Chapter 1297 - 1045: Where is the Enemy

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With the loss of the tetrahedron, the skeleton completely ceased to move, all runes on its body lost their glow, and even some joint structures began to detach on their own.

Long Yi returned to his dragon true form, and at that moment, Suolin also descended from the sky.

"How much do these guys like tetrahedrons?" Long Yi joked. Suolin also cracked a slight smile but neither agreed nor disagreed.

"Before I open this thing, we’d better get ourselves far away," Long Yi suggested, and then immediately teleported himself and Suolin to a distant mountaintop.

There, Long Yi began to open the golden tetrahedron.

Unsurprisingly, it concealed a divine status. Upon seeing Long Yi, it instantly transformed into a figure resembling a divine envoy maiden, emitting a shrill scream. Long Yi could feel the scream containing divine power and authority, but in comparison, Long Yi was far much stronger.

Long Yi instantly unleashed his full divine status, and the divine envoy who just screamed fell weakly to the ground. Long Yi didn’t waste words with her, instead placing a hand on her head. Just then, a red light burst forth from the eyes of the divine envoy, flying straight toward Long Yi’s eyes! However, a ’ding’ could be heard in the air as the red light was halted mid-flight.

"Nice try, Divine Worm, but it’s not my first time seeing one of your avatars," Long Yi said with a smile.

"My god! It’s the deity himself! I am your most loyal servant! I am a God Chaser!" An utterly humble consciousness came from the other party. Long Yi curled his lip and then said, "You’re my servant? Prove it! Open up your consciousness!"

This was not Long Yi’s first deal with a Divine Worm, so he didn’t beat around the bush; getting information was most crucial. The other party immediately opened its consciousness, allowing Long Yi to inspect it. However, the worm had limited information. It had been trapped inside this metal tetrahedron all along until it was awakened a year ago. Yet, its kind did not grant it freedom upon awakening, instead, kept it sealed inside as the control core for the metal framework. The worm had very limited information, mostly involving fighting, survival, and self-destruction.

Luckily, Long Yi managed to glean a bit of useful information after all. Within the worm’s consciousness, he saw some buildings with a style characteristic of this plane, originating from that planet.

"The information you can provide is pitifully scarce," Long Yi said, shaking his head.

"But my loyalty remains unchanged! I am your most devoted subordinate! Great deity!" the worm said almost sycophantically, revealing its inherent cunning. It could feel the might of Long Yi’s divine status and believed that if given the slightest chance to infest, it would soon make the divine status its own!

That was the theory anyway.

Clearly, after experiencing a series of incidents involving Divine Worms in the lower planes, Long Yi had completely lost trust in such creatures. So even if this creature truly opened its consciousness for him to inspect, Long Yi would not believe in its loyalty.

"Very well, I see your loyalty, and I think it’s time you received a reward for it," Long Yi stated.

As he spoke, a bolt of golden lightning suddenly erupted from Long Yi’s hand!

"God Eater! No!"

The Divine Worm screamed in alarm, before it was instantly crushed and devoured by the snake game, but the red fluctuations remained. It was part of the Divine Soul, which Long Yi had previously obliterated along with the rest. However, since learning of its value as a Divine Soul, that part’s worth had suddenly become apparent.

After collecting those metals, Long Yi returned to the previous battlefield. The Leviathan worm crowd was still there, following Long Yi’s commands.

"All right now, hand over the tetrahedron inside you to me," Long Yi instructed.

The giant worms on the outside promptly moved aside, flinging out the black tetrahedron from within. Long Yi walked over, and the tetrahedron opened from the inside, spilling out transparent fluid, and still, there was a stranger inside.

"I need to read your consciousness," Long Yi declared.

"Yes, great one," the horde responded.

Long Yi then read their consciousness, and to his surprise, it was identical to that of the previous horde. He went on to read the consciousness of the giant worms that acted as muscles, only to find, sadly, that their enhanced strength resulted in very poor memory, barely forming coherent thoughts.

Indeed, the only useful information was still from the fragments of the Divine Worm.

Having collected the Leviathan worms and all the metallic fragments into his private space, Long Yi arrived above the former town hall. At this time, those who had taken refuge inside the town hall stood around the broken rooftop, gazing into the distance.

"It’s safe now," Long Yi declared as he descended.

"You saved us!" The mayor led the crowd, which knelt before Long Yi.

"Rise quickly, I didn’t come to save you on purpose, and there’s no need for such excitement," Long Yi hastened to help the elderly man up.

"Nevertheless, you saved our lives," the old man trembled all over.

"Well, even though that’s true, it’s not something you need to fuss over. However, I do have a few questions I want to ask," Long Yi said.

"Please go ahead and ask, we will spare no detail in what we know!" the old mayor assured.

"When did the creatures first appear?"

"About a year ago, I suppose?"

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"How many monsters were there at that time?"

"A lot! If not thousands, then at least several hundred! But the monsters at the beginning weren’t very strong, either they were defeated and self-destructed, or they fled. However, as time went on, there were more and more monsters, and their strength kept increasing."

"What happened later?"

"Later, the number of monsters began to decrease, but their strength kept increasing. Until recently, this kind of dragon-shaped monster appeared. It is enormously powerful, and nobody can match it."

"How many of these monsters are there?"

"Just one, I guess? I don’t know if it’s the same one appearing each time, but there’s only ever one."

The town elder looked back at the people around him, and they all nodded in agreement.

"What made it leave last time?" Long Yi asked.

"It doesn’t stay long each time it appears, about half an hour or so. It leaves on its own without any particular reason," the town elder said, and the others nodded again.

Half an hour?

That means this monster’s endurance is actually much lower than one would think. Think about it, the metal skeleton itself doesn’t have a power core or the like, and the amount of energy a rune array can store isn’t high; meanwhile, the Leviathan worm itself must consume a significant amount of energy just to maintain such a massive size. Considering these factors, it’s no wonder that the dragon-shaped monster can only sustain itself for about thirty minutes of activity.

"Seems like it’s on the same level as Ultraman," Long Yi scratched his head and said.

The people around him looked at each other with puzzled faces, completely not understanding what Long Yi was talking about.

"Town elder, what is Ultraman?" someone asked in a low voice.

"I don’t know either, but since Ultraman is on the same level as this monster, it must be very powerful, right?" the town elder said.

"The town elder is indeed wise," said the man.

Of course, Long Yi heard this conversation, but he wasn’t about to run over and explain it to them, so he let them speculate as they might.

"How often does this giant monster appear?" Long Yi continued to ask.

"Almost every day," said the town elder, "around this time each day, it would suddenly tear through space and appear in the city, actively pursuing everyone until it leaves after half an hour."

Long Yi looked up at the sky, nodded, and decided to wait.

"You better hurry and leave this place. I will wait here to see if I can catch another one tomorrow," Long Yi said.

"No! Sir! We won’t leave! We want to fight alongside you here!" said another, truly passionate and spirited.

"Don’t be foolish. Your presence here will only hold me back; you leaving now will save me the worry," Long Yi replied with a smile.

It’s important to be self-aware; if something is not within your capacity to do, you should honestly wait for others to do it. Enthusiasm isn’t always conducive to doing good deeds, and well-intentioned mistakes are even more frustrating. Long Yi himself disliked such situations, so he directly told them in the least friendly tone not to trouble him.

Hearing Long Yi say this, the town elder and the others had no choice but to leave. They thanked Long Yi repeatedly before quickly departing from the city.

Soon, Suolin returned.

"I have checked the entire planet, and all the cities have been destroyed. According to some survivors, those monsters always seem able to find living people. Whether hiding inside buildings or using magical barriers, nothing works. The survivors were either critically injured and close to death or not in the city at the time. At least to my knowledge, those who didn’t manage to leave were all killed," Suolin said.

"Clearly, their aim this time was not to capture, but to slaughter," Long Yi said.

"A very simple and brutal goal, and also very inefficient," Suolin remarked.

"Now let’s sort this out and see what exactly is going on here from beginning to end," Long Yi said.

First and foremost, this matter is definitely related to the Divine Worm.

Secondly, the timing of these events coincided precisely with my planned visit to the Middle Plane, which was also when I had just completely resolved the Dragon Clan’s issues. And naturally, the Dragon Clan’s problem was also an issue with a certain pseudo-god. So, in all likelihood, that scumbag located on Dragon Star is behind all this mischief.

However, both those black tetrahedrons and those metal skeletons represent an extremely advanced level of industrial technology, and definitely not something a minor nation could afford to play with. Any country capable of secretly manufacturing such equipment on this scale without being discovered must be at least a medium-strength nation.

Now, based only on the information provided by Ruosha and Isrile, Long Yi still couldn’t determine which country it was. Everything would have to wait until more information was gathered.

At the moment, Long Yi was waiting for the reappearance of those monsters. (To be continued. If you enjoy this work, you are welcome to vote for it at Qidian (qidian.com) with recommendation and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)