309 Chapter 309 (1/2)

Since the very moment Lovr entered Cernos, he had been spending every free minute experimenting with the spatial attribute. The completion of the first stage of his unique body of the void had fueled his enthusiasm. It had granted him an altered state of darkness and light. They used to condense into a light fog, but now they looked more like a dense cloud. With the same energy consumption, their efficiency had slightly increased. When combined, the green glow of the spatial attribute also was more intense than before. Lovr had a gut feeling about the combination of these two most remarkable elements in the world. Their attribute couldn't possibly be so useless in combat. He was desperately looking for their hidden possibilities.

The spatial attribute had two main drawbacks that made it rather useless. First, it was very noisy and noticeable (for the soul), therefore, it was not suitable for sudden attacks from the back. The enemy would hear an annoying buzz from behind. Second, it had poor penetration, especially into the animate matter. It took a colossal difference in cultivation to harm someone.

Over the past three weeks, Kyon had done lots of experiments: teleporting bullets, all sorts of combinations with other elements, attempts to make the attribute ”quieter,” creating a shield or a mirror from enemy attacks... However, everything was useless or ineffective for battles. His improved spatial attribute only had a slightly increased efficiency compared to the other few owners, but it wasn't enough to use it in combat.

(When Kyon took the unique body of the void pill, he received the energy from the ingredients and spheres he had used to make it, which means it did not belong to Kyon even if it was synchronized with his frequency.)

However, Lovr was a legendary exception to the rule. He was the only one who could get into his soul with his own energy. He could do it with the help of the mind element, the lightest and the gentlest essence in the universe. His Synergy was in the middle of the student's degree (2), but Kyon had no idea how long he should evolve until his blue energy could overcome the natural resistance of his soul.

To sum it up, no one in the world could do more than they could. It was impossible to get into the soul, even with the help of certain tools. Only Synergy could do it because it ignored natural resistance to a certain degree.

Lovr considered other options for instant teleportation.

There were also teleportation trigrams that the elite often used. There was one in the palace. Trigrams separate some space from the outside world with a unique barrier and send its contents to the place with another trigram. It takes a considerable amount of energy (spheres and keys), and it's absolutely impossible to do something like this during a fight. The process requires a special pattern under the feet and a lot of time. Besides, it can be easily interrupted. Out of the question.

Kyon had been thinking if there was any other efficient way to implement his spatial attribute, but he could not find anything despite the huge library in his head. It was nothing but a pathetic non-combat attribute that could be used for spatial rings at most.

And then a creative spark flew through his minds. It was small but bright like a comet. The space inside the ring was located in a thin layer between the spiritual and the physical worlds where the singularity was observed, i.e, time practically stopped. Bread would get stale in a billion years there. What would happen to something that moved fast, a flying bullet, for example? Or large-caliber projectiles fired by artillery? A thousand artillery rounds? What if they appeared all at once?

The axioms describing spatial objects read: «It turns common sense inside out when you try to place a ring inside a ring, you fool; fear gods when you place a living thing in the ring, you are not omnipotent, sinner; may peace guide you when you place energy or matter in the ring!»

In other words, it's impossible to place other similar objects, organisms, active energy or matter inside a spatial object.

Once, creating the unique body of the void pill, Kyon challenged the alchemy axiom that claimed that the ingredients of the opposite elements couldn't work together. What came out of it? He created ”The Cycle of Creation,” a method that made it possible to combine the uncombinable, something that could make all alchemists in the world kneel before him. Now Kyon had to create something that defied common sense again. He was counting on his improved spatial attribute to help him with it.

Kyon went on experimenting. He sent a little bit of pure energy to the ring and saw a water-thin, black as coal film emerge from it, striving to take the shape of a bubble. If he wrapped something with this film and activated the ring, the contents of the bubble would be instantly sent to the pocket located between the worlds where the singularity ruled.

The experimenter soon became convinced of the generally accepted axioms. He tried to wrap a burning candle, a flying pebble, a shaken bottle of water, ice infused with the cold attribute, and a blade of grass that contained the light element. The bubble moved the objects to the ring for a while and then returned them back and burst.

Kyon knew from the books that a spatial object didn't differentiate between a flying stone or a reaction between baking soda and vinegar. It wouldn't work anyway. The vector sum of ”the molecular chaos” per space unit was the only thing that mattered.

In layman's terms, overactive atoms are less likely to be moved into a spatial ring. It doesn't matter if the molecules move in the same direction (a flying bullet) or at random (boiling water). The ring is too sensitive to contain anything in the storm. Fortunately, Kyon will never face such difficulties with his nine elements.

The elemental energy made things even more complicated. The teleportation would occur, but the ring might spit it back or even collapse, spewing all its contents out. A bit of active energy is enough.

To be more specific, the object must be at rest, the energy must be enclosed in a stable system (formation, sphere, key, medicine). It's the only way the teleportation would happen. The process doesn't depend on the quality of the ring. Even if the goddess creates it, the laws of the universe apply to everyone. Lovr planned to bypass the generally accepted rules, find a loophole in them and outwit god!