All that was left of the outpost core was a spherical area of diameter 20 meters around where the multicolored rock used to be. In this area, the gaze of the world that they had been feeling crawling all over their skin had disappeared.
Money Body nodded in satisfaction when he saw this. Then he said to them, "They should be on their way soon. So let’s prepare to meet them."
He spoke out loud to them using his mouth without sending his words as a message to them through the divine constellation. This was because he believed that they didn’t need to worry about the will of Oceania overhearing them.
After speaking, he summoned the power of his Cave Heaven to tear the boundary between the first dimension and the third dimension. This caused the shadow of his Cave Heaven to flash briefly.
The appearance of the shadow of Money Body’s Cave Heaven and its massive size caused the hearts of Nether Flame and Blood Sword to sink with apprehension. This was because, for a brief moment there, they thought that Money Body was about to trap them with his Cave Heaven.
At that moment, they felt like small fish with the shadow of a massive shark passing over them. Their instinct was to run away as fast as possible.
Fortunately, the shadow only appeared briefly before it was gone. So the two of them relaxed and shook their heads to cast aside ideas of a trap. Then they summoned the power of their Cave Heavens to enter the third dimension.
Loki was the last person to tear a gap in space into the third dimension. When he did this, the shadow of his Cave Heaven also appeared. Unfortunately or fortunately for him, there was no one around to gawk about it.
After the tear in the boundary of dimensions was created, he stepped into it. As he did this, he thought to himself, ’Here I thought that the cycle of glowing and dimming made the multicolored look like a beating heart. But who would have thought that the outpost core was more ambitious than that?’
His mental tone was one of amusement as he thought, ’Apparently, the feat of coming alive isn’t where to stop for an outpost core. The outpost core also wants to become the heart of a world.’
He was jesting, of course. After all, he knew how the outpost core worked and what its function was. They were told this much when the sect gave them the outpost core and the shield breaker.
So when he entered the third dimension and saw the multicolored veins of the outpost core spreading into its environment, he was only silently surprised.
Because of his surprise, he said, "They told us that the outpost core would invade the core of the world. I didn’t know that it was going to be like this."
Blood Sword nodded and said, "It is both beautiful and unnerving."
Nether Flame disagreed with her. He said, "It means our mission is about to finish, so this is definitely beautiful."
Money Body shut them up with a stern voice, saying, "Silence."
After speaking, he went over to the outpost core. Then he put his hand on it and began feeding the black crystal his life energy.
He had a lot of life energy at his disposal, so he didn’t care. But the outpost core and the will of Oceania cared a lot about his actions.
The outpost core cheered when it received the energy, while the will of the world trembled. They immediately felt a force slamming down on them, trying to crush them. But Money Body raised his hand to the sky and let golden light spill from his hand.
The golden light froze the falling force in its tracks. This foiled the plan of Oceania to destroy the outpost core. It brought a smile to Money Body’s face.
As he smiled, he said in a sing-song tone, "They are coming."
Because of his previous stern rebuke, the three of them had become silent and attentive. But even if they had continued talking, they would have heard the dragons coming. This was because the dragons weren’t being subtle in their approach.
The dragons were coming over in a rush, and they were loud about it. Loki and the others weren’t surprised about this because they had been told to expect something like this.
When they received the outpost core, they had been told that the outpost core had three stages of growth. The first stage was the planting and germination stage.
They were told that in the planting and germination stage, the outpost core must be planted in the target world, and material from the world must be used to grow it.
They were also told that the second stage was the transformation stage. In this stage, it was also a must for the outpost core to use some of the energy of the world to grow.
Once all of these requirements had been met, the outpost core would gain the signature of the world. Then it would use the signature of the world as its soil to grow into the heart of a world.
The person who told them all of these had said, "In a normal situation, the heart of the world suddenly appearing in a world will induce greed in the world, and the world would try to consume the heart."
"But this case is special because this particular heart of the world has the signature of this world, so it already belongs to this world. However, a world cannot have two hearts, so one heart will have to go for the other."
"In a perfect world, the original will of the world will win this struggle. But if you help the budding heart of the world, it will stand a chance of usurping the original will of the world. Because of this, the original will of the world always tends to go all out, trying to kill the invaders and destroy the usurper."