There were things the Worm of Knowledge could not touch, and his hand could touch them even less.
Lu Yuan's gaze lingered for two seconds on the roots coiled within Skull's left eye socket before withdrawing.
He needed something else.
Deep within his left eye, past where the Worm of Knowledge lay curled up, the teardrop-shaped Key floated quietly behind its body. Lu Yuan sent his consciousness deep into his left eye and reached toward the Key.
Just then, something stirred behind him.
Dense gears meshed within Great Ascendant's metal skeleton, producing a muffled, urgent clatter as his body forcibly restarted.
Lu Yuan spun around.
Great Ascendant's metal skeleton began moving again.
The silver-gray pupils that had been frozen by Person on the Wall's force field started turning once more. The glow inside the two metal spheres returned, and their focus sharpened again.
An aura surged from within Great Ascendant.
It was completely different from the dark color of the Seed's roots. This aura was a peculiar, extremely deep eerie green. It seeped from the gaps in the metal skeleton, spreading along the joints and seams of the chest cavity, slowly flowing through the metal patterns.
Gray-White Text flashed at the edge of his vision.
[Target detected: Great Ascendant (Parasitized) (Anchor Point)] [One Eerie thing summoned another existence? Interesting method.]
Lu Yuan's gaze fixed on the words "Anchor Point."
Eerie green, an Anchor Point, summoning another existence.
Something suddenly clicked in his mind.
On the night A.M. had brought him into the society, after he left, Lu Yuan had used Seeker to pry into the eerie green aura lingering around the chair.
After those threadlike remnants took shape, Seeker's vision had been forcibly dragged into a dark green rift that was gradually dissipating.
Then he saw that city.