Chapter 1469: Artificial Myth

"Conversion Core."

After putting away the star core, Lin An curiously looked at the top in his hand.

The whole thing has a brass feel; in the continuously rotating top's track there is a device similar to an hourglass. Not understanding its structure, Lin An couldn't see anything, so he just checked the system description.

"Conversion Core (False Mythic Level, Damaged)"

"Prop Effect: Can be used to load into flesh or mechanical structures to convert energy."

"Prop Special Effect 1: Long-distance energy transmission (damaged, lacking spatial rules)."

"Prop Special Effect 2: Energy compression, can convert any energy into needed power and compress it, increasing its quality."

The description is brief.

After barely glancing at it, Lin An finished reading the entire prop description.

However, faced with his quite curious Conversion Core, Lin An didn't expect that its function seemed simple to the extreme.

Lacking spatial rules.. damaged?

Looks like it's because of the Alien Species Emperor's death?

Seeing the two characters 'damaged function', Lin An instantly thought of the scene where the Alien Species Emperor absorbed energy ignoring distance. Of course, maybe it wasn't ignoring distance, but the coverage range was just huge.

Quite interesting, from this point he also thought of the Alien Species Emperor's clever application of his own spatial rules.

That guy.. seemed to have opened a space channel inside his body? Or perhaps a small space?

One end connected to the conversion pool, the other end connected to the body.

Without delving into how the Alien Species Emperor achieved this, Lin An cared more about the conversion effect and the compression effect.

If nothing unexpected, the power of the Fifth Stage should be fundamentally different from that of the Fourth Stage.

The Alien Species Emperor accumulated energy over many years, hoping to compress it to a certain limit, then absorb it to break through to the Fifth Stage.

"Hum"

He raised his hand and released a strand of quasi-substantial mental power; Lin An casually severed its connection to himself, simulating it as ownerless free-floating mental power.

Upon activating the Conversion Core, in the blink of an eye, that cluster of mental power like blue mist was sucked in, and the hourglass immediately lit up.

"Beep, mental power absorbed, stored. Can be converted into any energy."

"Current reserve: 041"

The clear notification sound rang; Lin An slightly startled, realizing the prompt came from the Conversion Core in his hand.

He was startled not by the absorption effect, but by this sound, which was not the system's unique cold feeling, but carried a touch of humanity, somewhat like Zhuanxu, relatively gentle.

"Artificial product? This thing is actually an artificial product!!"

What a quick reaction.

After coming into contact with too many props, Lin An instantly realized the Conversion Core in his hand was definitely not a system product!

System products, whether equipment or props, or miscellaneous other things, when triggered always give a system notification sound!

From just a brief detail, Lin An suddenly drew many conjectures.

There exists a civilization capable of manufacturing products similar to the system!

Moreover, its level can reach Mythic! Above legend!

In an instant, Lin An subconsciously took out the electromagnetic cannon he had thrown in the corner inside his ring.

Compare, ponder.

His eyes flickered, after frowning for a long while he then put the electromagnetic cannon away.

This electromagnetic cannon thing is a product from Earth. It's something Chu An claimed the military made by combining spiritual energy nodes.

But this typical artificial product, the system prompt should be the Doomsday System, still the Doomsday System. Artificial products being acknowledged by the system and belonging to system products is not surprising for Lin An now.

But if an artificial product can rival system products yet not be included in the system, that's quite interesting.

Behind a simple phenomenon often lies a huge amount of information!

For some reason, Lin An's mind suddenly conjured up a somewhat strange term.

"Private Instrument"

"Is it originally like this, or deliberately not being acknowledged by the system?"

No wonder Lin An suddenly associated so much, as if overthinking like making a mountain out of a molehill.

The reason is nothing else.

He just suddenly thought of what the Alien Species Emperor used the Conversion Core for.... what for!

"Forcibly breaking through the Fifth Stage..."

"The Alien Species Emperor has been stuck at the Fourth Stage Peak for so long; there must be a reason! His rules have already reached the promotion standard; logically he should already be Fifth Stage!"

"So, it's likely he couldn't complete the promotion mission!"

"According to the information I now have, I'm currently stuck at the Fourth Stage Peak, my strength hard to enhance."

"Wanting to go further, it's likely also need to pass some system mission or assessment... although I don't know why the system hasn't given me a mission prompt. But there will definitely be one later."

"For example, the trial from Second Level to Third Level; I reached Third to Fourth Level after coming out of the instance, then promoted in reality."

Lin An remembers clearly that each of his promotions was actually completed in earthly reality. Moreover, the final stage must have been the system infusing a special power to complete the final strengthening.

Therefore, he had wondered whether his identity was bound to Earth; as long as he returns to Earth, or rather meets certain conditions, he could trigger the Fifth Stage mission!

Conversely, reasoning backwards.

The Alien Species Emperor cannot complete the promotion mission!

The Fifth Stage mission's difficulty is extremely high!

This thing can break through to the Fifth Stage without completing a mission, without relying on the system!

The logical chain instantly formed.

Through successive reasoning and conjecture, Lin An's pupils suddenly contracted, directly realizing the true value of this thing.

This is a..

Props that help players smuggle.

This is the true purpose of being artificially made and not belonging to system props.

A civilization is trying to bypass the system and strengthen itself!

As if to verify his own guess, Lin An suddenly turned his head and asked the Annihilator Overlord, who had been striving to recover his body.

「Gao Yan! 」

「Conversion Core, how did you get it?! 」

「This isn't a system reward, right?! 」

The Annihilator Overlord, who had just finished healing his own internal organs, stared in surprise, then flattered Lin An with a respectful nod.

「Emperor Lin, your insight is truly sharp as a torch。」

「Yes, the Conversion Core is something we found at a civilization relic。」

「That relic... is right on the civilization battlefield。」

「That relic seems to have been 「dead」 for a long time. I don't know how this Conversion Core was left behind。」