Chapter 215: Abyssal energy is leaking in, Void Trial Rewards! Tier 4 Kingdom, Gold Ascension
The world was in complete disarray. Caelus saw the sky broken apart, the Origin Domain glitching heavily.
"What’s happening?" Sylvia’s voice came through the glitch. But he couldn’t make sense of any of it.
[The abyssal energy is leaking into the Origin Domain servers.]
"???" Caelus was stunned, seeing the message.
Abyssal energy?
"Hey, Origin Network. What is the meaning of this?" Caelus couldn’t help but ask.
"Please fix this immediately."
He might sound like a Karen right now, but he was genuinely terrified.
The invincible Origin Domain could actually be distorted like this?
It was simply unbelievable.
However, a few moments passed and the glitch disappeared. Reality joined back together. Sylvia finally caught sight of his silhouette and rushed to him.
Boom!
Then an energy wave spread out into the Origin Domain.
Caelus and Sylvia were surprisingly unaffected. But this wave was meant to wipe the other players’ memory of this incident.
This was not something these people should remember.
"What was that, Caelus?" Sylvia wore a stunned expression.
"It was the abyss." Caelus was still staring at the sky, holding Sylvia in his arms.
"Its energy leaked into the servers of the Domain just now."
Caelus’s heartbeat was quick. The moment he saw the energy and distortion, he felt a sense of powerlessness.
He knew not even Crown III was enough to reach this power.
But such was reality.
He sighed. He decided to do a Void Trial to distract himself from it.
The world distorted as he activated the Void Trial. Darkspawns began spawning in.
However, this time he didn’t blindly rush in. Instead, he took the time to analyze each and every darkspawn carefully.
They were evil and belonged to the Hollow King. But why did darkspawns spawn in with every Void Trial? That he could not understand.
Could they be outside the abyss, with the Origin Network being the thing saving everyone from their endless invasion?
He remembered when the darkspawns first invaded the planet. It was a few weeks ago, when the Azure Origin planet reached the Middle Expanse via the Space League.
It meant there was definitely an army out there that he wasn’t aware of.
But the fact remained. These things wouldn’t just listen to you or show common sense like an ordinary person.
Hence... there was only one thing to do.
He unleashed his telekinesis.
Power surged out from every part of him as he shot into the air.
Then he wove a net of telekinetic force across the whole sky.
Whenever a darkspawn fell from above, it dropped straight into his field and got crushed flat.
These silver level monsters could not handle his power.
They were at Tier 3 after all.
Soon, the Void Trial was cleared, and he obtained new rewards.
[Ding! You’ve achieved mythical grade evolution by eliminating 100% of the darkspawns.]
[You’ve obtained the following:]
[+1 Fairy in Fairy Garden]
[+1 Global Lord’s Blessing (???,???)]
[+5,000 Resource Points]
[Resource Points: 6,454 -> 11,454]
Seeing this, he claimed the daily resource point reward, making his total 12,104.
He believed this was a very good time to upgrade his kingdom to Tier 4.
But before that, it was time to make the people of his kingdom reach Gold.
He had 64 Origin Shards left.
There were also enough resources for Gold ascension, since he and Sylvia, along with the pillars, killed plenty of monsters.
He gave a short announcement and let them go through with it.
During this time, he decided to check out the chat.
[Jamal (Pikanet Energy Sustainment Kingdom): Strange. Have you guys sensed something off recently?]
[Stella (Mistwood Kingdom): Like?]
[Jamal (Pikanet Energy Sustainment Kingdom): I don’t know. I feel like something is wrong with the Middle Expanse. We are all from the same cluster too. But those with a flying ship might’ve already seen it. There’s a smokey area beyond our cluster. Some people from our planet went inside it recently, and we completely lost contact.]
[Stella (Mistwood Kingdom): There is such a thing?]
[Julian (Rosequartz Kingdom): My father is also missing. He went inside it too.]
Everyone was stunned seeing Julian’s message. He actually reads the chat?
Usually it was just him and his girlfriend having dirty talk, so this was surprising.
"A smokey area?" Caelus’s heart skipped a beat.
Could it be the abyssal energy?
What if the people who went in there never returned because they died to the abyssal energy corrosion?
It was very much possible.
Caelus, however, was not in the mood to join the conversation.
He had a bad feeling about all this.
Something made him uneasy, like he was the reason things like this were happening.
"What happened, Caelus?" Sylvia couldn’t help but ask.
"Nothing." Caelus shook his head. "I think we should go check out that area with Lyra and the others once we return to reality."
"If you say so." Sylvia nodded.
Soon, the players returned from their Gold ascension quest just before the Domain closed.
Caelus contacted Brenda, who was in the Tier 4 League, and asked her for Origin Merits and other things from the Solaris Kingdom. They all handed them over, and he swiftly began duplicating them.
He needed 60 and he got 63 in total from duplication.
The requirements here were 25 Golds, Level 4 cabins, and fully upgraded troops and defenses.
The requirement last time needed 100+ Bronze players. But now he needed Gold instead, and the amount was small, so it didn’t matter.
Once it reached Tier 4, he also used the Global Lord’s Blessing, which automatically upgraded everything to the max level.
With it, the day in the Domain came to an end.
He swiftly gathered everyone close to him.
Lyra, Mia, Seraphin Lin, and Jason from the Upper Expanse. All of them were called in for this.
He then quietly talked to them about what happened inside the Domain today.
"I have a feeling something bad is going to happen soon." Caelus said in a serious tone.
