Xu Zhi usually was not one to be stubborn. Seeing that the dark clouds in the sky had stopped gathering but showed no sign of dispersing, occasionally letting out muffled rumbles as time passed, she obediently took a cloak from the warehouse and put it on first.
What if lightning happened to strike this innocent person instead?
Once she put on the cloak, Xu Zhi unexpectedly discovered that several of the gazes from It had diminished. She knew the cloak would reduce her presence, but she had originally thought that before It, she should have nowhere to hide.
Was It simply not paying enough attention to her?
After all, most of Its focus should have been on other things right now.
When the thunder gradually faded, It resumed Its unfinished movements. The formation enveloping It slowly rotated behind Its back, while the trenches across Midnight's ground seemed to respond to some summons and began to faintly boil. The extraordinary energy flowing through the air rapidly gathered toward the formation and It, even forming visible streams of "air."
The formation devoured the extraordinary energy of this land like a whale, indiscriminate of attributes and leaving nothing behind. Xu Zhi could feel the extraordinary energy in the air rapidly dwindling. Even Cloud City was like this; there was probably even less left outside.
"Is this thing trying to squeeze this place dry?"
It wanted to consume all life and extraordinary energy in this world, all to achieve Its goal.
Fortunately, the massive quantity of Attribute Cores Xu Zhi had stockpiled in her warehouse was unaffected. This reserve, more abundant than even the Federation's national treasury, let Xu Zhi relax slightly. It did not matter anyway; she had never been particularly capable of absorbing extraordinary energy from the air.
But... that did not