Chapter 233: Data Anomaly, Test Subject?
Deep underground, the battlefield was extremely fierce.
The flower of Ancestral Spirits suddenly started to tremble.
Amara, who had been sleeping, suddenly opened her eyes. Her pupils flashed with cold, red data streams, which was very strange.
Suddenly, an abnormal wave, much stronger than before, passed through the rocks and reached every Bone Clan warrior. The red patterns on their bone armor lit up instantly.
At this moment, their cooperation became much more coordinated, and their power increased by 50%.
The chaotic rhythm was broken in an instant. The Bone Clan warriors' defense became more organized, and their attacks became more precise and deadly.
Because of this, General Duerer's balance, which he had barely maintained by sacrificing his own life, finally collapsed.
At the same time, the defense line formed by General Sean and General Claude faced even more pressure. General Monet gritted his teeth and shouted into his wrist device: "Hurry up and support us!"
But all he got in return was a loud noise.
"Damn it! Communication is being interfered with! There's an energy shield around Ancestral Spirits!" General Monet cursed and summoned a holy light, which he threw directly at the center of Ancestral Spirits' flower. But it was blocked by a flood of digital energy.
At this moment, the mind interference and energy shielding around Ancestral Spirits were as thick as an invisible wall. No normal signals could get through, and no energy could get in.
General Sean noticed that the strange red patterns looked familiar. Then he screamed in shock: "Oh my god, those aren't the waves of the Order Reformation Protocol that was banned by the Tribunal of Judgment!"
"Damn it, someone is doing experiments on the Bone Clan and Ancestral Spirits. Someone has to take this information out of here!" General Duerer's command echoed through the underground.
At the same time, on the surface.
Logan was about to tear open space and teleport underground.
His face suddenly changed. Space Sensing told him, it wasn't possible.
Deep underground, the chaotic energy from Ancestral Spirits, the star marks power that the generals had unleashed by burning their lives, and a strange, unknown wave of power—all were now wildly mixing and colliding.
That underground space had become a complete mess of unstable, wild energy.
Trying to tear open space to move through it was like throwing yourself into a folded trap that could collapse at any moment.
As soon as the space cracks opened, they would be instantly torn apart by the wild energy.
Not to mention the fact that it was impossible to accurately find a target—his own life could be lost in the process.
Teleporting was no longer an option.
There was only one way left.
He had to go down as fast as possible, straight into the deep pit.
Logan looked at the swirling dust in the pit, and that strange feeling of bad luck in his heart grew stronger.
The Blood Cultivation Realm was breaking down.
Logan stood at the edge of a high cliff, his blood tree armor glowing slightly in the dim light.
Behind him, Elena's wrist device shot out a space projection. Blue lines outlined a complicated underground structure.
Elena pointed at the red dot marked Flash and frowned. "The Bone Clan is gathering in large numbers."
Logan said nothing. His Space Sensing and soul power both spilled out, gently touching the edge of the Blood Cultivation Realm's fissure below.
"The Blood Cultivation Realm can't hold much longer." Logan said, his face dark. "The fissure will grow big enough for Ancestral Spirits to escape."
Natalia was closed-eyed, Hellweaver resting on her shoulder. Her Mental Power was flowing into the ground.
"There are thousands of Bone Clan warriors crawling up the tunnel." she opened her eyes and said in shock. "They're widening the tunnel. Ancestral Spirits is controlling them from far away!"
Natalia flicked out a strand of thread, weaving a net in the air and sending it down the tunnel.
Soon, the threads touched the underground space. Each strand was connected to a Bone Clan warrior's body.
"Found the weakness." Natalia's eyes were sharp. "The octopus behind them is the weakness."
At the edge of Golden Sand City.
General Darwin stretched out his hand, and nanorobots poured out from his palm, turning into silver dust that floated toward the Blood Cultivation Realm.
The silver dust spun around for a while, then suddenly stopped. Its mechanical eyes flashed, and a series of characters flooded into Darwin's mind.
"Strange, there's a trace of nano runes left inside Golden Sand City." Darwin frowned. "The pattern matches exactly with the records from the Tribunal of Judgment."
He opened a hologram projection, and a set of geometric light patterns floated in the air. The light patterns resonated with the broken family emblem on his mechanical arm.
Seeing this, Darwin looked confused. "This is the wave of the Order Reformation Device? Was this place once a test site of the Tribunal of Judgment?"
At the edge of the underground entrance, Logan also saw the light patterns. He tried to use his Mental Power to probe, but felt a strange and powerful force coming back.
Logan frowned. "Strange, this is the power wave from another strong warrior? Never mind, let's not think about it now. Castell, clear the way."
A Blood Vine clone floated down from Logan's shoulder. Castell dragged a red figure and flew toward the entrance of the deep pit.
Soon, loud noises came from inside the hole. The stench of rot that came out made everyone cover their noses.
The Blood Vine touched the metal structure at the edge of the pit. With a click, the mechanism opened, and the passage was unlocked.
At that moment, Castell's voice came through: "Master, be careful! There's something inside."
Before he finished speaking, a loud sound of crawling came from the pit.
A large number of Bone Clan warriors poured out.
Their bodies were made of sand and bones, and their eye sockets were glowing with green fire.
Red patterns covered their bone armor—clearly, they were traces of nano runes fused with Ancestral Spirits' energy.
"Strange, why are nano runes on these guys?" Logan frowned, puzzled, but he still led everyone into battle.
The blood tree armor spread out, and 108 spirit clones broke free, forming a defensive formation.
Logan didn't attack. He just stood by, monitoring the battlefield.
Natalia's Hellweaver expanded, and her threads formed a mind barrier that covered a radius of 50 meters. Any Bone Clan warriors that got close slowed down.
At the same time, groups of nanorobots appeared on the battlefield.
Logan turned and saw General Darwin in full military uniform. He sighed: "General, you've done your best."
General Darwin sighed. "That's exactly why I feel regret. Don't try to send me back. I don't want to be carried out like this."
Saying that, General Darwin sighed again. "Don't worry about me. Do what you need to do. I just want to walk the path Philip was meant to walk."
Suddenly, tiny machines slipped into the joints, interfering with the nanorobots' actions.
In the flash of silver lightning, the geometric light patterns appeared again. The nano rune projection and the red patterns on the puppets resonated.
"What the—! They're exchanging data!" Darwin shouted, his eyes wide. "The nano runes are communicating with the Ancestral Spirits energy!"
Elena's glowing points moved quickly across the structure map, stopping at a specific coordinate.
"The source of the resonance is found." she said. "It's on the third level of the altar base, 1170 meters deep, 0.3 hertz. The waveform matches the protocol."
Logan looked down the hole, and both his Space Sensing and soul power pointed toward the altar.
Logan spoke in a low voice. "Let's go. The target is below. We're heading to the altar."
As he walked, Logan quickly assigned tasks.
Castell would lead the way, Natalia would maintain the barrier, Darwin would interfere, and Elena would update the path.
In an instant, fire and blades wove a web. Logan led the Third Unit of the Federation into the wave of puppets, pushing straight into the depths below.
Castell's Blood Vine clone was flying ahead, smashing the joints of Bone Clan warriors with every touch.
Natalia's barrier blocked the attacks, giving Darwin's nanorobots plenty of space to strike.
"The resonance source is getting stronger! 0.35 hertz!" Elena frowned and warned, "It's moving!"
Logan adjusted their path based on the energy changes. "Turn left. There's a fault thirty meters ahead."
Soon, a huge Bone Clan warrior broke out from the wall of the pit.
At least thirty elite puppets had fused together. It had six bone-tipped tentacles behind its back, each glowing with different rune light.
Some of them enhanced their piercing power, some released curses, and others sent back energy.
Natalia scanned with her mind and quickly reported: "It's an elite unit. It's as strong as a centipede!"
As the massive Bone Clan warrior swung its six tentacles, all aiming for the center of the team,
Logan's Blood Vine clones quickly gathered into a blood-red shield in front of everyone.
The tentacles hit the Blood Vine shield, and soon they broke it apart.
Logan saw this and frowned. "The nano runes are breaking down the Blood Vine's life structure! Switch to attack!"
Without hesitation, Logan ordered everyone to attack under the cover of the Blood Vine.
"Now!"
Natalia's Hellweaver shot out dozens of reinforced threads, wrapping around the tentacles' joints. The threads tightened, and the tentacles froze immediately.
General Darwin's nanorobots flooded into the giant puppets' chest, interfering with the nano rune core circuits on their bodies.
Lightning and fire clashed inside the puppets. The abilities that had been boosted by nano runes disappeared in an instant.
Without the nano rune power, the giant puppets couldn't even stand up to one of Natalia's attacks. They fell down immediately.
"Keep moving."
Logan and the others didn't stop to watch the fallen puppets. They pushed forward into the deep pit.
With the experience of dealing with the elite puppets, the ordinary ones started to lose coordination as the nanorobots and Natalia's mind barrier interfered.
Their movements slowed and became messy. Some even started attacking each other.
Elena's glowing points on the map still pointed toward the altar. She frowned and said: "One hundred and twenty meters away. The strength is stable at 0.3 hertz."
Logan's Space Sensing also picked up everything.
Normally, he could have teleported straight down. But the fight with the generals and the Ancestral Spirits had made the space down there extremely unstable.
As soon as he tried to open a space crack, it was torn apart by the wild energy. There was no way to move through it.
As time passed, Logan looked at the swirling dust at the end of the pit. A bad feeling grew in his heart.
"Everyone, go faster," he said, frowning. "The old generals might not hold on much longer. Push forward at full speed."
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