Chapter 685: Chapter 464 Mysterious Realm_2
However, now that the transference portal was open, Dong Tianyu didn’t need to do much. He took it easy and continued to lead, eager to see what the final outcome would be on this side.
As time passed, the Bronze Armored Puppets, which had been appearing as continuously as the Ironclad Puppets, gradually vanished. Following them, Silver-armored Puppets began to appear.
Looking at the newly emerged Silver-armored Puppets, Dong Tianyu couldn’t shake the feeling that this sequence was oddly familiar.
Sturdy black iron,
Gallant Bronze,
Indomitable silver,
Glorious gold,
Opulent platinum,
Gleaming jade,
Dazzling diamond.
Dong Tianyu now felt like he was back in an internet cafe before the calamity, playing ranking matches, except that what used to be a competitive game was now survival mode.
As Dong Tianyu had guessed, once the Silver-armored Puppets stopped appearing, the Golden-armored Puppets arrived as expected.
Even though the material of the puppets changed, the whole process and the final result remained the same.
Just as Dong Tianyu thought that after the Golden-armored Puppets, Platinum Puppets would appear, the entire Mysterious Realm suddenly changed. The stage where Dong Tianyu had been standing transformed into a gigantic octagonal cage, with Dong Tianyu himself in the center, and four enormous Metal Puppets positioned on four sides of the Octagonal Cage.
These four Metal Puppets were enlarged versions of the four kinds of Metal Puppets that had been entering the stage continuously. As the four tremendous Metal Puppets walked onto the stage, their huge bodies instantaneously shrunk to a size not much different from Dong Tianyu’s.
However, unlike the earlier unarmed Metal Puppets, each of these four Metal Puppets was holding a different weapon.
The Ironclad Puppet held a Double-Handed Axe,
The Copper Armored Puppet held an Eighteen-Foot Serpent Spear,
The Silver-armored Puppet wielded Double-Handed Swords,
The Golden-armored Puppet brandished Double-Handed Guns,
After surveying the weapons in the hands of these Metal Puppets, Dong Tianyu suddenly felt something out of place had been mixed in.
Upon reexamining the weapons in the Metal Puppets’ hands, Dong Tianyu saw that the Ironclad, Copper Armored, and Silver-armored Puppets were all holding melee weapons, which was normal. But the two guns in the hands of the Golden-armored Puppet, what kind of oddity was that?
They were all Puppet brothers, so why the sudden shift in style just because this guy picked up weapons? Was it simply because gold was pricier than other metals, and being wealthy meant you could flaunt it without regard?
These Metal Puppets entered battle mode the moment they shrunk and entered the Octagonal Cage.
Seeing the three Metal Puppets charging towards him, Dong Tianyu wasn’t too concerned. Under the observation of Divine Sense, none of the four Metal Puppets in the Octagonal Cage could block the erosion of his Divine Sense.
As the three Metal Puppets rapidly approached, they all suddenly fell in unison, sliding right to Dong Tianyu’s feet. Looking at the three Metal Puppets effortlessly subdued by him, Dong Tianyu couldn’t help but remark, ’Sometimes, combining Divine Sense with the Art of Controlling Objects can indeed yield good results in battle.’
The reason the three metal puppets slipped and fell was that Thomas, leveraging his Divine Sense, could observe every detail of the metal puppets’ body structure. Although Thomas couldn’t use his Divine Sense to directly destroy the core of the three puppets,
his Divine Sense, in conjunction with the Art of Controlling Objects, enabled him to instantly refine and destroy key components of the puppets’ bodies. That’s why these three puppets fell over during the surprise attack.
Under normal circumstances, the success rate of using Divine Sense to directly refine objects isn’t high, and it’s easy to damage the items being refined due to operational errors.
However, on the flip side, Thomas’s main purpose wasn’t actually to refine the components of the metal puppets, so there was no need to consume Divine Sense to focus on the refinement. All he had to do was to make a slight movement, refine with all his might, and then deliberately fail the refinement.
In that case, as long as the material of the object was ordinary and wasn’t specially protected by Thomas during the refinement, the chances of it being damaged upon a failed refinement were quite high.
The three puppets under Thomas’s feet were in this situation; he used this method to directly destroy the parts connecting the joints of the metal puppets, effectively ruining the three puppets.
At this time, the teleportation passage that was originally blocked behind the stage did not disappear along with the scenery surrounding the stage transforming into an octagonal cage, but instead stood firmly in its place.
Because of this, the bullets fired from the Golden-armored Puppet’s gun entered the Cave world without exception.
If it weren’t for the fact that the Golden-armored Puppet was a long-range combatant, it might have fallen into the trap and entered the Cave world while charging at Thomas.
After casually tossing the three metal puppets at his feet into the Cave world, Thomas quickly arrived behind the Golden-armored Puppet and, with a strong push, sent it into the teleportation passage as well.
The moment the Golden-armored Puppet was pushed into the Cave world by Thomas, the scenery around the octagonal cage shattered like glass, cracks appeared in the air, and then vanished rapidly.
Right then, the small raft in Thomas’s Sea of Consciousness, as if by instinct, urgently transmitted a message to Thomas, desiring to emerge from the Sea of Consciousness.
After sensing this, Thomas first tried to control the raft within the Sea of Consciousness and found that it couldn’t leave his Sea of Consciousness without his permission. The message transmitted by the raft was simply an instinctual one, akin to a living being’s hunger or thirst, and not a sign of the raft developing magical consciousness.
Only after confirming this did Thomas release the small raft from the Sea of Consciousness. The raft, upon emergence, sucked in the fragments produced by the environment’s shatter, much like a whale drawing in water.
As the small raft absorbed the essence of whatever was left from the surrounding shattered environment, Thomas noticed that the raft’s size began to grow substantially. The raft, which initially could only accommodate one person sitting cross-legged, expanded significantly after absorbing half the fragments produced by the shatter.
Although watertight, the bottom of the raft, which was once full of gaps, had become seamless, and its area expanded from less than about two square meters to nearly five square meters.
This was still because Thomas, to test his control over the small raft through multiple trials and with most of the surrounding environment already dissipated, had released the small raft from the Sea of Consciousness; had he released it earlier, the changes to the raft might have been even more significant.
Once the small raft had absorbed all the remnants of the shattered octagonal cage, Thomas found himself about ten meters above the water surface, and due to the barrier of the octagonal cage vanishing, he and the small raft were now in a state of free fall.
Thomas then swiftly teleported onto the raft, and shortly after, the raft crashed heavily into the water with Thomas on board.
When the raft hit the water, the splash spread out in all directions, and Thomas keenly noticed that even though the top surface of the raft plunged into the water below the level, the surrounding river water did not pour inside it, but rather quickly pushed the raft back up to the surface.
Seeing this, Thomas couldn’t help but speculate inwardly that despite the small raft’s rudimentary appearance and lack of special powers, it likely possessed the characteristic of not sinking in water.
The question was whether this characteristic was effective only in normal bodies of water or if it had miraculous effects in any body of water.
After noting this, Thomas finally had the chance to reflect on his recent experience entering the Mysterious Realm and then prepared to debrief while he had the time.
There was no need to review the combat process, as in any event, the whole affair should be considered an overwhelming victory.
What needed attention was that under normal circumstances, escaping from the Mysterious Ship’s Mysterious Realm required the destruction of the ship’s core, but as Thomas recalled the entire battle, he hadn’t actively destroyed the core of the Mysterious Ship—in fact, he hadn’t even seen where it was.
According to the information brought into the Sea of Consciousness via the third eye, unless the Mysterious Realm was harmed irreversibly, the Mysterious Ship’s generated Mysterious Realm could not be destroyed—without damaging the core.
