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Chapter 574: Chapter 33: Madness and Level 13
His voice suddenly rose, carrying a hysterical frenzy:
"But ’Decay’ itself... is chaos! It is the end! It is... the power that transcends all rules! It doesn’t need stability! What it needs is... to unleash! To burn thoroughly and... return to nothingness!"
"Do you see it? It’s alive! It’s breathing! It’s yearning for... the final ’feast’! When it combines with the ’Star Core’, ’Tear of Void’... when these ’materials’ are thrown into the furnace... that will be... beyond the Third Tier... ’Perfection’! It is... the ultimate of my path!"
He waved his withered claw, pointing towards the silent, swirling massive array composed of dark green roots and dark red energy in the center of the hall.
"The furnace is ready! The fuel is on its way! ’Heart’... is about to mature! We... just need to wait... wait for the sweetest... ’fruit’ to fall into it! Hahahahaha—!"
The mad laughter echoed in the ancient hall, intertwined with the buzzing of the energy surging within the Crystal Ball and the friction of the wriggling roots, forming a chilling finale overture.
The power of decay emanating from Altonia’s body became more violent, even condensing into tiny, continually forming and dissipating dark green runes on the surface of his shriveled skin, as if he himself was being assimilated and eroded by this ultimate power of decay.
Karija and Eye Grass "Insightful" stood silently at the edge of the shadows, no longer daring to persuade.
They watched the once unfathomable, now seemingly mad Rotten Wood Elder, feeling the increasingly unstable and destructive oppressive aura pervading the hall, a chill creeping up from the depths of their souls.
The plan seemed to be sliding into an abyss that even these planners feared.
Altonia was no longer the calm collaborator; he was more like a fanatic bewitched by the power he pursued and sacrificed to decay. And they stood beside this "Heart of Decay" about to explode.
The dark red core within the Crystal Ball, driven by Altonia’s mad laughter and will, pulsed more powerfully and rapidly, like a greedy and tyrannical embryo, frantically absorbing the "nourishment" full of Mystical Wizard’s wisdom, strength, and despair transmitted from the eight screens.
The endgame atop the tower was accelerating its arrival with a destructive aura.
....
The darkness of the Decaying Steps is an eternal cage, also a furnace for tempering will. Lynch’s figure ascended steadily within it, the edge of his gray wizard robe seeming to merge with this dead silent void.
The writhing roots beneath his feet emitted an increasingly intense ominous dark green glow, and each step felt like treading on the slow-beating viscera of some enormous creature. The decay-laden air was thick enough to feel almost liquid, omnipresently eroding the intruder’s body and soul.
However, Lynch’s state entered a peculiar "Absolute Domain". The [Grid Circuit] silently enveloped hundreds of meters around, incorporating every energy node of the stair trap, every subtle tremor of the rules runes, and every nuanced change in the spatial folds into that perception model as precise as a cosmic star map.
His vast knowledge reserves made these compound traps, enough to cause other Mystical Wizards to drink with grievance, appear like deconstructed complex alchemy devices before him.
"Target Trap: ’Entropy Increase Corridor’... Core Rule: Localized time acceleration catalyzing particle disorder... Solution: Reverse entropy flow injection coordinate (γ-12.8, δ+5.6), intensity 45%; simultaneously construct ’Time Anchor Matrix’, offset vector (α=-3.1 degrees, β=+1.7 degrees)..."
His mind operated like a light-speed alchemy core, instantly completing analysis and scheme generation. No dazzling light, only a precise fingertip pointing, the invisible "data flow" constructed of spiritual power pierced into the trap’s vital point.
"Decaying Domain Skill Level +8"
The system prompt was like cold raindrops falling into his still Spiritual Sea.
The trap disintegrated silently, and the rule fragments were efficiently absorbed. Yet Lynch’s movements did not pause in the slightest as he steadily stepped onto the next stair.
At the same time, "Time Wheel" Meditation Skill, deeply rooted in his spiritual core, operated with unprecedented intensity, in a rhythm almost instinctual, synchronized with breathing.
Twelve radiant Mystical Circuits, like twelve star rivers penetrating the void, rotated and flowed around a gigantic silver wheel emitting eternal dim light.
This wheel was the core manifestation of the "Time Wheel", its markings clear as physical, flowing with the rhythm of the river of time.
Only one final circuit to reach Perfection!
That final circuit was like a dormant Silver Dragon, its embryonic form visible on the edge of the wheel, awaiting the infusion of energy and connection of rules.
Here, time lost its measure. Perhaps it was a few days, perhaps months, or even years? Or maybe decades?
Or even...
More timeless time?
In any case,
Lynch’s ascending steps never halted, and the Time Wheel’s operation reached its final critical point under this extreme pressure environment!
"Time Wheel Skill Level +3"
When time reached a certain moment...
"Buzz—!"
Within Lynch’s spiritual core, that silently turning Time Wheel erupted with unprecedented brilliance! Twelve star river-like Mystical Circuits instantly radiated light, like twelve ignited fuses, channeling this violent space-time energy madly towards that final embryonic circuit!
"Boom!"
Not a material world’s great sound, but a soul-level shocking roar!
Lynch felt as if a star had been thrown into his spiritual world! The violent space-time energy refined and purified by twelve circuits, transformed into the purest time origin power, like a bursting star river, injected into that final circuit!
The circuit’s form trembled violently, under the surging energy infusion, transforming from virtual to real, from dark to bright, at a visibly rapid pace! Countless complex and mysterious runes, seemingly containing the mysteries of time’s beginning and end, rapidly formed and branded on the surface of this new circuit!
Pain? No! That was a transformation beyond pain, touching the soul’s root! As if the structure of entire existence was being reshaped, incorporated into a grander, more precise "Time" system!
The darkness of the Decaying Steps seemed briefly dispelled by this light from the depths of Lynch’s soul.
Around him, the invisible time force formed visible ripples, flowing and spreading like mercury.
The writhing roots beneath his feet, with their surface flowing of dark green liquid, seemed like a paused button had been pressed, instantly frozen! The decay whispers pervading the air were replaced by a grand, constant rhythm of an eternal clock’s pendulum swing!
"Ding!"
A clear, melodious sound that seemed to penetrate the endless river of time, echoed deep in Lynch’s spiritual core.
Not a system prompt, but the resonance from the perfect connection of thirteen Mystical Circuits, forming a closed loop, that the Time Law itself emitted!
Time Wheel, Lv13!
The thirteenth Mystical Circuit—hereby,
Connected!