Returning from the abyss

Chapter 481 Return to Nothingness
Sacrifice is also a means of obtaining corresponding items through some kind of exchange, but it is very different from alchemy.First, the sacrifice only accepts life in exchange; second, there is no fixed conversion formula for the sacrifice, and it all depends on whether it pleases some unknown existence; third, the sacrifice cannot lock in demand, and can only pray for a certain range.

"Xinghuan...damn it."

When the name was repeated, Xue Ni's tone was already cold.

"Don't be impulsive, Xue Ni."

"Don't worry, I know exactly what those guys look like. Since the prince will be released at this time, it is either useless or... just a trap." Xue Ni sneered, "But they are too You underestimated Ewalon, who lost to us in its heyday, and now there are only a bunch of lingering garbage who want to make trouble in our base camp? It’s time to give these guys some color.”

After hearing what Xue Ni said, Lu Ning gave up her plan to continue persuading her.Xue Ni is different from other students, at least in terms of the overall situation, she must be better. Since she said so, Lu Ning will take her as really sure.

"Xue Ni, I won't stop you from taking any revenge, but remember, your enemy is the Halo Sect, understand?"

"Of course, what do you mean by this? Didn't we confirm that the ghost behind this is the sacrifice of the Halo Sect?"

"Yes, confirmed. Therefore, if you are not sure of the other party's identity, don't try to provoke the other party."

Xue Ni suddenly raised her head and stared at Lu Ning for a long time.

"……I understand."

She didn't say anything, but from the change in her eyes, it could be seen that she understood the meaning behind Lu Ning's words.

"I want to take this dark crystal away, and I don't think you need to show evidence to question it." Lu Ning pointed to the large crystal on the table.Xue Ni nodded casually, without asking what Lu Ning was going to do with it.

When the two left the laboratory and walked towards the main road into the school, they happened to see guards blocking a person.

"What do you mean? You don't know me? Hey! I'm going to give a lecture at your place three days later, and you won't recognize me if I come here early? Who lost their minds to make such rigid rules?"

With this familiar tone, Lu Ning knew who was coming without even looking. She should be glad that Soigo hadn't started to mock at least here, otherwise he might be knocked out and dragged away.

"Mr. Soige." Lu Ning hurried over, and as soon as Soigo saw her, he immediately waved his arms and pushed the guards aside, and took two steps back.When the guards saw that he was not going inside, they stopped blocking him and gave Lu Ning a way out.

"Follow me quickly, Lilian." Soigo still didn't ask about other people's status at all, just turned around and left with a wave of his hand, Lu Ning had no choice but to look back and think of Xue Ni beckoning, and then chased Soigo over up.

"Mr. Soigo! Why are you here suddenly?"

"Looking for you."

"how do you know……"

"I have a friend who doesn't have a good brain but is quite accurate in guessing where people are, but it takes a little effort for him to talk about people. That's not a problem. I'm looking for you today to let you see what kind of person I am. genius!"

"You're done?" Lu Ning's eyes lit up.

"no!"

"...You can call me after you're done. I won't be stingy with words of praise, really." Even though Lu Ning had figured out this guy's temper, she still felt very tired talking to him.

"Hmph, stinky girl." Soigo turned his head and glared at her, "Do you think that all your problems will be solved by taking out such a small bead and putting forward a bunch of whimsical theories?"

"Of course not. I have proposed those, and I have practiced them myself. I know how difficult some of the key points are."

"So I can show the things that you thought of with a slap in the face in such a short time, am I not a genius?" Soigo said proudly.

"Then... what's the result?"

"What?" Soigo put on a surprised expression, "What do you want?"

"Mr. Soigo, can we finish our business before we start joking?"

"Hey, girl, this is your problem. What is your project? How can I produce results?"

Refine things to nothing.

If Soigo really succeeds, he really can't get anything out.

"You really managed to refine 'nothing'?"

"Tsk, don't underestimate me." Soigo took her to a place where laboratories are rented out, and immediately rented a high-level laboratory. After entering, he immediately blocked the internal and external passages, and then skillfully picked out the laboratory from the cabinet. With several conventional raw materials, all the stacks of the refining formation are activated, and the room is full of light for a while.

"Lilian, now I have found out the first step, which is the method of 'returning to zero', but I am stuck at the second step. The difficulty of turning one into zero is still a bit worse than the difficulty of generating one from zero , I can't let zero evolve naturally."

"How did you complete the zeroing?"

"Extremely precise control ratio is required." Soigo began to adjust the magic flow. He did not adjust according to the existing formula like Lu Ning, but casually, like a conductor, waving a golden staff, refining The flow of magic power on the formation was constantly changing, and just by taking a look at Lu Ning, she knew that this could not be a technique that she could comprehend in such a short period of time in the scene.

"First of all, I need my ability to produce [-]% pure matter. A little impurity will destroy this refining. Secondly, I need to accurately carry out one-to-one refining of two opposite substances, such as the yin and yang you showed me. In this way , when matter is formed, they will spontaneously annihilate each other. But this is not enough, because the disappearance of matter will release energy, and the existence of energy is still not 'nothing'."

Soigo's explanation and refining are almost at the same time. Lu Ning has seen bright white spots the size of rice grains appear on the refining formation, which is the specific manifestation of the energy released when the generated matter is being annihilated. These energy The points are all on the nodes of the magic flow, and they start to move with Soigo's movements, like a starry sky.Lu Ning pays attention to how Soigo handles them - don't look so small, the energy release of these things can already interfere with the stability of the evolution formation, enough to cause an experimental accident.

"This is the usage of the stack!"

Following Soigo's loud shout, all the refining formations on the alchemy platform in front of him lit up at the same time, a total of 24 refining formations are interlocking, and the magic power flows on all the refining formations, forming a huge The 24-level cascade illuminated Soigo's excited and arrogant expression.

Lu Ning was also shocked. There is no opportunism at all in the 24-fold formation, it is purely based on knowledge proficiency and powerful mental calculations, Soigo let her really see the gap between the two sides, in all aspects of alchemy - he is worthy of being Great Magister.

"Lilian, the stack can maximize energy separation, but it also has a greater use, tell me what it is?"

"The zoom effect."

Just like she tried to reduce the distance between yin and yang in appearance before, using cascades can decompose the "distance" into layers, so that the long distance can be realized in a short distance.By now, she has understood what Soigo is going to do. The countless light spots floating on the transformation formation are gradually approaching, but the closer they are to the center of the gathering, the slower the speed becomes—actually the distance to be crossed is increasing.

However, Suoigo's stacking compression is still going on, the speed of light spots is increasing, but the speed of gathering is also getting slower and slower. In this way of crazily compressing the distance, Lu Ning suddenly realized that the next step What might be seen.

In the central area where the light spots gather, a tiny black spot appears.

Lu Ning stood opposite Soigo's alchemy platform, so she could clearly see the bright lights on the edge of the area and the black in the center through the radiant alchemy formation.

"Energy is released in the form of light, but we must make this energy disappear." Soigo smiled triumphantly, "Lilian, I think you are the first to see this magnificent sight besides me people."

In this world.

Lu Ning looked at the black spot in the center. If she wanted to describe it with something familiar, it would be a black hole.It’s just that the black hole on the technology side uses gravitational capture to confine light, which is also the distortion of space-time caused by strong gravity, and the formation of the horizon for the observer.Here, Soigo created a miniature "black hole" through distance. It does not have that kind of strong gravitational force, but it is similar to black holes in many characteristics.

"Look at the central area, the distance there is close to infinity, and the light energy that falls there can no longer escape, so you can't see anything. And after all the light falls into that area, wandering outside, The substances that we refined are gone, and in the last step, we will compress this area to zero."

"How can it be done?"

"Hahaha, compressing to zero, in other words, making it no longer exist, Lilian, the material refining we carried out, the product does not include this space." Soigo raised his finger, muttering a spell in his mouth, a The golden magic shield protected Lu Ning's whole body, and at the same time, a similar magic shield was formed beside him.

"?"

"Goodbye!" Soigo raised his starting golden staff, and stabbed like a fencing sword into the dark space where all the light spots had been collected.

The tiny black spot was pierced by the golden stick, but in Lu Ning's eyes, the golden stick stayed on the edge of the black spot and didn't really poke it in.

There was a crackling sound in her ear, followed by a gust of wind. Lu Ning saw Soigo let go of the golden staff in an instant, and the purple magic radiance flowed between his fingers. In an instant, she understood that the last trick - the exile of advanced dark magic, is the best way to completely erase certain things.

The moment the black central area disappeared, Lu Ning suddenly felt a strong pulling force, and the magic shield on her body suddenly deformed, and it was torn after three to five seconds, turning into pieces of light spots in the air, while Soigo stretched out his hand to support it. To the air, with a satisfied smile: "When the infinite distance that originally existed here is gone, the normal space will supplement it, and we have also completed the final compression process, but here lies the problem, from here we cannot A world was born again."

"Did you use exile?" Lu Ning looked at the lab that was messed up by the last tug.

"I knew exactly what to leave behind. I just exiled that piece of space. The light in it was not a magic object. My prediction was either success, the light returning to nothing due to the self-compensation of the space, or failure, and the light being destroyed again. It was released, but it seems that neither of the two situations is right now." Soigo raised his hand and used magic to put the item back in place, frowning and telling the results of his experiment, "I think there must be something wrong inside."

"We can't observe the horizon, so we don't know what's going on inside. But...it's always okay to guess." Lu Ning walked to the place where the black spot was formed before, squinted his eyes and observed carefully, "Don't you think it's strange? ?Mr. Soigo, the distance you have compressed here has exceeded the entire continent, but it has not caused much impact on the outside world."

"Ok?"

"I mean, maybe you didn't think so much about the current distance compression, or you missed something when you were exiled." Lu Ning thought about what to say, "To put it simply, maybe In the first tens of meters, your space compression is based on our current world, but when the core distance ratio becomes large enough, what you start to compress is not only the world we know today' 'distance', which you have no actual awareness of, and therefore do not notice... a portion of the energy escapes in 'directions' beyond this world."

"What kind of theory is this?" It was Soigo's turn that he couldn't understand.Lu Ning is helpless, although the magic world here has reached the point of popularizing magic research, but how can she explain to him the dimension problem that no one has discovered yet?
Lu Ning has an idea but finds it difficult to convey it. She doesn't have the skills yet.Soigo has the skills but still can't figure it out. The two looked at each other, and they froze for a moment.I didn't expect that the night had already fallen.

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At this time, in an old house in the Sapphire District, several people in black robes were busy moving boxes.

"The library will be closed tomorrow." A person who seemed to be in charge said, "But tomorrow happens to be Heinz's shift, so we can definitely use his plan to complete the sacrifice if we start tonight."

"But... the sacrifices may not be enough." Another person replied, "The owner's family here, plus the homeless we caught temporarily, there are only eighteen people in total."

"As long as a passage can be opened, the follow-up offerings will be collected by God himself, so we don't have to worry about it." The person in charge said through gritted teeth, "We have to show Ewalang how good we are!"

"We're doing this privately, and Heinz will probably be unhappy."

"Hm? Hmph, he's just using us, and the Star Sequencer will listen to him. Who would recognize him as the leader? Huh? Hey, which one of you lit the fire?"

"No...is it on fire? Hey! Go and see some people!"

Several low-status black robes immediately pushed open the door leading to the back room, and cursed loudly: "You people who watch people, pay attention to the surrounding rings—"

puff.

The person who made the sound was hit by an arrow in the eye socket, and the arrow, which was completely condensed by ice, pierced his head, freezing his brain instantly, and he didn't even have time to scream.While the others saw their partners being attacked, they also saw that the sacrificial field that had been prepared behind was burning. A person stood in front of the flames, with his back to them, looking up at something.

"It's an enemy attack!"

The person who yelled this sentence was hit by the second arrow, and even his opened magic shield didn't work, and the ice arrow was nailed into his head without hindrance like a hot iron passing through butter.

However, the remaining people finally found the location of the attacker based on these two attacks. It was on a barn not far away, and a man holding a longbow was looking at it. The distance between the two sides was about 200 meters. .

——The range limit of normal magic.

(End of this chapter)