?”How about the army? Are they ready?” Nyxalos asked.
“No, just about 30 percent; that damn vermin seem to know all our plans,” Drekthar said, gritting his teeth.
“Tsk, we can only wait and patiently consume these parasites…” Zalthor, the monarch of Corruption, clicked his tongue in anger.
The parasites they were talking about were the beings of the Etherium realm, eroding their ‘ship.’
Because they couldn’t go to any other place besides the source layer, they couldn’t wipe out these parasites.
If they went to a part of the abyss with a lower amount of abyss energy, their strength would be correspondingly lower.
Such a thing was not a problem, as a monarch killing a few tier 9 individuals is just a flick of their finger.
Unfortunately, there was an anomaly called ‘Malgron.’
That vermin had an ultimate physique that scared them, huddling in a corner.
As a bearer of an ultimate physique, Malgron is not reliant on a dimension’s energy; instead, he gets energy from the void.
If it took four of them to defeat Malgron with their current strength, fighting Malgron in a place other than the source layer would be a suicide.
As for the army, its purpose is to wipe out the parasites, aka the inhabitants of the Etherium realm.
Unfortunately, over the years, they couldn’t form a decent-sized army, as Malgron disintegrated it before it fully formed.
They can only do their best to limit the growth and living environment, sending scattered abyss armies from time to time, which is the abyss tide.
While they were talking about an alternative plan to exterminate Malgron, a lord abyss monster came in.
“Monarchs of the abyss, this humble one has some news to convey,” the lord abyss monster said articulately while trembling.
“Oh? Did you get the sighting of the ‘Vermin’?” Valdrekth, the monarch of space, asked.
“This Monarch, a stronghold just disappeared under our radar without any signs,” the lord abyss monster said.
“Disappeared?” A look of puzzlement appeared on their faces.
“What’s the coordinates?” Valdrekth asked, manipulating the ley lines of the abyss.
“$%#&29…”
Hearing the coordinates, he manipulated the space and time of the abyss as a screen appeared in front of them, recording what happened in the past.
They watched as the flying stronghold slowly disappeared in front of their eyes.
“Such an advanced abyss core?” Nyxalos frowned.
The stronghold core that the beings of the Etherium realm called is an abyss core.
It can also be called an artificial world origin or a mobile battery.
Across their ‘ship,’ there were countless abyss cores to power various parts of the abyss.
Like the production of abyss monsters, abyss resources, abyss aura, more importantly devouring of the void debris.
The abyss core is a bit different than the abyss source.
Abyss source is an unprocessed raw world origin fragments that they devoured on the way.
The reason it’s unprocessed is because of that hateful vermin.
How can they meticulously process it if they can’t even get close to the raw world-origin fragments?
They can only crudely process it to produce abyss monsters to somewhat alleviate the parasite infestation.
“Where did this parasite get such an advanced abyss core?” Zalthor repeated.
Although such an abyss core is not as advanced as the driving force of the abyss realm they were in.
It was still phenomenal.
In the main abyss dimension, such an abyss core is a top class that many lord abyss monsters or even some monarchs would fight over.
“Is it outside intervention?” Nyxalos asked.
“How is that possible? We didn’t sense any intrusion!” They immediately denied.
“What about that hateful Transdimensional platform system?” Nyxalos reminded.
“Damn! That Transdimensional Organization!” The three monarchs cursed in fury, remembering this organization.
This hateful organization, more greedy than them, was probably the most loathful enemy of the abyss.
Because of this organization, more dimensions were united than ever, hindering the abyss from swallowing dimensions one after another.
The exchange of resources and information made the endless abyss helpless. Ths chapter is updated by Nov(l)ꜰre .t
The Abyss even started resorting to tearing part of itself to explore the way and help devour weaker dimensions.
Yet, it could only hold off as it was slowly being slaughtered.
“Can we still survive here? Should we retreat?” Drekthar asked in fear.
Once there was a Transdimensional platform system in the midst, it meant there was endless trouble coming.
Although it is said that the abyss is infinite.
When beings from all dimensions help each other, even the Abyss becomes a helpless lamb waiting to be slaughtered.
“It’s too late. We can only hope that the Transdimensional platform system is a wild one, and the one who holds it is greedy,” Nyxalos wished.
Once the coordinates of their place are exposed, they are truly finished.
“Then what are we waiting for, to die?” Drekthar said in panic.
“Stupid!” Nyxalos muttered, punching Drekthar.
“Wh-at, brother? I’m just asking,” Drekthar said in a trembling tone.
Although they were brothers, which had come from the same source.
Drekthar and the others were still fearful of the powerful Nyxalos.
“Hmph! Just shut up, and don’t embarrass me!” Nyxalos looked at Drekthar as if wanting to kill him.
“So what should we do?” Zalthor asked, shifting the topic.
“Swallow the Tier 9 dimension ahead, then ask for reinforcement,” Nyxalos answered.
“But we don’t have enough credits to have the main abyss notice us?”
“Isn’t there a bearer of an ultimate physique here?”
“Such a good specimen for making an ultimate abyss monarch…” Nyxalos said, looking thoughtfully into the abyss.
…
10 years later, in the Purgatory layer:
[Eternal Voyager: Host, we have arrived at the Purgatory layer.]
“Huh? So soon?” Maximus muttered, opening his eyes as he exited his seclusion.
“Did you manage to crack the ley line of the abyss?”
Maximus estimated that it would take about 30 years to reach the Purgatory layer.
It seems that after Eternal Voyager analyzed a bit of the abyss ley line formation their journey shortened.
[Eternal Voyager: About 9.2846 percent of the ley lines of the abyss realm were analyzed, host.]
“Good…” Maximus nodded in satisfaction.
After Eternal Voyager began to travel to the Purgatory layer, she noticed the complicated ley line formation of the abyss realm.
It seemed that the abyss was artificially built like a big ship.
As a top ship’s spirit, Eternal Voyager’s curiosity was aroused.
If Eternal Voyager can fully study this knowledge, her growth in the future will be unimpeded.
Maximus was also amazed by this discovery but not too surprised.
If the abyss can autonomously look for dimensions to swallow, then it’s certainly not simple.
Maximus even concluded that the real controller of the abyss was in the source layer.
The only doubt was that the ruler of the abyss never bothered with them which is a bit weird.
“By the way, can you sense the position of the abyss sources?”
[Eternal Voyager: I can barely sense a few million kilometers, host. However, I estimated that after my analysis reaches 10 percent, the range would reach trillion kilometers.]
“That’s good enough…”
“Scan for the abyss source and the corresponding danger,” Maximus said urgently.
[Eternal Voyager: Right away, host.]
During these ten years, nothing noteworthy happened.
With the teleportation array in the stronghold, they can still travel through the abyss realm.
The outpost is still under construction as he provided a stable source of materials.
As for the shelter cabin, it is also being built.
Because Lux wanted to monopolize the business in one go, millions of shelter cabins were simultaneously being built.
He hoped to open it in conjunction with the opening of the new outpost.
There were also the ten million poached members who joined the guild.
In these years, they have already absorbed their harvest and advanced to tier 8 one after another.
Now, the Shadow Hunter Guild has already reached the top powers in terms of manpower.
The only bad news among these is that he still hadn’t created the tier 8 chapter of the ‘Origin.’
This thing had been bothering him that he was mostly in seclusion these past few years.
A decade ago, he thought that it would only take him a year or so to create it.
However, even until now, he was not even half done.
As the ‘Origin’ reached ultimate mastery, it seemed that the challenge of creating the follow-up chapter was multiplied.
Instead of just dumping system points until he mastered all the required knowledge, he needed enlightenment.
As for how to get enlightenment, Maximus was clueless.
He can only dump system points one after another, studying what he mastered over and over again.
Fortunately, this thoughtless method seems to work, as he saw some enlightenment.
However, the system points he had were too little to make wonders; that’s why he needed more.
As for selling the tier 8 knowledge he mastered in his shop in the Myriad World Mall, Maximus didn’t do it for now.
As he dumped system points to master the knowledge in his mind over and over again.
The mastery he had over the knowledge seemed to approach ultimate mastery infinitely.
He figured that if he sold it after he created ‘Origin,’ he could sell the knowledge for much more.
In this way, he would not waste the extra system points he invested.
Anyway, even if he had money now, he could not advance without the corresponding chapter of ‘Origin.’
It’s better to wait and earn more.