Chapter 670: Chapter 477: A Spatial Rift to a Doomsday World

"My Lord, it’s just ahead."

Raylo looked in the direction he was pointing. The space ahead was warped in a strange, rippling manner, like water.

It was as if the air itself had become a shimmering mirror.

He strode forward and rounded the corner.

The next moment, his pupils constricted violently.

A rift simply hung there in midair, about three meters off the ground.

It wasn’t large, roughly two meters tall and two meters wide. Its shape was irregular, and its edges flickered with fine, silvery-white light that resembled electrical arcs.

Merely looking at it gave one the illusion that their very soul was about to be sucked in.

Wisps of a visible, deathly gray aura were steadily seeping out of the rift, like the last breaths of a dying man.

Wherever this aura passed, even hard rock was coated in a layer of the same deathly energy, as if millennia of Life Force had been drained from it.

This was the passage to that Doomsday World.

Raylo could sense that while this spatial rift was stable, it was still incredibly dangerous.

Sending people in to explore directly was too risky.

To make use of that world, he first had to ensure this "door" was completely safe and controllable.

Raylo turned his head, his gaze falling on Coal Ball, who was perched on his shoulder, curiously tilting its head to study the rift.

He reached out and gently patted Coal Ball’s fluffy head.

"It’s your turn, little guy."

A flicker of excitement flashed in Coal Ball’s glossy black eyes, and a RUMBLE RUMBLE sound vibrated in its throat.

The next second.

Coal Ball straightened its small body, tilted its head back, and let out a... low growl at the spatial rift suspended in the air.

"AWOO!"

Under everyone’s horrified gazes.

The space above the canyon darkened without warning!

No, it wasn’t that the sky had grown dark.

Instead, the phantom image of a massive black Giant Dragon’s head had materialized high above the canyon!

Its eyes were two constantly spinning black vortexes, as if they connected to the cosmic void.

The moment the phantom appeared, the entire canyon—all sound, all light, even the flowing air—fell into absolute stillness!

It was as if time and space themselves had frozen in that instant!

Master Marlin and the Knights beside him gaped in astonishment.

What is that?

Raylo looked up at the phantom dragon’s head, a trace of shock also flashing through his eyes.

He knew that Coal Ball’s strength was bound to have taken a qualitative leap after returning to the Dragon Realm and replenishing its origin.

But he hadn’t expected it to become this powerful.

After a brief pause, the hovering phantom head of the black Space Dragon moved.

It slowly opened its massive maw.

Like an ordinary person taking a bite of an apple.

Then.

The spatial rift that had been hovering in midair—flickering with silvery-white arcs and exuding an aura of decay—vanished, along with the warped space around it.

Yes, vanished.

Swallowed in a single gulp by that phantom maw.

As if it had never existed.

The canyon was still the same canyon.

The heart-pounding spatial fluctuations and the suffocating aura of decay were all gone without a trace.

After doing all this, the immense black dragon’s head in the sky also began to fade, eventually dissolving into motes of light and disappearing into the air.

Sunlight once again streamed down from the narrow strip of sky above.

BURP.

Perched on Raylo’s shoulder, Coal Ball let out a burp.

It licked its lips, its glossy black eyes revealing an extremely humanlike expression of satisfaction.

As if it had just eaten a tasty little snack.

Then, it lay back down, curled into a black ball of fur, tilted its head, and fell asleep again.

Raylo reached out and stroked Coal Ball’s soft fur, his heart filled with emotion.

He could clearly sense a new, extremely tiny "point" inside Coal Ball’s body, wrapped in layers of the Power of Space.

That point was the spatial rift it had just devoured.

Now, this "door" to the Doomsday World was completely under Coal Ball’s control.

It was no longer an exposed, unstable passage.

It had become a portable... private Teleportation Gate that could be opened at any time.

’It seems that after replenishing its origin, Coal Ball has mastered quite a few new abilities. This casual display is probably just the tip of the iceberg.’

Raylo turned and leaped back onto Lightning’s back.

"Let’s go back."

Lightning soared into the air again and returned to Black Stone Territory.

...

By the time they returned to Black Stone Territory, it was nearly dusk.

Raylo steered Lightning to land directly in the square.

He dismounted from the dragon’s back and walked straight toward the Mobile Alchemy Workshop.

Behind him, Lightning transformed back into a Blue Cat and trotted along happily.

The Knight on guard duty opened the metal entrance gate for him.

Passing through the metal corridor, Raylo soon arrived at the core area of the workshop.

Inside the enormous workshop.

The two Legendary Mages and Master Barnaby were gathered in front of a giant metal door that flickered with the light of countless runes, arguing heatedly about something.

"Wrong! The energy flow at this node is definitely not simple forward conduction! Phillips used the ’Magic Reverse Surge’ technique here!"

Master Wendel pointed to a complex rune on the door, shouting so loudly that spittle flew from his mouth.

"Reverse surge? Impossible!"

Master Barnaby immediately retorted.

He was usually as humble as a student before the two Legends, but when it came to his professional domain of Alchemy, the pride of an Alchemy Master was on full display.

"Doing that would immediately cause the energy of the entire Rune Matrix to fall into disarray, or even collapse!"

"What if he superimposed a miniature ’Stabilizing Array’ here?"

Mage Delin’s voice rang out, calm and unhurried.

He extended a finger and traced a few lines in the air before the door. A more complex runic structure, formed from Magic Power, materialized out of thin air.

"Look. This way, the impact of the energy’s reverse surge would be perfectly absorbed and converted by this Stabilizing Array, turning it into the ’key’ to unlock the next node!"

Wendel’s and Barnaby’s eyes lit up at the same time.

"I see! I see! So it can be done like that!"

Master Barnaby came to a sudden realization.

"Master Phillips... he’s practically a god in the Alchemy Domain!"

For the past few days, the three of them had been completely engrossed in this treasure trove of Alchemy.

Phillips had sealed his life’s research in the various rooms of this workshop.

But every door was sealed with an alchemical puzzle related to the knowledge behind it.

Only by solving the puzzle could the door be opened.

These puzzles ranged from easy to difficult.

With the combined efforts of two Legendary Mages and one Alchemy Master, they had already solved the puzzles for over a dozen rooms, advancing like an unstoppable force.

In those rooms, they found mountains of rare Alchemy Materials, a library filled with books recording all sorts of lost alchemical formulas, and even an ecological garden dedicated to cultivating Magic Plants.

Every time they opened a door, it felt like a treasure hunt, full of surprises.

And now, they were stuck before the final door, located in the very center of the workshop.

The puzzle on this door was also the most complex and difficult of them all.

It involved top-tier knowledge from dozens of fields—such as energy, runology, spatial studies, and materials science—all interlinked and incredibly profound.

Even the two Legendary Mages, Delin and Wendel, were stumped, having pondered for a full day without making any headway.

But they weren’t the least bit discouraged. On the contrary, they were growing more and more excited.

Because the harder the puzzle, the more precious the prize behind the door!

"There’s no doubt about it."

Mage Delin stared at the giant metal door before him, his eyes glinting with a fervent light as he made his final judgment.

"Behind this door must be Phillips’s legendary Half-Divine Artifact..."

"The Furnace of All Things!"

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