Time continues to flow in the Legendary Plains while all the factions remain oblivious to the destruction of the Timeless City and a critical blow to the entire ATLAS.
In a flash, over six decades have passed since Jacob acquired the Spirit Mechanic, and he has never left the Infinite Space.
During this duration, the Life Faction finally clashed with the Dead Faction and infiltrated the Great Cosmic Continent of Sagittarius. A great war between two mortal enemies has been started, and the entire Legendary Plains have their eyes on this war.
Another significant event that occurred during this time was also related to this war, and it shocked the entire legendary plains.
Apparently, when the Dead Faction seemed to be at a disadvantage, out of nowhere, the den of Star Pirates, the Evanesce Hub, with its overlord, the Champion King, formed an alliance with the Dead Faction and attacked the Life Faction!
No one expected the legendary Champion King to join an enemy faction and fight with his old organization and clan. This shocked those who were unaware of the inside story, and those who belonged to the life factions condemned the Champion King across the Star Network.
At this moment, 30% of the Dead Faction territories within the Sagittarius Continent were already conquered by the Life Faction. But because of the Evanesce Hub’s interference, the Life Faction’s conquest has slowed down, and it almost seemed like the war might stop here.
While everyone was focusing on the Sagittarius Continent, far away from the battlefield, the Great Cosmic Continent of Scorpio was tranquil, especially ever since the matters of the Valley of Sunless Dusk had been settled.
The Myriad Galaxy Guardian Mountains have almost recovered to their previous grand state before the calamity of the Zodiac Beasts. The Myriad Galaxy City in the heart of this domain has regained its status as a hub of alchemists.
However, after the ’disappearance’ of the Myriad Galaxy King, a new Alchemist King now rules the Myriad Galaxy city, the Myriad Runic King, previously known as the Runic Lord, who is closely related to the Myriad Galaxy King.
The Runic Lord’s ascension to the Legendary King State was completely unexpected, but rumor has it that it has something to do with the Alchemy King Council. Some even believed that the new Myriad Runic King was a puppet of the Alchemy King Council, placed here to fully control the Myriad Galaxy Guardian Mountains, especially because of the Elemental Galaxy Eamon!
After all, the Alchemy Guild seemed to have paid a considerable price to search for Eamon’s cosmic gateway and then somehow opened the Cosmic Gateway again. The Elemental Galaxy Eamon was extremely rich with alchemy resources used in rune crafting.
Before Myriad Galaxy King vanished, he had complete control over this elemental galaxy because of his status and contribution to the alchemy guild, and he was also the one who found it, so no one could snatch it.
But now that the Myriad Galaxy King was gone, the alchemy guild naturally wouldn’t let this rich elemental galaxy fall into someone else’s hands, not to mention giving complete control to the Myriad Galaxy City.
At this moment, within the hidden first floor of the newly renovated Myriad Galaxy Palace, a faint undulation suddenly emerged from a stone wall.
No one was guarding this deep level of the underground palace because only the Myriad Runic King could enter here, since his main workshop was also here, like the old king.
However, because Jacob had destroyed the entire workshop, no one was able to find its ruins despite everyone searching for it, since there were no active formation remains. Everything appeared like a plain ground, no matter how they searched.
After a deep search, everyone gave up and thought the Myriad Galaxy King had probably shifted his workshop somewhere else long ago, which was regretful since it was the workshop of a King Alchemist, and many high-end tools were inside.
But after so many years, this unknown undulation surfaced in the remote corner of the underground palace today. If a legendary king were close by, they would’ve already sensed it with their soul sense.
But because of the great war going on between the Life and Dead Faction, all the Legendary Kings of the Life Faction have gone to the headquarters of their respective organizations, which also includes the Myriad Runic King of the Alchemy Guild.
At this moment, behind this wall were the ruins of the Myriad Galaxy King’s workshop that everyone had been searching for, but to no avail.
Buried deep under these ruins was a hollow space where lay the body of the Myriad Galaxy King, which, despite the passage of decades, was still perfectly preserved, as if he were only in a deep sleep.
However, at this moment, a black, ethereal mist was seeping out of the Myriad Galaxy King’s nose, eyes, and mouth. As the time passed, the black ethereal mist started to gather above Myriad Galaxy King’s head, forming a smooth ethereal cocoon!
As the ethereal cocoon solidified, dark light began to emanate from it, pulsing rhythmically like a heartbeat. As more time passed, the dark pulse grew stronger, electrifying the air. It was clear that whatever was inside was about to break out!
Suddenly, at this moment, a sharp crack echoed in the silent hollow, then another. Spiderwebs of darkness spread across the smooth, obsidian surface of the cocoon until, with a final, explosive burst, it shattered, releasing a small shockwave!
Although this shockwave seemed silent and without any power behind it, the Myriad Galaxy King’s body instantly suffered many fissures!
At that moment, from the shattered cocoon, an unsettling creature emerged. Its appearance was like a newly born human child, but with a grotesquely miniaturized body.
Its body, no larger than two centimeters, was composed of a slick, inky material that seemed to absorb all light. Two spindly, segmented limbs, tipped with needle-sharp claws, twitched tentatively. Its head was dominated by a single, pulsating black eye, devoid of pupil or iris, scanning the hollow space, its gaze somehow conveying both chilling intelligence and a rabid hunger.
As the creature flexed its limbs and let out a silent, high-pitched chirp, a primal thrill coursed through its abyss-like eye.
The moment the creature was born, the skies of the Legendary Plains suddenly turned chaotic, drawing everyone’s attention, but no one knew the reason behind this phenomenon.
However, the truth was that a Fantastic Insect, ranked 18th in the entire Fantastic Insect Race called the Eclipse Alipes Imhoff, also known as the Brain Hunter, had completed its evolution to the Legendary Rank, triggering a terrifying phenomenon not only in the entire Legendary Plains but also within the Lower Plains and in a specific location of the Upper Plains.