Chapter 253: Chapter 180: The Key to Breaking the Vortex

Seizing the momentary break while the young explorers moved materials, Lin Lan casually touched the surface of the now dull insect shell.

[Identifying the item for you!]

[Item: Activated Metal Composite Material · Starlight Enhanced Edition]

[Quality: Blue]

[Function: Can be widely applied in various fields as a high-strength base material]

[Description 1: The strength of this material is directly proportional to the enemy’s fear]

[Description 2: Starlight twisted the truth, with illusory insect eggs parasitizing precise machinery, paradox and madness take root and sprout at the end of reason]

Strength directly proportional to fear?

Lin Lan raised an eyebrow, clutching the Philosopher’s Stone, and under the gaze of the Foreigner, the cold steel insect body underwent bizarre changes.

The intricate mechanical structure had been replaced by grayish-white fleshy limbs, the multicolored starlight on the flesh having faded to a pure and gentle hue.

Flesh and steel intermingled, inseparable, you within me, and I within you.

The mechanical insect corpse under his palm even exhibited a soft texture.

Logically speaking, the steel swarm had completely abandoned reliance on energy, these ghostly things shouldn’t move, but the world has never made sense, and starlight had twisted the piled steel into controllable ’living flesh.’

Just like the Shattered Star...

"Ew... So weird meow, do we really have to use materials born from the Celestial Calamity?"

Even after the system forcibly retrieved the card collection at the designated time, Vivian still couldn’t stay calm, the black cat clawing at the prompt text on the panel, her expression and tone full of disdain.

"Of course, we’ll use it, anyway the Celestial Calamity pollution has already been thoroughly removed."

Lin Lan responded, releasing the Philosopher’s Stone, the soft and light corpse piece reverted to a sturdy activated metal.

The Lord of the civilization coveting the end smiled with satisfaction, "This excellent material is precisely the key to the development of the Ark Kingdom."

Celestial Calamity pollution? Starlight parasites? Who cares, use Sun Ore to burn it all clean when we take it back.

Charles is worrying over the shortage of materials to build ships.

The Ark Kingdom has no high-quality iron mines, and importing large amounts of steel from foreign countries isn’t feasible, even if not discussing the quality of imported materials, the financial expenditure consumed by the Ark would be astronomical.

Now this problem has been perfectly resolved!

You can only say that Dr. Tianli’s support hit Lin Lan’s sweet spot just right.

Lin Lan sat back in Lucia’s car, refocusing his attention on the battlefield ahead.

Seeing their companion’s bodies devoured by eye-like spatial rifts, the insect swarm seemed to receive some sort of command, crazily swarming toward the manor, immediately increasing pressure on the warriors.

The Celestial Calamity insect swarm targeting Seagull City weren’t just giant siege centipedes, these cumbersome giant insects had been cleared by the warriors, and as time passed, a few other terrifyingly shaped insects emerged on the ground.

They were respectively heavily armored beetles carrying heavy artillery, ghostly swift blade mantises, and highly dangerous explosive spiders.

However, the Sun Warriors still handled them with ease.

As soon as the spiders and beetles appeared, they were blasted to pieces by artillery, the acts of the burly Centurions slicing the mantises also grew increasingly adept, under Ed’s command, the battle was almost a one-sided crushing!

In the depths of the snowstorm.

A bionic girl clad in Imperial military uniform hovered in mid-air, hand supporting the brim of her hat, her multicolored starlight butterfly wings slowly flapping behind the ’girl.’

As the leader of the swarm, she gazed intently at the battle.

Too strange...

Why was the swarm’s unique mental attack utterly ineffective?

Why did those food beings collect the corpses of lower-tier kin, and where did the Celestial Principle send them?

And Seagull City had undergone earth-shattering changes, the strength of those food beings was completely different from what the intelligence indicated, their resistance completely exceeded her imagination...

Most bizarre of all, she had a persistent feeling of déjà vu, as if she had experienced something similar before...

The girl furrowed her brow, the multicolored worms within her machine-body restlessly wriggling, what had she forgotten?

The fate snowstorm originating from the Celestial Principle also ’reset’ the will of the starlight insect swarm.

The multicolored worm suppressed her unease, deciding to rely on her elites and the swarm’s numbers to swiftly conclude the battle, her primary duty was to bring destruction to the Alliance’s main island, not to be bogged down by the mere Ark Island.

Clang.

Centurion Glen, slaughtering at the frontline, wobbled slightly, glancing down to find his armor at the chest dented, a wisp of multicolored starlight embedded in the indentation, and then consumed by the flames of the power furnace.

Simultaneously, several Sun Warriors clad in standard armor were caught off guard and had their hearts pierced by starlight.

"An invisible enemy capable of firing starlight spikes has emerged on the battlefield."

Ed’s directive immediately reached everyone’s ears: "Pull back the line, stay alert, and don’t give them the chance to infiltrate the manor!"

Not far away, Jay’s eyes were already red, at this moment, the Sun Legion Commander finally personally experienced the brutality of the battlefield.

Though the surrounding brothers were merely ’simulated illusions’ as referred to by the Lord, their expressions of agony were deeply etched in Jay’s mind.

Eleanor clicked her tongue, instinctively dodging a lethal strike, as the Black-winged Calamity Master gazed into the storm’s depths, the encircling black storm around the battlefield growing ever more furious.

Lucia also stowed away her formerly joyful expression, clutching tightly to the vehicle’s control stick, her pretty face becoming exceedingly focused.

Lin Lan didn’t say much either, just ruffling the other’s tousled hair.

At this moment, the dignified maid quietly seated beside Lin Lan tilted her head slightly, gazing into the depth of the sky, as if listening to some sounds.

Lin Lan naturally noticed Bai’s weirdness, instinctively clenching the Philosopher’s Stone, seeing a strange, illusory mechanical halo appear above the other’s head.

The Celestial Principle of God was bestowing enlightenment on the Celestial Official it had chosen.

"Bai?"

"Master, this is as far as we go."

The maid quietly turned to Lin Lan, softly saying, "The Doctor told me, if too many ’anomalies’ of fate alteration accumulate at once, we will definitely draw the cosmos’s vigilance."

Lin Lan was slightly startled, thoughts churning.

Although he didn’t understand why the Celestial Principle wasn’t directly communicating with him, he instantly grasped the other’s intent.

Stop while you’re ahead, huh...

Indeed, a steady long-term approach is the right choice.

This new instance could generate points and yield materials, plus rapidly accumulate the warriors’ battle experience, crucial for the Ark Kingdom’s development.

At this juncture, forcing the insect swarm into desperation, cornering them into blocking like the Space Ladder, would be disastrous...

"Understood, we will leave immediately."

Lin Lan decisively picked up the Messenger Block, provided simple instructions, and everyone began organized convergence towards the manor’s rift.

"Additionally," Bai continued, narrating, "the Doctor also intends to place a ’key’ in your hands."

"A key?" Lin Lan was somewhat surprised, while the Blond Witch flicked her pointed ears.

Bai slowly opened her palm, projecting a three-dimensional miniature holographic image from its center.

A familiar seven-masted ship immediately appeared in Lin Lan and Lucia’s sight.

"This is a ship sailing from the future to the past, although it crashed deep within the Space Ladder, the Doctor has hidden both the ship and the Captain’s soul in his dreams."

The bionic girl introduced, "This is the key the Doctor intends to use to break the whirlpool of destiny."

Lucia exclaimed in shock, "It’s Princess Valentina’s Plumbum White!"