Dormancy Site

"What is that?" a Red Bishop asked wearily.

Breaking through the atmosphere solely with physical strength and Divine Power is far too difficult. Almost only Awakened at the [Bishop] level are qualified to leave the planet and venture into space, and even then, they must conserve their energy for hibernation and return.

"I don't know, could it be a dormant site left behind by a previous civilization?"

The Pope hesitated, his eyes fixed on the silvery objects, his gaze sweeping over their smooth metallic surfaces, trying to find some familiar patterns or symbols.

The dominant force in this world is always misfortune. So-called empires or civilizations are merely bubbles that develop during periods when misfortune is inactive.

If the calamity spreads and awakens, then civilization will cease to exist. Once the Calamity Disaster subsides, someone will always survive to rebuild civilization.

Those who know these truths are almost all in outer space.

After observing for a while, the group of more than a dozen people discovered that there were three of these silvery-white, spherical objects in the outer sky. They were slightly different in shape, but they all had one thing in common: they were all very stable and showed no signs of falling.

"It's a hibernation platform to prevent us from falling. It's so new; no wonder it's a product of Previous Civilization."

A Red Bishop frowned, and after the silvery-white object had spun five times, he noticed something amiss.

The silvery-white object orbits steadily in the outer heavens and will not fall to the earth over time.

Those Awakened and forcibly break through from the earth to the outer heavens are naturally bound by the earth and will unconsciously fall downwards, requiring additional physical or Divine Power to maintain their position.

"That makes sense, that makes sense." "It seems that way." "Let's try it out."

The emperor, who was at the back of the procession, couldn't help but speak up after listening to what these people were saying:

"Have you all never been to school? You flew up like peas in dry land, so naturally you're going to fall. All you need to do now is accelerate to the same lateral speed as that silver-white satellite, and the planet's gravity and centrifugal force will match."

Neither the Red Bishop nor the Pope paid any attention to the emperor's words.

They possess the right to interpret Holy Light with divine light; in matters of knowledge, the emperor does not have their authority.

Knowledge is subjective; to think about someone or accept their doctrines is to be enslaved by them.

Those who are learned in many schools of thought easily become professional wrathful beings; their hearts belong absolutely to the Holy Light, so they only accept the doctrine of the Holy Light that they themselves have proposed.

"A bunch of idiots. This isn't Extraterritorial Heavenly Demon's theory; someone proposed planetary orbits years ago."

The emperor uttered those words and then flew off alone onto a higher orbit.

His target wasn't any particular satellite, but higher space above orbit, where there was nothing but darkness and deeper darkness. Having orchestrated the massacre of most of the Imperial Capital, he believed he had sufficiently amplified his influence.

The dozen or so people were divided into three groups, each of them accelerating their climb onto three silver-white satellites. They slowly entered a state of tortoise-like breathing, with a thin layer of ice-like shield condensing on their bodies to prevent the loss of matter, but their senses were still extended downwards and outwards to prevent the Extraterritorial Heavenly Demons on the planets from finding them.

On one of the satellites, Kundina, who had been hiding, fell into a state of self-doubt.

Why are these guys sleeping on a satellite? Do I have my mother's scent on me?

Kundina had come up to the sky about half a day ago with a special mission, following the satellite.

In the past two days, Su Luo launched more than a dozen satellites, but most of them were inexplicably destroyed by other Survivors while in space.

People don't know what you're planning, but they'll do anything underhanded and thankless to make you evil.

Kundina came up to find out which Survivor was constantly sabotaging the satellite, and at the same time manually assembled a simple, usable communication satellite.

But instead of the Survivors, the local natives appeared.

There was also an unexpected surprise.

Kundina, somewhat puzzled, hesitated for a long while before slowly making her move...

Crossing the Spatial Rift caused no discomfort. Su Luo's subjective feeling was as if the two spaces were connected, even more natural than the space in the Land of Darkness.

Upon entering the other side, what came into view was an eye over ten meters in diameter, with pupils larger than Su Luo's.

The yellow sclera was covered with scarlet blood vessels that throbbed on the surface of the eyeball, like countless skinned earthworms buried in the soil—it looked disgusting.

This is a Mutated Calamity, its overall appearance consisting of only one eye, with the rest of its body buried beneath the crimson fleshy ground.

The ground was writhing, like the internal organs of some enormous creature, with its eyeballs embedded in the flesh like jewels set in blood vessels.

"This is the Mutated Calamity that's been circulating among the imperial high command... It can't move?"

Su Luo stood in the air, staring at the enormous eyeball opposite her, observing its abilities.

The monster, whose strength was comparable to that of a bishop, could not move much. It just stared at Su Luo without closing its eyelids. The mental fluctuations surging from the depths of its eyes were like an invisible wall, pressing down from all directions, trying to crush Su Luo.

Qi Yuan, who was being dragged along by Su Luo, rolled his eyes and convulsed all over, already unconscious.

Su Luo ignored the glare from the eyeballs and looked away, focusing her gaze elsewhere.

Many misfortunes.

Whether they were ordinary Nascent Calamities, rare Mature Calamities, or even the Mutated Calamities from imperial Legendary, there were many of them. They crowded together in this unknown building, layer upon layer, overlapping like Ocean.

This wasn't the dark, damp underground cave he had imagined; it was a huge hall, like a church.

The dome of the hall was impossibly high, and the fleshy barrier on the dome expanded and contracted, with countless eggs embedded in its folds. The eggs were squeezed out and then retracted as the barrier contracted, like constipation.

It was somewhat similar to the low-level insect nests that Su Luo remembered, but the quality of the calamity was much higher.

Within Su Luo's perception range of less than one square kilometer, there were over two hundred Mutated Calamity, more than all the bishop-level Awakened in the empire combined.

Only a few Mutated Calamity inside have the ability to move freely; the vast majority rely on the fleshy structures below for growth, just like plants.

The Mutated Calamity come in various forms; some are a bunch of tentacles pinched together, some are a giant heart with legs, and some are shaped like a severed tree trunk with blood still seeping from the cut surface.

Su Luo's undisguised, wide-range scan attracted their attention, and they all turned their sensory organs towards her.

He immediately concealed himself and, with the unconscious Qi Yuan, hid in the Calamity Tide to observe the abilities of these Mutated Calamity.

Outside this hall of flesh and blood, something seemed to be violently colliding, even causing the ground to tremble slightly. Many monsters Shedding the walls, carrying slime or fleshy pulp, and heading in that direction.

After observing for more than ten minutes, Su Luo was astonished to discover that the source of those Spatial Rifts was actually these Mutated Calamity!

It was the Spatial Rifts that emerged around the bodies of those Mutated Calamity that inadvertently swallowed up the surrounding low-level monsters and dumped them onto the empire's head.

Each Spatial Rift appears for no more than three minutes, then automatically shrinks and disappears, and the exit may change.

As for why the other side of the Spatial Rift is always above the Empire, Su Luo had no idea.