Chapter 1511: Chapter 1509: The Answer Lies Ahead
"I won’t regret it, I didn’t regret it before, I won’t regret it now, and I certainly won’t regret it in the future." Richard said to Rachel, "As for you, you should regret."
"I should regret? Rachel asked, puzzled, "Why?"
"It’s simple, because you appeared in front of me." Richard replied.
With those words, he extended his hand, and an invisible pressure surged towards Rachel, like gigantic waves rising from the ocean during a storm.
Rachel’s face changed suddenly, and he raised his hands to meet the pressure. Purple lightning sprang from his palms, and his entire body was enveloped by a layer of cyan energy. He could clearly sense Richard’s power and danger, but he believed he still had a chance to defend himself.
However, in the next moment, the world timeline seemed to skip a beat, with several seconds suddenly cut out, the process abstracted, directly reaching the result.
Hence, in just a blink, the scene underwent a surprising transformation.
There were no ripples of battle, not even a battle itself. One moment Richard was in front of Rachel, the next he was behind Rachel, with one hand placed on Rachel’s shoulder.
The cyan energy surrounding Rachel dissipated instantly, the purple lightning in his hand vanished along with it. Rachel struggled to turn his neck, like a rusty robot, attempting to look at Richard’s face.
But he only managed to turn halfway before his entire body shattered with a "whirl" into the air, disappearing like foam, leaving only a wisp of golden mist behind.
"I told you, you would regret it." Richard said casually, extending his hand as though grabbing a ribbon, he caught the golden mist. Speaking to the mist, he continued, "But to be fair, I should thank you, for it’s your arrival that provided the information I needed to know the most opportune time to reach Heaven."
With these words, the golden mist merged into Richard’s body. He closed his eyes, and after a few seconds, opened them, whispering with some enlightenment, "Seven days later? Okay, then seven days later..."
...
In the blink of an eye, it’s seven days later.
The Four Mountains construction site.
The workers and management had already completely withdrawn, with only Richard remaining at the site. Richard stood at the center of the construction site, squinting at the massive metal constructs like small mountains, as if waiting for something.
It wasn’t just Richard waiting.
On the outskirts of the construction site, there were many people standing and watching, and there were familiar faces among them.
People like Emerson, Osheimar, Lorentz, Gro, Nancy, Annie, and even the non-human presence Witch Demon Elder Ah Fu, as well as many engineers, academic wizards, and soldiers, who had either directly or indirectly participated in the construction of the Four Mountains site and had earned the privilege to witness the occasion.
After all, even if they were never allowed to know what they had been building, at the very least they’d find out how it was going to be used.
Various other unique and oddly-shaped entities were also waiting, but they were positioned further away.
Eight-Armed Skeleton Anan was sitting atop a tall tree watching, after waiting for a long time and seeming somewhat impatient, he began scratching the branches with his bony fingers.
"Scratch, scratch, scratch..."
Once, twice, thrice...
After three scratches, the trunk twisted, and a face emerged from it. Tin Wood glared fiercely at Eight-Armed Skeleton Anan and said rather unkindly, "Bone structure, I warn you, if you continue to fidget, I’ll throw you down."
The ghost fire in the eye sockets of the Eight-Armed Skeleton burned calmly, seemingly indifferent, but his small movements indeed ceased next.
"Hmm..." Tin Wood grunted a few times, the face on the tree trunk disappeared, restoring tranquility.
As tranquility settled there, unrest stirred elsewhere.
In the crowd, Gro murmured in complaint, "When will this start? I’ve come all this way from the solidification factory, and they don’t even give a precise start time—isn’t that excessive?"
"Shut it and just wait." Nancy retorted sharply.
"I..." Gro was slightly annoyed, fearlessly meeting Nancy’s gaze, "I’ll wait then!"
Nancy was slightly startled, rolled her eyes dramatically, and turned her head back.
Gro wore an expression of victory.
At this moment, the Witch Demon Elder suddenly spoke, "It’s starting."
At once, everyone directed their attention towards the construction site.
They saw four massive mechanical constructs, with their outer layers of magic runes suddenly beginning to light up in rings, and internal rumblings arising as a clear sign of commencement.
Not far from there, in the underground command room.
Bi Bi reported, "All four devices have safely started."
"Good." Pandora nodded, then issued a new directive, "Begin self-check."
"Yes." The assistants in the command room responded, operating a line of instruments.
A moment later, Bi Bi reported again, "Self-check complete, everything’s normal."
"Then let’s proceed according to the planned protocol, start the countdown." Pandora ordered.
"Yes." The assistants in the command room responded once more.
...
"Nine, eight, seven..."
Within the Four Mountains site, the four gigantic metal constructs, with their exterior magic runes fully illuminated, their internal rumblings growing colossal, like thunder.
"Six, five, four..."
A terrifying energy reaction birthed within the metallic constructs, with a small portion leaking into the air, generating dense arcs, crackling non-stop.
"Three, two, one... Power activated!"
"Whoosh!"
Furious energy flames suddenly erupted from the bases of the four gigantic metal constructs, generating immense thrust, lifting the constructs slowly from the ground and upwards, accelerating continuously.
One hundred meters, two hundred meters, three hundred meters...
Five hundred meters, one thousand meters, one thousand five hundred meters...
Everyone gradually transitioned from a level sight to an upward gaze, watching as the four metallic constructs transformed into four black dots, disappearing into the high skies.
At the same moment the four metallic constructs vanished into the high skies, Richard at the construction site rapidly became transparent, fading away, disappearing altogether.
...
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"
Pushed by the energy flames at their bases, the four metallic constructs ascended higher and higher, eventually penetrating the dense atmosphere, reaching the endless void beyond.
At this point, a spatial ripple occurred, and Richard appeared around them.
Upon appearing, Richard gently touched his ear with a finger, immediately receiving a succession of information.
"Exploration One is already in position."
"Exploration No.2 is already in position."
"Exploration No.3 is already in position."
"Exploration No.4 is already in position."
"Equipment is fully positioned, awaiting the next instruction."
After receiving the information, Richard didn’t rush to act. He quietly floated beside the four metallic constructs, closing his eyes to rest as a precise timer ticked away in his mind.
As the timer approached the preset time in his mind, Richard suddenly opened his eyes, lightly tapping his temple.
"Begin ten-second countdown!" The command followed.
"Ten-second countdown initiated!" Came the reply.
"Ten, nine, eight, seven... three, two, one... Commence breakthrough!"
"Boom!"
The tops of the four metallic constructs suddenly opened, shooting out light beams with diameters of tens of meters. These beams were the energy released from four large-scale controllable nuclear fusion furnaces, powerful enough to make the entire world tremble, concentrated into a single point, fiercely hitting the void a few hundred meters ahead.
Maintaining this state for a dozen seconds, the void in front showed dense ripples, followed by tremors, a distinct space hole emerged, and faint golden rays seeped through it.
Breakthrough successful!
Richard, upon seeing this, raised his eyebrows and squinted.
He turned around, first glancing at the greatly reduced Wizard World, then at the four metallic constructs beside him, then at the boundless emptiness afar, and finally back at the emerging space hole.
Though he knew, arriving at this world for this long, traversing this long journey, he was finally close to the answers.
So then...
Without hesitation, Richard took a step in the void, his body quickly vanished through the space hole, entering this extremely secret semi-space known as "Heaven."
Let him find out what the answer is...
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