After reading the Strategy Module's note, Zong Shen wore an expression of "just as I thought."
Just as he had guessed before, this metal plate was a special fragmentary inscription.
It came from the world where the Arcane Crystal Fragments originated.
While introducing this incomplete metal monument, the Strategy Module also gave a rough introduction to the arcane world known as Salvaden.
Simply put, this metal monument had originally been a museum "plaque." The complete Arcane Crystal that exploded had been enormous, and it was called the Origin Arcane Crystal.
The arcanists of the Salvaden world were capable of creating such gigantic arcane energy crystallizations.
Zong Shen estimated that making such a thing came at no small cost. After all, it contained such an immense amount of arcane energy.
The one that had fallen here was merely a watermelon-sized fragment. The true Origin Arcane Crystal had surely been astonishingly large, and the power unleashed by its explosion would likewise have been world-ending.
After all, a watermelon-sized fragment alone could destroy everything within a radius of ten to thirty kilometers.
Then it was hardly surprising that the original Origin Arcane Crystal could blast through dimensional barriers after exploding.
Moreover, although that explosion had been astonishing, [Mind Resonance] clearly had not completely shattered the Origin Arcane Crystal. The explosion back then had not been at its limit, because scattered Arcane Crystal Fragments had not detonated. Instead, they had drifted into the void and eventually fallen into unknown alternate worlds.
As for the Arcane Crystal Fragment he had picked up being preserved for hundreds of years until he sent Vereesa to retrieve it, that could only be attributed to a fortuitous chain of coincidences.
The Arcane Crystal Fragment in the lake on the Endless Continent was the original, while the one in the