When Magic Fails, Turn to Technology!

"What the hell was that thing?"

Back at Heavenly Dao Palace, Fang Zheng still could not make sense of it. The tentacled monster was not actually that powerful. During the battle, Fang Zheng had sensed that even the Cursed Children could have dealt with it easily. But there were simply too many of them, and that bizarre regeneration speed... No, it was not regeneration, but Fang Zheng could not say what it was either. After all, he was certain that both the Death Angel and the Soul First Flame had taken their souls. Something without a soul could not possibly regenerate...

"Master."

Just as Fang Zheng was deep in thought, Nymph raised her hand and spoke.

"Um... excuse me..."

"What is it, Nymph? Did you find something?"

"Yes."

At Fang Zheng's response, Nymph nodded and opened her Personal Terminal.

"While you were fighting, I investigated that monster. I discovered that it was not a single life-form as we had imagined, but a collective made up of a group of organisms..."

"Wait, a group? How did I not notice?"

Fang Zheng understood what Nymph meant. Small fish in the ocean often did the same thing, gathering by the tens of thousands until they resembled one giant fish. From a distance, they really did look like a massive monster. It was not as if such things had never happened before. But Fang Zheng was certain that the tentacles he had fought looked as though they had all come from one whole.

"Because... those organisms are very small."

"How small?"

"Three nanometers..."

"..."

Well, there was no way Fang Zheng could have seen that.

"So you're saying that what I fought wasn't one monster, but a monster swarm made up of nanoscale organisms?"

Now Fang Zheng finally understood why neither Death Storm nor