Chapter 324: Destroying the Abyssal Tumor, Summoning Time Ends

Chapter 324: Destroying the Abyssal Tumor, Summoning Time Ends

In the Gravity District, tens of thousands of multi-purpose drones danced in the sky, launching special bombs such as high-explosive incendiary rounds, glacier rounds, and plasma rounds towards the writhing metal below.

With the intelligence provided by Lu Heng, the Sikes military quickly devised the best strategy.

The outer metal layer of the Abyssal Tumor lacked vital signs, and to inflict damage, the capillaries beneath the metal layer had to be effectively targeted.

These capillaries of the Abyssal Tumor were like veins, hidden beneath the metal layer, making them difficult to harm with conventional ammunition.

However, metal had the characteristic of good conductivity and thermal conductivity.

The high-explosive incendiary rounds generated temperatures of several thousand degrees, capable of melting the relatively thin metal layer and scorching the capillaries beneath.

The glacier rounds, on the other hand, created extreme temperatures, freezing the metal and reducing its mobility, thus slowing the spread of the Abyssal Tumor.

Drones rained down various types of ammunition, causing explosions on the surface of the metal tumor.

The metal tumor extended hundreds of meters of metallic tentacles, lashing out and striking the drones in mid-air.

The drones were equipped with evasion modules, allowing them to dodge most of the tentacle attacks, but the tentacles still managed to hit their targets about 10% of the time.

Hundreds of metallic tentacles lashed out, destroying drones by the second, causing them to fall from the sky.

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On the ground, tens of thousands of mechanical guards fired machine guns and ray weapons at the metal tumor.

However, small-caliber kinetic weapons had little effect on the metal tumor, and ray weapons could only melt small holes on the surface, making the attack efficiency very low.

As the metal tumor spread, its metallic tentacles extended, and once they entangled the mechanical guards, they would quickly devour their bodies.

In an instant, the mechanical guards' metallic bodies became part of the metal tumor.

Additionally, thousands of mechanized war generals were attacking the metal tumor with more powerful weapons, but they could only slow down its spread.

At the same time, in the underground laboratory.

Su Muyu followed orders, waving at the Red-crowned Crane and casting Solar Wind.

The melting point of steel was around 1500 degrees.

The solar wind, with a temperature of tens of thousands of degrees, blew towards the metal tumor, melting the metal layer like a fierce wind on water, causing it to scatter and splash.

The metal layer melted at an incredible speed, layer by layer, and within a few breaths, a cave-like opening appeared.

This underground laboratory was the hiding place of the Abyssal Tumor's main body, so most of its mass remained here.

After breaking through the metal layer, a pitch-black Abyssal Tumor gradually emerged, scorched by the solar wind, emitting a choking burnt odor.

At this moment, the Abyssal Tumor was writhing, squeezing its mass into the metal layer and beginning to transfer.

The metal layer lacked vital signs, but the capillaries inside were alive.

The Abyssal Tumor could transfer its mass along the metallic tentacles, and once it dispersed its body mass, it would be difficult to completely eradicate it.

Since this experimental subject had just been released and had not had time to transfer its mass, most of its body was still within this underground laboratory.

Lu Heng pointed at the Abyssal Tumor behind the metal layer and ordered, "Attack the Abyssal Tumor with all your might! Use Thunder and Fire!"

As Lu Heng spoke, he released his divine avatar, and both his main body and divine avatar charged forward, breaking the sound barrier. Simultaneously, he unleashed the Wind Dragon Extinction Slash.

Two wind dragons roared out of the void, stirring up a storm and striking the Abyssal Tumor.

Although Lu Heng's Wind Dragon Extinction Slash was still at level LV1, the combined attack of his main body and avatar made the two wind dragons surpass LV2 in power.

The wind dragons whipped up countless wind blades, slicing through the Abyssal Tumor.

After casting the Wind Dragon Extinction Slash, Lu Heng released the upgraded Thunder Field.

The falling thunder power wove a field covering a 20-meter radius, bombarding the Abyssal Tumor with ferocious lightning.

Immediately after, the divine avatar also consumed all its source energy to release a second Thunder Field.

The two thunder fields slammed down, turning half of the underground laboratory into a world of lightning.

The Thunder Field skill had a second effect:

[Skill Effect 2: When the caster attacks within the Thunder Field, it inflicts additional lightning damage. Lightning damage = 3 x Mental Power.]



Lu Heng's attacks within the field would inflict additional lightning damage.

In other words, the higher the attack frequency, the more lightning damage it would cause.

Which attack had the highest frequency? Undoubtedly, the Wind Dragon Extinction Slash could produce tens of thousands of wind blades, densely slicing the target.

Lu Heng had already tested the power of combining these two skills.

The wind blades from the Wind Dragon Extinction Slash could carry the lightning damage from the Thunder Field.

Now, with two wind dragons and two thunder fields, the high-frequency slicing wind blades transformed into wind-lightning blades, and each slash carried lightning damage, resulting in tens of thousands of lightning damage in the blink of an eye.

Lu Heng's Mental Attribute was as high as 115 points, and the lightning damage from his attacks was equal to 3 times his Mental Power.

In other words, each slash of the Wind Blade inflicts 345 points of lightning damage.

The Wind Dragon Extinction Slash creates countless wind blades, instantly dealing millions of points of lightning damage.

The millions of lightning damage tore through the Abyssal Tumor's body, turning it into ash and blowing it away.

[Destroy 70% of the Abyssal Tumor's body, absorbing 20,000 points of energy.]



An energy tide surged within, breaking through the level boundary.

[Source Energy Level increased to 41, all attributes +5, Agility attribute +1.5]



After the lightning and wind dragon's rampage, the teams led by Jane Qing followed up with their attacks, thoroughly clearing out the remaining Abyssal Tumors in the laboratory.

When the destruction of the Abyssal Tumors reached 90%, Jane Qing noticed that the second challenge task, "Clear the Abyssal Contamination Source," was marked as completed.

To completely eradicate an Abyssal Contamination Source like the Abyssal Tumor requires a significant amount of time.

Therefore, when the completion rate of similar tasks reaches 80% or 90%, they are considered completed.

Once the core body of the Metal Tumor test subject was destroyed, its outward spread ceased.

Without more capillary tentacles extending, it couldn't control the metal expansion.

After destroying 90% of the Abyssal Tumors, midnight approached.

It was time for the summoned individuals to return.

Jane Qing saw the prompt for completing the World Task, selected her reward, and turned to Lu Heng, waving goodbye, "It's time to go back."

Lu Heng waved back, saying, "Farewell, Earth."

"Farewell, Earth," Jane Qing replied, then ordered the warriors in her team to return, and they teleported away together.

The ability users who participated in the battle gradually returned and disappeared.

Only Lu Heng's team of five remained.

Yuan Yaoyao exhaled and said, "We won, it was too close."

"We'll leave the rest to the Siks Civilization to handle," Lu Heng said, leading his team away and returning to the Michelle Greenhouse Apartments.

Since Lu Heng's team of five wasn't summoned, they didn't need to go through the return process and could teleport back whenever they wanted, but they still needed to go back to Xavier Matrix and use the spatial teleporter.

The internal body of the Metal Tumor test subject was 90% destroyed, but 10% of the Abyssal Tumor matter was scattered underground in the Gravity District.

This Abyssal Tumor matter consisted mainly of capillary tentacles within the metal layer.

Although these capillary tentacles were small and had minimal mass, they could still grow into Abyssal Tumors if provided with sufficient nutrients.

Consequently, the subsequent clearance task would be a lengthy process.

Of course, Lu Heng didn't need to worry about this task; the Siks Civilization would handle it.

In the previous life, the Siks Civilization couldn't protect Queen Star because they initially couldn't find a way to deal with the Metal Tumor test subjects.

By the time they researched and found a way to destroy the Metal Tumor test subjects, the metal tumors had already engulfed over a dozen planets, reaching an uncontrollable level.

The subsequent resistance efforts were merely delaying the inevitable.

This time, Lu Heng, with his memories, informed the Siks Civilization of the method to destroy the Metal Tumor test subjects eight months in advance and personally destroyed most of the internal bodies of the metal tumor test subjects.

This crisis was averted.

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After the battle, the Siks Civilization sealed off the surrounding area of the Gravity District and began the final clearance of the Abyssal Tumors.

According to the Siks Civilization's central system calculations, this task would take half a year to completely eradicate the Abyssal Tumors.

The next morning.

Leiana Siks personally visited, representing the Siks Civilization, to present Lu Heng's team of five with permanent visas for the Siks Civilization, allowing them to move freely on all Siks planets.

Of course, these visas didn't grant access to classified buildings, and their level was similar to that of ordinary Siks citizens.

Therefore, Lu Heng's team of five didn't need to find escorts this time; they could purchase tickets back to Second Gaia through normal channels.

A day later, Lu Heng's team of five boarded an interstellar flight and returned to Second Gaia, meeting with Xavier Matrix.

This meeting was also a farewell.

After staying in the Siks Civilization for almost ten days, it was time to go back.

After all, each additional day meant consuming more Divine Energy.

Before teleporting back, Lu Heng inquired about the situation with Pharaoh Wang's team.

Xavier Matrix confirmed that he had noticed the relevant information: "That team has returned. Half an hour before their return time, they raided the Antimatter Research Institute and faced a fierce counterattack.

"They couldn't break into the Antimatter Research Institute and eventually teleported back at their return time."

Lu Heng sighed softly upon hearing this.

Although the Creator Organization team didn't obtain the antimatter technology data, they had discovered Lu Heng's secret.

Initially, the goal of teleporting over was to stop the Creator Organization team from obtaining intelligence, but in the end, they still managed to take the information back.

(End of Chapter)

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