The icy Entropy Stillness Liquid was like countless greedy little hands, clutching the dark-gold fragment from every direction.
It frantically siphoned away the extremely thin protective Energy Field that had spontaneously formed on its surface from the transformed "key" frequency.
A clearer, more fundamental sensation of erosion came over him. It was not merely energy being absorbed.
It was as though even the very concept of the fragment's existence was slowly being diluted and erased by this bizarre gray-white liquid.
But the dark-gold fragment was no longer what it had once been.
Having fused with the Space-Time Fold and Secret Key Original Imprint left behind by his father, its essence had been remolded. Its material now contained a trace of the resilience of space-time laws and the solidity of the concept of authority.
Though it was still being eroded, the rate was far slower than it had been for the Shadow Fiend Fragment.
The newly formed dark gold veins across the fragment's surface gleamed with a stubborn resistance beneath the wash of gray-white liquid, like sturdy reefs.
Ming Xin devoted most of his focus to keeping the protective field from collapsing instantly while controlling the fragment.
Like a nimble dark gold fish, it swiftly dove toward a section along the edge of Cold Pond where the rock strata met, following the vague guidance in his father's information fragment.
Theoretically, the prolonged erosion of the rock walls by the Entropy Stillness Liquid there, combined with the structural stress of the wreckage—
And the instability of this Space-Time Crevice itself, made it the most likely place for a brief, highly irregular "temporary spatial fold" to form.
The light deep within the pool was even dimmer, almost entirely dependent on the faint, cold glow emitted by the gray-white crystals high on the distant