Savra kept her gaze fixed on the Red Dragon Heart. "Lucius, are you absolutely sure this is a Red Dragon material? Something about this feels... off."

    Lucius raised his eyebrow. He was confused by what Savra meant. "Off? What do you mean?"

    Savra folded her arms. "It''s strange. The other Red Dragon materials you''ve encountered so far were all still fresh and brimming with powerful auras."

    Savra then used her finger to point at the heart. "But this heart was fossilized and weakened when we found it. Why is it so different from the others?"

    Lucius was momentarily surprised by the question. "You have a point. It is really quite weird."

    He hadn''t really thought about it before, but now that Savra mentioned it, he couldn''t ignore it.

    He then suddenly realized something. He glanced back toward the heart. "Wait a minute. Could it be...?"

    Without wasting another second, he activated his system. "System, absorb this Red Dragon Heart, but leave enough to maintain its appearance and aura."

    ---

    [Hack Initiation: Heart Essence Absorption]

    [Target: Red Dragon Heart]

    [Effect: Extract 80% of Heart Essence while Retaining Physical Appearance and Aura]

    [Cost: None (Converted into Hack Points)]

    [Status: Executing...]

    ---

    The system responded instantly. Lucius immediately opened his points to see if it was increased.

    When he looked at it, he realized that it had been increased by a lot. It was actually increased by 700 million hack points.

    It wasn''t quite as much as what he had received from absorbing the Red Dragon Blood Essence, but it was still an enormous amount.

    For a brief moment, Lucius almost felt like crying. "My points are back... and in massive numbers!"

    Lucius then continued. "Maybe they have a stronger version of the artifact that had a longer range than the previous one."

    Lucius then pointed at far away. "If that''s the case, they could have detected the heart from afar, which might explain why they targeted your estate in the first place."

    Savra nodded slowly. "That could be it. If they have something like that, it would explain how they knew that it was here."

    Lucius leaned back slightly and smirked. "Either way, it doesn''t matter now. We know what they''re after, and we have it in our hands. The important thing is to stay one step ahead."

    Savra nodded. "Agreed. For now, let''s wait for Ragnar to return before we plan our next move."

    ---

    Bryson was walking toward the end of the warehouse. Without hesitation, he reached one of the shelves and rotated an ordinary statue.

    With a low rumble, a hidden entrance was opened, revealing a secret passageway.

    Bryson entered the hidden room swiftly, where he kept some of his most sensitive documents and rare materials.

    However, the moment he stepped inside, he froze in place. He was shocked to see that the room was completely empty.

    Every document and valuable material he had stored here were gone. The shelves were bare, as if they had been meticulously cleaned out.

    His surprise quickly became anger as he clenched his fists tightly. "How the hell did this happen?"

    Bryson wasted no time. He walked to the far side of the room, where a camera artifact was hidden. He put it there to monitor this space in case of intruders.

    He immediately activated it. He then began to review the recorded footage to see who the hell dared to rob his secret room.

    As the recording played, his expression turned from confusion to disbelief. The footage showed the documents and materials vanished without a trace.

    They were all absorbed into a single point. It was like something invisible absorbed all of them.

    No one appeared in the recording, but the evidence was clear: someone had entered while remaining completely invisible.

    Bryson slammed his fist into the wall. He gritted his teeth and muttered. "No wonder they got past the guards... It was an invisible thief."

    He then clenched his fists even tighter in anger. "When I find you... I will kill you for this."