CHAPTER 85: CHAPTER 85: SEEING THE ESSENCE

Three thousand miles away.

"Fortunately, no big trouble occurred." Yasen looked at the retracting Dark Divine Power and couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.

A moment later, as the Dark Divine Power completely retracted into the great canyon... or rather, the great basin, Yasen flew above the basin, carefully observing the situation below.

Through the thin Dark Divine Power, he saw Hisham sitting cross-legged on the nose of the God of Darkness.

His figure was hunched, nothing like his former spirited and vigorous demeanor.

"Hisham, what on earth happened?" Yasen asked with a frown.

A problem with a councilor is a huge blow to the entire Wizard Alliance.

Including Hisham, there were only twenty-three Five-Ring Mages in the entire Wizard Alliance.

Without understanding clearly, he did not dare to leave just like that.

"It’s nothing, just a failure of a witchcraft experiment." Hisham shook his head, his voice hoarse.

He felt something went wrong with his previous thoughts, perhaps it was just an accident.

To verify whether it was accidental or inevitable, it was actually quite simple - he could pass his experience to those Faith Wizards stuck at the Fourth Ring.

"Experiment failure?" Yasen frowned, "What kind of experiment were you doing? You nearly broke through the earth vein."

"Do you remember what I told you years ago about what’s beneath the earth veins?"

"Can you mind my business about what experiment I’m doing?" Hisham raised his head, his red eyes glaring at Yasen, "Do you think I’m still a Fourth Ring? Do I need to report everything I do to you?"

"Fine, I won’t concern myself with you," Yasen’s face darkened instantly, "Wait until you’ve caused a big mess and face the alliance’s sanction!"

For a Five-Ring Mage, damaging the environment to this extent wasn’t enough to warrant sanction from the Alliance.

But should Hisham pierce the Abyss’ outer seal, he would inevitably become the vanguard to resist the Abyss, making up for his mistakes.

"Fine, got it." Hisham said indifferently, "You can leave now."

What sanction from the Alliance? To him now, it meant nothing.

What greater sanction can there be than a dead-end path?

If his previous conjecture were true, even he wouldn’t know what he would do.

And all it took was half a year’s time to verify.

"Humph." Yasen couldn’t be bothered to say more to this guy, snorted coldly, turned into flames, and flew towards the central continent.

...

The Betula Continent, after half a month’s flight, the Black Cliff Spaceship had reached the outskirts of the volcano group.

In another day’s time, it would arrive at Cooper Wizard Tower.

In the spaceship control room, Lor switched to panorama mode, staring blankly at the scenery outside the ship, his eyes dull, without the confidence he had two weeks ago.

"Where did it go wrong?" Lor murmured in his heart, "Why do the two arcs always not match?"

His deduction of molecular intersections was stuck two days ago.

Clearly, he had deduced it to the last step, but some arcs just wouldn’t align, preventing the calculation of the last few molecular intersections.

And he knew the reason for being stuck.

It was due to the integration of the Void Rune.

"Does this Void Rune involve higher-level space theories?" Lor rubbed his brows, only feeling a massive headache.

New things were indeed the hardest to tackle.

When he first discovered the function of the Void Rune, he thought it was better than the Barrier Rune and cheerfully gave it a new name.

But now he was stumped and bewildered.

"If I break the limit of the microscope once, I wonder if I can see the deeper mysteries." Lor opened the panel, looking at the Sea of Consciousness Microscope tab, lost in thought.

[Sea of Consciousness Microscope (2.9 Ring)(Breakable, no Third Ring Witchcraft Position, non-advancing)]

Logically, the Sea of Consciousness Microscope had to reach the Fourth Ring to transform and observe the existence of strings, slowly deriving space fundamental runes from them.

But his goal wasn’t to derive space runes, but to view the Void Basic Space Rune more thoroughly, to find out where exactly it went wrong.

Thus, a 3.0 Ring Sea of Consciousness Microscope should suffice, right?

"I’ll try it first, it’s not like I have any other options." Lor focused his energy on the Limit Break option behind the Sea of Consciousness Microscope, giving a light tap.

[Sea of Consciousness Microscope (2.9 Ring) → Sea of Consciousness Microscope (2.9 Ring) (Limit Break +0.1) (Breakable, no Third Ring Witchcraft Position, non-advancing)]

[Charge Points: 4.010 billion, 78.41% → 3.911 billion, 65.21%]

After completing the addition, Lor closed his eyes again, his Spiritual Power diving into the Sea of Consciousness.

"Click—crack—crack—"

In the Sea of Consciousness, the Microscope Rune Model was changing in an extremely regular manner, subtly disturbing the Elemental Domain.

"Buzz—"

Soon, once the Sea of Consciousness Microscope Model finished transforming, Lor directly activated it with his Spiritual Power.

Another magical perspective, thus opened.

He saw the smallest particle unit within the elemental particles, the quarks composing neutrons and protons.

The particle worldview was laid bare.

Lor adjusted his view, focusing on the one-ring Defense Witchcraft ’Thick Earth Cover,’ ignoring the Earth Element Base Rune, only concentrating on the Spatial Void Base Rune.

"Hmm?! What’s this?" At this sight, Lor was directly stunned.

He discovered that the strange quarks in the Void Spatial Base Particle existed in a state of appearing and disappearing.

Even when strange quarks disappeared, the neutrons and protons that they formed as a basis could still exist.

This discovery allowed Lor to directly discern the deepest operational logic of the Spatial Void Basic Rune.

"Wrong, I was wrong all along." Lor’s face showed a sudden enlightenment, a relieved smile curling at the corners of his mouth, "The problem actually lies here, no wonder the previous deductions often got stuck."

Perhaps contact with string theory in the future will change this view.

But now, he believes this is the truth.

"The mismatch issue of the last few molecular intersections is essentially because the disappearance of strange quarks slightly affects the trajectory of molecular operations."

Lor pondered, "What I need to do now is to deduce these molecules’ original trajectory of operation rather than deducing according to the current trajectory."

In deducing molecular intersections, every wrong step would layer upon layer, resulting in a completely incorrect final outcome.

Upon this last step, Lor had tread extremely cautiously, originally feeling nothing odd, as previously integrating the Spatial Positioning Rune into lava eruption witchcraft hadn’t been easy either.

Therefore, he hadn’t been urgent about breaking the limit of the microscope rune.

But after truly observing the reason, he realized the difficulty of the Void Rune was an entirely different matter compared to the difficulty of the Spatial Positioning Rune.

"Having glimpsed the essence, starting anew becomes easy."

Lor’s smile was radiant, "It won’t take long before I can truly complete the fusion of a brand new Defense Witchcraft Rune."

"Hmm, what should I name it then?"

The Adaptive Rock Barrier Rune model, after several rounds of fusion, had long been completely altered.

Calling it the Adaptive Rock Barrier Rune again would be a disregard for Lor’s painstaking fusion efforts over the years.

This time, he truly hadn’t relied on the hearsay from his past life, but carefully weaved out the Fusion Witchcraft Model step by step on his own.

Naming it with a brand-new title was imperative.