Chapter 539: Astral Scavenging
The Dream Realm was a piece of chaos. Besides the World Crystal Wall, there was only endless dream Source Power. Having experienced the second creation of the Bernard Great World, embedding a Law demi-plane into his own Dream Realm was a piece of cake for Ace.
He snapped his fingers, and the dream Source Power of the entire Dream Realm began to boil. The thick, almost solid Source Power at the outermost layer, like a thin inner shell attached to the World Crystal Wall, was unaffected. The other fluid-like dream Source Power, after boiling, gathered turbulently.
Soon, it gathered not far in front of Ace, located at the center of the Dream Realm.
This was a mass of highly concentrated fluid-like dream Source Power. Its concentration also made the entire Dream Realm become empty. Ace raised an eyebrow: “The concentration seems to be not enough. Compress it further.”
After the precious dream Source Power was highly compressed by Ace until it could almost no longer be shrunk, Ace summoned the thirteen Epic Star Noble Phantasms. Holding the Gravitational Torsion Balance, he swung it forcefully.
The thirteen Star Noble Phantasms generated extremely strong mutual gravitational attraction, fiercely attracting and colliding with each other in a short period of time.
Ace extended his right hand towards the direction of the Bernard Main World. The star within the Bernard World suddenly erupted with an extremely strong halo. A star phantom was actually peeled off from it. The halo moved upwards rapidly, breaking away from the world, and the entire star dimmed as a result.
The humans on the seven habitable planets looked up simultaneously; the sun suddenly darkened a lot.
Bruce was lying in a luxurious courtyard basking in the sun, while Elena lay beside him massaging his legs. He looked at the suddenly dimmed sky and asked puzzledly: “What’s going on?”
It took about a week for the star’s light to slowly return to normal. Countless wizards, Mages, and astronomy enthusiasts recorded this strange scene, calling it the “Dark Sun Event.”
That halo broke away from the Bernard World, rapidly submerged into the Dream Realm, and shrouded the thirteen Star Noble Phantasms. Faintly resembling a First Flame, the thirteen Star Noble Phantasms were violently pulled by each other’s gravity within it. After about seven days, they merged into one body, becoming a Demigod Level Star Noble Phantasm!
Ace drew out the First Flame of the star of the Bernard World and rapidly fused it with his thirteen Epic Star Noble Phantasms under the action of gravity, constructing a true Demigod Level Star Noble Phantasm. Not a temporary combined product, but an eternal Demigod Level Star Noble Phantasm.
He relied on world creation to turn the Gravitational Torsion Balance in his hand into a Demigod Level Noble Phantasm, and relied on the star’s First Flame to turn the thirteen Star Noble Phantasms into a Demigod Level Noble Phantasm. It could be said that Ace’s own power and Noble Phantasms were all obtained by utilizing the Bernard World to the limit relying on the World Controller authority.
Such a hard-won Star Noble Phantasm could be said to be comparable to the star of the Bernard World in all aspects. Even in the Kaya World, it could act as an ordinary star.
Yet Ace directly threw such a precious Star Noble Phantasm into the highly compressed dream Source Power, and holding the Level 4 mystery Glazed Heart Fire, raised it to full power, igniting the mixture of the two with a boom.
At the moment of ignition, Ace flashed and escaped from the Dream Realm. The Glazed Heart Fire actually instantly detonated the dream Source Power and the Star Noble Phantasm.
Ace put away the Glazed Heart Fire in his hand. Standing outside the crystal wall of the Dream Realm, he manipulated the Magic Net to constantly proliferate, tightly wrapping the dream crystal wall. An extremely violent explosion and combustion occurred inside the crystal wall, causing fine cracks to appear on the crystal wall.
Ace grimaced in pain and said: “The good news is that the Glazed Heart Fire can indeed ignite and even detonate Source Power. The bad news is that the Source Power Big Bang seems to be overdone; the Dream Realm can’t quite hold up.”
His movements didn’t stop. The Magic Net drew all available free energy from the other one large and two small worlds with all its might. Whether it was mana, faith, Authority, or Source Power, streams of power surged into the World Crystal Wall of the Dream Realm along the Magic Net, constantly mending the cracks in the crystal wall to maintain basic integrity.
The humans of the Bernard World panicked to find that they suddenly couldn’t mobilize external energy; only their own power could still be used.
Wizards dared not use magic easily because inherent mana was limited. Newly advanced Mages and Priests even lost their supernatural means in an instant. Conversely, Warriors’ blood energy was not much affected.
The people on the seven habitable planets were panicked, and various riots broke out constantly. Even dreamwalkers fell into panic, thinking some major upheaval had happened in this world.
Just then, the Dream Core automatically popped up an explanation box, informing them that due to unmentionable reasons, Ace had temporarily extracted all free supernatural energy from the entire world.
The dreamwalkers felt a little relieved in their hearts, and they also got a strong impression of Ace’s strength.
Allen and Eva, who had just found Bruce, also decided to help Elena. Anyway, the few of them had always acted together. Since a large amount of Fate Points could be obtained on this planet, they would stay active here.
Allen said to the two: “I received a Magic Net letter from Luther. He is on another planet. I’m afraid he can’t cross the vacuum to come to us in a short time. Besides, he has another Main Task over there, which seems very good.”
Bruce nodded and said: “Then there’s no need to go. After all, us doing the Vampire task is also out of having no choice.”
Eva teased: “Is it an accident? I really didn’t expect that you actually hooked up with her.”
Bruce was somewhat embarrassed, with a trace of a wretched smile at the corner of his mouth, seemingly recalling the lingering passion of that night. He hurriedly changed the subject: “After advancing to Level 4, Lord Ace’s strength is unbelievably powerful. To actually be able to mobilize almost all ownerless supernatural energy of the entire world, ordinary Demigods of the Kaya World probably can’t do this, right?”
Allen’s expression was slightly solemn. He whispered: “I personally feel the role of the Magic Net is paramount. This Magic Net almost reshaped the circulation of supernatural energy. And Lord Ace almost completely masters the Bernard World, capable of reshaping the internal structure of the world. The Magic Net has probably become an indispensable part here.”
Eva said a little worriedly: “Indeed. With the Magic Net, our efficiency in absorbing and using mana has increased rapidly. But I feel that the most important thing for wizards is still themselves; we shouldn’t rely too much on external forces.”
They looked at each other, feeling this matter couldn’t be discussed deeply, and stopped there.
Outside the world, Ace stood in the void of the world cluster formed by the Magic Net and dream mist. It wasn’t quite appropriate to call it the void here; after all, the invisible mist and Magic Net had filled it, forming an open structure.
A word flashed through Ace’s mind; perhaps it could be called the medium layer. After all, both the Magic Net and the mist were a kind of carrier and medium.
This thought flashed past. He continued to concentrate on maintaining the stability of the crystal wall of the Dream Realm. The most violent explosion had passed, and the interior of the entire Dream Realm began to expand.
Ace’s eyes flickered with white light. He clearly saw that the layer of solid-like dream Source Power inside the crystal wall had completely solidified, while the space inside the Dream Realm expanded rapidly along with the explosion.
The exterior was limited while the internal expansion was infinite. As long as there was enough energy, theoretically, the interior could expand into a multiverse far vaster than the Kaya World.
The Celestial Realm of the Bernard World was like a prominent navigator, emitting exploration ripples, guiding the direction. The flagella formed by the Magic Net were jointly pushing the world’s drift.
Within the Celestial Realm, Betty and Bayen were at the top of the High Tower of the City of Wizards built by Ace.
The two of them wholeheartedly observed the feedback of the ripples, adjusting the world’s course. Although most of the time, the super magic computer, the Dream Core, could navigate automatically, the two of them were not quite reassured and always came here to observe from time to time.
“This world cluster system designed by Lord Ace is simply a stroke of genius. The development of a world cannot only rely on internal civilization diversity and civilization iteration, but must also face the Astral Void, capturing existences in the Astral Void.”
Betty said to Bayen with some excitement.
Bayen also nodded, also very excited: “We have discovered a material reaction. According to the ripple feedback, it should be a big guy. The first astral scavenging for us two Legendary Wizards is about to begin.”
Betty curled her lips, somewhat dissatisfied: “Can we not call it scavenging? It has no class at all. It should be called Astral Hunting! According to the current drifting speed, it’s estimated to take two months to arrive. I hope Witte and Arno can recover their strength, otherwise they won’t make it for the maiden hunt.”
Bayen didn’t bicker with her, keeping quiet to observe peacefully. The world adjusted its direction under the joint action of the flagella. The Celestial Realm in front, the Dream Realm above, the Underworld behind, and the Bernard World in the middle, slowly heading towards the source of the material reaction.
In the Dream Realm, after Ace completely stabilized the entire crystal wall, his figure appeared inside the Dream Realm. The space here was still expanding. Space is a concept integrated with matter; only when matter disperses is there space.
After experiencing the violent Big Bang, the interior of the entire world had slowly cooled down, turning into a special celestial body composed of thin gas and dust. The space here was very large, but the density of matter was not large, and there were also large gaps between them.
Earthy yellow dust occupied about a quarter of the space in the middle of the nebula, flowing freely like a river. Purple splashed casually like a divine brush, resembling several beautiful purple Udumbara flowers. Around it were dark black embellishments. Faintly, a few points of starlight could be seen; those were small stars of large mass.
The entire nebula was not pure matter. It was mixed with the Demi-god Level Star Noble Phantasm, thoroughly exchanged and mixed during the explosion. The entire nebula possessed a magical rhythm.
Ace raised the Gravitational Torsion Balance in his hand high. Bursts of invisible gravitational disturbances gradually spread throughout the entire nebula.
“Before accelerating the evolution, the nebula needs to be further transformed into a Noble Phantasm. This will be a starry sky world, a miniature starry sky constructed based on magical mechanics, and also my most important weapon. Every grain of dust must possess the properties of a Noble Phantasm.”
Ace’s ambition was very big. He really wanted to evolve a whole great starry universe. However, reality made it impossible. So he settled for the next best thing, evolving a nebula, and then evolving complex celestial systems within it, such as stars, gas giants, rocky planets, molten planets, comets, small meteorites, etc.
And this whole nebula stellar celestial system was a Noble Phantasm. It was a celestial system transformed into a Noble Phantasm, and also the Noble Phantasmic-ization of a celestial system. This would be Ace’s strongest weapon for future battles.
He began madly refining the nebula piece by piece, frantically upgrading the material grade of the dust and gas constituting the nebula. This was a long process. Ace wanted to evolve the entire nebula. Even accelerating with the Mythical Spell “Time Manipulation,” the time needed to refine the nebula and evolve it into a stellar system was extremely long.
Just as Ace was refining the nebula, Betty had already controlled the world to drift near the source of the material reaction. Arno and Witte also entered the Celestial Realm. The four Legends looked at the picture displayed by the Dream Core, greatly shocked.
This was a vast expanse of gray, super-large matter. As they approached, it could be seen that the whole was like a huge island, with a total mass comparable to a habitable planet inside the Bernard World.
The Celestial Realm emitted ripples one after another, inspecting this isolated island left in the Astral Plane. Betty looked carefully at the elemental properties displayed on it and exclaimed: “There are actually organics? This is simply unbelievable!”
Bayen stroked his beard and smiled: “We’ll know once we go take a look.”
They looked at each other. Witte said: “Don’t we need to report to Lord Ace?”
Bayen replied: “I contacted Lord Ace not long ago. He seemed to have entered the Dream Realm and apparently opened a mysterious barrier, making contact impossible. According to the Magic Council Convention, judged by the Lord’s clone and the Dream Core, we can conduct this scavenging. There is no problem procedurally.”
Betty urged with glowing eyes: “I can’t wait anymore, act quickly. Also, we are not scavenging, it’s hunting!”
Arno listened to them talk with a smile, and said at this moment: “Then let me go fix the prey first. I can’t handle the other things.”
Betty nodded and said: “I’ll go too, two people are more efficient. Old man, you just stay here and wait to scavenge.”
Bayen smiled wryly as he watched the disappearing figures of Betty and Arno . This girl still held a grudge so much.
The two stood at the top of a flagellum composed of two Magic Net threads. Under the control of the Dream Core, hundreds of flagella from the Celestial Realm rapidly extended, tightly grabbing that huge isolated island. Like an octopus dragging prey, they dragged that massive island into the world cluster.
Betty and Arno boarded the island, observing carefully and sensing the changes within. It seemed exceptionally quiet here, with no signs of any biological activity.
For a long time, at the same time, Betty began knocking on the island, studying its internal structure.
After about a day, the two nodded, finding no problems.
“Dream God, confirmed no problems, requesting to first pull it into the world cluster to fix it.”
Betty contacted the Dream Core and reported.
At the rules layer within the Bernard World, the Dream Core flashed violently, seemingly extremely joyful. A mechanical synthesized voice rang in the ears of Betty and the others.
[Confirmed. Large Specimen No. 1, Volume XX, Mass XX. Supernatural energy reaction over 5000 exists, organics exist. Information entry complete. Contacting the great World Controller… Unable to contact. According to the established plan, requesting instructions from the Controller’s clone.]
After waiting for a while, the synthesized voice sounded again.
[Controller’s clone authorized. Large Specimen No. 1 is pulled into the Bernard World, and recovery and devouring will commence.]
Under the control of the Magic Net threads, the Bernard World Crystal Wall slowly split out a crystal boundary membrane, slowly swallowing Large Specimen No. 1. The entire boundary membrane was like a bubble. Large Specimen No. 1, this astral wandering island, just hovered in the bubble like this.
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