novelonline Chapter 1468 The Boundless Cage Isn't Without Boundaries
Chapter 1468 The Boundless Cage Isn't Without Boundaries
Chapter 1468 The Boundless Cage Isn't Without Boundaries
Duroken's eyes lit up: "Great idea! Using the devouring power of the Abyss Core to activate the Destruction Sphere doesn't require much energy, and the release is concealed, making it difficult to detect. However, the activation will definitely be very slow."
"Can it really destroy the core of the abyss? Should we give it a try?" Negris' spirits lifted.
“We should definitely give it a try, but Duroken, why don’t you try to forge one?” Anthony said.
Duroken looked at it from left to right and then said, "I can't see the internal structure clearly, so it might need to be taken apart. But I can't see the seams, so it might require destructive disassembly. I can't guarantee it can be put back together. Do you want to take it apart?"
Anthony thought for a moment and said, "Let's wait a bit."
No one knew what Anthony meant by "wait a moment," but they all went about their own business. Durocan even begged Ang to materialize a batch of the elements needed to create the Destruction Ball so he could practice first.
Two days later, Anthony re-entered the Boundless Gate barrier and said to the gatekeeper, "The mission failed. Our people were discovered when they approached the core of the abyss and were killed on the spot. Even the Destruction Orb has disappeared."
"What? How did it fail? Was the Destruction Ball discovered?" the doorknob asked.
“No, we ran into King Felix when we got close, and he smashed us to pieces with one punch, destroying both us and our equipment,” Anthony said.
The doorknob breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good. We didn't find the Destroyer Ball, otherwise we would have been on guard."
Anthony flew into a rage: "What do you mean? 'Good'? My men are dead, beaten to death, their bodies torn to pieces, and you call that good? That was the strongest mercenary in our guild, and all you care about is your Destruction Ball?"
"Oh, I'm so sorry, I can make amends. Please give me some Chaos Mist, and I'll send the compensation to you," the doorknob said 'sincerely'.
Anthony took out the bottle that had been passed to him by the doorknob last time, opened it, poured four drops into his hand, and handed it to the doorknob.
The face on the doorknob twitched, and asked with a hint of helplessness, "How did you manage to measure it so precisely? It's exactly the same amount you gave me last time."
Anthony looked surprised: "Huh? Exactly the same? That's such a coincidence. I was just making a rough estimate."
But in his heart he thought: Of course it was my lord who told me, he can measure even the breath you exhale.
After the doorknob absorbed the chaotic mist, the Gate of No Boundaries opened, and the vortex behind it spat out a bottle, a sphere of destruction, and a large multi-ringed disc.
After getting the item, the doorknob said, "Pull open that disc, charge it with the Chaos Mist, then place the Destruction Orb in the center, aim at the Abyss Core from a distance, and you can launch the Destruction Orb silently onto the Abyss Core without having to get close."
After Anthony gestured a few times and figured out how to pull open the disc, he said, "Do you have any objects that can move quickly in the void? Like airships or teleportation portals? I can trade you the Chaos Mist for them."
As Anthony spoke, he took out the bottle of Chaos Mist from before.
The doorknob sneered, "You want to exchange it for the ability to escape far away after the mission fails, right? Dream on. If the mission fails, no one can escape. It's no use where you run to. The boundless cage is not without boundaries."
Anthony looked confused: "What do you mean?"
"Don't even think about escaping. Go and complete the mission obediently, or you will all die." After saying that, the doorknob ignored Anthony and wouldn't answer his questions no matter how he asked.
Once Anthony left the barrier with the new Destruction Ball and Disc, everyone understood what he meant by "wait a bit": "So that's what you mean by 'wait a bit'? Wait for your deception skills to refresh, huh? You've managed to con someone out of another one. What's this one now?"
Anthony briefly explained the disc's function, but didn't continue the topic. Instead, he said gravely, "The doorknob said that if we fail to complete the mission, we will all die; no one can escape. It also said, 'The boundless cage isn't without boundaries.'"
Everyone looked at each other in silence for a long time before Ursman said, "That makes sense. All the little tree-men that the melon spewed out earlier crashed into some unknown barrier. This barrier is very likely the boundary of the boundless cage."
Anthony nodded: "It seems the Boundless Cage really does have boundaries. How big are these boundaries? Can they contain the explosion of a god star?"
Ursman hesitated and said, "It should be possible, right? Wasn't the Great Void created by an explosion? Based on its size, at least several hundred divine stars were detonated, and none of them broke the Great Void cage. Even if one is detonated now, it shouldn't cause it to burst, right?"
After much discussion, they still couldn't grasp the true meaning behind the doorknob's words, and could only look at each other in bewilderment: "What do we do now?"
"Regardless of whether it can be accommodated, our primary goal is to protect God Star, which aligns with our objective: to send the Destruction Sphere in and see if it can destroy the Abyss Core," Anthony said.
Duroken then stepped forward and laid out a pile of loose parts on the ground: "These are the parts for the Destruction Ball. I disassembled one of them and, with the help of the adults, replicated all the parts. Now the only problem is that I can't put it back together."
“What do you mean? You broke it?” Negris asked.
“No, no, it’s because I’m not strong enough to assemble it. Its eight parts are separated by this material, but they also interlock. You need to apply force simultaneously from eight directions to press them together, which I can’t do,” Duroken said.
Negris said irritably, "If you want Ang's help, just say so. What's with this 'applying force in eight directions at the same time' nonsense?"
“No, no, no, I haven’t finished yet. This material is a compression-explosive material. The enormous pressure will cause it to generate powerful energy. So when you’re pressing it down, you can’t let it feel the pressure, otherwise it will generate energy prematurely and explode.” Duroken said.
Negris immediately understood: "Was this inserted later?"
Duroken shook his head: "I don't know how they did it. It didn't burst when they were assembling it, but it burst when they pressed it after it was assembled."
Ang nodded, waved his hand, and the scattered parts on the ground flew up. Under Duroken's guidance, they were assembled to a semi-complete state and then stuffed into the spacetime domain.
Anthony and Negris exchanged a glance, sharing Anthony's perspective without prior arrangement.
Ang put the pressure-sensitive material into the Destruction Ball, pulled hard with both hands, and a Devouring Abyss was pulled out. He then forcefully snapped the Destruction Ball inward, but the pressure of the inward snap also caused the pressure-sensitive material to react.
But before it could explode, Ang pointed at the Destruction Ball with his left hand—space froze, and twisted it with his right hand—reversing time.
Time was reversed to a fraction of a second earlier, just before the pressure-sensitive material was crushed. The material did not explode, but the Destruction Ball remained frozen in its assembled state and did not disperse.
Anthony and Negris' eyes nearly popped out of their sockets: "This works?"
The timing and space were coordinated so precisely to achieve this incredible assembly process.
What was an easy maneuver for Ang left Duroken speechless. It took him a while to recover before he said, "You can only throw one Destruction Ball at a time, otherwise they will conflict with each other and the effect will be reduced."
"Then why did you let Ang pack it for you?" Negris slapped him on the head in anger.
"I'm just afraid of failure. If one fails, there's always another. I've also studied this disc; it's a trans-space delivery device with a pretty long range," Duroken said.
“We don’t need this for delivery. Sending it into the core of the abyss is too easy. I’ll go find Big Mouth,” Anthony said.