Chapter 1779: Detonating the Black Lock

What the hell is this sound?!

In mid-air over the battlefield, the Radiant Lord in the Chimera Emperor's forces kept glancing upward, his eyes filled with panic.

Seeing the Black Lock visibly lagging to the naked eye, his heart was full of unease.

Like a rusted machine, since a few minutes ago the formerly steady Black Lock has begun to stutter repeatedly.

With each stutter, a terrifying roar rang out across the entire star battlefield's sky.

That sound seemed to come from the outside world; listening closely, it actually felt as if something were breaking.

What is destroying the Black Lock?!

It couldn't be something above their heads, could it?!

"I don't know! Could it be that these chains are shrinking along with the battlefield?!"

"If the battlefield shrinks, does this shrink too?"

"Impossible?!"

"Where has the battlefield shrunk? Haven't you seen the black mist at the edges?! It's just the mist contracting, not the ground beneath our feet!"

They chatted back and forth.

Compared to a timid Radiant Lord, it's not good at all.

In shock and doubt, they couldn't help but whisper, discussing what was going on.

Faced with the repeated strange noises, even they, as Star Destroyers, felt uneasy.

In their experience.

Danger usually comes with omens, and when abnormalities appear in a mission scene, it signals that a major change is imminent!

With each loud boom, the pressure inside the battlefield would surge manyfold.

Under such immense pressure, they could barely breathe!

It's hard to imagine how exaggerated the pressure is now.

Under such crushing pressure, to fly they must expend several times their usual rule power just to resist; and the weaker War Star Level can only struggle to move along the ground.

If this continues, they even doubt that the weak points of the Fourth Stage Peak will be crushed to death.

"I'll go up and take a look!"

He could no longer suppress his unease.

After another jolt, the Radiant Lord rushed toward the sky in panic, trying to soar above ten thousand meters to get a close look at what was happening.

As one skilled in speed rules, gravity affected him the most! Without speed, he was nothing more than a strong-point War Star!

Soon, under everyone's gaze, the Radiant Lord erupted his full rule power, shooting up like a light sword, and within seconds reached below the Black Lock.

Before anyone could even wonder what he'd found, the next second the Radiant Lord, already near the Black Lock, suddenly stiffened.

Accompanied by a sudden jolt of the Black Lock, in everyone's shocked gaze, the Radiant Lord seemed to suffer a heavy blow, letting out an anguished cry before rapidly losing power and plummeting to the ground!

"Radiant?!"

It was as if the rules had vanished!

Under the invisible tremor's immense pressure, they could only see the Radiant Lord's rules vanish instantly, then his body burst with waves of blood mist before slamming hard into the ground!

"What is this?!"

Half a minute later.

Surrounded by six Star Destroyers, the Radiant Lord's face turned deathly pale, rapidly recovering from his injuries as if he'd seen a ghost.

All they saw was him trembling, pointing upward in terror, his voice distorted.

"Rules! My rules are being suppressed!"

"The Black Lock is descending! The height we see isn't the real height!"

His words were incoherent.

It's hard to describe what he actually discovered.

Upon approaching the Black Lock, at first he felt nothing, only that as his altitude rose, the pressure he endured grew greater and his rule consumption increased.

But when he was about a kilometer from the Black Lock, upon suddenly contacting an invisible layer, as if space itself were twisted...

In an instant, his rules were suppressed to the lowest point, so that he instantly lost power like a bird with its wings broken!

It wasn't a gradual increase, but a sudden surge!

Around the Black Lock there is a layer of terrifying rule suppression!

And that layer of suppression range is continually descending!

"Not the real height?!"

The Chimera Emperor, who had been silent all along, suddenly lowered his head, the green dragon head representing Kandis staring fixedly at the terrified Radiant Lord.

What a quick reaction.

Although the Radiant Lord's description was a mess, Kandis still understood!

"You mean space is being twisted? The Black Lock is warping space around it, lowering its height!? But we can't tell!"

Although they had wondered what the abnormality over these few minutes was.

But at this moment, seeing the Radiant Lord hastily nod, the Chimera Emperor's face changed instantly.

The continually descending Black Lock! Rule suppression?!

If just hearing about this is enough to make one uneasy.

Then, as that scene kept flashing before his eyes, the Chimera Emperor's unease grew even stronger!

Black Lock? Rule suppression? Devourer? Lin Emperor?!

For some reason, at this moment the Chimera Emperor's mind suddenly conjured an utterly absurd yet terrifying thought.

But before she could suppress her inner dread and say something.

The Thousand-Eyed Lord beside her keenly detected her abnormality.

"Candice? Do you know something? Do you know what's going on!!"

He kept questioning.

As part of the force that split into two routes to follow the Chimera Emperor in hunting down the Hei Di, he actually also harbored vigilance toward the Chimera Emperor deep down!

Exactly! The Chimera Emperor seems not to be allied with the Hei Di, yet he brings people to threaten him into acting together!

But similarly, where can this two-headed dragon go to get good treatment? Wasn't he also made a dog by that person!?

The atmosphere suddenly changed.

Faced with the gradually bizarre situation, the Destroyer Stars, who were originally forced to cooperate, couldn't help but look toward Candice.

They were like headless flies.

If the Chimera Emperor really was hiding something from them...

He instantly came to his senses.

Seeing that everyone suddenly suspected him, the Chimera Emperor's face darkened, and he had to quickly come up with an excuse to get by.

It wasn't that she wanted to hide something; she merely had a vague guess and dared not confirm it.

"Don't suspect me! How could I possibly know what this phenomenon is!!"

"Besides, what are you worried about? Worried that someone is controlling this Black Lock?"

He gave a cold chuckle, the Chimera Emperor fanned his wings, paused slightly, then spoke again:

"The Black Lock is a system scenario; if any problem arises, it's also arranged by the system!"

"I guess the system is probably forcing us to gather together."

"After all, this mission is similar to a deathmatch mode; the system wouldn't likely let us hide until the end."

"Moreover, I think this situation is actually normal."

Having said that, the Chimera Emperor looked toward the distant surging black mist, gesturing for everyone to really think about the limits of this mission.

At her reminder, the Thousand-Eyed Lord blinked slightly, then quickly understood what the Chimera Emperor wanted to say.

"You mean the system isn't just shrinking the four-direction battlefield, but also shrinking the vertical space?"

"It's forcing us to meet up? Nobody should think they can hide."

"That's right."

"Don't forget this mission involves three factions; not..."

Without waiting for Candice to think a bit more, after stating the most likely reason,

The Overlord instantly seemed to think of something and also interjected:

"Right, I think we might not need to suspect anything."

"Actually, I've been thinking since long ago why this mission is a single Shattered Star versus all of us."

"Think about it, that person is fundamentally a fake Shattered Star. Even if we don't actively surround and kill him, given his strength, it's impossible to find us in such a vast battlefield."

"According to the system's style, it definitely wouldn't give an impossible task."

As he spoke, the Overlord grew more certain of his speculation.

"Shrinking the battlefield, suppressing rules— isn't this the system 'helping' that so-called Lin Emperor?"

"Once we're all gathered together and the rules are suppressed again, it actually benefits that kid more!"

"I suspect the Hei Di discovered this early, which is why he struck first!"

As his words fell, everyone exchanged glances, inwardly endorsing this speculation.

But if that's truly the case, then it means...

"Go!"

"If that's the case, then there's nothing to worry about!"

"Hurry up and find the Hei Di, lest unexpected complications arise!"

"That old fox, in order to survive, might really 'surrender' again! After all, he's still alive to this day!"

"Whoosh—Boom!!"

"What a quick reaction!"

After realizing they had wasted considerable time due to the Black Lock's anomaly, the Chimera Emperor immediately abandoned his previous speculation and took the lead in speeding forward.

"No matter what's going on, first find the Hei Di, kill Lin An, then talk!"