I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 515 - 396_1

Chapter 515: Chapter 396_1

"Six days. If the Proxy Agent can successfully resolve the environmental imbalance, there is still hope for them," a female operator suddenly thought of something and hurriedly spoke.

The man with glasses adjusted his glasses, "We know too little about the Proxy Agent. That last strike likely targeted the Proxy Agent. Considering the enemy used such an attack, we can infer that the Proxy Agent is very strong, but..."

But such an attack was one that not even the top-level fighters of their world could withstand. A single strike nearly split their continent in two, and even the aftershocks damaged the Firmament Wheel. Under such an assault, who could survive?

"Without that Proxy Agent, Firmament 67 might..."

"Are you complaining??" A man with an icy demeanor stared at the operator who had spoken.

"No, I just feel... sorry." The operator lowered her head, despondent. The world was too bleak for hope.

When they built the Firmament Wheel, they believed they had gained a new lease on life, an opportunity to regroup, a more stable environment to confront the invaders. But reality taught them a harsh lesson—the Firmament Wheel was a cage.

It kidnapped all the survivors of this world and imprisoned the world’s powerful. They had no way to escape.

The Firmament Wheel had ventured into space, but the conditions there were as dire as on the planet, if not worse due to its distance from the world, causing operational problems. The Firmament Wheel couldn’t harvest more energy in outer space.

They could do nothing but wait for death here.

"Six days..." The man with the icy expression showed a flash of anger. If he could, he would have liked to join the fight. However, they had already tried that once, with many promising with absolute certainty that all problems would be suppressed.

So many sacrifices had been made to provide intelligence that eliminated suspicions about the Firmament Wheel, but in reality?

That ’help’ directly doomed the few remaining Dusk mercenaries.

This made them wary of taking any more unnecessary risks, even deploying the equipment developed during the Firmament Wheel’s creation as support for the Proxy Agent was a gamble they dared not take.

Six days wasn’t long. If the Proxy Agent could defeat the Devouring Faction and restore the environment to normal, then the surviving thirty percent might be saved.

In a city covered by the Firmament Wheel, where the population wouldn’t fall below thirty million...

Just waiting here felt unbearably suffocating. The Firmament Wheel still harbored unresolved issues, hindering some of their research. Many geniuses emerged under these dire conditions, even offering numerous excellent research proposals.

These included outstanding plans to simulate Sky Pillar’s energy for weapon creation, but the consequences of creating such weapons could potentially hand them over to the enemy, forcing them to abandon these ideas.

Otherwise, how could they say that the Firmament Wheel was a cage limiting them to death?

Even without physical bars, the continuous losses had stripped them of the confidence to pursue further research.

"F*ck—Hell," Zheng Yichen wiped the blood from his face. When the Sword of Sky Pillar fell, Zheng Yichen felt a sincere ache and rushed into the Gate of Death. But before the Gate of Death vanished, the aftermath of the Sword’s strike blasted in, tearing off a layer of his skin.

It also dealt a heavy blow to the already collapsing Hell of this world, which was extra fragile. The shock turned the ground of Hell into a plate about to shatter, and one more blow might break Hell into countless fragments.

After his skin had mostly healed, Zheng Yichen wielded his fishing rod to open the Gate of Death again, confirming his suspicion that the strike had destroyed any traces of the Gate of Death left in the real world.

Zheng Yichen didn’t stay any longer because this part of the Netherworld was nearly falling apart. While Earth’s Protection had an effect through his fishing rod, the Netherworld was rapidly disintegrating. If he stayed any longer, this place would be completely doomed.

Leaving Hell, Zheng Yichen looked around at the environment and took out a map to confirm his location. He raised an eyebrow slightly; he was unexpectedly close to the Sky Pillar. It would take less than half a day to return quickly.

He pulled a root from the ground and rushed towards the Sky Pillar. The pace of the battle had been drawn out uncomfortably long, but now that it had begun, he wouldn’t hesitate too much. Otherwise, approaching the Sky Pillar would become even more difficult.

The enemy would have more time to prepare if he rested.

As for that last sword strike... Zheng Yichen thought with a headache, that attack felt like the ’Unity of Heaven and Man’ Tia had once described. Nevertheless, the energy of the Sky Pillar was being forcibly extracted from this world and used forcefully.

It couldn’t truly be considered ’Unity of Heaven and Man.’

But the problem is that thing’s power is enormous.

To give you an analogy, it’s like someone very formidable who can’t display visible or hidden strength, nor can they reach the higher level of transforming energy and embracing the core, but the opponent’s seemingly ordinary punch can produce force equivalent to several hundred tons...

"That’s terrifying! When will I be able to unleash an attack like that?" Zheng Yichen wondered, reaching out and touching the Army Decimating battle saber he had never used, which was made with top-notch technology of this world. If he could accumulate enough demonic thoughts and Sky Pillar’s energy, he should be able to try to confront that strike head-on using the Demonic Abyss Seven Kills.

Not to say he could completely shatter that hit, but at least he could create a point to break the surface and cut through the part of the strike aimed at him.

But if he can deliver an attack of that level, why not chop down the Sky Pillar?

"That guy has reappeared!!" The vigilant Devourers sounded the alarm the moment Zheng Yichen’s figure appeared, then they saw a mirror materializing.

This ’mirror’ reflected their upper bodies, their upper bodies that had been severed.

Such a sharp attack left them feeling no pain at all, with some Devourers blinking: "Is this the wind?"

An extremely strong compressed wind attack!

The ultimate cutting force left behind mirror-like traces in the environment, not even causing them pain, but after they realized what had happened, the pain set in. The mere division into two was not enough to kill them, they could still resist and cling to life.

However, the subsequent bloodstorm that erupted swept them up. The winds, intensified by the Blood Asura inner force, made the storm more powerful, and their blood uncontrollably sprayed from their wounds, merging into the black spear in Zheng Yichen’s hand.

After clearing the Devourers from the area, Zheng Yichen didn’t look back as he approached his target. The strike just now was brought about by the Supreme Demon’s wind feather-enhanced fishing rod. Even the Supreme Demon’s wind feather could cut through his Burst Mode protection, and after the fishing rod was enhanced using it as material, the resultant attack was naturally not inferior.

The energy from the Sky Pillar combined with the wind feather’s wind attribute, and the sweeping attack’s wide range exceeded Zheng Yichen’s expectations. He decided to find a book related to wind martial arts later.

The blood gathered quickly vanished, completely neutralizing the Power of Death that had merged into Zheng Yichen’s body. The extra recovery from Netherworld was good, but it tended to throw off the balance between life and death in his body. Zheng Yichen pondered for a moment—if that imbalance grew too severe, wouldn’t it turn him from the living into something akin to a living dead?

Being alive and well, why become something like a living dead.

The Devourer manipulating the magic array formation spoke to Edelson, "That Proxy Agent possesses some kind of spatial teleportation... or perhaps, random movement ability."

Not long ago, she too thought Zheng Yichen had been finished off, but his reappearance directly proved her wrong. When she made her move, she was quite confident in her attack, harnessing the energy of the Sky Pillar to deliver an extremely powerful strike, something few in their Devouring Faction could achieve.

But after that, Zheng Yichen still appeared as normal. Recalling how he survived the bombing of the Firmament Wheel and some of his attacks that included spatial distortion, it wasn’t difficult to figure out how he avoided those attacks.

It’s unlikely his spatial teleportation is precise. If it were that accurate, he wouldn’t have had to travel back from such a distant point.

"It’s a troublesome ability," Edelson nodded. Spatial ability users are not as common as they seem in novels. Their Devouring Faction doesn’t have many such individuals. In higher-tier worlds, they’ve encountered some.

However, those they met in higher echelons typically didn’t have spatial abilities themselves but used some Spell or Magic for the same effect. Some even more ferocious could rip open fissures with just their bodies, terrifyingly formidable.

After encountering such worlds, they immediately dropped any thoughts of assimilating and devouring those worlds.

Under the pressure of absolute power, some things simply cannot be resolved through schemes and calculations. Quietly taking root in the Sky Pillar? The top powerhouses of that world would detect the disturbance the moment the environment began to change. Then, they could use the Sky Pillar to backtrack to their world, which would be truly troublesome.

But they too had long-term plans. Currently, their world is still far behind those higher-tier ones. But as long as they continue to devour and integrate the resources and powers from other worlds, their own world would rapidly ascend to that level.

As the world itself levels up, their development and research into power will also increase swiftly. Once they have the confidence, they will proceed to target those higher-tier worlds—a principle similar to leveling up by defeating monsters.

The female Devourer said, "Buy me some time, I’ll set something up that might suppress the opponent’s spatial ability."

"No problem, don’t let him escape again."

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