Chapter 676: Treatment

"Hoo—"

Lingyun, who was in the Cloud Realm, let out a soft breath. Powerful Source Power surged around him, then slowly converged back into his body.

"Brother, it looks like you've recovered." Ruoxi popped out from the Void, looking at Lingyun with a grin.

"Mm." Lingyun nodded.

"Lingyun, come take a look at Nia quickly." Just at this moment, the voice of Tokisaki Kurumi rang out in the depths of Lingyun's heart.

"Did something happen over there?" Lingyun's heart skipped a beat, then his figure distorted and vanished from where he stood.

Aincrad, tenth floor.

Lingyun's figure appeared in a white room, where several Cursed Children were busy at work.

"Brother!"

Seeing Lingyun appear, a hint of excitement appeared on the faces of the few Cursed Children as they gathered around him.

Lingyun looked at the Cursed Children before him, a hint of a smile also appearing on his face. These Cursed Children seemed to have no interest in combat. However, it seemed that because they had seen too many Cursed Children who had been harmed by others, they were very interested in medical arts.

Lingyun was very supportive of this approach of theirs, so he had worked with Yui to turn the tenth floor of Aincrad into a massive medical base.

After Bentiao Eya was brought into the Cloud Realm by Tokisaki Kurumi, she had been settled here, and these Cursed Children had been the ones taking care of her all this time.

"How is the big sister who came earlier?" Lingyun reached out to pat one of the Cursed Children on the head and asked with a smile.

Hearing Lingyun ask this, a look of difficulty appeared on the face of the lead Cursed Child: "The injuries on that sister are truly too severe. For now, we can only temporarily stabilize her condition; we still don't dare to touch the strange devices on her body. After all, we aren't very familiar with that aspect of things, and we're afraid that if we touch them, something might go wrong."

Lingyun's gaze swept over Bentiao Eya, who was lying on the bed, and he could not help but knit his brows. Although he had long known that the DEM Company had performed many heinous experiments on Bentiao Eya to study the Spirit's inversion, seeing it with his own eyes still made him feel extremely repulsed.

At the same time, quite a few small Realizers had been implanted inside Bentiao Eya's body; if these Realizers were removed rashly, it was highly likely to cause her irreversible damage. Most importantly, the DEM Company had also subjected her spirit to extremely brutal devastation. In Lingyun's perception, Bentiao Eya's current mental state was already somewhat chaotic and could fall into a state of rampage at any moment.

"Lingyun, is Bentiao Eya's current situation still salvageable?" Tokisaki Kurumi asked.

"As for salvaging, there isn't much of a problem, it's just that if you want a complete recovery, I'm afraid it will take quite a long time," Lingyun said.

"Brother, what method do you plan to use to treat this big sister's injuries?" a few little lolis asked with some curiosity.

Lingyun slowly opened his hands, and majestic golden light gathered in his palms, slowly forming a Crystal. After the Crystal condensed, Lingyun relaxed his hand, and the Crystal flew out from his palm, drifting above Bentiao Eya. Specks of light radiated from the Crystal, forming a golden barrier that enveloped Bentiao Eya within it.

"This is... the Purification Light?" Tokisaki Kurumi looked at the light enveloping Bentiao Eya, a hint of surprise in her tone.

"The Purification Light can recover Bentiao Eya's current injuries, and at the same time, it can slowly dissolve the Realizers in her body. Furthermore, even if Bentiao Eya experiences an inversion, it can suppress her at the very first moment," Lingyun said.

Just as Lingyun was busy treating Bentiao Eya, at the DEM Company headquarters, Westcott was repeatedly examining the data collected by Ellen, seemingly wanting to discern some mystery from it.

"Isaac, you don't have to work so hard." Watching Westcott's appearance, Ellen could not help but knit her brows.

"No, no, no, Ellen, I have indeed seen some things from these photographs." Westcott pointed at the pile of photos in front of him, his tone carrying a hint of confidence.

"Oh?" Ellen asked, somewhat confused. "What discovery?"

"That Spirit called the Swordsman—the move he used to completely destroy Nilier Island, while very powerful, is not invincible." Westcott pointed at the photos in front of him and said.

"Not invincible? Isaac, did you see something?"

"After finishing the data you collected from Nilier Island, I discovered an interesting point: if you draw a straight line outward with Nilier Island as the center point, the time elapsed along this line decreases. In other words, the move that destroyed the entire Nilier Island must have expanded outward in a ring shape, and the closer one is to the Swordsman, the more powerful the move becomes." Westcott drew a line on the simulation map of Nilier Island.

"In other words, when the Swordsman activates this move, the further away one is from him, the less damage one will receive?" Ellen said thoughtfully.

"And these two photos, look and see what the difference is." Westcott pointed to two other photos and said.

"This, it seems the elapsed time is different," Ellen said with some hesitation.

"Exactly, the elapsed time is different, but I discovered that the distance of these two locations from that center point is the same!" Westcott said.

"The distance is the same? Then why?" Ellen found that her brain seemed to be insufficient.

"At first I was also very strange, but in the following photos, I found some similar situations. Finally, I discovered a common point among these situations. That is, in the areas where the Time Erosion is relatively shallow, there are Realizers present," Westcott said.

"In other words, can a Territory block this power?" Ellen asked.

"I don't know about blocking, but weakening it is definitely not a problem," Westcott said. "Moreover, we have all overlooked a very big problem."

"A very big problem, what problem?"

"That is the consumption of Spirit Power. The Swordsman released such a powerful move, so his consumption must be staggering. I do not believe that he can launch this kind of terrifying move again in a short period of time."

"In other words, this time period might be when the Swordsman is at his weakest!" A scorching light flashed in Ellen's eyes.

"Correct, that is what I think as well."

"However, we currently cannot find the Swordsman's tracks at all." Ellen said with a frown.

"The Swordsman's tracks cannot be found, but we can make a move from another place!"

"Another place?"

"It's the Nightmare! This newly appeared Spirit not only attacked Nilier Island together with the Nightmare, but also possesses the exact same Spirit Power fluctuations as the Nightmare. If one says he has no relationship with the Nightmare, that is simply a joke!" Westcott said.

"I understand, I will have my subordinates track the Nightmare's movements with all their might!" Ellen nodded and said.