On the remote and desolate planet Astrofo-876, deep in a temporary defense base, a dull and oppressive atmosphere almost solidified the air here.
In the conference room, four beings who once roamed the world and were even regarded as "gods" by countless civilizations were sitting together. Everyone's face was as pale as a dead person, and their eyes were filled with fear that had not faded away.
Especially the white-clothed Sword Immortal Bai Li. His original body of the Sword Immortal, which was said to be dust-free and extraordinarily handsome, had already been completely shattered by that terrifying forbidden curse. What appeared in front of everyone at this moment was just an illusory and transparent soul body with Blink a faint green light.
"Is this planet really safe?" The blue-haired Naruto was the first to break the dead silence. His originally majestic Rinnegan now looked a little dim, and there was an unconcealable anxiety in his tone.
Although he has experienced countless life and death hardships, there has never been an enemy like that Legendary Arcanist, who almost wiped out the entire elite fleet of the Samsara Hall with just a casual move.
"I don't know," Mafu sat in the first place, holding the long tarnished white bone staff tightly with his withered palms, his voice was hoarse like two pieces of dry bark rubbing against each other.
As the commander and formation expert of this team, he had personally arranged all the security protocols and dimensional barriers. However, after witnessing Arcane Emperor's power that almost played with laws, he had completely lost confidence in his own skills.
He knew very well that the opponent's strength had completely exceeded his initial tactical assessment, and it was very likely that the opponent would lock their cause and effect coordinates the moment they arrived.
The whole room fell into suffocating silence again with Mafu's answer, and every breath sounded particularly harsh in the empty room.
"Perhaps the situation hasn't reached Extremis yet," in the midst of the misery, it was Saiyan woman Tiamat who had been hit the hardest just now, who spoke.
Although there is still a shocking fist mark on her lower abdomen, and the energy in her body is extremely weak, her eyes belonging to a fighting nation are burning with an almost crazy flame. "As long as we are not dead, we still have a chance to make a comeback.
Samsara Hall's mission is to keep us alive for three days. As long as we can survive until the moment of return, we will win."
The three companions around her looked at her, and they all thought Byakugan in their hearts. They knew very well where this woman's confidence came from - as Pure-blood Saiyan, Tiamat possesses a racial talent that is almost cheating, which is the so-called "Saiyan Burst".
As long as she can recover from this near-death experience, her combat effectiveness will increase dramatically. This bloodline ability that even Samsara Hall had to forcibly suppress through system patches has become the only pillar for her to maintain her optimism.
However, is this kind of fanaticism based on individual force really useful in the face of the arcane power that can rewrite the script of the universe? Mafu has reservations about this.
At the same time, dozens of light years away, the arcane brilliance of Core Laboratory was still as bright as day. Ian was floating quietly in the center of the laboratory, with the "Dream Core" belonging to Mafu floating in front of him, as well as countless complex golden data streams. He was reflecting and summarizing.
This battle made him deeply realize one thing: cross-dimensional knowledge integration is essentially a higher-level "cheating". The reason why he was able to play tricks on these senior Reincarnators so easily was largely because he held in his hands the precious legacy left by the future or "another version of himself".
During the analysis process, Ian focused on the underlying logic of "Soul Magic Circuits". According to the records he left in the future, this technology is the pinnacle of technology developed by future Empire in pursuit of ultimate magic control.
When he first came into contact with this technology, Ian dismissed it because of his arrogance. He believed that his control over energy had reached the pinnacle that mortals could imagine, and there was no need for such additional auxiliary devices.
But now, he realizes the narrowness of this idea. This set of circuits engraved deep in his soul can steadily provide him with an additional increase in energy control of about five percent.
When facing opponents of the same level or even higher levels, even a 1% gap is enough to determine the direction of life and death. More importantly, this circuit is the core foundation for building "Ultimate Magic Body" and is an indispensable stepping stone to the Twelfth Tier position.
Ian is still searching for knowledge about the construction of "Valhalla", trying to replicate the Servant recruitment mechanism in the Fate universe.
However, he only saw a rather helpless and personal message in his future diary - "Building this thing takes too much time, just do it yourself." In response, Ian could only shake his head and smile bitterly. This casual and lazy attitude was indeed in line with his usual style of doing things.
In addition to the harvest at the soul level, he was also excited about the large number of technological remains captured in this battle. From Kingsley, he analyzed a large amount of the underlying logic of the new profession "Technician".
Even in the battle across the galaxy just now, he used Higher-Dimensional Spacetime Web to capture many broken Samsara Hall battleship wreckage and stole a large amount of extra-dimensional technology from them.
He could fully foresee that when he returned to the Arcane Empire's homeland with this wealth, the entire Empire technology tree would undergo an unprecedented violent jump, and "Technician" would also officially appear in the Empire's textbook as a mainstream arcane advanced profession.
But now, Ian is not in a hurry to enjoy these results. He has set his sights on the last two research topics, which he considers to be the most core research topics: "Magic Domain" derived from the Jujutsu Kaisen system, and the ultimate exploration of Fourth Layer of the Soul Dimension.
He knew that in this timeline controlled by Purple-Robed Daoist, he had already seized the opportunity. In the next few hours, he would complete the final leap and completely transform this "cheating" advantage into an absolute strategic advantage over the entire Samsara Hall.