Chapter 947 - 7: System Rules? Runes!

Chapter 947: Chapter 7: System Rules? Runes!

Hiri’s ability is Ancient Blood.

The magic hidden within her bloodline grants her the power to traverse time and space.

But as an inheritor of the Ancient Blood, she cannot entirely control this potential herself. Although her teleportation can transcend space and time, it is uncontrollable... So she can open a teleportation gate, yet the unfamiliar world on the other side is completely random.

—She can open the door, but cannot see the world behind it.

And Mikko, although just an ordinary high school girl, recently awakened to an extraordinarily inhuman Spiritual Vision, one capable of staring directly at an Evil God, with a Spiritual Vision power above 99+... Fortunately, she resides in a world relatively normal, so witnessing Evil Spirits only frightens her instead of causing instant death.

Whether it’s fortunate or unfortunate, she has always wished to rid herself of this trouble, preferring to abandon such superpower, just hoping to return to a mundane everyday life.

But contrary to her desires, the Spiritual Vision only increases, and now, in a certain sense, she has become an observer on the level of the world line... She sees more, yet her basic visual capabilities such as dynamic vision and good eyesight remain unchanged.

It is indeed a pair of eyes capable of peering into reality.

However, unlike Hiri, she cannot reach that level, probably only being able to simply see the existence of the Dungeon entrance.

—So Mikko is the opposite of Hiri; she can see but cannot open the door.

And finally, there’s the Great Demon of boundaries, the sage among demons, Miss Yakumo Zi.

Her ability allows her to instantly move through spatial rifts to any place, even being able to move only part of her body. This power not only lets her come and go within physical space, but also enables her to move freely in paintings, dreams, and even within stories.

This is, naturally, the most intricate form of domination...

It was from her ability that Gu Mo saw a kind of potential and began to try improving his gaming experience.

Even after consecutive failures, he couldn’t quite figure out the problem. Until now, it seems, perhaps it’s because Zi is facing the same issues as the other two...

Simply put, it’s like someone with a gun lacks a scope, someone with a scope has no gun, and the person who is a sniper has neither.

It seems like they hold each other back, but from another perspective—

It might be seen as perfectly complementary role positioning, or perhaps this system limitation was deliberate? Is it to limit the risk of "NPCs" potentially gaining too much authority, or merely because complete authority is too heavy for a single individual to bear?

Gu Mo cannot be sure, but he has roughly guessed this much.

And in the next second, his previous guess seemed to become reality—as they cooperated under his command, a special synergy was finally triggered among the three of them.

Clearly unrelated individuals...

At this moment, resemble those bond combinations in games that trigger special effects when deployed together...

Seeing this, Gu Mo felt an instant relief in his heart.

......

...

In the air with a peculiar atmosphere...

It seemed like some ritual was underway in the pavilion...

Three distinctly styled girls stood around the table at three different directions...

Others, including Gu Mo, stepped back slightly, watching quietly from outside. The book, a Magic Guidebook, laid open on the table, seemed about to turn pages, yet it emitted light, gradually releasing some observable space-time fluctuations.

Like a radiant gateway, slowly sketching its lines, it took shape in the void, transitioning from vague to clear.

"So it’s like this..."

Gu Mo squinted slightly and gently swiped his index finger, as if to erase a layer from reality itself, causing the entire pavilion to abruptly vanish. This was to prevent it from interfering with the expansion of the radiant gateway.

Such a small matter didn’t draw attention; even if the others maintaining the gateway were focused, their attention was not on such trivial details.

Maybe only Alice, watching it, had a strange thought flash through her mind, this book seems like an incredibly powerful tool, even requiring Yakumo Zi, that Miss Hiri, and another previously unseen girl to activate it together...

It indeed seemed quite formidable!

However... however... how does this have nothing to do with me?

Unconsciously a few black lines appeared above the forehead of the blond maiden as she belatedly realized, feeling that something seemed slightly off.

And at this time, the space-time coordinates drawn out from the Magic Guidebook finally took form as if born from the void, under everyone’s gaze—

Enveloped in brilliance.

Countless light particles danced.

It was a teleportation gate composed of countless runes, and at this moment Gu Mo vaguely realized, perhaps this is the true appearance of the Dungeon entrance. The former himself couldn’t see or perceive it; it might appear randomly at any waypoint on the large map.

If he took one wrong step...

He’d cross an invisible boundary line, reaching an unknown dimension of another time.

And this situation only improved with Hiri’s appearance. However, the teleportation gate Hiri opened wasn’t like this... Gu Mo has reason to suspect, perhaps now he’s truly seeing the real face of a Dungeon entrance constructed by the system’s rules, connecting to other time-space realms.

"What are these runes? I-I can’t seem to remember their appearance..."

A somewhat surprised voice came from beside her, the silver-haired, silver-eyed maiden furrowed her brows, struggling to open her eyes wide as if trying to see clearly the glowing, flying runes.

Although she initially just glanced out of mild curiosity, unable to understand them was expected. However, when she found herself utterly incapable of remembering them, she couldn’t help but exclaim. This was somewhat beyond imagination — did she even lack the qualification to remember this knowledge?!

Unable to remember?!

The black-haired, white-clothed young man felt a chill in his heart; he also noticed this bizarre phenomenon.

When he looked at a rune, he seemed to see its appearance clearly. But the moment he shifted his perception to capture other runes, the image of the previous rune quickly faded in his memory, the impression gradually blurring until it could no longer be recalled.

Like a shallow dream, quickly fading after waking up.

The most terrifying thing is that, despite the immense spiritual power he possessed at that moment, he couldn’t stop this phenomenon from occurring! No matter how many times he issued self-suggestions or conducted numerous will amplifications, desperately archiving and backing up the recorded information—

From copying the blueprint collection to deep mental palace of the mind’s waves, uploading records to the memory storage of the mechanized holy body, and even directly storing the related information in the "Proof of Domination: Cronos Crown," hoping to use the internal information space of the outer universe’s god-level civilization’s main archive for safekeeping...

The end result was all the same.

A certain unknown, invisible force, like the activation of directional correction power, unrelentingly erased this information directly.

"..."

"..."

This made Gu Mo fall into a slight silence; he seemed to have glimpsed part of the system rules’ composition, or at least the part that could be directly seen. Perhaps it was just the tip of the iceberg, but he finally saw it... However, it seemed to hold no significance.

Seeing or not seeing were the same.

— Unable to comprehend.

— And unable to remember.

For him at that moment, this supreme mystery appeared to intentionally display the incredible. He felt like a primitive man, suddenly coming across an article of the highest advanced technology of future generations, unable even to attempt understanding its value, not to mention not even knowing what he saw.

Is it this outrageous?

"Seems like it..."

"Forgotten in the blink of an eye..."

Listening to Miss Tamamo no Mae and Alice’s voices, he couldn’t help but raise his eyebrows; it seemed this was a characteristic of the glowing runes. Whether it was the system preventing the core secrets from being parsed, or simply because this rune’s grade was too, too high.

To such an absurd degree.

A premonition surged in his heart, his Divine Star Pupil shining brilliantly, rapidly changing color from azure to scarlet, and then to twilight, continuously circulating light.

With full computing power, spiritual power also vividly sublimated to the utmost—

In the burning, it seemed endlessly climbing.

But it held no meaning; he found no matter how he mobilized the power of the mind, stimulated authority, or even utilized the immense energy of the Time Gem to meddle, he couldn’t alter that phenomenon of forgetting instantly upon seeing, not even able to delay it slightly.

Frowning, he glanced at Yakumo Zi and her two companions.

They could still manage, seemingly not too challenging, yet they seemed to have fallen into a strange state, closing their eyes as if asleep...

Taking a deep breath, he stared at one of the runes, attempting simply to keep gazing at it for analysis.

Clearly just a limited rune...

Yet infinitely incomprehensible...

It was simple, brutal, but also precise. Like eternal knowledge, encompassing all mysteries, even prior to the origin of nature and everywhere’s constraints, unbelievably included within... It was multi-dimensional, three-dimensional, possessing seemingly countless meanings and possibilities.

With vast computing power fully deployed, Gu Mo, closely watching this rune, felt the vast and unknown information coming from it, completely without a clue.

Parsing failed...!

Parsing failed...!

Parsing failed...!

He continuously increased computing power, even drawing in computational strength from other dungeon worlds; a rare warmth flooded his brain like it would be burned by overheating, yet he still couldn’t process this information, stubbornly lingering till the limit.

A helpless sigh escaped him, as Gu Mo, feeling his head start to heat up, disappointedly accepted this result.

But just at the moment he gave up on parsing—

The Power of Lies he possessed suddenly ignited; the domain represented by authority, or some deeper aspect, became active at this moment! It belonged to the Shapeshifter, Mage, Night Wanderer, Trickster, God of Deceit, Lies and Trickery... And even the essence of the God of Wisdom!

He seemed to resonate with the runes.

— "Runic Symbols"!

An inexplicable realization surged from the depths of his heart.