The resplendent radiance streaked across the sky, like falling stars, descending into the distance.
The silhouette ford by starlight raised its head, glanced at the radiance in the sky, and then withdrew its gaze, focusing on the sign in front, covered by green trees, that read "Research Institute 196."
Then, without any regard for the brilliant radiance, its figure flashed, leaping over the door, directly entering the depths of the research institute.
Its speed was so swift, seemingly like actual starlight scattered from the sky.
This starlight rushed like a tide through the narrow corridors, washing over the dim pathways.
A giant rat, concealed in the shadows, was slowly exploring forward along the lonely and narrow corridor.
It seed like a newcor to this cold area, cautiously probing the depths of this mysterious region.
But behind it, the fierce starlight flowed in.
It seed to hear a sound, lifting its triangular head, slowly turned back, looking behind.
The brilliant starlight, like flowing water, instantly passed through its body, enveloping its entire form.
Its flesh and blood lted into this starlight, like ice and snow under the blazing sun, rapidly dissipating.
Yet, on its head, there was no expression of pain; even the corners of its mouth slightly lifted, revealing a bizarre smile.
In an instant, the starlight passed through the corridor, arriving at a vast space.
A giant ape was here, suspended from steel railings protruding from the space’s top, gazing over the entire space like an indifferent monarch.
The ape noticed the arrival of the starlight, bowed its head, pulled the corners of its mouth open, exposing bright red and nacing teeth.
Then it swung its arm, suddenly leaping out, heading toward that starlight.
Like a snowball splashing into a raging stream, the flowing starlight collided with the ape and without any hindrance passed through its body.
By this ti, the ape hadn’t yet hit the ground; its eyes widened, and a faint red light erged over its body, but in an instant, this red light blended into the starlight, becoming part of it.
Soon, the ape’s body, like a snowball falling into water, began to rapidly dissolve and disintegrate.
A blood-red eye’s outline erged on its body.
This eye struggled slightly, then extended its pupil, transforming into a strange ’smile,’ completely dissolving into starlight.
The flowing starlight quickly passed through corridors, roads, and spaces, disintegrating all life it encountered.
Eventually, it arrived at a circular hall.
The array within this hall was entirely shattered, seeming beyond recovery.
The starlight circled within this hall.
Ding—
A clear sound resounded at the world’s bottom layer, like piano strings being plucked from its depths.
Soon, a stone lotus within that hall seed gripped by so invisible force, slowly blossoming and closing.
Between its blooming and closing, a distorted fluctuation appeared in the void.
Ding—
Again accompanied by a sound seemingly from the world bottom layer, the dim starry sky was directly torn open, revealing a pitch-black channel.
The starlight rushed into this channel without hesitation.
It swiftly passed through the hall filled with rotating eyeballs, passed the giant eyeball’s corpse, and continued along the narrow corridor.
Soon, its figure passed through a shattered gate filled with debris, arriving at an already battered hall, crossing the hall to reach its center.
The entire vast space was illuminated by a deep blue glow.
Under this deep blue glow, the dispersed starlight slowly gathered, forming a blurred starlight silhouette.
This starlight silhouette raised its head, glanced at the giant egg overhead, then lowered its gaze to the glowing array beneath the stone egg.
At the array’s center, the ancient round platform continued to glimr.
The remnants of thunder scattered around the platform, resembling a recent powerful ’disassembly.’
Seeing this, the starlight silhouette lifted its hand, lightly pointing in the void.
Soon, so force seed about to erge in the void, but at the final mont, it suddenly disintegrated.
At this point, the starlight silhouette flickered briefly.
It raised its hand, glanced at the glimring round platform, then looked up at the giant stone egg radiating deep blue light.
Dispersed starlight gathered in its hand, but under that flickering deep blue glow, it faded away again.
After a brief silence, its figure suddenly disintegrated.
A pitch-black crack appeared behind it, and dispersed starlight instantly flowed into the crack.
The entire hall returned to silence, leaving only the giant stone egg still flickering with deep blue light.
Like the breath of a sleeper.
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Ruins
Expanding water plants grew along the giant lake, gently rippling in the translucent water.
Above these water plants, a giant bird with a wingspan of nearly ten ters swept through the sky.
It hung its head, watching the swimming fish flowing below in the lake, seemingly waiting for sothing.
Soon, grasping the opportunity, it dove down sharply, approaching the water surface, its sharp beak piercing the water, catching the fierce fish full of sharp teeth.
Chirp—
Accompanied by a clear call, it lifted its body, soaring into the sky.
Boom—
At that instant, a massive black shadow suddenly surged from beneath the water, followed by a giant mouth filled with nurous teeth erging above the surface.
The open giant mouth almost enveloped the entire giant bird, then bit down, dragging the giant bird and its prey down into the water.
Bubbling red ripples surfaced from below, gradually returning to calm.
And near the shore, deep in the water, an ethereal silhouette raised its head, glancing at the giant beast successfully hunting overhead.
It turned its head, glancing at the imnse ’artificial cavern’ nearby underwater, and the plaque beside it.
Finally, it withdrew its gaze, looking deeper into the unseen depths underwater.
After a brief pause, its figure completely dissolved, turning into radiance.
The next mont, the dispersed starlight gathered here, forming a hazy starlight silhouette.
That starlight silhouette raised its head, glancing at the empty underwater, watching the myriad of small and large fish swarms.
Boom—
It seed as if soone reached out from the world bottom layer and crushed a tiny balloon.
The dense, flourishing life in the water exploded instantly, turning into scattered blood flowers.
The starlight silhouette bowed its head, glanced around, and disappeared again from the spot.
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At this mont, on the other side of the planet, in another equally massive lake, a lightning figure erged from the water and landed on the shore.
Woo——
Accompanied by the long whistle, the old train erged from the void and opened its doors.
The footsteps of that lightning did not pause at all, directly entering through those doors.
In the next mont, the train completely vanished into the void.
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"How’s it going?"
Inside the train, He Ao raised his head, looking at Li Cheng who was shaking off the water droplets.
"Not too well, the water is a bit less than I expected,"
Li Cheng put away Andaville’s Spear, shook his head lightly, then looked at He Ao and the "’Hao Yi’" beside him, "What about the other two deep lakes?"
"About the sa," "’Hao Yi’" said softly from the side, "The two deep lakes are connected below with channels, sharing the sa water amount."
"I went to that one too, there’s a connecting channel below," Li Cheng nodded softly, looked at the two, and continued hoarsely, "When the relic civilization designed these three lakes, or rather ’reservoirs’, they must have planned the capacity, and made them interconnected. Most of the relic’s water should be in these three reservoirs, but it’s still sowhat insufficient."
"Unlike the real world," He Ao interjected softly, "The planets of the real world are natural, covered with oceans, whereas this relic planet has clearly undergone extensive modification to allow more people to survive on it."
He paused, "The water carried by the relic planet is limited, estimated to be the minimum amount required to maintain the designed life water cycle."
"Sounds like it isn’t a typical life-carrying planet," Li Cheng pondered, "But more like a cosmic spaceship carrying nurous ’passengers’."
Upon hearing this ’guess’, He Ao paused slightly then nodded lightly, "That’s very possible."
Then he swiftly shifted the topic, looking at Li Cheng, asked, "Is there enough water to summon a thunderstorm for the ceremony?"
"If there isn’t a hidden source of water," Li Cheng contemplated, "I fear it may not be enough, summoning thunderstorms requires a large amount of water."
"Can the ’teorologist’ ability summon part of the thunderstorm rain without needing water?"
’Hao Yi’ beside him asked.
’teorologist’ is precisely Li Cheng’s talent sequence.
By this point, Li Cheng didn’t hide at all, directly revealing to He Ao and "’Hao Yi’" the na of his talent and its specific abilities.
Strictly speaking, teorologist doesn’t exactly belong to a combat-oriented talent sequence but more to an auxiliary type.
As the talent sequence na suggests, his ability is to ’Call Wind and Rain, Summon Clouds and Fog’, capable of controlling atmospheric conditions.
Whenever Li Cheng wishes, he can summon rain, snow, hail at any ti, can also briefly plunge a place into floods or droughts.
This ability is highly variable, allowing him to alter the terrain attributes at will; however, most battles do not direct display damage effects from such changes.
Therefore, in most situations, Li Cheng prefers to directly use thunder to ’persuade’ his enemies.
The power of Andaville’s Spear enhances his teorologist and thunder-related abilities, allowing him to quickly summon thunder without promotion.
Even when Li Cheng only had part of the Andaville’s Spear fragnts initially, he received enhancents.
Those fragnts were also his first extraordinary items.
It is hard to say whether Li Cheng eventually chose the path of teorologist or Thunder Dominator being influenced by Andaville’s Spear.
When combined with the ’ability’ of the teorologist, the promotion ceremony of Thunder Dominator becos understandable.
What Li Cheng actually needed to do was summon a ’thunderstorm’ covering the entire planet.
"In principle, it’s possible," Li Cheng looked at "’Hao Yi’", and replied calmly, "But the essence is actually extracting moisture from the air, if one draws enough moisture to rain in an area, the moisture near the raining region will reduce, a teorologist can summon wind and rain, but cannot create matter out of thin air."
At this point, Li Cheng paused slightly, seeming to realize sothing, he looked at He Ao, "If we can extract moisture from the planet’s air, along with the water from those reservoirs, as well as water from so scenic lakes and rivers on the planet’s surface, it might barely suffice to create a planet-wide rainstorm."
He lowered his head, pondering, "But my ability range is limited, we need to continuously create thunderstorms in one area, then proceed to the next area,
"During this process, we also need to return near the reservoirs to continuously extract water from nearby reservoirs to fill the air with moisture."
His voice gradually lowered,
"But under such circumstances, the ti will be prolonged, our operations will beco extrely intricate,
"Moreover, if the pace is slow, rain in so places may finish while others have not started yet, wanting to achieve global thunderstorm coverage requires constant repositioning to fill in blank areas, and striving to make the rain last."
His voice gradually dimr, silence enveloped the entire carriage.
The ’difficulty’ of this ceremony, is indeed a bit ’overwhelming’.
It tests the perforr’s mastery over their own abilities as well as their arrangent and layout capacity.
Intricate yet precise, any missteps could lead to complete failure.
The chosen venue and enemies further amplify the ceremony’s difficulty.
Water scarcity ans inadequacy of ceremonial resources; even if water can be squeezed out to complete the ceremony, it inevitably shortens the thunderstorm duration in so areas, simultaneously being a challenge to Li Cheng’s own strength.
An entity above the angel tier being the adversary pushes the ceremony’s difficulty to hell-level.
However, completing this ceremony remains the best option to achieve their goals.
They are already in hell themselves.
"An angel tier ceremony being slightly difficult is reasonable," He Ao softly chuckled from the side, breaking the gloomy silence, "If angels were so easily achieved, angels would be everywhere in the world."
He turned to Li Cheng, asking softly, "Principal, if there were already conditions for thunderstorms in the environnt, would it be much easier for you to summon them?"
"Yes," Li Cheng nodded gently, "The formation of most thunderstorms arises from warm moist air currents rising and eting cold air, forming thick cumulonimbus clouds leading to thunderstorms. My ability essentially manipulates moisture aggregation and forms cumulonimbus clouds."
He raised his hand, so glimr gathered in his palm, floating before him, forming a dense cluster of light dots, "If the air already contains substantial warm moist currents, I only need to gently disturb them."
His fingertip lightly touched within the light dots, the diffuse light instantly clustered, forming a thick cloud layer, so electrical light spread out from the cloud.
He looked at He Ao, continuing, "To create thunder cumulonimbus clouds."
"So if we have warm moist currents covering the entire planet, with a slight nudge, you can create nurous thunderstorms?" He Ao pondered, nodding.
"Theoretically, yes, even if the current’s energy isn’t sufficient, as long as there’s enough moisture, I can rapidly create thunderstorms," Li Cheng nodded lightly in response to He Ao’s words.
Then he waved his hand, dispersing the ’cumulus’ before him, and sighed, "But the relic’s water is too scarce to produce thoroughly humid air, and the relic’s man-made sun has extinguished too much as well, making it difficult to generate enough active warm moisture."
"Warm, moist," He Ao savored these words, "Perhaps we can find a way to achieve it."
"How?" Li Cheng wondered, glancing at He Ao, "Drawing water from the main world? That’s too far, and Velora’s capacity is limited."
"No," He Ao shook his head, gazing at the darkness outside the window thoughtfully, "Perhaps we can borrow."
"To achieve that effect, at least it requires over half of the relic’s current water amount along with huge heat," Li Cheng’s eyes filled with confusion, "Where can we borrow that much water and heat?"
He Ao raised his head, looking toward the deepest part of the train, and whispered, "The past."
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