Free Web NovelChapter 513: Chapter 443: Moment of Awakening
Viola understood Clark, deeply knowing that he never spoke recklessly.
When he said he was confident of retreating, it meant he had his trump cards and reliance.
In the face of her mentor’s exhibited confidence, Viola’s wildly pounding heart actually slowly settled in the calmness of his words, and her reason, scorched by anxiety, began to regain the upper hand.
She closed her eyes, remaining silent for a moment.
When she reopened them, the panic in her eyes had been replaced by the sharpness of a decision.
"Alright."
Viola hesitated no longer, decisively taking out from her storage witchcraft device a transparent crystal the size of a fingernail, with liquid starlight seemingly swirling inside.
She placed it into Clark’s hand:
"This is the highest authority authentication code core for all external binding arrays and annihilation arrays. With the plane fully sealed, it might not be able to directly control the arrays from the outside. But if you find Starfall inside, or need us to coordinate an attack at some point from the outside... in the moment you successfully penetrate the internal barrier and establish a brief link, the annihilation array’s firepower system can automatically recognize and avoid the area marked by this crystal energy."
She stared into Clark’s eyes: "You must keep it on you, activated."
Clark didn’t say much, casually putting the seemingly fragile yet crucial crystal into the inside pocket of his gray robe, as if it were an ordinary stone.
"Got it." He nodded, then turned to the main control screen, "Now, pull up detailed monitoring data of all dimensions of this plane for the past few months, especially the phase changes of energy tides, the spectral analysis of law disturbances, and the migration tracks of barrier weaknesses, all of it for me."
His tone returned to its usual research state: "I need to make an accurate judgment, to see how much time remains in the safe infiltration window given the current worsening trend, and from which coordinate to enter to encounter the least initial resistance."
Viola immediately responded, her fingers flying across the screen, reorganizing, classifying, and highlighting a massive stream of data.
Jeming stepped forward to assist with some auxiliary calculations and data cross verification.
Soon, Professor Clark had integrated all the data. Before leaving, he paused slightly in front of the alloy cabin door: "By the way, Viola, when I get back, we need to discuss your calling me an old man."
"Uh..." Viola was startled by his words.
Without waiting for her to say anything, Clark had already exited the cabin, the heavy alloy door of the warship closing silently, isolating the faint radiation of the chaotic void.
In the control room, Jeming and Viola looked through the porthole at the green plane wrapped by the scarlet array, and the tiny light point of Professor Clark vanishing last into that green expanse, neither of them speaking for a while. freewebnovёl.ƈom
A worried atmosphere began to pervade between them.
Entering the interior of a living plane that could go berserk at any moment, with law chaos, even knowing their mentor should be prepared, couldn’t stop the worry from creeping in.
Jeming was first to break the silence, taking a deep breath, forcing himself to redirect his attention back to the present reality and the predetermined division of labor.
"Senior..." he turned to Viola, his voice returning to its usual steadiness, "We need to prepare in advance too; you need to go outside, take charge directly and manually adjust the array."
After all, only a Sixth Level Wizard who fully mastered law solidification could temporarily resist the erosion of void rules, acting more freely in the chaotic void and casting spells.
Among the two of them, only Viola could accomplish this.
Though the array was now linked with the warship, allowing control within the ship, having someone to manually control it directly at key moments was also essential as an insurance.
And it’s still more appropriate to rely on a wizard’s direct judgment when operating the binding array.
Viola at this moment had also adjusted her emotions, her eyes replacing worry with decision.
She nodded: "Understood. The fine-tuning of the external binding array is up to me. Jeming, stay here, remotely locking and controlling the core activation units of the three plane annihilation arrays."
Her tone carried an undeniable gravity: "You are the last line of insurance. If indeed... things become untenable, the bindings collapse, the mentor and Starfall fail to escape in time, then you are to initiate the annihilation program, completely destroying this plane to prevent it from causing a greater disaster once fully awakened."
"Understood." Jeming responded solemnly.
Without saying more, Viola took one last look at the calm plane outside the porthole, then turned and strode toward the warship’s airlock.
The hatch opened and closed, her figure soon appearing within the porthole’s view.
Transforming into a dark red stream of light, heading toward the nearest and largest core of a scarlet binding array.
The array, like a giant compass in the void, rotated slowly, awaiting the final command of its master.
In the control room, only Jeming remained.
He quickly sat in front of the main console, his hands sliding across the screen to pull up and display side by side the control interfaces of the three plane annihilation arrays.
Each interface was extremely complex, encompassing dozens of subsystems like energy focus, trajectory prediction, coordinated activation, and overload safeguards.
Jeming focused entirely, initiating final parameter calibration and pre-recharging preparations.
His mind closely linked with the warship’s detection array, firmly locking onto the green target.
Time passed in silent tension.
The warship’s detection array was continuously feeding real-time data of the Fallen Star Plane to the screen.
Suddenly!
The main curve representing spiritual activity sharply surged upward!
The steepness of its rise surpassed even the worst-case prediction model Viola presented earlier!
"It’s begun..." Jeming’s heart tightened.
No need for Jeming to send sudden change information to the outside world, for almost simultaneously, the scene outside the porthole changed dramatically.
The green plane, "decorated" by the scarlet array, suddenly "came alive"!
Not a visual movement, but an outburst of an indescribable "presence."
The entire plane seemed like a prehistoric giant beast awakening from slumber, invisible waves of will washing out like a tsunami.
Even across the ship’s barrier and the distant void, Jeming could feel that vast, chaotic, primal pressure filled with life’s unrest.
The plane itself hadn’t moved, but its green barriers at the edges began to fluctuate violently, continuously expanding and contracting, like a heart beating wildly.
Just this "unrest" before awakening stirred up the already unstable chaotic void around it.
The twisted lights and shadows became more violent, broken rule fragments spread apart, forming invisible rings of energy ripples, spreading outward.
Meanwhile, the pre-activated scarlet binding array, emitting suppressive breath, immediately became the most direct source of stimulation for this newborn consciousness.
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