Truth
Elizabeth and Medea, led by Noya Mei, entered a hovercar.
Seeing Noya Mei bending over to get into the driver's seat, her expression seemingly pained, Elizabeth couldn't help but ask, "It looks like several people in your team are injured? Were you affected by the attack from the gods?"
Her observations were always meticulous; when she disembarked the spaceship, she had already noticed that several people were injured, though they were all putting on a brave face. Noya Mei, the team leader, didn't seem to be seriously injured, so Elizabeth only noticed when she bent over.
"It's not a god, it's Gu Ding." After hesitating for a moment, Noya Mei decided to tell the truth, "We left eight people to surround and capture him, but he defeated us all by himself..."
"Gu Ding has become so strong?" Elizabeth was somewhat surprised. She had only watched Gu Ding's video footage a few days ago, and he could only fight against Eleventh Order genetic beings. And now, in just a few days, he had managed to wipe out the entire Hunter squad.
After all, the Hunter team consisted of two Twelfth Order experts and eight Eleventh Order experts. Moreover, due to their Limitless Body Technique, the members of the Hunter team were all significantly stronger than their Combat Strength of the same rank. For them to suffer such a crushing defeat at the hands of Gu Ding indicated that Gu Ding's strength had truly improved considerably this time.
"I found their combat video." Medea quickly searched the sky and found the combat video of Gu Ding and the Hunter team, and projected it.
Thanks to the Phoenix's Space Shuttle capabilities, Elizabeth and her group arrived at Jer Star in just one day. These videos remained online for a day, garnering over 100 million views in that short period.
In fact, any video title related to the Hunter attracts a lot of interest because, to ordinary people, the Hunter are an extremely mysterious organization. Videos of Hunter on missions, occasionally seen from the sky, always show them completely dominating their opponents. But this time, it was Gu Ding completely outclassed them. Therefore, these videos have sparked heated discussions.
Watching the video, where Gu Ding effortlessly defeated Noya Mei's team of 1v8, Elizabeth and Medea also noticed Gu Ding's change.
"He seems to have advanced to the sixth rank and awakened abilities such as a combat force field," Medea commented after watching the video. "It's clear that the Hunter Squad's Limitless Body Technique seem to be countered by his Limitless Body Technique. This battle felt easier for him than his previous ones."
"I think so too. It seems our previous guess was right; he must be practicing the complete version of the Limitless Body Technique left behind by an ancient civilization." Elizabeth lifted her black hat, her expression serious.
Listening to the discussion between the two people in the back seat, Noya Mei finally realized that she had always felt that Gu Ding's moves and the Limitless Body Technique had many similarities. After hearing the king mention it, she realized that Gu Ding was actually practicing the complete version of the Limitless Body Technique.
"I've heard that the complete version of the Limitless Body Technique has 12 levels, which can amplify Combat Strength up to 3 times. Without encountering a god, this amplification is absolutely terrifying." Medea nodded. "Gu Ding's basic Combat Strength is enough to contend with Twelfth Order expert, which is inseparable from this Limitless Body Technique."
"When you challenged him in the Virtual Arena a few months ago, you never imagined he would grow to this level?" Elizabeth laughed.
"I anticipated his rise, but I didn't expect it to be so fast. I originally thought it would take him at least three years to become famous, but it's been less than three months." Medea shook her head with a smile. "Speaking of which, you also bear some responsibility for his rapid growth, Miss. Who gives someone a Black Iron Armor on the first meeting?"
"I didn't even meet him. I was just watching your match with him from the stands. Since you bullied him like that, I naturally had to make amends." Elizabeth didn't see anything wrong with gifting him the weapons.
"It wasn't bullying, it was just a kiss, you know? I can't help myself when I see cute little boys like that," Medea said, covering her mouth with a laugh.
Noya Mei listened to their conversation the whole way. Since she was also a woman, the two women didn't have many taboos when it came to their topics. This allowed Noya Mei to hear quite a few things she didn't know before.
More than half an hour later, the car finally arrived at Rioben Prison.
Seeing the completely collapsed prison, the two women in the back row finally quieted down.
Elizabeth pulled her hat up again to cover her face before stepping out of the car.
Another car arrived shortly after them. Nimiz and Kapting also got out.
The four of them stared at the scene before them, speechless for a moment. They had seen this scene in a video before, but that was just a video and was far less impressive than being there in person.
As far as the eye could see, not a single patch of land was intact; cracks covered the ground like dense spiderwebs.
The supposedly indestructible Rioben Prison has now completely collapsed, leaving its original outline almost unrecognizable.
Elizabeth and other demigods could clearly sense the aura left by the Will Projection.
"This is indeed the aura of a god," Medea said with certainty.
"It should be Low-rank God with Combat Strength of two or three stars." Marshal Nimiz nodded as well. "Moreover, there is only the aura of a god. His opponent should be the divine object that you mentioned earlier, Miss Medea."
Just then, Elizabeth stretched out a hand, her palm pointing towards the air, and a colorless, transparent barrier appeared in front of her.
Above the barrier, a scene slowly appeared: a beam of light descended from the sky, and then a divine projection condensed in the void...
This is Elizabeth's special ability—mirror restoration.
Her ability doesn't actually recreate the image from a temporal perspective, but rather infers the scene based on the trajectory of residual energy. Therefore, the divine projection in the image is blurry, and the deity's appearance is not visible. However, as things stand, this ability allows everyone to see the truth of that battle to the greatest extent possible.
In the scene, as the deity descends, a giant python in the prison rapidly materializes and then confronts the deity.
Looking at the energy composition of the python, it was indeed in the form of chains, finally confirming everyone's previous guesses. The weapon battling the gods was indeed that divine object.
The battle then continued as depicted on screen.
Everyone watched intently as they witnessed the entire collapse of Rioben Prison and the destruction that engulfed the surrounding area.
In the end, the divine creatures were defeated. They scattered and fled, pursued and killed by the deity.
"Let's go check out the second battlefield," Elizabeth said, but she had already disappeared.
Nimiz and Medea immediately followed.
"You stay here, we'll be right back," Kapting instructed Noya Mei, and then immediately disappeared.
"Is this the teleportation technique of a demigod?" After a long while, the Earth Jin Gang asked in a low voice.
In less than a minute, the four of them had appeared on the top floor of the Edifice Building, where Gu Ding had appeared before.
"This should be the place where the final divine projection disappeared," Kapting confirmed the coordinates Noya Mei had given him. This is it.
"But... we can't sense any divine presence here." Medea asked with some confusion. At the battlefield near Rioben Prison, the four of them could clearly sense the lingering aura of the gods and residual energy fluctuations. But here, there were no signs of battle at all, nor could they sense any remaining divine presence.
"Let me see." Elizabeth reached out into the air again, and a barrier formed once more, but no image appeared for a long time.
After a long pause, Elizabeth withdrew her hand and shook her head. "There are no residual energy fluctuations around here."
"Then there are only two possibilities: one is that this is not the place where the god disappeared, and the other is that all the remaining energy here has been absorbed cleanly." Medea held up a finger. "But the second possibility is unlikely, because the god's Will Projection collapsed, and the energy fragments plus the energy dust generated by the collapse are at least hundreds of millions of pieces. No one could absorb it all without leaving a trace, unless the other party is also a god."
Kapting dialed Noya Mei's number. "Mushroom, are you sure that the divine projection collapsed near that building? Could the location be wrong?"
"Captain, there's no mistake. Our entire squad saw it. The Will Projection was floating above the Edifice Building. That building is so easy to spot; it's over 400 meters tall, more than twice the height of all the other buildings around it. And the Will Projection was floating over there at a height of over 300 meters, making the total height 700 meters. It's only a few kilometers from the port; there's no way we could have been mistaken." Noya Mei gave a very affirmative answer.
Kapting had the speakerphone on, so Noya Mei's voice could be heard by everyone.
The group looked around and found that, just as Noya Mei had said, the other buildings nearby were indeed shorter than this building.
"That should be the place!" Kapting still trusted his subordinates.
"Based on the current reasoning, it's highly likely that a third person has joined this battle. And this third person is very likely the one who shattered the Will Projection and completely absorbed it." Nimiz, with his graying hair and beard, frowned slightly. He felt that things were becoming increasingly complicated.
"But there's something I don't understand. Since the third person was able to shatter the Will Projection, he must also be a god. So absorbing the energy fragments of other gods' Will Projection would be almost useless. The god whose Will Projection was shattered is only a two- or three-star lower god, so his energy fragments would have a very limited effect on a one-star lower god." Medea asked, somewhat puzzled.
"It's also possible that the one who made the move was a monstrous demigod, which would make sense. He needs fragments of divine energy to accelerate the transformation of his body!" Kapting offered his opinion.
"This is the only reasonable explanation at the moment..." Medea was still somewhat doubtful, but she couldn't think of a better explanation.
"I'm going back to Battlefield One to see if I can use this experience to break through and become a god! You handle the rest." Elizabeth said this and disappeared again.