The Dinsional Seed had been the ultimate goal for so many people since its existence was discovered, and Zac was finally standing right in front of it. Just looking in its general direction made Zacs mind scatter again, forcing him to turn his head away. The treasure might not be actively dangerous to interact with, but there was still a vast chasm in terms of grades between them.
It was just like with himself; if he completely unleashed his aura next to soone at Level 1, they would probably die from the pressure. And the difference between him and soone who hadnt started cultivating was probably a lot smaller than the difference between him and the object hovering two hundred ters in the air.
Zac didnt know what he expected the spatial treasure to look like, but he did realize that taking this thing might have been a fools dream. First of all, he wasnt even sure he would be able to even get close considering how intense its energy fluctuations were. Secondly, it was pretty big, much too big for the box he had spent an exorbitant amount of money on.
The Dinsional Seed looked like a pulsating black hole, whose oscillations contained the breath of pure Dao in a way that made Zac's brain almost short-circuit when he tried to understand what he was looking at. Its diater fluctuated between ten and thirty ters, so unless there was so sort of smaller core in the heart of that anomaly there was no way itd fit inside the box. Not that snatching this thing was his main goal.
Besides, it felt all-too-apparent after seeing this treasure that it would bring more problems than it was worth. Sothing emitting spatial fluctuations this powerful probably couldnt be stowed away in a Spatial Ring, and it was only a matter of ti before so old monster learned of it and beca greedy.
A treasure like the [Eye of Har'Theriam] was extrely rare and had amazing effects, but its use was ultimately limited to E-Grade juniors. Yet it had caused Yrial endless troubles when it was exposed. The thing in the heart of the chamber was clearly ant for higher-grade cultivators, and Zac couldnt even imagine what kind of storm such an item would elicit.
Zac shook his head and instead started to inspect the rest of the enormous chamber. There seed to be a thousand pillars rising from the ground, all of them pointing toward the Dinsional Seal in the air. They were roughly five ters across at their base, but they turned to thin spears at the end. It was the sa with the dod walls and ceiling, with spikes hundreds of ters long all pointing toward the heart of the room. There was even one twenty ters above their heads, angled upward.
The spikes werent placed completely uniform though, and Zac almost got lost in thought as he looked at them. It felt like there was so hidden aning to the pattern they created, like they ford so sort of array. The aning was far beyond his understanding, but Zac had an idea what they were there for; to suspend and seal the Dinsional Seal.
The pulsating anomaly was trapped inside a sphere seemingly made from thousands of different Daos. Each pulse made the barrier flutter, but it was clear that the containnt shield was stopping most of the energies from escaping. Perhaps it would have been impossible for them to stand in this place without the pillars keeping the treasure sealed up.
One thing that made the thousands of spears stand out from all other Technocrat tech Zac had encountered so far was that they seed to run on sothing other than Base Power, or that plasma energy that the Little Bean used. It was rather Dao that ran through the tallic spears. It wasn't Spatial Dao though like what the Dinsional Seed emitted, but rather all kinds of mysterious energies.
It made Zac realize that it might not actually be the Dinsional Seed that was the source of those ripples before, at least not the sole source.
This Kenzie whispered as she looked around with shock in her eyes. Its so similar
Similar to what? Zac asked with confusion since he had never seen anything like this.
Ah? Nothing, Kenzie shrugged.
Zac slowly nodded before he turned to Rhubat.
Can you sense sothing? Are they here? Zac asked.
With hundreds of thick pillars covering the ground, visibility was even worse than in a forest and Zac couldnt see further than a hundred ters on the ground. A whole army could be loitering on the other side of the innermost chamber without them having any idea of it.
Not only that, but the spears also gave off a weird humming white noise that made it hard to just hear each other when standing next to each other. Zac would probably be able to scream at the top of his lungs without exposing their location.
We cant sense anything. Between these pillars and the treasure itself, our senses are almost completely blinded, Rhubat said with a shake of its head. Its like standing in the middle of a sandstorm.
Zac hesitantly looked around the chamber once more, not sure what they should do next.
Lets scout out the room, make sure we're the only one here. Perhaps we can set up a trap if we can figure out where the others will co from," Zac eventually said.
The group didn't spread out in case there really were others in this place, rather opting to stay together as they walked between the spears. A few of them emitted Daos that felt completely foreign to Zac, whereas others felt a bit more familiar. He gazed at the thousands of spears, and he couldn't help but wonder if all the main branches of the Dao under the System were represented in this chamber.
Was it perhaps possible to find the pillars that were related to his own path and use them to progress further?
"They are powered by Origin Dao," Kenzie murmured. "It's not true insight, but rather a forced mimicry... Still..."
What! Rhubat suddenly exclaid, starting Kenzie out of her musings. There is soone inside the anomaly!
Impossible, Ogras blurted as his eyes darted up, but he was imdiately forced to look away again.
Zac tried to forcibly look at the Dinsional Seed with [Cosmic Gaze] to see what Rhubat was talking about, but it was even worse than staring straight into the sun. Kenzie summoned a handful of drones, and a video feed appeared on her screen as she tapped away. The image kept shifting like she was adding various filters, and Zacs eyes widened when he could see a vague outline of a person for a mont.
Soone was really sitting on top of the Dinsional Seed and was hidden by the powerful emanations.
It's true! Kenzie exclaid. They are even inside that inner shield! How can anyone withstand that?!
Their auras are converging, Rhubat said with a frown, and a few other Anointed nodded after they closed their eyes. I barely sensed it. I think the person inside is trying to fuse with the item, or at least form a connection to it. It has to be Adcarkas. Who else has that kind of capability?
Is the bad guy eating that ball? Billy muttered with wide eyes. Scary.
More like suicidal, Ogras muttered with disbelief. But if he sohow succeeds
We cant let that happen, Zac said with grit teeth as his gaze moved to one of the pillars sticking out from the wall. Get ready for battle, there is no ti to lose.
Those are the eyes of soone about to do sothing foolish, Ogras said. Dont act hastily.
He is probably in a trance at the mont since he sits there unmoving, but he might wake up we start experinting on ways of dragging him down. Ill have to go all out from the start, Zac said as he turned to his sister. That Dao-shield, can I pass through it?
What? You want to enter that thing? The barrier seems to only restrain the energies the seed emits, but that ans the aura is far stronger inside. You might die just from the aura alone if you jump through, Kenzie said with worry.
I dont believe Ill instantly die if that guy can comfortably sit up there, Zac muttered. I should at least be able to drag him down. Theres no ti to waste. Be ready to unleash so powerful strikes. Perhaps we can kill him in one go.
I still think- Kenzie tried to interject, but Zac just shook his head as he readied his axe and shield.
We will not fail you, Warmaster, Rhubat rumbled, and the auras of all the Anointed started to rise, a telltale sign of them activating their life-burning thod.
Billy prepared himself as well, as his usually silly expression was replaced with steely determination. Even Ogras had discarded his lackadaisical deanor as he slowly lded with the surroundings, his spear already in his hand.
Zac took a last steadying breath before he disappeared, and a deep indent appeared on one of the long spikes a mont later as he used it as a launching pad to shoot into the air. However, he didnt fly straight toward the Dinsional Seed, but rather making it look like he would miss it by fifty ters just in case Voids Disciple was actually observing their moves.
However, just as it looked like he would shoot straight past the floating treasure a barely noticeable patch of grass appeared under his right foot, and he suddenly disappeared. Space constricted as he took a step through shrunken space, and he pushed straight through the Dao barrier and toward the barely visible figure inside the black energy emanations.
The halo of [Conformation of Supremacy] had already appeared behind him, filling him with a sense of power as the Everlasting Shield radiated a world-crushing weight. If it really was Adcarkas sitting inside, then Zac had already cut this guy in two once without much success. So he figured hed try to crush him instead this ti around, and if it failed the force should at least be powerful enough to knock him down from the dinsional seed.
However, Zac completely lost control of his skill the mont he entered the anomaly, and it felt like his whole body was disintegrating as imnsely powerful Spatial Energies threatened to rip him apart. Zacs perception of reality was being put through the wringer and his whole body was being expanded to the size of a galaxy one mont, only for it to be shrunk into the size of an atom the next.
This was way beyond what he had endured when the Mystic Realm underwent those massive upheavals, over ten tis worse. Even his soul was unable to maintain its integrity and was being bent and twisted like a piece of clay. Zac was completely helpless as he shot forward. The containnt shield was just fifty ters across, but that short journey felt even longer than flying to the moon.
Alien energies threatened to completely rip his body apart, but the welco beat of his hidden node suddenly echoed out in the darkness. This was why Zac had so confidence in attempting this. His [Void Heart] even dared to eat the tribulation lightning of the Heavens themselves, so what was so energy run-off from a C-Grade treasure? The hidden node happily gobbled up mouthfuls of the spatial energies, which gave Zac back so of his presence of mind.
Zacs plan had already failed, but he thankfully had a backup. He hurriedly infused [Loves Bond] with the Fragnt of the Coffin to toughen it up even further. A shudder went through Zacs body as he felt a collision, which was imdiately followed by a startled roar of anger before the world turned back to normal.
[Loamwalker] was not an actual teleportation-skill like Ogras shadow-walk, which had both positives and negatives. In this case, it was an asset as his montum was real when he shot forward from the floating patch of grass. Zac had lost all sense of his surroundings for a while there, but he was moving straight toward the ditating person, and his shield was pretty massive.
His montum had made him not only knock the person off the Dinsional Seed but also pushed both of them out of the containnt shield. His senses were still all ssed up even if [Void Heart] had swallowed most of the terrifying Spatial Energies, and his vision and perception of space were still all ssed up. He tried to grab his target, but he only grasped empty air for a few seconds until he slamd down onto the hard tal floor.
Thankfully Zac was not alone. Soone dragged a nigh-delirious Zac away just in ti before twenty enormous seals slamd down as one, causing even the extrely sturdy golden alloy to dent. It was imdiately followed by a hulking smash by a roaring Billy who had already grown to ten ters.
The Titan imdiately started charging a second strike, and the mont the massive club was lifted from the ground over fifty drones shot at the sa spot, the combined force of their lasers almost tearing a hole in space itself.
An endless barrage of shadow-spears kept up the pressure on the spot until a ter-thick lance of pure darkness shot the target, swallowing everything whole. An even more powerful follow-up swing from Billy kept the combo going, and the echoes of tallic clangor echoed out. The Anointed kept attacking the unmoving body as well, unleashing millennia of pent-up fury.
Zac could finally tell left from right as stumbled back on his feet, and he realized that he had been dragged right next to his sister. He nodded at her before he looked over at the carnage with a frown.
Sothing was wrong.
The target hadnt even moved or as much as activated a defense as far Zac could tell, but why didnt they die? Even Zac wouldnt survive an onslaught like that unless he blocked them sohow. A piercing scream of danger forced Zac into action, and he desperately flashed out of the way while dragging his sister with him.
It was just in ti as well as a hand appeared out of nowhere, grabbing straight for his throat with enough force to make the air twist.
Back away, Zac whispered to his sister as he stared at the attacker with confusion and so trepidation. Why is it you?!
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