208: Chapter 207 The Origin of the Abyss, the Ancient Rulers

Meanwhile, the global live stream feed froze on the moment Luo Yu stood on Godzilla's shoulder to make his declaration.

In front of 1.2 billion screens, 1.2 billion different kinds of fanaticism were presented.

In the capital of the Dragon Country, no one was sitting in their seats at the Supreme Command Headquarters meeting room.

Several generals wearing golden stars stood in front of the screen. Their teacups were tilted, tea spilled onto the mahogany tabletop forming a puddle, but no one bothered to wipe it up.

I don't know how long passed, but the Supreme Commander took a deep breath and said: "Pass the order down. All military factories in the country are to stop producing defensive construction materials and fully switch to producing abyssal mining equipment. Transport aircraft squadrons are to be on 24-hour standby. Move all heavy construction machinery we can mobilize to the East Sea Wormhole."

A staff officer nearby stood at attention, saluted, turned, and ran out of the conference room. His leather shoes made sharp, urgent sounds on the corridor tiles.

At the East Sea Defense Line front-line command post.

The General Zhan Kuang, the Old General, threw his just-broken cigarette holder into the trash can and fished out a box of special cigars from the very bottom of his drawer.

He usually couldn't bear to smoke these, but today he made an exception.

He clipped the end of the cigar, struck a match, and smoke filled the tent.

"General, Marshal Luo Yu's communication..." the signal soldier turned to report.

"Tell him I'm smoking a cigar and don't have time for him." The General Zhan Kuang exhaled a cloud of blue smoke, pointed at the screen with the cigar held in his fingers, "Tell that kid he must come back safely. I'm going to buy him ten pure gold cigarette holders myself!"

"Yes!!"

Outside the tent, the soldiers threw their hats into the air, and their howling drowned out the sound of the ocean waves.

...

Eagle Country, White House.

The President sat in the leather swivel chair in the Oval Office, his tie pulled crookedly.

Dr. William's laboratory had been destroyed, Mechagodzilla had become scrap metal, and Eagle Country had completely lost its bargaining chips against the Dragon Country in terms of high-end military power.

Now, even the Abyss World had been incorporated into that young Dragon Country man's territory.

Thinking of this, he picked up the encrypted phone on his desk and dialed the dedicated line to the head of the Western European Alliance.

"We need to prepare money, a lot of money."

The President said into the receiver: "Go to the Dragon Country and line up to buy mining quotas for various mineral veins in the Abyss World. Don't mention any alliance agreements. They are now the dual masters of the Earth's core and the abyss."

And so, the global landscape changed completely on this day.

Meanwhile, in the Abyss World, in a 30-kilometer-wide underground cavern, Luo Yu turned off the global broadcast permissions.

His ears were finally quiet.

He patted Godzilla's scales.

The king of the titans adjusted his stance from his compact 300-meter posture and lowered his head.

Luo Yu looked at the The Three Kings standing on the side.

Abaddon, Belial, and Azathoth.

These three supreme beings who had ruled the abyss for 47,000 years were now so obedient that they had even adjusted their breathing frequencies to the lowest level.

Especially Abaddon; he had the largest physique, but at this moment, with his wings tucked in, he stood there, making his 3,000-meter dragon body look surprisingly like a nervous attendant.

"You three," Luo Yu spoke.

The The Three Kings bowed their heads simultaneously.

"Lead the way."

Abaddon raised his head, his nine broken horns shaking. This short instruction really left him a bit confused.

"Where to?"

He asked through a mental connection.

"The Abyss Core."

Luo Yu pointed to the purple crystalline rock layer under his feet, "You've ruled the abyss for so many years, you must have a piggy bank. The purest energy veins, the highest-dimensional source pool, take us there."

The The Three Kings fell into a collective silence. Of course, they had a piggy bank.

The Abyss Core was the source of energy for the entire Abyss World, and it was the only forbidden area that they hadn't divided among themselves and had guarded together when they first carved up their territories.

The energy purity there was so high that even they didn't dare to swallow it in big gulps, only daring to absorb it bit by bit over long years.

Now, this newly appointed "Abyss Lord" wanted to go there.

To do what? Sightseeing?

Abaddon looked at Godzilla's mouth, which had just chewed up two Ninth-Tier Giant Beasts, and crossed the "sightseeing" option off his list.

"That is the foundation of the abyss," Azathoth's six eyes flashed with purple light, conveying a message with slight hesitation, "If the core is damaged, the spatial barrier of the Abyss World will become fragile, and the difficulty for High-Dimensional Hunters to tear through space will decrease."

"You are afraid of High-Dimensional Hunters because you can't beat them."

Luo Yu couldn't help but laugh, reaching out to point at Godzilla, saying: "Godzilla just tore a piece of skin off a High-Dimensional Hunter. Do you think if a High-Dimensional Hunter comes back, it will settle scores with you first, or with Godzilla first?"

"..."

Azathoth stopped speaking.

"Lead the way. Don't make me say it a third time."

Abaddon sighed, whipping up a scorching whirlwind, then turned around. His twelve pairs of tattered wings pressed against his back, and he took a step toward the deepest part of the cavern.

Belial and Azathoth followed behind.

Godzilla walked with unhurried steps, following behind the The Three Kings. Mothra circled in mid-air, scattering specks of golden light, illuminating the dark abyss. Pandora poked half its head out from Luo Yu's sleeve, its single eye darting around. It was more sensitive to high-concentration energy than anyone else, and it was already drooling.

The tunnel led downward.

The further down they went, the deeper the color of the purple crystalline rock layer became, changing from light purple to deep purple, and finally to a near-black dark purple.

The energy concentration in the air rose exponentially. Ordinary humans wouldn't survive a second here; their blood vessels would be burst by the violent energy.

Luo Yu had his atomic shield for protection, plus his own spiritual power value of over 900 billion, so walking here was no different from strolling in a backyard garden.

After walking for about two hours, the tunnel ahead suddenly opened up.

An underground space ten times larger than the one above appeared before their eyes.

There was no daylight here; the only source of illumination was a lake in the very center of the space.

It wasn't a lake made of water; it was pure, liquefied Abyss World source energy.

The lake water appeared a strange purple-gold color, with no ripples on the surface, calm as a mirror. The lake was surrounded by circles of giant crystal pillars, each over a thousand meters high, carved with naturally formed energy circuits.

"We're here."

Abaddon stopped.

Luo Yu stood on top of Godzilla's head, overlooking the purple-gold lake.

"Nice place."

Godzilla's reaction was more direct than his. The moment its vertical pupils saw the lake, they shrank into two thin lines. The red light on its dorsal fins turned from dim to bright, and a "rumble-rumble" sound came from its throat.

It was hungry.

Really hungry.

Those Ninth-Tier Giant Beasts and High-Dimensional Hunter larvae from earlier were just appetizers; this lake was the main course.

"Go ahead," Luo Yu patted its horn, "Eat as much as you want."

Godzilla took a big step forward.

Its 300-meter body began to expand as it walked toward the lake.

500 meters, 800 meters, 1,500 meters, finally settling at a Planet-level complete form of 1,900 meters.

Its massive body stepped into the purple-gold lake, and the liquid energy was displaced, surging outward.

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle!!

These purple-gold liquids made a sharp "hissing" sound upon contact with the high-temperature scales on Godzilla's surface, and a large amount of high-purity energy steam rose up.

Godzilla lowered its head and opened its giant maw.

The three kings of the abyss stood at the edge of the lake, watching this scene, their hearts bleeding.

Abaddon closed his eyes, unable to bear watching; Belial turned his head to the side; Azathoth's six eyes were wide open, and its rock-composed body trembled slightly.

This was the treasure they had guarded for 47,000 years, and usually, even taking a sip required careful calculation for fear of disrupting the energy balance of the core.

Now, Godzilla had stuck its head right in.

And so, in this situation, the purple-gold lake water dropped at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Godzilla's throat bobbed up and down, making a huge swallowing sound. With every gulp, the red light on its dorsal fins brightened by a notch.

The system panel jumped wildly before Luo Yu's eyes.

【evolution progress: 60.1%】

【evolution progress: 61.5%】

【evolution progress: 63.8%】

The numbers jumped faster than when eating High-Dimensional Hunter larvae. This was the purest source of the Abyss World, without impurities, requiring no complex digestion process, directly converted into fuel for the Planet-level nuclear reactor.

Luo Yu sat cross-legged in the horn groove and closed his eyes.

The energy feedback from Godzilla's feeding turned into streams of pure spiritual power, washing through his entire body.

912 billion.

930 billion.

950 billion.

Breaking the one trillion mark!

A faint white light appeared on the surface of Luo Yu's body. The strength of his atomic shield climbed again, even beginning to form a micro-gravity field around him, forcibly pulling in the free energy fragments in the air.

Mothra wasn't idle either.

She landed on a thousand-meter-high crystal pillar, spreading her wings. The light energy reacted chemically with the abyss source, converting those escaping purple-gold vapors into pure white specks of light, which she absorbed into her body.

Pandora was the most sycophantic.

It crawled out of Luo Yu's sleeve, slid down Godzilla's scales, and onto the lake surface. It didn't dare to compete with Godzilla for the lake water in the center, so it could only stick to the edge of the lake, opening its disproportionately large mouth and gulping down greedily.

The whole family was sponging off a rich host.

The scene of sponging was spectacular, and the host being sponged off was very uncomfortable.

Abaddon couldn't take it anymore and sent a message to Luo Yu through their mental connection: "Master. If the core energy is exhausted, the architecture of the lower abyss will collapse. The gravity system and spatial anchors here all depend on this lake to maintain."

Luo Yu opened his eyes and glanced down.

Godzilla had already drained a third of the lake water.

"What will happen if it collapses?"

"The abyss will experience large-scale earthquakes, rifts that cannot heal will appear on the surface, and many low-tier giant beasts will go extinct because they lose their living environment," Abaddon replied.

"None of my business."

Four words blocked everything Abaddon wanted to say next.

Luo Yu stood up and stretched. "The expeditionary force is here to receive resources, not to engage in ecological protection. How many Abyssal Giant Beasts die is a problem for you three to worry about. Only when Godzilla is full can he protect this world from being shattered by High-Dimensional Hunters. Which is more important? Can't your 47,000-year-old brain figure that out?"

Abaddon went silent. He could figure it out, but he still felt a bit heartbroken watching.

Godzilla's feeding continued.

When the lake level dropped to half, without any warning, a sudden change occurred.

The originally calm purple-gold lake water suddenly rolled violently. It wasn't because of Godzilla's swallowing, but because something at the bottom of the lake was surging upward.

An extremely ancient, decaying energy fluctuation carrying strong death qi broke through the rock layer from the depths of the lake and rushed straight to the surface.

Godzilla stopped swallowing and raised its head.

The purple-gold lake water was split from the middle, and a behemoth slowly emerged.

It was a skeleton.

A skeleton so huge it was hard to describe. It had no flesh or blood, the bones appeared a sickly grey-white, and the surface was covered with black patches. The form of the skeleton resembled some kind of multi-headed snake, with the cervical vertebrae branching into seven skulls, and ghostly green flames burning in the eye sockets of each skull.

The moment this skeleton emerged from the water, the temperature in the entire underground space plummeted. The purple-gold steam froze into ice crystals, falling down with a clatter.

The three kings of the abyss took a big step back when they saw this skeleton.

"What is that thing?" Luo Yu stared at the seven burning ghostly skulls and asked Abaddon.

Abaddon's mental fluctuation was filled with undisguised horror: "Old Ones... the remains of the first-generation ruler of the abyss. It was killed by us working together 47,000 years ago, and its bones sank to the bottom of the core lake. It should have been dead long ago!"

Something that should have been dead long ago was now climbing up.

The reason was simple.

Godzilla had drained half the lake water, destroying the sealing array at the bottom of the lake, and this remnant had awakened by instinct, or perhaps by greed for the abyss source.

It had no reason, only the instinct to protect its food.

The seven skulls turned to Godzilla simultaneously, the ghost-green flames flared, and a burst of highly corrosive death qi erupted, turning into seven grey-white beams of light, heading straight for Godzilla's face.

Having one's table flipped while eating is a very disappointing thing.

For Godzilla, this wasn't just disappointing; it was a provocation.

The seven grey-white beams of death qi hit Godzilla's face, making a harsh corrosive sound. White smoke rose from the surface of its Planet-level scales. It didn't break through the defense, but that sticky, cold feeling made Godzilla very unhappy.

Godzilla snorted, exhaling a stream of high-temperature air, blowing away the death qi on its face.

Then, it lowered its head, looking at the multi-headed snake skeleton floating on the lake.

"Hiss."

A low hiss echoed over the lake.

There was no anger in this sound, only the morning grouchiness of being disturbed during a meal.

The three kings of the abyss had already assumed a combat posture. Abaddon's broken horns lit up with dark red light, Belial's only remaining intact wing spread out, and Azathoth's six eyes reignited with purple-black flames.

"Master, this is the remains of an Old Ones. Although it has no reason, its bone hardness is extremely high, and the death qi is highly corrosive. We will assist you in clearing it out," Abaddon volunteered, knowing very well that this was a good opportunity to show their loyalty.