Chapter 684: Chapter 464 Mysterious Realm
When Dong Tianyu forcefully threw the Iron Frame Puppet off the stage, it turned to ash in mid-flight as it crossed the boundary of the stage. Seeing this, Dong Tianyu immediately took out an iron ball from the Storage space and hurled it towards the audience seats in front of the stage.
With Dong Tianyu’s full force behind it, the iron ball flew at a speed comparable to a cannonball, emitting a piercing whistle as it soared through the air.
However, the seemingly powerful iron ball turned to ash just as it crossed the stage’s boundary, like the Iron Frame Puppet before it, dissipating at the edge of the stage.
Witnessing this, Dong Tianyu took out another iron ball and tossed it upwards above the stage. It was then that he noticed there was no ceiling above the stage; as the iron ball ascended higher and higher until it vanished from Dong Tianyu’s sight, it did not disintegrate like it had at the stage’s edge.
It seemed the barrier around the stage only prevented those standing at the center from leaving via the sides, but did not limit the height above the stage. This was the reason why during his first visit here, using Sword Control to stand in the air had not posed any danger.
Having learned from his first experience, Dong Tianyu also understood that the stage had the ability to fix bugs. If faced with someone peculiar like his first visit, who stayed in the air without coming down, then once the Ironclad Puppets occupied all the space on the stage, the person lingering in the air would be sent out of the Mysterious Realm just like Dong Tianyu had been on his first encounter.
As more and larger Ironclad Puppets appeared around him, Dong Tianyu simply took out a huge iron rod from the Storage space. At that moment, Dong Tianyu, with the iron rod in hand, resembled the character in a mini-game tasked with pushing all enemies off the stage—the condition for victory in his current battle.
Empowered by the iron rod, each swipe pushed more than a dozen Ironclad Puppets off the stage. Despite Dong Tianyu accelerating the pace at which he cleared the puppets, no matter how much he increased his swinging speed, the number of Ironclad Puppets on the stage kept growing.
Seeing the unending emergence of Ironclad Puppets from behind the stage, Dong Tianyu had a sudden brainwave and opened a teleportation channel to the Cave mansion right in front of him, then started tossing the Ironclad Puppets by his side into it.
The Ironclad Puppets, which had been quite lively on the stage, flopped on the ground like lumps of clay as soon as they were thrown into Zachary, motionless.
Seeing this, Dong Tianyu directly used the disassembly ability within Zachary to attempt dismantling the Ironclad Puppets, curious about what kind of loot he might obtain.
However, after dismantling the Ironclad Puppets, Dong Tianyu obtained nothing but various metals, with the least valuable, iron, constituting the bulk, along with some other colored metals.
Although the decomposition only yielded common metals, Dong Tianyu did not mind. Since these materials were essentially free, he went all out and expanded the teleportation channel to its maximum, entirely covering the space behind the stage.
This sly move by Dong Tianyu sent the newly appeared Ironclad Puppets straight into the teleportation channel, rendering his strategy, akin to the trick of "leading someone into the urn," effectively unsolvable for the moment unless the Ironclad Puppets changed their direction of appearance.
As the teleportation channel blocked the Ironclad Puppets’ path onto the stage, Dong Tianyu easily cast the remaining ones into Zachary. With the number of Ironclad Puppets on the stage dwindling, the frequency at which they appeared from behind the stage began to increase rapidly.
But no matter how fast the Ironclad Puppets appeared, once they stepped onto the stage, the teleportation channel swallowed each one like a bottomless pit, indiscriminately devouring them all.
Watching as piles of Ironclad Puppets accumulated in Zachary to the height of a small hill, Dong Tianyu willed it, and they were instantly dismantled into raw materials. Then, these materials were absorbed by the veins within Zachary, enriching the corresponding metal ore reserves in the veins.
After the same small mountain had appeared and disappeared three times in Zachary, the endless flow of Ironclad Puppets from behind the stage finally ceased, replaced by Copper Armored Puppets.
In fact, when the Copper Armored Puppets first appeared, Dong Tianyu didn’t pay much attention, as his focus was on observing the surroundings of the stage, seeking to quickly find the core of the Mysterious Realm.
It was only when Dong Tianyu felt it was about time to dismantle the mountain of Ironclad Puppets accumulated in the Cave mansion did he notice that the Ironclad Puppets only occupied a small part of the mound, with the vast majority being Copper Armored Puppets.
After this discovery, Dong Tianyu didn’t rush to dismantle them but instead meticulously observed the Copper Armored Puppets lying on the ground. Despite careful examination, he noticed no differences between them and the Ironclad Puppets apart from the material.
After dismantling the Copper Armored Puppets, Dong Tianyu found that except for the metals, which were different, there was not much else to differentiate them.
Though unsatisfied with the outcome, Dong Tianyu accepted the results; he had to follow the rules of this place if he didn’t want to be kicked out of the Mysterious Realm.
