Chapter 837 - The Last Witness (2/2)
The Spacetime Amber could freely penetrate the amber created from itself and would not be affected by the frozen spacetime.
Pa!
Like a bubble, this piece of amber dissipated in the air. The Yasrean inside collapsed onto the ground.
Aurora hastily helped him up and said with joy, “There are vital signs. He’s still alive.”
“His soul has died. Although his body is still alive, he’s a living dead man.” Hila shook her head.
Unlike Aurora, she could sense the soul of lives, and she knew that the body of this Yasrean was just an empty shell despite it being still alive.
Han Xiao scanned through it. Due to the Spacetime Amber, the body of this Yasrean was maintained at the state it was in before being frozen. Although its brain had stopped working, it did not show any signs of deterioration and was still very much alive like his body. This meant that this person’s brain was frozen as well. However, if one’s brain was frozen too, there should not be any brain activity at all.
He made a speculation. Since one’s body energy would not be used in the amber, maybe it was their soul energy that supported their brain activity. This meant that soul energy being depleted was what caused their mind to die off. The stronger the individual, the more soul energy they had, so they could last longer.
That’s not impossible.
Having thought of the origin of the Spacetime Amber, Han Xiao did not think that this was a strange phenomenon.
The effect of the Spacetime Amber came from the Esper Ability of one of the Primordial Ones, whose Esper Ability was ‘Spacetime Freeze’, which was on the Super High Risk Esper Ability List.
Most of the abilities on the Super High Risk Esper Ability List had existed before, and this Primordial One was the first Esper who was discovered to be able to freeze space and time.
Such abilities were exceedingly rare. It was also a high-level forbidden technique in the Mage class.
Back then, this Primordial One was under the command of an advanced civilization and was killed in action. He had a Primordial One friend whose ability was to modify the properties of objects. That person turned his body into a crystal that would never rot and let it wander the universe as a form of burial. However, somehow, while wandering the universe, this crystal underwent a change that no one knew the cause of. It not only preserved the Primordial One’s ability to freeze spacetime, but its ability mutated too and became a Space Wonder. This was the origin of the Spacetime Amber, which the players only found out about in the later versions.
Pulling his thoughts back, Han Xiao used the Spacetime Amber to release all the Yasreans.
After checking through, none of their souls were still alive.
“Sigh, they’re all dead.” Feidin shook his head.
Han Xiao initially had a little bit of hope, thinking that maybe there would be a protagonist type character among the Yasreans who would make it. Sadly, there were none. In the face of time, it seemed like no one could escape death.
Seeing this, although they were used to seeing the ends of civilizations, they all had no mood to chat and kept silent.
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You have released all the Yasreans from the effects of the Spacetime Amber!
[Traces of Existence] Completed!
You have received 1,500,000,000 EXP and 780 Exploration Points.
You have received 1 Random Reward.
You have received 1 Legendary Point.
[Planet Legendary Point (Yasreans)—The Last Witness]: You witnessed the last moment of Yasreans with your own eyes. A civilization’s last sign of life vanished right before your eyes. Maybe, in the end, everything vanishes with time, but at least they existed.
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Han Xiao sighed. “Phillip, move these bodies onto the ship. Cremate them and release them in the universe.”
Feidin looked over. “Are you not preserving specimens using the Spacetime Amber?”
“Their souls dissipated with their civilization. Their bodies should be released too.”
Han Xiao had already scanned the bodies of the Yasreans, and there was nothing special. Furthermore, the Spacetime Amber had yet to be shown to the world, so he wanted to keep it as a trump card and not leave any clues behind.
He still remembered that he was a member of the Spacetime Research Council, which preserved the data of all the civilizations that had disappeared throughout history and shared this knowledge with others, so more people would know about these civilizations that had once existed in the universe.
Giving the data to the Spacetime Research Council was probably the best ending for this civilization.
“Master, hum… Do you want me to upload the data of the Yasre Civilization to the Spacetime Research Council database?”
“Upload it.”
Han Xiao nodded. He temporarily hid away the data regarding the Spacetime Amber.
With the Spacetime Amber in his hands, they returned to the fleet and headed back.
Inside different spaceships, the bodies of the Yasreans were cremated one after another and then poured into the universe. The fleet dragged along a tail of ash as it departed.
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As the fleet entered hyperdrive, Han Xiao rejected Hadavy’s request to spar for the time being and locked himself up in the machinery modification room. He planned to first build the portable device of the Spacetime Amber.
As the devices were connected to the Spacetime Amber and detecting its perimeters, Han Xiao stood aside and looked at it.
“This is the second Universal Treasure I have obtained, which means it’s a new trump card. The Evolution Cube can make genes evolve, and the Spacetime Amber can freeze spacetime…”
The Evolution Cube could be used for networking, and the Spacetime Amber… could perhaps be used as a tool of intimidation.
This time, Han Xiao suddenly had a flash of insight.
Since the Spacetime Amber could block the transmit of energy, if he covered the Evolution Cube with amber… did that mean Psyker would not be able to sense it?
“Makes sense. Anyway, I don’t use the Evolution Cube all the time, and I can unseal it when I need to. But I’m not sure if this will stop Psyker from wanting to take it back… I know the Arcane Church most likely won’t give up.”
He planned to first give the Spacetime Amber a portable device and then test if this idea would work. After all, building a small device would only take him a few minutes.
Han Xiao temporarily placed this matter aside. He opened the interface and looked at his ability list.
With the two Ability Shards of the [Bold Explorer], this ability was activated. He could activate it when exploring the unknown or studying objects, which would give him partial information of these things.
Cooldown is seven days, and the side effect is decreased Luck for fourteen days. Hehe, not like that makes a difference.
Any side effects that were related to Luck were meaningless to him!
Han Xiao smiled with pride.
Wait a minute, this isn’t something to be proud of!
Han Xiao looked at the side.
He decided to use the effect of this ability on the Spacetime Amber.
He knew the origin of the Spacetime Amber, so he could use it to see the accuracy of this ability.