Chapter 1128: Chapter 579: Change and Jinx
Two fragments fused into one, and the repaired Eternal Silence Star now appeared as a damaged prismatic structure, no longer in fragments.
Its surface glowed with an increasingly profound blue radiance.
Each arc line seemed to transition between different dimensions, with the crystal displaying a multi-layered nested structure, enveloped in an ice crystal-like space-time membrane.
From the original cracks, vine-like energy veins grew to mend them.
[Eternal Silence Star — Sub Ultimate (Damaged)]
Li Ming’s eyes flickered, indicating that there had been changes; it was no longer fragmented, but in a damaged state.
His heart stirred slightly, and he couldn’t help but grasp it tightly, attempting to sense it.
“Hiss—” Moments later, Li Ming sucked in a breath, staring in astonishment at the object in his hand, “To repair it to a complete state, it requires five hundred billion metal energy?”
Perhaps because its state changed from “fragment” to “damaged,” it could now be fully repaired.
Only now could he perceive how much metal energy was needed to completely restore it.
The number, five hundred billion, truly shocked him.
Originally, in his estimation, the complete Eternal Silence Star would require only two to three hundred billion metal energies to control.
If repaired, perhaps even less, but he never expected the repair alone to require five hundred billion.
However, he quickly adjusted, carefully examining the crystal in his hand, as the passive space-time deformation regions had a greater impact.
“The power in its complete state might be greater than I imagined…” Li Ming couldn’t help but think further.
According to the known information, the Star Alliance and Federation each controlled a Titan Holy Artifact.
What the Federation controlled, he had a preliminary idea, probably related to space.
When they went to the Dominator Laboratory before, they instantly traversed a position spanning several years of travel, which should have been caused by utilizing the Federation’s Titan Holy Artifact.
And according to what the Observer said, among the remaining artifacts, related to space was only one—
[Void Anchor]
A powerful weapon capable of adjusting space.
In theory, space is easier to manipulate than time, but that doesn’t mean it’s weaker.
On the contrary, precisely because of this, it can achieve extreme lethality within its capabilities.
According to the information he found in the Holy Castle and the Observer’s additional description, long-distance spatial relocation is just one of the Void Anchor’s capabilities.
It’s said to have an extremely terrifying ability, rift sealing, which can lock a life form in the highest form of space confinement.
Equivalent to cutting off a corner of cosmic space for confinement, with a robustness that not even a Dominator Level can break, forever imprisoned within.
As for other minor application functions, there’s no need to elaborate.
So Li Ming was very wary, having long decided not to expose his true body to the eyes of the Three Civilizations unless absolutely necessary,
As for the Titan Holy Artifact controlled by the Star Alliance, he currently had no clues.
Thinking it over, he checked the ability changes of the Eternal Silence Star.
He discovered an additional Control Effect—
[Time Immunity: Possesses extremely high resistance to time anomalies not caused by the true body.]
The Eternal Silence Star, being a cutting-edge weapon of time, naturally can resist other low-level techniques.
Li Ming couldn’t help but nod with satisfaction. Upon careful inspection, the other three abilities showed no significant changes.
[Future Prediction] still didn’t work on him.
However, the maximum ratio of [Regional Time Adjustment] became 1:3.
This made Li Ming a little disappointed; he initially thought it would become 1:4, but after a brief attempt, his expression turned to surprise again.
“The stamina consumption is actually lower than when it was 1:2.”
He had expected the stamina consumption to increase; that’s how the pattern always went.
The stronger the ability, the greater the consumption.
“It truly deserves to be a Titan Holy Artifact…” Li Ming couldn’t help but marvel. Upon careful experience, he realized the consumption was nearly halved.
It was estimated that the consumption of [Time Distortion] should also be reduced, likely affecting X Level Life Forms deeply.
“If it’s repaired to its complete form, does it mean there will be no consumption at all?” Li Ming couldn’t help but think.
Complete lack of consumption is unlikely, but it could be pressed extremely low.
Li Ming was quite excited; a 1:3 time rate difference effectively reduced the time he would otherwise spend developing to 100% progress by three times.
Currently, his development progress was at 55%, advancing by 1% every month and a half.
Now, it would only take half a month to advance by 1%, significantly reducing the time he needed to delay.
“However, the only problem is the need to remove a piece of Genetic Essence.” Li Ming could accept this; it was just a few more days.
Comparing the threefold reduction, it was worth far more than its cost.
This item, of course, could also be used in materialized form, but it’s simply an energy sink,
with the Mechanical Court’s current energy efficiency, even if fully channeled here, it wouldn’t fill this void.
He adjusted his development sequence again, limiting the space-time deformation region to cover only a surface layer, striving to minimize consumption.
Afterward, he simultaneously activated the Recovery Blessing brought by [Battlefield Doctor], with consumption and recovery proceeding in sync, and drank a few sips of highly compressed Nutrition Potion.
Produced by Night Moon Biological Company, even at a discount, a vial required seventy million Star Coins, originally intended for X Level Life Forms to replenish consumption during combat.
Once it reached the stomach, the highly dense nutrition of the potion was broken down into pure energy form, making the cells unprecedentedly active, competing for energy flow in the capillaries.