Chapter 1764 - The Final Plan (1/2)
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
A massive holographic projection opened up and the maddened universe engulfed in darkness and chaos behind the visual screen had finally unveiled itself to Hao Ren.
“The original Prison of the Dark Abyss was divided into three layers, and the goddess had used her powers to forcefully open up several barriers of order, and use them to form the interior, central and exterior triple layer of defense. A massive number of runic array and man-made stars were deployed within these three lines to suppress the Mad Lord.” Adier’s wind-chime voice rang across the room. “But after the containment failure, everything disintegrated and most of the barriers have been rendered by the taint of madness into primordial chaos, and the Dark Abyss had returned into its ancient chaotic state, but some things were still left behind.”
“In these areas, three are some remnants of the runic array and stars, and floats about in the universe as fragments, some of which had fallen into the crevice of the distorted dimension, but they can still be of use as a launchpad for our activities within the Dark Abyss. They are however very unstable, and basically all of the fragments are undergoing destruction and rebirth in the unit of hours, and their numbers are always falling.”
“This was one of the original monitoring nodes, and when we withdrew it was still operating, and I think it could last until the final battle. This node can provide us data support, and also relay information, and should be useful on the battlefield.”
“There is an armory in this area, and once had an army of divine automatons, but about ninety percent of the automatons had already been used during the breakout. The armory itself is very sturdy, however, and could be of use.”
Rheia then interrupted Adier’s report. “What’s the situation like with the Mad Lord.”
“The prisoner’s taint has filled up the entire Dark Abyss, and now that it has a solid core, the core should be in the deepest part of the prison. There is a massive chaotic dimension protecting the core, and it’s very difficult to get close. With the core’s command, the mindless power of madness is now regimented, and they would readily use all sorts of battlefield tactics against the Nightwatchers, that was why it was able to break out so quickly.”
“And the core had never moved before?” Rheia frowned.
“Never, it had remained there since its appearance, and the only ones moving about are the tainted minions.”
“She’s waiting for me.” Rheia sighed. “She’s very certain that I would find her myself, so she’s waiting for us to fight on her own turf where the power of madness is at its apex. But before that, she will continuously unleash the taint of madness against the material universe, so we don’t have a choice.”
“This layer of chaotic dimension is probably the biggest problem.” Hao Ren said as he stroked his chin while looking at the dimensional layout map on the projection. “That goddess of annihilation hides in an ever-changing shell, and I reckon the laws of space and time are under her full control. To pass through this sort of dimension, any normal engine or teleportation methods would not work, as the ‘law’ is in her hands.”
“There’s probably no one that has the luxury to slowly decipher the mathematical rules in a place like that,” the MDT said as it shook about in the air.
“Force entry is not impossible, as it is a matter of snatching the control rights of the laws of space and time, I’m the same level as her over here,” Rheia said as she clutched her arms. “But that will definitely do a number on my strength and energy. The goddess of annihilation would have an endless supply of power within the Dark Abyss, but for us, any energy consumed is considered lost.”
Just at that moment, Nolan’s voice rang from the comms. She had docked by the side of the control tower and had a real-time data link with the droid swarm, so she was listening in all alone. “Perhaps we can directly blow this layer of chaotic dimension to kingdom come.”
“Destroy it?” Hao Ren raised his eyebrow. “What plan do you have? I don’t think we have anything ‘rule-based weaponry’ that could snatch the control of laws from a true god.”
“My void engine,” Nolan replied. “The void engine is able to travel in the endless void outside the world barriers, and create an independent field of order, and this field of order is actually a ‘forced operation mechanism’. But the void engine itself has security fail-safe, and this fail-safe will not allow it to work within the world barrier to prevent any damage to the laws of the universe, but if we are to disable that, and overload it over at that chaotic dimension…”
“We can blow a hole up in any dimensional structure.” Hao Ren’s eyes brightened. “But can we pull that off?”
“To be honest, this is against operational safety protocols, so this setting is locked down dead, and you can’t bypass it system-wise, not even I can,” Nolan said. “But we can chuck that aside right…”
Hao Ren got a gist of what Nolan was at. “You mean…”
“If the ship is damaged by someone, then it has nothing to do with the safety protocols,” Nolan said whimsically. “I can isolate all of the control mechanism of the safety lock, then you can find a Starbreaker Crowbar…”
“The hell is a Starbreaker Crowbar?!” Hao Ren leered.
“That thunk alone will cause a dimensional collapse the distance of a few light-years wide. Calling it that is already an understatement!
“Besides, wrecking the void engine this way… will you be okay?” Hao Ren waved dismissively as he asked the question that concerned him the most. “I remember the void engine is connected with the largest number of energy tubes to the power core and is definitely linked to all propulsion units…”