This time, Angel planned to use the Array Plates to make a big move!
Closing his eyes, Angel didn’t enter the Crystal Origin of Dreams but opened God’s View through the Gate of Dreams. He then continuously placed the Array Plates into the Crystal Origin using the Dream Conch.
These array plates are positioned in various locations within the Crystal Origin of Dreams, with the farthest array plate being even a thousand miles apart!
Once all the array plates were set up, Angel took the last array plate and the Shadow of the Cage Skin Scroll, and entered the Crystal Origin of Dreams.
Opening his eyes, Angel’s location was still in the safe zone.
Angel measured the position slightly, and finally placed the array plate in his hand at the exact center of the safe zone.
As this array plate fell, the other 137 array plates that Angel deployed throughout the Crystal Origin of Dreams began to emit a gentle glow at their respective positions.
The function of these array plates is really only one: to magnify the effect of the core position.
And the core position is the array plate where Angel currently stands.
Angel activated the Shadow of the Cage, slowly placing it on the array plate.
In an instant, the massive Shadow of the Cage reappeared in the sky.
Laplace also noticed the Shadow of the Cage, but this time, to Laplace’s surprise, she couldn’t see the edges of the Shadow of the Cage at all?!
Laplace seemed to think of something, and while fighting the magic monsters, she transmitted to Angel: "How big... how big is your Shadow of the Cage this time?"
Angel: "Three thousand miles."
Laplace was taken aback, muttering softly: "You really went big this time, never mind, let’s not worry about you for now."
Laplace resumed fighting, while Angel returned to God’s View.
In God’s View, a three-thousand-mile cage isn’t actually big, not even one percent of the size of the Crystal Origin of Dreams.
Angel could indeed make the Shadow of the Cage bigger, five thousand miles, six thousand miles, or even tens of thousands of miles. But there’s no need, as currently, no magic monsters are beyond three thousand miles.
In other words, the Shadow of the Cage now covers all the magic monsters!
Laplace said that using the Shadow of the Cage to gather monsters is slow, and Angel agreed. He couldn’t improve the speed of gathering monsters; the only improvement he could make was to cover a wide area with the Shadow of the Cage, continually compressing the activity area of the magic monsters. Finally, all the magic monsters would be confined to one area.
This is Angel’s real plan.
Speed doesn’t matter, I’ll go for numbers, catching them all in one fell swoop!
With the Shadow of the Cage set, Angel now needs to compress the space for the magic monsters. Previously, Angel used the "Thorny Forest" method for space compression, and this time, he planned to make slight modifications.
In addition to the "Thorny Forest," Angel also activated a new Magic Rune Scroll: the Sea of Electrocution!
The Sea of Electrocution, like the Thorny Forest, is a control-type Magic Rune Scroll. However, the Thorny Forest relies on the tenacious and indestructible thorns paired with venomous spikes to compress the magic monsters’ activity space. In contrast, the Sea of Electrocution works by conducting electricity through diffused mist, using water droplets in the air as electric chains to paralyze and confine the magic monsters.
The advantage of the Sea of Electrocution is its fast diffusion speed, achieving control effects swiftly.
Its drawback is also evident; the damage isn’t enough, resulting in a generally average control effect.
However, the Sea of Electrocution has a trait where the strongest electrifying effect is at the edges, and the weakest is at the very center. The electrifying effect decreases progressively from the edges to the center.
The control effect at the edges is actually higher than that of the Thorny Forest.
This trait will cause the magically affected creatures to instinctively move towards the center with weaker effects, coupled with the ever-spreading Thorny Forest, ensuring that the magic monsters are ultimately trapped at the center.
Numbers don’t matter, nor does size, without corresponding wisdom, one can only be trampled.
After setting up everything, Angel returned once more to the humble position of offering molted scales to the big shot.
As time slowly passed, Angel lost track of how many times he supplied Laplace with molted scales.
Finally, as Laplace turned the entire vicinity into a smoke-filled zone, the air began to condense with mist.
The appearance of the mist meant that the Sea of Electrocution finally diffused to the surrounding area.
Sure enough, within a few seconds, the crackling sound of electric currents began to emerge in the sky. Lightning Serpents darted through the mist, bringing along a chorus of screams from the magic monsters.
The currents’ effects weren’t causing significant damage to the magic monsters but made them extremely uncomfortable, prompting many to start congregating.
Laplace also noticed this fact.
Excluding the previous attempt by Angel to test gathering monsters, at most times, when she bombarded magic monsters, she could kill ten magic monsters at most per blast. But now, after the Sea of Electrocution appeared, she managed to kill over ten magic monsters with each blast.
Thirty, forty were entirely possible.
This drastically increased her bombing efficiency by more than just a little bit.
And this was just the prelude to Angel’s grand scheme of large-scale monster gathering!
Before, Laplace pondered how long it would take to completely clear the area; now, it seemed that perhaps it wouldn’t even take half a day to completely eliminate these bizarrely shaped magical creatures.
Seeing the hope of a thorough resolution, Laplace’s enthusiasm soared, leading to consecutive bombardments that even induced small-scale spatial oscillations.
Fortunately, Laplace was wearing Simos’s Skin, otherwise, these spatial oscillations might have harmed her.
Laplace paid no mind to the spatial oscillations, but Angel was startled.
Not worrying about Laplace bombarding the Crystal Origin of Dreams now is because future restoration could rely on authority slowly. But if continuous spatial oscillations were induced, potentially causing spatial collapse, given how recently this new world—the Crystal Origin of Dreams—had been born, it likely wouldn’t withstand such events.
It would be unfortunate if, after clearing out the magic monsters, their actions caused the Crystal Origin of Dreams to rupture.
To avoid this outcome, Angel hurriedly signaled Laplace to exert control as much as possible.
Even though Laplace was somewhat dismissive, she heeded Angel’s request and avoided extensively bombarding spaces that were structurally weak.
Seeing this, Angel felt somewhat reassured.
However, another previously overlooked issue was reconsidered by Angel.
While gathering monsters could rapidly decimate them, if the space at the final gathering point was fragile, and consecutive moltings couldn’t completely exterminate them, wouldn’t that instead collapse the newly born space?
Previously, Angel didn’t care about the final gathering coordinates, but now it seemed necessary to make preemptive arrangements.
Either fix the final gathering location in a space with stable structure, or... simply reinforce the space at the cage’s center position!