Ding!
"Mission 'Return to the Original Time and Space' complete. Dice used: 22. Experience gained: 17,668!"
"Mission Difficulty: 80. Severity Coefficient: 8x. Reward: 640 chips!"
"Congratulations, you've leveled up!"
"Congratulations, you've leveled up!"
"Please draw a new skill!"
The sudden level-up notifications distracted Luo Jun for just an instant. His Mountain-Piercing Strike failed to follow through beneath his feet, and with a thunderous boom, the cat monster rammed through the iron door and charged out!
"Not good!" Luo Jun immediately gave chase, only to discover that everyone in the hall had disappeared. The elevator at the far end, protected by magic defenses, had already been dismantled. Noises echoed from the elevator shaft, growing ever more distant. The cat-faced monster was probably climbing upward through the elevator passage. Luo Jun was just about to pursue it when he suddenly noticed that the relics lining the shelves throughout the hall were emitting strange, synchronized pulses... "This feeling... are they resonating?" Luo Jun sensed the fluctuations and could feel tens of thousands of relics attempting to synchronize their frequencies through those pulses, amplifying their power in the process.
"The power within each relic isn't strong, but it's incredibly pure. Once synchronized, they can unleash power not inferior to the Ascension-level." Luo Jun narrowed his eyes, took out the Essence Collection Bottle, and began siphoning essence from the relics!
Although he did not know the exact mechanism, that cat-faced monster was definitely connected to these resonating relics. Luo Jun even suspected that the relics were charging it.
Rather than chase the monster, he might as well cut off its escape route first!
Each relic contained very little power. Even after the Essence Collection Bottle absorbed one, Luo Jun's eyesight could not detect any rise in the liquid level inside.
This was too slow. Luo