Chapter 1647 - : Planet Fragments in the Sky (1/2)

It was an old-fashioned introduction; Hao Ren could not help but think of it that way.

The ancient civilization plunged into the gap of space and time following an unknown disaster (the explosion of the divine realm). The world on the surface was destroyed, and the survivors barely survived in the shelter that they built inside the planet with their powerful technology. As time went by, the disaster on the planet’s surface subsided. But the survivors in the underground shelter had mutated or simply died from the perennial isolation as well as environmental changes. The shelter that they left behind became the dangerous Great Pit—a place that was filled with deadly poisonous gas and monsters. The civilization on the surface avoided it like the plague.

Hao Ren made some bold speculations; if his assumptions were correct, the so-called toxic gas in the Great Pit should be the normal atmospheric component of the planet 10,000 years ago. It was the foundation of life for the last civilization, but it somehow turned into a disaster for the present ecosystem.

However, could there have been such a massive change in just 10,000 years? Or, did something else accelerate the ecological evolution process?

Perhaps there was only one way to find out, and that was to go into the Great Pit.

What thought to be an insignificant encounter had turned out to be a significant development. The group had accidentally become mercenaries who signed an escort contract with the mage, but they never thought that it would lead them to such a significant discovery. Hao Ren could not help but be astonished by his good luck. Had it not been for Rheia who popped up out of nowhere and mentioned about the Great Pit, he wondered how time had to waste before finding out the secrets of the underground world. After all, ordinary people would stay away from the Great Pit; people like Rheia was a rare breed.

Hao Ren had made a decision and closed the geography title in front of him. “Everyone gets a good rest tonight. Tomorrow, we will follow Rheia to find the entrance to the Great Pit—”

But before Hao Ren could finish, Nolan suddenly reported in. “Boss! You better come out and see this!”

“What is it?” He did not expect that Nolan, who was standing watch at high altitude, would suddenly call him. “Is there an enemy?”

Nolan sounded as if she was shocked. “No! It’s the sky! Something is in the sky!”

Everyone exchanged a look before they ran to the vast expanse of floor-to-ceiling windows of the library, pushed open the window and looked up at the dark night sky outside.

Even the cat maiden was shocked by what she saw. “Meow?”

There was a broken world slowly passing across the night sky.

Huge shadows, bigger than any satellite or star could produce appeared. Ordinary people could see without the aid of optical instrument that the objects floating in space were fragments of a planet. The three largest pieces formed a triangle formation in the sky. There were mountains and rifts, and even traces of what seemed to be an artificial pattern on the planet fragments. At the same time, many smaller black objects were floating in between the three large fragments; those were the floating islands of the main fragments.

Without a doubt, all these fragments once belonged to the same planet.

The planet fragments were not completely dark, though, as there were some dark-red and dark-yellow patterns on their surface. Those faint glows looked like to be the lava, or they could be something else that emitted light.

The group watched in awe as the landmasses flew past the sky and now were right at the sky above them. The celestial fragments were so massive that they covered almost one-third of the sky. They flew past quietly but exuding a depressive and solemn air. Hao Ren even felt that he had an auditory hallucination—the rumbling of giant logs on the earth.

But a crispy voice quickly interrupted his hallucinations. “Ahh, what are all of you doing in front of the window?”

Hao Ren came to his senses and was surprised to see Rheia standing on in mid-air outside the window with some tiny shimmering runes floating around her to shield herself from the chilly wind of Longwind Peak.

The mage left her work and just came out to get some fresh air, it seemed.

“Ah, I just come out for a stroll, don’t look at me like this.” Rheia noticed the surprise on their faces. She waved at them and said, “I know it is a bit scary when someone waves at you all outside the window, but I thought you guys should have seen this enough?”

“Err, this is fine.” Vivian came out of her shock and put up a smile. “We are just watching the night.”