Chapter 1696

The Star Forger finished speaking, nervously watching the king.

Whether the king agreed or not, it was nervous; if he refused, it would face the king's attack the next moment; if he agreed, the situation might be worse, because the other side had absolute confidence to ignore its full effort.

No matter which situation, the Star Forger knew it was in big trouble.

But not doing it was also impossible; hopeful thinking made it take a gamble, betting the other side was a fool, clearly weak in strength yet daring to let it go all out.

The king indeed nodded: "Good, go prepare, give it your all."

The Star Forger's heart jumped—he agreed so readily, the other side obviously had full confidence in its strength, this was the worst situation.

The Star Forger secretly slapped himself in the heart—how could he be so impulsive, dazed, his eyes popping out to provoke such a strong enemy?

But there was no time for regret; the Star Forger turned direction, shouldering the giant hammer and running toward the direction of the extinct god star.

Anthony shouted: "Giant Cat."

The giant cat and big cat, lying asleep on Ange's head, simultaneously lifted their heads, dazedly looking at Anthony.

Anthony rubbed his forehead; the giant cat had never fought them, so no默契 was normal, but why was the big cat also so slow to react? Had it been too long since they last fought together?

Helpless, Anthony pointed toward the Star Forger and said: "Shatter the space, don't let him run." The dazed giant cat and big cat quickly opened their mouths wide, yawning.

The Star Forger arrived on the god star, turned to glance at the king, and without hesitation slammed his hammer onto the hard shell on the god star's surface.

With a booming roar, a huge door rose from the ground, erupting in blinding light.

The Star Forger laughed loudly: "Goodbye, fool."

He straightened and slammed into the door, charging inside.

Emperor Luoni and Hesiluo had been using their "King's Vision" to lock onto the Star Forger; at the moment the door was smashed open, Emperor Luoni looked at the King's Vision in his hand and exclaimed in surprise: "It split."

Everyone's thoughts swept over, and they saw in the King's Vision the grid representing the vision, where one cell suddenly cracked without warning, the continuous lines as if sliced by a knife, severed.

But the next moment, an invisible ripple made those lines tremble, presenting a wavy undulation; the broken parts quickly reassembled.

The Star Forger emerged from the other end of the door, flung onto the hard shell of the god star, face blank: Where is this? What am I doing?

The king held the Death's Scythe, polishing his own finger bones, teasingly saying: "Long time no see, you left so fast—still got any strength? Hurry up and show it."

The Star Forger climbed up, deeply glanced at the king, despair welling in his heart, resignedly raised his hammer, and began continuously striking the hard shell of the god star.

Running was useless—the other side's strength far exceeded his cognition; when did such a terrifying incremental entity appear in the void? Ordinary incremental entities, though powerful, couldn't break through defense. But the other side was still too arrogant, actually giving it the chance to go all out; as long as it could complete that formation it had never been able to finish before, it might very well turn the tide.

With the Star Forger's iron hammer striking, the formation on the ground continuously took shape, slowly forming a larger, more complex formation.

Anthony and the others focused intently on watching the Star Forger's movements.

Because of his professional skill in deception, everyone took Anthony for an old godman, completely forgetting he was also a formation master; the first Rebirth Altar on the main plane was designed and built by him.

The Rebirth Altar can turn bodiless undead into embodied black warriors; many undead unskilled in magic can become black warriors and continue practicing martial arts.

And the Rebirth Altar is itself a formation-combined structure, above which Anthony's entire understanding of formations is condensed.

Anthony pointed at the formations the Star Forger was hammering out: "Although it uses primal power, the principle of formations is unchanged; first is constructing an energy loop—without energy flow, a formation is just a pattern."

"As long as it's an energy loop, it can't do without two points: one high, one low; high and low create energy potential, energy flows from high to low; we must first find its high point to know where energy is input."

Anthony's two sentences suddenly enlightened everyone, who all began searching for the high point of energy potential.

But after a few glances, Lord Lord Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si asked doubtfully: "Why do I see everything as the same energy intensity?"

Anthony said: "Because it hasn't started constructing the loop yet—it's only setting points; looks like it should be the high point, i. e., the energy input point; when we set up formations, we also need to inlay magic crystals; these formations should be replacing the function of magic crystals, their energy intensity is rising, likely drawing energy from all around."

Lord Lord Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si stared carefully for a while, then asked doubtfully: "How can I not feel any energy? Is it using primal power? Which primal power?" Anthony snapped: "He's just using primal power to construct the formation; that doesn't mean the input to the formation is also primal power—what you can't feel is just the increment."

Increment is a power only usable by incremental entities; ordinary people can't even sense it.

Duoloken had previously refined equipment to sense increment, but didn't bring it out; with Lord Lord Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si's current star-descendant form, he couldn't sense increment.

"Ah, increment?" Lord Lord Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si exclaimed, immediately sharing Ange's vision.

Looking through Ange's eyes, he indeed saw those formations continuously drawing increment from the god star.

Although this is an extinct god star, its surface already condensed into a thick hard shell, yet even a rotted wooden ship has three catties of ship nails; the residual increment, though scraped bare by the formations, is still enough to draw sufficient quantity to drive its operation.

Next, the Star Forger hammered out a completely different formation beside the energy formation.

Lord Lord Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si asked: "What kind of formation is this?"

Anthony said: "Formations are for orderly release of energy; reckless, reckless energy, no matter how strong, only destroys formations; so the second step is to establish a loop for buffering and storing energy; these corresponding formations are naturally the storage loop."

"Direct release of increment is increment attack—this guy wants to use increment attack on Your Majesty? Too direct; if not using increment directly to attack, then next it will undergo transformation, converting increment into something else." Anthony said.

Sure enough, the Star Forger began hammering the third kind of formation.

Anthony continued: "No matter how complex a formation, it always has a core function—is it attack or defense? Or transformation? My Rebirth Altar's core function is transformation, so by this step it's done. "But this guy's formations are definitely not for transformation, so it will still have a fourth step, which will be the core function of the formation."

Saying this, the Star Forger suddenly leapt into mid-air, high-raised the giant hammer in his hand, exerted force, the originally already huge hammer volume swelling dozens of times, then slammed down, enveloping the three layers of formations he had previously hammered out.

Anthony explained: "Any formation needs to become a whole, requiring an energy loop; just now it hammered out three independent layers; to make them one body, it needs to construct energy loops between the three layers."

This hammer strike down, energy loops instantly formed between all energy formations, storage formations, and transformation formations; the entire formation lit up, light swiftly flowing from energy points to storage and transformation points.

Anthony said: "Good, energy potential established; with energy potential difference, energy begins to flow; as long as you hammer down the core seal, the whole formation will take shape."

Following Anthony's words, the Star Forger hammered down the final blow at the center of the formation.

All energy flowed to the core, a black shadow slowly condensing on the core.

Seeing that black shadow, Anthony and the others' eyes bulged: "Layered Ghost?!"