My Apocalypse Territory-Chapter 438 - 407: The Mystery of the Crystal Ball

The Architecture Series Spell is a research methodology that, once created, will enable modular and rapid construction in the future.

However, it requires time. The first step, as Eileen explained, is to create the Earth Shield Spell, whose circular shield structure is much simpler.

At that moment, Tang Yu received some good news: the Mother-child Crystal Ball had its technical secrets cracked!

Equipment area.

Inside Kevin’s workshop.

When Tang Yu arrived, he saw Kevin excitedly flinging his beard.

A set of Mother-child Crystal Balls was arranged on the surface.

The mother ball, the size of a basketball, was in the center, with a total of five subsidiary balls, each the size of a fist... Wait, Tang Yu’s gaze suddenly spotted on a side table several shattered crystal balls, their rune patterns flickering in and out of sight. Further away on the experimental bench, there were fragments the size of fingernails, evidently chipped off from the broken crystal balls.

No wonder there were only five sub-balls left.

It seemed most of them had been destroyed.

Turning his head, Kevin’s beard-stroking hand suddenly stiffened, and he chuckled awkwardly a few times to mask his embarrassment.

Tang Yu didn’t say anything; after all, Kevin had produced results. Without destructive research methods, he likely wouldn’t have unlocked the secrets of the Mother-child Crystal Balls in such a short time.

"This set of Spiritual Communication Crystal Balls, the mother ball acts like a base station. When activated, the bridge constructed between the mother ball and sub-balls can be considered a kind of ’space channel,’ naturally much cruder, and only capable of transmitting spiritual particles, and there are many limitations..."

Kevin rattled on and on.

Tang Yu was a bit confused.

After organizing his thoughts, he could only summarize three points: the technology of the Mother-child Crystal Balls was very advanced; the Crystal Balls had limitations when used; and Kevin, who cracked the mystery of the Crystal Balls, was very impressive.

The last point was Kevin’s self-praise during the explanation.

Tang Yu felt that it must be because the explanation lacked substance, which is why he hadn’t fully understood.

"Let’s talk about the specific method of use."

Kevin paused for a moment, disappointed that he couldn’t share his emotional journey in cracking the Crystal Balls, but still said, "This set of Mother-child Crystal Balls has a rather complex activation process. It requires a powerful individual to guide with spiritual power..."

He gestured while diffusing his spiritual power, enveloping the mother ball.

But it was too weak.

The slight spiritual power that seeped into the crystal ball disappeared without a trace as if a clay ox had entered the sea... Kevin couldn’t even retrieve the spiritual power he had released.

His complexion turned a shade paler, but fortunately, Kevin’s spiritual power was weak to begin with. He could barely project it outward, and the amount he had dissipated was minimal, so the damage could be recovered with a night’s sleep.

Tang Yu estimated.

The level of this spiritual power, probably, could lift a single hair?

After listening carefully for a while and following Kevin’s instructions, Tang Yu channeled his spiritual power into the mother ball.

Instantly, it was as if a star map appeared in his mind.

The Star Map had intricate patterns, and all the nodes, like stars, were dim at the moment.

The method to activate the Mother-child Crystal Balls was to inject spiritual power from the entrance, following a specified path, moving from the starting point on the star map to the end, lighting up all the nodes in turn.

Since it was his first time, even with Kevin’s guidance, Tang Yu had a stop-and-start experience, making several mistakes along the way, having to restart numerous times, and it took nearly half an hour to finally light up the star map.

Tang Yu exhaled a sigh of relief, beads of sweat almost forming on his forehead.

"If it weren’t for my spiritual power being as vast as the sea, this job really wouldn’t be something just anyone could accomplish."

In front of him, a basketball-sized Crystal Ball and five fist-sized Crystal Balls blinked rhythmically, then gradually their light faded, yet one could still feel that this set of Crystal Balls had been truly activated.

Kevin explained, "When this set of Spiritual Communication Crystal Balls is activated, the Sub-ball and the Mother-ball need to be within one meter of each other. After activation, the Sub-ball can be carried around, but the Mother-ball must be stored in its original position... If the Mother-ball is moved, the connection between the Mother-child Crystal Balls will lose stability and fracture. There won’t be any serious consequences, but after moving it, you’d have to retrieve the Sub-ball and reactivate the Mother-ball."

Tang Yu somewhat understood.

Activation was like powering on a cellphone, while the connection between the Sub-ball and Mother-ball during the construction of the spiritual power bridge was like making a phone call, with the signal traveling along the line to the other side.

The problem was, why go to all this trouble activating the Mother-child Crystal Balls?

After taking this set of Crystal Balls, wouldn’t he just have to activate them again?!

Let someone else do this job.

Kevin, unaware of his slightly darkened face, continued, "One Mother Crystal Ball can establish a connection with up to nine Sub-balls. As for the distance of spiritual communication, it is a radius of five hundred kilometers centered on the Mother-ball.

Within a five-hundred-kilometer range, barring some special regions, the transmission of spiritual power will not be disturbed. Beyond five hundred kilometers, the constructed bridge becomes unstable, the rate of dispersion of spiritual particles increases, and the signal distorts.

The extreme range is eight hundred kilometers, but in reality, beyond seven hundred kilometers, what is received will probably be chaotic spiritual particles."

The range was indeed beyond his expectations.

Forget eight hundred kilometers, even five hundred kilometers, or even just two or three hundred kilometers, Tang Yu would be content.

If the distance is not enough, make up the quantity!

The Mother-ball cannot establish a connection with another Mother-ball, but as long as there are enough sets, and the communication ranges overlap, spreading information throughout Daxia Country is not a dream.

"The materials won’t be too hard to find, will they?"

"Not hard. I’ve checked, and they are all in stock in the warehouse," Kevin stroked his beard, "But the manufacturing difficulty is high."

He reached over and picked up the finished product blueprints.

One for the Mother-ball, one for the Sub-ball.

The blueprint for the Mother-ball was at least the size of an A2 paper, its various overlapping 3D shapes reminded Tang Yu of the days when he battled with Olympic math.

Although, he still didn’t understand it.

...

"The person who invented the Mother-child Crystal Balls is a genius."

"Especially the Mother-ball, it’s very complicated; it integrates a total of nine Rune Arrays, each Rune Array has one Advanced rune as the Core, surrounded by six Intermediate runes, and twelve Low-level runes... The nine Rune Arrays also resonate with one another, which is quite mystical."

Tang Yu was aware that the runes inside the Crystal Ball were no longer engraved but entered into equipment or items after talisman drawing in the Void.

This was a skill only Advanced Rune Masters could master.

High-end.

Even though it doesn’t require Master-level runes and still isn’t considered Transcendent-level equipment, the manufacturing difficulty was evident.

"Even with my ability, it might take a year... no, five years... ten years, and I still may not be able to make one, so..."

Kevin rubbed his hands together and looked towards Tang Yu.

If it could be easily made, he would have done it himself long ago, rather than eagerly waiting for the Lord to come.

Seeing Tang Yu nod, Kevin ingratiatingly said, "After you make it, give me a set to take apart... study, I want to see what’s different."

There, even the polite language was used.

Tang Yu nodded helplessly.