Core collapse!?
Two unrelated terms had actually caused the Emperor to freeze for a moment when they reached his ears.
The Xenomorph Emperor came to his senses in an instant. Realizing how terrifying the situation was, he frantically extended his mental strength downward, desperately trying to see what had happened.
It wasn't that he hadn't noticed.
Nor was it that he couldn't see.
Rather, most of his attention had been devoted to absorbing and converting the Conversion Power, locked onto Lin An.
Moreover, the enormous hollow where the two of them were located was essentially at an altitude roughly level with the atmosphere. It was like standing on the bite-shaped gap in an apple; everything happening elsewhere on the planet couldn't reach them in time!
But even so—
Lin An had clearly been staying here the entire time. Aside from the strange fluctuations in the energy around his body, there had been no other abnormalities!
When did this happen!?
He had no time to think.
The Xenomorph Emperor trembled as he desperately investigated the situation.
A moment later, just as his mental strength touched the core, a feeling of collapse, even decay, instantly spread through it.
Was this the will of the planet's wailing!?
No, no!?
His pupils suddenly contracted to the extreme.
In the Emperor's eyes, the "Iron Core" supporting the entire planet was rapidly collapsing inward!
The core's roiling, roaring metallic fluid was like a climber unwilling to die after falling from a mountain, desperately extending its tentacles outward!
They were enormous, resembling octopus tentacles or solar prominences!
Yet under the pull of an unknown force, they could only fall helplessly, collapsing toward the center again and again!
Shrinking. Suffering.
At the same time, in the relatively weak areas of the Waste Remains World's crust, the entire continental