The Dune Lord looked at the crystal coffin and let out a long sigh.
A bitter smile appeared on its face.
“Lord Richard… Something has stripped my power off.”
Helplessness engulfed the Dune Lord’s eyes.
“Right now, we can’t open the crystal coffin.”
Richard frowned.
“Tell me the way.”
The lord of the dunes exchanged its chips for its life. It didn’t hesitate and said.
“Use fresh blood as a guide and soul as a key…” Its tone became complicated.
“Then, I’ll use the power of yellow sand to enter the crystal coffin. And I could communicate with that plane’s will and enter that plane.”
The power of the yellow sand was the foundation it relied on to survive. The Dune Lord lost it.
It had personally set up the method to open it, but it could no longer open itself.
They said it was a great irony.
But the heart does not dare to have the slightest dissatisfaction. To live is now its biggest wish. It understood that life is precious when death strangles the throat.
Richard stared at the rotten lifeform.
He said slowly.
“I will send you to the underground world if everything goes as you say.”
“Gray-colored dwarves rule a city I own. Alchemy is the primary industry.”
“You can continue your research inside… Your path to godhood.”
Turning into a plane and controlling power that was even greater than that of a god might seem ridiculous, but this was a fantasy world, and anything could happen.
It spoke and looked into the other party’s eyes seriously. It uttered word by word.
“This is my promise to you.”
The Dune Lord rarely made promises. But once it did, it would carry out as stated.
The Dune Lord sensed the power in the other party’s words. It sparingly relaxed.
“I believe in your character and will never lie to you, Lord.”
Richard did not comment.
The Dune Lord lost its power but was very valuable.
Experience, knowledge, sight, the posture in its mind, the secrets it knew, these were all things that could not be measured easily.
It was also where the genuine value lay.
It was not too much to work for Twilight City for three to five hundred years to atone for it after one committed such a serious crime, right?
The corners of Richard’s mouth curled up slightly.
“I hope so.”
Then, he turned to look at the crystal coffin.
At this moment, the god’s ancient statue emitted dark light that enveloped the coffin and suppressed the surging power.
However, one could discover upon closer inspection that the ancient god statue slowly devoured the power that the other party dissipated.
Richard momentarily pondered.
The incomparably thick power of yellow sand slowly surged out of his body when he pressed the hand of the crystal coffin.
That directly replaced the ancient god statue to take over the crystal coffin.
One could see vividly the figure of the sleeping being and felt the power of the yellow sand. Its body seemed to move.
It was like it was about to wake up in the next second.
Richard subconsciously paused for a moment. He didn’t sense any danger, so he continued.
He carefully injected the yellow sand force.
Before this, he had also injected his magic power into it, but it rejected the power. The other party accepted the power of the yellow sand that surged in his bloodline.
Richard confirmed after the experiment that the other party was not lying before he continued.
The Dune Lord saw Richard’s cautious attitude. The ruler of the dunes was impressed.
Only such a person could survive in this dangerous world.
It was laughable compared to others to lose everything before knowing the other party’s strength.
The crystal coffin emitted an aura and gradually calmed down.
Richard could feel the power of thousands of rivers that roared.
The sand turned into a sharp knife. It cut its finger and dripped blood into it.
That released a spiritual force.
As the power of the yellow sand surged in.
The crystal coffin suddenly blurred. Richard’s thoughts entered another world.
He turned around and saw a mess.
The ground was shattered into pieces. There was no longer any green vegetation. All that was left were grayish-black fragments.
Large holes appeared in the sky. It was like a thin membrane had been pierced. The energy in the void eroded the world through those holes.
Desolation.
This world had already turned into ruins.
Richard’s thoughts moved beyond the broken earth. A fault appeared before him momentarily after.
The initial land had disappeared without a trace. The void devoured it.
Richard sensed that the plane was like a deflated balloon that constantly shrinked. His expression was sparingly cold.
One has sealed this place for hundreds of thousands of years, but more than half collapsed.
As for the treasure the Dune Lord has mentioned…
There wasn’t even a blade of grass left.
Richard withdrew his psychic power after he searched the remaining area and found nothing.
The Dune Lord said quickly when Richard opened his eyes again, “Lord, have you found my treasure?”
Richard narrowed his eyes.
“More than half of that plane has already collapsed. Perhaps, a few days ago, the void had devoured the entire plane.”
“The treasure you mentioned… It doesn’t exist.”
The Dune Lord’s body trembled as it cried out in alarm.
“C-collapsed??”
“That’s a large plane over a thousand kilometers in size…”
Its face became extremely bitter as he finished speaking.
“Sir, I…”
“There are thousands of words in my heart. At this moment, I don’t know how to say them.”
The chip he used to buy his life was gone… An indescribable fear rose in its heart.
Richard turned his gaze to the crystal coffin after a moment of silence.
As a life born from the plane, it seemed that it was not asleep because of the crystal coffin but purely because of the collapse.
It would take at least a week or two, or at most two to three months, to destroy the other party if there were accidents due to the complete collapse of the plane.
What a pity.
What was even more unfortunate was the treasure of the Dune Lord.
A divine artifact had once been right before it. But now, it had slipped away before its eyes.
Divine weapon.
Richard pondered and felt an itch in his heart. He thought he could slay this time, but all was for naught.
He didn’t get anything.
He still felt he suffered losses, although the radiant moon-level military services had replenished.
Richard continued to look at the sleeping figure after he pondered.
He opened the Black Gold System.
[Due to the environment, the will plane has developed intelligence and become a different life form. Due to the lack of energy, it is currently in a deep slumber.]
[1. Able to imprint a soul imprint and utterly control the will plane.]
[2. It can destroy and annihilate planes.]
The information from the Black Gold System made Richard’s eyes light up.
He hasn’t gone deep into it to explore. So he couldn’t find it yet…
A thought flashed through his mind.
That released his mental strength that surged directly toward the indistinct body of the will plane.
In that instant, he felt his spiritual power touch a ball of indescribable energy.
It was like layers of tides surged and penetrated the ocean and went deep into the core.
It quickly consumed Richard’s mental power.
He saw in a trance the plane gradually took shape in the void. Then, it gained consciousness because of a lightning bolt in the void… The images of the scene fast-forwarded several times into his mind.
Until the end.
The plane collapsed, and everything turned into nothingness.
The system notification awakened Richard.
[Ding~ You have left your mark in the will plane. You have obtained control over a plane.]
Richard momentarily froze, then didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
‘Obtained control over a plane?
‘Even if it became… with the appearance of that plane about to collapse, hmm? Wait, the plane was about to collapse?
An inconspicuous gray stone appeared with a wave of his hand.
It seemed like it would collapse or not, but it was still uncertain.
The Scarlet Council president gave him a dimension stone in the first dungeon. The ultimate boss who created dimensions with his bare hands.
He had never found a chance to use it.
Now, was there a ready-made plane?
And that was not all.
In the next moment, a dried seed appeared in his hand… The world tree.
In the last instance dungeon, [Steamed Bun Lover] gave it to him to deal with the threat of the orcs.
Once it took root and sprouted… It could support a medium-sized plane.
The only problem now was that Renee needed 100 drops of divinity to recover her life force.
Richard looked at the treasure that suddenly appeared in Richard’s hand. The Dune Lord felt that it was extraordinary even though it had lost its power.
“I can sense an aura comparable to a divine artifact from your two gemstones…”
Its tone was hesitant and cautious.
Richard looked at the once-powerful boss and groped around the gray stone.
“This is a dimension stone.”
The calm tone made the Dune Lord’s eyes widen and quickened its breathing.
‘A dimension stone?
‘He could even obtain such a treasure?’
The dimension stone was the core of a dimension’s power. It would also collapse when a dimension collapse at the same time.
One needed to control the violent energy when the plane collapsed to obtain a dimension stone.
What was the scene of a plane collapsing? It was a world-destroying natural disaster!
How could he control it just like that?
Even the gods didn’t dare to make a promise!
Moreover, most of the dimension stones were supremely enormous. The size of a mountain!
It has compressed the energy to the extreme in a stone of this size. That was extremely rare.
Such a treasure was not inferior to a divine artifact.
‘But how did this overlord get it?’
At this point, it suddenly thought of the extracted soul of the kobold god… The one before was not an ordinary grace mainland overlord.
Richard gestured at the shriveled seed in his hand while the Dune Lord reeled from the shock.
“This is the seed of the world tree.”
He said with some regret.
“Unfortunately, it’s shriveled and can only support a medium-sized plane.”
The Dune Lord’s breathing stopped. It gazed at the thumb-sized seed. That reddened its eyes.
‘The seed of the world tree?
‘It’s already ridiculous enough that you have a f*cking dimension stone, but you even have the seed of the world tree?
‘That was the world tree!
‘A creation-level treasure that supported countless planes!!!’
The Dune Lord thought about how he had only obtained a divine artifact for hundreds of thousands of years and didn’t use it. Now, he had lost it along with the treasures he had stored for countless years.
It was speechless.
Why? He used to be the ruler of the Desert of Death, but now, he couldn’t defeat the grace mainland overlord. No, he wasn’t defeated. He was trampled under his feet…
The god of creation was unfair!
No matter how much it wailed in its heart. The ruler of the dunes finally smiled bitterly.
“Lord, perhaps you are the true ruler of the desert… The desert has blessed you. Perhaps, all the luck is on you.”
Richard did not comment.
Twilight City grew only after it went through many bloody battles.
The lord’s talent, the Black Gold System, and skills all played an indispensable role.
No one could rise quickly. This world never lacked lucky people or geniuses. But how many people could make it to the end?
Richard didn’t say anything else on this topic.
He implied that he had two treasures in his hands.
“I want to stabilize that plane. How should I use these two treasures?”
He didn’t even know how to use it…
The Dune Lord eventually took a deep breath and suppressed the emotions in its heart as it honestly spoke.
“Place it in the plane and awaken the will plane. It will know how to operate it… Survival was the instinct of intelligent life. That will plane was already an intelligent life.”
Richard nodded.
His spiritual power spread out again.
It began to awaken the will plane and forced to sleep due to its lack of power…
If he could get what he wanted.
Twilight City could soar once again.
Control a plane!
What kind of temptation was this…