Chapter 1619 - : Make a Mess! Wreak Some Havoc! (1/2)

“Assaulting the Lair of Nightmares…” The very audacious plan seemed increasingly viable as the sprites discussed and Hao Ren, as well as co, thought it out.

Every impregnable citadel was easier to destroy from within than without. Now, if they could send an elite team into the Lair of Nightmares and decapitate the monster in charge of creating the corrupted army, everything would be resolved.

As Hao Ren needed the crystal of Amantir regardless, that meant he had to find a way to get rid of the Lair of Nightmares because it was connected to the crystal.

The best route to assault the lair was from underneath: Blowing up the crystal pillars that supported the crust would affect the Lair of Nightmares’ structure, and according to the sprites’ calculations, it would be enough to tear the lair in half.

“Won’t the entire crust collapse and the lair alongside a good portion of the surface area fall onto the grid?” After she heard the incredible plan, Nangong Wuyue started to think about what would come next. “It’d be best if we could kill the monsters with the fall…”

“That would be impossible. Even the weakest of their lot is about as strong as the guardians,” the MDT shook as it spoke in its typical blunt fashion. “Sides, just blowing up three pillars won’t be enough to topple the crust. I’ve analyzed the planet’s structure. While its crust is supported by the crystal pillars, the crust itself has a series of complex quake-reduction and stabilizing structures. The equator rift may have weakened the strength of this structure, but based on the southern frame of the rift, the upper portions of the Lair of Nightmares are still quite stable. Under ideal circumstances, the lair would probably lose less than a third of its size once the pillars are blown up. While it will open up a path directly to the center of the lair, that’ll be about the extent of the destruction.”

Amantir’s crust was equivalent to the planetary starship’s armored hull, and it naturally had many reinforcing structures. Collapsing the entire crust by blowing up three pillars would not be possible. It was about as fanciful a thought as dismantling an entire ship’s hull by removing two tiny screws.

Hao Ren was quite satisfied with the results of the simulation, “We only need to punch a hole into the Lair of Nightmares. It’d be more troublesome if the entire structure collapses, and crying would be pointless if Amantir’s crystal shatters in the fall.”

“All right, we already have a rough idea. Now we need to plan out the details of the operation.” Vivian nodded in agreement before she used her commanding presence to begin the discussion on the plan’s details. “Take every possibility into consideration, including the worst-case scenario of facing the awakened source of the nightmares. Besides, we also need to get the sprites downloaded into the MDT’s hard disk…”

“Somehow there’s something odd about the whole process…” the MDT mumbled.

The discussion for the battle plan took about four hours, and the sprites provided much help along the way; the group of messy sprites was not as unreliable as Hao Ren had expected, and they had actually done a surprising amount of stuff in their thousand-plus years of hiding in the planet’s core.

They had tried their best to monitor the changes on Amantir’s surface and recorded the entire process of the spread of the Mad Lord’s corruption and its subsequent changes to the planetary starship. They had looked into the information regarding the corrupted army and even collected their defensive layout as well as routine schedule. As the “operating AI” of the starship’s various systems, the data they had of the starship was even more detailed than the structure diagram Salaman possessed. Their data even contained records of the changes Amantir underwent after it was corrupted by madness, and that information was far beyond what Salaman was able to provide.

That was because, Salaman only had a pre-war blueprint, and he was totally unaware of the changes within Amantir, whereas those sprites… while they were trapped, they were trapped within Amantir.

After settling the finer details of the plan, Hao Ren along with his team took some time to rest and prepare on the tiny planet before they began the process of “downloading” thousands of sprites.

With their experience involving Sprite Number One, the process of the sprites entering the MDT went much smoother than expected, just that the MDT itself looked helpless during the whole process.

A few hours later, the last of the sprites entered the hard disk, and the first phase of saving the sprites was now completed.

Looking at the MDT hovering over Hao Ren’s shoulder, Nangong Sanba could not help but blurt out, “So you, a PDA, has gigabytes of little boys and girls in you. Should we ask how you feel about that?”

The MDT immediately glowed in rage. “I’ll smash your face!”

“All right, all right.” Hao Ren quickly held the enraged PDA down, “Frankly speaking, how are you feeling now? Is the storage of the sprites affecting your performance?”

“It’s not a problem, the load isn’t all that big,” the MDT said resignedly. “I’ve created a virtual reality zone for them, and they’re wreaking havoc there. I don’t dare allow them to link up with other programs. Goodness, how does a bunch of A.I get so noisy?”

Hao Ren had an eat-sh*t grin on his face when he heard that. The noisy tin-can he once wanted to dump into a pond of wet cement had finally met his match?

Anyway, Hao Ren was now relieved as he turned to Vivian. “It’s time for us to go then. Where did Lily and Rollie go?”

“They said they were gonna circle the globe…” Vivian said as she peered afar. “Oh, they’re just over there. They’re back.”

As she spoke, the werehusky and the dumb cat emerged from the “horizon” and quickly came before Hao Ren. The two ladies seemed to be very happy, and Lily even tugged at Hao Ren’s arm as she gloated, “Mr. Landlord, Mr. Landlord, I ran a full circle around the planet! Using the equatowooooooo…”

Hao Ren slapped himself in the face hard. Bloody hell, this doggie and kittie sure were a happy bunch… How bored were they?”

With a flick of her hand, Vivian sent two tiny sparks to both of their heads. “All right, all right. We’re heading off now.”

The two immediately got serious. Even Rollie nodded resolutely and checked if her shoelaces were properly tied and if her claws were sharp enough. While this cat was called a dumb cat every now and then, she was in fact, just ill-adapted to human life. She was very aware of what was going on and knew just what to do.

Since the sprites had left the planet’s core, all the temporary systems they abandoned in the core all slowly started to shut down. The hidden path connecting the planet’s core with the crystal pillar zone was becoming unstable too, but they could use it this once for the very last time.

Hao Ren’s elite team quickly went down the light path as time and material distorted, shattered, reformed and warped back to normal. Rock and crystals seemed to crash down from all directions but without a sound.

Their surroundings were silent, yet harrowing.