The VRIM race was destroyed just like that.
In a sense, they had brought this upon themselves—they had disguised themselves and infiltrated humanity, goading humans into extracting and exploiting magma fuel, pushing the entire world to the brink of destruction. They had also intended to use humanity's hands to wipe out the Dragon People, then harvest human souls completely and seize this world.
It had been a good plan, admittedly. Unfortunately, while the mantis stalked the cicada, the oriole waited behind it. VRIM was not the only one trying to pull off a scheme within a scheme.
Without them noticing a thing, Fang Zheng had secretly infiltrated the Mobile Cities and used the city network to mentally corrupt the adults. The result was that when VRIM eagerly swallowed those adults' souls, they discovered—This damn stuff was poisonous!!
Unfortunately, it was already too late.
Fang Zheng claimed it had all been an accident. Originally, he had simply been irritated by those adults shoving all the dangerous work onto children while staying somewhere safe themselves, acting high and mighty as if their immortality made them superior. That was why he had planned to use mental corruption to teach them a lesson, make their SAN collapse completely, and turn them into food for the Old Gods.
He had never expected to hook such a big fish by accident and wipe out this invading alien force so easily... Well, even Fang Zheng himself found it rather ridiculous.
The children left on the surface, however, were rather pitiful.
During the earlier battle to attack the Great Rift, they had already lost more than half of their Mobile Cities. The remaining Mobile Cities had then been destroyed in the battle between the Dragon People and the Alien Creatures. The only ones who escaped were the Mecha