246: Chapter 246 Take life and death lightly, fight if you disagree!

"Holy crap, isn't that the Honey Badger?!" Su Ming muttered with a scoff.

The Rock-Heavy Honey Badger had detailed records in the Federation Source Beast encyclopedia.

Its defensive capabilities were considered top-tier among Source Beasts of the same Rank; it was savage by nature, fearless of death, and extremely vindictive.

Once it set its sights on you, it would hunt you to the ends of the earth.

Its motto was exactly the same as its distant relative on Earth: "I am either fighting, or on my way to a fight."

"Roar…!" The Rock-Heavy Honey Badger had obviously discovered him too.

It expressed extreme dissatisfaction toward this two-legged creature that had disturbed its afternoon nap.

It crawled completely out of the cave, its four limbs as thick as bridge piers.

The twenty-five times gravity pressing down on its body didn't slow it down; instead, it allowed its limbs to gain even stronger traction with every step.

Without any hesitation, it kicked off with its hind legs, and its massive body transformed into an out-of-control heavy tank, charging straight at Su Ming.

Su Ming stood his ground. Not only did he not dodge, but his eyes actually lit up.

"You've got quite the temper when you wake up…" He muttered, stepping forward instead of retreating, charging toward the giant beast.

The size difference between the man and the beast was immense.

On the monitoring screen at the distant outpost, this scene looked like a regular person foolishly attempting to stop a high-speed train with their bare body.

The edges of the screen were already filled with fine static, and the outlines of the meteoric rocks in the distance were slightly distorted in the rising heat waves… If they went any deeper into the core area, the signal would be completely lost.

"Is he crazy?!" Station Chief Xu Zheng stared at the screen and shouted involuntarily.

However, the next second, everyone in the command room witnessed a scene that made their scalps tingle.

The muscles in Su Ming's right arm bulged slightly, his fingers clenched tight, and he threw a simple punch toward the massive head capable of smashing through alloy walls.

No Source Energy. No battle skills. All there was, was the ultimate purity of… mass and force!

Bang…! The sound rolled through the rock walls.

Su Ming felt the impact of a hard object on his arm, and his sinking star casual wear rippled with a circle of silver patterns.

The Rock-Heavy Honey Badger's momentum was stopped on the spot.

Its eighty-ton body hung in mid-air; the rock armor covering its head caved in first, and then cracked all the way from its forehead to its back.

It couldn't even finish its roar before its entire body flew backward, crashing back into the cave!

It twitched twice and then went still. The rock wall collapsed inward for over ten meters.

Mining dust poured out of the cave entrance, hitting Su Ming's face. A few grains got into his nose, making him turn his head and cough.

Su Ming waved his hand to clear the dust and walked into the cave. The Rock-Heavy Honey Badger lay in the middle of the rubble, its limbs still in a charging posture, but the life force within its body had dropped to zero.

One punch! Instant kill!

A normal Rank 7 hunting team wouldn't dare face this thing head-on without the coordination of two control-type members.

"So much for defense, huh?" He crouched down and placed his palm on the shattered rock armor. "Devour."

A suction force emanated from beneath his palm. The Rock-Heavy Honey Badger's body began to collapse from the point of contact, its fur, rock armor, flesh, and bones decomposing layer by layer.

The escaping Source Energy was pulled back into his palm just as it was about to merge into the surrounding mineral layers.

A minute later, the massive eighty-ton body had vanished! Only a bit of useless grayish-black residue remained on the spot.

[Ding! Successfully devoured Rank 6 Source Beast: Rock-Heavy Honey Badger, mass points +3000!]

[Detected trace amounts of the Gravity Law within the target's surface bones…]

Gravity Law? These four words were worth far more than 300,000 mass points.

Su Ming's fingers tightened. He still had a Poison Law fragment lying in his spatial equipment.

When he had absorbed the remnants of the Void Realm Law previously, the System had already strengthened his sequence abilities.

Now, the compatibility between the Gravity Law and his own gravity System would only be higher.

Su Ming immediately asked: "Can it be extracted?"

[The Law remnants within low-Rank Source Beasts are relatively chaotic. Consume 5000 mass points for high-dimensional separation and purification to extract a micro Law crystal core.]

Five thousand for one Law crystal core. It was so cheap that it didn't seem like the System's usual style. Su Ming didn't even bother to haggle. "Extract!"

[Ding! 5000 mass points have been deducted. High-dimensional separation program initiated… Purifying… Ding! Extraction successful! Obtained: Micro Gravity Law fragment × 1.]

A fingernail-sized, translucent crystal emitting a faint earthy-yellow glow quietly appeared in his System space.

Before he could observe it carefully, a new notification sound followed.

[Ding! Detected homologous high-dimensional sequence… [Gravity Sequence]! Do you want to immediately absorb this Law fragment to randomly strengthen a [Gravity Sequence] related skill?]

Here it comes! "Strengthen!"

[Absorbing Law fragment… Matching the optimal strengthening sequence… Matched: Void Gravity Domain! Strengthening initiated…]

A warm current surged out from the System space, merging into his limbs and bones, and finally flowing into the Star Core Embryo inside his body that was slowly rotating at every moment.

The [Void Gravity Domain] skill icon flashed with golden light on the panel. A few seconds later, the light faded. [Strengthening complete!]

Su Ming immediately pulled up the skill details.

[Void Gravity Domain · Lv2] (Gravity Sequence)

[Effect: Using oneself as a singularity, project a distorted gravity field into the surrounding space, capable of constructing a controllable gravity suppression zone within a twelve-meter radius. Within the Domain, you can freely adjust the gravity multiplier experienced by enemy units… The range is from 0.08 times to 12 times (based on the target's own mass). Enemies will simultaneously suffer the dual impact of mass crushing and spatial tearing; adds weak continuous spatial tearing damage, ignoring a portion of physical defense.]

Su Ming clenched his fist, feeling the stronger sense of control over gravity within his body.

The Domain coverage radius increased from ten meters to twelve meters. The controllable gravity multiplier range's lower limit dropped from 0.1 times to 0.08 times, and the upper limit increased from 10 times to 12 times!

Looking at the data alone, the growth wasn't exaggerated. But with the radius expanding by two meters, the coverage area increased by nearly half.

And this was only the first micro fragment. "Law fragments… they really are good stuff!"

He had killed thousands of Magic Spiders in the Black Spider Canyon, many of them Rank 6, and hadn't even touched a hair of a Law. Yet here, he just happened to run into a Rank 6 Honey Badger, and it dropped one.

The map Rank determines the drop quality. He could find Rank 6 items in the periphery. What about the core area?

The military archives recorded that the Abyss of Heavy Prison was confirmed to contain Rank 8 Mountain-Crushing Armored Armadillos, along with an unknown number of other Source Beasts.

Once Source Beasts reached Rank 7, their flesh and blood would gradually evolve into an energy form. After coming into contact with Laws, they would gestate Law Remains in their bodies. Shen Hongyuan's words echoed in his ears.

A Rank 6 Honey Badger could yield one micro fragment. Rank 7 Law Remains, which were already stable, formed high-dimensional tissues, should be at least a size larger, right?

And Rank 8 would be even higher! If he killed a few more and strengthened all of his Gravity Sequence skills… Su Ming licked his lips. He had really come to the right place!

Originally, he had entered the Abyss of Heavy Prison just to find a sturdy enough place to complete his fourth life form promotion. Now that he looked at it, this place was a dungeon, a mine, and a wholesale market for Law fragments.

"I have to go to the core area." He strode forward, heading toward the direction that even Rank 9 powerhouses were wary of.

Behind him, in the command room of Outpost No. 3, a dead silence had long since fallen. Everyone stared with wide eyes at the surveillance screen.

On the screen, the scene of Su Ming colliding with the Rank 6 Rock-Heavy Honey Badger was slowed down ten times and played on loop.

The thermos in Station Chief Xu Zheng's hand fell to the floor with a "clang," but he didn't even notice. He muttered to himself, his voice filled with absurdity and confusion.

"I… I just… I think I saw that Rock-Heavy Honey Badger…" "Fly away?!"