chsdbacks Chapter 682 Double Happiness
Chapter 682 Double Happiness
Chapter 682 Double Happiness
Jemin strode across the corridor outside the laboratory.
Behind him, the black giant priest, clutching the test tube that was still futilely pounding his hand, followed silently.
He tried seven or eight different angles to attack the test tube, but eventually, perhaps because he was tired or realized it wasn't very useful, his arm drooped down.
But the test tube still occasionally twists its quartz tube body, expressing its remaining protest.
Passing through the teleportation array, Jemin arrived directly at the transit hub at the edge of the plane.
Because the Purgatory Sulfur Plane has undergone comprehensive modifications, its dimensional barrier is different from the atmospheric structure of other planes; it is a thin film invisible to the naked eye.
In Jemin's perception, it was like an endless wall of light, enveloping the entire plane.
Although it is much thinner, its protective capabilities are actually many levels higher than those of the dimensional barriers of natural planes.
In addition to simple protective capabilities, it can also add various other effects.
Jemin chose the detection module, which requires any person or object entering or leaving the dimension to pass through this barrier.
However, there are some problems after the modification, such as some things no longer being able to pass directly through this barrier.
World fragments are one of them.
The No. 2 material receiving station is suspended in the void outside the dimensional barrier.
It is a hexagonal metal platform with a side length of about 20 kilometers, and the whole is cast from the Star Ring Federation's standard military alloy.
The surface is densely engraved with runes that maintain the atmosphere, gravity, and protective array.
At each of the four corners of the receiving station stands a positioning tower, hundreds of meters high. The runes on the top of the towers emit stable signals, providing navigation for the transport ships coming and going.
A pale blue, semi-transparent shield covered the platform, isolating it from the elements and spatial turbulence of the endless chaotic void.
Through the shield, one can see the plane clusters floating in the distant void.
The hundreds of planes under the jurisdiction of Academy Noren 147 emitted various colors of light in the darkness, like a string of beads strung together with a thin thread.
When Jemin stepped onto the receiving station platform, the Black Giant Legion stationed there was already lined up and waiting. The black liquid metal on their bodies rippled with a ghostly blue light under the glow of their shields.
"How's the cargo?" Jemin asked bluntly.
The leading black giant turned to the center of the platform: "The binding array is ready, and the original state has stabilized, Master."
Jemin looked up.
A spherical magic circle occupies nearly one-third of the central area of the platform.
The magic circle has a diameter of several hundred kilometers. Fortunately, the No. 2 material receiving station itself is a spatial folding creation, and the actual area of the platform is much larger than what can be seen with the naked eye.
A spherical magic circle with a diameter of hundreds of kilometers is compressed into the center of a hexagonal platform with a radius of twenty kilometers. The subtle distortion of space folding gives the edges of the magic circle a visual effect like water ripples.
The magic circle itself is composed of thousands of rune pillars, each ten meters high, arranged in a nested concentric circle structure.
The patterns between the rune pillars intertwined on the ground to form a dazzlingly complex web of light, with pale blue energy flowing slowly along the patterns, emitting a low hum.
At the very center of the magic circle, locked by all the rune pillars and the light net, lies the fragment of the world.
It floated in the center of the magic circle, held in place by hundreds of layers of pale golden binding beams.
In appearance, it resembles an irregularly shaped, translucent piece of amber, with a maximum length of about 30 kilometers and a minimum length of 15 kilometers.
The surface of the fragment shimmered with an inward-flowing halo, as if an invisible core within the fragment was constantly absorbing all the light around it.
Through the translucent seal, one can vaguely see the scene inside the fragment.
There are mountains, rivers, vegetated valleys, and even a small ocean that ripples gently.
Clouds churned in the atmosphere inside the fragment, and a miniature sun hung atop it, casting a soft glow.
This is actually the biggest difference between world fragments and dimensional debris.
Plane remnants are the debris left after a plane collapses. The internal laws and structures have completely disintegrated, and the space itself is constantly decaying. They will naturally dissipate after tens of thousands of years.
Such wreckage has almost no strategic value other than from which residual energy and rare materials can be extracted.
But the fragments of the world are different.
It is not the debris after the plane collapsed, but a "slice" that was separated from the plane for some special reason.
It retains the complete system of laws and the original nature of the plane, with its internal ecosystem operating independently and its spatial structure being stable and self-consistent.
Essentially, it is a tiny, independent dimension.
Jemin released his senses, allowing his mental energy to slowly probe into the fragment along the binding beam of the magic array.
His mental energy swept across the mountains and valleys in the fragments, confirming the stability of the geological structure, the general structure of the ecosystem, and the composition of the mineral veins and energy within.
Finally, his perception touched the core of this fragment: the origin of the plane.
Although the amount of this dimensional origin is small, it is intact and full of vitality, serving as the energy foundation that supports the continuous operation of the entire fragment.
Jemin stood outside the magic circle, arms crossed, silently observing the fragments of this world.
After a long silence, he nodded.
"good."
Just those two words, but his tone carried a rare hint of good mood.
The quality of this world fragment far exceeded his expectations.
"All indicators are normal." Jemin withdrew his senses and turned to the black giant priest behind him, instructing, "Send people in to conduct a detailed exploration. Topographic mapping, species survey, mineral vein distribution, and law activity scanning—I need the complete set of data."
"Yes, sir." The black giant priest carefully placed the test tube that had finally calmed down on the operating table next to him, and turned to dispatch the exploration team.
Jemin stood still, his gaze once again falling on the fragment of the world.
A hint of regret flashed in his eyes.
This is a good thing, but it's too small.
He really wanted to go in for the test himself, but there was no way he could get in with his current true form.
After all, his current body is not a real body.
The "Jemin" standing on the receiving station platform at this moment is merely an illusion he simulated using the power of his Dharma form.
His true form is that thousand-meter-tall golden statue.
In most cases, the size of his actual body does not have any impact on his daily life and research.
Whether it's the expanded space set up in the laboratory or some natural alternate dimensions inside the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, Jemin has no problem entering and exiting and performing various operations.
However, if he wants to enter the world fragment in front of him, he needs to tear the dimensional barrier on the surface of the world fragment to a size large enough for his true form to pass through.
The reason for this difference is that there is a hierarchy between "alternate dimensions" and "world".
This is like a strong man who is over three meters tall living in a large house.
The floor inside the room is divided into smaller functional areas by thin lines.
Although these areas are small, strong men can come and go freely because the rooms themselves are spacious enough.
Although those areas divided by thin lines are theoretically isolated from other spaces, they are essentially still spaces belonging to this house.
The so-called extended space or alternate space basically fall into this category.
But if this burly man wants to go to another house (another dimension), he needs a door that is tall and wide enough.
World fragments are those "high-level" entities that require "specially crafted doors".
Although it is small, it is a completely independent world.
Therefore, its spatial structure is not connected to the Purgatory Sulfur Plane, and its system of laws is also self-contained.
Just like the detached house next door, even if it's only the size of a storage room, you still need to open a door to get in.
This door is the temporary passage maintained by the binding beams within the magic array.
But this world fragment is too small, the longest of which is only thirty kilometers, while his true form is a kilometer tall.
To tear open a hole that would allow a kilometer-long Dharma image to pass through, the impact on the laws governing the fragmented world would be enough to trigger a chain reaction of collapse.
It's like a three-meter-tall giant trying to open a door in the side wall of a small storage room. Even if the door is only wide enough for him to pass through, the entire wall could collapse due to the change in the load-bearing structure.
Therefore, his true form cannot enter, and he cannot personally study it.
It can only stand outside and look at things in an illusion.
Despite the regret, this fragment of the world still holds significant strategic value for him.
World fragments are valuable raw materials in themselves, and both the wizarding civilization and the Great Dao Library have corresponding methods for utilizing them.
For the time being, however, Jemin only has one way to use this world fragment: as a storage room.
Jemin purchased the World Fragments primarily to store the biological samples and materials he collected in the bizarre dimensions.
After all, due to the eerie nature of these things, they are absolutely high-risk items no matter where they are placed.
These bizarre creatures are able to naturally integrate into the rules of the world, and conventional storage devices simply cannot contain them.
Even the sealing array he designed himself could not guarantee that no accidents would occur during long-term storage.
Before he could fully investigate the strange occurrences, he needed a location that was absolutely safe, where he could immediately cut off all contact and minimize the impact should anything go wrong.
World Fragments perfectly fit this requirement.
It is an independent world, and as long as the magic array connecting it to the Infernal Sulfur Plane is severed, any danger that might spread from within can be completely isolated.
Moreover, it has a complete system of laws, so strange samples stored inside will not degrade or become inactive due to environmental incompatibility.
Once he has thoroughly studied the strange phenomena, the fragments of this world can be put to other uses.
The Great Dao Library records more than a dozen methods for cultivating techniques or crafting magical artifacts using fragments of the world.
Moreover, even if it is not used for cultivation, it would be worthwhile to keep it as a dedicated storage room for high-risk research materials.
"The exploration team is in place." The black giant priest returned to Jemin's side, his chest opening and closing as he reported, "The exploration is expected to take two hours. All data will be simultaneously transmitted to your magic network system at that time."
"Alright." Jemin nodded. "Once the exploration is complete, transfer all the strange samples I previously marked from the sealed repository to this world fragment. The transfer will use two-person cross-verification; each sample must be confirmed by two priests to be properly sealed before it can be moved. Arrange for black giant guards to take turns guarding the fragment entrance, and report any anomalies—"
"Immediately seal the connection channel," the black giant priest continued, pausing for a moment, "and activate the world fragment self-destruct protocol."
"You know a lot." Jemin smiled slightly.
These were the black giant priests he had personally trained. After working together for thousands of years, they no longer needed many words to understand Jemin's intentions.
"After the exploration is completed, we need to outline the contingency plan for simultaneous transmission and dimensional fusion," Jemin began to arrange the final finishing touches. "I need to know the maximum number of secure connection channels that can be opened between this world fragment and the Infernal Sulfur plane, and the maximum transmission capacity of each channel. Also, the design plan for carving out an independent isolation zone from within the fragment—"
Jemin's words were interrupted by some sudden, violent impact.
He looked up in surprise, sensing that the entire system of incense and deity worship was trembling.
A violent tremor was spreading through the spiritual connection he shared with the purgatory sulfur plane, a connection built by the sacred path of incense.
It was as if someone had smashed a huge rock into the very center of a calm lake.
The ripples spread outward from the core of the plane at an alarming speed, and wherever they passed, every node of the incense and sacred path resonated sharply.
"This is----"
Jemin's pupils contracted, and through the feedback from the destiny system, he immediately understood what the incense and deity's reaction meant.
"—Warning?!"
"Owner?"
The black giant priest beside him looked up curiously when he saw his master suddenly stop, and then his entire body of liquid metal trembled violently due to excessive excitement.
For some unknown reason, the color of the entire sky suddenly changed, followed by a sharp alarm sound.
The warning arrays set up throughout the entire Purgatory Sulfur Plane were triggered simultaneously, and the sharp ringing of the arrays directly entered the auditory organs of all the creatures present.
The red alert runes, which had never lit up since the plane was built, were now flashing simultaneously in every corner of the entire plane.
The giants on the receiving station platform simultaneously stopped what they were doing.
Their chests opened wide, emitting a low, alert roar, and the black liquid metal on their bodies surged as they prepared for battle.
The black giant priests flashed in front of Jemin, their six fingers tracing defensive runes in the air, wary of any potential attacks.
"Don't be nervous, it's not an enemy from another dimension—"
Jemin raised his hand, stopping them from taking any further action.
The golden vertical eye between his eyebrows suddenly opened.
All mental energy was deployed, tracing back along the information channels transmitted from the warning array.
As the holder of the entire Purgatory Sulfur Plane, with Jemin's confirmation, the information collected by the entire plane's alert array was immediately transmitted in.
Then, Jemin confirmed an unbelievable fact.
He—or rather, the Purgatory Sulfur Plane—was invaded?
(Something came up, so this is the only chapter for today.)
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