After Lilia observed and confirmed it, Lin Yuan was certain his idea was right.
The Oathbreaker's power did indeed come at a cost, and that cost was the Time-Void Prism.
Lin Yuan had found it strange earlier. Although Research Institute 3154 had said the prism's value had plummeted after its power of time was absorbed,
its basic value was still there. No matter how you looked at it, it still counted as a top-tier item.
With this thing in hand, even mere Kin-level Crawlers could turn the whole of Paradise upside down.
It hardly seemed like something that should be casually tossed away.
So Lin Yuan suspected that the Oathbreaker had a contingency for retrieving the crystal, most likely the power hidden inside it.
That power was of an extremely high order, but there wasn't much of it, probably not enough to kill the players.
The most likely explanation was what Lin Yuan had previously speculated: Paradise was a space the system had opened up in the Deep Sea, or even in the waters farther below.
Once Paradise closed, the crystal would naturally appear in that area, and the Oathbreaker could retrieve it by tracing the resonance of his power.
But the Oathbreaker hadn't anticipated that someone would actually blast the crystal apart inside Paradise.
On the one hand, Retainer 9527 had tried to be clever and sucked everyone into the crystal.
On the other, no one could have imagined that Lin Yuan would build an entirely C-rank Explore the Sea during the Paradise Stage, then imbue it with C-rank supernatural energy and shatter the crystal's core in a single strike.
With that, the crystal shattered, and its value plummeted.
For the Oathbreaker, he was better off using the crystal as fuel for his power to vent his anger and