"Leodero!"
Luo En's shouts trembled in the air.
"Boom—!"
A muffled thunder rumbled in the sky.
The gaze of an Unnamed Personage, carrying indescribable majesty, penetrated the clouds and focused on this primitive island.
!!!
The high-level existences on the island all felt a moment of bewilderment simultaneously.
"Boom—!"
Deafening thunder tore through the sky, and a blinding lightning bolt descended from the heavens, splitting the Darkness. This was followed by a second, then a third… Countless lightning bolts suddenly appeared in the clouds, twisting into spears of thunder that rained down from above.
Those shimmering bolts of lightning accurately struck various parts of the island, each carrying destructive power.
An exceptionally thick pillar of lightning suddenly struck the ruins entrance a hundred meters away, destroying and dissipating the terrifying giant hand before it could fully descend.
However, the destruction of that giant hand, which represented decay, did not mean that everything was completely over.
An Unnamed Personage, his existence attracted the Tyrant who controls lightning in the Astral World. Compared to that giant hand, this one was clearly more disliked by Him.
A more terrifying thunderstorm than before brewed in the sky, its dreadful aura as if the heavens themselves were about to collapse.
"No way… This is terrifying!"
Feeling this world-destroying power, Luo En instinctively shielded the person and the Orange Cat beside him. The moment a blinding bolt of lightning struck, he only heard a deafening explosion.
Then the world plunged into Darkness.
…
'An unexpected turn of events.'
An Unnamed Personage was somewhat disheveled at this moment. Compared to the Tyrant who wields lightning, He was not skilled in direct combat.
He had to get away quickly!
At the last moment, He glanced at the unconscious Luo En.
The experiment… temporarily halted.
…
"Le-o…" Fragmented sounds came from the divination screen.
"Strange! What on earth happened?"
Above the Grey Mist, Klein, sitting at the bronze long table and watching the live broadcast, was a bit confused.
He only saw faint, indistinct images, barely able to make out that Luo En seemed to be on an island at the moment.
Then, a peculiar cacophony of animal howls came from the screen.
"What exactly happened…?" Klein instinctively leaned forward.
He had never encountered such a situation before. Logically, divination should only have two outcomes: success or failure. This was the first time he had seen images appear, yet remain fragmented.
Boom—
"Is that thunder?"
The image before him suddenly became a bit clearer. Klein seized this opportunity, attempting to capture the information he needed.
"Where is Lorne. De Senck?"
"Oh, a clear image appeared."
The scene shifted, and he saw an island being ravaged by lightning. Countless lightning bolts formed a cage, engulfing the island.
"This…"
He instinctively shifted his gaze, looking towards the sky, wanting to see what was going on.
Huh?
The Unnamed Personage in the sky seemed to have noticed his gaze as well.
Suddenly, a lightning spear rapidly shot towards the direction of Klein's gaze.
The terrifying aura directly penetrated this image, as if it could strike him directly through the divination.
Klein was so frightened that he collapsed onto the bronze long table.
"Good, good thing it was just divination…"
"I wasn't actually there myself," Klein muttered to himself, still shaken.
When he looked up again, he found that the divination screen had disappeared.
"What on earth did this Lorne. De Senck encounter?"
Somehow, Klein suddenly felt an inexplicable unease.
"My life isn't going to have more trouble, is it…?"
…
In a void.
Luo En looked at the three card players around him and gently shook his head.
"Now… it seems there's no need to pause," he said, fanning out a string of cards. "Let's continue this hand."
…
"Hooch…"
Luo En was awakened by the sound of waves. He looked around somewhat blankly, finding himself lying on a platform resembling a reef.
Beside him was Tracy, still unconscious, the girl lying quietly there.
Luo En reached out to touch her neck, only exhaling deeply after feeling a faint pulse. The Orange Cat in his satchel was also still breathing, its small body gently rising and falling with each breath.
"Good… they're all still alive…" After confirming that neither had fatal injuries, Luo En's tense nerves relaxed slightly.
"Is it because I'm a 'Lucky One' that I'm fine…?"
"Oh, the island…" Luo En suddenly remembered something, abruptly sat up, looked around, anxiously searching for something.
"Where's the island? Such a big island?"
"I remember, finally… finally there was lightning…" Luo En frowned, carefully recalling the scene before he fainted.
"Wait! Could it be…"
Suddenly, he thought of a terrifying conjecture: this piece of land under his feet was not a reef at all, but the remnants of that island.
That huge, primitive island had been destroyed!
Luo En couldn't help but shiver. He swallowed, mechanically turning his neck to look at the surrounding sea.
Trees, wreckage… all sorts of things floated on the sea, and coupled with the smell of burning that even the sea breeze couldn't disperse, everything clearly indicated one fact… the island had been destroyed. No, more accurately, it had been erased.
The area of this island was not small; it was at least half the size of a city, yet it was instantly… Luo En once again directly experienced the terror of a high-level existence.
"Rose School of Thought!" His memories suddenly connected. "We were being hunted by the Rose School of Thought's Monster…"
"Then, I remembered what was in the guide…"
"What was I supposed to shout according to the Beyonder Guide? Damn it! I can't remember."
Luo En scratched his head in frustration. He was certain that the island was destroyed after he shouted a certain word, but he couldn't recall that word at all.
It was as if someone had precisely excised this small piece from his memory.
"Could this be a dangerous summoning spell?" He suddenly thought of a possibility.
His inability to remember was actually a special self-protection mechanism, because the power of this spell was simply too great, too great to bear, so his spirituality automatically blocked this information.
But the previous situation was one where no help came from heaven or earth, and in a desperate situation, he could only remember… and now that the danger was over, he naturally forgot again.
"Indeed, thinking that way makes sense. No wonder the guide said to only shout it when encountering an insurmountable situation; so there was this deeper meaning…."
"The guide is indeed useful."
"Something seems to be floating over." Before Luo En could even sigh in relief, something floated towards him from a distance, carried by the ocean current.
It was a bizarre corpse.
Luo En's pupils suddenly contracted.
The floating corpse bumped against the edge of the reef. When Luo En leaned closer to examine it, he found that it had been dead for a long time. Much of its skin had completely rotted away, exposing white bone. Three slimy tentacles protruded from beneath a tattered brown jacket, and gray-green scales were falling off.
He also noticed a peculiar Beyonder reaction on this corpse.
"A Beyonder's corpse?"
After confirming that the other party would not reanimate, Luo En reached out to search, eventually finding a card-like item.
A card? Not another poker card, is it…?
Before Luo En could pull out the card, he noticed more unusual objects floating on the sea… seemingly all corpses of Beyonder creatures that had died tragically from the lightning strike.
These corpses slowly converged towards the reef under the influence of the ocean currents.