This is really not mechanical ascension
Chapter 591 - 309 Who Said I Was Leaving?_2

Chapter 591: Chapter 309 Who Said I Was Leaving?_2

Everyone showed disgust on their faces as Benny slowly walked to the barrier on the surface of the Core Relics and directly sliced an opening.

Asimara hesitated, having someone bring Wu Yanqing over, along with two metal boxes.

Li Ming nodded slightly, and Wu Yanqing, surprised, nodded back in response.

Albert and the others didn’t care, they knew both of them had the same student, but they also understood that using him wouldn’t possibly threaten the Azure Dragon.

The group passed through the energy rift, with Li Ming carrying Benny, and made their way to the door.

Asimara opened one of the metal boxes, which contained a tube of silver reagent, and with a stern face, she injected it directly into Wu Yanqing’s arm artery.

Old Wu’s neck veins bulged alarmingly, and he gasped for breath, but he quickly adapted.

Next, Asimara opened the other box, which held the Sublimator.

Wu Yanqing placed his hands on it and the soccer-ball-sized Sublimator opened from the center, bathing Wu Yanqing in dazzling light.

Wu Yanqing’s subcutaneous blood vessels swelled rapidly, looking like silver serpents flowing beneath his skin, his eyes wide open with bloodshot pupils, but the process ended quickly.

After the operation, Old Wu’s hand was finally placed on the crystal.

"Verification passed, permission to enter," a soft female voice announced, and immediately the door opened.

Asimara’s heart fluttered slightly yet she forced an ugly smile. She had been busy for many years, and the final outcome was completely different from what she had expected.

She glanced at the Azure Dragon, feeling a sense of helplessness.

In the face of absolute power, all schemes were illusory.

But looking beyond the door, after so many years, she was here again. This time she would finally witness the glory of the Ascension Source Crystal, and it felt like a long-held wish was being fulfilled.

The trembling Benny couldn’t help but also look over.

The group stepped inside and, as always, they first entered the desolate universe, which narrated the history of the Ascenders. Asimara knew the process well, and with a phrase in an unshared language, she skipped directly ahead.

Following that, the gentle voice spoke, "Greetings, honorable Inheritor, particle density at 50%... permission granted to take a Basic resource."

"Basic resource?"

The expressions on everyone’s faces were just like Li Ming’s earlier, especially after they got a closer look at the materials, with varied reactions.

Li Ming couldn’t help but want to laugh.

Asimara frowned, this being her first time entering through the official channel, and she really did not know of these conditions.

"What are the conditions needed to inherit these Core Relics and obtain the Ascension Source Crystal?"

"Needs... and passes..."

After learning the long list of prerequisites needed to fully inherit these Core Relics, everyone’s expressions grew even stranger.

There really weren’t many people present who had encountered these "artifacts" left by a perished Advanced civilization.

Asimara couldn’t help but look at Benny and glance at the Azure Dragon, and just asked outright: "Sir Benny, since you are a descendant of the Ascenders, you must know who meets these requirements, right?"

Everyone’s eyes converged on him, but Benny remained silent.

Opening the Core Relics was a last resort, without choice, but now...

Reina, growing increasingly impatient, said, "So tedious, no wonder they perished."

He suddenly stepped forward fiercely, and a terrifying energy erupted beneath his feet, fracturing the metallic floor around him, with black and red cracks spreading.

"Don’t..." Benny’s face turned pale with horror, shouting hurriedly, but it was already too late.

Boom!

The ground completely crumbled apart, and a warning sounded: "Core Relics damage detected, lockdown mechanism activated, initiating collapse countdown."

Albert frowned, raised his hand, and with a casual sweep, he cleared away the shattered metallic floor, revealing an empty pit behind it.

The group looked immediately, only to see a large pit, completely empty, without anything inside.

The faces of most people present showed no change in expression, having never been here before, they didn’t know what the scene should be post-opening, just looking around.

"This... this... this..."

Only Benny’s face was full of disbelief, struggling, staggering, staring at the huge pit in front of him, "How could this happen, how could this happen?"

"It shouldn’t be like this, where is it? Where is it?"

With trembling arms stroking the walls, Benny was like a madman.

Everyone was puzzled, looking at each other, only Asimara, grabbed him up and asked sternly: "What shouldn’t be like this, explain yourself!"

"Where are the things, behind this, there should be a lot of things, Ascension Source Crystals, leftover resources..." Benny’s four thin arms pointed around, muttering to himself.

"What do you mean?" A bad feeling suddenly surged in Asimara’s heart, and she questioned him.

"Warning, collapse countdown three minutes."

The alarm was still ringing, and Benny suddenly jolted, struggling: "Let go of me, let go of me, I need to figure out what’s going on!"

Asimara hesitated for a moment but eventually let go of Benny, who tumbled and crawled to the central control pillar.

None of the others were quite clear about what was happening, all staring at him, only to see Benny tremblingly fiddling around the control pillar, not knowing what he touched, a small interface popped out.

In a hurry, he stuffed the crystal in his hand into it, and the piercing alarm sound suddenly stopped, replaced by a melodious voice.

"Key verification passed, highest authority has been unlocked... collapse paused..."

"Greetings, Observer Your Highness."

Benny didn’t bother to say more, and quickly asked: "Has anyone entered this place before we arrived?"

"No entry was detected..." replied the control core.

"Then has anyone inherited the things stored here?"

"No, they are still in the state of... beep beep... Warning, core device severely damaged, resources lost, scanning..." The control core buzzed, and in the end, it simply stated: "No anomalies in the system..."

"No anomalies?" Benny’s eyes were bloodshot, his teeth clenched: "All the things have been taken, only a layer of wall skin is left, and you tell me there are no anomalies?"

"Asimara and the others clearly came in, and you didn’t detect that?"

"Sorry, I can’t help you," the control core’s voice was very flat.

"What do you mean, the stuff is gone?" Reina asked solemnly.

"Haha... haha..." Benny laughed like a madman, tears almost coming out, looking around at everyone, "A bunch of useless fools, you’ve been played and you don’t even know it, idiots, trash!"

"Someone has already beaten us here, there’s nothing left, they left an empty shell to amuse you!"

Asimara’s pupils slightly contracted, her entire body swayed, although with the current situation, she was basically unable to touch the Core Relics.

But it was her goal after all this toil, and now it turned out to be just an empty shell, this kind of blow even made her feel disheartened.

Albert frowned and scolded: "What is going on here!"

The death of Gabriel was already a significant loss, and the Core Relics couldn’t just be empty as well.

"What Yitelan Civilization, Asimara, Advanced Level Life Forms, all a bunch of rubbish, rubbish!" Benny was still cursing, teeth clenching, the anger that had been pent up for a long time erupting.

Albert, with no expression on his face, raised his hand, invisible energy captured Benny in his palm, the forehead split open, a purple rift projected a beam of light, enveloping Benny.

Li Ming couldn’t help but say: "Ah..."

No sooner had the words left his mouth, Albert’s face changed slightly, mercury-like energy directly enveloped Benny, followed by a muffled boom, the silver energy exploded like a balloon, rapidly expanding.

But in the end, it only swelled to a size of two to three meters before stopping, Albert looked displeased, directly threw it out of the Core Relics, exploding into fireworks outside in space.

"He had a nuke in his brain." Li Ming sighed, then finished: "What’s the rush, he was a great Mechanic after all."

Albert took a deep breath, the only person who knew about this place, Benny, was gone.

Now, what exactly was going on, nobody knew anymore.

Everyone fell into silence, when an icy female voice suddenly rang out: "Warning... collapse restarting, countdown, one minute!"