Back in the laboratory, Lynn shut the door and laid out every material he had bought today on the table, one by one.
High-grade magical beast flesh essence, Active Metal, Soul Crystal, Stardust Sand, Earth Vein Essence, Titan Alloy powder, and that piece of World Remnant.
He sat before the table, first taking the World Remnant out of its wooden box and placing it in his palm.
The crystal felt heavy in his hand, far heavier than it looked.
Dark purple mist churned across its surface, lightning occasionally flickering through it. It felt icy cold, as though he were holding a block of ice.
Lynn closed his eyes and sent his mental power into the crystal.
Inside was a mass of chaos.
Countless fragments of shattered laws, rampaging energy currents, and collapsed material residue had been compressed into an extremely small space, squeezing, colliding, and tearing at one another.
All the channels through which that energy could be released had been blocked, like countless riverbeds filled with mud and sand. The water was there, but it could not flow out.
Lynn used Analysis to scan it inch by inch.
A hundred workstations operated at once, searching through the chaos for the blockages.
One, two, three... there were a full one hundred and thirty-seven blockage points, scattered throughout different depths of the crystal.
Some were near the surface, some lay at the deepest point, and some were hidden at the center of the energy currents.
He found the first blockage.
Half an inch beneath the crystal's surface, there was a rice-grain-sized energy nodule sealing the channel completely.
Lynn locked onto it with his mental power, turning spatial power into a thin needle that pierced into the nodule.
The nodule's structure was denser than expected, like a stone compressed for tens of