Chapter 512: Traveling a Space Tunnel
Max watched in awe, his eyes narrowing slightly. He had never seen these types of red energy stones before—not in any texts, not in any guild vault, and certainly not in the wild. But even without recognition, his senses were sharp enough to understand one thing clearly—the power emanating from these crystals was on a completely different level.
Their energy fluctuations dwarfed even the most advanced high-rank monster cores or the infamous Sinful Bone Frames he had seen in the darker corners of the Mourning Depths. It was like comparing the light of a candle to the radiance of a star.
And it made sense. For a teleportation rune formation of this scale—spanning ten miles across and capable of crossing planetary boundaries—ordinary energy sources simply wouldn’t suffice. The tower would need something rare, something ancient, something far beyond what this realm commonly produced.
These red crystals were absolutely priceless—each one a condensed vessel of unfathomable energy, likely forged or cultivated through processes long lost to time.
As Max watched them settle into the massive runic altar, he felt the sheer weight of the resources being expended just to initiate a single transmission. If the energy cost to send one young elite across worlds was this astronomical, then the resources allocated to those who passed and began the True Inheritance training could only be imagined.
It wasn’t just a matter of cultivating strength—it was the shaping of future legends, the forging of pillars who could one day uphold the might of the Black Dragon Palace itself.
No wonder the palace had such harsh, nearly impossible requirements for anyone seeking to qualify. This wasn’t a path open to the mediocre or the merely talented—it was a throne only the truly monstrous could sit upon.
For the Black Dragon Palace to invest so much into a single individual, they needed certainty. Assurance. A soul capable of enduring the path of gods.
And now, standing at the center of this grand formation, Max understood clearly: even among the elite, he was one of the few chosen.