Chapter 485 - 475: Guardian Magic Cube

After she finished speaking, Moira Lynch condensed a diamond-shaped icicle in her hand. Under the sunlight shining in from outside, it reflected a rainbow of colors.

Kai York’s eyes widened at the sight, but he quickly recovered. "Wait, didn’t you get blessed by an Ice Sprite a long time ago?"

"That’s right," Moira Lynch explained. "After taking the Verasi Potion, those blessings became my talent. And as a bonus, the side effects are gone."

’That means I won’t have to turn deathly pale and scare people whenever it gets cold anymore.’

Hearing Moira Lynch’s words, Kai York pouted and sat on the sofa, sulking. "I thought I was the only one who’d awakened a new talent. I was planning to show it off to you two when you got back, but I didn’t expect you to get one too, Moira..."

At this point, Kai York suddenly looked at Hugh Finch. "Hugh Finch, don’t tell me you awakened a new talent, too."

Hugh Finch rolled his eyes. "You think new talents grow on trees? That you can awaken one just by wanting to? You said you were the only one, so the boss didn’t awaken one?"

"First of all, cabbages are very expensive nowadays. And second, the boss may not have awakened a new talent, but it looks like he’s mastered a much more powerful ability."

Then, he pointed a finger at the ceiling. "Even my Universal Gravitation can’t affect him now."

Moira Lynch and Hugh Finch followed his gaze upward and saw a person hanging upside down, sitting cross-legged on the ceiling. His eyes were tightly closed, as if he were meditating.

Moira Lynch tried to sense him with her spiritual power, but the moment her spiritual tendrils got close to Shane Rhodes, they were repelled by a tingling electromagnetic field.

Shane Rhodes slowly opened his eyes. Seeing Moira Lynch and Hugh Finch below, a look of pleasant surprise flashed in his eyes. He got up and controlled his body, slowly descending to the floor.

Two words summed up Shane Rhodes at that moment: absolutely badass.

However, Shane Rhodes’s boss-like aura shattered the instant he landed. With a wide, boastful grin, he asked, "So, what do you think? My electromagnetic field is pretty cool, right? I can fly now, too."

Moira Lynch and Hugh Finch gave him a simultaneous thumbs-up.

"By the way, Moira, there’s something I think you should know." Shane Rhodes’s expression suddenly turned serious as he looked at Moira Lynch.

Seeing his expression, Moira Lynch couldn’t help but grow serious as well. "What is it?"

"Shortly after you two left, SoySauceDrunkard also began selling Verasi Potions. I’ve also heard that she seems to have reached a partnership with the base."

"You mentioned before that the Verasi Potion is made from something called a Verasi Star, and that the Verasi System which produced Verasi Stars has already been destroyed. So any remaining Russian Wes Medicine should be from old stock, right?"

Moira Lynch nodded. "That’s correct."

’That’s true in theory,’ she thought. ’But who’s to say I can’t cheat the system?’

"But from what I’ve heard, SoySauceDrunkard is extremely lavish, selling tens of thousands of Verasi Potions at once. And this time, it seems she’s found a partner named Maxwell."

Moira Lynch’s lips twitched when she heard that name. "Maxwell? You mean, ’My father’?"

Kai York snorted coldly. "That name, Maxwell, is obviously fake, just made up to trick people. If I find out his real identity, I’ll make him pay."

A guilty look flashed across Hugh Finch’s eyes, but his expression quickly returned to normal.

He looked at the fuming Kai York and couldn’t help but speak up. "It’s just a name. What are you getting so worked up for?"

"It’s nothing. I just don’t like the guy, that’s all."

After that, the group chatted for a few more minutes. Then, Moira Lynch and Hugh Finch ate a meal and made an excuse to return to their rooms.

Shane Rhodes and Kai York assumed they were tired, so they didn’t press the issue.

After returning to her room, Moira Lynch rested for a little while and then went to Cloudsea Planet again.

She took out the Guardian Magic Cube she had obtained from a blind box earlier. A cube, glowing with a blue light, appeared in Moira Lynch’s hands.

A moment later, a blue screen materialized above the Guardian Magic Cube.

[Please select the target to be guarded.

Friendly Reminder: The Guardian Magic Cube was created for the express purpose of guarding planets. Please do not use it for trivial matters.]

The subtext was that the Guardian Magic Cube could only be used to protect something on the scale of a planet, telling the user not to use a cannon to swat a fly.

It might as well have spelled out the two words: "Don’t waste."

Moira Lynch studied the Guardian Magic Cube more carefully and was surprised to find that it could currently be bound to two targets.

In other words, she could register both Cloudsea Planet and Veridian Prime.

After successfully binding Cloudsea Planet, just as Moira Lynch was about to enter Veridian Prime’s name, a red exclamation mark suddenly popped up on the blue screen.

[WARNING! WARNING! INSUFFICIENT ENERGY!]

[The Guardian Magic Cube’s current energy is only enough to protect one planet for one month. Please find a supplementary energy source before the energy is depleted. Otherwise, the Guardian Magic Cube will automatically absorb energy from the protected planet to sustain itself.]

Moira Lynch couldn’t help but gasp when she read that last sentence. She never imagined the Guardian Magic Cube could do such a thing.

’Drawing energy from the planet it’s supposed to protect just to keep itself running? Isn’t that putting the cart before the horse?’

Fortunately, she was already prepared.

DUN DUN DUN DUN!!!

The Black Hole Core!

A black object appeared in Moira Lynch’s hand.

This was the very thing she had found inside a Shirley Blackwood’s body back when she was surviving on the deserted island. It was said to contain an incredibly vast and powerful energy.

Staring at the Black Hole Core in her hand, she thought, ’This should be able to provide the Guardian Magic Cube with energy, right?’

’If it doesn’t work, I’ll just have to figure something else out.’

Knowing that the Guardian Magic Cube would resort to absorbing a planet’s energy, Moira Lynch hadn’t dared to activate it without finding a suitable power source first.

Fortunately, as the Black Hole Core drew near the Guardian Magic Cube, the cube, which had been a single solid object, rapidly broke apart into twenty-seven identical smaller cubes. They enveloped the Black Hole Core, then slowly ascended until they disappeared.

But Moira Lynch knew the Guardian Magic Cube hadn’t really vanished, because the blue panel was still floating in front of her.

The display on the blue panel had now changed to show an image of Cloudsea Planet in its entirety.

As the Guardian Magic Cube disappeared, a pale blue film enveloped the entirety of Cloudsea Planet. This was the blue protective shield formed by the Guardian Magic Cube.

With this, she wouldn’t have to be afraid even if Cloudsea Planet was attacked in the future.