Chapter 1593 - Battlefield Live (1/2)
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The erasure effect of the covert-operation drone would only last for an hour. Not many things could be done in that short time, but if used correctly, the drone could still observe many things.
Hao Ren had now a rough idea about the Heart, which was the crystal planet he saw in the illusion. He knew that it was the goddess of creation who created the planetary system, where the ‘heart’ was located. There, spacetime and everything did not entirely work according to the law of the universe. The most striking example was the independent movement and manual control of the celestial bodies.
A star was shining on the planets, but those planets did not orbit the star. One such planet was the Heart, a rocky planet that was stationary nearby the star. It rotated by not orbited the star, so there were no seasonal changes. A powerful planetary shield and defense platforms protected this sacred planet. Three planetary fortresses surrounding the ‘Heart’ could move freely within the planetary system and anchored anywhere as needed. Before the sudden revolt broke out, the three planetary fortresses moored at the three vertices of the equilateral triangle around the Heart. Other than that, there were temples, forts, surveillance towers, and facilities called the Door floating in space following a set of programs that the goddess of creation left behind. Here, even the guardian giants had no authority to make any changes to these facilities.
After the outbreak of the rebellion, Amantir destroyed Naqdal with the doomsday weapon, the Apocalypse Torrent, and the corollary effect swept through space and caused devastating damage to everything in the vicinity with more than half of the facilities in space vaporized in an instant. But the facilities around the Heart, shielded by divine power, had survived together with the last planetary fortress, Agodal.
The drone swiftly passed through the Naqdal’s wreckage field without leaving a trace. It then switched on all the sensors and began to collect as much information as possible while the erasure was still in effect.
The drone sent back the footage. Hao Ren saw wreckage floating in space. The debris, including of Naqdal and the festered monsters, had been floating there for 3,000 years. The largest fragment was as large as a continent, on which Hao Ren could clearly see collapsed temples and the ruins of cities that had long plunged into darkness. All this told of the tragic event that had taken place here.
“Did Amanti’s rebellion happen three thousand years ago?” Vivian asked casually while her eyes affixed to the images.
“Yes, Queen!” said the boy sprite, and the other two follow suit. “Three thousand years ago, Amantir suddenly fired at us!”
“At the time, some of the guardian giants on Naqdal went crazy too.”
“It scared the hell out of us.”
“But I was not afraid at all!”
Lil Pea jumped up and down. “You bluff! I know that you are the least brave among the sprites! You are even afraid of my little flame!”
The little sprite got angry. “That was because I used up all my courage at the beginning, so I am so timid now!”
“Were all the guardian giants normal before this?” Hao Ren put his hand between the fish baby and the sprite, intervening their quarrel. “Up to 3,000 years ago, all the guardian giants had no signs of infection?”
“No.” The three sprites shook their heads in unison. “The giants were kind! We had a good relationship! Everyone had been living together!”
Hao Ren turned to look at Vivian and said, “What do you think?”
“So far, all the events we encountered in the Plane of Dreams, all the clues we found came from 10,000 years ago when the goddess of creation fell,” Vivian said with her arms crossed, and her fingers tapped her elbow subconsciously. “Except here; everything was normal until 3,000 years ago. The guardian giants on Amantir suddenly went mad. That was 7,000 thousand years after the fall of the goddess.”
“So, you think it was a ‘delayed outbreak’?”
“No, I think it is the evidence that shows the Mad Lord is slowly breaking out of jail,” Vivian said. “But no matter which possibility, things are not looking good.”
The drone kept streaming back images. As it flew through an empty region of space, some soft lights flashed in the corner of the image.
The camera automatically panned and zoomed in. Hao Ren saw an intense battle was taking place.
On one side were the familiar festered monsters—those lumps of flesh, mutated giants and battleships infested with biological tissues. They were much larger than the army that had previously encircled the Naqdal Continent. On the other side was the battle fleet of the guardian giants with a proper formation and distinctive insignias.