Chapter 1246 - Substance and Exhibition (1/2)

It took less than three minutes for Gandaph to complete the dismantling. He dug out a fist-sized pitch-black substance with his bare hands and it looked like he was kneading a black slime ball. It looked just like melted asphalt.

There was no subtlety, no mana aura, nothing. But Gandaph very cautiously put that mass into an obsidian box. He then put three layers of seal on the box. The inner seal was a gelatinous layer made of a Trapa Tortoise’s shell while the other two layers were an array and a mana seal.

The seal wasn’t powerful, but it had one property, it could seal mana!

The obsidian that Gandaph brought out was a relatively famous mana repelling material that stopped mana from being sensed. As for the gelatinous matter formed after a Trapa Tortoise’s shell was slowly cooked, it was used to seal off some special items. Its purpose was to stop mana from coming in and avoid mana erosion.

Lin Yun frowned as he saw Gandaph’s actions. He easily got rid of a level 43 Heaven Puppet and perfectly dismantled it in less than five seconds.

Yet, he already spent five minutes just to process that last part, that black mass. Moreover, Gandaph appeared to be extremely cautious and meticulous as he packed that black mass in the box before standing up.

“Sir Mafa, do you know what this thing is?”

Lin Yun had never seen it before. The Heaven Puppets he had dismantled before never had that kind of thing. Lin Yun shook his head.

“I’ve never seen this kind of thing before and I don’t recognize it…”

Gandaph straightforwardly threw the box to Lin Yun.

“Then take it back and study it. If you manage to successfully research it, then you’ll understand why I want you to meet that person.”

Seeing Gandaph’s expression, Lin Yun knew that he wouldn’t get any more information from Gandaph even if he asked and directly put the box away.

Then, Gandaph led the way. He flew to the spot they had appeared at a few hours ago, encountering increasingly weaker puppets on their way, up until they reached that large wreck. There, Gandaph once again tore through space and took Lin Yun back.

As they walked back, Lin Yun spat out a rune and merged it with the space, leaving coordinates there.

This area was an extremely desolate wasteland. It had a large number of discarded components that suffered from corrosion or rust. Only puppets below level 20 would appear in this area.

This was also a birthing ground for puppets. The acid rain, Rust Eaters, and other peculiar things formed this strange place. Almost all the components that could appear in the Puppet Plane would appear in this wasteland of parts.

There was also a desolate sea in the Puppet Plane. The sea of Noscent contained seawater, while the desolate sea of the Puppet Plane contained all kinds of discarded parts, all kinds of precious materials. Moreover, a large number of puppets were living in that endless sea.

It was a place where Heaven Puppets would frequently go to look for components.

Strictly speaking, the powerhouses of the Puppet Plane were a lot more powerful than the powerhouses of Noscent in the current era, and their strength wasn’t just one rank higher.

The first hurdle in conquering the Puppet Plane was the air. No human could breathe the air of this plane. Along with all kinds of things, this made the Puppet Plane almost impossible to conquer.

Lin Yun hadn’t dared to rashly open a Planar Path before because he was scared of ending up appearing next to a city of steel. If he was truly unlucky, he might have ended up opening the Planar Path inside a city and would have died an ugly death while opening a path for these iron cans.

With the safe coordinates, Lin Yun would be able to enter this part of the Puppet Plane next time.

After returning to Noscent, Lin Yun immediately started researching that black substance. Gandaph had been so cautious and afraid of making a mistake. And Lin Yun had never seen this kind of thing, he couldn’t even find anything like it in the treasure trove of knowledge inside his head. He didn’t dare to be careless.

He returned to the laboratory and made a set of tools based on what Gandaph had previous used. Ordinary alchemy tools have extremely good mana malleability, very few weren’t good in that regard, and they also could stabilize mana. But the tools Gandaph used all had mana repelling effects.

These tools never appeared in alchemy experiments. Lin Yun opened the obsidian box once he was done crafting these tools. After removing the seal, he cautiously cut a fingernail-sized part of the asphalt-like blob to study it. The rest of it was put back in the box and sealed.

He put that small lump on a tray on a crystal table and instantly sensed something abnormal. That tray was only an ordinary porcelain item, which was usually used by alchemists because it had no influence on experiments, it was just like a drinking cup.

But now, he could clearly feel that the little bits of mana remaining within the porcelain tray were absorbed by that small black substance. Moreover, because the mana was devoured, the porcelain was shattered and the black substance fell onto the crystal table.

Then, the black substance rapidly polluted the transparent crystal table and the area around the point of contact rapidly became turbid. And it didn’t stop, it rapidly spread towards the surroundings and it took a few seconds for half of the crystal table to became turbid, without a single transparent spot.

Lin Yun subconsciously released a Mana Hand to grab that small black substance, but upon contact with it, Lin Yun immediately felt as if a part of his Mana Hand had been bit off and his Mana Hand’s mana was leaking towards the black substance.

Lin Yun decisively scattered his Mana Hand, and the absorption targeted the crystal table once again.

Lin Yun calmly observed, but didn’t try to control it again. A minute later, the originally transparent crystal table had transformed into gray limestone, it had completely lost its shine.

This meant that the mana within the crystal table had been completely absorbed. And after absorbing the mana within the crystal table, the black substance started slowly absorbing the mana within the air. Although it was at a very slow rate, it was apparently unstoppable.

Lin Yun remained silent. He hadn’t expected that black substance to be able to absorb mana. Not only was it not picky, its absorbing power was tyrannical.

The previous pottery tray was usually used as mana repelling material because it could barely hold any mana. After being used inside the alchemy laboratory for a long time, it was normal for mana to slowly seep into it, but that amount of mana was so infinitesimally small that it couldn’t be felt, and it already fused with the tray.

But that black substance could forcibly devour the tray’s mana, and it was the same for the crystal table. The crystal contained mana, but this mana came from the crystal itself. It was a kind of stable mana material. The mana contained within these kinds of crystal tables couldn’t be used.

But it was still absorbed by this black substance. A spell’s mana could also be absorbed, and so could the ambient mana.

After testing a dozen different methods, Lin Yun confirmed that mana, or anything with mana, would be absorbed by that black substance. Only something like that obsidian, which had a complete mana repelling effect, could touch that black substance.

Just by standing there, the black substance could still absorb the ambient mana at a very stable speed. It looked like it wouldn’t stop.