324: Chapter 301: The Restarted Ruins (3/3, updated 11k, asking for monthly votes again~)_3 324: Chapter 301: The Restarted Ruins (3/3, updated 11k, asking for monthly votes again~)_3 Meanwhile, the Aether Crystal Dragon let out a long chant, having just defeated its opponent.
Its condition wasn’t good, but it still had the strength to swim, and it was now making its way upstream along a river channel.
“Follow the Deep Sea Crystal Dragon!” Ian shouted.
He could tell that the dragon’s recent chant was a signal for them to follow—out of respect for their prior side-by-side battle, or perhaps because of the Dragon Egg Ian held, the Aether Crystal Dragon had decided to save this group of Humans.
With a loud call, the Ironclad Shark and Andor, who had recovered most of their energy, burst out of the river channel.
They had been lurking nearby, waiting for the opportunity to assist everyone’s retreat.
Everyone mounted on Shasha.
Although it was somewhat heavy, with the help of Andor’s Origin Quality, the water soared upwards, rushing towards the direction of the Aether Crystal Dragon with great speed.
At the same time, the silver metallic cylindrical seal layers continued to descend.
They were gradually sealing shut, interlocking with each other like a gigantic and unseable gear intricately intertwining with one another to reconstruct the grand structure from a thousand years ago.
By the time Ian and the others had distanced themselves from the edge of the huge pipeline by several hundred meters, the massive interlocking pipeline was completely enmeshed.
The Worm Nest, the corpses of the Behemoths, the soldiers from Fiery Flame Land who couldn’t retreat in time, and the Giant Golden Centipede, were like being swallowed by a giant maw.
These entities, enormous in their own right, were inconsequential compared to the kilometer-scaled massive mechanical structure, as insignificant as insects.
They fell into the dark Abyss—into a depth unknown.
What followed was a boiling steam, incredible in heat and radiation, erupting from an ultra-high temperature and pressure furnace!
Ian turned his head back, staring at the huge metal pipeline behind him.
Foresight View couldn’t see clearly, but the Thermal Vision brought by the Silver Chip let him know.
Everything behind him had turned into a blinding gold-red color akin to the sun.
It was the cooling liquid from around the uncontrollable Furnace Core, heated to near ionization.
At that moment, it emerged thunderously from the Furnace Core, which had been sealed for an unknowable length of time, pouring out like a tsunami, overlapping and converging…
And then, it surged into its destined place.
Under the heat close to that of the sun, they would become nothing but thorough ashes.
On the other side, the icy cooling liquid also started pouring into the cooling interlayer, heading towards the fiery Furnace Core, which had been awaiting its arrival for who knows how long, soothing its structures no longer capable of bearing the intense heat.
The extremes of hot and cold, accompanied by an overpowering force that could even silence a Sublimator, rose from the edges of sky and sea, interweaving, tumbling down, bringing an endless roar and the bellowing of the ocean.
At that moment, whether it was Ian or Yisen Gard; Master Gossay or Bishop White Mist.
Even the Aether Crystal Dragon itself fell silent, filled with emotion.
They gazed reverently at this relic from the pre-civilization era that had begun to function again as if witnessing the works of a Deity.
——The water surged tumultuously, erasing everything in its path.
Whether it be the time from the distant past or the persistent sorrow.