Chapter 260: Mystic Eyes of Death Perception Lv8! Doomsday Game Warning!
Something unexpected happened to everyone. The awaited decision meeting did not occur. Instead, a strange mode was activated.
Click, click, click! Before they could discuss, they heard the loud sound of mechanical structures operating. The round table in the center of the conference room sank and disappeared. In its place, a light-blue pillar of light, vertically connecting the ceiling and floor, enveloped them.
Click, click, click! With another sound, the floor suddenly began to rise. The circular surface covered by the blue light film on the ceiling also separated from the main body and ascended. The group was carried upwards quickly, with many blue light paths flashing by during the ascent.
Soon, this thing carried them to their destination. It was an extremely spacious, mechanical-feeling giant dome, filled with various unknown technologies.
"That seemed like an elevator just now," Marin felt that way.
"It should be about the same, but what are we doing here?" Haruno began to survey her surroundings. She immediately noticed 10 chairs. In front of each chair were various control facilities, and a holographic image showed a massive steel fortress and the surrounding vast area.
Although the Doomsday Game was too grand for them to play, it at least had a conscience. They didn't need to figure out its purpose themselves. All information about this place quickly entered their minds. After absorbing this information, everyone suddenly understood.
This was the main control room of the planet's defensive survival base. Each of the 700 seats corresponded to a defensive facility. These included plasma cannons, laser cannons, and electromagnetic railguns, all used to deal with the Swarm. The 10 seats were clearly intended for them to control the defensive facilities and resist the incoming Swarm.
Chika had a very strong sense of déjà vu. "How does it feel like the Doomsday Game has turned from an adventure game into a tower defense game?"
The others had various expressions. What Chika said was truly incisive and accurate.
"Ren, should we start setting up defenses now?" With the methods for using these defensive facilities in her mind, Yukino had already begun to consider how to set up the defensive layers. The others also looked at Ren, awaiting his command.
"Wait a moment, I need to conduct an experiment." Ren instantly used spatial movement to teleport to the outermost edge of this planet. "Oh, so this is the Swarm's ability to traverse the void?"
In the outer cosmic space, this planet was surrounded by a large, pit-like opening. Ren sensed the power of space within it, most likely the spacefaring Swarm's teleportation channel. However, it wasn't a simple spatial wormhole, but a true one. Upon closer inspection, Ren found that they were the large mouthparts of living insects, like tunnel worms.
"Void Tunnel Worms?" Ren amusingly named them. The spacefaring Swarm truly knew how to evolve. He withdrew his gaze from research.
The spacefaring Swarm had not yet arrived. His purpose wasn't to look at these things. Opening his ice-blue Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, he looked at the restrictions in cosmic space. The already ethereal cosmic space became even more shattered under the gaze of his eyes.
Among the dense death lines, Ren only needed that one, the faint death line representing the restriction. The superfluous death lines gradually disappeared. "Indeed, just as I expected." Seeing the state of that death line, Ren's mouth curved into a smile. The death line had become clearer!
Not long ago, he keenly noticed a sentence in the Doomsday Game's prompt. "Restrictions have been weakened!" The state of the death line that his Mystic Eyes of Death Perception now saw perfectly confirmed this point. This meant that the game's restriction was not eternal and unchangeable.
Although the restriction was weakened, with his current power, he still couldn't kill this restriction. "If I can't do it now, then I'll upgrade!"
Coincidentally, the Doomsday Game had encountered him, a rule-breaking cheater. He opened the ability enhancement function of Doomsday Chat. During this time, he wasn't just indulging in daily romance. The doomsday points from the annihilated planets had already reached 38 million. However, upgrading the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception from Lv.7 to Lv.8 only required 25 million.
"Strengthen!" He unhesitatingly invested the doomsday points into it.
[Ding! Consumed 25 million doomsday points!]
[Ding! Ten Thousand Realms Death Perception Eye upgraded to Lv.8!]
"Hiss!" This time, Ren's eyes were struck with an intense pain. Perhaps it would be more appropriate to describe it as a sharp pain in his optic nerves.
At that instant, the world before him became even more shattered. The lines of death of all things were exposed in his eyes without any distinction. If he had previously seen the world as dilapidated, then the world he saw now was one completely crumbled to dust.
Fortunately, he had only experienced a brief moment of discomfort at first. After a few seconds of relief, he fully adapted to the new perspective. "Hahahaha, Doomsday Game, I've found your loophole!" Ren refocused his gaze and burst out laughing. That clearly visible line of death before him belonged to the restriction.
"Then, the real game time begins now!" Ren conjured his Zanpakuto in his hand and swiftly cut the line of death.
Whoosh! At this instant, the entire world seemed to fall silent.
Crack, crack, crack, boom! Ren heard the illusory sound of glass cracking and shattering in his ears.
The next moment, the profound depths of the universe rushed towards him. His power was no longer confined to this tiny planet; the entire galaxy completely and nakedly unfurled its enchanting posture before him. The mysterious black hole at the center of the galaxy beckoned to Ren, as if saying, "Come on~ make trouble~"
But before Ren could get excited, the Doomsday Game emitted an extremely piercing alarm.
[Warning! Warning! Warning!]
[A major anomaly has occurred in this Doomsday Game!]
[All players are considered to have completed the game by default!]
[The game process will be forcibly shut down in three minutes!]
[All players will be forcibly and automatically repatriated!]
"Tsk, they found out so quickly?" Ren clicked his tongue in displeasure. He had only just killed the restriction. "However, three minutes is enough."
Ren grinned, spreading his arms. Spatial perception enveloped the entire galaxy; what he had to do next was extreme spatial compression! The power of the Source of Space was fully unleashed. At this moment, Ren's figure was as ethereal as a ghost. His face was like illusory space, impossible to discern clearly. Only the starlight flickering in his eyes could be seen.
His body also seemed to be woven from countless spatial lines. It appeared and disappeared intermittently, as if merging with space itself. Space was him, and he was space! His presence caused the surrounding space to begin to twist.
In the distant galactic space, countless stars twinkled, orbiting their respective paths. A massive gravitational force existed between these stars, pulling them towards each other, causing the galactic space to continuously contract. Within the range of Ren's ability, the shape of the entire galaxy began to change. His ability made this contraction reach a critical point in an instant. Everything within the galactic space was rapidly compressing towards the center.