Chapter 267

Several months later, at the edge of a massive spatial distortion region known as the "Eye of the Storm."

Two towering, mountain-like black figures guarded a slightly weary figure, struggling to break through the final chaotic energy turbulence and stepping into the relatively calm core area.

It was Jie Ming and his two remaining Black Giants.

Thirty years of warfare had not been without cost.

Another Black Giant had been completely destroyed during an ambush by a powerful indigenous biological group, and now, only these two original veterans remained by his side.

Continuous devouring and evolution had also caused them to undergo a complete transformation.

Their bodies were even more massive; the original ten-meter frames had become even taller, with one of them exceeding thirty meters, its black skin flowing with an energy luster resembling molten lava, emitting a heart-palpitating pressure—they had both ascended to Tier 4 living beings!

Especially the first Tier 3 Black Giant, which had now reached the peak of Tier 4, only a single opportunity away from stepping into the Tier 5 realm.

As elemental creatures created with Lava Giants and Snow Monsters as a base, Black Giants are naturally attuned to the law threads of "energy" and "time."

Their path of advancement does not require the deep rule comprehension that wizards need, relying more on the accumulation of resources and the excavation of their own potential.

Coupled with the body-tempering arts and internal organ arts Jie Ming had installed for them, as long as the resource supply was sufficient, their advancement speed was terrifying.

With the Black Giants' formidable characteristic of fighting above their rank, these two Tier 4 Black Giants now possessed real combat power that even surpassed their master, Jie Ming, enough to tear apart ordinary Tier 5 living beings with their bare hands!

"Finally here—" Jie Ming let out a long sigh of relief and wiped the non-existent sweat from his face—in a zero-gravity environment, liquids are difficult to flow naturally.

He looked around, his heart still lingering in fear.

The gravity rules inside the "Eye of the Storm" were completely collapsed; at times pulling him violently in one direction, at times throwing him away fiercely, and at times multiple directions of gravity acting simultaneously, as if to tear him to pieces.

Chaotic gravity stirred energy and matter, forming a terrifying scene like an eternal storm.

Only in this core area, where various extreme gravities canceled and balanced each other out, did it return to the common zero-gravity stable state of the airspace plane.

However, calmness often implies greater danger.

The stable environment here, combined with a frighteningly high energy concentration, meant the density of biological groups was far higher than in the outer regions.

Just as Jie Ming stabilized his figure, he felt countless cold intentions locking onto him.

He saw tens of thousands of creatures slowly drifting out from the colorful energy clouds permeating the surroundings.

Their main bodies were like giant, translucent jellyfish, with umbrella diameters ranging from several meters to tens of meters, their soft tentacles swaying like colorful ribbons, emitting a hazy glow.

But these "jellyfish" were by no means as harmless as they appeared; dangerous energy cores flickered in the centers of their umbrellas, and their tentacle tips condensed sharp energy spikes capable of tearing through spatial shields.

"Pfft, a Tranquil Jellyfish colony—and a mutated, reinforced version at that." Jie Ming sighed, the weariness on his face deepening, but his eyes instantly sharpened.

"I knew it wouldn't be that simple."

Without the slightest hesitation, he moved his mind, and thousands of crystal-clear, crystal-shaped talisman wizarding tools flew out from his sleeves.

These talisman wizarding tools quickly combined and arranged themselves behind him as if they had a life of their own, eventually forming a massive, complex-structured halo emitting seven-colored light—the Great Light Aspect mode!

"Roar!"

Without needing Jie Ming's command, the two Black Giants had already let out earth-shaking roars and actively charged forward!

Their massive bodies erupted with astonishing speed that belied their size, like two black war fortresses, crashing fiercely into the jellyfish colony.

The battle erupted instantly!

The power of the Tier 4 Black Giants was terrifying, and coupled with their innate time acceleration, they broke into the jellyfish colony almost instantly.

Every swing of their energy-enveloped, freezing giant fists could blast several Tranquil Jellyfish, along with their condensed energy shields, into powder!

They opened their giant maws, spewing scorching lava breath, and the violent elemental power intertwined in space, instantly clearing out a large blank area.

Meanwhile, Jie Ming hovered in place, the "Great Light Aspect" behind him operating at full power.

Thousands of energy bolts poured out like a torrential rain, precisely sniping the jellyfish attempting to surround the Black Giants from the flanks or rear, as well as those individuals with particularly large sizes and abnormally strong energy reactions.

The energy bolts collided with the jellyfish's energy shields, erupting in a continuous roar and blinding light, illuminating this core area as if a supernova had exploded.

The Tranquil Jellyfish colony also displayed astonishing resilience and intelligence.

They did not just act recklessly; smaller jellyfish would spontaneously combine, connecting their tentacles to form larger joint shields to withstand the Black Giants' attacks.

Some special individuals would release powerful mental shocks, attempting to interfere with the consciousness of Jie Ming and the Black Giants.

Even more extreme ones would directly self-destruct their energy cores, creating range-based destructive energy tides, causing no small amount of trouble for the Black Giants.

The battle lasted for several days and nights.

The energy fluctuations in the core area never ceased, and the light of explosions replaced the eternal light source.

Jie Ming's face was pale, his spiritual power consuming like a breached dam, but his hands controlling the "Great Light Aspect" remained steady.

The Black Giants' fighting will became increasingly wild; as the battle progressed, the body-tempering art made their resistance to the various damages from these jellyfish stronger and stronger.

And the ubiquitous biomass also became the power for their recovery and evolution.

Finally, when the last giant Jellyfish King with the strongest energy reaction was torn apart by the two Black Giants working together and exploded into light spots filling the sky, the noisy core area finally returned to a temporary deathly silence.

Jie Ming was almost exhausted; he drank a vial of magic potion, put away the "Great Light Aspect," ordered the Black Giants to stand guard, and quickly collected the relatively intact biological samples with research value.

Only after finishing all this did he truly relax and begin to check the "energy anomaly" mentioned in the mission.

He took out the spatial fluctuation detector issued by the camp and injected spiritual power.

His vision began to change; the smooth spatial patterns showed that the surrounding space was relatively stable, and no obvious abnormal fluctuations were found.

He tried various conventional reconnaissance wizardry, energy perception, elemental scanning, and even subtle rule probing, but all results yielded nothing.

"Something's not right—" Jie Ming frowned.

The mission description clearly mentioned abnormal energy reactions in the core area; it couldn't be groundless.

If conventional methods were ineffective, then he could only use unconventional ones.

He took a deep breath, closed his eyes slightly, and then suddenly opened them!

"Eye of Omnipotence, open!"

In an instant, the white mist cleared, and a massive amount of information flooded into his mind like a breached dam!

The subtle folds of space, the essential flow of energy, the underlying encoding of rules—countless pieces of information, complex to the extreme, almost threatened to burst his consciousness.

Jie Ming groaned, immediately shrinking the observation range with all his might, firmly controlling it within two meters of his body.

Even so, the impact of the information still made him dizzy, and his soul felt waves of stinging pain, but it was still within a tolerable range; he was like a blind man holding a precision probe, beginning to scan inch by inch, slowly and arduously, in this seemingly calm core area.

This process was extremely mentally taxing, and he had to stop frequently to rest and recover his spiritual power.

Days passed, and Jie Ming, like a miner, struggled to pan for gold in the ocean of information.

Half a month later, when he moved to an area that seemed empty, the information fed back by the "Eye of Omnipotence" suddenly changed!

The spatial structure there was not smooth and continuous, but possessed an extremely exquisite, near-perfect "folding" and "camouflage."

A layer of seemingly natural spatial folds cleverly concealed the truth behind it.

Jie Ming's heart jolted; he concentrated all his spiritual power and used his gaze to gently push aside a layer of light gauze, "looking" at the folded spot.

It was a crack.

A huge spatial crack with incredibly stable edges was hidden behind that spatial fold!

Jie Ming suppressed the shock in his heart and slowly "observed" along the edge of the crack.

The length of this crack was beyond imagination; he "flew" along one direction for a long time before roughly confirming its scale—the diameter was at least over one kilometer!

So huge, so stable, and most importantly, hidden by such clever means—

"Artificial! It is absolutely artificial!" Jie Ming instantly reached a judgment in his heart.

This was by no means a naturally formed spatial crack, but a passage intentionally opened and hidden by some existence!

He dared not linger and immediately deactivated the "Eye of Omnipotence."

The prolonged use left his brain dizzy.

But he still braced himself and quickly recorded this discovery on the Magic Net terminal: In the core area of the Eye of the Storm, a hidden, large-scale, stable spatial crack was discovered, suspected to be an artificial creation, coordinates recorded.

At the same time the information was successfully sent, in a quiet room deep within the floating city.

Dionysius Spencer was still lazily leaning on the sofa, holding a thick ancient book, as if all the disturbances of the outside world had nothing to do with him.

However, his seemingly casual brain was processing the vast ocean of information uploaded by the hundreds of thousands of wizards of the expeditionary force through their terminals at a terrifying speed.

Suddenly, his slender fingers turning the pages paused slightly.

His gaze swept over a new message highlighted in his consciousness—sent by Tier 2 wizard Jie Ming, regarding the discovery in the core area of the Eye of the Storm.

On that face, which always maintained a kind and handsome appearance, the corners of his mouth slowly curled into an arc.

That smile was no longer gentle, but revealed a chilling and satisfied look, like a top predator about to go on a rampage.

He gently closed the book in his hand and whispered to himself, his voice echoing in the empty room, carrying a hint of imperceptible excitement:

"Found it—"