The construct continuously devoured the incoming strike from afar, standing immovable.
All of those attacks were redirected through the spatial gates.
As for where they were sent—
Even Lin Yi didn't know exactly.
He only knew they had been transported to an uninhabited star region.
Coincidentally, there happened to be a Destruction Legion stationed there.
Since letting the explosion dissipate into empty space would have been wasteful—
He might as well send them a free gift.
The remaining shockwaves were neutralized by the spatial barrier.
Inside the enormous barrier:
Nothing but scorched earth.
Outside the barrier:
A gentle breeze stirred the grass.
Wildflowers swayed peacefully.
After everything was finished—
Lin Yi watched in stunned silence as the artifact that had accompanied him for years—
The Phase Walker—
Suddenly snapped in half with a loud crack.
Game of Life Perspective
Equipment: Phase Walker
Durability: ###ERROR■■■■■
The earlier phase expansion had placed far greater strain on the device than Lin Yi had realized.
Even Game of Life seemed to be malfunctioning.
Perhaps some function of the Phase Walker had exceeded the interference limit of the system.
That had never happened before.
This final defense had completely drained the last remaining strength of the Phase Walker.
Lin Yi felt the Key of Intellect detach from the broken artifact and return to the spiritual cavity of his body.
That was when he understood—
The Phase Walker had been severely damaged beyond repair.
There was no time to mourn it.
He quickly checked the Phase Spirit Flame seed.
Thankfully, it remained intact.
The worst outcome had not occurred.
But all the rare materials used to contain the spirit flame and guide spatial interference were completely destroyed.
Those materials were extremely difficult to obtain.
Lin Yi felt genuine pain just thinking about it.
He would have to return later and forge a new staff from scratch.
And then slowly re-adapt to it before recovering the same natural control he once had.
But Lin Yi had no time to dwell on the loss.
Because the moment the shockwave faded—
He seemed to glimpse two entirely different worlds.
In one perspective:
Dekara sat high in the sky.
The shattered tower had become his throne.
He gazed down toward Lin Yi with cold contempt.
A purple-black spear condensed in his hand.
Its shape resembled the spire of the Great Curtain Tower.
Lightning gathered endlessly around it—
Forming a twisting celestial river of thunder suspended in the heavens.
Game of Life Perspective
Boss: Mad King Dekara
Dekara roars from the sky:
"The sky-piercing tower has fallen and forged my throne!
Vermin! Vermin!
You shall not cross the thunderline!"
But in the other perspective, Lin Yi saw something entirely different.
At that same location—
There appeared a faint, illusory human silhouette.
The figure lay on grass while holding a book.
The surrounding world was filled with birdsong and blooming flowers.
Two mysterious vortices—one black, one white—circled the entire world.
They seemed like both guardians and shackles.
The figure seemed to notice Lin Yi.
He sat up slightly, somewhat drunk, and raised a cup toward him in greeting.
Game of Life Perspective
Encounter: Unnamed Sage
Event Effects:
World Awareness +1
Truth Progress +5%
Sage ■'s ■■■ Blessing
Just as Lin Yi tried to endure the splitting headache and look closer—
The strange vision suddenly vanished.
As if everything had been nothing more than a hallucination.
Game of Life Perspective
■■■■■■ Perspective Error■■■■■■
System Correction Attempt■■■■■■
WARNING!!! WARNING!!!
Unknown interference detected in game system.
System Status: Normal
Normal?
Yeah, right.
Lin Yi didn't believe it for a second.
Game of Life could no longer be trusted.
What kind of existence could detect its interference—
And even affect it to this extent?
Even Herta could only sense that something was wrong.
She couldn't pinpoint what exactly it was.
But whatever this was—
It had clearly tampered with the system itself.
Unfortunately, Lin Yi had no time to investigate further.
Dekara had already thrown the spear.
Lightning surged behind it as it hurtled toward him.
Too many things were happening at once.
Too many urgent variables.
Lin Yi simply didn't have the mental space to analyze everything.
He grabbed the corner of Zhili's clothing and stepped sideways.
In the next instant—
They appeared ten kilometers away.
Game of Life Perspective
Consumable Used: "Shrink the Earth to an Inch" ×1
Items Discarded:
High-Density Memoria ×73,946 units
Since the Phase Walker was destroyed, Lin Yi could no longer rely on it.
The spatial movement he had just used came from an older invention.
Before the Phase Walker was created—
He had once developed a talisman-like device using Phase Spirit Flame and Hunt Stones.
Its function resembled a topological acceleration band.
Because of its effect, similar to a mythological ability, Lin Yi named it:
"Shrink the Earth to an Inch."
With a single step—
One could travel thousands of miles instantly.
It was a single-use artifact.
A consumable curio.
And frankly—
Hunt Stones were incredibly useful.
Many of Lin Yi's creations incorporated them.
For example, Shrink the Earth to an Inch worked by using the directional nature of Hunt Stones to impose forced guidance on the chaotic motion of the Phase Spirit Flame.
To freely control movement direction, the talisman required a coating of Full Hunt Tokens — "Heavenfire Molten Gold."
This coating confused the Hunt Stone's sense of direction.
Allowing Lin Yi to override its otherwise immutable trajectory.
The Phase Spirit Flame then drove the Hunt Stone's directional movement.
At the same time, massive computational power divided every short movement into countless micro-segments.
The spirit flame applied its influence to every segment simultaneously.
Only through this process could extreme-distance movement in an extremely short time be achieved.
Strictly speaking—
Shrink the Earth to an Inch was not teleportation.
The movement still consumed time.
Just an absurdly small amount.
It also had nothing to do with spatial displacement.
In essence, it was simply ultra-high-speed directional movement.
The spirit flame skipped the usual acceleration and deceleration phases.
You could roughly imagine it as:
A blink ability with zero cooldown.
Naturally, it had weaknesses.
Obstacles could block the path.
Which meant it worked best in open terrain.
The trajectory itself was always composed of straight lines and sharp angles.
It never curved.
Another obvious limitation:
Your body had to withstand the physical stress of that speed.
Zhili was a Memory Keeper.
Her memetic body lacked physical substance.
The strain meant nothing to her.
Lin Yi, on the other hand…
Was not nearly so lucky.
He relied on his deep understanding of space and long-standing control over it to reduce the burden as much as possible.
Then he used a few clever pieces of "genius technology" to absorb most of the remaining pressure without sacrificing mobility.
The small amount that still affected his body?
Not a big deal.
As long as he didn't die.
He could endure it.
Survive until the mission ended.
Then simply switch to another host body.
Lin Yi still had about ten thousand of these talismans left.
After creating the Phase Walker, he had basically stopped using them.
As for producing more?
Not a chance.
They were obsolete technology.
Why bother making more outdated junk?
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