"This... this... this...?" Yaoyao pointed at the silent video with her little paws, as if she couldn't believe what she was seeing.
That sword shadow sliced through the entire planet!
That's a planet!
It's not a watermelon, not a winter melon, and not a pumpkin.
It was cut open in one go!!!
If they hadn't lived on this planet for decades, Yaoyao would have thought this was a movie deliberately made by someone!
Leo, who had been too afraid to breathe, was now gulping in air, still shocked by the silent scene he had witnessed.
The Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard, wielding the Sword of Winter, cleaved the entire planet of Homo Sapiens World in two with a single strike!
Is this the power of Supreme Lord?
Leo's heart raced unconsciously. All the advanced witchcraft and secret techniques he had seen before were reduced to dust under this sword energy!
[The branches of the Tree of Life have been severed, the Tree of Life's original consciousness has departed, and the four Stigmata Great Wizard have achieved a great victory!]
After the sword shadow disappeared, the information platform was instantly updated with more exciting news than anything else.
"We won! We won!"
Yaoyao was jumping and shouting around the room, even pulling Benji to jump with her.
Ordinary wizards had no idea what they had gone through in the past few months. Only wizards like Leo, who witnessed the entire war and knew detailed internal intelligence, knew that they were on the verge of defeat almost the entire time.
Every minute and every second was agonizing; even knowing there was a high probability of failure, there was still nothing that could be done.
They almost suffered total annihilation!
Those are level seven life forms! If it weren't for the Sword of Winter, none of these wizards would have been able to leave alive, including those four Level-Six Stigmata Great Wizard!
Sometimes ignorance is bliss; at least they don't know what happened, they only know they won.
[ The Stigmata Great Wizard conveys the order: the planet Homo sapiens is projected to be torn apart by cosmic forces in three hundred Homo sapiens days.]
[All starships, prepare to collect resources to replenish what you've lost during this expedition.]
Upon seeing this information, Leo was still amazed by the power of the wizard civilization, which, after shredding a planet, still managed to select and pack away useful resources.
This method of resource collection will certainly yield more than collecting from the surface, since resources are more abundant and plentiful deep underground.
In the past, if we were to mine deep underground, the cost might be greater than the resources gained.
Now that the planet has shattered, vast amounts of resources are exposed, it's practically like picking up money off the ground!
Upon seeing the information, Yaoyao immediately grabbed Leo's earlobe and shouted excitedly, "We must participate in the gathering mission! We must participate!"
Leo looked at Yaoyao, puzzled, and asked, "Why?"
" The Planetary Core! When a planet is torn apart by the gravity of other planets, its Planetary Core will be exposed. This is the best opportunity to collect it."
Yaoyao's reminder immediately alerted Leo. The Planetary Core was his most scarce resource, as the expansion of the Shadow Space required Planetary Core, and every kilogram of Earth's Planetary Core could increase the volume of the Shadow Space by one cubic meter.
Now that the entire planet Homo sapiens has been cut open, how much of its Planetary Core would be inside?
Just thinking about its weight made Leo's breathing quicken.
Although he couldn't possibly pocket it all, secretly embezzling a little would be enough to offset years of hard work.
Because the Planetary Core is located at the Earth's center, its density is extremely high; a thousand kilograms of it would only yield a grain of soybean.
Leo set himself a goal: to secretly obtain a fist-sized portion of the Planetary Core.
Seeing Yaoyao so excited she was almost fainting, Leo, though knowing that the Planetary Core's function wasn't just to expand the area of Shadow Space, still didn't press Yaoyao for details.
They had discussed this issue before. Yaoyao's exact words were that the Planetary Core does indeed have other functions, but now is not a good time to tell Leo.
When the time is right, I will tell Leo.
As for when the right time would be, Yaoyao didn't say.
In short, if Leo wants to know about the other functions of the Planetary Core, he should just gather as much information as possible.
Yaoyao often seems unreliable, but Leo can't get out of things he doesn't want to talk about.
Leo had previously exchanged Planetary Core for battle merits, with the most he ever got being a thousand kilograms. Compared to the entire Planetary Core now laid out before him, that small Planetary Core was practically nothing.
Leo immediately took out the crystal ball and Vasily, "I will be participating in the next starship resource gathering mission, please allocate one starship."
"Master, these resource gathering tasks are time-consuming and arduous, and the battle merits are relatively few..."
"It's alright, I want to accumulate more merits after the mission ends," Leo interrupted Vasily's persuasion.
Now, if anyone tries to stop him from participating in resource gathering tasks, he'll get angry with them.
"Alright then, I'll allocate a starship for the master."
Vasily seemed to have guessed what Leo was planning to do. After hesitating for a moment, he said, "Master, because the gathering mission is quite tedious, in order to ensure the accuracy of the battle merit verification, we will maintain continuous data collection throughout the process to ensure that no wizard receives any battle merits."
"Don't worry, I'm just participating in the mission, I have no other intentions," Leo said with a smile, trying to be accommodating.
"That's good."
Vasily ostensibly said that he was ensuring the constant monitoring of the wizards' battle achievements, but in reality, he meant that while there was monitoring, they shouldn't steal anything.
He was afraid that Leo would covet those resources. He wouldn't have warned any other wizard, but it was Leo that made him say something.
The consequences of being caught secretly hoarding resources are severe.
"Hehe, who would use such low-level methods? Just you wait and see what I do." Yaoyao patted her little belly, showing no intention of needing Leo to lift a finger. With him there, she was certain they could steal without anyone noticing.
In the days that followed, Leo eagerly awaited his chance to show off his skills. As for the four Stigmata Great Wizard, who cared about them now?
He will only settle accounts with the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard once he gets his hands on the Planetary Core.
Opportunities to extort a Level-Six Stigmata Great Wizard are rare, so Leo must seize this chance. Although this Stigmata Great Wizard is poor, even a fly can be scrambled for meat.
Leo refused to believe he couldn't get something good from the Indestructible Body Stigmata Great Wizard.
Leo watched as the Homo sapiens planet, once a complete planet, shattered in two along the mark left by the Sword of Winter, and was then torn apart bit by bit by the gravitational pull of other planets in the universe.
At first, the planet tore apart very slowly, with Heavenly Capital. But as time went on, large chunks of the planet broke off, turning what was originally a single planet into hundreds of smaller pieces.
Then these celestial bodies, which were several hundred pieces in size, were further divided into tens of thousands of pieces by other gravitational forces.
Perhaps noticing that the celestial bodies were breaking apart too slowly, the starship continued to unleash energy cannons as it approached, shattering large pieces of the celestial bodies into smaller ones and accelerating their disintegration.
One hundred days later, the once intact planet had become a meteorite zone. In the desolate and cold environment, there was no trace of a planet that had once nurtured a large number of life.
"Set off."
Leo stood in the command cabin of a starship, leading two hundred wizards and several thousand mechanical slaves toward the asteroid belt.
Forty thousand small starships like his were deployed across four motherships, all in search of valuable resources.
"Go that way,"
Yaoyao stood on Leo's shoulder, guiding Leo to find the Planetary Core in a voice only Leo could hear.
When it comes to finding the Planetary Core, Yaoyao has a sense of smell a million times better than a dog's; she can pinpoint the exact location of the Planetary Core just by standing inside a starship.
The other wizards looked at the planetary debris floating on both sides of the warship, which was emitting various warning sounds and even indicating the mineral resources that existed nearby.
These are all valuable resources. Other warships have already stopped and started collecting them, but Master Leo seems oblivious, directing the warships to move rapidly in one direction.
The other wizards dared not say much; given their status, they simply followed the master's instructions. As for the hard-earned battle merits they sought, they would likely earn far less than the wizards on other warships.
Just as Vasily said, the task of gathering resources is easy, but it takes a long time, so the battle merits are not many. Wizards who can do such tasks are all wizards with little strength and few battle merits.
Leo's relentless advance, ignoring the resources available for mining nearby, elicited wry smiles from the wizards.
They exchanged glances, smiled wryly, and had already prepared for the worst—that they wouldn't gain any merit from this gathering mission.
As they circled around one broken celestial body after another, Yaoyao's body trembled incessantly, and the trembling intensified as they drew closer.
"We've arrived, stop the car."
Yaoyao stared intently at a massive celestial body in front of the warship, her gaze seemingly piercing through the celestial body to see its Planetary Core.
At the same time, due to the close proximity, the detection system inside the warship emitted a piercing sound, alerting the wizards to the presence of a mineral vein of immense value.
"Don't worry about me, just do what you need to do."
After leaving Leo a message, Yaoyao vanished instantly.
Leo touched his nose, wondering how Yaoyao was going to steal the Planetary Core.
He could only follow the normal procedure and instruct the other wizards, "Alright, based on my analysis, this planet contains the most valuable Planetary Core. Let's begin collecting it now."
"Yes, Master."
Upon hearing that it was the Planetary Core, the wizards instantly beamed with joy, as the merits for mining resources were calculated based on the value of the collected resources.
The Planetary Core is the most valuable of all resources.
All the wizards were busy; they no longer had to worry about not earning battle merits.
The method of collection was naturally not for these wizards to go into space themselves, but rather to send out specially made mechanical slaves, which the wizards controlled to carry out the collection.
On the surface, Leo was watching them operate, but in reality, he was trying to figure out how Yaoyao was stealing the Planetary Core.
Although he had confidence in Yaoyao, he still hoped that nothing unexpected would happen under the surveillance of the warship!