Amidst a cosmic nebula-like Space-Time storm, a silver streak of light, like an unstoppable meteor, cleaved through the waves at high speed.
Gustavo flew while searching for suitable locations to perform spatial jumps, alternating between the two methods of travel as he sped towards the location of the dimensional warehouse.
"We're going deeper and deeper, and the Space-Time storm is becoming more intense. This is no longer an area where ordinary Demigod can survive." Sensing the changes in his surroundings and the constantly shifting coordinates, Gustavo smacked his lips and thought to himself, "I wonder if I'm on the right track. Will I be affected by the Space-Time storm and silently get lost?"
"Logically speaking, the sensing direction and coordinate positioning have always been this way, so there's probably no problem. Let's hope we get lucky."
Muttering to himself, Gustavo continued onward.
Five days have passed since he entered the Destruction Realm Abyss. Due to the vastness of the area and the complexity of the environment, anchor points are extremely difficult to find, and coordinates often become seriously inaccurate. He can only explore and travel at the same time, trying to determine the correctness of the direction and constantly eliminating interference from strange Space-Time turbulence from all directions.
After flying for many days, Gustavo quietly entered the inner region of the Abyss of Destruction, delving deeper and deeper into the Destruction Realm Abyss, where the scene before him became increasingly bizarre and surreal.
One after another, real or illusory, complete or broken, the planes of existence together form the peculiar celestial system of the Destruction Realm Abyss. Influenced by the Fantasy Dimension, it is expanding every moment, with countless worlds being born or dying every second. The area explored by surrounding civilizations and adventurers is only a small part, a relatively stable region, mostly located in the shallow layer of the Destruction Realm Abyss.
As for the deeper inner layers and the most mysterious core layer, very little is known. Generally speaking, one must possess at least the combat power of Peak Demigod to survive and explore here.
Here, without any sensors or other means of communication, it would be easy to get trapped in the maze and lose track of everything. Fortunately, Gustavo had excellent sensory abilities, and the location methods left by the Aslant Civilization were very reliable, which allowed him to navigate the maze safely and smoothly.
On this day, Gustavo sensed that the dimensional warehouse was not far away, and he immediately strengthened his perception. Soon, he discovered a barely perceptible rift in the Space-Time storm ahead.
Gustavo's eyes lit up. "This should be it!"
After saying that, Gustavo charged straight ahead without hesitation, drawing a beautiful arc before disappearing into the crevice.
A deafening roar rang in his ears. Normally, the rifts encountered in a Space-Time storm would lead to different dimensions, but when Gustavo regained consciousness this time, he found something was wrong.
What appeared before him was not a dimensional warehouse, but a vast and boundless floating continent. On the surface of this continent grew countless towering trees, and strange-looking Void creatures lived here.
These Void creatures resembled insectoids, and were quite large, each at least ten kilometers long. Their bodies were covered with gray-black exoskeletons, and they had a ferocious appearance. They had two rows of hollow bone wings on their backs. When they saw Gustavo appear, these strange insectoid creatures all shrieked and took to the sky.
The hollow winglets on their backs emitted blue energy streams from their tips, propelling them to supersonic speeds like jet fighters. Meanwhile, Gustavo, preparing to retaliate, discovered that the environment of this continent was somewhat strange.
"The power of the laws here... is suppressed? How can it be so weak?!" Gustavo withdrew his outstretched hand, his eyes flashing as he realized something was wrong.
"Could it be due to the unique dimensional rules here? Or is it influenced by the dimensional warehouse?"
He pondered to himself, these strange insectoids had already attacked.
The bone wings, spewing out streams of energy, began to glow with a silver light, eventually unleashing a continuous barrage of spatial blades, incredibly sharp and overwhelming.
"Simply physical structures conforming to spatial rules? Tsk, Lancelot will definitely be interested in you." Gustavo muttered to himself as he launched a counterattack.
As a hexagonal True God, he had a variety of methods. Even with his power of laws weakened, he did not immediately release his Divine Realm. Instead, his eyes shone brightly, radiating a bright green soul light. Then, a huge eggshell-shaped soul shield appeared in front of him.
The spatial blades fired by those strange insectoids struck the surface of the soul shield, exploding into puffs of silver dust, like sizzling bolts of lightning.
At the same time, a continuous stream of sharp, cone-shaped mental shockwaves were fired, attempting to wipe out the strange insectoids that were flying towards them.
But soon, Gustavo's expression changed slightly. "These creatures not only conform to the rules of space, but they're also immune to mental attacks to some extent. What kind of Void creatures are these? They're thick-skinned and incredibly resistant. Apart from lacking intelligence, they're almost indistinguishable from the Void Insect Clan... No, wait, could these creatures be Void Insect Clan?!"
Gustavo's expression suddenly froze as he realized what was happening.
"We can't play with them anymore. Let's repel this attack first and then get into the dimensional warehouse."
With this in mind, Gustavo became completely serious. His eyes narrowed, and he transformed into his true form. The enormous Dragon-Hunting Spider suddenly appeared, stretching across the sky above the continent, blotting out the sun and casting a large shadow.
The overwhelming pressure of the top-tier Void Predator descended, accompanied by a surging army of mechanical soldiers.
At the True God Ascension Banquet, Gustavo received a large number of gifts. After selling these items, he obtained a lot of materials, upgraded his Bloodline Sanctuary, and produced a new batch of soldiers to deal with special situations, such as clearing out mobs.
As the various mechanical units entered the battlefield, a crisscrossing array of energy beams appeared before them. After striking the Zerg, they blasted open scorched gashes. Gustavo's astonishment deepened; the Zerg's resistance was simply outrageous, further confirming his suspicions.
It is likely that they are not products of natural occurrence, but rather true Void Insect Clan.
If that's the case, are there any highly intelligent insectoid races on this continent?
The Void Insect Clan actually have such a stronghold deep within the Destruction Realm Abyss, and they don't even care about Ancestral Tree of Destruction?
Or is there some undisclosed agreement between them?
For a moment, Gustavo thought a lot. While he was thinking, he also took action. The spider silk was woven into a net, and after being enhanced with Divine Power, each strand was extremely sharp. With one net, countless pieces of insectoid corpses fell like raindrops.
But the Zerg, a warlike race, never cared about casualties. More and more Zerg came from all over the continent, their numbers seemingly Endless. Deeper into the continent, an aura that even Gustavo feared was slowly resurfacing.
As the number of Zerg increases, their individual combat power also increases. This is the signature talent of the Void Insect Clan. The more of the same race there are within a certain range, the greater the increase. They can share damage, Life Essence, power transfer, and so on. Although there is a limit to the increase, they are still not to be underestimated when they reach their peak.
In the Astral Realm, there are many beings at the level of Main God who have been besieged and killed by an overwhelming swarm of insects, demonstrating just how exceptionally talented the Void Insect Clan are in this regard.
"What a terrifying war race! If there are enough of them, they could even fight against the Supreme God. It's a pity they only obey the Queen's orders. Otherwise, if I could take them back and raise them myself, it would definitely increase the combat power of my mechanical army by a huge margin..." Gustavo pondered, brandishing his sword.
After fighting for a while, realizing that he couldn't annihilate all the Zerg, Gustavo used a trick: leaving an illusionary figure to fight in place while his main body secretly slipped away, leaving the continent and arriving at a hidden area on its edge. There, using a method obtained from the Aslant Civilization's database, he summoned a portal of light.
As soon as I stepped inside, the portal flickered a few times and disappeared.
Not long after Gustavo entered the dimensional warehouse, a magnificent, deep purple Zerg mother hive descended from the sky and landed in the very center of the continent. The majestic will of the empress, like the vast will of heaven, loomed over the heads of all the Zerg, causing the swarm that had just fought Gustavo to bow their heads in defiance.
"Huh? Was there just a fight here? Let me see who it was..."
A graceful and melodious female voice rang out. Inside the hive, the Zerg Queen Vera, with three pairs of beautiful wings on her back and exuding a charm no less than that of the Succubus Queen, pointed her hand, and the scene of Gustavo fighting against the Zerg swarm appeared on the light screen in front of her.
"So that little guy from the Mitrola Clan who participated in the Fate Supremacy War... what was his name again? Oh right, Gustavo. If I remember correctly, he seemed to like hiding behind others, a cautious, cunning little spider..."
As a rather laid-back queen, browsing Astral Realm tales is one of Vera's interests.
Gustavo himself was unaware that he had become a minor celebrity on the Astral Realm network. This was due to his furtive and secretive behavior during the Fate Supremacy War, which made him stand out among a group of brave and ambitious geniuses. His actions left a deep impression on the onlookers, generating much discussion. Vera was one of them, which is why she could recognize Gustavo at a glance.
"Hmm... what's he doing here? Could he be lost? But why can't I sense his presence? Was he swept to another dimension by the Space-Time storm?"
After scanning the area with her exceptionally powerful queenly Divine Power and finding no trace of Gustavo, Vera temporarily put the matter aside. Once the mother nest was properly secured, she began to reshape the continent according to her own preferences.
Despite not being particularly skilled in combat, Vera's resource gathering abilities are among the best of all the Zerg queens.
This ability is so powerful that it can easily transform a continent. With a thought, countless Zerg engineers emerge from the spatial vortex opened by the hive and instantly cover the entire continent. As time goes by, they spread outwards like a tide.
As soon as Gustavo entered the portal, he felt a sticky sensation, and his soul felt quite suffocated. This feeling lasted for a long time before gradually subsiding.
When all his senses returned, Gustavo finally saw the dimensional warehouse he had longed for.
Even though he was prepared, the scene before him still stunned him for a moment. "My God, how many resources are there?"
A dimensional warehouse is a dimension specially modified by an advanced Astral Realm to store various resources.
The dimensional crystal walls undergo special processing, with significant adjustments to the Space-Time coefficients and modifications to the internal rules to better suit the stored resources.
For example, the rules of a dimensional warehouse that stores metal resources are perfectly suited to metals. Take the most common steel as an example: when stored in a dimensional warehouse, it will not only not rust, but will also, under the influence of the dimensional rules, evolve into a super-large-scale steel mine, and there is a probability of producing higher quality, star-level iron metals.
The stringent conditions mean that even among advanced Astral Realm civilizations, there aren't many dimensional warehouses; each one represents a true embodiment of a civilization's heritage.
Because dimensional warehouses also function as production factories and operate in a fully automated production mode, producing massive amounts of resources every second, generally speaking, the longer a dimensional warehouse has existed, the larger its internal resource reserves will be, both in terms of quantity and quality.
Countless years have passed since the Aslant Civilization was Destruction the Floating Light Civilization. This long-sealed dimensional warehouse has been operating continuously for so long, so one can imagine how enormous its resource reserves are.
As Gustavo looked out, the vast Starry Sky was almost completely filled with starlight, leaving no gaps, nearly blinding him.
It's important to know that each of these stars scattered throughout the universe is a genuine resource planet. The most precious of these planets, if taken out alone, can easily be exchanged for a powerful artifact.
For example, Gustavo keenly spotted a deep purple planet among many resource planets.
This planet is not large, not even as large as Gustavo's head, but its surface is covered with a kind of translucent deep purple crystal. Inside these crystals, there seems to be a nebula flowing, and the surrounding space layers rise and fall as if breathing. In fact, these space layers are resonating and coordinating around the crystals.
This deep purple crystal is called "Void Crystal," a multi-purpose space-related material. It can be used to make common space items such as space rings. It has a wide range of uses, outstanding stability and reliability, and is very valuable. Usually, a piece the size of a fist can sell for thousands of Star Wheel. You can imagine how terrifying the value of this entire planet's worth of Void Crystal is.
Besides the Void Crystal, Gustavo looked around and saw a variety of familiar resources.
Storm Cloud Iron, which possesses its own magnetic field, can be used to manufacture land-based flying vehicles or weapons with corresponding attributes.
Contact with flesh and blood can cause mutations, but when used in alchemy, it can act as a highly toxic mineral Corrupted Sulfur Copper, to neutralize catalysts in various formulations.
Memory Amber that can preserve fragments of ancient souls.
Legend has it that Dragon Blood Scarlet Gold that can perfectly harmonize with True Dragon and carries the aura of the Dragon Clan.
Titan Ancient Steel a white, natural alloy formed from the remains of giants and through natural evolution.
Besides metallic minerals, there are also many plant resources.
For example, the Molten Heart Flower flower has a bright red stamen, resembling flowing magma, and can be used to extract explosive essential oils.
Leyline Ancient Root and stabilize the earth's structure.
Golden in color, the Leaf of Truth, when burned, brings exceptional clarity of mind, is highly prized by alchemists and Mage.
The dazzling array of resources, like sweet candy bombs, were launched at Gustavo, exploding in his chest and leaving him dizzy.
The feeling of suddenly becoming rich reached its peak at this moment.
After wandering around aimlessly for almost half a month, Gustavo finally arrived at the core of the plane.
A colossal, palace-like intelligent hub, composed of a crystal matrix, floats in the center of the universe, its operating energy source being the very origin of the plane.
After entering the password, the crystal portal floating on the surface of the matrix opened, and Gustavo stepped inside. Then, he froze again, his pupils trembling violently, many times more intense than his reaction when he first entered the dimensional warehouse and saw this ocean of resources.
Following Gustavo's gaze, a diamond-shaped mirror floated atop an altar, radiating a hazy, dreamlike Radiance.
Gustavo happened to recognize this mirror.
"Components of Illusory and Real Prism! What a coincidence?!"