Chapter 49

Beneath Khaenri'ah!

After receiving the order, Dainsleif rushed to the laboratory where Rhinedottir was located without stopping.

In these extraordinary times, he no longer followed legal regulations, relying on emergency passages to reach his destination in the shortest time possible.

But when he arrived at this familiar place again, he found it had already changed.

The path leading to the depths of the laboratory was covered in pitch-black, ominous liquid, slowly flowing and eroding the normal ground.

If he had come any later, there probably wouldn't even be a place to stand.

Without hesitating for even a second, Dainsleif entered once more.

Compared to last time, the danger he felt had become much thicker, and his physiological instincts felt discomfort and nausea.

Forcing himself to endure the dizziness, he rushed into the depths regardless.

Before long, he arrived at that massive underground space again.

Only to find that most of the petri dishes were nowhere to be found, with only the giant petri dish cultivating the pitch-black dragon still standing there.

Looking around, he couldn't care about anything else, urgently wanting to find Rhinedottir to fulfill the King's order.

But this time, that woman was not standing in front of the petri dish.

"Rhinedottir? Rhinedottir!" Dainsleif shouted anxiously.

The huge sound echoed through the empty and deathly silent underground world.

A few seconds later, Rhinedottir’s voice sounded from behind him.

"You've come again; what do you want with me?"

The rigid and cold woman walked past him, returning to the console, holding a mysterious instrument in her hand.

"Khaenri'ah is under attack by the Seven Archons, and the King has ordered me to bring you to an audience! Hurry and leave this place with me!"

"So that's how it is."

Muttering a few words to herself, Rhinedottir remained unmoved.

At a time like this, she was still doing experiments; Dainsleif grew anxious and intended to force her to leave.

But just as he stepped within ten meters of Rhinedottir, suddenly, a change occurred.

The originally pitch-black and empty underground suddenly began to seep out thick, ominous mist, and light appeared on the surrounding stone walls, revealing all sorts of strange and bizarre alchemical runes.

Only then did Dainsleif realize that the entire underground space had long been turned into a massive magic array, which was only now manifesting.

The ominous mist quickly surrounded the entire underground space, making it almost impossible to see one's own hand.

A sense of dizziness surged in his mind, and Dainsleif, unable to support his body any longer, fell to his knees, clutching his head in pain.

"What... is going on?"

Rhinedottir did not provide him with an answer, her figure looming in and out of the mist.

The moment before he fainted, Dainsleif saw the giant petri dish shatter, and the ferocious pitch-black dragon roared toward the sky, spreading its wings to fly high.

Around it, tearing space channels emerged continuously, and terrible monsters shaped like hounds filled the entire underground world.

Until the words "leached layer" and "humus layer" whispered by Rhinedottir reached his ears, he finally could not hold on and fainted completely.

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Above the surface!

At the same moment as the underground anomaly, Luo Li clearly sensed that the ominous aura from underground had become countless times thicker.

"Something is coming."

The moment after he warned Raiden Makoto, he keenly perceived that the surrounding space was being torn open like tattered cloth by some power from beyond the world.

A moment later, the answer was revealed.

They were ferocious and terrifying Rifthounds, using their claws and fangs to continuously tear at space, leading an army of monsters from another world to descend upon this world.

"The Abyss... the vanguard of the monsters, then."

Thousands of space channels emerged continuously on the battlefield, and in just a short moment, there were over a hundred thousand monsters.

They carried an ominous aura, frantically launching attacks on both sides, regardless of friend or foe.

The Seven Archons, who were already being held back by the Ruin-series autonomous humanoids, suddenly changed their expressions.

And Luo Li also understood why some of the Seven Archons would fall in the Khaenri'ah war; no matter how strong a god was, they could not withstand an endless war of attrition.

Even just dealing with the Rifthounds was quite troublesome; their sharp claws and fangs could even tear space, and if one were not careful and were surrounded and attacked, even a god would not fare well.

Not to mention that the subsequent army of monsters was still pouring in.

In fact, because too many poured in at once, some Rifthounds, seeing no attack targets, instinctively tore through space and headed toward the entire continent.

The rest of the monster army followed in the footsteps of the vanguard, swarming in.

Seeing this scene, even Luo Li stopped slacking off, his expression becoming much more solemn.

He didn't even know if these things had wisdom or consciousness.

And not only that, from the still-expanding otherworldly channel, one could vaguely see even larger giant beasts, and the pressure they emitted was even more intense.

"This won't do."

Witnessing that it would probably take less than half an hour for millions of monsters to pour out, Luo Li did not intend to slack off anymore.

If he didn't seal the source, the monster invasion suffered by Inazuma would be even more terrifying, and the damage caused by the Abyss disaster to the Teyvat continent would be even more severe.

Looking around, the ground was covered in pitch-black, and ferocious faces filled his field of vision.

Even the other gods who had caused large-scale destructive damage were nowhere to be seen, submerged by the tide of monsters.

Only the occasional huge tremors and the massive rock spears tearing through heaven and earth, revealing blinding light, let people know that the gods were still fighting hard.

"So be it; let me show you what it looks like when stars shatter."

The twelve Herrscher cores under Luo Li’s control flickered with brilliance one after another, and among them, the core of the Ninth Herrscher bloomed with fluorescence.

The six Void Spears, transformed into sharp blades, swept across, guarding Luo Li and Raiden Makoto in the middle, each swing taking the lives of hundreds or thousands of monsters, clearing a space around them.

The blood and corpses of the monsters were left on the ground, then seeped into the earth, staining the originally normal soil a dark blue-black.

In Luo Li’s hand, the pitch-black sphere that had occasionally flickered with light while manipulating gravity collapsed and contracted as he gradually tightened his grip.

The result of this was that the gravity on the land of Khaenri'ah was changing extremely rapidly, and in the center of the channels where numerous otherworldly monsters appeared, an extremely massive gravitational flow suddenly occurred.

The incomparable pitch-black point at its center began to expand slowly, forming a black channel from which even light could not escape.

"Herrscher Authority: Celestial Black Hole."

As the Herrscher of Earth who mastered the ultimate physical laws, he possessed the authority to manipulate the power of the earth.

Controlling gravity, distorting time and space, and creating black holes were all within his capabilities.

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