A Scroll of Infinite Glory

Chapter 542 The Beast of Dream Creation

The approach of outsiders to the mountains where the Source of Karen is located would normally have alerted all the guards.

Even if the guards are not present, the totem pole defense system that covers this mountain range will automatically start operating and send alarm signals to the high-ranking officials on the main planet of the Kingdom of Karen who are qualified to handle this matter.

However, it seems that the guards of this mountain range have already been infiltrated by the eldest princess. The automatic defense system's alarm was just displayed when they cut off the signal.

After noticing the guards' unusual behavior, the AI-powered system, through its own assessment, still sent the backup alarm signal to the two most powerful heirs in the kingdom.

However, neither of these two powerful heirs made any response.

The eldest princess remained floating in the air, dressed in a light gold, luxurious and soft long dress. Her white hands were folded and placed on her lower abdomen. She gazed at everything before her with a gentle expression that was remarkably similar to that of Her Majesty the Queen.

Duke Attila stood beside the totem pole, casually crushing his watch in his hand.

As the Grand Duke of the interstellar civilization in the Friendship Network, he was well-informed and already knew just how powerful the Logistics Minister of the First Core truly was.

Even without having heard of the logistics minister's deeds, just sensing the energy fluctuations emanating from that suspended figure should make it clear...

In such close proximity, Duke Attila, who had not yet seized the throne, had absolutely no chance of activating all the equipment in the Karen Source defense system.

"Is my sister's ability to disguise herself an innate talent?"

Duke Attila looked up at the eldest princess, his smile surprisingly cheerful.

"I thought that my innate tendency to overthink, coupled with the cunning I've cultivated through learning, made me bold and ruthless enough. But my sister's schemes have even fooled me. Without me even realizing it, she's turned all the people I've won over among the mountain guards into your own. You're even more cunning than I am!"

"I'm different from you."

The eldest princess gazed gently at Chief Beya, "My fellow Beya people, there is no need to worry. The Source of Karen is the source of life. Once I have completely mastered the Source of Karen and reached the true seven-star level, I will be able to reawaken your spirits, extract the core of the curse, and revive you."

Despite hearing this promise, Chief Beya and Dr. Xiangyang's expressions remained grim.

Duke Attila burst into laughter: "Hahaha, do you think they're fools?"

"No one in the Kingdom of Karen has ever truly controlled the Source of Karen. Who knows if you'll actually be able to resurrect them? Besides, don't your rituals, ascension to the throne, and promotion take time?"

"Those Beya people used to lure out the cursed core, by the time that time comes, their very spirits will have been devoured by the cursed core."

Upon hearing these words, the eldest princess smiled genuinely and said to Hydra, "Teacher, just as I said, Attila is indeed a sharp and insightful person. Once I take control of Karen, he should no longer exist as a duke, but I can give him a different identity, have him join the First Core, and become our assistant."

"It's really good."

After a moment's thought, Hydra said to Duke Attila, "I cannot give you the Source of Karen, but as long as you become my subordinate, you will also have the power to control an interstellar kingdom in the future, and the opportunity to break through to the seventh star."

Duke Attila sighed: "My sister seems so certain I'll agree?"

The eldest princess said softly, "Attila is a wise man."

Duke Attila fell silent.

The mage in the air chuckled softly: "You're still not giving up? Is it because of that thing buried in your forehead that you're harboring some unrealistic fantasies?"

"Aside from the Source of Karen, no technological advancements or anything you can buy through the hidden channels of the StarNet in the Kingdom of Karen will give you the strength to fight against me."

Hydra spoke in a calm tone, with unwavering confidence, and slightly raised the staff in his hand.

"Let me completely dispel your doubts and make you submit to me!"

The blue gem at the tip of the wooden staff emitted a hazy, magical light, illuminating a magic circle in the air.

The pattern of this magic circle is mainly composed of circles and six-pointed stars, intertwined with rose-like patterns. Every small gap inside the pattern is filled with winding, intricate, and perfectly smooth magical characters.

The same pattern appeared beneath Duke Attila's feet, causing his body to float uncontrollably, his limbs outstretched.

Hydra's self-created magic, which she didn't even bother to name, possesses the effects of "body manipulation and mind deprivation," making it difficult even for a six-star Reincarnator to resist.

Duke Attila, thanks to the royal family's technological resources, gradually accumulated six-star energy over several centuries. With the assistance of artificial intelligence, he also had no major tactical problems.

However, he was, after all, a duke, and did not have many opportunities to personally demonstrate his strength.

Compared to the well-informed and haphazardly dressed Reincarnators, his fighting spirit and the adaptability of his personal AI program are probably far inferior to those of Reincarnators of the same level.

After Duke Attila lost control of his body, the bandages wrapped around his head turned into fine white dust, revealing a vertical scarlet wound on his forehead.

Indeed, the injury on his head was not from some unknown attack, but rather from a large-scale implantation surgery he underwent after the meeting, which he intended to use as a trump card in his future struggle for the throne.

Now Hydra's magic is about to enter the second stage, extracting his consciousness from his body and making him clearly feel the scene of the equipment buried in his body being stripped out and completely destroyed.

However, just as the magic circle began to rotate slightly, shifting from "body control" to "thought stripping," a hint of doubt suddenly appeared in Hydra's eyes.

Guan Luoyang, who was sitting idly in the atmosphere of the main planet Karen, eating cherries and watching the show, had a very interested smile on his lips.

In that instant, the magnetic field of the entire main planet of the Kingdom of Karen was violently distorted.

The entire planet's magnetic field seemed to have become a real, tangible net, enveloping the planet's surface, and then suddenly it was pulled by an invisible hand, forming a concave vortex that stretched from the outer edge of the atmosphere all the way to the Earth's surface.

Sunlight on the planet's surface, influenced by the magnetic field, produces a faint, colored glow.

In the atmosphere and near-ground air, all combustible air particles are excited and ignited, emitting a light like a vortex of stardust.

Dust of light, swirling with pale colors, has become a spectacular sight that can be observed even from space.

This was thanks to the timely response of the Karen Kingdom's planetary defense system.

Otherwise, this incredibly rapid change in the magnetic field could even affect several satellites around the main star, including the incredibly stable First Spaceport, causing violent turbulence and displacement.

And at the very depths of this vortex, at the source and the end of the magnetic field change, lies the body of Duke Attila.

The power of the magnetic field is transmitted at near the speed of light.

There's no need to wait for the magnetic vortex to continue rotating.

In fact, just before this vortex took shape, the energy drawn from the entire magnetic field of the main star had already been attracted, transformed, and concentrated into Duke Attila's body.

Therefore, by the time the vortex took shape and began to emit light, Duke Attila's true form had already vanished from the spot.

High in the sky, the dark shadow magnified in the depths of the distorted space, and then an extremely domineering fist completely pierced through space and slammed into Hydra's body.

At the very moment that fist pierced through space, countless spiderweb-like spatial cracks instantly spread outwards.

The crack, brimming with the radiance of power, pierced the heavens and struck the earth. The automatic defense system throughout the entire mountain range sensed the highest level of threat, even without receiving any instructions.

All the totem poles lit up at the same time, resisting the cracks that spread to the ground and into the mountains.

Meanwhile, the magical energy within Hydra's body automatically defended itself, forming layers upon layers of magic circle patterns in all directions within a millisecond.

Thousands upon thousands of magical patterns were piled up in every direction leading to his body, each with a different effect.

However, before these magic circles could even activate, the power carried by that fist had already shattered them all, turning them into specks of light and returning them to nothingness.

The punch landed squarely on Hydra's face, shattering his entire body. Even the eldest princess, who was standing not far from Hydra, was affected.

The gentle and beautiful eldest princess's entire body was like oil paint painted on smooth plastic. Her figure suddenly trembled and then shattered completely, leaving not a speck of dust.

The figure of Duke Attila stands alone high in the sky, roaring angrily.

The scarlet wound on his forehead, which was originally only a finger's width wide, is now rapidly expanding, with the skin and flesh turning back to reveal the red crystal buried beneath the skin of his forehead.

The crystal, which should have been cold, hard, and fragile, seemed to have its own life and began to grow outwards under his will.

A blinding scarlet light flashed on his forehead, like a cross-shaped mark!

Soon, a crescent-shaped, blood-red crystal horn with its tip pointing upwards grew on his forehead.

Grayish-white cellular tissue bulged from his forehead, instantly surging to his shoulder blades, where two huge grayish-white fleshy spheres rose up. The cells in these spheres then spread throughout his body, shattering his original clothing.

In the blink of an eye, Duke Attila had completely changed.

Strong, grayish-white muscles covering the entire body, rigid chest and back lines, and round spheres with a dark metallic sheen filling the abdomen and limb joints.

And that face, now it resembles some kind of ferocious predatory insect, anthropomorphized, with its eyes covered by shimmering crystals.

While it clearly possesses the aesthetic appeal of a powerful, flesh-and-blood creature, certain parts of it appear to be man-made metal armor.

A perfect combination of biological cells and organometallic materials—this is alien technology from the world of "Guyver Cap".

The Beast God of that world, after only undergoing biochemical modification and implanting a divine crystal, could potentially gain terrifying power capable of destroying modern metropolises and even breaking mountains in a short period of time.

Furthermore, if one exists as a Beast God General, one can also obtain an "Enhanced Cell Proliferation Armor," and the speed at which one's power increases would be terrifying even to the alien technological civilization that created these two things.

Duke Attila's current transformation is clearly a combination of the "Divine Crystal" and the "Guardian Armor".

This tall, strong, yet slender, godlike body could float in the air without deliberately using any power, and the whole world seemed to be in submission to him.

"Good! Good!! Good!!!"

"This is the power I've been searching for!!!"

Duke Attila felt this immense power, as if it were turning every cell in his body into the ocean, and couldn't help but let out another long roar.

His gaze was directed toward the source of Karen.

It was a building modeled after an ancient sacred mountain. It looked like a mountain peak on the outside, but its interior was a high-strength alloy structure. The mountain's belly was hollow, and it was the place where the temples of past kings and sages were enshrined.

The Source of Karen is located in the center of the temple.

Duke Attila's gaze suddenly transformed into a beam of light with real power, piercing through the sky and shooting towards the sacred mountain.

The totem pole defense array between the mountains radiates layers of protective light.

There were even totem poles the size of mountains that were moved to their new locations, using their high-strength materials to resist the gaze of Duke Attila.

But no matter what kind of obstacles they were, they were all blasted away by Duke Attila's gaze!

Just as the gaze was about to penetrate the interior of the sacred mountain, a dark, oval-shaped magic mirror appeared in front of the two beams of light.

The magic mirror, reaching a height of 300 meters and a maximum width of over 100 meters, completely swallowed up Duke Attila's two beams of light.

The scene that emerges from the deep, dark surface of the magic mirror is a scene from another dimension.

There, countless green bubbles rose, like a vast swamp that was constantly boiling.

Above the swamp, numerous buildings of different styles stand, and within these buildings are scattered dark monsters that belonged to different races in their previous lives.

They, they, and all of them, with their eyes burning with soul fire, all looked together at the world beyond the portal of the magic mirror.

All these buildings are merely embellishments.

Deep within the swamp, the chilling skeletons of thousands of enormous creatures have formed a massive skeletal nest.

Above this nest are a magnificent palace complex and a mage tower.

Hydra and the eldest princess sat high in those palaces, looking towards the Kingdom of Karen.

How could a magician who infiltrates the Main God Space possibly be weak in vigilance?

Starting from the five-star level, Hydra had already been planning to build his own high-level mage tower. Normally, he could hide in the void, but in reality, he always kept himself inside the tower to achieve the most efficient defense.

Later, his magical path continued to expand, and when he reached the seventh level, what he created was no longer a mage tower, but a necromantic plane.

His true form was split in two: one half was the plane of the dead itself, and the other half was the human form that lived in the plane of the dead.

As for the "Hydra" that usually operates outside, it is merely a magical illusion projected into reality after the Netherworld has hidden itself.

A single burst of magic from a Seven-Star Reincarnator is enough to make this phantom a tangible entity in every aspect, but if this phantom is destroyed, it will not cause any harm to the Hydra itself.

However, even with such confidence and certainty of victory, the sudden destruction of the illusion still greatly displeased Hydra.

"Divine Crystals and Bio-Armor?!"

Hydra's eyes swirled with various cold-toned magical glints, like waves in a swamp, revealing his anger.

"No, even if my projection sensitivity is far inferior to my original body, those two things alone still cannot escape the perception of the projection body."

"Moreover, those two things alone wouldn't be enough to give you this kind of seven-star violent attack that reaches the level of willpower..."

Hydra gazed at Duke Adela, paused for a moment, and then gave the answer.

"Yes, dream creators!"

The latest "Dream Creator" developed by "Beyond City"!!!

It is said that the thing is the most advanced combat equipment developed by combining the Dream Creator technology from the Sea Tiger series worldview, the beast transformation and bio-armor technology from the Guyver Captain world, and some other world technologies.

According to the information channels of the "First Core", after this equipment is implanted, it may be possible for a six-star creature to temporarily unleash combat capabilities equivalent to a mid-level seven-star creature.

However, even with the intelligence channels of the First Core, they have not yet been able to ascertain more detailed information about this top-secret equipment used for internal testing in the City Beyond.

How could a mere Duke Attila, who hadn't even truly inherited the throne, possibly have the opportunity to obtain such a technological treasure?!

Surprised?

The cells in Duke Attila's face changed, revealing an almost sinister smile, and he raised his fist again.

"Foreign guest, one look of surprise on your hateful dog face is far from enough."

"Let my dream-creating power smash your face again, so you'll regret choosing this side for eternity."

Boom! ...

The planet's magnetic field twisted dully once again, its influence radiating into the surrounding space. But this time, the way the magnetic field operated was far more sophisticated than the previous punch.

"The magnetic field is rotating... The Emperor, the Supreme, Shocking the World!!"

(End of this chapter)