Chapter 604 Sealed
[Ancient Token of Regret successfully extracted the target's memories and Pathway Attainment]
[Sealing in progress...]
[1%]
[10%]
[Target is resisting. Applying a paralyzing agent. An infusion of Source Energy is required]
Activating the medallion required an infusion of Source Energy. It was negligible at first but it's like a bottomless pit. Thankfully, the process became easily observable to me through the System and my Adaptability.
The formation was already up and running. The World's Will, Yuko, Fleur, and Yse were maintaining it.
Then up above, the cloud representing the Source Energy Core had begun to rain condensed Source Energy down to us.
The woman was still conscious and she was still attempting to break free. Her will to live and exact revenge would probably be snuffed out but at this point, her struggle was already pointless.
We took away her Storage Equipment. We dressed her up in clothes that didn't even have defensive capabilities. Her little struggle earlier was all done with minuscule Source Energy remaining in her body.
And with her mystical eyes not doing anything to save her, she could only hope for a miracle.
As I used my Energy Control to scoop up and infuse the Source Energy into the medallion, the palm-sized antique of an Imbued Tool seemingly expanded.
It became like a dart board filled with signs and formation nodes.
I have no experience in forging Imbued Tools but seeing the intricacies of it, it's definitely a treasure produced not just by hard work but also by a brilliant mind.
The Imbued Tools which became the catalysts to seal Earth's Source Energy before were also tailor-made by someone we know in our past life. Unfortunately, I had no idea about that craftsman's fate. With a lot of people dying from being sacrificed by me, I had no time to truly check each and every one of them.
A while later, the medallion stopped expanding. It began spinning as though it was a wheel of fortune, deciding the woman's luck.
Of course, there's only one fate awaiting her here.
Lights of different colors suddenly stretched out of the expanded medallion, binding the woman and lifting her off the ground.
Next, Tem once again made use of the system messages, informing me of the process.
[Source Energy requirement has been filled up]
[Sealing resumes...]
[40%]
[50%]
[Target's memories have been completely extracted]
With her white hair seemingly flapping violently as she desperately struggled for the last time, the white-haired woman looked at me. This time, her expression mellowed down. Her pitiful expression was probably trying to evoke sympathy from me. But that's useless.
There's no going back now.
Soon enough as the medallion's sealing powers continued to affect her, the light in her eyes dimmed. The rage, the confusion, and any other type of emotion disappeared. All that was left was a blank look as she stared in front of her.
Her identity as Olive, a Rank 3 Transcendent Serpent Sentinel of the Overworld Serpent has been extracted away from her.
Naturally, the process didn't stop there.
The medallion stopped spinning and returned to its previous size.
Looking at it, I could sense that there was another symbol engraved on its surface. That probably contained the woman's extracted memory.
As it moved closer to the woman, it eventually landed on her chest before burrowing into her.
The blank look on her face was immediately replaced with a frown before her mindless scream started.
At this point, the raindrops of Source Energy surged. Around us, I could see Yuko and Fleur staring at the woman in pity while Yse's Eye of Destiny was in full activation. Whatever she's seeing, it's adding up to her experience. Maybe she'd find out more about the nature of her mystical eyes from this.
[Identifying target's Source Energy Pathway]
[Detected Elemental-type Transcendent Pathway]
[Calculating required Source Energy Infusion to extract...]
The same as earlier, the medallion required another infusion of Source Energy. The World's Will was already frowning when he saw those condensed Source Energy being sucked in by the medallion. And seeing it happening again made him livid.
He'd probably complain to me again later. Well, he could do that but it's not like that's going to ease up the loss he's feeling.
Besides, with how different a Sage World's Source Energy Core is to a Mortal World one, those few drops raining down on us were probably not even 1% of what he actually has in reserve.
Since they're being used to maintain the Earth, there's a lot of it that continues to supply the surface and then process the Chaotic Energy outside.
In other words, this small cloud was just a drop in a bucket.
[Source Energy requirement has been filled up]
[Sealing resumes...]
[55%]
[75%]
[Target has lost consciousness. Unconscious resistance heightened]
[76%]
[Slowing down. Continue infusing Source Energy]
[77%]
[78%]
The white-haired woman finally stopped screaming. Like a lifeless body hanging while tied on the rope stretched out from the medallion, her strength was slowly leaving her body.
From late Rank 3 Transcendent, the inherent aura coming off from her gradually weakened.
At this point, it's already down to early Rank 3 Transcendent.
With how abundant her Source Energy capacity is as someone who truly stepped into the 3rd Realm and approaching the 4th Realm of her Transcendent Pathway, it's quite normal to see that it would appear this slowly.
But as her attainment continued to slide down, it would accelerate to the point that it would feel like the bullet train taking us to the far province in a matter of hours.
In any case, what I have to do next here was to continue guiding those drops into the medallion and also to us.
Not for absorption but to replenish my energy and keep the woman alive.
[98%]
[99%]
[100%]
[Sealing completed]
A second after that last system message popped up, the medallion retracted the rope like energy binding the woman.
She dropped to the floor like a fragile being. Her snow-white skin turned a little red and her body heated up like she was burning in fever.
Right. With her attainment extracted out of her, she's now no more than a weak mortal despite her Transcendent Body.
It took more than three hours but that time was irrelevant. We were successful.
The remaining condensed Earth Energy that rained down from above had started to be recalled to the cloud. It's as though time was reversing. It was sucked back without sparing any drop that I was sneakily trying to steal.
What a cheap World's Will.
The formation also stopped working as Yuko and Fleur slumped down on the ground. They're exhausted from maintaining it for that long.
Yse, on the other hand, approached us despite her exhausted state. Her Eye of Destiny was still open and she seemed to have seen something new.
"Daisuke. The black and white thread connecting your fates had disappeared. However..." She hesitated for a moment as she glanced at Yuko. "... it was replaced by a crimson thread."
Th𝗲 most uptodate novels are published on free(w)ebnov(e)l.𝒄𝒐𝙢