This is not mechanical ascension...

Chapter 471: The Shockingly Hard Arsenal
There was silence all around, but there was a constant sound behind. Everyone then realized that the sound came from the huge half-crystal-shaped building behind them.

Spider-web-like cracks emerged from the center and quickly spread to both sides. It was already shaky and now collapsed even faster.

"It's going to collapse?" Reynolds asked in surprise, "Just because the assessment is over?"

click-
In the cracks, bright rays of light emerged and gradually dissipated in all directions. The randomly scattered energy particles could easily cause changes in space.

"With this kind of energy intensity, it's no wonder it can suppress us." Lancaster's face changed slightly, and he was quite surprised.

"There's still so much energy left. Let's step back..."

Everyone was confused about the situation and retreated at the same time, withdrawing a long distance.

At this moment, the broken giant crystal, like a ball of fire wrapped in paper, was already crumbling.

boom!
At a certain moment, the crystal completely shattered, and a brilliant beam of energy burst out instantly, rushing straight into the sky with an unstoppable force, forming a giant pillar of light.

When this energy was poured into the outer space-time isolation state, Mikhail looked nervous, almost pale, but he heaved a sigh of relief when he realized that this energy did not cause space-time distortion.

The bright beam of light illuminated the entire area as bright as day, so bright that it was almost impossible to open one's eyes, but to them, it was nothing.

The wind howled with a sharp roar, carrying with it the black mist, creating a creepy scene. A low roar could be heard faintly in the mist.

It was known that this energy explosion was not primarily destructive, and the aftermath posed no threat to anyone and was suppressed in the blink of an eye.

"Did he destroy himself?" Li Ming couldn't help but sigh as a beam of light that penetrated the sky and the earth was reflected in his pupils.

"The trial to become a king..." he thought to himself.

The most difficult trial in the Titan Trial seemed to be even more difficult than the trials he had experienced. I don’t know what was going on.

"That's really perverted. No wonder all the Titans are macho men."

Just hearing the name sounds like choosing the King of Titans, the King of Kings, which is more noble than the Dominant-level Titan.

But as far as he knew, there seemed to be no such King of Kings among the Titans.

"What's the point of being in the Guixu stage... Even Titan was buried, so who can escape?"

He frowned slightly and thought of the Holy Castle Supervisor again. That guy always thought he was cheating and never said anything on his own initiative.

And the questions he asked were sometimes limited by authority.

"Stopped."

Reynolds spoke, and everyone flew forward again.

Where the half of the crystal was originally, there is now only a bottomless black hole.

Boom--
Reynolds kicked down a piece of iron, silently, without even an echo, as if it was swallowed up.

His pupils lit up, and the inner and outer mechanical rings kept spinning. "Damn it, I can't even see the bottom. All kinds of detection waves have been swallowed up."

"What the hell is this?"

On the other side, Deus was also performing some tricks, sending in a ball of runes, and on the other side pulling an energy line, which was released at an extremely fast speed under her control, but there was no bottom.

With a casual pull, amazingly, the rune ball was pulled up in just a few seconds.

"Strange... The spatial characteristics are very special." Deus frowned. The others tried their best but didn't find anything.

"Mikhail?" Kostat looked.

"We haven't even passed the assessment, do you think we will know what this black hole is?" Mikhail shook his head.

Cedric frowned and said, "Don't waste time here, go somewhere else."

Gonzalez swept his gloomy eyes over Li Ming. Being interrupted like this, he didn't get any support from others, and it would be fruitless for him to continue his attack.

Everyone quickly reached a consensus and left a group of men to guard here.

Then he followed Mikhail to the next location.

The silent black hole seems to be able to swallow everything. It is the bottomless deepest place where time and space stagnate.

A pair of grey eyes suddenly opened and stayed still for a long time, as if they were adapting and recalling something.

After a long time, an unidentified sound was heard in this dark space.
"The things above your head are gone, you can go out now."

Another pair of eyes opened and looked up at the tiny speck of white. "I smell the breath of life, a powerful life, the scent of Titans. We need to replenish our energy..."

.........

At the same time, in the capital of the empire, in the magnificent palace, Heckler frowned and stared at John in front of him: "What do you mean that the Azure Dragon did not go to the ruins of the Holy Spirit Civilization?"

Yoen was sweating profusely. "I don't know the details, but I found out from the information sent by Costat that Li Ming went there on behalf of Qinglong."

"Li Ming went on behalf of Qinglong?" Heckler was stunned. "He was willing to let Li Ming go to the Red River Star Stream to take risks, and to explore the ruins of an ancient civilization? And he was accompanied by people from the three major civilizations?"

"I'm not sure, but it shouldn't be fake." John lowered his head.

"Qinglong, he didn't go there in person." Heckler paced back and forth, still puzzled: "As I recall, the leader of the Star Alliance was Gonzalez, because Ryan's interstellar massacre seemed to have involved him as well, causing him a lot of trouble."

"And there is Claude. The Kingdom of Bavaria where he is from has always coveted talents with high development potential. I'm afraid they won't let Li Ming go easily during the process."

Heckler's eyes flickered. "Does Qinglong trust Reynolds and Mikhail so much? No, even if these two are willing to protect Li Ming, they can't withstand the pressure from the other three parties..."

"What is he thinking?" No matter what standpoint Heckler used to speculate, he could not figure out the reason why Li Ming did this.

"Who's behind this? He said he didn't go, but he actually did." Various speculations emerged in his mind.

"Then should we still send people to the Mechanical Court..." John asked hesitantly.

"Go, we have to send people there." Heckler said decisively: "No matter what the reason is, Qinglong has to do this, and this reason cannot be to protect the Mechanical King's Court."

"This may still be an opportunity." Heckler said solemnly, "I will send Ivan..."

"Sir Scarlet Wolf?" John was surprised, this guy was an X-level life form.

"It's better to be prepared." Heckler shook his head, John nodded, and then reported: "One more thing, I have contacted the guy who sold Ryan's information..."

At this point, his expression became slightly strange. "He actually asked me to contact him on the Black Hole Network, and the price he quoted was very expensive."

"What's the price?" Heckler couldn't help but look.

"Let's get rid of the ten planetary governors." John had already prepared a plan, and added: "I have checked, these ten planetary governors are all Lord Rest's men, and many of them are hostile to him."

"We can only roughly estimate that the other party might be a prince." "Haha..." Heckler laughed, as if he remembered something, "What capital does he have to offer such a high price?"

John was a little confused. "I don't know. I don't understand whether his methods are deliberately clumsy or just clumsy. He keeps hinting to me that the information he has is very important and worth such a high price."

"Leave him alone for a while..." Heckler didn't care. The matter was almost settled. He didn't care where Ryan was being held or what experiments were being conducted on him.

"Understood." John nodded and hurried away.

.........

"Mikhail, you should tell us in advance what the next place we are going to is like."

Halfway through the journey, as they passed the large ruins below, Costat asked, and Dius echoed him.

Mikhail did not hide anything on purpose this time, and said, "According to our and Forge Hammer's speculation, that place should be a weapons warehouse or something like that."

"Armory?"

Hearing him say this, everyone immediately perked up and asked, "Tell me more about it."

"There's nothing to explain in detail. You'll understand when you get there." Mikhail shook his head.

"Then why can't you get in? Do you still need some kind of assessment?" Deus asked, and everyone else's hearts tightened.

"How is that possible? A place like the weapons depot only requires permission verification. What's the point of an assessment?" Mikhail was speechless. "We can't get in because the energy in that weapons depot has been exhausted and it has been locked. No matter what means we use, we can't get in."

"Oh?" Lancaster looked over, but before he could say anything, Mikhail interrupted him and said unhappily, "It only took a few minutes. It's hard to explain in detail. You'll understand when we get there."

Hearing what he said, everyone frowned slightly, but no one spoke.

Armory?
Li Ming's heart moved slightly, and he felt a little regretful. It seemed... it was not his special show.

If there are a lot of things in it, you can still drink some soup, but if there are too few things, it’s hard to say.

Suddenly, while everyone was thinking different things, the swirling black fog around them was suddenly cut open, and a beam of light cut through the sky.

"Where did the attack come from?"

Lancaster was the first to react. He stretched out his hand and energy particles gathered in his hand.

Cedric had already rushed into the black fog. Costat was just one step late. He subconsciously looked at Mikhail and saw that the other party had an indifferent expression. He breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that there should be no major danger.

Soon, amid the swirling fog, Cedric flew back holding a large mechanical bird. Its wingspan was over a hundred meters, and its mechanical pupils were blood red and kept flashing.

Mikhail then spoke, "This is a broken machine. It is the biggest danger in the entire ruins. Any outsiders will be regarded as enemies and killed indiscriminately."

"Then the ruins of the Holy Spirit Civilization are really a good place." Cedric casually crushed the mechanical head in his hand.

Mikhail said indifferently, "Now only ordinary mechanical bodies like this are left after being cleared out. At the beginning, there were some broken X-class mechanical bodies."

Everyone's expression couldn't help but pause, and they thought of many things. For these master craftsmen, repairs are what they are best at.

They didn't know how many incomplete X-class mechanical bodies they had, but most of them should be on the forging hammer.

"Mr. Reynolds, what are you doing?" Li Ming finally couldn't bear it anymore.

From the very beginning, this guy covered him with an electromagnetic force field. The intensity was not high, but it was very inexplicable.

"Let me see if you are a mechanically modified body..." Reynolds withdrew the force field somewhat awkwardly, muttering to himself.

Is it really not a mechanically modified body?

So how high is this guy's development potential?

The group flew for a while and seemed to be approaching the core area. There were more and more wreckage of various tall buildings, and even half of a giant mechanical body.

But its surface looked very mottled and probably had little value, which was why it was not retrieved by Mikhail and his companions.

At the same time, the attacks vaguely coming from the fog were increasing, but they were difficult to pose a threat to them.

Reynolds had been holding it in all the way, but now he could not help himself and asked in a low voice: "Li Ming, how high is your development potential?"

The others looked indifferent, but in fact they had pricked up their ears.

After the assessment, no one mentioned the fact that Li Ming was already an S-level life form.

It’s not that it’s unimportant, but that it’s too important. Even if they ask, they will definitely not get an answer.

However, before Li Ming could say anything, Mikhail said, "We're here."

Everyone's attention was drawn, and Reynolds seemed to have forgotten his own question. He landed on the ground first, raising a cloud of dust.

Everyone landed one by one. They seemed to have entered a place similar to a military restricted area. The metal wreckage around them was obviously a weapon device.

There is a huge deep pit on the ground, with incomplete passages and lines underneath. It seems to be some kind of underground fortress, but it is severely damaged.

"They actually use physical circuits. I wonder what kind of energy they transmit." Li Ming was secretly shocked. He looked around but didn't see anything good. Most of these metal materials were just average.

I guess anything of value should have been picked up by the Forger and the two guys in front of me.

In the center of the deep pit, there was a small silver metal block, suspended in the air, slowly rotating.

The surroundings were too flat, and it was obvious that it had suffered a great blow.

"Is this their weapons warehouse?" Everyone gathered closer and were quite surprised to see the metal block in front of them which was only one cubic meter in size.

"What do you think? Are you really going to build a big warehouse?" Reynolds sneered:
"The application of space technology by the Holy Spirit Civilization has reached the level of high-dimensional transmission. Within a certain area, all people with authenticated authority can directly apply for the use of weapons, and weapons will appear in their hands regardless of distance."

Li Ming raised his eyebrows. So powerful?

The group of people in front of me are basically not skilled workers and are obviously confused.

Gonzalez frowned and said, "So, if you don't have permission, you can't open it. Can't you master craftsmen crack it?"

"Crack? It's already locked." Reynolds was speechless. Mikhail explained calmly, "Its supporting energy has been depleted over a long period of time to the point where it can only maintain its own operation. It has entered a closed state."

"If we want to open it, we can only make the space inside it unstable. But therein lies the problem. This thing is incredibly hard. There is almost no space between the molecules. It is isolated from all interference states, so the space inside cannot be disturbed."

Mikhail seemed a little helpless when he said this: "We have tried every possible way since the forging of the hammer, but unfortunately nothing worked."

Incredibly hard?

Li Ming, who was originally looking around, suddenly looked over here.

(End of this chapter)