Chapter 542
Chapter 542 Explosion Aftermath
A flock of black shadows rapidly moved down a snowy mountain range.
One of the members of the group suddenly stopped after they had made it beyond one of the shorter mountains. She shouted excitedly.
“Something’s happened!”
A silvery gray metal ball was flashing in her old and wrinkled right hand.
“Protect!”
One of the larger silhouettes took off her black cloak, revealing Sofia’s thick and muscular body beneath. She held a thick, black wooden staff in her hand and stood by Endor like an evil god of calamity.
Mary unfurled her large bat wings and hovered in the air, quickly taking everything around them into view. Bug Adept Billis tossed Tigule away and allowed the goblin to drop headfirst into half a meter of snow. Billis turned into a buzzing cluster of black mist and circled Sofia and Endor.
Some of the birds with weaker Physiques could no longer hang on after a short flight. They started to fly lower and lower. When their bodies finally touched that layer of radioactive dust that hovered in the air, they let out a bloodcurdling cry.
The fearsome radiation caused their flesh to wither and their bones to melt. Their previously beautiful feathers lost their color at a visible rate. Sloughs of fat and skin fell from their body as if they were being shed off. The red muscles and organs within were exposed.
The birds that had been caught by the radiation could no longer struggle.
They drifted lower and lower, eventually crashing into the gray sea, tragically crying as they sank until everything fell silent.
The adepts couldn’t help but betray solemn expressions when they saw this happen.
The outside was already this bad. The radiation in the core area of the explosion would only be stronger and even more terrifying!
This massive explosion at the Steel Capital had probably significantly affected the entire Goblin Plane.
It was no longer a paradise for goblins!
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News of the tragedy that had occurred in the Steel Capital quickly spread throughout the plane.
Everything within five hundred kilometers of the place had been enveloped in a dense cloud of radiation. Any person that walked into it couldn’t walk out alive. The goblin reinforcements could only gather in the cities nearby, anxiously waiting for the radiation clouds to subside.
How did this tragedy happen?
Several different answers to this question spread amongst the goblins.
The most popular amongst them was the Adept Invasion Theory.
Some goblins described in a lifelike manner how the otherworldly evil adepts had invaded the Goblin Plane and how the great Prince Lord Gazlowe had been forced to detonate the space furnace and die alongside the invaders to save the world.
Of course, there were far more chaotic versions of the story out there.
For example, some goblins gossiped that the evil adepts had been invited into the plane by Gazlowe. The purpose of this was so that the Prince Lord could borrow the strength of the adepts to deal with the Royal Family. The three parties had fought in the Steel Capital, and the space furnace had exploded due to accidental shockwaves from the fight itself.
Apart from this version of the story, about twenty or thirty other stories were being spread out there. Almost all of them were described in such vivid detail, almost as if the goblins had witnessed it themselves. However, it didn’t matter which version of the story it was. The evil adepts were always the antagonists, and the goblins would always have obtained the final victory by the end. That was the same conclusion of every version of the story.
One couldn’t help but point out that the Goblin Plane of the present was truly in a bizarre situation with no leadership to speak of.
The Risk Investment Company that Gazlowe had established might claim to be the most significant force within the Goblin Plane, but all of their higher-ups and elite fighting forces had been brought into the Steel Capital to fight against the adepts and the dragonborn.
All of them had turned into dust with that tremendous explosion. The Risk Investment Company was now no more than a headless snake. Even though they still had massive influence and decent military presence in other areas, all of their leaders were dead. Thus, these places were unavoidably caught up in struggles for superiority fought between the local landlords.
The most influential person of the Royal Family–Princess Vanessa–had also ‘died’ in the Steel Capital. Her brothers had yet to come of age either. They were still goblin kids sucking on lollipops and riding on toy horses.
Having them step up to lead the chaotic Goblin Empire was a huge joke.
Thus, the wounded goblin God of War who brought Vanessa’s corpse back to the Royal Family became the saving grace of the Goblin Empire. The six otherworldly adepts that Tigule brought back with him also rapidly caused the Empire to fall into internal disagreements.
Some goblins were shouting and calling for war against the adepts, believing that they were the ones who brought this calamity upon the Goblin Plane. Some goblins were already utterly terrified by the tragedy of the Steel Capital. They asked to negotiate with the adepts. These goblins were willing to treat the adepts as their superiors and allow the adepts take what they wanted as long as they themselves retained their status and positions.
For a moment, none of the goblins could agree with each other and fell into an intense round of disagreement and arguments!