"No!!!"
Lucy looked at her blood-soaked arms and screamed in terror.
She scrambled to her feet in a panic...
But then, large patches of her skin began to peel off.
Before long, she shed all her outer skin and became a bright red human figure.
Her excessively high body temperature caused her body to constantly emit steam.
Lucy stood there trembling, her face filled with despair.
Despite the accelerating force of time, her body temperature continued to rise at an extremely rapid pace.
"No!!!"
' Lucy ' let out a piercing scream as her entire body was rapidly incinerated by the overheated heat.
'Click~'
Lucy's body collapsed instantly, falling to the ground as a cloud of ashes.
Richard frowned and muttered, "Did it fail...?"
But then, he suddenly felt a surge of excitement from the True Spirit.
Suddenly, the wispy ashes began to swirl and fly up without any wind.
'Buzz~'
A strange fluctuation suddenly appeared.
The ashes gathered together and reformed into a human figure.
Next, the bones remodel... the flesh solidifies... the skin covers...
Lucy is back to life!
Her long eyelashes fluttered, and she slowly opened her eyes.
"I... I'm alive again?!?"
Lucy raised her arm, looking with delight at her skin that had returned to its original state.
" My God! What on earth is going on?!"
Driven by instinct, she tried to recreate the scene of her 'resurrection'...
'Bang~'
Lucy's right arm was blown to smithereens.
Seeing this, she was not afraid at all; instead, her eyes shone even brighter.
[Freeze!]
The ashes quickly gathered and transformed back into her arm.
Lucy flipped her wrist and murmured, "I can actually control the Matter Reconstruction..."
A thought struck her, and she uttered a low shout, "Change!"
In an instant, her arm transformed into a large bouquet of red roses.
"Change again!"
The red rose transformed back into an arm.
"Transform! Transform!! Transform!!!"
Lucy's arm kept changing in her mind...
Flowers, branches, swords, spatulas...
On one occasion, it even became a thick dictionary.
"That's amazing!"
After playing for a while, Lucy finally stopped.
She looked up at her surroundings, and the empty world filled her with confusion.
She hadn't forgotten the pedestrians and cities that had vanished in the blink of an eye.
"Where exactly is this place? Hell?! Heaven?!"
Lucy frowned in thought.
Meanwhile, the CPH4 in her body continued to catalyze and develop her brain.
78%...79%...80%...
Lucy closed her eyes and then opened them again.
She looked up at the sky, and what was originally a gray sky had transformed into something else entirely in her eyes.
"The sky has changed!"
"It looks like a kaleidoscope made up of pieces of diamond-shaped mirrors..."
Lucy raised her right hand and gently pointed it forward.
"Buzz~"
An invisible spatial fluctuation suddenly appeared.
For a moment, the outer wall, constructed from Rhombic Space Fragment, showed signs of loosening.
Outside the Mirror Dimension, Richard's eyes shone with an alarming light.
He absorbed with all his might the insights into Matter Reconstruction and Space Control transmitted synchronously from the True Spirit...
"Controlling the space... so that's how it is..."
He mimicked Lucy's action, raising his hand and gently tapping.
'Buzz~'
The Rhombic Space Fragment instantly bonded together, and the Miniature Mirror Dimension was directly enhanced.
But after doing all this, Richard didn't use the Crimson Mana at all.
The loosened Rhombic Space Fragment suddenly became stable.
Lucy, inside the Mirror Dimension, couldn't help but furrow her brow slightly. "Hmm?!"
She said, puzzled, "Why did these diamond-shaped lenses suddenly stick together again?!"
She raised her hand and pointed again.
Waves of spatial fluctuation continuously pried at the Rhombic Space Fragment, attempting to shake their structure once again.
With Richard causing trouble outside, no matter how much Lucy tried to manipulate the spatial fluctuations, she was unable to shake any of the Rhombic Space Fragment.
"I refuse to believe it today!"
Lucy instantly became furious; she rolled up her sleeves and prepared to put in even more effort.
But the smooth, slippery arm made her freeze instantly.
Lucy looked down at her naked body and screamed, "Ah! My clothes!"
She quickly covered her chest with her hands and squatted down.
At the same time, he subconsciously used his ability to Matter Reconstruction to quickly 'dress' himself.
"Shit!"
Lucy lowered her arm and muttered angrily in a low voice.
She stood up and fiercely looked up at the outer wall of the space above her.
"I refuse to believe I can't handle you!"
She rubbed her hands together, raised her arms, and began to concentrate intently on condensing a super-large spatial fluctuation.
'Buzz~ Buzz~'
Before the spatial fluctuations had even fully formed, the entire Miniature Mirror Dimension suddenly trembled slightly.
The next second, Space Storm suddenly appeared.
'Phew~~~'
The Space Storm quickly spread throughout the Miniature Mirror Dimension, directly disrupting Lucy's actions.
She now controls the space solely by instinct, resulting in clumsy operation and a severe lack of experience.
Once her rhythm was disrupted, Lucy panicked.
"What do you mean, nothing happened?!"
"The wind suddenly picked up?!"
Lucy's face flushed red as she desperately tried to stabilize the space around her.
However, the Miniature Mirror Dimension is a completely closed world, and this Space Storm has already fully formed, so there is nowhere for it to be released for the time being.
Lucy stared in horror at the increasingly powerful Space Storm, her face turning deathly pale.
"Am I... am I going to die?!"
The Space Storm was about to tear Lucy apart.
Richard had no choice but to temporarily relax his enhancement of the Mirror Dimension and quietly open a door.
With this door serving as an outlet, the Space Storm instantly changed direction.
'Phew~~~'
The Space Storm forced its way out of the door.
"I'm... I'm saved!" Lucy's knees buckled, and she knelt down with a 'thud'.
Just as she was immersed in the joy of surviving the ordeal, Richard quietly closed the door again and reinforced the Mirror Dimension once more.
Meanwhile, Lucy's CPH4 levels were about to run out, and her brain had been developed to 93%...
Upon receiving feedback from the True Spirit, Richard frowned slightly.
"We can't give up halfway!"
But that half-bag of blue granules is still in Reynolds ' world; he can always go back and get it now...
Richard had a sudden thought: Matter Reconstruction.
"Give it a try!"
He closed his eyes and recalled the molecular formula of CPH4 in Lucy's body.
"Wrong!"
Richard instinctively frowned and opened his eyes.
[ Lucy's ability to Matter Reconstruction is beyond scientific explanation...!]
[It felt... like an instinct...]
Richard slowly closed his eyes, recalling the 'appearance' of CPH4...
Then, he opened his palm, and a wisp of blue powder appeared out of thin air.
"It's a success!"
He opened his eyes in surprise, looking at the small amount of blue powder in his palm.
"CPH4! It's exactly the same 'feeling' as Lucy's body!"
"Wrong!!!"
Richard's eyes widened in shock!
"This ability... it looks so damn familiar!!!"
"Waaaaaagh?!!!"