The spot that had just been stimulated did not seem to lie within her avatar's core region. Instead, it was underground beyond the core region, in an area her roots had just spread into.
It seemed her roots had touched something and suffered an intense reaction.
She immediately diverted part of her attention, following the root network spreading underground to a vast Underground Cavern.
That was where the three instances of nuclear fission had occurred earlier.
Since it was still some distance from the core region, she had not paid it much mind, even though she had noticed it earlier. Her attention had remained focused on dealing with the Nanite Swarm in the core region.
Because, to her,
Nuclear fission strikes might be devastating to ordinary creatures, but they could not harm her at all.
And she had long since withdrawn her troops from the outer regions.
"What exactly is that...?"
Her consciousness wavered with uncertainty.
Slowly,
within the enormous underground space blasted open by the explosions,
a slender vine of flesh quietly broke through the soil, revealing a tiny shoot in the dark cavern, unnoticed by Lynn.
But the instant that tiny shoot poked its head out in bewilderment,
Boom-
a surge of red energy swept out from the very center of the cavern, delivering a vicious shock straight to her will.
Something's wrong!
Something's seriously wrong!
She had already prepared herself. In theory, if this was her Desire Sect's Desire Strike, it should not have been able to affect her at all.
Yet at the instant of contact,
that pulse seemed to bypass her defenses entirely and act directly upon her consciousness.
Even more terrifyingly,
that faint pulse could affect even a consciousness as vast as hers.
She saw the scene within that area. The image of a