The future of hybrids depends on you to dig graves!
Go for it!
The more Tong Ji spoke, the more unreliable Huai Shi felt, his expression gradually turning skeptical.
But Tong Ji rolled her eyes at him: "Think about the Rejuvenation Crystals, think about the technology on them, why can’t your brain turn the corner! It’s just a raid, what’s there to be afraid of!"
No, I’m not afraid of the raid... I’m afraid of you, okay!
Huai Shi shivered with anger.
While he was talking with Tong Ji, people were already stirring and getting up to sign the contract.
With the first person taking the lead, the majority of people followed suit, signing their names on Garandor’s contract relic, joining the tools-and-socks army.
Ragnar, Valery, and others were among them.
Of course, some knew their own limits, and after signing another contract, handed over their credentials and left.
When it was Iz’s turn, the man smoking a cigar looked at Garandor’s contract with a half-smile: "As for me, I’ll pass, okay? I don’t want to ruin your good thing."
Garandor glanced deeply at him, and after a long silence, he actually allowed him to retain his credentials and move freely.
For a moment, many people showed angry expressions, but they couldn’t say much.
Elder Priestess Emara was silent for a moment, and eventually wrote her name on the action participation contract. However, her name quickly disappeared, leaving only a remnant.
It was the divine blessing within her bloodline that shielded her from the contract’s constraints, granted by the grace of the Cat God, though she was still not free from its scope of influence.
Huai Shi watched enviously.
Being a God N’s descendant is so good,
even those oppressive contracts have no restraint.
Even now, with Huai Shi’s divine nature as the Great Priestess, he couldn’t resist the contract’s compulsion.
When Huai Shi’s name was written down, there was a brief spark of fire, which quickly extinguished, reducing merely a radical element.
This meant that if he violated any prohibited clause in the contract, he would face backlash.
In a way, Garandor already held a crucial aspect of his fate.
Seeing Huai Shi cooperate so willingly, Garandor was momentarily stunned, while Huai Shi retreated to the corner, smiling and stroking the Book of Fate within his soul without speaking.
He simply wasn’t worried at all.
No matter how strong the backlash, can it suppress his destiny in the Book of Fate?
At most, it’s just a small hassle.
Come on, could it be any more formidable than what’s contained within his Ruins?
As long as I have enough explosives tucked away, no one can harm me!
With this understanding, Huai Shi’s mood grew more pleasant.
In the end, those who signed the contract accounted for four-fifths of the original number, seeming that the collections in Helios and the guidance of the Great Grandmaster were more valuable than Huai Shi had imagined.
Unexpectedly, the alchemist Rachelle was also listed among the exploration team members.
Sweating profusely, his face pale, he was trembling in the corner.
Detecting Huai Shi’s gaze, his expression suddenly turned fierce, casting a gloomy look over.
As if he had been offended.
"Wow, so scary, so scary..."
Huai Shi sighed, shrugged, and looked away, turning his gaze to the dark space outside the resting room window.
Directly above Jupiter’s Demon’s Eye, Helios silently spun above the storm, its battered and perforated body reflecting the distant dim sunlight.
A phantom-like wail vanished into the darkness.
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About a few hours later, around three o’clock in the afternoon in Current Circumstances time, the Child of Leviathan, which had been circling around Helios repeatedly, finally confirmed the damage state of Helios from a distance.
"Not only has it lost parts that have been repaired and improved over these years, but even its original structure has been damaged."
After the projection, Garandor raised his cane, introducing the situation above to the first group of exploration team members: "Over the years, the outer residential areas built by alchemists have collapsed, and the production lines on both wings have not been spared.
The observation and experiment areas have suffered the most severe damage, while the circulation and material reserve zones are no longer existent, and most parts of Helios now fail to maintain a normal ecosystem.
In the worst estimation, over seventeen of the thirty-two Source Substance pathways inside Helios Workshop have been scrapped..."
The loss is undoubtedly grievous.
Who knows what kind of attack or disaster could have resulted in such a dire consequence.
As the Sun Chariot of yore, Helios Workshop itself symbolized the sovereignty of the sun, a relic of authority.
Aside from its functionally divided zones, its essence was also laid down according to the basics of Alchemy, divided into four framework layers of activity, creation, formation, and outflow.
Of course, depending on various translations and interpretations, it also carried aliases like divine nature, matter, etc., but that’s not important.
What’s important is that of the four realms keeping Helios Workshop operational, one is completely scrapped, two are severely damaged, and the remaining core formation realm cannot be observed externally.
The tri-pillar balance has been disrupted, and over half of the thirty-two vein-like Source paths have been lost... one can imagine the adverse conditions inside.
To ensure the safety of the first batch of alchemist explorers, Garandor has made preparations, from action routes to specific contingency measures, all in place.
But what Huai Shi was more curious about...
With so much information that would be considered top secret even within Helios, how did you come to know it?