Chapter 1197: 376. The vastness of the Universe
“Remember the words I am about to tell you, Wizard.”
“When the stars representing the Sub-Dimensional Planes appear in the night sky, you must do the following few things.”
“First, use your knowledge to set up a consciousness targeted at that star, strengthening your sensing ability towards it. In the initial phase of the star’s appearance, it will be very weak, and you can only continuously lock onto its position with the power of the Array.”
“Second, when the embryonic form of the Sub-Dimensional Plane has fully condensed, you will find that your consciousness can enter the outermost layer of the star. There you will see the Plane Lock I have deployed, a massive cube-shaped maze. The maze has eight entrances, but only one exit. The first person to reach the exit will see the core of the Sub-Dimensional Plane and take possession of it.”
“Third, please look at the cube-shaped maze route map I have drawn…”
The circular characters in front of him changed, spreading outward, and amidst the haziness, it turned into a cube over five meters tall.
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The surface of the cube was transparent, and Noland Lee could see its internal structure, which was an extremely complex cube-shaped maze.
The walkways of the maze crisscrossed tightly packed together, the entire maze twisted like a yarn ball.
As “Escape” had mentioned, there are eight entrances to the maze, corresponding to the eight vertices of the cube.
And the only exit of the maze is located right at the center of the cube.
From any vertex, there is only one correct path to the maze’s exit.
The Escape Core of the Plane did not care whether Noland remembered or not, drawing all eight paths with black lines.
Looking at the black lines extending through a large clump of “yarn,” Noland simply felt overwhelmed.
He thought for a moment and simply launched the Deconstruction Technique.
Fortunately, fortunately, the Energy Points consumed to deconstruct this cube-shaped maze route map were very low, only about 150,000 points.
Accompanied by a feeling of trance, the cube-shaped maze route map imprinted into his mind, and Noland instantly mastered the entire maze’s route situation.
Upon looking carefully at the Deconstruction Results in his mind, Noland noticed several small details.
For instance, upon entering the maze, Noland would immediately appear at one of the maze’s entrances.
To help Noland figure out which maze entrance he was at, the Escape Core of the Plane had specially placed uniquely shaped wall structures near each entrance.
By distinguishing the shapes of the wall structures, Noland knew where he was and how he should proceed towards the maze exit.
Slightly expanding his thoughts, Noland conceived a method of preventing other wizards from approaching the maze exit.
That was to use the route map in his mind to deliberately change key areas of the road, blocking the correct paths of the opponents and others to buy himself time.
Of course, this method would also delay Noland’s own journey.
The best and fastest method was still to follow the correct route directly to the maze exit.
Noland pondered for a few seconds, then nodded, indicating to the other party that he had memorized the route map.
The Escape Core of the Plane manipulated the maze map back to circular characters and continued speaking:
“After you reach the maze’s exit, you just need to touch the core of the Sub-Dimensional Plane to claim it for yourself. At that time, you can control the power of the maze and expel the other wizards from the outermost layer of the Sub-Dimensional Plane. However, your competition with the other wizards will not have ended.”
“Since the Sub-Dimensional Plane is very fragile, the wizards on the outside can use brute force to break its shell, forcibly enter the deeper space of the Sub-Dimensional Plane, and ultimately find you and the core of the Sub-Dimensional Plane.”
“Therefore, after gaining control of the Sub-Dimensional Plane, you must choose to seal the Sub-Dimensional Plane immediately and continuously invest Magic Energy to strengthen the outer shell of the Sub-Dimensional Plane, keeping enemies outside.”
Noland Lee raised an eyebrow:
“You mean, I also need to prepare a batch of Magic Energy?”
“Yes. The total amount of this second batch of Magic Energy should at least match the first batch.”
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“However, if you can find a way to stop those wizards from attacking and give up on taking over the Sub-Dimensional Plane, then this second batch of Magic Energy might not need to be so much.”
Noland Lee slowly nodded, committing it to his memory.
Lately, when he was arranging the Energy Conversion Array, he also learned about the prospects of exploring the Sub-Dimensional Planes through Denise Green and Professor Lamp.
To put it simply:
In the eyes of the high-end Ulnas Ring Wizards, stars hanging in the night sky, if unclaimed, are akin to Magic Relics not yet landed on the ground.
Exploring unclaimed Sub-Dimensional Planes is like exploring Magic Relics.
Within the Ulnas Ring, the most active exploration teams number six, with each team’s leader and core members essentially being Magic Avatars of Transcendent-level Wizards, while the rest of the members have at least the strength of the Ninth Ring.
In other words, the main enemies Noland would face while controlling the Sub-Dimensional Plane would be these wizards, starting from the Ninth Ring and capped by the Transcendent level.
This is only considering the situation with the Ulnas Ring. If the Grey Wizards are also taken into account, then his number of enemies might double.
It was precisely this enormous and unavoidable battle pressure that had driven Noland to frantically develop Combat Mechanic Spirits over the past month.
So far, he and Nolin had produced close to 10 million Mechanos, with each storing an average of 1 million points of thunder and lightning, flames, or Rock and Soil Energy.
If those wizards dared to come, Noland was ready to blast them away, even if it meant revealing his tricks through the Mechanos.