Chapter 562 - 238: Intelligent Mechanization Transformation! Steamrolling the Sigma Ruins
Chapter 562: Chapter 238: Intelligent Mechanization Transformation! Steamrolling the Sigma Ruins
Not until night fell once more.
Lin Ye stood in his room, looking out the window at the lights of the city below. His gaze gradually deepened.
Moments of peace were always fleeting.
It was time to tie up some loose ends.
With a thought.
[Castling]!
He vanished from the room in an instant. The next moment, he appeared inside the cold, desolate Soul Sacrifice Hall.
Atop the throne, Ah Qiang jerked up his massive skull. The soul-fire in his empty eye sockets flared violently.
"Master!"
"The passage. Have you found it?"
Lin Ye cut straight to the chase.
Ah Qiang rose from his throne and answered respectfully, "Master, the passages to the deeper levels have almost all been sealed by those damned members of the Intelligent Mechanism Race with a high-energy alloy."
"However, thanks to my familiarity with the tunnel structure below, I was able to find a weak point."
"We just need to dig down about sixty meters and break through the alloy shell there. Then we can enter the ruin’s tunnels below!"
"Take me there."
Lin Ye’s reply was succinct.
"Yes!"
Ah Qiang immediately gave an order, and the nearest Curse Bone Race minion transmitted the location information directly to Lin Ye via Soul Link.
In a flash of light, Lin Ye vanished again.
He reappeared inside a massive underground cavern.
He saw that Ah Qiang had already dispatched tens of thousands of minions. Like industrious worker ants, they were frantically digging at the ground. The entire cavern floor was being excavated, and the air was filled with the roar of digging and swirling dust.
"Everyone, pull out."
Lin Ye said calmly.
His voice wasn’t loud, yet it clearly reached the ears of every minion.
The din of digging came to an abrupt halt.
All the Curse Bone Race soldiers froze, looking at Lin Ye in confusion.
"There’s no need to go to all this trouble."
Lin Ye slowly raised his hand, and the pitch-black spear, Dark Night, quietly appeared in his grasp.
Soon, all the minions, including Ah Qiang, had retreated back to the cavern floor.
As everyone watched in astonishment,
Lin Ye’s aura erupted!
A deep, dark sheen, as if tempered over countless eons, instantly covered his entire body. Upon it, profound and mysterious light-colored battle markings shimmered faintly.
A terrifying pressure, as if from a primordial, savage era, swept through the entire underground cavern!
The soul-fire in Ah Qiang’s eye sockets contracted violently from utter shock!
’Master... he’s grown stronger again!’
’And not just by a little bit!’
’This aura... it’s more than ten times stronger than it was a dozen or so days ago!’
Lin Ye paid no mind to his subordinate’s shock. He gripped Dark Night with both hands, aimed its tip at the core of the marked weak point below, and thrust downward with sudden force.
BOOM—!!!
With the spear tip as the epicenter, the hard rock layer was instantly pierced as if it were made of butter.
A shockwave erupted outward.
The ground shook violently.
It was as if the entire Painful Labyrinth had been struck by a magnitude seven or eight earthquake!
In its wake, a crater over a hundred meters in diameter appeared, as if from a meteorite impact.
In a single instant, Lin Ye’s attack had obliterated twenty to thirty meters of bedrock.
The super-alloy layer below, glinting with a metallic sheen, was revealed for a mere moment before being torn asunder by the irresistible force, offering no resistance at all.
And just like that, a massive hole over ten meters in diameter appeared before them, leading straight into the alloy conduit deep below.
The violent aftershocks of energy radiated outward, making the entire cavern tremble. Countless bits of rubble rained down from the ceiling.
Lin Ye stood, withdrawing his spear as the terrifying aura around him slowly receded.
He glanced at the deep chasm, and without the slightest hesitation, leaped inside.
In the blink of an eye, he was deep within the underground alloy conduit.
Inside the conduit, it was cold and deathly silent.
Faint blue energy lines flickered across the walls, exuding a cold, technological feel.
Lin Ye flew through the conduit at high speed, spreading his Spiritual Power in all directions.
He quickly discovered that the conduit’s structure was far more complex than he had imagined. It was a sprawling network of countless forks and passages, like a gigantic ant nest.
A realization dawned on him.
The entire structure of the upper levels of the Painful Labyrinth had been modeled after the environment within these Sigma Ruins.
This level was, in its own way, another labyrinth—one even larger and more dangerous.
Ah Qiang’s voice echoed in his mind via soul transmission: "Master! I’m leading the army in after you!"
"Don’t."
Lin Ye refused flatly.
"Just bring in some of the more agile and mobile units to help me scout. Don’t mobilize the entire army."
He hadn’t forgotten the System’s previous warning.
The overall danger of the Sigma Ruins far exceeded that of the upper-level labyrinth.
He didn’t want the Undead Army he had worked so hard to build to be wiped out here.
"Yes, Master!"
As he traversed the complex conduits, Lin Ye commanded Ah Qiang, "Tell me everything you know about the Intelligent Mechanism Race and these ruins."
Soon, a steady stream of information from Ah Qiang’s report began to flow into his mind via Soul Link.
"Master, based on my observations over the past millennium, this planet’s core cooled long ago. It was then completely transformed by the Intelligent Mechanism Race. What lies beneath our feet is, in fact, an impossibly vast ruin built by their race."
"Those members of the Intelligent Mechanism Race are numerous, but I suspect they may all be controlled by a single consciousness, forming a massive hive-mind collective."