Find a Troubled Girl after leaving the Guild

Chapter 672 - 332: Destruction Battleship

And in the next moment, what lay within the door left him with no mind to ponder these things."Damn it, is this really the Empire’s plan?"

Surprise, even a momentary shock, cold sweat slightly soaking through the shirt clinging to his back.

Earlier, because of the reckless engagement by Demon’s Hand and Meluna, Li Ang was frustrated by the inability to keep the plan secret, but now he was even grateful that he had accelerated the plan.

Indeed, there could be no more waiting.

In the not-so-large storeroom, the surface of the Annihilator’s body, like flowing plaster, was extending out from an internal rift filled with a brilliant starry sky. It was because of this door that its absurdly large body could successfully place a part in the Material Dimension.

The starry scene within the Rift Gate is naturally the Magic Power Dimension. From the perspective of the Material Dimension, the powerful magic source and magic dimension life inside must be understood in the form of stars by life from this side of time, so at first glance, it’s a starry sky.

Jenoside’s body exists in the rift between dimensions. Through this Rift Gate, Li Ang could see the other rifts torn around it, which evidently led to twelve shipyards, no, more than twelve.

If the landscape of the Magic Power Dimension is a starry sky, then these Rift Gates are like nebulae surrounding Jenoside, whose true form is a cosmic giant beast with limbs to stir the nebula, or rather, a bizarre divine spirit beyond human intellect.

But resemblance aside, the Annihilation Star Soul has not yet reached such power.

Li Ang realized it hides within the Dimensional Rift, but its power could not pry too much between the material and magic power dimensions, as that could destabilize the world itself, a feat a single Star Soul should not accomplish.

The reason for tearing open so many Rift Gates is to place part of the body in the Material Dimension, reducing the occupied space of the rift area it holds open.

What occupies the rift area?

Imperial battleship.

The warships built by the twelve shipyards are directly dragged into the dimensional fissures from the shipyards’ Rift Gates, connected by its fluid body, becoming part of a greater entity.

The ship providers are not only the twelve shipyards, but others as well.

This gigantic entity, with its hundred-meter-long warships forming just a part of the final form, is so large that even an aircraft carrier would appear small by comparison.

"Those doors, could they lead to shipyards in the heart of the Empire?"

"Yes," Ivynis responded softly.

"We miscalculated slightly."

Li Ang tugged at his bangs, pulling his scalp till it hurt: "Initially, we thought the Empire was relying on warships, with the Annihilation Star Soul merely as a tool to facilitate warship construction, but in fact, they rely on the Annihilation Star Soul itself, the City of the Ship’s Rudder is merely a component producer."

Indeed, if discussing merely Imperial battleships, even with dozens, the Order Flower Sword Corps, having the strength of the Celestial Group, would not fear them. Just as Li Ang, without equipment, had crushed pursuers when fleeing Satus Island, the arrayed Order Knights could easily take them down.

Taking the entire City of the Ship’s Rudder as a base and hostage? Still underestimating them.

He swiftly turned to Ivynis. At this distance, separated by the Dimensional Rift, he couldn’t approach, unable to use the system to observe the forming massive entity.

"What’s inside there?"

Li Ang grasped Ivynis by the shoulders. At that moment, he had no time to consider the impropriety of the contact. His only thought was to clarify the situation, even if she had actively sought Li Ang out, there could be no possibility of her leaving his side.

"Could it be the Enlarged Star Soul?" Li Ang couldn’t wait and asked himself first.

The term came from Meimei’s narrative. In the current Nebis, saying it in public, aside from those truly aware of the world’s darkness, anyone else would find it a meaningless term because they don’t understand the significance behind it.

But Ivynis seemed to know many secrets related to Star Souls. Li Ang felt no need to hide the term from her. If he didn’t mention the Creation Wedge matters, and only spoke this word, if she didn’t know it wouldn’t impact anything.

However, Ivynis’s expression changed.

"Why would you know, Li Ang..."

"Because of certain special events, we also have some new information here."

Li Ang recalled Meimei’s tale of how, after the fall of the Water Dragon, demons brought the "End Sea Star Soul," like an ocean floating in the sky, capable of instantly overturning any Sky Island.

Meimei and her group were also uncertain how Enlarged Star Souls were produced, but it’s certain they are manufactured like ordinary Star Souls.

Upon seeing Jenoside, Li Ang’s first reaction was that it was in the process of transforming into some new form.

"Enlarged Star Souls are a contingency plan set by the creators of these children, a way to execute an ultimate form transformation when a weapon cannot properly complete its goals, at the cost of abandonment."

Li Ang nodded, roughly understanding this as a method to sacrifice oneself for a final confrontation.

The so-called "End Sea Star Soul" must also have been a Star Soul transformed. Who could it be? Perhaps Eden, also Water Attribute? It doesn’t seem so.

"The Empire, or the Eye of God, were they provoked by the incident at Mengze Island? Do they want to stake it all with Jenoside?" Li Ang asked.