This was indeed the Coordination factory ruins beneath the surface of Salna. The factories left behind from the ancient era still stood all around him like giants lost in eternal slumber.
Only, last time, the place had been as quiet as a graveyard for giants. This time, it was as lively as a gathering. At the very least, Yu Lian could hear gunfire and cannon fire in the distance. They were still some way off, but the sounds reached his ears clearly.
On top of that, flashes of lightning and thunder, red lights and blue lights, flickered all around. In the relatively enclosed underground space, they stood out all the more. Lights of every color spilled across the gloomy rock walls and the edges of the factory buildings, giving the whole place the feel of fireworks during a festival.
At that moment, Yu Lian's hand was holding down a writhing mass of energy that had completely lost any semblance of human shape. It had to be that Void Spirit ghost. Only, the fragment of Count Salven's consciousness it had possessed had been thoroughly washed away.
Yu Lian checked his sea of consciousness. It remained calm and steady, with no sign of an outside force invading. As for anything else, he could sense that an ability called "Unified Will" had lit up in an empty star position somewhere on his star ring.
Yu Lian knew this was an extremely rare skill, one of the mental type. It could strengthen one's will and mental defenses, while also making one's mental attacks more likely to succeed against an enemy. Its passive effect acted directly on the soul, and the soul naturally influenced a person's mental state. It was said that psions who mastered "Unified Will" were born with greater charm and charisma, and