Cracking the Code!

Kane and Smile were already prepared for any sudden battle, so Punk naturally began cracking the Magic Lock as well.

Although he still did not know that the conversation between Smile and Azterlan a few minutes ago had exposed some information concerning this decoding attempt, the cautious Mage understood very well that starting the work as soon as possible and avoiding unnecessary complications was always a wise choice.

Thus, the Legendary Mage, his gaze becoming ever calmer and steadier, gave the Defensive Spells surrounding him one final glance before carefully and slowly extending a finger as he took a deep breath.

With an afterimage flashing past, Punk's fingertip, now glimmering with a pale violet radiance, instantly connected with perfect precision to the Magic Lock's "cheat-code input port."

In the next instant, mana carrying a vast amount of information slowly flowed into the energy circuits of the rune matrix along orderly, complex fluctuations.

Like purple ink dripping into clear blue water, like drifting ripples gently spreading across a pond, the magical information carried by the expanding energy waves quickly began brewing across the smooth surface of rune energy. The faint purple did not dissipate amid the endlessly flowing azure radiance; instead, it became increasingly dense and settled as the laws fluctuated more violently.

Through the Legendary Mage's Microscopic Vision, this simple information code became like a swarm of endlessly dividing, spreading viruses the moment it came into contact with the Magic Lock's runes. The nano-scale energy structure formed from hundreds of overlapping runes swiftly altered its energy pathways after receiving Punk's mana. The energy that should have been supplied to the Magic Lock through those basic runes was all transformed into replicas of the foreign information and transmitted outward. As these "information replicas" were received by the surrounding runes, the original