A year later.
It wasn't that the Academic World's research into the Gray Bean Civilization had made no progress.
At least, ordinary Star Melters had never imagined that these scholars would actually discover a way to locate the Gray Bean Soldiers lying dormant deep underground. For Star Melters who had once been able to do nothing but wait in despair, day after day, this was certainly astonishing news.
For these despairing creatures, what made them even more desperate than the impending apocalypse was having no way to fight back before it arrived—just silently waiting. They couldn't even find their enemies' traces and could only wait passively. That was the most despairing thing of all.
Now, at least, they could begin to fight back against the Gray Bean Soldiers deep underground.
Every time they dug, hundreds of Star Melters would gather. Once they unearthed the gray beans stealing Law Aura beneath the spirit veins of mountains and rivers, they would rain down attacks on them, completely killing these greedy bloodsuckers.
But the rate at which they were killing them was far too slow.
Compared with the number of Gray Bean Soldiers lying dormant underground throughout the Super Refining Civilization and steadily maturing, their efforts were utterly insignificant. To win the war this way, the Super Refining Civilization would have to increase the number of its high-ranking Star Melters and the efficiency of its social division of labor a hundredfold.
In other words, if the Academic World had arrived here a hundred years ago, when the Mother Bean Emperor was sealed, then even this clumsy method might have posed a threat to this terrifying migratory plant civilization.
That day.
On Star Source Holy Mountain.
Reilo and Corleon were intently studying a strange creature discovered by Moon Lotus Anna, the [Moon Eye].
It