Before they knew it.
The scholars responsible for the expedition's Destruction mission had already spent more than a year in Night's Veil Land.
Over the past year, the Sky Fortress had launched seventy-three Catastrophic Strikes, completely destroying the Blood-Derived tribes within seventy-three wind eyes and wiping out every brood creature. Among them were even several medium-sized tribes whose wind eyes exceeded five hundred kilometers in diameter.
Within these medium-sized wind eyes, new temples had already been built in the blood nests, and new deities had emerged to maintain order and peace. If An Liya had forced her mutated true form into a wind eye of this scale back then, her death would have been all but certain.
Fortunately, the investigating scholars who infiltrated this wind eye hadn't disturbed the Blood-Derived within. They had slipped in quietly and left quietly, taking with them only images of the way life had once been organized there.
When the Alpha Particles tore through the Wind Barrier, the terrifying vortex of death ground everything to dust beneath it. Low-ranking Blood-Derived followers and lofty deities alike were all crushed to nothing.
Before Alpha biological-extinction Catastrophic Strike weapons, there was no difference between small and medium-sized wind eyes.
If there was any difference between them, it was probably that, in the ruins of this wind eye after the Catastrophic Strike, the expeditionary scholars had finally found survivors in a legendary shelter for the first time.
But there were only a few dozen Blood-Derived.
The scholar who discovered the shelter had been ecstatic.
After the Sky Fortress's first two battles, it had ended its regular research missions for the scholars. During the dozens of Catastrophic Strike battles that followed, it had conducted research expeditions only three times. And because Alpha Particle Catastrophic Strikes were launched from beyond the