ctnovel Chapter 4146 The Secret Deal
Chapter 4146 The Secret Deal
Chapter 4146 The Secret Deal
Not every eligible [Infinite Race] youth can enter the Pool of Inheritance... They only make up a very small portion.
Therefore, not many Infinite Race residents have actually seen the Microplanet.
The moment a large number of [Micro Stars] appeared, the first reaction of the city's residents was even... Could it be that the [Limited Race] has attacked?
Is this a new type of weapon developed by the [Extreme Clan]?
"Look! The Guardians are on the move!"
"Thank goodness, everything's alright now!"
"We still have to hide..."
Above the surrounding city walls, one after another [Godslayer Armor] began to soar into the sky... The residents of the city had never seen them before, but the guardians were very familiar with them.
"We absolutely cannot allow any Microplanet to enter the city. Protect our home!"
"What on earth is going on at the temple...?"
"Stop talking nonsense... Everyone, give it your all!"
But today is Awakening Day, so the main fighting force of the Guardians is deployed on the border to prevent the invasion of the [Limited Race]. There are not many Guardians left to guard the [Infinite] City.
The situation is not optimistic.
……
Inside the temple.
“How could this be…” Bishop Lockhart was extremely anxious.
He is over seventy years old this year, almost reaching the lifespan limit of the [Infinite Race]... He entered the temple as a priest when he was a teenager and worked his way up to the position of bishop, but he had never seen such a sight before.
"Quickly, the clergy force should also attack immediately!"
"Harnett, I order you to immediately shut down the portal. We cannot allow any more [MSI] to appear!"
Bishop Lockhart's almost roaring voice echoed in the hall.
"No!" Lucia exclaimed immediately upon hearing this, "Raphael and [Li Long] haven't come out yet, we absolutely cannot close the passage now!"
“Lucia, mind your place!” Bishop Lockhart’s face immediately darkened. “The City of Infinity is facing a crisis right now. Don’t let your personal emotions cloud your judgment!”
Lucia pondered, "Those qualified members of the [Infinite Race] are no longer important? And Tristan, is he no longer important either?"
“This is a different situation,” Bishop Lockhart shook his head.
Lucia said in a deep voice, "I don't think His Excellency the Bishop should make a decision without going through Lord Gulev."
Bishop Lockhart's expression changed slightly, and he quickly looked at the young man on the throne. "Lord Gulev, as you know, I did all this for the sake of the City of Infinity... The arrival of the Microstar in the city is too dangerous; this has never happened before, and we can't afford to gamble..."
Gulev raised his hand to stop Lockhart from speaking. "Lucia, go in and take a look. Bring everyone back as soon as you can."
"Lord Gulev!" Bishop Lockhart exclaimed anxiously.
Gulev shook his head. "The City of Infinity has stood for so long, it won't be easily conquered. We must trust our guardians... Moreover, we must find out what happened in the Pool of Inheritance. Lockhart, the defense is in your hands."
Bishop Lockhart paused for a moment, "Lord Gulev, what's going on?"
“I will go with Lucia.”
……
"There's no time to lose, I'll go in with Lord Gulev right away."
Outside the temple, Lucia directly summoned her first-generation [God Slayer Armor: Starlight].
"Be careful, don't expose yourself."
Lucia and Miss Nan exchanged a quick glance... but Miss Nan already knew what had happened in the Pool of Inheritance—the moment the passage opened, she had reconnected with her clone consciousness.
The good news is that this incident was indeed related to the unruly child.
The bad news is that she... or rather her clone, has been passively involved, and even became the culprit who destroyed the teleportation device over there.
"Isn't this just making a scene..."
Miss Nan sighed, her gaze fixed warily on the direction of the passage—even if Lucia hadn't said anything, she had actually planned to go along anyway, since her clone's consciousness was already there.
【Godslayer Armor - Starlight】At this moment, traveling with Gulev, they instantly took to the air and quickly turned into two small points of light... Miss Nan suddenly frowned.
Because she discovered that the representative of the royal family association, Ferreci, seemed to have disappeared.
"Hmm? That sprightly old bishop seems to have disappeared as well?"
Miss Nan glanced around suspiciously... taking advantage of everyone's attention being drawn to the defensive battlefield in the sky, she quietly hid herself.
……
……
[Infinity] Temple... In an empty room of the temple.
Bishop Lockhart frowned, looking at the smiling Ferrece. "Did you orchestrate this whole thing?"
“I was surprised too.” Ferrece, with his ever-amiable demeanor, smiled even more broadly. “But don’t you think this is a great opportunity?”
"It really wasn't you?" Bishop Lockhart asked with a look of doubt.
Ferreche said, “I’ve been right in front of you and Gurev the whole time. What could I do? Listen, Lockhart, Gurev has left the temple, and [Microstar] is invading the city of [Infinity]…”
“I haven’t agreed to your request yet!” Bishop Lockhart’s voice turned serious.
Ferrece said, "It's not always me leading the team. If you miss this time, it might be a long time before we meet again... I have no problem with that, but I don't know if you can wait until next time. After all, you're not young anymore."
"Damn it!!"
Bishop Lockhart suddenly revealed a ferocious expression. Perhaps due to excessive excitement, the bishop immediately covered his mouth with a handkerchief and coughed repeatedly.
Bloodstains began to spread on the handkerchief.
Ferreche said calmly, "Lockhart, it seems your body is in worse shape than I imagined. Are you really going to persist? You've dedicated your entire life to this godforsaken place, but what have you gained? From birth, you've been forced to fight against the Limitless Race, and you'll be confined to this tiny world for the rest of your life... You haven't even seen the brilliance of the stars, have you?"
Bishop Lockhart coughed even more violently, looking as if he was about to cough up his lungs.
His hands trembled as he took out a bottle, frantically grabbed a handful of pills, and stuffed them directly into his mouth... The pills took effect quickly, and his cough stopped.
A resolute glint flashed in Bishop Lockhart's eyes. "You...can you really do it?"
Ferrece said in a low voice, "To be honest with you, you're not actually the first one."
"What?!" Lockhart's expression changed drastically. "Who is it?!"
“That’s up to you.” Flecce narrowed his eyes. “Lockhart, unless you can become one of us.”
Bishop Lockhart remained silent... Could it be that he really had to betray the temple, betray the City of Infinity, betray Tania... his own homeland?
"What kind of homeland is this?" As if he had seen through Bishop Lockhart's thoughts, Ferrece said mockingly, "The outside is your true homeland. The so-called separation of the upper and lower layers [scientific side] is just a way for you to glorify yourselves... You should say you escaped, and in the end, you trapped yourself to death in such a barren world."
"No need to say anything more!" Lockhart gritted his teeth. "I promise you... but I have to leave this time!"
Ferreche frowned, realizing he had underestimated the other party's eagerness.
Bishop Lockhart, however, seemed to have already made up his mind. "You're right. This is indeed a very good opportunity. With the invasion of [Microplanet], no one knows what will happen next. It's actually quite suitable for me to 'die' in this disaster..."
“You can’t just leave like this.” Flecce shook his head.
Bishop Lockhart stared intently at the other man. "Rest assured, I will bring all the [knowledge] I can acquire!"
“You won’t regret this decision,” Ferrece said with a smile.
Lockhart's complexion, perhaps due to the medication, began to regain its rosy hue, and he calmed down. "I can't be away for too long. I'll find an opportunity to access the [Knowledge Base], but I can only access a limited portion. Gulev is the administrator of the [Knowledge Base]. Also, your people need to cooperate with me..."
"Of course."
Shortly afterward, the two left the empty room one after the other.
……
A wisp of gray mist quietly gathered, watching the figure of Bishop Lockhart following behind, lost in thought.
"I knew it! How could someone be a subservient grandson their whole life? This is exactly what I wanted!"
"The knowledge of the Infinite Race..."
The condensed figure dispersed again, turning into gray mist, which then faded away.
……
Inside the temple, all the clergy had been mobilized. Bishop Lockhart easily penetrated into the forbidden area of the temple, into the treasury containing all the knowledge crystals of the Infinite Race.
Miss Nan did not follow them inside... This storage room was specially made, and she simply couldn't get through it—and there were several scanning barriers at the entrance.
The eye-shaped metal spheres embedded above the door of the storage room contain terrifying energy reactions... and there's more than one.
But she didn't have to wait long. Bishop Lockhart soon emerged from the storage room—and in his arms was a pale green, transparent crystal about the size of a brick.
Miss Nan narrowed her eyes and did not make a move for the time being... After Bishop Lockhart left, she reappeared and suddenly squatted down in the distance from the door of the storage room, placing her palm on the floor.
The brilliance of the [Star Creation] technique transformed into dozens of straight streams of light, spreading rapidly toward the door of the storage room like circuit boards.
In an instant, the golden eyeballs on the door of the storage room flew out one by one and gathered together to form a rotating ring, with all the pupils converging on Miss Nan at the same time.
The next moment, Miss Nan's expression changed drastically. She quickly let go and retreated frantically—her hand had been silently wiped away!
"What the heck... logic erasure?"
Miss Nan broke out in a cold sweat. It seemed that the Golden race of the Old God-level [Science Side] truly possessed extraordinary abilities; no wonder they could directly dismantle the entire [Science Side]...
However, this also shows the extent of the decline of the [Infinite Race]... they've become like primitive people.
……
"Miss Nan...where did you go?"
All they knew was that this Miss Nan was someone close to Prince Raphael—one of Princess Lucia's combat officers.
Miss Nan said calmly, "I took care of my physiological needs."
"...Please don't wander around!" The lady-in-waiting frowned. "This is ancestral land, even if you are Prince Raphael's tutor! Otherwise, we cannot explain this to the Princess!"
Miss Nan waved her hand, noticing that Ferreche had already gathered a group of guards and was about to go to support the Guardian Force.
"Listen, you must help protect the City of Infinity; it is our responsibility!"
at the same time.
Bishop Lockhart, meanwhile, had removed his bishop's robes, donned a peculiar combat suit, and boarded a red-glowing [Godslayer Armor].
"Your Grace, no! Your body..."
"As the bishop of the temple, I should be at the forefront!" Bishop Lockhart declared resolutely. "How can I hide at a time like this! Enough talk! Follow me to meet the enemy!"
"We swear to follow His Excellency the Bishop to the death!"
Outside the temple, morale instantly reached its peak because of the bishop's actions.
—Those two old bastards, they're actually pretty good at pretending…
Miss Nan withdrew her gaze. "Do you have any news about your eldest princess?"
"The eldest princess has entered the passage... There's been no news yet."
"Oh, then let's find a safe place to hide..." Miss Nan nodded.
The ladies-in-waiting looked at each other, but none of them objected.
At the same time, four unfamiliar [God-Slaying Armors] quietly appeared from a corner of the temple and then entered the battlefield in the sky, coordinating perfectly.
"Mommy said to add more marks while we're at it..."
"Okay! Sneak in, no shooting!"
"Keep an eye on them!"
"I'll go keep an eye on Bishop Lockhart..."
……
……
"Look! The passage... the passage has opened!"
A honeycomb-like cross-section unfolds above the gray deep sea... Through that enormous cross-section, the crowd can vaguely see the reflection of that ancient city of "Infinity"!
The two spaces are connected by a passageway and are inverted relative to each other!
Tristan was overjoyed. "Don't linger! The temple has reopened its passages. Everyone, assemble with me as soon as possible!"
Tristan was still bearing most of the attacks from the [Micro Star]... Numerous marks floated around the [Godslayer Armor - Battle Axe], and he couldn't even spare the time to collect them.
In truth, collecting these marks was useless to him... His emblems could no longer improve; absorbing them would at most only replenish what he had consumed.
After the young royal failed to fuse with the star, the remaining royal candidates abandoned their plans to fuse on-site and headed towards Tristan.
Seeing the passage reopen, Li Long couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
He subconsciously searched for traces of [Wild]... He had given him that [Heroic Mech], and he quickly located it.
At this moment, [Wild] was piloting the [Heroic Mech], leading a large group of [Microstars] around the island... The number of [Microstars] being led around was astonishing.
"This guy..."
Li Long was slightly startled, realizing that the child's piloting skills were ridiculously proficient, even fully utilizing the performance of the Hero Mech.
Where did Father get this guy who awakened the fourth stage of the royal crest?
Even he, after feeding into the Pool of Inheritance so many times, has only reached the third stage—just then, on the [Power Warrior]'s detector, a point of light is approaching at an extremely fast speed!
Li Long suddenly looked up!
A beam of starlight fell from the passageway!
"[Starlight]? It's Auntie!"
Lucia's face popped up on the screen instantly. "Li Long, take the men and leave first! The passage needs to be closed immediately. [Microstar] has begun invading [Infinity] City."
"it is good!"
Li Long nodded.
The armor on the [Godslayer Armor - Starlight] began to explode, spewing out a blue storm. Two huge mirrors simultaneously unfolded beneath the sky and above the sea!
The mirror-like surface under the sky shimmered, and hundreds and thousands of beams of light shot out from it in an instant—when the beams of light fell on the mirror surface on the sea level, they were immediately refracted!
Dense beams of light bounced back and forth between the two mirrors, causing the micro-stars around the island to fall one after another!
Tristan's pressure was immediately relieved by more than half.
"Lucia... As expected, for group battles, it has to be [Starlight]!" Tristan's spirits instantly lifted, and he began to command the [Infinite Race] youths to gather together.
Suddenly, Tristan's expression changed slightly.
He caught a glimpse of a figure not far from [Starlight]!
"Lord Gulev? He's actually here..."
In mid-air, Gulev was covered by a blue light shield, his gaze fixed on the distant deep sea, his expression becoming solemn.
On the distant horizon, a towering "giant wave" was surging wildly in!
"It's not a giant wave, that's... [MSI]!"
"How can there be such a massive cluster of microplanetary stars?!"
Everyone gasped instantly!
Countless micro-stars transformed into a gigantic wave, including some as large as starships... This number far exceeded the micro-stars that had besieged the island by more than a hundred times!
"Wait...they seem to be fleeing?"
[Li Long] suddenly shuddered, and [Quan Doushi]'s perspective immediately zoomed in, instantly passing behind the giant wave of [Micro Star]!
He subconsciously swallowed.
In the gray depths of the sea after the giant wave, something is rising from the seabed... At first, it was just a small black dot, but in the next moment, the small black dot instantly turned into the size of a small island!
The next moment, it was as if an entire mountain range appeared!
boom!
boom!
boom!!
The seawater became turbulent, and a colossal black shadow appeared behind the giant wave of the [Micro Star]—it was still growing!
It emerged from the deep sea.
Thunderclouds suddenly gathered, the deep sea parted in an instant, revealing the seabed, and the giant wave of the [Micro Star] was torn apart in an instant... and it was still growing!
Even the screen of the [Power Fighter] could not fully reflect its entirety at this moment!
In the scene with Exusiai, Raphael felt a chill run down his spine. "Mama Nan, what... what is this... a... a turtle?!"
The turtle's back was as vast as a mountain, its patterns interwoven like rivers and mountains. With a single step, the giant waves of the [Micro Star] were instantly crushed.
Raphael felt so small at that moment...like a speck of dust!
In the air, Gurev's lips moved slightly, "[Doomsday]..."
roar--!!!!
The colossal tortoise roared with its head held high. It didn't need any power; the sound waves and air currents generated by its roar alone caused the micro-stars above the sea to explode!
A green light barrier instantly unfolded from Gulev's palm, blocking the terrifying sound wave—even so, under the sound, the royal family and the qualified members of the [Infinite Race] still clutched their heads and groaned in pain!
Amidst the giant tortoise's roar, something suddenly spewed from its mouth, hurtling towards the island like a cannonball.
It was Justin!
at the same time.
A figure suddenly rushed towards the passage in the sky—it was the [Hero Mech] piloted by [Wild]!
On the small island, the pearl nanmu suddenly floated out, dumbfounded.
"Miss Nan, I suddenly remembered something urgent, could you hold my place for a bit?"
The extremely irresponsible voice of the young master suddenly rang in Pearl Nan's ears.
"???"
—What the hell am I going to use to cover this up...?