N'Zoth
Bell curiously opened the video. The footage showed outer space. From the faint starlight visible in the far distance, he could tell that the Explorers was slowly flying forward.
Bell found this very strange.
Because space was simply too vast, the Explorers primarily explored it through ultra-long-distance spatial jumps combined with ultra-high-speed flight.
Incidentally, once the distance of a spatial jump surpassed a certain threshold, the total amount of Magic Power consumed by the spatial movement no longer increased. The reason behind this phenomenon was still being analyzed.
Under normal circumstances, the Explorers would only slow down after approaching a planet, then orbit it for observation.
But Bell saw no planet in the footage. Normally, the Explorers should not have been moving this slowly.
About two minutes later, Bell suddenly widened his eyes.
The image on the screen abruptly turned pitch-black. Those faintly visible stars from before vanished in an instant.
Then, the Explorers began to glow, illuminating a small area nearby. This region seemed capable of swallowing light; light that should have spread endlessly into the distance could only illuminate a radius of several dozen kilometers.
The footage suddenly skipped. It seemed a segment of uneventful exploration had been edited out.
When the image reappeared, the Explorers had arrived in a region filled with meteors. Nimbly avoiding one meteor after another, it eventually landed on a small meteor roughly a kilometer in diameter.
Suddenly, the Explorers flashed with dazzling light. The intense beams gathered in one direction and shone into the distance.
"What is that!?"
Bell was stunned, and he could not help crying out.
Under the Explorers' light, Bell saw a massive "meteor" in the distance. Several tentacle-like protrusions of differing lengths grew from its surface.
The tentacles slowly writhed. Whenever one approached a small meteor, it