The Battle of the Magic Lock (5): Resurgence

"Quiet down, Kane. I think I need to hurry up and pack away all the loot, otherwise it'll be troublesome if it gets damaged later... During that time, you should keep Azterlan occupied for a little while longer, right?"

Even after hearing the Legendary Knight's furious curses, Punk remained utterly calm. After all, the situation had not deviated much from his plan so far—the Magic Lock had been broken, the enraged White-robed Mage was locked in combat with Kane, and Punk had gained a brief moment of free time because of it.

Although he estimated that once Azterlan broke free from Kane's entanglement, the furious Kind Mage would probably quickly target him, the greatest threat and most hated enemy, that did not mean Punk lacked the time to pocket the loot he valued most.

So, after giving Kane a perfunctory reply, he flew through the Astral Plane at full speed using Legendary Swiftness.

Before Azterlan could unleash his full power, Punk had already fixed his first target on a fist-sized azure ball of light, because that light was the energy core of the Magic Lock!

Within the entire hub structure of the Magic Lock, this energy core, made almost entirely of manifested laws, might not have been more valuable than the main body of the lock. However, it was the only Magic Lock component that could be reused after the Magic Lock had been destroyed.

In a sense, the Magic Lock's energy core was a powerful rechargeable battery. That was precisely why, after all the other structures of the Magic Lock collapsed, this "energy core," which strictly speaking was not truly part of the Magic Lock, managed to survive.

Punk knew that the Netherese Civilization had made the "energy core" into a detachable external component so that, during war, "a