The Purification Fortress immediately deployed an anti-gravity field covering the entire fortress and its surroundings. Countless airborne machines lost their lift and crashed back down, throwing the area around the fortress into chaos.
Numerous Reapers and Eradicators, along with the Purification Fortress's main cannons, began charging once more, targeting the Black Hole in the sky.
This time, Lin Xiao did not tease them by withdrawing the Black Hole. Instead, he let it absorb the energy in the void and rapidly grow stronger. While it drew the Purification Fortress's attention, his lips moved in a silent chant. At the same time, an inexplicable tremor echoed through heaven and earth, and an indescribable aura appeared in this world.
The Purification Protocol immediately reacted to this change. It was unclear why something so obviously mechanical could be so sensitive to changes involving space and laws.
However, although it reacted at once, the descending Black Hole above was drawing away most of its power. It sensed the newly emerged change, but its killing intent did not immediately reveal itself.
Or rather, space had merely changed for the moment, without any substantial transformation appearing at once. Most of the Purification Protocol's power was still being used to resist the falling Black Hole, since that was the immediate crisis.
Although the Black Hole was immensely powerful, the Purification Protocol had specialized methods to deal with it. It used the Anti-Gravity Anchoring Force Field to resist its gravity, while continuously bombarding it with high-powered main cannons to forcibly disrupt the Black Hole's gravitational field. Energy beams, each comparable to the full-force strike of an early-to-mid Eighth Order powerhouse, blasted out. Before the Black Hole's power could fully expand, they forcibly tore open its gravitational field. The Anti-Gravity Anchoring Force Field gained the upper hand, distorting the Black