248: Chapter 248 What kind of class do you have, daring to use the same gravity field as me! (Two chapters combined)

"Roar...!"

A shrill roar that tore at the eardrums exploded from deep within the throat of the Mountain-Collapsing Armored Armadillo!

That was not just anger, but also mixed with heartache and despair!

That was its lifeline!

It was all the possessions it had accumulated bit by bit, enduring a hundred years of solitude deep within this desolate Abyss of Heavy Prison!

It was the source of its confidence to challenge overlords of the same Rank and to recover quickly after sustaining heavy injuries!

Now, it was gone!

It had been completely cleaned out right in front of its face by that bipedal creature!

The Mountain-Collapsing Armored Armadillo propped itself up with all four limbs, its thick claws stepping down continuously.

Boom!

Boom!

With every step of its claws, the meteorite rock beneath its feet would split open.

The cracks rapidly spread.

Centered on it, the invisible Gravity Domain climbed step by step like a tsunami!

Sixty times!

Seventy times!

The gravity was still rising.

The rock fragments suspended in mid-air sank abruptly, only to be propped up again by the disordered magnetic field.

Large chunks of Ore collided with each other, shattering into a dense rain of stones.

The black iron barbs on the cave ceiling emitted a harsh friction sound.

The next moment, patches of barbs crashed down like a rainstorm!

Su Ming stood right in that violent rain of meteorite rocks, his figure motionless.

Several sharp rock blocks, sufficient to smash through a main battle tank, were deflected by an invisible gravity field when they approached within half a meter of his body, whistling past the edge of his clothes.

Su Ming tilted his head and glanced at the frenzied giant beast.

"Didn't I just drink two sips of your water? Why are you getting so worked up?"

He leisurely moved his neck, producing a crisp "crack" sound.

"How about this, this place is fated with me. If you can push the gravity to a hundred times, I will respect you as a qualified bathhouse worker!"

"And then send you off with dignity..."

The word "you" had not even left his mouth.

That breezy sentence, "bathhouse worker," became the final straw that crushed the sanity of a Tier 7 restricted zone overlord!

A bathhouse worker?

It had guarded this Ore vein for over a hundred years.

No Source Beast dared approach the cave.

No Awakened could leave alive from under its claws.

Even when it was heavily injured in battle, it only drank a few sips of the meteor crystal heavy water.

As a result, now, this human had robbed its medicine and even said it was just a bathhouse worker?

Insult!

This was a blatant insult!

In the armadillo's scarlet beastly pupils, the last trace of sanity was replaced by a violent desire for death.

"Roar!"

The armadillo raised its head and roared.

The largest diamond-shaped carapace on its chest lit up with an earthy-yellow glow.

That piece of carapace had already been covered in cracks, but at this moment, it was forcefully pressed back into place.

A massive amount of Source Energy surged out from within its body, rushing along its bones into its chest cavity, and then spewing out from the surface of the carapace.

Su Ming's gravity perception immediately captured an abnormal fluctuation.

This was not a simple gravity enhancement.

It was a Law.

The armadillo was burning its own vitality, forcefully squeezing out that little bit of gravity Law within its body.

"Hum...!"

A circle of visible, viscous ripples violently expanded centered on the armadillo!

Within a radius of a hundred meters, the Gravity Domain began to continue expanding.

Seventy times.

Seventy-five times.

Eighty times!

Boom!

The ground beneath Su Ming's feet suddenly sank.

His legs sank half a foot into the meteoric iron rock layer.

Heavy pressure squeezed in from all directions.

The black iron barbs falling from the cave ceiling stopped in mid-air, and were subsequently crushed into curved fragments by the invisible force.

The suspended Ore also could not bear it, exploding into powder one after another.

A large number of dents appeared on the nearby rock walls.

The ground began to emit a low vibration.

If it were an ordinary Tier 7 Awakened, their body wouldn't be able to bear it anymore.

Yet Su Ming only lowered his head to look at his legs.

A slight sinking sensation came from his internal organs.

The feeling of an elevator weightlessness, his heart missed a beat.

The next second, the Star Core Embryo began to operate.

Five thousand tons of True Mass pressed into every single cell.

His bones, muscles, and internal organs stabilized simultaneously.

That gravity, sufficient to crush a Tier 7 powerhouse, was completely offset by the Star Core Embryo.

Su Ming moved his shoulders.

Crack!

The bones of his right shoulder made a crisp sound.

Crack!

His sternum, spine, and finger joints rang out simultaneously.

The armadillo's pupils constricted.

What had it just seen?

Under eighty times gravity,

This human...

Why could he still move?!

Su Ming raised his hand and patted the dust off his shoulder.

"Mhm, this strength is not bad."

A trace of extremely anthropomorphic... terror and bewilderment flashed across the armadillo's face.

The backlash brought by the overdraft of the Law had already caused its chest cavity to twitch continuously.

With every breath, a new crack would split open on its chest carapace.

But it couldn't stop.

Stopping meant death.

"Die!"

The armadillo suddenly exerted force with all four limbs.

The eighty times Gravity Domain was treated as an accelerator by it.

Its massive body rushed out instantly.

Its size exceeded thirty meters, yet its speed was so fast that the gravel in the cave didn't even have time to fall to the ground.

Its right front claw lifted.

Its five finger bones pressed through the air, emitting a piercing sonic boom.

This claw falling down was enough to split a small hill.

Su Ming did not dodge.

He merely raised his left arm to block above his head.

Bang!

The claw tip slammed into his left arm.

Subsequently, a crisp sound rang out.

Snap!

The armadillo's hardest finger bone snapped directly.

Its claw stopped above Su Ming's arm, its entire front limb freezing up.

Not only had its full-strength strike failed to harm the opponent in the slightest, but a counter-shock force so powerful it was unreasonable crazily poured back in reverse along the finger bones!

That excruciating pain was delayed by half a second before flooding into its brain through the nerves!

The extreme physical pain, intertwined with the cognition-defying scene before it, caused the restricted zone overlord's brain to completely crash.

How could this be?

It launched an attack under eighty times gravity.

The power of this strike had already exceeded its original limit.

Yet this human didn't even break his skin.

Su Ming glanced at the sinking star crystal lattice on his left arm, which had a circle of dark golden ripples knocked out of it.

[Repair Degree + 1.4%]!

"There's some strength, but not much."

Su Ming grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth.

The smile was bright, yet more terrifying than an abyss demon.

Instead of retreating, he strode forward against that terrifying eighty times gravity!

Boom!!

Su Ming's right leg violently kicked against the ground, and a meteorite deep pit with a diameter of over ten meters burst open beneath his feet!

Five thousand tons of True Mass, under the perfect command of the Mass Engine, transformed into a kinetic energy cannonball!

He couldn't even be bothered to use his fists.

With a backhanded slap, solidly and heavily, he struck the armadillo's face, which was distorted by bewilderment and excruciating pain.

"Slap!"

This sound was crisp and loud.

Following that... Boom!!

The Tier 7 restricted zone overlord, over thirty meters long and weighing hundreds of tons, flew backward while spinning crazily on the spot like a top hit by a baseball bat.

The carapace on half of its face, along with the flesh beneath, was directly shattered into powder by this slap, and dark golden blood mixed with shattered scales sprayed all over the sky like it was worthless.

Its heavy body collapsed an entire wall of the meteoric iron Ore vein behind it, which was dozens of meters thick!

The entire subterranean space shook violently from this impact, and countless huge rock blocks fell from the cave ceiling, emitting a dull wail.

The armadillo completely panicked.

Pain!

The previous punch was just an appetizer; this slap was the fatal one!

It now had only one thought in its mind.

Escape!

Get away from this monster!

It couldn't die!

The meteor crystal heavy water was gone, but it could find more.

The Immortal Cave was destroyed, but it could dig a new one.

As long as it stayed alive, a Tier 7 Source Beast had a chance to recover.

Disregarding the half of its face that had shattered into mush, it struggled to crawl up from the pile of rubble, using all four limbs, frantically trying to burrow into the Ore vein deep underground.

"Did I tell you that you could leave?"

A cold voice sounded behind it.

Su Ming made a grasping motion in the void with one hand.

[Gravity Anchoring]!

The armadillo felt as if the sky had collapsed.

No, more accurately than the sky collapsing... its entire body seemed to be welded in place.

Let alone escaping, even twitching a toenail had become an extravagant hope.

Su Ming pulled hard towards its direction across the air!

The armadillo, weighing a hundred tons, was yanked out of the deep pit like a tattered sack, flying toward Su Ming at high speed close to the ground.

The black iron scales on its body surface, harder than refined steel, rolled backward inch by inch under the terrifying gravity pull, spewing out large areas of blood mist.

Its body scraped a deep trench on the ground.

Eighty times gravity was its final trump card.

Facing Su Ming, its trump card was left as nothing more than a joke.

The armadillo emitted a low hiss.

"Human... you cannot kill me..."

Su Ming's footsteps paused.

"Oh? Tell me about it?"

"I have guarded the Ore vein for the King for a hundred years. If you kill me, you will also die here, and the King will even attack..."

Su Ming's gravity perception subconsciously swept toward the depths of the Ore vein.

It didn't sense anything existing there.

He pressed this information into the back of his mind without thinking too much about it.

"I thought there were treasures!"

Su Ming's right leg retreated half a step.

"Thud!"

The meteoric iron ground was stepped on, producing a clear circle of spiderweb cracks.

He raised his right fist.

There were no flashy light and shadow effects, no boiling Source Energy, only an uppercut driven by pure kinetic energy, condensing five thousand tons of mass!

At the same time, a thought stirred in his mind.

[Mass Resonance] synchronized and activated!

The high-frequency vibration source instantly transmitted along his arm to his fist edge.

Su Ming didn't want to waste time anymore.

Fighting like this, at least the corpse could be a bit more intact, and the mass points and Law fragments that could be extracted would also be more.

The fist edge hit the armadillo's already blood-muddled lower jaw with absolute precision.

The armadillo's final Law power inside its body erupted completely to resist!

The Gravity Domain shook once again.

"Crack..."

The dense crisp sound of bones breaking in a chain instantly drowned out all the storms and wails within the cave.

The pitiful Tier 7 exotic beast couldn't even emit a complete scream before its massive body was blasted vertically upward into the hard rock layer at the top of the cave by an irresistible giant force.

It was like an abstract mural, forcefully "embedded" inside, its four limbs hanging down limply, with only dark golden blood dripping down continuously along the gaps in the rock wall.

Its head... had already become a mass of mush.

Su Ming walked forward leisurely, ignoring the gravel falling from overhead, and raised his hand, gently pressing his palm against that dying giant head.

"Devour!"

Beneath his palm, a miniature black hole quietly operated.

[Ding! Successfully devoured Tier 7 Source Beast · Mountain-Collapsing Armored Armadillo, mass points + 520,000!]

[Detected that the target's Law remains contain a complete gravity Law...]

[Do you want to consume 10,000 mass points to perform high-dimensional stripping and purification to extract a small Law crystal core.]

Ten thousand?

It's more expensive than last time.

However, it is a "small" Law crystal core.

It should be a bit bigger than the "miniature" one, right?

"Yes!"

[Ding! 10,000 mass points have been deducted. High-dimensional stripping program initiated... Purifying...]

[Ding! Extraction successful! Obtained: Small Gravity Law Fragment × 1.]

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

[Ding! Detected homologous high-dimensional sequence... [Gravity Sequence]!]

[Do you want to immediately absorb this Law fragment and randomly strengthen skills related to the [Gravity Sequence]?]

"Yes! Strengthen!"

[Absorbing Law fragment... Matching optimal strengthening sequence...]

[Matched: Void Gravity Domain! Strengthening begins...]

The skill icon flashed with dazzling golden light once again.

A few seconds later, the light restrained inward.

[Strengthening complete!]

Su Ming immediately called up the skill details.

[Void Gravity Domain · Lv2] (Gravity Sequence)

[Effect: Taking oneself as a singularity, project a distorted gravity field into the surrounding space, and build a controllable gravity suppression zone within a radius of eighteen meters. Within the Domain, you can freely adjust the gravity multiplier suffered by enemy units... ranging from 0.06 times to 18 times (based on the target's own mass)...]

The radius increased from twelve meters to eighteen meters, and the coverage area became larger.

The upper limit of the gravity multiplier directly soared from 12 times to 18 times, and the lower limit was also suppressed even lower.

Su Ming touched his chin.

The improvement of the upper and lower limits didn't seem to be completely symmetrical?

The System prompt sounded:

[The upper limit of gravity suppression is essentially the gravitational output power.]

[It can be improved as long as you absorb enough Origin energy and Law fragments.]

[The lower limit of pressure weight reduction is the micro-control ability of gravity, requiring precise control of the force on each portion of mass, which tests the depth of understanding of the Law.]

"I see."

Su Ming thought of the loot he had "robbed," and with a thought, the stone trough containing the meteor crystal heavy water appeared in his hand.

"Drinking a few sips of this myself, will it also help with micro-control?"

"Let's taste it!"

He carefully took a sip from the stone trough.

About ten drops.

The weight of five thousand catties instantly plummeted from his oral cavity into his whole body... If any ordinary Tier 9 powerhouse came over, their head would be pressed into their chest cavity on the spot.

Sweet, refreshing, with a hint of metallic coolness.

The taste was not bad.

[Ding... Detected the absorption of meteor crystal heavy water Origin, synchronizing and strengthening [Void Gravity Domain · Lv2].]

[Current multiplier upper limit: 18 times → 20 times, gravity rule perception accuracy slightly improved.]

The effect was even better than expected!

Su Ming raised an eyebrow and immediately stopped being polite, taking another gulp from the stone trough.

Rising from 20 times to 21.5 times, the growth rate began to narrow.

But the micro-control precision of gravity had a qualitative leap.

He could clearly feel the force distribution of every piece of gravel at the edge of the Domain.

The third mouthful went down, 22.3 times!

The feeling of Origin filling was already close to saturation, and the buzzing of the Star Core Embryo changed from cheerful to perfunctory.

He took another sip.

22.8 times!

The star core began to push that energy outward, like a stuffed person seeing their fifth bowl of rice.

Su Ming didn't believe in evil, and gulped down the final mouthful.

The multiplier number jumped, finally stabilizing steadily at "23 times," refusing to budge anymore.

[Ding! Reached the meteor crystal heavy water gain threshold!]

[Description: The energy level of meteor crystal heavy water is at the basic gravity Origin level, which can only fill the basic potential of the current skill stage and cannot break through the energy level barrier; continuing to absorb will provide no multiplier gain, and can only slightly nourish the Origin.]

"Tsk, it's capped!"

Su Ming wiped the corner of his mouth, feeling somewhat unsatisfied.

The controllable multiplier range expanded from 0.06x ~ 18x to 0.05x ~ 23x, and the skill level remained Lv2.

"Getting a free 5x amplification, not a loss."

This kind of all-natural Heaven And Earth Treasure could save him at least two small Law fragments, which was already a huge bargain.

He looked at the last bit left in the stone trough, estimating there were only about ten drops left.

"Drinking it myself has no effect anymore, but if this stuff is taken out..."

Su Ming's eyes narrowed slightly.

For any Awakened on this planet, even just a single drop!

Was definitely a priceless treasure capable of rewriting the genetic ceiling and making countless aristocratic families fight head over heels for it.

"Not a wasted trip!"

He put away the stone trough with satisfaction.

Feeling the Star Core Embryo inside his body that had absorbed a massive amount of energy, Su Ming looked around the heavy-rock cave that he had made a complete mess of.

It was time!

Over six million mass points balance, an absolutely safe seclusion place, and the upcoming transformation.

Su Ming closed his eyes and issued an order to the System in his mind.

"System, start the Breakthrough!"

"Fourth Life Form!"