The Flying Craft broke through the clouds and climbed to an altitude of ten thousand meters.
The fierce winds were completely shut out by the alloy cabin walls. Inside, all was steady and quiet, with only the occasional low hum of instruments.
Andy sat at the controls and set the Flying Craft to full-speed autopilot.
With its engines at maximum output, the fighter tore through layer after layer of clouds like a meteor streaking across the sky, hurtling toward the Sun Radiance Alliance's territory.
Little Black lay curled on a nearby seat, ears drooping. Still not fully recovered from the severe injuries suffered earlier, Little Black rested with eyes closed, quietly regulating breathing and replenishing spent strength.
Lin Sheng leaned back in his seat, eyes lightly closed, his awareness sinking entirely into his body as he carefully explored the comprehensive transformation brought about by refining the Wasteland Martial Origin Core.
Although refining the Origin Core had seemingly brought little numerical improvement to his physical body, spirit, and other basic attributes, and his realm remained stuck at the bottleneck short of the third limit break,
the truly earth-shaking change lay entirely in his affinity for rules.
After refining the Origin Core, he could clearly feel a marked improvement in his affinity for and perception of various rules.
This improvement was largely concentrated in the four rules he controlled.
His affinity for the four primary rules-molten form, erosion spirit, purgatory, and flesh-had soared in unison. The overall gain was almost equivalent to each major rule receiving the additional boost of two high-tier Corrosion Beasts entering his body.
It was essentially like gaining another high-tier affinity talent.
Such an improvement was anything but small. After all, aside from Pureblood Demon Beasts, only a small fraction of even Corrosion Beast-level Eerie Beasts possessed high-tier