Star Core, King of Souls

As Richard looked at the scene before him, both familiar and strange, his mind crashed for a moment.

Ulysses flew over from behind him and landed on his left shoulder, his voice carrying a hint of gloating. "Caw, scared stiff?"

Richard gazed at the immense red sphere in the distance, so vast that "enormous" no longer did it justice, and let out a deep breath.

"This dimension... is quite extraordinary."

Ulysses failed to catch the emotion hidden in Richard's words. Thinking Richard had yet to recover from his shock, he continued, "Caw, of course it is extraordinary. Of all the dimensions I've visited, the Star Dimension is the most wondrous one I've seen.

Feel out the rules around you and see whether you notice anything unusual."

Richard sensed the surroundings briefly, and his expression changed at once.

"There are no Four Elements Rules! This world has no Four Elements Rules. Its underlying logic comes from that special rule!"

"Caw, correct." Ulysses sounded slightly smug. "This world is one of the few dimensions I've seen that can use a special rule as its foundation to build an almost complete, complex system.

Legend has it that this dimensional world is an Illusory Dimension left behind by some unimaginably vast civilization."

"...It truly is extraordinary."

Richard felt the near-vacuum around him. In this world, all of his Four Elements Witchcraft had failed, yet his Energy Witchcraft had been greatly enhanced.

With a wave of his hand, an enormous hand as large as a small asteroid appeared in the darkness of space. With another wave, the hand shattered instantly, transforming in the blink of an eye into a Lightning Spear over ten kilometers long.

"Unbelievable."

"This is only the beginning." Ulysses put on a mysterious air. "You've only just discovered a tiny piece of