Xyrin Empire

Chapter 55: Chapter 55: Everyone Travels Together @@novelbin@@

Editor: Atlas Studios

The detection equipment of the Superpower Organization was quite advanced. It was almost the pinnacle of human technology at the time. These superpower users, who handled various problems ordinary people couldn’t solve, often dealt with things beyond scientific explanation. Naturally, they had a highly professional research team to analyze and detect the mysterious items collected by the organization. They were experienced and well-equipped.

However, all this was meaningless.

No matter how advanced the detection equipment was, it was still just human technology. According to Sandora, those devices were no different from the tools used by primitive people.

And now, the researchers of the Superpower Team were using those crude tools to pry open a Ghost Energy Core brimming with energy and without any safety control!

In Sandora’s view, this behavior was like hitting a nuclear warhead, stripped of its protective layer, with a thousand-kilogram hammer!

Lin Xue’s face turned pale in an instant. Sandora stood up immediately but then sat down again the next moment.

“It’s already too late…”

Sandora gave a helpless bitter smile, and then we all felt a slight tremor beneath our feet.

When we went outside, Qianqian and Sister Chen Qian were standing anxiously at the inn’s reception on the first floor.

“What’s going on, Ah Jun?” Qianqian, seeing us appear, immediately seemed to find her backbone. She rushed over and grabbed my arm, her face full of anxiety. “There was an explosion just now and strong vibrations. Could it be terrorists?”

I comfortingly rubbed Qianqian’s head and whispered, “Don’t worry, nothing unexpected will happen. You know my abilities… Stay with Sister and don’t run around. Lin Xue and I will check it out.”

Qianqian nodded. She always had a blind trust in me. As long as I promised there was no danger, she would immediately feel at ease.

Like now.

Qianqian nodded and led Sister toward the room. Just before going in, Sister looked back as if wanting to say something, but Qianqian was quite strong. Before Sister could speak, she was dragged away.

Thanks to Qianqian, I was saved from a lot of trouble.

The explosion from the Ghost Energy Core was enormous. When Pandora blew away the surrounding smoke, a giant crater almost a kilometer in diameter appeared before us.

The air was filled with a pungent smell, and a layer of semi-solidified black substance covered the inner walls of the crater; it was molten sand turning into glass. At the bottom, we could faintly see red molten lava flowing.

Sand continued to fall from the sky, thrown up by the explosion. But with Pandora’s defense barrier, none of it fell on us, though it slightly obscured our view.

The sunken pyramid and all its Superpower Organization members had become part of the molten material under our feet and the acrid smoke in the air. This included a superpower user who had entered the ruins with the research team.

Even the strongest superpower user couldn’t withstand such nuclear explosion-level force.

Lin Xue’s face was grim, not just because many companions from the organization had died, but because the incident could have been prevented. If she had shown Sandora the black crystal earlier, she could have arrived sooner to stop her companions.

Though the explosion resulted from a Xyrin Empire item, Lin Xue couldn’t blame Sandora or me. The Empire wasn’t responsible; the Superpower Organization touched a dangerous item without understanding it. While it was an Empire artifact, Sandora and I didn’t know such dangerous items existed in this world. It’s like dismantling a high-voltage transformer out of curiosity and becoming disabled for life— you can only blame yourself; you can’t ask the transformer’s owner, the government, for compensation.

Only a few people had come to these ruins. After all, it wasn’t the Taklamakan Desert but Egyptian territory. To avoid political issues, the Superpower Organization only sent a small investigative team approved by the Egypt Government. Also, suspecting the ruins were related to the Xyrin Empire, Lin Xue didn’t involve more people. Only about a third of the originally planned team entered the ruins, which was Lin Xue’s slight comfort.

“Something’s not right…”

Sandora, who had her eyes closed, seemed to be perceiving something. She suddenly opened her eyes, with a blue glow flickering.

“What’s not right?” I asked, puzzled.

“The power, it was too small,” Sandora said, then suddenly vanished. The next second, she appeared above the lava in the crater center.

Fortunately, Lin Xue had wisely sent away everyone whose presence might expose Xyrin Empire secrets. Sandora wouldn’t worry about consequences when she decided to act. If she wanted to fight, she wouldn’t hesitate to summon a cosmic fleet before humanity, let alone a minor space teleportation.

“You Xyrin Apostles really have enviable abilities,” Lin Xue sincerely praised.

I waved my hand, “Don’t include me. Aside from summoning the Mother Star Strike, I’m still a novice.”

By this time, Sandora had finished her investigation. A white flash, and she stood before us.

“The explosion was too small.”

“Too small?!” Qianqian and I exclaimed together, looking at the crater like a meteor strike. Cold sweat ran down my forehead. Such an explosion was small scale? Was Sandora joking?

But there was no joking on Sandora’s serious face. She patiently explained to us, “I said Ghost Energy Cores are powerful, not just because their energy is vast, but because Ghost Energy is very unique— it relates to the world’s construction.

The world forms like bubbles in water, with the universe as the bubble’s interior space. The bubble’s outer wall is a defense system of time-space-law barriers we call plane barriers. Beyond that, the ‘water’ between bubbles is the Endless Void, a place where everything begins and ends. Here, time, space, laws, energy, matter, all concepts are crushed and mixed. There, infinity is proximity; a moment is eternity; existence means non-existence; order means chaos. It is tranquil because ‘turbulence’ as describable hasn’t emerged from it yet. It is violent because you can’t describe its order. Only gods—super beings of laws and energy surge freely there, and a few Xyrin Apostles who can adjust their laws.

Ghost Energy comes from the Endless Void’s energy residue.

Even as residue, this energy from the realms’ origin is terrifying. It retains all Void Energy traits, instantly returning all matter and non-matter to primal energy and releasing it amplified hundreds to thousands of times. Even after careful suppression and transformation into a Ghost Energy Core, an explosion shouldn’t create just a crater.”

After this lengthy explanation, Sandora saw our confused faces, took a breath, and said, “In fact, my prediction was half the Sahara would vanish.”

Lin Xue and I gasped in unison.

I wager Lin Xue now dared not consider Ghost Energy— without life, the item was useless. Its power was too exaggerated. Probably ten human nuclear power plants combined had the energy of one tiny Ghost Energy Core. Now, after it exploded and left a one-kilometer “pit,” where did the rest of the energy go?

“Human equipment can’t absorb Ghost Energy. Even if it could, it can’t withstand such huge energy releases,” Sandora said, pressing her chin with her finger. “Only Xyrin Empire devices could absorb such energy completely and silently. And one that had almost starved from lack of energy.”

“All Pandora Army devices operate normally, with no external energy reports,” Pandora said, shaking her head as Sandora glanced over.

“My subordinates also reported no energy supplies,” Sandora said, puzzled. “Did the energy vanish into thin air?”

“No!” I suddenly remembered a significant issue we overlooked. “One Xyrin Item is outside your perception range! Qianqian still carries that Spirit Beacon!”

It was the very beacon that previously took me, Pandora and Lin Xue to another world. After returning, Qianqian kept it as a memento and amulet. I had teased her peculiar taste, but none of us paid attention to the supposedly defunct Spirit Beacon. It was so outdated, barely managing one space transmission was its limit. Seeing Qianqian like the black thing, I ignored it, but who knew if it truly couldn’t restart?

Xyrin Empire items were renowned for durability!

For the first time, I hoped for defective products.

That Spirit Beacon wasn’t Pandora Army, so Pandora couldn’t know its status. Sandora had written it off ages ago and couldn’t sense it either. Now it seemed, if any device absorbed Ghost Energy, it was Qianqian’s Spirit Beacon.

At that moment, strong space waves appeared nearby. Lin Xue couldn’t sense Xyrin Items, but we sensed an unknown space device activating!

“Space Gate destination locked,” Pandora’s voice reassured me. “Space Twins reached Qianqian and Sister Chen Qian. Follow-up in five minutes.”

Alright… let’s all travel through space…