Chapter 1675: Knowing Where the New Increment Comes From

After a round of debate, Lania realized that he truly had to provide the increment, because the king had clearly stated that he was merely a porter, responsible only for transporting Lania's increment from the body surface to the core.

The king is merely a transport tool; now providing him with increment is like filling a basket—once full, he still has to go to the core and pour out these increments, emptying the body again to load more increment.

Understanding this, Lania, even if unwilling, could only say: "Alright, I agree. You summon another body over."

"Alright, no problem, though my other body cannot yet become ethereal, so its arrival might take longer," the king said.

Lania asked: "Don't you have a Boundless Gate?"

The king shook his head.

Of course they have a Boundless Gate, but Anthony had warned him not to expose this information.

Now the king's identity is that of an old bone from the furnace branch line, pretending to be a victim; the increment body first pretended to collide with Heliros, using the other party's Boundless Gate to teleport over.

If the king here still had a Boundless Gate, that would give him away.

As for why the king possesses another increment body—this is not a major issue; having increment mist allows one to forge an ordinary body into an increment body anywhere.

Lania said: "Alright, no rush—I also need to gather some new increment."

"How to get new increment?" the king asked, puzzled.

Lania, unwilling to explain, simply said: "You'll know when the time comes."

Thus, half a year passed; a four-kilometer-tall black crystal skeleton, from distant void, shattered the mist, followed a parabolic trajectory, and fell freely toward Lania, finally crashing onto the surface of the Divine Star.

This is the black crystal body manifested by Ange for the king; from the Sixth Divine Star to here, it took half a year, personally transported by Anthony as a blank body.

Seeing the transported body was actually blank, Lania suddenly had an idea: "Can I try using this body?"

After hearing this, the king was dazed: "This is my body—let you try? Can't your wife let me try? No, you don't even have a wife; I guess you wouldn't understand—anyway, no."

Lania thought: "You can make a new one for me."

The king was slightly doubtful: "Can't you use increment to create one yourself?"

For Ange, as long as there is chaotic mist, creating a body is effortless—not difficult at all; why can't Lania make one herself?

"Manifesting matter with increment requires deep understanding of the object; I don't understand this kind of matter—I can only create increment bodies composed of starflame," Lania explained.

The king fell silent for a moment; outwardly silent, but actually using his internal soul communicator to discuss with Anthony and others.

The discussion concluded: "When Ange manifests matter, there indeed needs to be an affinity period, just like when he first transformed into the Dragon God."

When Ange first transformed into the Dragon God, he had already obtained dragon scales long before, and only after fully affinity with the dragon scales could he transform.

From that time onward, Ange developed the habit of affinity with special substances; when he possesses increment mist and can manifest matter, this affinity becomes a thorough analysis of the object's various detailed data.

Only by thoroughly understanding this substance can it be successfully manifested.

The black crystal body is originally Ange's own body, naturally extremely familiar; Lania has just come into contact with this substance, and wanting to manifest it is no easy task.

The king thought and said: "Alright, I will now go create a new body and send it over to you, though it may take longer—I don't have that much increment."

Lania hurriedly said: "No, no, no—give you the increment, come as fast as you can."

With Lania's words, a continuous stream of increment flowed toward the king's new body.

In the soul network, Nai Ge Li Si and others chirped: "How did this Lania become so cooperative? Saying increment is given and it's given—no delay at all. When he first started, he wasn't this eager, was he?"

Anthony said: "Maybe he came to his senses—this benefits him greatly with no harm; who wouldn't want a longer life?"

Nai Ge Li Si asked: "Are we really going to help him extend his lifespan?"

Anthony said: "Of course—we keep our word, never go back on it. But extending one year is still extension, extending ten thousand years is still extension. Once he tastes the sweetness, if he wants to extend further, he'll have to give something else in return."

Ursman couldn't help but praise: "Creating demand where none exists—truly worthy of Lord Anthony."

Ange and Lania actually have no grudge; their intersection occurred through the Boundless Gate and Kelania, and they have never even seen each other's faces.

Because Anthony and others impersonated the Phantom Patrol, and the other side set an ambush using the Sixth Divine Star's main body, the conflict arose—but the conflict with Lania's faction was with the Phantom Patrol; what does that have to do with Ange?

Though they have no grudge, they also have no friendship; they are merely strangers. Lania once sent a Divine Star team to the Boundless Land and had dialogue with Fort Gammez, but never had direct contact with Ange.

Since there is no grudge, there's no need to fight to the death. Previously, they didn't know where to start—until they discovered the king could etherealize and infiltrate the core, Anthony realized this was a stepping stone.

As long as both sides have what the other needs, building rapport is not difficult at all.

Lania originally had no thought of extending his lifespan; as the branch lord, if he knew of this method, he would have long since turned the void upside down.

In the void, no Divine Star has ever solved this problem, so naturally there is no such demand—just as if no one on the entire continent wore shoes, there would naturally be no shoe commodity.

But Anthony told him there is such a thing as lifespan extension, and thus he created this demand.

Lania wants to extend his lifespan, but what Anthony truly wants is intelligence information.

Increment is merely the beginning; after several more exchanges, if he still wants to extend lifespan, Lania will have to trade intelligence for it—the branch lord's understanding of the void is absolutely deeper than that of other Divine Stars.

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Watching the continuous trickle of increment flowing into the king's body, Nai Ge Li Si couldn't help but complain: "These surface increments are still too weak—they've already decayed by seven-eighths. Can't rely solely on surface increment transport back; even if transported back, it won't decay several times.

Anthony nodded: "Indeed, when increment decays to the Divine Star's surface, it's nearly exhausted. Painstakingly hauling these increments down, the extended lifespan might not even exceed the consumption time.

Ursman said: 'Lania just said there would be new increment—when the time comes, we'll know, though we don't know when that will be.'

Not long after saying that, in the distant void, a massive rock ball squeezed through the matter cloud, arrived before Lania, and a powerful thought transmitted: 'Greetings, Branch Lord.'

Anthony and Nai Ge Li Si exchanged glances and instantly knew where the new increment came from.