doitstory Chapter 705: Incomprehensible Enemy
Chapter 705: Incomprehensible Enemy
**Chapter 705: Incomprehensible Enemy**
After all the Divine Armaments were destroyed, the entire star region fell back into silence.
Moments later, teleportation light bloomed once more within the intense radiance of the three intertwined stars.
Jie Ming stepped out of the spatial teleportation array, accompanied by four seventh-rank Black Giants.
Because the teleportation distance was extremely short, the scorching white stellar radiation surged toward them like a tidal wave, crashing against the Return to Ruins Armor and stirring up layers of faint, invisible ripples.
There was no true “ground” beneath their feet, only the void slightly warped by the combined gravity of the three stars. The wreckage of the Divine Armaments drifted through this space, slowly tumbling and scattering along gravitational paths like a torn metallic snowstorm.
Jie Ming stood at the edge of what had once been the satellite’s rocky remains. The vertical eye between his brows slowly opened.
In truth, before teleporting over, he had already seen what happened here through the images transmitted back by the Prowler.
Yet standing on-site and witnessing the wreckage with his own eyes, his expression still darkened little by little.
Because… it was simply too clean. Far too clean for the aftermath of a battle. Given the durability of Divine Armaments, even with abundant stellar radiation present, any force capable of destroying them should have left sufficiently deep marks.
If the attacker’s control was not precise enough, it might even have caused irreversible damage to the surrounding environment.
But now… there were almost no proper “traces” to be found.
If not for the Prowler steadily transmitting information and providing coordinates from the surroundings, Jie Ming might have thought these Divine Armament fragments had simply drifted over from some other battlefield.
He raised his hand. A drifting fragment of a Divine Armament automatically changed course and flew toward him, hovering before his eyes.
Jie Ming examined it carefully. The fracture surface was unnervingly smooth.
There were no jagged edges from being torn apart by immense force, nor any molten traces from high-temperature evaporation. It was as if that entire section of material had been directly “erased” from the world.
The smoothness of the cut was almost abnormal, as though a segment had simply been missing from the beginning.
Jie Ming’s three eyes employed every scanning method available, but in the end he could only confirm: “…This is not destruction achievable by any conventional means.”
Suddenly!
A change occurred without any warning.
The chest of a seventh-rank Black Giant standing guard on the perimeter exploded open. The entire process had no preceding signs.
It was as if an invisible hand had reached directly into the depths of his body and precisely gouged out his core.
The vertical maw on the Black Giant’s chest snapped open violently as he let out a furious roar. Liquid metal surged wildly, attempting to repair the wound.
But in the next instant, the penetrating injury expanded into the collapse of his entire torso.
The severity of the damage instantly triggered the Dao Soldier System.
With a flash of golden light, the ten-thousand-meter-tall body was forcibly teleported back to the Infernal Sulfur plane.
Jie Ming’s gaze turned ice-cold in an instant. “Alert!”
His voice exploded simultaneously within the spiritual seas of the remaining three seventh-rank Black Giants.
Molten Mountain and the other two Black Giants instinctively contracted their formation, shielding Jie Ming at the center at once.
The three colossal beings layered their defenses in the void. All vertical maws on their chests opened wide as low, rumbling war roars transformed into visible elemental shockwaves that spread outward, attempting to force the hidden enemy into the open.
The vertical eye between Jie Ming’s brows blazed to its limit as the perception network of the Incense Fire Divine Dao spread out in sync.
Every fragment, every wisp of stellar radiation, and every possible phase layer where an enemy might hide was drawn into his perception.
Yet nothing was found.
There were no enemies, no residual traces of attack, not even the slightest hint of anything “abnormal.”
“This…”
Jie Ming’s face darkened. Without hesitation, he activated the All-Purpose Eye!
As a spell designed purely for research, using it in combat was simply asking for trouble!
After all, as his own knowledge accumulated, the amount of information the All-Purpose Eye could collect grew exponentially. At this stage, it had already reached an exaggerated level.
But now that he couldn’t even detect any trace of the enemy, there was no room to worry about anything else.
The All-Purpose Eye unfolded at full power. As the scanning range rapidly expanded, a massive flood of information surged into his mind.
Relying on the Fate Subsystem and the Five Aggregates Rainbow Mirror to share the processing load, along with the sorting talent granted by the Entropy Brain, and his current Dao Integration Realm state, Jie Ming barely managed to organize the flood of information mixed with vast amounts of useless data.
Yet… he still found nothing!
“Damn it!” Jie Ming’s expression turned grim.
In the next instant, the second Black Giant’s chest exploded open, followed immediately by the third.
Just like the first, they were all instantaneous penetrations without any warning.
Whatever it was seemed to not exist at all, yet also seemed to be everywhere.
It did not attack from any direction, nor did it strike from any observable spatial layer. Instead, it directly inserted “damage” into the target’s body.
Molten Mountain was the last to fall.
He was larger than the other three, and his core was buried deeper.
The moment he sensed danger, he sank his energy core to the deepest part of his abdomen. Three layers of high-density liquid metal stacked in front of it, forcibly forming a protective wall as thick as a city rampart.
Yet that invisible force still passed through as easily as piercing paper.
Both the protective layers and the core shell were ineffective against such an attack.
Puchi!
A hole the size of Molten Mountain’s own fist appeared in the center of his core.
His massive body shuddered violently. Before the Dao Soldier System teleported him away, his chest maw opened and closed once in Jie Ming’s direction, as if warning him to be careful.
The instant Molten Mountain was teleported away, Jie Ming received all the combat data the other party had sent back through the Dao Soldier System—impact location, penetration path, protective layer failure process, energy absorption talent feedback curve…
All the information ultimately pointed to the same conclusion: this was not any form of attack within his understanding.
“Troublesome…”
Even as he said this, an irrepressible greedy gleam appeared in Jie Ming’s eyes.
For a wizard, incomprehensible unknowns were an unimaginable temptation.
In the next instant, his head and half his torso vanished directly.
In the moment before destruction, the Return to Ruins Armor erupted with dazzling light as its energy stability field was forcibly pushed to the limit. Yet that invisible force still seemed to bypass the “defense,” opening a blank void on his body.
Dark golden divine radiance exploded from the remaining torso. A thousand-meter-tall true body manifested in space.
Immediately afterward, the five-hundred-kilometer-tall second-layer Dharma Form unfurled with a thunderous boom. Like an ancient divine statue rising once more in the void, it pressed down upon the entire star region, causing it to sink slightly.
But the enemy’s attacks did not stop.
The moment the Dharma Form took form, a penetrating hole dozens of kilometers wide blew open on the left side of its chest.
Golden light leaked from the edges of the hole like a breached lava waterfall.
Fortunately, the Dharma Form had no true “vital points.” It was a projection of power and laws, a pure combat incarnation.
The pierced sections would collapse, but only a portion of its energy was lost.
In a short time, the penetrating holes on the Dharma Form’s surface began to rapidly shrink and heal.
Yet the unknown enemy’s attacks continued without pause.
Shoulders, abdomen, neck… pierced again and again, only to heal again and again.
Throughout it all, Jie Ming’s expression remained calm.
Because he could clearly feel it—the body forging method was evolving!