Chapter 709: Chapter 476: Recruitment
Zachary waited for about an hour before opening the spatial gate again, wanting to check the results of the battle.
When Zachary saw that not only was there no sign of damage to the manor, but it was also as good as new, he didn’t feel upset but was actually very pleased.
After all, he wasn’t foolish. He had thrown so many fuel barrels into the manor himself, and if the manor had been left in a sorry state after the explosion, that would have been normal.
If there had only been that little damage, Zachary might even hesitate about whether it was necessary to proceed with the next step.
But the manor did not look like it had been damaged at all—what did that imply?
The manor at this point was like a computer. If it could still be saved, the owner would try all sorts of methods, but once they discovered there was no other way to fix it, most people would choose to restart.
The manor at this point was like that virus-infected computer. The destruction Zachary caused earlier had reached a level that was very difficult to remedy, so the Mysterious Realm was like a computer rebooting, restoring itself to its pre-destruction state.
At this point, what came next was quite simple. Hiding in the Cave, Zachary once again deployed one-tenth of the fuel barrels from the Storage Space.
Still, at the instant the spatial gate was closed, he used the Hand Grenade to ignite it again.
This approach of flipping the table was repeated three times in a row. After waiting for the fourth time to end, Zachary once again opened the spatial gate to observe the outside, and upon seeing the devastated, unrepaired manor, he finally relaxed.
However, Zachary didn’t leave the Cave just yet, but sent out more fuel barrels a final time. After using up over half of the fuel barrels in the Storage Space, the manor in the Mysterious Realm had completely vanished.
As Zachary looked at the empty Mysterious Realm, seeing the occasional cracks appearing and disappearing on the walls of the surrounding space, he confidently stepped out from the Cave.
At this moment, being in the Mysterious Realm, Zachary no longer felt his Cultivation Level being suppressed. He spread out his Divine Sense and easily found the Mysterious Core hidden in a corner.
It wasn’t until Zachary picked up the Mysterious Core in his hand that he noticed its surface was similar to the surrounding spatial walls—covered in faint, numerous cracks, giving the impression that it might shatter at any moment.
Seeing this, Zachary didn’t wait any longer and immediately pulled the Jade Ship from his Sea of Consciousness. The Jade Ship then directly absorbed the Mysterious Core.
The moment the Mysterious Core was completely absorbed by the Jade Ship, the Mysterious Realm that had trapped Zachary also disappeared instantaneously, and he reemerged on the waterborne platform standing on the Jade Ship.
Although Zachary eventually passed through this Mysterious Realm, it had taught him a harsh lesson.
Zachary, who originally thought no Mysterious Realm could harm him, now realized that if he hadn’t fortuitously retreated into the Cave, he really might have unknowingly sunk into this Mysterious Realm.
However, this experience in the Mysterious Realm successfully served as a wakeup call for Zachary, telling him that if he continued to be so careless in future realms, there really was a possibility of everything going awry.
As Zachary lay back on the Jade Ship, reflecting on this experience, he was slowly approaching a massive entity in the distance.
Not knowing if the other party had spotted him, they slightly altered their course, gradually steering in Zachary’s direction.
Somewhat exhausted from just having come out of the Mysterious Realm, Zachary had not been maintaining the broadest scan range of his Divine Sense, and lying back on the Jade Ship, he couldn’t see the massive form in the distance.
When the great entity came within a certain range of the Jade Ship, the waves stirred by its movement finally alerted Zachary. By the time he got up to take a look, the entity was less than ten nautical miles away.
Truth be told, prior to the calamity, ten nautical miles would have been considered quite a distance, with one nautical mile being approximately 1.8 kilometers, so ten nautical miles would be almost twenty kilometers.
That distance, before the calamity, would have required some driving on the highway to cover by car, not to mention on water.
But once the survivors began to cultivate, and the average Cultivation Level kept rising, that distance became insignificant for a Martial Artist.
Luckily it was on water now, and even if a Martial Artist’s Cultivation Level was high, their swimming speed wouldn’t necessarily be much faster than a motorboat.
Just as Zachary thought that the other party hadn’t noticed him and was simply passing by, suddenly a small boat emerged from that massive entity and sped towards Zachary.
Watching the other party speed over in a motorboat, Zachary wasn’t scared. Looking at the massive entity, though he hadn’t seen the real thing, he could guess that it was probably a waterborne platform built by the Imperial Court.
While he was unsure about the situation in other countries, Zachary surmised that probably only China, having the strength and the will, would bother to build a waterborne platform capable of accommodating more people.
Zachary just wasn’t sure which city had built this particular waterborne platform since, aside from Tianjin, with the knowledge of the impending flood, other coastal and some inland cities began to join forces to construct waterborne platforms.
