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After opening the elevator, they discovered that it also required a fee. This time, Victorious Monkey didn't say much; after all, Nine Thousand Years of Life had already been paid, so the elevator fee didn't matter.
A few people took the elevator and quickly reached the ninety-eighth floor. Hua Tuo led them to the southwest corner stairwell of Dream Metal Building. Hua Tuo stopped to check the surroundings and finally halted in front of a piece of Tempered Glass.
Through this Tempered Glass, they could see the outside view of Metal City. From such a height, people looked as small as ants.
"Get ready to break this Tempered Glass with me. I've calculated that the Spatial Teleportation Point to leave this Metal City will appear in one minute outside this glass in the sky. The duration will only be one to two seconds, after which this teleportation point will disappear. The next time I can accurately determine it may not be for a while; I estimate it will take several thousand years of life value to inquire again.
Don't break this glass prematurely; damaging the structure of Metal City, especially this metal building, will trigger the Defense System above Metal City to lock onto us.
The locking detection time is about three seconds. We need to destroy this Synthetic Glass three seconds before the teleportation point appears and then jump down. We can't do it too early; otherwise, we'll be attacked by the Defense System. Of course, if we delay, the teleportation point will disappear, and jumping from this height would turn us into mush." Hua Tuo Liquid Robot explained.
"Are you sure you've calculated the time and location correctly? Don't lead us into a leap off a building!" Rek asked, still feeling uneasy.
"Don't worry; I won't make mistakes in calculations. I've analyzed all the information provided by the building's front desk after paying life value. Since there are rules in this world, the information given to me will definitely be accurate," Hua Tuo confidently replied.
Rek still felt uncertain, while Alice took out a specially made long rope and said to everyone.
"Let's all tie ourselves to this long rope. After we jump down, if we fall slowly or miss the spatial point, our companions can pull us back," Alice suggested.
Everyone looked at the long rope. Hua Tuo didn't object and was the first to tie it around his left hand. The others followed suit and secured their ropes.
Rek also drew out his Demon Blade, while Victorious Monkey held a Metal Pipe, waiting for Hua Tuo to signal when to destroy the Synthetic Glass and prepare for their jump.
"Get ready; there are twenty seconds left. When there are five seconds remaining, I'll start counting down. When it reaches three seconds, we'll work together to shatter the Synthetic Glass. At one second left, jump down with me," Hua Tuo instructed urgently as he controlled his Liquid Robot.
At this moment, no one asked any questions, holding their weapons and waiting for Hua Tuo's countdown.
"Five, four, three—"
"Bang!" Victorious Monkey and Rek were the first to swing their weapons, shattering the Synthetic Glass. Under the blows from Rek and Victorious Monkey, the Synthetic Glass turned to fragments.
Hua Tuo continued the countdown, and when he reached one, he leaped down into the glass pit.
The others followed suit, jumping down in the order of the ropes, following Hua Tuo's direction.
In mid-air, Rek and the others felt a bit nervous as they looked up at the sky. The air currents at such a height were immense; if they fell to the Ground while still tied together, they wouldn't be able to fly and would surely perish.
Fortunately, Hua Tuo and Liquid Robot disappeared into the air first, their bodies vanishing as they fell into the atmosphere. The ropes tied to Hua Tuo began to take effect.
Alice activated the wings of her Genetic Mech, adjusted her direction, and used the momentum to carry the others behind her. Rek also followed Hua Tuo into the spatial node tunnel in mid-air.
One by one, they disappeared into the tunnel in the sky, vanishing from that space.
When Rek woke up again, he found himself standing on a small raft. They had left Metal City and were now on a vast ocean, still tied up with ropes.
"We're out! We've finally left that mechanical world!" Red-Haired Girl exclaimed. Her body still looked like that of a ten-year-old and hadn't changed after leaving the metallic world; it seemed that time had regressed in that world and wouldn't revert back.
"Yeah, I should have spent more of my lifespan; then I could have become younger," Alice said as a little girl.
"Let's take off these ropes," Hua Tuo said as he untied himself.
"I can hear my aunt calling me, and this time her voice is particularly strong. My aunt is in this world," said the Red-Haired Girl.
"This is probably the last world of the Time-Space Sanctuary. Whether we can lift the curse and survive depends on this world," spoke the Hua Tuo Robot.
"That's right, but here we are on a wooden raft, and it seems we can't change our direction. We can only drift along with the sea. I doubt this world will make things difficult for us. The destination of our drift should be the end of the Ancient Temporal Sanctuary," said Rek.
"Just wait! There's nothing we can do right now," Alice said as she looked at the sea.
The group sat on the moderately sized raft, gazing at the vast ocean around them.
Two days passed, and finally, a small island appeared ahead, exciting everyone drifting on the raft.
After a few hours, the raft drifted closer to the island.
"This island has no plants at all. I sense a powerful aura at its center," Alice remarked.
Once they reached the island, they walked toward its center.
After more than an hour, the path on the island was relatively easy to navigate, and they arrived at the center. They discovered a magic circle carved with numerous runes, and in the very center was a girl wrapped in a Red Crystal.
The Red Crystal was transparent, and the girl wore a high-quality red Genetic Mech that only revealed her face and body curves.
They could see that the girl's face inside the Red Crystal resembled that of the Redhead.
"Aunt!" shouted the Redhead, reaching out to touch the Red Crystal, but was abruptly pulled back by Rek.
"Don't touch the crystal just yet. Look at the surface and surroundings of the crystal; the energy fluctuations are quite intense," Rek said, casually picking up a stone from the ground and throwing it at the crystal.
When the stone made contact with the crystal, it instantly turned to dust and scattered in the wind.
Redhead looked at the dust with a sense of dread, casting a grateful glance at Rek.
At that moment, the girl within the crystal opened her eyes. Although she couldn't move her mouth, her eyes darted around, landing on Rek and the others. When she saw Little Red Hair, her gaze became filled with excitement.
"What should we do? This is a magic circle, probably an ancient runic type. I have no experience with this," Hua Tuo Liquid Robot said.
Alice crouched down to examine the magic circle but ultimately shook her head.
Victorious Monkey stepped forward, observing the magic circle for a while before turning to address everyone.
"This is a type of energy transfer magic circle. It supports the energy transmission of several spaces within this Ancient Temporal Sanctuary. The Red-Haired Girl trapped in the crystal serves as a triggering medium. With her inside the crystal, the energy here can be transmitted and converted more effectively.
Without the Red-Haired Girl in the crystal, energy conversion would still be possible but would consume more resources.
I can't break this magic circle; it's integrated with the entire space.
However, there is a way to temporarily suspend this magic circle, which might allow the Red-Haired Girl inside to come out. But after that, I can't guarantee what will happen regarding your previous curse and whether you can interact with this space," Victorious Monkey explained.
"Monkey, tell us what that method is. We want to hear it," Rek asked, having become more familiar with Victorious Monkey.
"Suspending this magic circle was thought to be impossible since it has already merged with the space. But now that Little Red Hair is here, she is a relative of another Red-Haired Girl within the magic circle."
Little Red Hair should have a blood relation with the girl in this crystal stone. I need about a small cup of Little Red Hair's blood, and then I can try to carve some runes to make this magic circle mistakenly believe that the girl inside the crystal is bleeding heavily and about to die.
This magic circle will stop for a few seconds, expelling the girl inside, after all, a functioning magic circle would not allow a dead being to serve as its energy core," Victorious Monkey said.
"Alright, as long as I can save my aunt, I don't mind the danger," Little Red Hair replied.
Nearby, Alice took out a small cup from her pocket and handed it to Little Red Hair.
Little Red Hair took a knife and began to draw blood from herself.
A few minutes later, the small cup was filled with blood.
Little Red Hair handed the cup to Victorious Monkey and took a piece of cloth to start bandaging her wound.
Victorious Monkey began to work, using a Metal Pipe to draw. A rune made of fresh blood appeared on the Ground, incorporated into the existing magic circle by Victorious Monkey.
The crystal stone began to shake, red light flashing, and everyone could feel as if space-time was about to tear apart.
The Red Crystal Stone suddenly cracked open, and the girl inside was expelled.
Then, the Red Crystal Stone opened up many red tendrils that approached the group, as if trying to devour them and select another energy core among them.
"Don't touch those red tendrils! Quickly go to the seaside," Victorious Monkey shouted, swinging his stick at the small Red-Haired Aunt who had just emerged from the crystal stone.
Victorious Monkey grabbed the Red-Haired Aunt and ran towards the seaside.
A few people were running quickly, but Alice was not idle; before leaving, she threw a few Metal Spheres into the Open Crystal Stone.
The group reached the seaside and boarded the raft again. From the center of the island came a series of explosive sounds, "Boom! Boom!" as if time and space were about to shatter.
"Aunt!" Little Red Hair supported her aunt, who had just opened her eyes and was unable to move on her own, asking with concern.
"She is still alive, just trapped for too long and needs time to recover; there are no physical issues," Rek said after glancing at the Red-Haired Aunt.
"Let's go, we need to leave this place. Alice, did you just throw a bomb? I feel that with the sound of the explosion, the Death Curse within me has been lifted," said Liquid Robot Hua Tuo.
"War God System, is there still a curse within my body?" Rek also asked the War God System in his mind.
"The Host's causal Deadly Curse has just been lifted," the voice of the War God System echoed in Rek's mind.
Upon hearing this, Rek felt relieved that the torment of the curse that had lasted over a month was finally over.
However, after the explosion sounds ceased, the seaside transformed into a glass-like surface or rather became a blue crystal stone, instantly engulfing everyone.
Rek and the others entered a world of blue crystal stones, resembling a blue crystal room with very limited space to move around.
"This is bad; although the core formation of this Ancient Temporal Sanctuary has been destroyed, it is being rebuilt. The red crystal stone has been destroyed, and now it is starting to establish blue crystal stones.
This Ancient Temporal Sanctuary, after reconstructing its core formation, intends to trap us all and become a teleportation hub. If this trend continues, we will soon end up like Redhead Aunt, trapped within blue crystal stones," Victorious Monkey shouted angrily, beginning to swing his Metal Pipe against the surrounding blue crystal walls.
The sound of impacts echoed continuously; although the blue crystal walls were slightly cracked by the Metal Pipe, they quickly restored themselves.
The blue crystal room was visibly shrinking, and the space where Rek and the others could move was becoming smaller and smaller.
Alice and Hua Tuo, upon hearing this, began to pick up their respective weapons and quickly struck at their surroundings.
However, Rek did not react much. At that moment, he heard the voice of the War God System in his mind.
"Ding dong, detecting that the Host's body is about to be converted into an energy transmission hub for energy transfer. The War God System can absorb energy when it enters the Host's body within the Ancient Temporal Sanctuary. Everything in the universe belongs to the War God. It is advised that the Host does not resist and allows the Ancient Temporal Sanctuary to confine the Host's physical form so that the War God System can conduct System energy."
After hearing the words of the War God System, Rek felt relieved.
A few minutes later, their resistance failed, and they were ultimately enveloped by the blue crystal. The group began to lose consciousness as the formation of the Ancient Temporal Sanctuary started converting energy and their bodies, turning Rek and the others into a relay station for energy transmission.
At that moment, Golden Light appeared within Rek, and the energy from the Ancient Temporal Sanctuary surged into him, disappearing in an instant as if it had entered a bottomless pit.
Initially, the Ancient Temporal Sanctuary tried to resist, but the War God System's devouring ability and rogue nature meant it would not let go of any absorbable energy.
Numerous energies passed through Rek's body and were directly consumed by the War God System; the Ancient Temporal Sanctuary could neither reject nor stop the transmission of energy.
This was because Rek was inside the newly established blue crystal of the Ancient Temporal Sanctuary, akin to a Heart within a Time-Space Sanctuary, having entered its innermost part where even this Time-Space Sanctuary could not resist.
Vast amounts of energy were continuously devoured by the War God System.
After more than an hour, the outer space of the Time-Space Sanctuary began to collapse, followed by several worlds gradually crumbling away.
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