The Only Player in ‘Child of Stardust’
Chapter 264 - 181: The Celestial Banana Child

Chapter 264: Chapter 181: The Celestial Banana Child

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Boom!

Along with a tremor that shook the heavens and the earth, the endless range of glaciers and mountains suddenly cracked open, instantly crumbling into dust and collapsing into an enormous deep pit spanning thousands of kilometers.

It was like a bottomless black hole of sinking oblivion, where everything within its range was annihilated, turning into nothingness.

In the vast expanse, the ice covering Queen Elsa’s body slowly peeled off. Her icy-blue eyes, full of killing intent, stared fixedly into the distance—where space rippled violently like water, and the remaining illusion of Oro gradually vanished.

He had escaped.

Queen Elsa’s face darkened, but soon her attention shifted to the bottom of the deep pit.

Rumble...

A towering iceberg rose from the ground, delivering a severed, pitch-black arm to Queen Elsa.

This was Oro’s severed arm.

Queen Elsa’s expression relaxed slightly. With this severed arm, she could track Oro more accurately and would eventually catch up to that damned guy once again.

The ice spread, freezing and preserving the severed arm.

At that moment, space rippled again, and a golden vortex appeared, from which several figures emerged.

There was a middle-aged human in a white lab coat; a purple-skinned, bearded, bald mage; a female star-spirit made entirely of pure energy; a penguin wearing a top hat, holding a cane, and with a red scarf around its neck, looking like a merchant; and several other oddly-shaped transcendent beings.

"Elsa, sorry we’re late. It took some time to locate this dimension,"

the pure energy star-spirit said, then suddenly noticed the severed arm frozen in front of Elsa, looking a bit shocked, "Wait, could this be Oro’s arm?"

"That’s right," Queen Elsa nodded.

"How... how did you manage that?"

the pure energy star-spirit was astonished.

Elsa’s strength was not equal to Oro’s; she was at a disadvantage in a one-on-one fight. How could she have severed Oro’s arm?

Could this be some kind of plot by Oro?

"When I arrived, Oro was already severely injured. He must have had the misfortune of encountering a powerful native world while trying to establish a stable dimensional pathway,"

Elsa explained.

"Let me take a look,"

the middle-aged scholar in the white lab coat pulled out a device from his pocket and started scanning the surrounding environment, soon detecting multiple residual energies from spatial gateways.

He asked Elsa to identify the spatial gateway Oro had used, then performed a reverse crack, eventually opening a portal to that world.

"Xinglan, take Elsa back to headquarters for a rest. We’ll go observe that world,"

the middle-aged scholar in the white lab coat said.

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Great Qian, Ghost Market.

The middle-aged scholar in the white lab coat, the merchant penguin, and the purple-skinned, bearded, bald mage were standing invisibly in front of the mansion of the Ghost Market’s master.

As dimensional travelers, they could clearly sense the lingering aura from another world here, as well as the dense residual energy of the portals.

"A dimensional convergence occurred here not long ago. Oro likely tried to exploit this abnormal phenomenon to establish a stable portal and invade the other world but was beaten back by the other world’s powerful entities,"

the scholar in the white lab coat raised an eyebrow, "For Oro to flee so hastily, without even covering his tracks, it means his injuries were very severe. Just a second later, he likely would have been in big trouble... The natives of that world are powerful."

"I can sense the immense residual magic power. One of the attackers is a mage, whose cultivation is on par with mine,"

the purple-skinned, bearded, bald mage said in a deep voice.

"Can we reverse-open the portal?"

the merchant penguin asked.

The scholar in the white lab coat nodded, "We could, but I suggest against it for now. The other world just experienced a dimensional convergence and is on high alert. If we open the portal now, we might be attacked.

I’m recording the data; once the coordinates are entered, we can open the portal anytime in the future.

For now, let’s put this matter aside,"

the middle-aged scholar in the white lab coat sighed, "The tide of transcendent resurgence sweeps through all heavens and myriads of worlds, and we have a lot to do. Just dealing with the trouble caused by Oro’s group of destroyers will take who knows how long...

I think we need to expand our team."

"It’s a bit difficult,"

the merchant penguin shook his head, "Though the multiverse is filled with countless strong beings, very few can become dimensional travelers. The number of alliance members hasn’t exceeded fifty over the years, making it hard to find suitable candidates."

"Hmm?"

In the midst of their conversation, the purple-skinned, bearded, bald mage made a sound of surprise, reaching into the air and pulling out a crystalline eyeball from the void.

The crystalline eyeball stared directly at the three travelers, its pupil reflecting their figures.

Observing everything and transmitting it back to the source.

"Oh, interesting,"

the middle-aged scholar in the white lab coat squinted, "A surveillance device left by the natives of that world, and we didn’t notice it at first sight..."

"Hello,"

the merchant penguin jumped up, sending a friendly greeting to the life form on the other end of the crystalline eyeball.

"Can we communicate? We mean no harm,"

"w... I... b..."

The crystalline eyeball suddenly started shaking and emitted intermittent, unclear sounds.

The purple-skinned, bearded, bald mage enveloped the crystalline eyeball in magic power, establishing a more stable communication link.

The three travelers perked up their ears, keen to hear what the other side had to say.

"——I don’t recharge Q coins!"