area51novel Chapter 293
Chapter 293
After the group stage ended, Long You handed over all the information that Xiao Yan had analyzed to Bei Bei, and then quietly went to the soul tool pawnshop in the south of Mingdu City once again.
Since turning his attention to his grandfather's pocket, Long You suddenly realized that he seemed to have overlooked a very important asset—the basement that was specially built to showcase the soul of the auspicious beast.
The biggest problem for Long You in creating law-based soul tools is that they are suppressed by the world's rules. Inscribing law runes is already exhausting enough, and having to spare time to fight against the omnipresent pressure from the world's rules makes the entire soul tool creation process incredibly difficult and inefficient.
Although it's just a half-baked shielding barrier, it's still a barrier "enchanted" by the laws, so it's somewhat useful, right?
Having set up the entire soul-guiding control panel in the basement, Long You, half-anxious and half-praying, pondered deeply, wishing he could light a stick of incense and have a proper conversation with the world's consciousness. The pain caused by being oppressed by the world's rules was truly discouraging; Long You now needed to mentally prepare himself before even starting to create a soul-guiding device.
Long You had already simulated the invisible soul tool blueprints designed by Xiao Yan countless times in the War God Palace. Considering the versatility of its use, Long You ultimately decided to make the invisible soul tool into a more versatile array plate style, rather than the soul tool exclusively for soul-guided power mechs that he had initially imagined.
As usual, Long You first created the core array of the soul tool. For the core array, Long You continued to use the same materials as when he made the pseudo-dimensional blade, choosing silver crystal and void quartz. The space crystal formed by the fusion and forging of these two materials is indeed the best space law carrier that Long You can obtain at this stage.
An hour later, Long You, now a skilled forging craftsman, looked at the spatial crystal before him, which was noticeably more translucent than the one he had seen in the Ordinary Alliance competition, and smiled with satisfaction. Seeing that it wasn't time to rest yet, Long You decided to seize the opportunity and begin inscribing spatial runes.
Unlike the pseudo-Dimensional Blade, unique symbols emphasizing structure and integrity began to appear on the surface of the space crystal. As the soul-guided engraving knife swayed, nine interconnected triangles appeared evenly on the polyhedral surface of the space crystal. Long You's engraving was clearly not yet finished, and there were clearly only nine triangles, but after the power of space was activated, the entire space crystal seemed to be completely surrounded by these nine small triangles. No matter what angle you looked at it from, you could see a complete triangle perfectly.
The activated magic circle on the basement wall began to glow. Long You, who continued to inscribe more detailed structures on the space crystal, smiled slightly. The oppressive feeling of the world that should have followed him from the moment he began to draw the inscription did not come.
[Tsk, another new idea! The goddess's secret eraser... that sounds pretty cool. When I get back this time, I'm going to try and build a little house similar to the Night Kingdom. If that works, I can have secret talks with people anytime.]
After a brief moment of distraction, Long You regained his serious demeanor when the pattern he had inscribed on his hand transformed into a continuously rotating spiral structure visible to the naked eye. Compared to traditional soul tools, array-type soul tools differ significantly in that the core array and the array plate itself are completely interconnected. This connection is far more complex than the few soul power pathways between the inner shell and the core array of a soul tool, involving the smooth flow of lines on a three-dimensional level. To ensure that all 1008 connecting lines on Xiao Yan's design drawings function as intended, Long You had to be extremely careful in controlling the lines of the inscription.
As the spiral lines increased, the isolation array on the basement walls began operating at full power, but even so, the familiar oppressive feeling of the world still descended upon Long You. Fine beads of sweat began to appear on Long You's forehead, and his eyes were already feeling sore, but the inscription work on the array was already halfway done, and he absolutely could not stop at this point. Once he stopped, even if the reconnected inscriptions could still function, their effectiveness would be greatly reduced.
Completely absorbed in his work, Long You didn't notice a slender figure silently appearing in the basement under a hazy moonlight. A faint green light flashed across Long You's body. Compared to the other two guests in the Sea of Consciousness who needed to assist Long You in creating the soul tool, Liu Jun, who knew nothing about soul tools, became Zhang Lexuan's host.
They exchanged glances, momentarily stunned, and then Zhang Lexuan, her presence diminished by the moonlight, bowed slightly to Liu Jun—a gesture of respect for a powerful figure. Liu Jun, realizing the person before him was none other than the man his young host admired, also let his guard down.
"Hello, Senior Liu Jun, I am Zhang Lexuan."
"Hello, just call me Liu Jun. You're here now because you've got results from investigating that warehouse in the north of the city?"
Using the technique of forcing sounds into lines, Liu Jun and Zhang Lexuan began to communicate in a corner away from Long You's soul-guiding workbench.
"We have indeed made some progress. The physical mechanisms set up in the Holy Spirit Cult's warehouse have been thoroughly investigated by Byrne using his soul-guided robots. However, I think we may need to reassess the danger of that thing Byrne reported back, which appears to be a summoning array."
Could you elaborate?
"According to Xiao You's previous idea, he wanted to destroy the control module of this magic array by using the array plate with conflicting principles, and then let the evil spirit lurking in the magic array deal with the flesh and blood creatures that were closest to it at the time - those few evil soul masters."
Then, taking advantage of the time when the evil spirit left, we used the soul-guided robot to forcefully break down the door, quickly collect the items in the warehouse, and then used this location as a breakthrough point to leave Mingdu.
But based on what I observed today, that magic circle seems to be just a decoy, and not actually related to the evil spirit's state.
"Explain in detail, did someone go to that warehouse?"
Faced with Liu Jun's question, Zhang Lexuan sighed almost imperceptibly, "Some participating teams that wanted to leave Mingdu fled to that mountainous area in a panic due to the pursuit and blockade outside the city."
That team was likely from a sect within the Heavenly Soul Empire. The leader was a powerful attack-type Soul Douluo, who had also noticed the array patterns on the ground and extensively destroyed them before sacrificing himself. From my observation time, he destroyed them quite thoroughly, but the evil spirit remained completely unaffected.
"This is indeed a bit troublesome. We'll make a more detailed assessment later by reviewing the combat footage. But right now, there's an even more important issue..."