Chapter 308

Giant Spirit Realm, center of the Royal City.

Deep in this magnificent city built entirely of metal stood the most towering Mechanical Temple.

Countless thick energy conduits, like blood vessels, clung to the inside and outside of the temple, pulsing with heart-palpitating light.

At this moment, under the dome at the very core of the temple, on the metal throne symbolizing supreme power, space blurred and distorted, and a shadow far more massive than ordinary Giant Spirit Realm natives emerged from thin air, slowly condensing and taking shape.

It was the world master of the Giant Spirit Realm—Koge!

Its main body also presented the semi-fluid characteristics of a slime, but it was more solid, as if composed of melted obsidian.

The surface flowed with countless fine natural patterns like circuit boards.

Three pairs of compound eyes distributed in different positions, like six cold stars, slowly scanned the empty temple.

"Unknown—enemy?"

Koge's voice echoed in the temple, flat without a trace of waves, and not even half a bit of power leaked out.

However, it was this flat speech that made a Giant Spirit Realm general crawling under the throne feel as if he were pressed by an invisible mountain.

Even though his body was covered with high-level combat armor, this general still felt his entire slime body almost going limp, and fear made the energy circulation in his body become chaotic.

Koge's three pairs of compound eyes focused simultaneously, like six searchlights, locking onto the subordinate.

The invisible pressure almost crushed the other party's consciousness: "A battle so tragic has already broken out, the barrier has been torn, the territory has been invaded, yet you tell me that you haven't even captured a bit of the opponent's core information?"

The subordinate's body trembled violently, but still braced itself to emit intermittent mental fluctuations mixed with energy noise:

"My—my Lord, forgive me! All—all attempts to collect bodies or captives—have—have completely failed!"

"Whether it was the corpse itself or the unit executing the collection mission, they were all completely erased from the level of existence by some power the moment they succeeded! We—we only have images and energy fluctuation data recorded during the battle."

"However—it—it has already been preliminarily deciphered in their language, but many key nouns cannot be parsed. We—we only know they call themselves 'Wizards'."

For the last two words, the general used all his strength to imitate the precise pronunciation belonging to the Wizard civilization parsed from the battlefield communication fragments.

"Wizards—" Koge repeated the word in a low voice, a trace of interest flashing in its six compound eyes simultaneously. "Prepared, and perhaps even aware of our 'absorption and evolution' characteristics. Looking at it this way, this is not an accidental encounter, but more like a conspiracy aimed at the Giant Spirit Realm."

Feeling that the master's tone did not immediately descend into destruction, the general's thinking spun madly in order to survive, desperately looking for a statement that could shirk responsibility.

Suddenly, his spirit was boosted, and he hurriedly said: "My Lord, please see clearly! The Gods (referring to those Level 7 natives) have also lost contact; they must have been lured by those tiny and humble wizards and fell into a trap pre-set by their 'Wizard God'!"

"And—my Lord, you just launched a new round of conquest against the 'Wild Bone Star Domain,' and these guys who call themselves wizards just happened to appear, and they know us so well—the subordinate believes that this is highly likely a conspiracy of 'Hila', or even 'Fungus Lord'!"

The Hila and Fungus Lord he mentioned were the world masters of the other two powerful civilizations in the triangle plane cluster, the "Mind Realm" and the "Propagation Realm."

"From the battlefield images, those wizards also drove multiple races of different forms to fight in coordination; the other side must also be a powerful civilization whose ruling territory spans multiple worlds!"

Koge's massive body adjusted its posture slightly on the throne, emitting a low, metal-friction sound:

"Hila, with her style of liking to play with thoughts, could indeed do such things. Colluding with outsiders, diverting the disaster—humph!"

It let out a cold snort that made one's heart palpitate, and the surrounding metal walls resonated and hummed accordingly.

"I want to see, when I personally capture the leader of these wizards and pry open their memory core, what kind of flowery language Hila can make up to shirk her guilt!"

In fact, the three civilizations of the triangle plane cluster, in the long competition and external expansion, had long realized the importance of huddling together in the endless void.

Compared to other completely unfamiliar alien civilizations, although there was constant friction between the three, they had long formed a loose alliance relationship, especially when facing common external threats or interests.

Koge did not continue to consider these things, its compound eyes turning to the subordinate: "How is the army gathering?"

Hearing this, the subordinate secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, knowing that he had temporarily escaped a disaster.

It hurriedly reported: "Reporting to my Lord! The native legion is gathering rapidly, and a large number of powerhouses fighting abroad have also received orders and are returning urgently through the hyperspace channel! It is expected that in ten descent days, we will be able to prepare a mighty legion sufficient to crush all invaders!"

Koge nodded slightly with satisfaction; the efficient war machine of the Giant Spirit Realm had already started, and its efficiency would absolutely not lose to any world.

"Very good. During this period, we cannot be idle either. Use all intelligence networks, at all costs, to find out more information about these 'Wizards' as soon as possible! Their power system, civilization structure, weaknesses—I want to know everything! On this basis, formulate a specific annihilation plan!"

"Yes! Follow your Lord's imperial order!"

The subordinate was like receiving an amnesty, terrifiedly writhing its body, manipulating the armor to quickly exit the suffocating Mechanical Temple.

In the empty temple, Koge was silent for a moment, its massive body sliding down from the throne, like a flowing mountain range, moving to a secret room behind the temple filled with various precision instruments.

It first activated a strangely shaped communicator among them.

The display screen lit up, but opposite was a piece of deep darkness, with only an ethereal voice that seemed to act directly on thinking coming over:

"Koge? Contacting me at this time, what's the matter again? Did your new toy (referring to the Wild Bone Star Domain) encounter trouble?"

Koge did not beat around the bush, directly questioning: "Hila, is the unknown civilization that suddenly appeared near my territory some small trick you played behind the scenes?"

Hila on the opposite side of the display screen was silent for a moment, then her voice carried a trace of displeasure and seriousness: "Koge, pay attention to your accusations. I know nothing about this."

"Manage your own trouble, handle them as soon as possible; don't forget, it's almost time for us to fulfill the 'contract'."

Although there was no solid evidence, Koge's furrowed brows—if that writhing body structure could be called brows—relaxed slightly.

It and Hila and Fungus Lord were all old rivals, and also old "friends."

Everyone was an old monster who had lived for unknown years, and they were truly smart people.

And, most importantly, recently the three of them, world masters, were cooperating with another more massive and more terrifying powerful world—or rather, the three of them were "hired" by that world and were about to execute a dangerous and well-paid task together.

With this important cooperation premise, the possibility of Hila provoking a powerful unknown civilization to cause trouble for him at this time was indeed extremely low.

The questioning just now was more of a warning and probing, to prevent Hila from really having some unknown little thoughts.

"Better be so." Koge responded in a low voice, then ended the communication.

The secret room returned to silence.

Calculation light flickered in Koge's three pairs of compound eyes.

"Wizards—driving multi-race combat—targeted information shielding—" it pondered.

Although it basically ruled out the possibility of Hila directly playing dirty, in order to be safe, the Giant Spirit Realm must collect more information about this suddenly appeared enemy.

It needed to be more active and go deeper to understand these existences who called themselves "Wizards."

Since information could not be obtained on the battlefield, then—.

Koge's massive and solid semi-fluid body wriggled somewhat anxiously in the empty secret room.

Its three pairs of compound eyes stared fixedly at the other end of the secret room, that huge magic array built from countless rare metals and space crystals.

The lines of the array were complex and ancient, emitting faint fluctuations spanning dimensions.

Expressions of hesitation and struggle appeared alternately on its face that was difficult to distinguish features.

Finally, it seemed to have made up its mind, and with thick heartache, slowly "rolled" an object out from the space beside it.

That was a crystal about the size of a fist, presenting a deep gold throughout, with liquid light slowly flowing inside—as soon as it appeared, the entire secret room was permeated with a breath of pure and warm soul energy, making one's spirit feel refreshed.

Thousand-Soul Gold Crystal!

A soul treasure that could only be condensed after hundreds of billions of high-level souls and long years!

Even with Koge's status and accumulation, such treasures were used less and less, and could be called heart's flesh.

Koge's body surface rose and fell in a regular rhythm like waves; this was its body language expressing its heartache.

"Forget it, Hila is right, the contract is imminent, it is better to strangle all accidents in the cradle—I hope that civilization that calls itself Wizards can scrape together enough resources to make up for this loss!"

It carefully embedded this golden crystal into the exactly fitting groove in the center of the magic array.

Hum!!!

With the placement of the crystal, the magic array was instantly activated, and all the lines and runes lit up one by one, emitting intense space fluctuations and soul resonance.

Golden energy flowed out from the crystal like blood, galloping along the array patterns, finally constructing a constantly twisting blurred light gate above the array.

Waiting for about a quarter of an hour, the light gate gradually stabilized.

A grand will, carrying a bit of ethereal and playful meaning, descended across the unknown and distant void, filling the entire secret room.