Chapter 1 Suren and Mister Mirror

Suren and Mister Mirror arrived at the Dawn Ruins. Seeing the lights on in Stormwind Manor, they initially thought it was some high-level Wasteland Striders.

They didn't plan to disturb them.

After all, this ruin was the common wealth of the Alchemy Plane, and anyone could come to hunt for treasure.

However, as the two approached, they realized something was amiss.

Suren made a soft "Hmm." "Hmm...such a strong spatial fluctuation?"

He was now very sensitive to space and immediately noticed the abnormality.

A glance showed that the spatial fluctuations near Stormwind Manor were far different from other places.

Hearing this, Mister Mirror sensed carefully and frowned. "It seems someone has drawn the spatial energy of the planar passage over here... setting up some kind of formation."

A dangerous glint appeared in Suren's eyes, and he instantly guessed what was happening. "Heh...requiring such enormous energy, it seems someone is setting up a super long-distance teleportation array."

If only people from Old Lunde were coming to hunt, they certainly wouldn't spend astronomical resources to construct a teleportation array.

Even the Lu Ying headquarters wouldn't need to, because the ships had enough carrying capacity.

Therefore, seeing someone constructing a large teleportation array here, he immediately thought that some ill-intentioned people were up to no good.

Suren had seen the super long-distance teleportation arrays of the Celestial Plane in the Dragon Kingdom Sea. Those teleportation arrays required massive energy supplies, and those guys had used the magic spring, Rainbow Spring.

Other places didn't have conditions like Rainbow Spring, but it was possible here.

Because the Dawn Ruins had a "planar passage" to the Abyss Plane!

Once completed, it could teleport a legion of ten thousand mages.

The planar passage itself had self-circulating, vast spatial energy, enough to support cross-planar spatial teleportation. It was the most suitable source for the teleportation array. Extracting even a hundred millionth part was enough to construct a large teleportation array in the same plane.

Hearing Suren's words, Mister Mirror recalled the layers of checkpoints they had encountered earlier and said faintly, "So, the previous interception checkpoints weren't to prevent low-level professionals from rashly approaching the Dawn Ruins, but to prevent the secret from being exposed. These guys really thought it through."

"Indeed."

Suren also connected all the clues in his mind.

Nowadays, there were many high-level monsters near the Dawn Ruins, making the death rate very high for professionals below the sixth tier. They had previously thought that the interception checkpoints were to prevent low-level Wasteland Striders from coming to die.

But now it seemed that they were for early warning.

If the two of them hadn't teleported over without alarming anyone, even if they had come, the people here would have been prepared.

Suren said with an unkind expression, "Are the people of the Governor's Mansion secretly colluding with the people of the Celestial Plane?"

A fierce look also appeared in Mister Mirror's eyes. "Even if they aren't, there must be some special channels that allowed the people of the Celestial Plane to come over."

Fortunately, they happened to encounter this, otherwise, a large teleportation array directly reaching behind Lu Ying would be a huge hidden danger.

This budding threat must be nipped in the bud.

This matter originally required investigation and digging, but Suren obviously had a simpler method, saying faintly, "We'll know by killing a few."

Setting up some kind of super long-distance teleportation array at this juncture, no matter who it was, it wouldn't be wrong to kill them.

......

Stormwind Manor had been renovated once during the collective Wasteland Stride operation a few years ago, and it still looked magnificent after a few years.

Suren and Mister Mirror quietly approached and found that there were many clever magical traps near the manor.

However, with the Omniscient Eye, even the most hidden traps were completely visible.

In Suren's eyes, he saw layers upon layers of magical runes, and he was already certain. "Magical restrictions from the Celestial Plane..."

These restrictions weren't of the alchemy system, but of the magic system.

Then the identities of these people didn't need to be asked anymore, just kill them and search their souls.

In his soul perception, there were about two or three hundred people in the manor.

Suren also guessed where these people had come from.

When the planar passage had just connected, there was no Sea Ban yet, so a group of unknown numbers of mages had mixed into the hinterland of Lu Ying.

Although most of them had gone to the Dragon Kingdom Sea and were killed by the Dawn Squad, a small portion still remained scattered throughout Lu Ying.

Fortunately, the strongest of that batch was only a seventh-tier magic导师 (mō dǎo shī - magic mentor/archmage), so the threat wasn't too great.

Suren and Mister Mirror observed for a moment in the dimness outside the manor, then suddenly looked at each other and immediately understood.

Almost at the same time, their figures disappeared from the spot.

One used a spatial technique, and the other used a mirrored displacement.

Suren went straight to the underground space with the most soul fluctuations. He teleported over and saw dozens of mages setting up a spatial magic array, drawing magic runes, and also drawing the spatial energy of the planar passage into a nine-pointed star magic array.

Seeing a stranger suddenly appear in the basement, the mages were all stunned.

Before they could react, Suren's Grim Reaper phantom appeared behind him, and the domain was released on a large scale.

The black domain representing death spread rapidly, instantly engulfing the magical light source in the basement.

Wherever it passed, the mages fell in droves.

Suren didn't give these people a chance to trigger the magic alarm. He swung the black scythe in his hand, and the only seventh-tier archmage present was instantly beheaded.

In the blink of an eye, however, dozens of mages had all lost their lives.

Looking at those dozens of groups of "gray mist," Suren harvested them all in one fell swoop.

Sorting out the information he had obtained, the entire conspiracy immediately became clear.

"Unicorn Whale Chamber of Commerce, Marquis Sordo..."

Suren extracted several key figures in his mind.

As he expected, the dozens of guys who died were the first batch of mages to enter the planar passage.

The task these people received was to assist the "Celestial Church" in infiltrating Lu Ying and controlling some big figures in the Alchemy Plane. Then, using those people's resources, they would search for various resources and ancient treasures.

Later, Grandmaster Lucien Pepys decisively abandoned the瑪法 (Mǎfǎ) regime, established a united empire with Lu Ying, and then blockaded the strait. This series of actions also stopped the Celestial Plane's invasion.

Without a large number of battleships, the Celestial Plane guys couldn't break through Lu Ying Island in a short time, so these guys thought of establishing a teleportation array to raid the rear of Lu Ying.

That's why there was a secret operation to build a teleportation array using the planar passage of Old Lunde.

Fortunately, there weren't too many high-level existences in this batch of mages, and the materials were also scarce. The progress of the magic array was not fast, and it would take at least half a month to succeed.

The prevention was timely.

.....

"The guys in the Governor's Mansion have a somewhat special relationship with these people from the Celestial Plane..."

Suren also felt that they were lucky to have stumbled upon this conspiracy that could cause huge hidden dangers to the Alchemy Plane.

Moreover, the Soul Stripping ability of the Death Harvester allowed him to directly obtain a large amount of information.

Although there was no direct evidence proving that the Old Lunde Governor's Mansion, controlled by the family of Master Merlin, was colluding with the "Celestial Eye Sect," the fact that so many mages mixed into the Chamber of Commerce and entered the Black Tower must have been approved by upper-level people.

This was also as Mister Mirror had previously guessed, some guys in the high-level of the empire were preparing a way out for themselves.

They didn't befriend the people of the Celestial Plane, but they didn't refuse or offend them either. They used this ambiguous attitude to play both sides and maximize their own interests.

"It seems that going to Lunde, we have to eliminate the Celestial Eye Sect as soon as possible..."

A fierce look flashed across Suren's face. The person had already disappeared from the spot.

Upstairs, Mister Mirror and Pestoia had also killed almost all of those people. Suren came up and made a few finishing blows.

He also ferreted out a few assassins who were sneaking around perfectly and cleaned them up together.

A portion of the people upstairs were members of the sect. After harvesting, he replenished a portion of the information.

Before long, the three met in the manor.

Mister Mirror asked, "How is it?"

Suren responded, "About as expected."

He told the information he had harvested earlier.

After listening, Mister Mirror said, "After things are settled here, we'll return to Old Lunde, and then conveniently destroy the Governor's Mansion and the Celestial Eye Sect's secret stronghold."

"Yes."

Suren nodded, that was what he meant too.

Old Lunde's geographical location was very special. If the Lu Ying mainland really couldn't be protected, the Alchemy Civilization would inevitably migrate westward.

Old Lunde and the four countries of North Continent would all be important rear bases, and those guys absolutely couldn't be allowed to infiltrate them in advance.

Solving such a big hidden danger, Suren and Mister Mirror both inexplicably breathed a sigh of relief.

At this time, Suren asked again, "Where is what Senior Sister looking for?"

Mister Mirror gestured to the distant ruins and said, "In the city center, that planar passage."

Suren: "Do you need my help?" "Not for now."

Mister Mirror smiled slightly and added, "If I need it, I'll call you."

As she spoke, her figure turned into mirrored light and disappeared from the spot.

Suren had nothing to do, so after cleaning up the loot on the corpses, he teleported back to the teleportation array in the basement again.

The materials needed to build this kind of super long-distance teleportation array were priceless. Various spatial gems and magic cores were piled on the ground, and there was a super large spatial crystal core in the center of the array.

It could be considered a small fortune.

After doing all this, it seemed like there was nothing to do.

Suren and Pestoia strolled around the manor.

He remembered that the first day he came to this world was here, the study in the third room on the left after entering the gate. He was almost killed by Baldy Ivan that time.

Pestoia also transformed into a spirit and floated around the manor, looking everywhere. This was her home, a home where she had stayed for over a thousand years.

Suren thought of something and walked underground.

After the first fork in the road, left, left, right, up, down.

Even in his current eighth-tier view, these were very clever机关 (jīguān - mechanisms/contraptions).

Before long, he found the altar where he had obtained two S-class talents.

It was still exactly the same as before.

There were five stone sculptures wearing cloaks around the prototype altar, and each statue had a special symbol engraved on the back of the cloak: 、5、)、●、p.

The five statues were already covered with spiderweb-like cracks, had lost their extraordinary power, and had become ordinary stone sculptures.

He had obtained p, which represented wisdom, and ), which represented death.

Suren looked at the statue with 5 on its back again. This was the symbol representing fate.

After so many years of going around and around, he had returned to where everything started, and he also felt the magic of fate.

The more he understood this world, the more Suren sighed and murmured, "Sir Isaac isn't just a demigod..."

As it now seemed, the various things that demigod had left for later generations were far-reaching in their layout.

Whether it was Mister Mirror, Pestoia, Pandora... or those five notebooks.

It was as if he had foreseen some major changes a thousand years ago and had made all the preparations within his ability, connected by a chain called causality.

Suren now had four notebooks in his hand.

But there was no information about the fifth one at all. Even Mister Mirror didn't know.

He came here actually just to see if there were any clues to the fifth one.

Just like the information identified, each notebook had a hint: "This is a notebook stained with fate."

He was now increasingly certain that Sir Isaac wouldn't allow the fifth one to be lost after leaving five notebooks for later generations.

After obtaining four notebooks, his intuition told him that the fifth one should be somewhere in this Dawn Ruins.

Looking at these stone statues, a special luster flickered in Suren's eyes, and he instantly had a kind of vicissitudes and indifference that saw through the world. It was the fully unlocked Omniscient Eye.

At this moment, all the secrets in the room came into view. Sure enough!

When Suren searched little by little to see if the altar hid any secret settings, some abnormal lines of law suddenly appeared in his eyes.

"Eh..."

Suren easily cried out in his heart, and was also overjoyed.

Discovering the abnormality meant that something was really hidden here.

"What clever hiding methods..."

Suren looked at those lines of law and sighed in his heart.

If he didn't have the fully unlocked Omniscient Eye, he felt that even if a ninth-tier professional came, they probably wouldn't see the abnormality.

Being able to hide things with this method must involve some earth-shattering secret!

Suren hadn't had such anticipation for a long time. He began to try to crack those lines of law little by little.

They were very complicated, all top-level encryption methods in the alchemy domain.

This seemed like a test.

Without deep immersion in alchemy, even if you discovered it, it would be difficult to crack.

Suren could also guess that this was probably Sir Isaac's way of preventing his notebook from being taken away by someone who wasn't an alchemist.

These encryption methods were extremely difficult, but it wasn't a big problem for Suren now.

It could be said that if he couldn't decipher them, probably no one else in this plane could crack them.

Before long, those lines of law were completely deciphered, and Suren found a black-covered notebook floating in front of him. He rejoiced in his heart, "As expected, it's here!"

He already had four, how could he not recognize that this was the fifth notebook. The name displayed by the identification was also 【Isaac's Alchemy Manuscript V】!

......

Suren reached out and took the notebook down. The anticipation in his heart was already a little hard to suppress.

He opened the notebook, and lines of vigorous and forceful text came into view.

"Congratulations, if you can get my last manuscript, then you must be a person favored by fate. This notebook records my understanding of this world when I wrote these words. It may not point to the truth, but if these shallow cognitions of mine can help you open up some ideas for understanding this world, that would be great..."

"The meaning of alchemy is to seek the truth of the universe. When you carefully observe this world, you will see that all matter has opposition, such as light and darkness, life and death, war and peace, decay and growth, heat and cold, chaos and stability, and so on. There seems to be a special rule in the universe that everything must have its opposite side, without exception."

"This topic is too mysterious, so mysterious that we humans may spend our entire lives unable to see the whole picture. Of course, mentioning this is not to explain those lengthy research results I have obtained. I just want you to have a more accurate concept of the contents of this manuscript I have left behind. Like the previous four, this notebook is still a kind of alchemical殖装 (zhízhuāng - alchemical equipment/implant). It uses the magical殖装 (zhízhuāng - alchemical equipment/implant) of this special cosmic rule I discovered."

"...after I deeply researched this discovery, I had a bold guess in my heart. Since everything has its opposite and restraint, then... what about those so-called divine powers? Yes, divine power can also be restrained."

"..."

Suren carefully read every word in the manuscript.

What seemed like very simple descriptions of phenomena stirred up huge waves in his heart.

When he saw this paragraph, Suren instantly thought of one person: Pandora!

He had previously carefully studied the Alchemical Body and already understood most of it. But he still didn't understand why Pandora could steal faith and restrain divine power.

Seeing this sentence in the notebook, he instantly realized that he was about to see an earth-shattering secret that would clear his doubts.

Suren couldn't wait to continue reading.

The more he looked, the more the shock in his eyes could not be dispelled.

As these paragraphs of text came into view, a brand new world unfolded before his eyes.

"Oh, before that, I have to explain the concept of "Rule." This is a description of some cosmic power that is higher than the phenomena, elements, and laws that we humans can see. Because it cannot be accurately described, many ancient books lump them together. The "Rules" I describe... you can also understand that this is the power that gods can master. Just like mortals cannot see gods, this is a secret hidden in the depths of the universe."

Rules?

Suren felt that at this moment, probably no one could understand what Sir Isaac wanted to express more clearly than him!

After he awakened the fully unlocked Omniscient Eye, he had actually discovered that above the level of laws, there was a mysterious and difficult-to-understand existence.

It was just that he had no reference to describe this concept, and this was not something that low-level creatures could understand.

So he himself didn't know what he had seen, vaguely feeling that some powers above the ninth tier seemed to control some energy in the universe.

So, this was "Rules"!

In addition to the shock, Suren turned the page again and continued to the next paragraph.

"[Finally returning to the essence, this phenomenon of everything restraining everything is still a conflict of opposite energies. I will temporarily call this energy "Dark Energy." Even everything has an opposite side, dark matter, dark universe, and so on... If you are willing to observe, it will inevitably exist, it's just that some rules are hidden and cannot be seen. Of course, this is not recorded in the notebook. The focus is on the alchemical equipment!"

"I once captured a god, carefully studied the essence of divine power, and was even more convinced of some of my ideas. I found that the source of a god's divine power is the godhead. And the godhead I understand should be the solidified manifestation of the rules of the world they understand. So theoretically, as long as you can find that "Dark Divine Power" that restrains divine power, mortals can have the ability to fight against gods."

"I have integrated this very shallow understanding of "Dark Divine Power" into alchemy, thereby designing a special殖装 (zhízhuāng - alchemical equipment/implant) to restrain divine power. I named it -- 【Godslayer】."

Seeing this, Suren already knew what the fifth kind of殖装 (zhízhuāng - alchemical equipment/implant) that Sir Isaac had left behind was.

【Isaac's Godslayer】, a super殖装 (zhízhuāng - alchemical equipment/implant) that allows mortals to have the power to slay gods.

That alchemical demigod recorded a discovery that could be called an alchemical miracle in the simplest words!

Looking at Sir Isaac's notebook now, some ideas instantly became clear.

This was the power above the ninth tier, the power of rules!

Moreover, Sir Isaac also took a different approach and found the "Dark Rules," a special direction that Suren had never found recorded in any of the classics he had read!