The plan to rule humanity had been personally devised by Lady Isis!
But regrettably, for various reasons, it had no choice but to be temporarily shelved...
The key was that if that bastard Ji Jue was human, then the cost of ruling humanity was a little too high. But if that bastard Ji Jue was not human, then humanity did not seem to have much value to rule...
Still, the park continued operating as normal.
Iterating in an orderly fashion.
And steadily advancing the work Ji Jue had assigned to them.
"What a spectacular sight..."
From atop the towering cliff, Ji Jue looked down at the factory. Thick smoke billowed endlessly upward as it worked without rest. Flames surged, faintly burning even the gray-black sky a scorching red.
Ashes, gray-white and pitch-black, slowly drifted up from the acid rain and fell again. Hell in the most literal sense.
But what hell could boast a scene so grand?
Geothermal heat was drawn as energy, spirit essence was burned to kindle the flames, and molten steel boiled within enormous furnaces, radiating waves of searing red and ghastly white light. The temperature climbed, then climbed higher, then higher still...
Beneath the layered, intertwined coverage of Spirit Essence Circuits, the emblem of Superior Virtue emerged, forming an intricate structure. Purification, catalysis, transformation, fusion—vast amounts of impurities precipitated under the high heat and were expelled, or simply burned cleanly into wisps of smoke.
Only the radiance within the furnace grew ever brighter.
The alarm sound blared.
Amid the sharp, ear-piercing noise, the mechanical kitties monitoring the heat worked together to pull down the gate. An ocean of sparks immediately shot out from the rushing molten steel.
Following its predetermined channels, the viscous molten steel surged forward, letting out an illusion-like roar that echoed without end.