CHAPTER 499: CHAPTER 263 FIVE DIMENSION CRYSTALS LONG-AWAITED UPGRADE [GALE SHADOW HUNTING]_2

He sat in the chair, his gaze swept over Pier’s screen, and he immediately asked, "How does the situation look? Is there a way to constrain this Mechanic?"

"Constrain?" Pier gave a helpless wry smile, "He is a Mechanic, and not just an ordinary one."

"Yeah..." Fear showed on Ted’s face, "It’s hard to imagine that he is just a B-Level Life Form, yet he can create such a terrifying attack."

Just cleaning up the Circular Mountain created by mere blast aftermath is troublesome enough, not to mention the horror faced when directly confronting that attack.

"However, this is within the covered range of the Realm of Perpetuity, with its protection, we won’t encounter any danger," Pier added.

"Hmm, I’m just about to fetch a Dimension Crystal to further reinforce the Realm of Perpetuity," nodded Ted, "I thought I’d pick up my armor along the way."

Pier looked surprised, "Reinforce again? Hasn’t it been reinforced once already?"

"It’s Lord Fernand’s order." Ted got up with a sense of resignation, "Since it’s not yet repaired, I’ll come back for it later."

With his farewell, he left the office, but before he had even left the entrance of the R&D department, Pier caught up with him, blocking Ted’s path.

"What’s up?" Ted was confused and, seeing the metal box in Pier’s hand, he was taken aback and said, "Reviver Number Two, my armor?"

"Isn’t it not yet fully repaired?"

Pier handed over the folded armor, "Earlier my subordinates reported it wasn’t yet fixed, but I went to check on it just now and found it’s almost done."

"I hurriedly brought it over to save you another trip."

Ted was surprised as he took the armor case, opened it to look, and admired the workmanship, "The repair department’s skills have improved again."

After exchanging a few pleasantries, Pier watched as Ted took his leave.

Since Ted was already wearing basic armor, it wasn’t convenient for him to don this suit too, so he just carried it with him.

After turning left and right, he returned to the interior of the Torch Organization’s base, standing in front of a warehouse wrapped in a purple Energy Film.

The soldier in charge of security, as usual, conducted a scan and a check, sweeping over Ted to confirm various features.

"This is my armor." Facing the guard’s questioning gaze, Ted explained, "I just went to the repair department and brought it along."

After a quick inspection, seeing no issues, the guarding soldier stepped aside without further ado.

Ted was all too familiar with the route, stepping into the barrier without any hindrance.

Finally, he was inside...

And at that moment, Li Ming was possessing Ted’s armor.

With Ted’s arrival, the lights in the room lit up one by one. The room wasn’t very large, with two neat rows of silver-white metal racks.

On them were crystals of various colors, clear and sparkling—the very Dimension Crystals that Li Ming coveted.

Counting the left and right rows together, there were a total of sixty-two crystals—not many.

More surprising to Li Ming were the thick glass cabins hanging on the metal walls, filled with yellow liquid.

There seemed to be something inside that required special storage, but it was unclear exactly what.

The security cameras in the four corners operated brightly, constantly monitoring the room.

"This won’t be easy," Li Ming mused silently. Now that he was inside, he obviously couldn’t leave empty-handed.

"It’s good that I came prepared."

He opened the Control Page, switching to a new Controlled Object—

[Virtual Reality Simulator—B-Level: Better to distinguish between virtual and reality.

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Control Effect: Concealing Blessing—300%

Control Ability—Virtual Scenery: Can perfectly replicate and project environments up to a kilometer around.]

After being restricted by surveillance cameras in previous attempts and having to expend more energy to circumvent them, he thought of creating a Controlled Object to confuse the monitors.

It had taken a long time to design this device, with many sketches thrown out, none meeting his standards.

A whisper-quiet hologram extended like an illusion, capable of deceiving B-Level Life Forms at most depending on the distance.

After all, it wasn’t time to reveal his hand to the Torch Group just yet, and he had a clear understanding of his own strength.

True, he had killed Brother with five barrages.

But that was a one-time burst, not his consistent combat power.

He still vividly remembered the Torch Organization’s main base standing strong amidst the explosions.

Not to mention there was Fernand, an A-Level Life Form who could make use of Dimension Energy. If he were exposed, all he could do was drag Theo into a big brawl, which would be more loss than gain.

Pondering in his mind, an invisible screen opened up, silently covering the entire room.

Theo seemed to sense something, turned his head to look around, and frowned.

Not far away, Li Ming stood in the open space, with the Concealing Blessing on him, retracting his gaze from Theo.

In his hand, a crystal the size of a baby’s fist quickly took shape.

Then, he quietly walked to the display rack, took one, and placed the model back on it.

Following this method, he replaced four more in succession.

By then, Theo had already picked up a Dimension Crystal from the rack and placed it into a specially made storage box,

while the other hand carried an armored case.

As he approached the main door, he paused again, looked around, and then left.

Several hours later, Li Ming had returned to his room, looking at the five different shapes and colors of Dimension Crystals in his hand.

Wisps of energy flow scattered, spreading in the void, with pale purple energy converging around, intertwining with these energy wisps, vaguely colliding, forming minute energy shocks.

Crackling like electrical arcs.

"What the hell is this?"

Li Ming’s eyelids twitched. He quickly stashed the Dimension Crystals into the Folded Space. Without a target, the surrounding converging purple energy gradually dissipated.

Does this Dimension Energy carry territorial marks?

The Realm of Perpetuity sensed the emergence of anomalous dimensional forces and produced an autonomous resistance.

Li Ming secretly marveled, then carefully took out one again, swiftly absorbing it, catching the timing of the collision of the dimensional forces, intermittently over half an hour before completely absorbing one.

This time, he only took five Dimension Crystals; the warehouse still had quite a few left, and what made him even more curious were the items stored in the sealed compartments.

But time was limited, and there was no way to open those sealed compartments without causing a racket, so he had no chance to attempt it and had to let it be for now.

"I only have over twenty million metal energy on me; these five should be enough for now." Li Ming pondered, unable to suppress the impulse to just rob the warehouse and flee.

Shaking his head, it was still best to proceed with the upgrade. With both metal energy and Mutated Energy in hand, he didn’t hesitate, for he already had a target in mind--

[Super Magnetic Electric Explosion Propulsion Shoes]

Strength and speed are inseparable; the main battle Controlled Objects of strength are already A-level; naturally, speed is next.

Previously, the speed at which Theo dodged the main cannon’s energy aftermath, a speed that he still finds difficult to discern, was indeed memorable.

Pondering, metal energy also gushed out incessantly, eight million metal energy needed for the upgrade.

He naturally chose the "Internal Control" upgrade path. The originally angular and extending to the calves large blue iron blocks became further refined.

The thick Metal Armor disappeared, replaced by thin, skin-tight Metal Armor, and even further extended to the knee bones.

At the ankles, two more pale blue Energy Generators appeared, spinning endlessly like turbines.

[Vortex Shadow--A-level: Be careful not to tear your body apart.

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Control Effect: Gain 800% Speed Buff

Control Ability--Super Compression Burst: Gain 1600% Speed Buff, and acquire the "Gale Shadow Hunting" ability.]

[Gale Shadow Hunting: Leave behind a Shadow Hunting Mark, which can be switched with the True Body, not exceeding a range of a kilometer.]

Shadow Hunting Mark? Li Ming was astonished, then couldn’t help feeling delighted.

The strength of this ability went without saying.

His [Space Blink] could only rely on visual sight and had a range of ten meters; without cover, it would naturally be a divine skill.

But in a fight, various energy flashes would limit its effectiveness, and it also took up a Control Bar; the current Controlled Objects, each with a buff of ten to twenty times, would matter greatly if wasted.

Of course, [Space Blink] was still very useful, but [Gale Shadow Hunting] was more fitting for battle.

There was still around seventeen million metal energy left, and four parts of Mutated Energy remained.

After pondering for a moment, Li Ming suddenly took out a metal device--[Gravity Control Device].

This was also the Gravity Equipment gifted by the Torch Organization. After some thought, he shook his head.

Opening the graphic design software on the smart terminal, he found a similar gravity control device and kept tweaking it,

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