Chapter 650

"Stop storing fingerprints. Destroy the compass." Harry drew his wand.

"I can't destroy it." Vivi lifted the compass before her eyes. "The compass is made of basalt, and Cassandra's runes are carved inside it. Those runes are bound to my magic. Destroying the compass would be the same as severing my Magic Circuit."

The dark-red human outline above the Stone Stele swayed. "See? Every step you took was inside my plan. You read the memories from Node Zero, got the key from Node Seven, found the fragment from Node Negative One, stored the power fingerprint deep in the Earth Core, and learned from the signal in the sky that my consciousness was broadcasting. Every action you took was guided by me. You thought you were stopping me, but in truth, you were helping me complete the final preparations all along."

Vivi lowered the compass from before her eyes and clenched it in her palm.

She could feel the dark red and silver white inside the compass tangling with each other, like two snakes of different colors coiling together.

The fusion between the power fingerprint and the consciousness fingerprint was accelerating. If she continued pouring in magic, the body fingerprint would be stored within minutes.

If she stopped pouring in magic, the two fingerprints already stored inside would not separate; they simply would not continue advancing.

Just as she was thinking of a countermeasure, an extremely low hum came from deep within the cave.

The sound was not loud, but its frequency was so low that it traveled straight through her bones and into her brain.

Vivi's wrist trembled slightly, and the compass nearly slipped from her hand.

Harry spun around, and the Platinum Light at the tip of his wand illuminated the cave's northern wall.

"What is that?"

The hum