Above The Sky
Chapter 762 - 762 19 Sombre Crystal Engine_2

762: Chapter 19 Sombre Crystal Engine_2 762: Chapter 19 Sombre Crystal Engine_2 It wasn’t round, but a spherical depression, from which blinding streams of light burst forth, causing it to lose control and crash into the Moon of Prospect, then falling toward Terra.

Immediately after, another massive explosion occurred within it, creating a second perfectly round black depression, and this explosion completely tore the ship apart, shattering it into dozens of pieces.

These fragments arced outside the atmosphere, plunging toward the ground.

At the same time, pieces of the Moon of Prospect that had broken away from its gravitational orbit also turned into an endless rain of meteorites, plummeting towards Terra.

The Calamity of Heavenly Fall had begun…

Fortunately, the Moon of Vigilance, whose orbit was obliquely intersected with that of the Moon of Prospect, attracted most of the meteorites, still persisting in its duty to protect the beings of Terra.

But at the end of it all, the remaining meteorites were still countless.

Severe explosions and abnormal spirit energy reactions began to appear all over the whole Terra, and inconceivable storms swept across the globe.

The largest piece of the spaceship fell into the Terra Ocean, which at that time still had several continents, and then, the waters of that area began to boil, steaming up dense clouds almost about to burst out of Terra’s atmosphere.

Tsunamis and earthquakes large enough to overturn continents erupted.

——The seven seas thus churned, the heavens and the earth thus overturned, and mountains and continents collapsed and fell for it.

Clearly, this was not simple destruction that could be brought about by meteorites alone; the essence of the Calamity of Heavenly Fall was actually the destruction wrought by the fragments of that spaceship!

The fragments carried with them unimaginable energy, whether it be Origin Quality, Spirit Energy, or other types of radiation, all so intense that even melting a satellite was not enough; their fall on Terra triggered what was almost the complete destruction of the entire previous era’s civilization with the ‘Calamity of Heavenly Fall’!

Thankfully, most of its energy had been poured into the Moon of Prospect, as well as the explosion that occurred before it shattered—the spherical black wound swallowed up most of the energy on the spaceship.

Otherwise, even if Terra had not melted like the Moon of Prospect, the oceans would have definitely been evaporated clean.

“Is it a black hole…”

Watching this scene, Ian murmured in disbelief.

He couldn’t be sure if the black wound inside the spaceship that devoured even light was the phenomenon he knew…

The celestial model in front of the young man continued to evolve, recreating the terrible disaster that had once occurred in the ancient past, while the Book of Silver Radiance kept turning.

It connected to the ‘Holy Ground’ beneath the lake, continuously providing Ian with various ancient memories…

No, it wasn’t right.

It wasn’t the Book of Silver Radiance.

Or rather, not just the Book of Silver Radiance!

At this moment, Ian suddenly realized where he might have been mistaken—the young man sensed the silver chip within him, and upon noticing that the Silver Chip was also operating, he revealed an enlightened look: “I knew it!

These memories couldn’t possibly be recorded by a Mountain People’s magic guidebook like the Book of Silver Radiance…

There must be another source.”

“Probably the Book of Silver Radiance can indeed link to the Holy Ground beneath this lake, allowing Mountain People to receive memories and inheritance related to the Dragon God, but now…”

“The real connection is with me, and the Silver Chip!”

“Because the permissions are different, so the memories that come back are completely different!”

Ian had been misled by the term ‘Holy Ground of the Mountain Dragon God,’ subconsciously assuming that all this was related to the Book of Silver Radiance.

But in reality, the main difference between him and other former Lords of Leyan was exactly the ‘Silver Chip,’ wasn’t it?

Upon careful consideration, perhaps the sequence of cause and effect was just like this…

Leyan Lake is a meteorite lake; it is the crater created by the fall of part of the spaceship’s fragments.

And after that, the True Dragon Locksteel Dragon of the Fifth Energy Level came to this place and settled in the Bison Mountain Range—They likely had a means to contact

In the Bison Mountain Range, there might not just be one Holy Ground like Leyan Lake; deeper in the mountains lay even larger fragments, which were the real reason why the Locksteel Dragon stayed here.

The later Mountain People served the Dragon God and, using part of the Dragon God’s power, created the Book of Silver Radiance.

It was because of this that the Book of Silver Radiance could resonate with the spaceship’s fragments in the Holy Ground…

but their permissions were far inferior to Ian with the Silver Chip.

The Book of Silver Radiance was a primer that triggered the operation of the ancient altar, and the Silver Chip revived the wreckage beneath the altar.

Both were indispensable.

The young man silently extended his hand, holding the Book of Silver Radiance in it.

The Mountain People’s sacrificial rite book was still in operation, still linking to the Holy Ground and providing Ian with various knowledge and secrets.

But the permissions of the Book of Silver Radiance were far lower than that of the Silver Chip, such that what Ian saw wasn’t what those Mountain People priests had seen in the past but some even more ancient information.

There were still many uncertainties.

For example, who was the perspective that observed the “Calamity of Heavenly Fall”?

Although it’s possible that the falling spaceship reconstructed the scenario through information speculation, it’s more likely there was a third-party Observer.

This Observer had an intricate relationship with the True Dragon…

and surely, the True Dragon also had an extremely intimate connection with the spaceship that caused the Calamity of Heavenly Fall!

Otherwise, the True Dragon wouldn’t be squatting attentively at the wreckage of these spaceships, and their sacred texts wouldn’t resonate with the spaceship!

“The True Dragon is indeed special…”

Ian muttered to himself, shaking his head slightly before turning his gaze to the ‘beings’ beneath the silver sand dust.

[Sombre Crystal Engine]

[Damaged]

[Engine wreckage destroyed by gravitational weapon]

[Repair difficulty: Extremely High]

[This engine wreckage will converge all natural Origin Quality from the surrounding space-time, causing unpredictable changes to the local ecology]

[…]

This was the first time the Silver Chip had provided such a brief analysis.

But Ian felt he understood somewhat.

“If everything goes as expected,” the young man speculated, “the source of the Silver Chip’s data should be the ‘Void Realm,’ where all human knowledge leaves ‘Marks’—this is why the Silver Chip can provide some real-time information, even on the secret technologies of countries I have never visited.”

“Because there are still people in this world who know these things, so no matter how secretive, there are no secrets to the Silver Chip.”

“But this Sombre Crystal Engine…

Even if the pilots of that spaceship were still alive, they likely wouldn’t completely understand the principles of their own ship’s engine—let alone recounting it clearly through just the Marks in the Void Realm; at most, they could only tell me its name.”

“Moreover, they’re probably long dead.”

Just like Ian wouldn’t be able to directly replicate others’ Armor Suits with just a glance.

He could only freeload off the scanning of the Silver Chip by touching the object personally.

And this piece of the Sombre Crystal Engine…

Although Ian was still unclear about what the ‘sombre crystals’ truly were, there was no doubt that the spaceship which brought the Calamity of Heavenly Fall and destroyed the Viewing Moon was the one with the highest technological level in not only the Terra Continent but also the Terra Starfield.

Its engine was undoubtedly the same.

Or perhaps, sombre crystal is just another name for ‘Primal Aether’?

But that’s not important.

Returning to the earlier topic…

Ian, holding the Book of Silver Radiance, furrowed his brows slightly.

The battle between the Qing Steel Dragon and the Icefog Dragon, their fight…

Was it really just a pure territorial dispute?

Or was the ‘greed for treasures’ of the mighty dragons, in fact, a craving for the incredibly precious ‘technology’ on these ancient spaceships?

Indeed, technology is the greatest treasure in this world.

The silver dust gradually dimmed and turned into ordinary gravel.

And the Book of Silver Radiance closed on its own.

This inheritance session had come to a successful conclusion, and Ian could sense new knowledge related to the Qing Steel Dragon in his mind, as well as various sacrificial rites and totems, namely, the primitive Inscriptions of the Mountain People.

The Book of Silver Radiance was actually a ‘learning machine’ capable of mass-producing priests—although the requirements were quite strict.

It could only be completed under the special aura of the Spirit Energy Field at the Holy Ground, and there was probably a cooldown time limit…

At this moment, Ian fully understood why The Empire wanted to confiscate the Book of Silver Radiance and why Elder Mantle was so determined to get it back.