God-Tier Extraction Talent: Reincarnated in a Game-like World!

The underground chamber behind the door was vaster than she had imagined. The cavern spanned several kilometers across. High above, a dome so tall that its ceiling was nearly invisible was studded with countless luminous crystals like a brilliant starfield suspended in the underworld, casting a soft radiance over every corner of the cavern.

At the center stood a massive platform constructed entirely of golden crystal.

And atop that platform...

Over a hundred golden ant eggs, each the size of a full grown human, lay arranged in neat rows.

Every egg emitted a faint golden glow, and through their nearly translucent shells, one could vaguely make out tiny pulses of life gently throbbing within. Countless unborn young still slept peacefully inside.

The entire cavern was so silent that if a pin were to drop, it would surely be heard.

It was as if this place had been completely sealed off from the outside world, untouched by the brutal conflict.

Watching those lives slumbering quietly within the golden eggs, the vigilance and fear in Sophie’s eyes gradually faded for the first time.

”They... They’re really still alive...”

Gabriel walked slowly onto the platform and placed his palm against the surface of one egg. As his perception seeped inside, he could clearly sense that although the tiny life sleeping within was already extremely weak, it was still tenaciously guarding its last spark of life, refusing to fade away completely.

It seemed the Ant King had not deceived him.

Even at the very end of his life, that king of the ants had never stopped worrying about the future of his kind.

After a long silence, Gabriel slowly raised his right hand.

With a quick use of his gravity manipulation in (), the massive golden platform bearing all the royal ant eggs gently levitated. Then, along with every egg upon it, it vanished into his system storage space.

The system storage could provide them with an absolutely stable environment.

At least until Gabriel found a new habitat for these unhatched ants, they would remain safe there.

Watching everything unfold, Sophie finally could not hold back and asked,

”You’re really serious about raising them?”

For a moment, she had thought that once he got here, he might get rid of them from the very beginning in order to avoid what had happened the last time. However, her thought process clearly seemed to be wrong.

Without turning around, Gabriel replied calmly,

”Since I gave my word, I have no reason to break it.”

”Besides...” he added, a peculiar light shining in his eyes. ”They might prove to be very useful allies in the future.”

Sophie was momentarily stunned upon hearing this, then let out a helpless smile.

If it had been anyone else, they might have chosen to take these unborn lives away and raise them out of sheer sympathy.

But she knew very well. No matter what decision this man made, he would always factor in the benefits it could bring him.

And yet, it was precisely for this reason that Sophie was all the more willing to believe every word he said. Because someone like Gabriel, once he truly made a promise...

Would see it through to the end.

”Come on, follow me. There’s something else I need to take care of,” Gabriel said as he turned his attention deeper into the ruins, where he sensed a powerful yet familiar aura.

...

Meanwhile.

Hundreds of kilometers away, the outer perimeter of the New Dawn Camp had been engulfed in flames.

BOOM!!!

An explosion far more violent than the initial assault suddenly erupted along the outskirts, taking down countless New Dawn players all at once.

BOOM!

The explosions did not stop there. War tanks fired volley after volley, slamming violently into the walls, each attack sending vibrations through the entire fortification.

The ordinary residents of the camp had no choice but to hide in their houses, trembling in fear.

...

Under the horrified gazes of everyone on the western line, the defensive wall, reinforced time and again and regarded as sturdy enough to repel any enemy offensive, finally collapsed completely under the impact of something that was not remotely flesh and blood.

”We can’t hold them back anymore!”

”The Vanguard has broken through the line!!”

”Everyone, fall back to the inner perimeter!!!”

In an instant, hundreds of New Dawn warriors raised their weapons and charged without hesitation at the unending stream of steel war machines and heavily armored soldiers pouring through the breach, engaging in a desperate, nearly hopeless struggle. Continuous cannon fire, deafening explosions, and roars filled with fury and agony wove together, turning the western plains into a true inferno on earth.

Behind the second wave of enemy forces, the banner of Edgebourne slowly rose amid the rolling smoke.

Inside the command hall.

Anna stared fixedly at the tactical map before her, watching the blue dots representing Gabriel’s various outposts blink out one by one. Her expression was grim, dark enough to drip.

Darius stood not too far from her, looking at the map with a much calmer expression, but from the slight furrow on his face, anyone could see that he was anxious as well.

Anna slowly clenched her fists and asked in a hoarse voice,

”How much time do we have left?”

Cassie, standing beside the table, gripped its edge with both hands so tightly that her knuckles had turned deathly pale. Her voice was thick with barely concealed bitterness.

”At the rate they’re advancing from the western line...”

”Two hours at most... They’ll reach the main base.”

The entire hall fell into dead silence. Everyone’s expressions turned grave.

”Where is Miss Sarah?” Darius suddenly asked, voicing a question that everyone seemed to have overlooked.

At the mention of her name, almost as if it had been planned simultaneously, several deafening explosions rang out.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

A scout, drenched from head to toe in blood, staggered into the command hall. Before he could even catch his breath, he shouted urgently,

”Report! The enemy forces are being torn apart!”

As those words rang through the hall, everyone’s eyes widened at once.

”Who? Who is it?” Cassie asked, her voice trembling.

”Commander Sarah of Division Three! She’s single handedly holding back the enemy forces!”