CHAPTER 676: CHAPTER 81: ILLUSORY SPACE-TIME LIGHTHOUSE

Buzz—

On the table, a palm-sized transmitter started vibrating, and the word "Control Bureau" flashed on its screen.

"Hmm?"

A hand picked up the transmitter and pressed the answer button.

"Anderson, do you have something to ask?"

"Sir Richard, we have discovered something strange over here and need your assistance."

"Something strange?"

"Yes, it’s a crystal sphere, according to our known information, it’s a relic of an ancient dynasty called the ’Supreme’. But based on our expert’s observation, this thing doesn’t seem to be a creation of our technology."

"...Supreme!?"

Bam!

Richard furrowed his brow, the transmitter in his hand crushed into a ball of scrap due to his loss of control over his emotions.

"Didn’t expect to come across a Supreme relic here."

Richard casually incinerated the scrap in his hand into ashes, a hint of an excited smile on his face. Although he already had quite a few Pioneer Relics, no wizard would ever have enough of those.

Tidying up the items on the experimental table, Richard took a step out, instantly appearing outside the grotto. His form shifted again, and in a breath, his silhouette appeared at the Control Bureau.

Finding Anderson, who immediately stood up at the abrupt appearance of Richard, handed him a file with respect, saying: "Sir Richard, here is our information."

Richard opened it and was instantly captivated by the records inside.

"A team disappeared?"

"Yes." Anderson replied cautiously, "According to the field officer, there was a team employed by the Monastery with the same objective. They even arrived on site ahead of them.

But as soon as the two teams met, that Crystal Creation burst into a chaotic mix of indescribable colors. Every member enveloped by the colors vanished on the spot."

The information was simple, just two pages. According to the records, the relic where this crystal ball was found was a Kael Dynasty Relic from before the cataclysm. As per Control Bureau’s data, this dynasty was extremely powerful and mysterious before the cataclysm. Even the royals’ strength was enough to make Hidden Monks wary.

"With a Supreme’s relic involved, wouldn’t there be caution."

Richard shook his head, returning the information to Anderson.

"Mark the address for me."

"Alright, please wait a moment."

Seeing Richard agree, Anderson immediately pulled out a map and marked a location. Glancing at the mark, Richard’s body vanished into the air like smoke.

...

Kael Dynasty Relics.

Control Bureau’s field agents, along with a temporarily deployed Invasion Task Force, were setting up a defensive perimeter. Although the area around the relics was desolate, nobody knew if a team from the Fusion Party might suddenly rush in for an assault.

The Control Bureau placed great importance on this relic, dispatching three Third Level agents, fifty Second Level agents, and an Invasion Task Force exceeding five hundred people.

The weapons deployed were of significant weight, featuring eight Source Energy Cannons and twelve Source Energy Machine Guns.

Shooting down anything with the Source Energy Cannon, hitting its target, even Third Level executive agents unprotected by project equipment, would suffer heavy injuries. Although weaker than the Cannon, the Source Energy Machine Gun was extremely effective against groups of enemies.

Under their blockade, even a mosquito wasn’t allowed to enter without permission... Bang!

Suddenly, a stream of light descended from the sky.

Control Bureau’s field agents immediately prepared to fire, but the next moment, everyone was frozen in place.

"Ourselves, don’t shoot."

Richard calmly spoke to them and then walked through them, striding into the interior of the relic.

Following the staircase downward, along the way, Richard’s spiritual power scoured each level meticulously to ensure the Control Bureau missed nothing.

During this process, Richard’s spiritual power keenly detected, the whole relic’s space was vibrating in a very regular rhythm.

It seemed something was pulling at the nearby space.

As he delved deeper into the base, this spatial tremor grew more apparent. By the time he reached the level where the crystal ball was located, the spatial fluctuations were almost visible to the naked eye.

"What on earth is this thing?"

Entering the level, there were more than a dozen Four-Eyed People in thick protective suits setting up equipment while observing the various data of the crystal ball.

Among them, one slightly aged Four-Eyed Person spotted Richard’s figure, was initially surprised, then immediately approached and said:

"You’re here."

Inside the level, a somewhat aged Four-Eyed Person saw Richard and quickly came forward to say.

The higher-ups had already informed these scientists that an expert from another world would be helping them with the research today.

"Hmm."

Richard nodded slightly, immediately focusing his gaze on that crystal ball. He could feel, this crystal ball before him was the source of the space tremors throughout the whole base. As for the surrounding flesh...

Richard’s left pupil suddenly shifted, the dark red flesh gradually shedding the outer garment of appearances, revealing its true nature in his eyes.

"Hmm?"

Upon seeing the true nature of the flesh, Richard’s expression was somewhat shocked.

"How can it be the Power of Dimension? What exactly is this thing?"

In the vision of the Eye of Truth, these fleshy masses emerging from the Void were all manifestations of some kind of Power of Illusionary Dimension.

Just as the Power of Gods’ Dimension always appears as Holy Light, and the Wizard Dimension Power is always adorned with Runes. The external manifestation of the Power of Dimension in this location is strands of flesh.

However, the intersection of the Material World and the Illusionary Dimension is in a very deep veil, and under normal circumstances, it cannot appear in such a surface world.

"What exactly is this thing?"

A vast ocean-like spiritual power surged from Richard’s body, tightly wrapping around the Crystal Ball.

As Richard expected, the outer layer of the Crystal Ball has a very strong defense against spiritual power, almost completely isolated, like a Wall of Sighs.

But as a Great Wizard, and a Five Rings Great Wizard at that, this kind of barrier was still within a breakable range for him.

Withdrawing the Four-Eyed People from the interior to the outside, Richard took out the Balancing Hand from his pocket. With a slight wave, illusionary Runes appeared around him. These Runes transformed in the air into a Magic Model and then merged into Richard’s head.

The next moment, Richard felt his spiritual power intensity suddenly increase significantly.

Richard adjusted slightly to the enhanced spiritual power, and said somewhat dazedly, "The Power of Dimension really is useful."

After inquiring about the application methods of the Power of Dimension from the Secret Keeper, Richard designed a few different Dimension Witchcrafts according to different situations. The effects of these witchcrafts were not very ideal by themselves, but with the blessing of the Power of Dimension, the effects of these witchcrafts underwent a qualitative leap.

For instance, the witchcraft named Soul Ascension by Richard.

The magic power version of this witchcraft could only temporarily increase the purity of spiritual power a little, with an increase factor of 0.1, equivalent to an additional forty points of spiritual power.

But when enhanced with the Power of Dimension, the effect of this witchcraft suddenly increased tenfold.

Directly increasing Richard’s spiritual power purity by one fold, equivalent to an enhancement of four hundred points of spiritual power.

This kind of enhancement could already serve as a top secret of a Great Wizard from the Soul School, a trump card hidden in the bottom of the box.

However, it’s a bit regrettable that the same expenditure on attack-type witchcrafts achieved very slight effects.

Only able to boost power by fifty percent.

No wonder the Secret Keeper initially advised against augmenting attack witchcrafts.

After the increase in spiritual power purity, Richard’s spiritual power encapsulating the Crystal Ball began to burrow into the Crystal Ball’s interior bit by bit, like a worm.

Of course, to be safe, Richard only let in a tiny amount of spiritual power.

A machine specially designed to prevent spiritual power probing, either to protect itself or to safeguard others.

Either way, it’s worth Richard’s caution.

Finally, a sliver of spiritual power entered the inside of the Crystal Ball. The instant it entered, a grand force instantly shattered Richard’s spiritual power.

Richard’s head throbbed slightly, and he said somewhat helplessly, "Alright, now I know what this shell is for."

However, seemingly sensing the intrusion of spiritual power, the light on the Crystal Ball suddenly became radiant.

The next moment, a light beam shot into Richard’s body, accompanied by a section of instructions for using the Crystal Ball.

"Oh!? There’s even a fail-safe design."

The instructions weren’t long, and Richard quickly finished receiving them. But after reading them, a trace of confusion appeared on Richard’s face.

According to the introduction in the instructions, this Crystal Ball should be officially named the Illusory Space-Time Lighthouse. Its function is to attract Illusion Creatures wandering between Illusionary Dimensions, somewhat like a bug zapper.

However, this lighthouse does not possess the ability to open Dimension Rifts. Nor does it have the capability to manifest the Power of Dimension into the surface space.

This means that the flesh tentacles reaching out from the Void were not due to the effects of the Illusory Space-Time Lighthouse. Instead, some creature behind it was trying to use the Power of Dimension to take away this lighthouse.

"Interesting, let’s see what’s really causing trouble behind the scenes."

The Eye of Truth started to "bloom," and Richard’s vision transformed accordingly. The world gradually shed its surface veneer before him, revealing its mysterious essence. But just as Richard’s gaze was about to penetrate the rule layer and peek into the Illusionary Dimension Rift layer, a connection suddenly entered Richard’s soul.

"Hm?"

Richard was slightly stunned, and because of his distraction, his vision couldn’t continue to delve deeper.

"Why is there a contract connection from another world."

Richard remembered clearly; he had sent out contracts only three times. The contracts with the goblin world and the werewolf world had either been reclaimed or discarded, leaving only the contract with the Four-Eyed People World still intact. But his avatar was in this world; the contract should theoretically have been voided.

Unless someone brought the Four-Eyed People World contract into another world.

Rubbing his eyes, Richard, full of curiosity, accepted the desire from the contract. The wish conveyed by the contract was simple: to survive.

"Interesting indeed."

The contract was signed, and the door opened.

Richard, keeping a cautious mind, first threw an Alchemy Puppet to the other side of the rift to see what the situation was.

"Oh, an acquaintance."

On the other side of the rift, Ankarena and a group of Control Bureau enforcement agents were using Source Energy Weapons to battle the ever-approaching wolf packs.

NovelBin

"But this place is quite strange."

Richard’s eyes slightly narrowed; though the change was subtle, Richard’s spiritual power still noticed that the Alchemy Puppet he threw over was undergoing a molecular level transformation.

The sturdy alloy was gradually... transforming into flesh!