Chapter 769: Chapter 646: Battle of the Gods on the Periphery of the Black Hole!
Not only Lynn received the quantum communication, but Harrov, Vittorio, and others were also aware of this critical intelligence at the same moment.
They had not expected Lynn’s concerns to materialize so swiftly!
“Should we try to get the Geometric Civilization involved?” Aurora suggested.
Although the power of the council had strengthened considerably compared to before and Lynn had once again achieved a breakthrough, trying to contend against the gods of the main world alone was still a pipe dream—the only chance of victory was to pull the Geometric Civilization into the fray.
However, a suitable reason was needed, such as a rebellion within the empire, to seek their help.
“No, it would be best not to involve the Geometric Civilization in this matter,” Lynn shook his head, rejecting Aurora’s suggestion.
They had just proposed an agreement to exchange magic power for Element Number Seven, which had already aroused suspicion. Now to say that there was trouble within the Magic Empire and even needing the help of a “lower” civilization to overcome the crisis, could easily stir up ill intentions from the other side.
“Things might not be as bad yet; the reports suggest that the black hole hasn’t disappeared. This may just be a trial or a probing assault,” Lynn reassured.
The Wizard who had been monitoring the black hole reported several anomalies related to the Space-Time Gate—under the influence of the black hole, the gate’s size kept shrinking, yet there were instances where it suddenly expanded, and strange matter was seen bursting forth from it.
Lynn speculated it might be the gods from the main world experimenting on how to destroy or break through the black hole’s gravitational pull, and this time they had received a communication that was more urgent, clearly not a typical situation, and it was very necessary to go and see for themselves!
After some discussion, Rafael stayed behind to liaise with the Geometric Civilization and handle the ensuing material exchanges, while the rest passed through the wormhole immediately to provide support…
The distance between the places was vast, about fifty light-years, and even at twice the speed of light, it would take a whole twenty-five years!
Fortunately, they had placed a detector in the battlefield earlier, which allowed them to use it as coordinates to open the wormhole; the transfer took less than ten minutes in total. In contrast, traveling from the detector’s location to just outside the Schwarzschild radius of the black hole took a full day and night!
Dozens of the council’s warships had already been waiting there, forming a semi-circle around it.
However, to say it was surrounded seemed somewhat laughable, for under the immense encompassing area of the black hole, the warships appeared as tiny as drifting dust particles.
“What’s the situation?” Lynn stepped into the temporary command center, cutting straight to the chase without any nonsense.
It had been nearly thirty hours since they had received the report, and it was quite beyond Lynn’s expectations that the fleet stationed for defense hadn’t been completely destroyed yet.
“It’s… hard to say,” the High Wizard, hesitant at first, hurriedly recounted the developments.
After continuously swallowing six gods and dozens of galaxy-class warships fueled by antimatter, the event horizon of the black hole had expanded several times compared to the start, the edge even reaching and enveloping the Space-Time Gate.
Due to the intense gravitational pull of the black hole, not even light could escape, so it was impossible to see what was going on inside. However, that didn’t mean they had no way to obtain information.
Based on Lynn’s dimensional theories, they could directly deduce the occurrences inside by observing changes in the black hole’s gravitational waves.
The black hole was like a gigantic sphere placed on elastic fabric, causing a deep indentation of the surrounding space-time.
Meanwhile, the Space-Time Gate at the periphery was like placing a smaller sphere on the already indented edge of the elastic fabric, making the space-time indentation in that area even more pronounced.
Additionally, the two gravity sources also influenced each other; for instance, they observed that the energy maintaining the Space-Time Gate was continuously being pulled into the black hole, and its size was slowly shrinking.
Previous reports were due to sudden detections of increased gravitational strength at the Space-Time Gate, suspecting the gods on the other side were up to something.
However, now the situation was even stranger; inside the black hole’s event horizon, a third gravity source had appeared and was slowly moving out of the black hole’s event horizon.
“This object isn’t moving fast, and when we detected it, several hours had already passed since the event. According to the speed calculation, it should leave the black hole’s event horizon in about a day,” the High Wizard reported.
Lynn pondered for a while and immediately guessed that it must be a god crossing the boundaries.
A god exerting full force could generate extremely strong space-time forces, enough to cause very noticeable ripples at the edges.
It was just unknown which gods had come.
Most crucially, the battle couldn’t last too long, and it was best not to escalate the situation too much, lest it attract the attention of the Geometric Civilization.
On the other hand, the God of Life and Creation, burdened with a significant task, was drifting at the edge of the black hole’s event horizon.
This place was pitch black, even deeper than the boundless void, where time and space seemed to lose their meanings, with no concepts of up, down, left, or right. However, moving in the direction opposite to the gravitational vortex’s pull was always the right choice.
When he first entered this realm, underestimating the strength of the black hole’s gravity almost resulted in his direct absorption into it. Fortunately, the dominant artifact given to him by Morags played a crucial role at the critical moment, creating a reverse gravity field around him, greatly reducing the black hole’s gravitational vortex’s impact, thus avoiding a premature demise.
He didn’t know how long he had been flying—it could have been a day, a week, or half a month—but finally, light appeared ahead… It was light captured from the outside world by the black hole.
That also meant he was about to leave this damned place.
However, the God of Life and Creation didn’t feel relieved because he knew now was the most dangerous time.
About several hours later, the God of Life and Creation completely exited the encompassing range of the black hole’s event horizon, and what met his eyes was a resplendent Sea of Light—formed by matter absorbed and heated by the black hole, vast and conspicuous…
In the midst of that ring of light stood a figure, very blurred under the bright halo but emanating a strong oppressive aura.
Lynn was somewhat surprised that the only deity to have stepped into the grand cosmos was one who had previously been defeated by him. He was also aware that since the foe dared to enter this universe, they must be relying on something formidable and probably wouldn’t be easy to handle. He immediately raised the clustered Element Number Seven in his hand and said coldly,
“Low dimension… expand!”