The Lord of Ashes

Thain and Gongsun Wudi stayed in the Gate of Penetration settlement for a long time.

The accurate time span is estimated to be 2173 years.

This is the time count in a hopeless world.

If we look at the time flow rate in the material astral realm, only 20 years should have passed in the astral realm.

This time is probably just enough time for the Wizarding Civilization to adjust from the Federation's Endless Light attack in the Asgar Star Territory.

Thain really wanted to be the vanguard of wizard civilization and deal a heavy blow to these federal legions who were still fighting against the trapped beasts.

But now, he can only stay in the world of despair, looking for a way out.

More than two thousand years is a relatively long career for a sixth-level life form like Thain.

The main reason is that Thain himself is relatively young, so more than two thousand years is quite a long time.

He is not like those old monsters who have lived for hundreds of thousands of years. He is extremely indifferent to the concept of time.

Fortunately, these two thousand years have been an extremely fulfilling life experience for Thain.

The body refining experiment, the ash fire fusion experiment, the mechanical integration experiment, the joint fortress group recast experiment, the intelligent robot training experiment... all the experimental processes were so full in Thain's daily life that he didn't even notice the time. It went by so quickly.

Of course, in addition to the above-mentioned experiments, in the Penetrating Gate settlement area, Thain's other specialized experimental subject is the study of the Penetrating Gate itself, a dangerous place with rules.

In the past two thousand years, the Gate of Penetration has been opened twice more.

The time interval between each activation is different, and the power of the energy tide exploded is also different.

However, the energy tide that erupted recently through the Penetrating Gate was very intense.

At its peak level, even a physically powerful being like Gongsun Wudi could not get close to the center of the energy explosion.

The eye-catching energy tide has made the Penetrating Eye settlement quite famous.

Since the wanderers in the desperate world are called "wanderers", it is naturally because they move around all year round and have no fixed place to live.

Therefore, there are some channels of interconnection between different settlements and between homeless people.

In the last burst of energy tide, more energy surged out of the Penetrating Gate settlement area, which also attracted more wanderers to move closer here.

Today, there are more than forty or fifty permanent wanderers in the Penetrating Gate settlement.

The number of people has tripled compared to when Thain and Gongsun Wudi first arrived!

There are nearly fifty creatures of level four or above, and they are still individuals whose physical strength is far stronger than that of "god-level" creatures in the star world. This power is not small even in the Wizards Alliance.

If Thane could bring these wanderers out of the world of despair in the future, they could serve as his thugs.

It will be of great benefit to Thane in strengthening his own power group.

But now, this idea only temporarily stays in Thain's mind as a conjecture.

He didn't think he had the ability to bring these homeless people with extraordinary physiques out of a world of despair.

And according to Thain's research, these desperate world creatures with extraordinary physiques lack adequate energy supplements all year round.

Once they return to the material astral realm, the cell tissues in their bodies that have experienced several times of extrusion and strengthening will absorb and absorb the ubiquitous energy elements in the astral realm to the maximum extent.

This will inevitably increase the strength of these desperate world creatures by another standard after returning to the material star realm!

Thane is only in the world of despair

After staying for two thousand years, this time is not too long for the time being.

If it is those level four or five old monsters that have been there for thousands of years, or even tens of thousands of years.

After returning to the material star realm, even if his own life level completes a major leap, in Thain's view, it is not surprising!

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The sudden increase in the number of wanderers in the Penetrating Gate settlement is partly due to the impact of the last energy tide explosion, and on the other hand, it is also related to the stable rule maintained by Thane and Gongsun Wudi in this settlement.

The word "stability" is rare in a desperate world.

Those extremely weak ordinary fourth-level creatures are very worried that one day they will be eaten directly by those fifth- and sixth-level creatures that are exhausted and extremely hungry.

Similarly, fifth- and sixth-level creatures also have their own positions in the food chain.

It is estimated that only a desperate man like Gongsun Wudi, who is at the sixth level of peak strength, can avoid such bad luck.

Only strong people at this level have the authority to formulate rules.

Thain and Gongsun Wudi don't want to be good people in a desperate world, but they just want to avoid disturbing Thain's experiments and Gongsun Wudi's Qing Xiu.

They will not allow large-scale battles to occur around the Penetrating Gate settlement.

The few guys who originally liked to stir up trouble were dealt with by Gongsun Wudi or Fumila.

They were either reduced to blood crystal raw materials for Thain and Gongsun Wudi, or they were turned into individual specimens and displayed in Thain's temporary laboratory.

Thain is quite interested in studying these creatures in the desperate world. In the process of studying these creatures, Thain has a clearer and deeper understanding of the rules and attributes of the desperate world.

The wanderers who are still staying near the Penetrating Gate settlement area are basically the targets of Thain and Gongsun Wudi.

They did not dare to disobey Thain and others, so naturally they had to act according to the rules set by Thain and Gongsun Wudi.

Even among these wanderers, there is a pseudo-desperate person whose strength has reached the mid-sixth level. It is a black bear with a single horn named Papabie.

After Gongsun Wudi used his knife to remove one of the opponent's bear paws, this pseudo-desperate creature became Wudi's loyal follower.

The only pity is that the black dragon that was driven away by Invincible never came back.

Fortunately, Thain and others have other ways to replenish blood crystals.

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To maintain the stability of a settlement, only strong sticks are not enough, but also delicious carrots.

The energy tides pouring out from the piercing door, including the accompanying "gray energy crystals", indeed fed many wanderers who came close.

However, another important factor that allows everyone to truly settle down and abide by the rules of the settlement is that Thain will regularly collect the blood essence of the wandering creatures in the settlement in the form of "blood donation".

In return, Thane will give these creatures enough energy crystals to restore their vitality, blood, and even fill their bellies to a certain extent.

Most of these energy crystals are naturally produced by the Rubik's Cube.

Thane's Rubik's Cube contains several production lines of non-attributed energy blocks from the Gallente Federation.

As long as Thain applies the infinite energy law of the Rubik's Cube to it, he can continuously produce corresponding energy blocks.

Use blood in exchange for energy crystals?

For those homeless people, this deal can do it!

Thane also took the opportunity to collect a lot of raw materials for refining blood crystal potions.

However, as Thain's latest phase of experimental research ended, he called Gongsun Wudi in front of him and said, "It's time for us to leave here."