Chapter 1 The Whole Great Temple Complex is Shaking Violently

The entire Great Temple complex was shaking violently.

This ancient temple, located on the central highlands, had stood in the ancient city of Aertos for nearly ten thousand years. The wind, sand, and passing years in the lost space had failed to fundamentally shake its foundations. Even as the city fell into ruin, the streets and alleys decayed, and even the writing on the granite slabs was eroded and smoothed out, this magnificent complex still maintained its proud, upright posture, as stubborn and strong as its material.

But today, this ancient temple finally reached its end.

Negative energy spread outward from the center of the temple complex. The solid granite bricks and stones quickly became as fragile as rotten soil under the erosion of the energy. The heavy mass of the Great Pyramid pressed down on the crumbling pillars and walls, gradually causing the entire building to split in half with a terrifying fissure. Huge stone slabs and pillars broke into pieces and rolled down the slopes of the pyramid with a booming sound. The sound of the rocks shattering burst from the depths of the pyramid, sounding like thunder rumbling deep within the earth—when the loudest "thunder" exploded, the Great Pyramid finally collapsed.

The collapse of the main building immediately affected the surrounding auxiliary buildings. Two small pyramids and several guard palaces emitted billowing smoke and dust, and soon gradually collapsed in a series of collapses. The sky-covering dust rose from the highlands, as if a live volcano erupting with sand, dust, and rocks had erupted in the center of the city. The Colossus Legion, which had been restless around the highlands, fell silent at this moment. They uniformly raised their heads, watching the crumbling Great Temple, and fell into a strange silence.

Several flashes of light suddenly appeared in the smoke and dust, interspersed with huge explosions, and then several figures rushed out of the smoke-filled central area. It was Izhaks and the others who had escaped unscathed. They came to the edge of the highlands, and then stopped about a hundred meters away from the Colossus Legion. They watched the direction of the center of the battlefield, guarding against any possible changes in the Colossus.

The Colossus seemed to have completely failed to notice the "invaders" who had suddenly landed not far in front of them. They still stared fixedly at the top of the highlands, as if they had been turned off.

A gust of wind blew across the highlands, finally dispersing the thick dust. Above the ruins of the collapsed Great Pyramid, two vast swarms of bats were rapidly spinning while making piercingly sharp noises. Powerful currents jumped between the bat swarms. Vivian stood in the center of the bat swarms out of thin air, her huge bat wings spread out on both sides, her whole person shrouded in a cloud of blood-colored mist.

And beside Vivian was Hao Ren floating in mid-air—a circle of light blue halo hovered around him, the glow of the anti-gravity field brought by the Data Terminal. In fact, Hao Ren didn't really like aerial combat, but he was now facing Vivian's evil thought entity, an absolute air combat unit, plus the ground was now a ruin, making it quite difficult to gain a foothold, so he had to choose to fight in the air.

Anyway, he was now a seasoned veteran, and his experience in aerial combat had slowly increased, so he could still adapt to this state to some extent.

As for Lily, she had to stay on the ground, partly because she would be responsible for the duties of a turret, and partly because with her physical agility, the obstacles on the surface wouldn't have much impact on her.

And that evil thought entity floated hundreds of meters away from Hao Ren and Vivian, the blood-red mist around her constantly surging, repairing the arm that had just been broken by Hao Ren's shot.

At the moment the pyramid collapsed, Hao Ren seized the opportunity to fire a shot. This shot hit the target, although it still failed to completely kill the evil thought entity, it did weaken some of the opponent's power, which at least brought good news: the enemy was not invincible.

Hao Ren asked Izhaks and Lolly to cover the others' retreat, leaving only Vivian and Lily to fight alongside him. This was the result of his careful consideration: the divinity carried by the evil thought entity was an unexpected situation, and once there was such a troublesome thing as "divinity", many things had to be re-planned.

Vivian herself had a certain suppressive effect on all her evil thought entities. This suppressive effect originated from the power of the Creator Goddess, so she was the primary combat force to stay behind.

Lily had secretly eaten (and openly eaten) a large number of natural treasures that Hao Ren had obtained from Raven 12345, and she also swept the goddess sister's table with a good appetite when she occasionally visited Heaven as a guest. Therefore, she was the strongest in the family besides Hao Ren with divinity, and she also had the "Dog Cannon" as a special move, which was a compressed divine power cannon, so she became the best turret at this moment.

In addition to Hao Ren himself, who was a demigod, the three of them were the best candidates to fight against the "divine evil thought entity."

As for Gungnir and Hesperide, they certainly had a certain combat capability—after all, everyone except Lolly and Hesperide had eaten the golden apples and a large number of "divine realm specialties" that Hao Ren brought back. Even Lolly herself was a product of the magic emperors' research on the power of the goddess. Their respective divinity, or rather "resistance to divinity," was more or less present. However, what they were facing now was an evil thought entity that would go crazy and indiscriminately attack everyone. It would be too dangerous for the weaker members of the team to stay on the battlefield, so they had to temporarily retreat to the second line.

Izhaks and Lolly were very strong, but they could only temporarily act as bodyguards in the rear.

"Hao Ren, this evil thought entity is different from the past," Vivian said quickly, while calming the breath that had risen from the fierce battle just now. "She actually has divinity. Can you deal with it?"

Hao Ren opened his portable space while whispering, "She only has divinity, she's far from being a god."

Although that evil thought entity had divinity, Hao Ren himself didn't feel much pressure.

He didn't believe that a split entity contaminated by negative energy really possessed the power comparable to a god—he had seen powerful demigod creatures like Lockmarton, and he had also seen a glimpse of Raven 12345's true strength. He had a higher understanding of unimaginable power. The moment he came into contact with the "divine evil thought entity," he judged that the opponent's strength was actually not as strong as he imagined.

Divinity only gave that monster some special "permission characteristics," allowing her to be immune to the instant-death effect of psionic rays, but divinity did not necessarily mean absolute power. Its carrier might possess earth-shattering power, but it might only have a combat power of 5. This was clearly written in the work manual.

Hao Ren put away his psionic pistol, focusing all his energy on opening his portable space, and at the same time, the corners of his mouth curled up slightly: "It's just immunity to instant-death effects—since instant-death doesn't work, then we'll slowly whittle her down!"

Before he finished speaking, the evil thought entity had already let out a beast-like roar, and then endless black and red appeared continuously in the sky, forming a terrifying scene like a sea of blood hanging upside down in the sky. This sea of blood even completely covered the collapsing chaotic boundary above Aertos—after a pause of one or two seconds, the inverted sea poured down.

On the ground, Izhaks and Lolly immediately opened their Chaos Energy shields and Holy Flame barriers to protect the trembling Gungnir and Hesperide. Little Elizabeth, however, stared at the sky with bright eyes and exclaimed in a drawn-out tone, "Oh—Uncle Ren's multi-turret miracle!!"

Behind Hao Ren, the gap in the portable space had completely opened, and countless laser turrets, missile silos, and artillery towers were protruding their hideous faces from it, like another surging ocean, which in the next moment met the sea of blood hanging upside down from the sky with waves of fire and explosions.

Hao Ren's portable space could only open an entry and exit channel with a range of five hundred meters each time—but this was not a restriction. He gave the permission to open the space channel to the Data Terminal, and then let the Data Terminal constantly shuttle across the battlefield, deploying only a five-hundred-meter-range artillery position each time, and immediately transferring to a new location after releasing the things. Under the Data Terminal's unlimited space teleportation, the formation speed of this artillery position was not delayed much, but instead presented an unusually spectacular spreading scene.

And those released firepower turrets all had the function of aerial combat, which could be said to be Hao Ren's trump cards: although he said it easily before, this battle really cost him a lot.

The result of spending a lot of money was billions of turrets, endless glory.

Half of the ancient city of Aertos seemed to be shrouded in a thunderstorm. Strong flashes and explosions raged in the sky above nearly a third of the city, and above the explosion area was the surging sea of blood summoned by the evil thought entity. In this shocking explosion, Lolly heard little Elizabeth's excited screams, and her face couldn't help but twitch slightly: "Multi-turret miracle? Is this the miracle-level divine art that Hao Ren performs as Pope?"

The little demon nodded vigorously: "Mmm!"

Two underage little girls (unquestionably) from another world reached a consensus on the same misunderstanding.

And in the explosion covering the entire sky, two more huge flashes of lightning tore through the sky, striking the black and red vortex in the center of the battlefield.

Vivian also made a move.

A moment later, a loud wolf howl suddenly came from the ruins of the Great Temple. A huge and majestic silver-white "giant wolf" walked out, stepping on the collapsed and broken stone slabs. It looked up at the sky, accumulating flowing white light in its mouth.

"Awoo—"

A devastating divine power energy cannon hit the center of the cloud.

Izhaks looked up at this scene and sighed softly, "This time it's really a miracle level."