Hyper-Dimensional Player-Chapter 416 - 42: Slaying the Starship! Ascending the Celestial Vault! (Part 1)

Underground Nest City.

As Duncan dismembered the avatar of the Steel Angel, the entire Platform Layer of the Mechanical Divine Sect’s army lost all will to resist. Yet, the battle didn’t end there, for the Mechanical Defense Army still fought desperately, though it all seemed meaningless now.

The Law of Cause and Effect deduction showed that the higher-ups of the Mechanical Divine Sect decided to erase everything here.

Boom.

The Balancer of All Things opened a path to the upper layers, and Duncan gently took Konggs the Witch Demon’s skull, whispered a few words, and his figure turned into a stream of light, disappearing into the darkness.

By now, a pair of blood-red Dragon Wings had sprouted from Duncan’s back, as his figure entered the Platform Layer of Zone E.

The grotesque and dreadful Balancer of All Things transformed again, becoming an aggregate of countless vines, entering the underground tracks connecting the exit area of the Nest City like a ball of flesh.

Lady Fungus hesitated for a moment, then quickly followed.

As the three Evil God-level entities left, the intensity of the battle in Zone F46 decreased significantly, and some cultists abandoned their enemies to follow Duncan’s figure to the upper layer of the Nest City.

Dimension Space.

From a god’s-eye view, as soon as Duncan entered Zone E, he saw a blood-red marked unit.

——Crimson Maiden (Spring Goddess) (Ancient Evil) (Six-star Gold).

——Melting Core Beast (Son of the Mountains) (Ancient Evil) (Six-star Silver Gray).

——Demon Dream Blood Spirit (Swan Fairy) (Ancient Evil) (Six-star Silver Gray).

Clearly, an extremely brutal battle had erupted here as well.

At this time, the No. 1 Human Form seemed to possess the ability to perceive their soul’s essence, and upon seeing Duncan’s equally eerie and terrifying figure, all these blood-red marked units turned to Neutral Marks.

The marks on these monsters simply represented their former identities.

For example, the blood-red-skinned girl was once the Spring Goddess, possibly with concepts like rivers and elves, but she wasn’t transformed from a living Divine Spirit, because she is a life form of Spiritualization.

In other words, after she died, her soul was twisted into an Ancient Evil.

As for the Melting Core Beast on the other side of the Platform Layer, it was a hate born from divine relics, originally a minor deity with concepts of earth, mountains, and ridges.

Strictly speaking, they were resentful artifacts revived from the dead Divine Spirits of the old era.

"The Mechanical Divine Sect killed many gods of the old era back then!"

Currently, the closest to Duncan is the Demon Dream Blood Spirit, a twisted elf-like lifeform with a black swan’s head but a lower body akin to the Elf Species, with a pair of wide blood-colored wings, seemingly able to erode people’s thoughts and dreams, causing a certain degree of spatial distortion in the descended area.

It was an illusion overlapping with reality, fully visible from a god’s-eye view.

"Follow me!"

Duncan, not caring whether they followed or not, directly entered a vertical lift channel, and behind him, the Balancer of All Things had already surged like a green tide through the Platform Layer, and Lady Fungus spread countless spores, her figure turning into a massive fungal aggregate.

Zone E, Zone D, Zone C, Zone B.

Duncan’s figure broke through one Platform Layer after another, encountering descending Evil God monsters nearly every other Platform Layer. From this, it could be inferred that this world once had quite a few Divine Spirits, possibly more than one Pantheon camp.

Among them, there were also units without old era Divine Spirit marks, and those were the true Void Creatures.

They paid no attention to Duncan, instead rampaging across the Platform Layer, madly devouring the souls of the mortals in the real world. Some were casually dealt with by Duncan, while others he couldn’t be bothered with.

On the B Zone Platform Layer, countless flesh aggregates had already spread along the deck, extracting nutrients from the corpses, incubating organ-like structures throughout the lower layers of the Nest City, seemingly nurturing vessels for the arrival of Void Demons. Some powerful Void Creatures attempted to tear through space to bring monsters from other layers directly here.

"Really a dance of demons!..."

Boom!

Amidst the exploding fragments of steel, Duncan’s figure finally broke through the B Zone Platform Layer, seeing the sky overhead a dull gray, the sun appearing as if shrouded in smog, casting only a dim, dusky glow. His figure soared into the sky, his gaze extending to a landscape of utter devastation.

Duncan had long predicted the dire state of the Third World, but seeing it firsthand still shocked him deeply.

This was nothing like a typical post-apocalyptic planet.

Even in a nuclear apocalypse, normally some other life would remain, but now, as far as his eyes could see, the entire planet had turned to desert with not the slightest bit of greenery, a distant heap of industrial waste like mountains, asphalt-colored pollutants spreading along the earth’s veins. The cracks in the land stretched to the horizon like heart-wrenching scars, with some even revealing the magma layers of the subterranean abyss.

The resource extraction by the Mechanical Divine Sect had penetrated to the planet’s core, leaving the surface world utterly uninhabitable for humans.

It’s almost beyond saving.

Resources exhausted.

One could only restart the elements of the planet to reconstruct its crust, mantle, and core structures.

Towering tens of thousands of meters, the vast Nest Cities stood on the surface, with the upper space of the Nest City being smaller, countless Mechanical Divine Sect’s Divine Halls present, with the uppermost being the data hub controlling the operation of the Nest City.