Chapter 295: Seal Undone

At an altitude of ten thousand meters above the ground, it's a great place to enjoy plenty of sunshine.

The azure sky, bathed in brilliant sunlight like a beautiful scroll, a shadow streaks across the heavens as a white airplane weaves through the clouds like a giant eagle spreading its wings.

The sky's airflow is split in two by the steel wings; nothing can stop this iron giant bird.

Inside the spacious cabin, Jiang Xia, a director of the Hongshang Foundation, leisurely eats a breakfast prepared by a world‑class chef, complete with a string of English names.

He still agreed to fly to Germany together with Hongshang Guangsheng.

In Earth's records, the alchemist sealed in Germany is translated into Chinese as Kara (Gala).

Although his name sounds a bit like those of large dog breeds, his ability is quite impressive.

Compared to the half‑finished Greed, Kara is obviously much stronger, expected to be on par with a perfect form.

However, the breakfast on the private jet really does taste quite good.

Having a person come over as a staff officer should be this kind of hospitality, Jiang Xia thought while savoring the food.

To Hongshang Guangsheng, this breakfast is merely the basic setup for a business trip.

Hongshang Guangsheng feels that Jiang Xia, an old antique who has only just touched human society for a month, probably doesn't understand,

that in modern society money is humanity's greatest source of desire, so it's time to use money to change this partner who lives in human society.

Jiang Xia isn't unable to understand; he simply won't convert his priceless possessions into money.

How much is a cell coin worth, or how much money would it take to exchange for an equivalent amount of desire?

He has merely never estimated his own worth; money seems valuable to him, yet he rarely needs these things called "money."

This leads to him having no habit of spending money, or rather his bills are always sent elsewhere by default, not paid by himself.

From Fengdu to Mengxian Town, others always foot the bill, so he finds it hard to develop any unusual interest in money.

Even this private jet trip to Germany is for Kara, not for a sports car.

After only a few hours, the plane is already nearing its destination.

The white aircraft bearing the Hongshang logo emits a deafening roar.

This type of aircraft always takes off at night, designed for the ultimate experience.

At night one can admire the Milky Way glittering across the dazzling sky.

Below lies a dark, tranquil sea surface, giving a feeling of indescribable spiritual purification.

After resting overnight in a spacious, independent room and waking to admire the sunrise, one has already crossed several countries and the Pacific Ocean.

The lifestyle of the wealthy is indeed unimaginably luxurious; after all, only a few people in this world can access such things.

If not for saying this is the power of money.

There are only three passengers on the plane: Jiang Xia, Hongshang Guangsheng, and secretary Lizhong.

The hatch opens automatically, the spiral staircase descends, Jiang Xia puts down the half‑read book in his hand and walks down following the brilliant sunlight.

The front pages of that black‑covered book are already filled with text, meaning Jiang Xia isn't just killing time in the Earth Library; he's writing some quite secret data or information.

"Lord Jiang Xia, Chairman," the researcher said, "please follow us to the ruins."

All members of Hongshang's research team wear the same attire.

Besides excavation equipment, many of them also carry various types of weapons on their backs.

Guns, cannons, and the like are common; after all, larger calibers provide a greater sense of security.

They never take lightly anything related to Desire Coins; this is common knowledge among researchers in the foundation.

Who knows, during archaeology something like rice dumplings or zombies might suddenly rush out.

At that time, sufficient firepower would be needed to physically eliminate them.

Jiang Xia follows the road they carved through the forest with giant machinery.

The trees on both sides have been moved aside, leaving only a road flattened to extreme smoothness.

"This won't be a road‑paving vehicle driven into the forest, will it? Looks like Hongshang is doing quite well in Germany."

"After all, Aus was originally the product of a certain European microstate's king seeking power and creating it."

Jiang Xia walks along the road, his thoughts wandering, idly thinking.

Only when he reaches the end of this road does he gather his scattered thoughts.

Brown‑yellow leaves are swept to the sides, piled into small mounds.

Three patterned circles are inlaid on the ground, with an additional larger circle encircling them.

"Indeed, this is an alchemical formation, no mistake."

Jiang Xia looks at these three alchemical formations, slightly better than sewer manhole covers, and nods.

"It seems you've already identified the identity of this ruin's owner."

Jiang Xia casually glances at the documents placed on the temporary table nearby, picks them up, and flips through.

Written in German on the page is an analysis of the on‑site ruins, expertly deducing the tomb owner's information.

Of course, this is already the second time Jiang Xia has read it.

"Chairman, you clearly already know the specific data, why then did you bring me to Germany?"

Jiang Xia looks at the person wearing a leather cap, sitting down and drinking tea—Hongshang Guangsheng—takes the chair offered by a nearby researcher, sits beside him, and slowly says: "Surely it's not just to let modern and ancient alchemists collide, is it?"

"Hongshang Guangsheng placed the porcelain cup he was holding down gently, looked at the ruins with eyes burning with fervor, not blinking: 'This is one of the scientists who made Core Coins 800 years ago; legend says he possesses the tremendous power of the "Lost Coin." Aren't you eager?'"

Hongshang Guangsheng gently set down the porcelain cup he was holding, gazed at the ruins with a slightly fiery stare, unblinking.

"Not at all; the Lost Coin's power is indeed impressive, but compared to it, I'm more interested in the dinosaur coin inside Muzheng Ren's body."

Jiang Xia said, "Moreover, as far as I know, this alchemist had a bad relationship with the original Wang; I think his first act upon emerging won't be to communicate alchemy with me, or to understand this completely different world."

Jiang Xia turned his head to look at Hongshang Guangsheng, "Perhaps he wants to tear you, the inheritor of the Wang bloodline, limb from limb."

"I don't need to worry about that; with you here, my safety should be assured."

Hongshang Guangsheng lightly sipped his tea, smiled, and said: "You won't watch me, this old man, be killed right before your eyes, partner, will you?"

"That's not certain; I could defect to Kara's side at any moment, and you're not exactly an old person either."

Jiang Xia leaned back in his chair, relaxed, watching the ongoing excavation of the ruins.

"Haha, then let me be unlucky," Hong Shangguangsheng said indifferently.

Meanwhile, Tanaka, who appeared to be listening seriously to the conversation, had maintained that expression for a while.

However, her somewhat wandering gaze had already betrayed her heart.

Tanaka, as Hong Shangguangsheng's secretary, was thinking:

"When can I finally go back to Japan? I already booked a beauty treatment for tomorrow, and I don't want to cancel it—it was hard to get this appointment." Although accompanying the boss on a business trip is indeed important, and the chairman is very generous, she still feels her face is more important, and she can't miss the beauty treatment.

In the casual chatter of a few people, the opposite ruins research team finally settled on a plan to open the manhole cover—no, the plan for the ruins' gate.

By relying on a super crane to directly lift the entire ground slab, the brute-force approach indeed had a peculiar effect in breaking the seal.

Amid the crane's roar, the steel cables wrapped around the circle's edge tightened rapidly, as human technology confronted the mystery.

Hong Shangguangsheng watched with keen interest, unwilling to miss even the slightest detail.

This is his craving for cell coins; the ruins represent a vast amount of cell coins, and Jiang Xia had sucked dry all the cell coins in his warehouse, leaving only a tiny bit.

Without emergency cell coins, each time he goes to see the empty warehouse, he feels his heart can barely take it.

Developing new equipment is indeed sufficient, but he indeed craves more and more cell coins.

Moreover, the entire Greed gang has gone into hiding; they no longer produce large quantities of normal yummy, only loss-making trinkets appear, leaving him wondering how to satisfy his desire.

The world needs desire; desire can save the world.

As the crane stretched, the ruins began to shake, and an invisible shockwave spread outward.

The circular sigil engraved on the manhole cover's surface faintly glowed, as if trying to stop the crane from breaking the seal.

However, it's now impossible to stop; the seal is collapsing, and whatever's inside is quickly regaining consciousness.

That desire and body, spanning 800 years, are about to descend upon this world once more.

Boom! In Hong Shangguangsheng's anticipation and Jiang Xia's bland gaze, the manhole cover shot up into the sky, as shocking as a brat throwing firecrackers down a drain.

A silver stream composed of cell coins surged skyward, like tentacles made of coins, constantly twisting in the air.

"It's appeared!" Hong Shangguangsheng sprang up from his seat.

The gaze of Ri Zhong, who had been daydreaming, instantly turned serious as she stepped in front of Hong Shangguangsheng; being his bodyguard is also part of her job.

Jiang Xia turned his head to look around; from his perspective, a huge alchemical matrix was rapidly spreading outward from the forest as its center.

"Isolation, substitution, transcendence."

Jiang Xia pinched his chin, and in less than a second he had already determined the function of the alchemical formation.

"Now I can head back to Japan early," he thought.

This is similar to what he used in Fengdu, or rather he is using Kara's alchemical art, merely with some parameters altered.

Gold Light took shape, completely enveloping the region spanning hundreds of square kilometers; from above it looked like a super‑giant coin being forged out of thin air.

At the same time, the same situation occurred in Yumemi‑cho on the opposite side of Earth.

Meanwhile, Huo Ye Yingsi, working part‑time at an international restaurant, suddenly saw a flash of purple in his eyes.

"yummy!"

Huo Ye Yingsi sensed the abnormality, and Anku also rushed out of the room.

At first they just thought Greed was causing trouble in the city again, but when they mounted their transport vehicle and rushed to the scene, they discovered the city's center had been sliced apart.

A gigantic coin was dragging the city's center, floating in the air.

The yummy they sensed was actually a misjudgment of the alchemical art; this thing is far more shocking than mere yummy.

"What the hell! What on earth is happening?" Anku was dumbfounded—this bore no resemblance to the alchemical art he remembered.

"Anku, the city is starting to move again; the situation could get very bad."

Huo Ye Yingsi stared, his pupils completely turned purple, and spoke solemnly.

The gigantic coin dragging the city sprang into action once more, and the city's shaking grew ever more violent.

Everyone inside the city fled to open areas according to the earthquake warning.

This region originally lay on an earthquake belt, so the knowledge they'd learned since childhood told them what to do when an earthquake struck.

"The sky, the sky is moving!"

Some balding programmer in the office, typing code and sipping instant coffee, stared blankly at the constantly shifting sky, as if the stars were relocating.

Like the two sides of a coin, the coin's obverse represents the city, while its reverse is a forest.

This constantly shaking gigantic coin was flipping in the sky, while the forest below took its place, hovering directly above the gap in the giant prototype.

This is the true power of 'exchange,' and also the terrifying aspect of the alchemical art wielded by the alchemist named Kara.

At this moment, the forest in Germany, Europe, perfectly meshed into the city's center as the gigantic coin descended.

This is practically a mythic maneuver—treating a spot on Earth like a coin to flip at will, and this is merely the ability just unlocked after breaking the seal.

What kind of demon is the alchemist named Kara, whom they released from the seal? Those long, strip‑like objects made of cell coins are like true giant serpents.

As their bodies flashed with blinding red light, the cell coins rapidly transformed into viscous, slick scales.

With its Blood‑filled Mouth wide open, it roared at the people here, and its foul saliva dripped onto the leaf‑strewn ground, producing a sizzling corrosive sound.

Even a light bite from these giant serpents would melt an ordinary person's body down to bone.

"All members, arm yourselves, attack freely!"

Those who were originally archaeologists drew the guns at their waists, and some even pulled out rocket launchers.

The sound of triggers being pulled rose and fell, but ordinary‑caliber bullets merely sparked when they struck those scales.

Seeing this, the researchers all abandoned their pistols and switched to rocket launchers.

Rocket launchers loaded with explosives detonated directly on the giant serpent's scales; the beast screamed, and a considerable amount of cell coins were blasted out.

Now, Ri Zhong, who stood before Hong Shangguangsheng, produced something resembling a gacha‑machine gun.

With a crack, the magazine in front was directly taken apart from inside.

With a motion as agile and splendid as a female leopard, she caught all the cell coins that burst out from the giant snake's body.

In less than a second, she completed the task of filling and loading ammunition with ease.

Several streams of bullets made of cell coins instantly shattered the huge head of the attacking giant snake, precisely and swiftly.

Her ability as a bodyguard even surpasses eating cake; don't be fooled by her being female, but her physical quality is stronger than the previous Goto's—at least Goto couldn't fire cell coin bullets with his body.

But after the giant snake was shattered, tens of thousands of cell coins kept winding, finally forming an outward-opening gate deep in the forest.

"Everyone step back, Kara is now serious."

Jiang Xia's eyes instantly turned purple, and the Ozs Driver appeared again at his waist.

At the same time, Huo Ye Yingsi and Anku also rushed into the forest.

(End of chapter)