Chapter 269

Deep autumn, seven o'clock at night.

Weilan

In the north of the White Continent at this time of year, the sky at seven o'clock was already completely pitch black, pitch dark, you couldn't see your hand in front of your face, whoosh.

Mengdaniya northern airport, a pure-black-painted medium military transport aircraft took off silently; no one knew the purpose of its takeoff, nor its destination, only that it was a top-secret mission personally ordered and approved by His Majesty the Emperor.

This is a most advanced aircraft, its speed reaching 900 kilometers per hour, its ceiling as high as twelve thousand, and its stealth performance also reached the extreme.

After takeoff, the aircraft kept climbing altitude, soon reaching the stratosphere at about ten thousand meters, then it activated maximum-strength stealth and flew eastward all the way.

There was only one pilot on board the aircraft: Luosen.

Not a stand-in, but the real person.

The cargo hold carried about ten tons of extremely tightly packaged supplies.

After takeoff, it headed east all the way, and at nine o'clock at night the aircraft silently arrived above the central region of the Golden Ocean.

Looking up, it was a sea of stars across the sky; looking down, it was a pitch-black ocean as deep as a bottomless abyss.

The only sound came from the aircraft engine, hissing 'hiss hiss hiss', it was the empire's newly developed rune-flame jet engine.

It was loaded with four rounds; two were enough, the other two were backups.

With the high-precision compass developed by the Imperial Survey Bureau, Luosen roughly determined his position.

'Shire County due east 1200 kilometers, longitude 31 east, latitude 58 north, error 1%.'

He also glanced at the fuel gauge: 'Consumption 18%, very good.'

This transport aircraft's maximum range when fully loaded is 4000 kilometers, which is insufficient for his needs.

But he carried little cargo, using all the remaining space for flight fuel, thereby extending the range to eleven thousand kilometers.

'Almost can achieve complete invisibility.'

This invisibility is not aimed at the Natural Empire, but to prevent any possible pryers.

Optical camouflage is secondary; the main methods are magic-ring invisibility, faith invisibility, and fate invisibility.

Not to mention direct detection; even divination cannot find him.

Because his target this time is an absolute secret, and the means employed are also absolute secrets; leaking even a little would cause a huge upheaval across the entire multiverse.

After making the corresponding preparations, with a thought he activated the latest recorded shade-secret technique.

Instantly, a strange qi spread out, completely enveloping the fuselage.

In an instant, Luosen severed all connection with the outside world.

Stand-ins, faith puppets, even the magic rings, were completely undetectable.

He felt rather like a hermit withdrawn from the world.

But this was necessary caution.

In the endless silence, the aircraft changed course to head due north.

It passed the Golden Ocean, passed White Sturgeon Island, and finally reached the far northern ice plain.

The North Pole of this world is not a floating ice floe, but a continent of about fifteen million square kilometers.

On the continent, ice and snow cover it year-round, the average temperature is minus forty degrees, extreme conditions can reach minus ninety degrees, and there is no life at all.

At eleven o'clock at night, the aircraft arrived above a massive Arctic mountain range.

After circling a few times and confirming the target was usable, Luosen controlled the aircraft to reduce speed and descend slowly.

Just before landing, he activated a piece of endless crystal and cast a super-large-scale legendary levitation, steadily holding the transport aircraft weighing over fifty tons in a mountain hollow.

After landing, Luosen wasted no moment.

He activated a sonic detection technique to probe the mountain structure; after confirming it was solid enough, he employed the Transformation Technique and began digging downward all the way.

He dug and dug, the mana consumption enormous, but he had brought plenty of endless crystals and the Burning Soul Ring, so efficiency was very high.

At half past midnight, Luosen consumed forty thousand tubes of focused mana exceeding legendary level twelve.

He penetrated the thick ice layer, then dug another 200 meters down into the extremely hard permafrost, and in permafrost harder than steel he crafted a chamber with a complex, precise structure, also extremely sturdy.

No, it shouldn't be called a chamber; it should be called a one-time solar furnace!

Having finished the furnace shell, he immediately returned to the aircraft and moved all ten tons of cargo from the hold inside.

The supplies were of many kinds.

There is a large quantity of rare spellcraft materials, with a total value of 500,000 Ogre.

They serve many purposes; some control the smelting conditions, while others strengthen the furnace body.

There are also many precision measuring magical devices; their function is naturally to precisely measure all parameters of the solar furnace to ensure it meets design requirements.

Finally, there is also a 'fun gadget,' which is a metal sphere one meter in diameter.

This naturally is the 'Solar Fire' of this solar smelting.

A 'little sun' weighing up to 3.2 tons, with an explosive yield of twenty thousand tons of TNT.

After the materials were in place, Luosen began busying himself in the underground secret chamber.

According to the pre-designed shape, he reinforced the secret chamber's structure, arranged various smelting formations, and from time to time used various precise detectors to make corrections.

The solar furnace is not small in volume, its size being around fifty-plus meters, but the required precision is at the ten-micrometer level, giving Luosen a heart-pounding feeling like walking a tightrope on steel wires.

Without Laifu assisting in controlling the magical power, relying on himself alone would truly be impossible.

After busying himself for over two hours, by 3 a. m. everything was ready.

After a final check of the solar furnace and confirming there were no problems, he set up the smelting countdown.

The countdown started, and fifteen minutes later the smelting began.

Luosen sprinted out of the solar furnace, closing its various gates as he ran.

The gates are extremely sturdy, and they are all single-use.

To be honest, Luosen really felt a bit nervous, fearing that a mistake in his operation would leave him sharing a room with the little sun.

Fortunately, no such low-level mistake occurred; five minutes later, he exited the Sun Furnace and returned to the ground.

Exiting wasn't enough; he immediately boarded the plane, took off, and climbed steeply.

While climbing, he checked the synchronized timer loaded in the cabin, silently murmuring to himself.

"I hope the smelting succeeds~~"

When the plane climbed to an altitude of ten thousand meters, the timer jumped to zero.

In the next instant, the ground below showed no major change, but Luosen felt a violent jolt in the surrounding magic ring! Even though he was not connected to the magic ring at the moment, and even though he had bolstered himself with the highest intensity Shadow Secret Technique, he still clearly felt a strong tremor. He carefully evaluated the intensity of the tremor.

"Hmm~ roughly comparable to the magic ring tremor caused by a small volcanic eruption, not very noticeable."

Considering that this place is at least 2000 kilometers from the edge of civilization.

When this fluctuation was detected by the magic ring meter, its intensity had already dropped low enough to be noticed, but not enough to cause a stir in the magical community.

After all, similar small volcanic eruptions happen many times a day.

After circling in the air for half an hour, Luosen landed again.

After landing, he discovered that the ice and snow covering the ground were continuously melting.

This made Luosen quite happy: "Ah ha, this is really a natural coolant."

What to do next, of course, is to open the furnace for inspection.

He put on a fully sealed protective suit, carried an oxygen tank, and also applied a layer of specially developed Radiation Shield to guard against nuclear radiation, as well as a Flame Shield to resist high heat.

He then conducted a survey of the ground, and then opened a reserved pressure-release channel.

As soon as the channel opened, a scorching hot air flow jetted out from underground, continuing to surge for over ten minutes before stopping.

Then, Luosen re-entered the underground chamber along the scorching channel.

The radiation in the chamber was terrifyingly high, and the temperature was also terrifyingly high; if Luosen hadn't been fully prepared, an ordinary mage entering would be reduced to ashes.

As he walked through the channel, Luosen kept chanting in his heart: "Must succeed, must succeed!"

He had already pushed his abilities to the limit in every aspect, investing nearly one million Ogre.

If it failed, that would really be painful.

After entering the hostile underground environment, he searched everywhere, looking for the anticipated smelting product.

As he searched, he saw an irregularly shaped stick in a pool of half-melted lava.

About fifty centimeters long, five to six centimeters thick, dark green, somewhat like a crystal branch growing in solution, but more like a simple branch.

At a glance, it belonged to the kind of rotten twig that no one would pick up if thrown on the ground, and might even be stepped on.

But Luosen of course knew what this thing was.

A surge of joy welled up in his heart, and his breathing became slightly rapid.

"Ah ha~ the shape differs somewhat from what Laifu simulated, but it's close enough."

He quickly rushed to the lava pool, pulled out the dark green "rotten wood stick", and carefully cleaned the dirt off its surface.

Then, he thoroughly inspected the chamber once more, confirming that no other divine power crystals had condensed, and quickly turned and left.

As he walked, he completely sealed the chamber.

After returning to the ground, he swiftly destroyed all clues, then piloted the plane skyward.

After flying for a while, the sun rose, and the pale gold sunlight shone on the clouds below, gilding them with a solemn, heavy bronze hue.

Luosen flew silently above the clouds, occasionally glancing at the dark green branch beside him, feeling an indescribable joy.

This is the ultimate creation, fusing Vitality Studies, High-Energy Magic Studies, and all the magical knowledge Luosen knows.

A glance, a silly laugh: "This is the life tree branch I made, hehe."

He also felt a sense of urgency, because the answer he had sought for over a year lay entirely in this inconspicuous stick.

Waiting until nine in the morning, Luosen returned to the underground secret laboratory of Swan Castle.

Holding the dark green branch, he infused it with magic little by little according to the method taught by the moon goddess Duola.

Sure enough, a drop of emerald-green 'liquid' condensed at the tip of the branch.

This is a liquid condensed purely from magic, which Duola called 'life dew', a manifestation of life force.

He dropped the dew onto a prepared apple; the liquid immediately seeped in and vanished without a trace.

Then Luosen focused his mind, again following Duola's method, and carefully sensed the apple before him.

Instantly, his vision trembled slightly, and he saw a 'mysterious, magnificent, splendid' world.

It was as if he were watching an ultra-high-definition 'fantasy movie'.

He froze for a moment, then immediately realized what was happening.

"Good fellow~~ It's actually the dynamic perception of life activity, and it's precise down to the molecular level."

The 'movie' he saw was life activity at the molecular level.

But how did he see it? Why could he see it?

"Why is there no observer effect for microscopic particles?" Luosen didn't know.

"Tsk tsk, quantum mechanics has failed."

Immediately afterward, Luosen discovered a new situation.

"No, not only can he perceive, but he can also control it, extremely finely, controlling individual molecules."

He could 'see' and also 'alter'.

Truly worthy of being a divine artifact.

No wonder he could finely reshape life! But obviously, having this ability alone isn't enough; he also needs to know how to alter.

This matter requires constant experimentation, massive amounts of experimentation.

The good news is that the Lord of Truth has already produced sufficient results, which he can directly use.

The bad news is that, with mortal power, it's difficult to achieve the utmost fine alteration.

Because the workload is really too huge, too huge, ordinary human brains aren't enough.

"Trivial, massive, meticulous work — this is exactly Laifu's forte, huh?"

"This ability is also easy to train, because life is everywhere, so training data is everywhere."

"Training the ability is just one part."

"There is also something very important that needs to be figured out."

"For life already controlled by the Lord of Truth, can I change it back?"

"Will the life force I activate conflict with De Rui Tan's life force?"

"This matter must be clarified, and must be clarified very clearly."

"Fortunately, Luosen has an excellent research sample at hand: Miss Xixi from the Holy Elven Empire."

"(End of chapter)"