Chapter 1098 Swarm of Bloodmetal Mites
After setting his mind on exterminating the bloodmetal mites within the contaminated water, Leon immediately acted upon it by increasing the range of his nihility.
Millions of bloodmetal mites were quickly reduced into wisps of True Grandmist Energy.
Although the bloodmetal mites were many, possibly in the billions, they hardly produced many wisps of True Grandmist Energy.
In fact, it took millions of bloodmetal mites to produce a few wisps of True Grandmist Energy.
The mass of objects used did not equal the mass of True Grandmist Energy produced. This was even more true for the puny bloodmetal mites that could be barely seen by ordinary human eyes.
Evidently, a majority of the matter was lost in the conversion process. They were gone from the world forever, reduced to nothingness.
Leon had been aware of that.
Even if he had the power to reduce the entire universe into True Grandmist Energy and recreate the universe again, it would never be as vast as it once was.
Everything was born from nothingness, and everything will return to nothingness – there was truth in these words.
The only solution to a true everlasting world was to create new True Grandmist Energy from nothingness or perpetually freeze the irreversible process of returning everything to nothingness.
However, these solutions were the same as not having any.
Leon couldn't even begin to fathom what kind of power was needed to pull something like that off. Even the Empyrean Gods and Devils didn't have that kind of power.
If they did, the primordial era wouldn't have ended, and Primal Chaos wouldn't be in such a broken and damaged state that required repair.
Nevertheless, as Leon reduced hundreds of millions of bloodmetal mites into True Grandmist Energy, he had seemingly provoked the colossal bloodmetal pillar.
Rumble…!
The entire abyss region shook as the colossal bloodmetal pillar stopped wriggling its way down into the deeper parts of the abyss.
Instead, the colossal bloodmetal pillar tried to climb up from the abyss again to reach Leon. Alas, its body was too heavy for its own good.
As the entire region shook with large tremors, chunks of earth broke off from the rocky walls and fell on top of the colossal bloodmetal pillar, causing it to sink further deeper into the abyss.
Nevertheless, Leon felt himself being locked onto by a powerful consciousness—which also felt all too familiar to him.
It was definitely a branch will of Empyrean Allheaven Wrath's soul fragment, and it was precisely coming from the colossal bloodmetal pillar.
'The prolonged years of exposure to the Wrathful Demon Energy in space must have transformed the space debris and allowed the slivers of will to congregate,' Leon thought.
Although the colossal bloodmetal pillar seemed extremely formidable even with its limited movement, it was nothing to be feared if it couldn't reach him – was what Leon initially assumed.
However, the dark-red surface of the colossal bloodmetal pillar started to move like a living painting on a wall as it concentrated on the top of the pillar.
It almost seemed like the dark-red patch of concentrated bloodmetal was about to break free from the rest of the colossal pillar structure from space.
In the next moment, it did precisely so—just as Leon suspected and started to fear.
Billions—no, trillions of bloodmetal mites flapped their wings and flew like ladybugs. Leon couldn't exactly tell how many there were, but their numbers were overwhelmingly high.
After they departed from the colossal pillar and left it behind them, the colossal pillar structure looked like it had suffered from countless long years of metal corrosion.
Nevertheless, Leon couldn't care any less about that.
The trillions of bloodmetal mites moved like a single entity and swarmed at him like a massive dust storm.
Although Leon's outer and inner body had been strengthened, he wasn't sure what the bloodmetal mites could do to his body if so many of them flooded into his body and ran amok.
Either way, he was interested in finding out.
His instincts were screaming danger proved that the storm of bloodmetal mites posed a certain level of threat to him.
Leon quickly retreated before giving the countless bloodmetal mites a taste of destruction and death with a wave of his hand.
The swarm of bloodmetal mites quickly decayed and crumbled down to infinitesimally tiny ashes and atoms. Their formation easily broke under a casual attack.
Evidently, their numbers were great, but their defenses weren't very strong. In fact, they were very weak.
Even so, tiny creatures like them didn't necessarily need to be strong to kill a person.
Nevertheless, after breaking the bloodmetal mite swarm's formation, Leon's eyes shortly narrowed as they locked onto the persistent bloodmetal mites that flew out from the pile of their fallen brethren.
Soon, the bloodmetal mites quickly regathered their numbers and restored their group formation.
Buzz—!
The bloodmetal mites flapped their wings at high frequencies, creating a droning noise. It was as if they were trying to express their fury at Leon.
However, they did not swarm at Leon again.
Instead, they flew away and smashed into the rocky walls, stunning Leon for a moment before his eyes gradually widened in alarm the next moment.
Because the bloodmetal mites were creatures that comprised a mix of organic and non-organic substances, they could assimilate both organic and non-organic materials.
At that moment, the countless bloodmetal mites were assimilating parts of the hard rocky walls and increasing their sizes at an alarming rate.
Nevertheless, Leon didn't intend to watch them finish their assimilation process.
He quickly struck the swarm with a powerful blast of nihility that easily ripped a hole right through their group formation.
However, the devastation of nihility went beyond mere physical damage; it destroyed the conscious will controlling the bloodmetal mites.
As a result, the entire swarm was disabled like a nervous system that just lost its electrical signal.
The bloodmetal mites' assimilation process halted, and their bodies fell into deeper depths of the abyss, where the remains of the colossal pillar structure had already plunged and disappeared after becoming nothing more than a hollow shell from the bloodmetal mites detaching from it.