People always deliberately emphasized what they lacked—or what they thought they lacked.
For example, G always emphasized that he made a living through his own abilities.
It was not difficult to understand why Du Zhaodi had acted that way.
At the same time, Gaokesi stood in the void, ascension power flowing around her like invisible flames and scorching the surrounding space until it warped slightly. Before her stood the fully formed mechanical insectoid race—the hive network centered around the "Spatiotemporal Mainframe" resembled a huge, constantly pulsing silver-white heart, with countless mechanical insectoids being born and evolving within it.
This was power capable of tearing stars apart. It was the terrifying blade Du Zhaodi had forged for Gaokesi, using insectoid civilization as its foundation and combining the technologies of the "Mechanical Cage" and the "Eternal Life Project." Yet this blade seemed to have lost its wielder.
Gaokesi's brows drew tightly together. Not only had Du Zhaodi's aura vanished without a trace, even the concept of the "Insectoid Queen"—which should have been bound to her soul and served as the supreme will center of the entire insectoid legion—had been completely annihilated.
"Something's wrong..." Gaokesi murmured.
Even if the Insectoid Queen's evolution had failed, Du Zhaodi could not possibly have disappeared.
Unless... something, or some "layer," had completely isolated and shielded her.
Gaokesi's gaze sharpened. She no longer relied on conventional perception. The ascension power within her began surging and condensing in a manner unlike anything before.
Divine Awareness, activate!
The same skill possessed different levels of power in different people's hands.
At that moment, "Divine Awareness" had naturally unleashed its full might in the hands of this ascension leader!
In the next instant, the world she "saw" became utterly different.
Countless fine "threads" shimmering with all kinds of light filled her