To be honest, the metal staff Murphy had obtained looked quite strange.
At least in the eyes of Triss, the psychic dominator, it was completely unlike every style currently popular or once popular across the entire continent.
It was hardly even possible to call it a proper staff.
Compared to the classic casting tools used by psychics, this thing looked more like some bizarre engineering contraption assembled in a halfling machine shop.
Seven strange devices of unknown purpose were arranged along the long metal shaft. Three had already been activated. The thing at the top looked like an "antenna" wrapped in an electromagnetic coil. The third module slowly rotated around the main shaft, like some kind of positioning device, while the fifth module—the one Flesh-Ripper had just torn loose and moved—was a "switch."
Together, these three activated modules formed a special device. Perhaps that was why this "metal staff" could open a rift into the Astral Plane in an instant, without warning?
Murphy had no idea whether his guess was right. He was busy sorting through the text prompts that had just appeared in his field of vision:
``` "Administrator Alpha has come into contact with an item left behind by Data Deletion. Searching database for a match... Item identification complete. Description ready!
The item's specific attributes are as follows:
Name: Creator's Legacy · Myriad Forms
Category: Self-service multifunctional information storage, retrieval, and personal psychic security device
Quality: Miraculous Creation
Properties: Multiple Forms · Psychic Adaptation · Never Wears Out
Weapon Effects:
I. Astral Guide-Stick Form:
Activate the first, third, and fifth modules to perform dimensional searches, phase indication, and subsequent operations on the Astral Plane.
In this form, the user can ignore dimensional barriers and, by consuming the device's internal power, send a designated target to specified coordinates on