Your Lord Has A Screw Loose?

Chapter 260: Chapter 262: Development of Shadow Realm Technology

"Li Yan, you've been arrested for assisting others in stealing the nation's underground assets." Several Shadows burst through the door, clad in Shadow Equipment.

They were not particularly strong, only Rank 1...

Probably they had just awakened their Shadows not long ago; the Shadow Equipment was more for show than effectiveness.

Unlike Qin Muye, who had paid a huge price, including top-tier data servers and Divine Artifacts and even incorporated an ancient Shadow Monster, eventually adding the powers of Crimson, Hell, and Titan.

With the attributes enhanced by Qin Muye's Shadow Equipment, he far surpassed those endowed on Tian Peng by the Shadow Administration, even before any training.

"You need evidence to back your claims; I'm just a file room clerk, not a Shadow. How could I have the ability to assist in such matters?" Qin Muye opened his eyes, which were now heavily shrouded by shadows.

Just now, he had hacked into the Shadow Realm through the Book of the Sage and extracted a vast amount of data.

The other party was startled by Qin Muye's appearance; normal eyes shouldn't be entirely black.

"That's not up to you anymore, come with us," the other party spoke.

Qin Muye wasn't surprised that these people could find him; after all, this was a national agency, and he hadn't hidden his tracks. Though a novice in transcendence, he was experienced in human interactions. The opposing team was comprised of personnel pulled from law enforcement and security departments, so their quality was intrinsic.

The one leading the team seemed eager to earn merits, perhaps merely here to 'gild his career,' which is why he had made such a boastful statement.

Otherwise, under normal circumstances, they would have subdued Qin Muye immediately instead of throwing insults first, announcing themselves and then rambling on, which was unlikely.

Catching a glimpse of the middle-aged man next to the young leader, who was wearing a helpless expression, it was evident that such thoughts might have crossed his mind, but were dismissed.

"Fine, I understand. When I have time, we'll talk. Now, please leave!"

After Qin Muye concluded, the Shadows abruptly experienced a dizzying spin, and by the time they recovered, they found themselves downstairs.

His use of the Prayer Technique didn't require the activation of Shadow Equipment since the true power of the Shadow Equipment was in enhancement while other capabilities such as a Magic Net Carrier and making wishes were all extra abilities modified by Qin Muye himself.

This led the young leader of the Shadows to burst into rage: "He dares to resist arrest, this time I must..."

Before he could finish, another dizzying swirl occurred, and this time, he alone vanished, sent directly to a community septic tank.

"I'm just being decent here; if it were someone else, you'd be dead by now," Qin Muye shook his head, now clearly understanding that the mission was a gilding attempt, probably by some significant figure's inept progeny.

The remaining Hermits didn't advance further but went to search for the foolish young man sent away by Qin Muye's Prayer Technique. Indeed, this group was efficient, finding him quickly in the septic tank, though the stench was extremely strong.

The Shadow Equipment indeed resembled armor, but it surely didn't block odors, so it still stank as it should.

Luckily for the young man, it wasn't worse; though his spirits were utterly shattered.

Ultimately, for safety's sake, they decided not to take further action against Qin Muye but planned a retreat instead, recognizing that they were no match for his power and any reckless engagement would result in fatal outcomes.

Moreover, since Qin Muye hadn't been lethal, their malintent wasn't strong. The thought that Qin Muye might only be capable of doing this much was there, but that was just a passing thought.

No one wanted to risk being teleported high above the ground and falling to their deaths.

"Disengage, this Li Yan possesses a rare space-transfer through his Shadow Ability; he's not someone we can handle."

The middle-aged Shadow, resigned and looking at the devastated young one, could only reluctantly give the order; it was impossible for the young leader to do so after being soaked in the septic tank for so long, being completely dazed.

Thus, when he said they should retreat, naturally everyone agreed.

Their arrival was fast, and so was their departure.

Qin Muye didn't bother to check their status but focused instead on analyzing the Shadow Realm. @@novelbin@@

For him, the Shadow Realm was vast yet insignificant.

So large that he was too lazy to explore it all, yet so small that he needed only to go through the shadows to extract the data he needed.

"It looks like the real gain from this instance isn't the Shadow System, but the data from the Shadow Realm this time."

Qin Muye wasn't clear about the origin of the Shadow Realm, but the data was indeed real, although it differed from the normal world of the Human Realm, Qin Muye could see that the other was gradually transforming from an illusory shadow into a real world.

Among these data, Qin Muye obtained a very interesting technology, which he named World Erosion.

That is, by eroding, he could make a certain world become part of his own.

Efficiency was perhaps a bit slow, but that didn't matter, it was just part of the growth process of the Shadow Realm. Through a massive amount of data analysis, Qin Muye had also learned that above World Erosion, the Shadow Realm possessed an even more dominant technology, named World Devouring.

However, this technology was not perfected, and its feasibility was low, and it had significant limitations.

For instance, in the current situation, it couldn't be implemented to devour the Human Realm, it was only theoretical data.

Unlike World Erosion, which had very effective results, it started from nothing and depended on the Shadow System to incrementally grow.

"So, this instance's world, apart from the non-magic environment technologies of the Shadow Realm and Human Realm, doesn't have much value," Qin Muye sighed.

As for resources, after the mission is completed, he could just use the Floating City and the Prayer Technique for a devastating excavation.

The Shadow Realm could also opportunistically use the other's technology to devour it; the Human Realm, however, was difficult to devour.

Though the Human Realm and the Shadow Realm seemed to be of the same nature, after comparing various data sets that Qin Muye had collected, there were still differences between the two.

The Human Realm is a real world, whereas the Shadow Realm is a world made from virtualization, and the two are not comparable.

Unless he improved the World Devouring technology obtained from the Shadow Realm, otherwise it wouldn't be able to devour the Human Realm, even the Shadow Realm itself would need the right timing, geographic and human conditions. If it weren't for this meteorite falling, it could probably take millions of years to accomplish its grand ambition.

Fortunately, for the world, a million years is but an instant, yet for life, it's considerably lengthy.

"Currently, on one hand, we need to deal with the Shadow Realm's behavior of hitching a ride this time; on the other, we need to handle that meteorite that could change the environment," Qin Muye said.

"However, what exactly is this meteorite, being capable of changing the environment? Destroying it would be too wasteful, might as well keep it," Qin Muye considered.

Qin Muye thought for a while, destroying it was indeed the best solution, but it was not the most profitable.

Therefore, the best course was to capture it and then use it as an experimental subject.

"First, let's test the data during the capture process, it's best to capture it remotely before it enters," Qin Muye said.

"Also, this thing appeared rather abruptly, it was only detected a month ago, almost as if it popped up out of nowhere," Qin Muye pondered.

There are many doubts about this meteorite, but these would be known once it was in hand.

"The provisional plan is set as the Shadow Realm Separation Plan and the Meteorite Capture Plan," Qin Muye decided.

"The Shadow Realm side can take its time; let's handle the meteorite first," Qin Muye thought.

Without the meteorite, the Shadow Realm could only proceed slowly, allowing Qin Muye to stay a bit longer; whereas if he dealt with the Shadow Realm first, then there would be only a month left when the meteorite hit.

The order needed to be set correctly to devise greater benefits.

As for the internal power transitions in Sheng Country, such trivial matters didn't really affect the bigger picture.

If things really became urgent, Qin Muye could just make all Shadows disappear; now, even without using his own Power, merely using the Shadow System's Power, he was the supreme combat force of both the Shadow and Human Realms.

This world's upper limit was very high, but its lower limit was very low.

True powerhouses were neither the Transcendents nor Dead Shadows nor Shadow Monsters, but the two worlds themselves, especially the Shadow Realm. By delving into it and collecting data, one could totally conclude that although the Shadow Realm lacked spiritual intelligence, various rules and logic overlapped and it had acquired an alternative self-logic.

Otherwise, it couldn't have begun to expand.

Therefore, if talking about the ultimate powerhouse, it would definitely be the Shadow Realm; the Human Realm might be powerful, but it lacked intellect.

Thus resulting in the current bizarre situation; otherwise, there wouldn't be a place for the development of the Shadow Realm.