends roughly discussed the current situation, Joshua made a decision: "Dangerous places naturally have their value. Maybe you can find some special information about the black mist and evil gods in World No. 3. They are both The more we know about our enemies, the better.”
"Then I will monitor other worlds first. If there is danger, I will come directly."
Nostradamus nodded slightly and walked to the control room on the other side. Barnier and William also left at the same time.
Since the Gran Sefa is now located at the edge of the Ten Thousand Realms Sacrificial Field, and the Will of Dominance is nearby, with Joshua's contact, soon, the power of teleportation belonging to the sacrificial field lit up directly on the warrior's body. -A black space spread out in an instant, swallowing Joshua's figure.
At this time, the exploration team of World No. 3 was staying in place according to the instructions and did not conduct any exploration.
"Is there anything particularly dangerous about the information we send back?"
At the front of the temporary position, the captain, who was looking around to see if there were any abnormalities around him, was quite depressed and puzzled. He said to himself in confusion: "From the tone of the correspondent, it seems like we may die at any time."
"It's also for our own good." The mage at the side and rear, responsible for maintaining the position's shield, shrugged: "After all, this is a different world, and it's normal for there to be dangers that we can't notice."
"It's just a pity. There should be more discoveries..."
Suddenly, the five members of the exploration team present sighed - indeed, because of the sudden emergency communication, they could only temporarily stop all subsequent exploration plans. Although there were no special conditions within a few hundred kilometers of the surrounding area, there were no special conditions further away. Maybe there is some valuable information that can provide a lot of contributions? Although the captain knows that the current harvest has been very rich, for all the members of the third team, this feeling is still extremely distressing: "I can't even sit in the carriage of the loser, I can only walk..."
While everyone was still thinking, suddenly, a huge roar came from the other side of the endless metal desert.
Immediately, the five members of the exploration team, who were already on alert and extremely nervous, were immediately alerted. When they heard a loud noise that was far greater than thunder, like the earth falling apart, they immediately raised their heads with extreme vigilance and looked towards the horizon in the direction of the sound. , and what happened there left everyone standing stunned and at a loss—
It was an iron-red dust cloud that rose like a city wall but reached high into the sky. Countless fine metal dust was lifted high into the sky by a mighty force, covering the sky and the sun... But this was not the reason why everyone was shocked. What is shocking is that under the dust cloud, the collapsed earth seems to have disappeared. The desert composed of countless metal dust seems to be swallowed up by an invisible giant mouth. Large areas disappear into the horizon. Everyone can see that in the distance. There was no longer any land, only darkness.
"What should we do?! Our front can't stop the natural disaster!"
The alchemists in the team were suddenly in a panic. Although the repair light beam and the mage's shield together were enough to withstand the ultimate attack, if they all fell into the abyss, it would definitely not be a good thing.
"What else can we do?" After all, the exploration team is also the elite among the elites. Although they will be shocked when encountering unexpected situations, they can recover quickly. The captain of the third team thought for a while and immediately came up with a solution: "Knight, hurry up Click to expand the off-road vehicle, turn on airplane mode, and let’s get in!”
"What should I do if there are still instruments in the position?"
"Those things don't matter to anyone, so I don't want any of them!"
After receiving the order, the well-trained third team all boarded the vehicle within ten seconds. With the slight hum coming from the rotors and magic nozzle, the off-road vehicle with the ability to fly rose to the sky amid the fluctuations of magic power, and in the distance , the 'big collapse' that originally appeared on the horizon has arrived at the original stationing point of the third team. Everyone looked down in silence as their original camp was swallowed up by a huge gap in darkness and disappeared into the surging sand and dust. between.
If we hadn't been alert... the captain thought in silence, and then shuddered.
"In flying form, even if the mage and alchemist charge together, the energy can only last for two and a half hours."
The knight who was driving looked seriously at the various instruments in the front row of the off-road vehicle. He whispered: "Our energy crystal reserves were all in the camp, and now they are all gone."
"It's gone, it's gone. Not ten seconds after we took off, the collapse has already reached us." In this regard, the captain could only sigh: "I can only hope that the return teleportation will start soon."
Because there are slight differences between the worlds in all aspects, the strength of all members of the exploration team was below the gold level when they first performed their mission. To avoid the conflict of extraordinary powers unique to high-level extraordinary beings, they followed the empire's external policies. According to the plan of the Exploration Department, all subsequent realm advancements will be completed in the void in order to achieve the most perfect adaptability in the future. However, because of this, except for the mages and priests who have certain flying abilities, everyone present does not have such power yet, and can only rely on magic machines such as flying off-road vehicles to make up for it.
"Wait, look!"
Just when everyone was still feeling complicated and congratulating themselves on their decisive action, suddenly, the clergyman on the side pointed at a certain collapse and said, "What kind of building seems to be there?"
Immediately, everyone turned their heads and looked in the direction pointed by the cleric, and then they saw a large group of black buildings.
After the surface of World Three suddenly collapsed on a large scale, causing countless metal deserts and earth to sink into the abyss, the entire ground was dark and misty, like looking at the abyss from the edge of a cliff, but in such an environment , all the members of the third exploration team noticed that deep in the collapse area, among the countless dust billows, there were black buildings emerging from the rolling metal sand.
It can be seen that those black buildings are huge, majestic and spectacular, with a unique artistic beauty. Its dome alone is thousands of meters wide, and is covered with all kinds of strange erosion scars, as if it has experienced countless attacks. But still standing tall. But what seems to be the most serious injury is actually the black surface. Because there are extremely strong magic waves emitted from it, it is easy to determine that these buildings have experienced a huge amount of continuous exposure to magic radiation, so the surface layer is It's going to be so dark.
These black buildings were buried under the thick metal sand for thousands of years. They did not roll into the abyss with the sand and dust, but stood upright in place. The third team flew silently high in the sky, staring down. Looking through the surging dust and metal clouds rising from the depths of the earth, everyone can see the rolling magma layer deep in the mantle, where huge geological changes are taking place, which is the cause of the great surface collapse in the third world.
What is happening in this world
Doubts echoed in the hearts of everyone, and everyone was thinking about this issue in horror. They had never witnessed the power of legends, and had not experienced the natural disasters that destroyed the world. They could not even imagine what kind of disasters and wars would cause Such a spectacle—the original world was buried under the metal desert, and the essence of the world was severely damaged, swallowing everything on the surface from time to time.
However, there is no need for them to imagine now, because as the fluctuations in time and space spread, a hand stretched out from nowhere, grabbed the flying off-road vehicle, and then directly threw it and all the people on it back to the other side of time and space. End, and after doing this and ensuring the safety of the exploration team, Joshua walked out of the time and space channel created by the Ten Thousand Worlds Sacrificial Site and looked down at everything happening below him.
"Sure enough, there is something weird."
He whispered: "The style of these buildings is very similar to the shelter civilization I saw back then... It should not be a civilization destroyed by the black mist, but a part of the shelter civilization!"
But even knowing this is of no use. Under Joshua's steel power vision, he can directly see the inside of the building, and inside this building, all information and possible files have long been radiated by high energy. As ashes, only the main building remained. In silence, the soldier thought for a moment before flying directly into the sky.
Soon, he penetrated the atmosphere and reached an extremely high altitude of hundreds of thousands of meters above the surface. If this altitude were in Mycroft's world, he would have almost reached the end of the world. But until now, Joshua has not felt it. Any sign of entering the void means that the limit of this world is far beyond that. ,
Soon, the warrior flew directly out of the atmosphere at a speed of tens of kilometers per second - if the thin sea of gas could still be called the atmosphere - and arrived in the dark starry sky.
Then, he confirmed his suspicion.
Joshua looked down at the dim, damaged sphere beneath him. He nodded slightly, finally confirming that this so-called world No. 3 was not a continental world with a single person, but a spherical celestial world, and World No. 3 In itself, it is a broken planet.
This is a planet with a quarter of its body broken into pieces. There is a huge gap in its northwest half, from which countless misty dust spilled out, forming a dust cloud area several planets long, and its surface Covered with a layer of iron-red metallic sand, it buried all the buildings on the surface and at the same time suppressed the complete collapse of the planet.
Yes, the black mist did not destroy the world. In fact, it was protecting the world and preventing it from collapsing due to heavy damage. But this was meaningless. Joshua did not sense any life from this planet. His existence, even his soul, had all dissipated over the course of thousands of years, and he couldn't sense any information at all.
After confirming the information on the surface, Joshua turned his head and looked around the void. At this time, he was in the orbit of the planet in World No. 3. He could see that the sun in World No. 3 in the distance was dark red. It looked very huge, but its light was But it is very dim, and there are countless black areas surging on the surface... This is a red giant star that is close to extinguishing. The area it once occupied is not here, but in the center of the galaxy very far away.
Obviously, this world has had a direct encounter with the Evil God of Fertility. This star was induced by the Evil God to explode and turn into a red giant. The black mist obviously wanted to protect this world, but it failed completely. Countless debris piled up into a star-covering star. The desert also failed to achieve its purpose, and it was precisely because of this that the buildings on the broken planet were irradiated black on the surface, and everyone died in that spectacular explosion.
Joshua flew rapidly in the gravityless space. He increased his speed to two thousandths of the speed of light and cruised the surrounding space. He did find many traces of battles - in the outer dark space, there were indeed many floating things. The iron-red metal cloud is the remains left after the black mist was destroyed. In the darkness, Joshua also sensed some residual aura of chaos, which was the smell of the evil god. However, there was no remaining body of the evil god around, only a little aura remained.
Joshua even found an asteroid in the darkness that was about one-fifth the size of World No. 3. But after more than ten minutes of identification, the soldier confirmed that it was not an asteroid, but one from World No. 3. The moon was knocked out of its orbit by the battle between two powerful beings, floating in the darkness. He could even see the huge impact marks on the back of the moon.
In addition to these, Joshua also found many remains of huge rune circles and crystal structures that were still suspended in the orbit of the drifting moon. He flew forward and looked closely at the marks on these civilizational creations. Ya confirmed that those are the signs of the shelter world.
[Omega Sanctuary belongs to]
[Federal Central, Nok Institute]
These space stations and the remains of magical creations suspended in the orbit of the planet are exposed to far greater stellar radiation than the buildings in the distant world No. 3, but they are many times stronger than the buildings, so that they can still be clearly seen until now. The logo on it, and after Joshua recognized the words on it, he couldn't help but feel a sense of familiarity... Although the name Nok was ordinary, he seemed to have heard it somewhere.
After a moment, the soldier who was searching from his database opened his eyes wide as he recalled where he had heard this name.
"It was from the leader of Sanctuary Civilization when they were invaded by evil gods!"
Joshua turned his head and stared at the broken planet behind him. He said solemnly: "Master Nok, the creator of the black mist, his team engraved the core magic circle of the black mist... If we say, on this moon The building is the institute where Nock’s team is located.”
"Then this planet is undoubtedly the manufacturing plant of the Black Mist prototypes, the place where they were born!"
Just when Joshua was shocked by his discovery.
In World No. 1, Priest and others are cautiously approaching the edge of a huge crack on the earth's surface, preparing to closely examine the world's unique heavy metal circulation system.
Their investigation was in full swing. Everyone was performing their duties, controlling various instruments, searching for the components of the hot gas spewing from the cracks in the earth's crust, and analyzing the basic elemental composition of this world. Just now, because the instruments showed that this planet has great energy. When the gold reserves were reached, everyone hugged each other excitedly and almost forgot about it.
"Hahaha! According to the available information, the fine gold reserves deep underground in this world are three hundred times that of Mycroft's world! Or even more! We are developed!"
"Although mining is difficult, large-scale fine gold veins are enough for legendary powerhouses to take action! We finally found valuable points (mineral veins)!"
Although Priest was also very excited, he reassured everyone: "Don't be too excited. Our mission is to explore the world, and the points are just incidental. What's more, our core goal, to find a unified information database, is not there yet. If we really find that thing, it will be a real harvest!"
Hearing this, everyone calmed down a little. Now is indeed not the time to cheer. It's true. The exploration is not over yet, and their mission has not been completed. Celebrations can be left behind after returning.
And when everyone started working again, no one, including Priest, noticed it.
Outside the world's atmosphere, in the endless darkness, black mist invades the atmosphere. They merge into the metal clouds, and then turn into liquid drops like rain. They fall into the world and invade a world. Another crack in the world... They arrived silently, without any sound or vibration.
Coincidentally, there was such a black mist falling towards the crack in the ground where Priest's team was, and it turned into rain and fell into the abyss.
And everyone is still investigating the components of the gas that spewed out from the depths of the earth. They worked hard and found no clues.
(End of chapter)