"Smack, smack, smack~"
Dense, rhythmic sounds came from beneath the feet of the Divine Assembly's purple-clad soldiers.
They stopped cutting the compressed cobblestone wall with their samurai light blades, then all looked warily beneath their feet. They stopped standing in one place and began moving around, as though avoiding open and hidden attacks from below.
Above them at the Divine Assembly, the kidney-deficient young man held the energy orb that controlled the entire Divine Assembly building, a disdainful sneer on his lips.
"Trying to escape underground? Too naive. When I designed this grand formation, I already accounted for Earth-based Ability Users' earth-escape techniques. Everything ten meters underground is inside the Scarlet Curtain. You're just trying to be clever."
The purple-clad warriors maneuvered around for quite a while, but no spears, swords, or other weapons emerged from below.
Just as they were wondering what was happening,
they heard:
"Sss, sss, sss~~"
It sounded as though some kind of object had been lit.
The purple-clad soldiers exchanged glances and saw the same confusion in one another's eyes.
"There's hardly any air underground. They can still light something? What are they do-"
"Boom, boom, boom!"
The ground beneath their feet suddenly... exploded!
Enormous shock waves and flames instantly engulfed the purple-clad warriors, even stronger than the laser cannons from earlier!
[Industrial TNT]!
One had the explosive energy of three [TNT] blocks-more explosive power at a higher price.
Just earlier, Shen Jin had ordered a squad to quickly switch to Tinkers' Construct tools. With pickaxes in hand, they dug through the ground, placed the [Industrial TNT] prepared beforehand, connected the signals using [redstone], and placed a [Lever] at the end to control the signal.
The squad quickly withdrew.
Shen Jin pulled the [Lever].
Boom!
A massive chain explosion erupted directly beneath the Divine Assembly's