In the boundless gray fog, a huge bolt of lightning that was far more blazing than those of its kind in the past suddenly struck down.
It didn't hit anything. After all, those objects with weird shapes and chaotic colors that still existed before had been driven away by the large number of things that were swarming earlier and were too small to distinguish their specific shapes.
But it can also be said that it hit something. After the red lightning flashed through the gray fog, its trajectory immediately burst into flames.
This line of fire spread aimlessly to both ends, slowly and hesitantly, like a fish falling into unfamiliar waters, until one end of it touched some kind of huge obstacle.
The next moment, all the flames suddenly adhered to the obstacle, spreading and expanding at an unimaginable speed, and soon traced the outline of the "obstacle" by themselves.
It was an extremely huge tree with extremely lush branches and roots. It did not react at all as these strange flames spread and spread all over its body.
On this huge "flame tree", there are nine huge fruits growing in an orderly manner on the crown, branches, trunk and root system. These fruits are in a perfect round shape as a whole, but the ones on the surface are burning from the giant tree.
As they came, the flames that enveloped them rose and fell, twisted and trembled, as if the "fruits" resolutely refused to be burned by the fire without any resistance like giant trees.
It's like being engulfed in flames.
In fact, this is indeed the case.
After being wrapped in flames for a moment, the "shells" of seven of the fruits burst silently in all directions, revealing the crystal-clear "pulp" inside, or in other words, azure "water balls".
After the "flame shells" of the "water balloons" exploded, the flames entrenched on the giant flame tree began to tentatively approach, trying to "evaporate" the water, but several attempts were fruitless except for causing their own extinguishment.
Although the goal was never achieved, the instinct to expand could not be stopped, so the flames began to accumulate more and more around the water ball, perhaps intending to accumulate enough flames to throw them together, or perhaps intending to accumulate enough flames to attack them all together, or perhaps intending to use them when they could not be extinguished.
A layer of "flame shell" is reorganized through the distance, so that the "fruit" appears to have been swallowed up from the outside.
In contrast, the two "fruits" located in the crown and the middle of the trunk are very different. After the outer shell of the former explodes, a bright golden core is revealed. The core has also been ignited, but the speed of diffusion
But it was very slow. The flames that had completely ignited the giant tree in an instant seemed to be stuck in the quagmire.
The latter is a not-so-pure "water ball" mixed with some soil. What's special about it is that it is surrounded by a bright golden halo. When the flames spread, it will be inexplicable.
The ground slid along the edge of the halo and reached the other side. When the flames on the other side burned over, the same result was achieved. If the flames hovering around it at this time could think, they might twist themselves into question marks.
shape and repeat
Flashing.
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In the corner of the gray fog, there is a small void where the black mud and strange mirrors are located.
At this point, the two concepts once used to identify it have completely disappeared.
When the flames ignited the giant tree, the black mud here also burned and turned into fly ash in a short period of time, blending into the surrounding fog and disappearing.
And those mirrors of different shapes disappeared without a trace after different weirdos dressed as bats fell out of them.
Oh, there is one exception. The mirror that once split in half and appeared in the form of a blue phantom has now transformed into a strange bat shape roughly depicted with bright blue lines and light spots.
The bat monsters were sitting or standing, with numb expressions and silence. Only the monster wearing gray armor, a spiked eye patch on his face, and a particularly wide grin was still very active.
"[Why are you so serious?]" He walked around the other weirdos: "[This is all within my plan.]"
"Your initial plan was to seize the identities of those contestants, and we were wiped out in subspace."
"Your next plan is to disguise yourself as an 'ancient evil demon' and inflict fatal injuries on the players to stimulate protective measures for your own use. However, it failed due to the interference of off-site support."
"Your third plan was to extract the 'ancient malice' from the World Tree to isolate off-site factors while greatly strengthening our power. The 'Lord of Dimension' cheated and failed again."
"The fourth plan was to amplify this cheating behavior to attract the power of other 'Lords of Dimensions' and bring the competition to the real dimension. However, it was stopped by the 'Mechanical Demon God' who suddenly ascended."
"The fifth plan is to replace Odin with one we prepared when he initiated the 'Twilight of the Gods', and perform a similar 'ritual' to make it come true, and then be extinguished by the 'Lord of the Ocean Dimension'."
The bat monsters summed up everything that had happened before, and finally said: "Now that we are 'dead' but have disappeared inexplicably, we have attracted the attention of high-ranking beings. At least a dozen dimension lords and universe demons are staring at us.
As long as you show up, you will be arrested and there is nothing you can do, but you say you still
has plans?"
"[Of course,]" the spiked eyepatch weirdo raised his lips: "[It is my purpose to attract the attention of 'high-ranking beings'. Otherwise, why do you think the 'Goddess of Creation' would cast its gaze on you wastes? ]"
"You..." "[Moreover,]" before the other weirdos retorted, Spike Eyepatch quickly added: "[Have you noticed that the status of those who stopped us is getting higher and higher? And until now,
We are just one
They are just a group of ‘ancient evil demons’ from within the World Tree.]”
"Let me trust you one more time."
"My ears are ringing with these words."
"Don't worry, we won't be able to come back if we fail this time. We'll let him play by himself later." "[I think you should remember our original multiverse theory of 'pillars'. Each universe is supported by specific 'pillars'.
Once it is destroyed, the universe will be destroyed,]" The spiked eyepatch ignored the ridicule of his companions: "[The 'Almighty Universe' has many 'pillars', and at least half of them must be destroyed to affect the stability of the universe. And now, there happen to be a large number of them.
'pillar' level figures gathered in the arena. Although I don't know if they have half of the total number, it doesn't matter.
want.】"
"Let me remind you, 'Twilight of the Gods' has just been cracked." A weirdo pointed out. "[Let me remind you, the 'Twilight of the Gods' that is spreading now was caused by Odin, and we imitated the fake 'Twilight of the Gods.
'If completed, it will protect the Seven Kingdoms.]" Spiky Eyepatch took out his own small black mirror from the cloak, and the corners of his mouth were a little higher: "[At least now, as part of the 'Seven Kingdoms',
