A powerful sense of crisis that made his hair stand on end suddenly came from the core, which seemed close at hand.
Don't move, don't move, you'll die, you'll die, you'll die...
Every shred of his Spiritual Power seemed to be screaming madly, desperately stopping him from shutting off the core Energy Chamber's magic output and taking the Eternal Core.
At that moment, the Old Days Secret Scripture hanging at his waist floated up on its own again, establishing a magic connection with Anvis.
Then, in his field of vision, the seemingly normal Magic Circuits on the Anti-Magic Alloy walls of the Power Room flickered. Faint shadows of pitch-black Tentacles appeared! Nor were they limited to the circuits on the wall surfaces. More, smaller black Tentacles stretched directly from the walls, their tips writhing as they reached toward the glowing Eternal Core at the center of the Power Room.
They had even woven a pitch-black "birdcage" of Tentacles around the Eternal Core from a distance, brazenly siphoning its energy.
So that's how it is...
The raised Scepter slowly lowered. As alarm bells rang wildly in Anvis's mind, he immediately understood. It was not that the unknown creature had failed to invade reality—it had concealed its existence.
That was likely why the Tower Spirit Bohemia had never discovered the problem in the core Energy Chamber over millions of years.
However, the Tentacles seemed somewhat wary of the Old Days Secret Scripture as well. Several Tentacles nearest the door even moved farther away on their own, unwilling to be enveloped by the book's dim glow.
After some thought, Anvis directly controlled the Old Days Secret Scripture and sent it flying into the Energy Chamber.
He wanted to see whether he could use the Old Days Secret Scripture's sealing ability to directly Seal