Legendary Architect of Apocalypse-Chapter 142: Defective Lyra

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Merger has completed. Storage has evolved into Advanced Storage.

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After returning to the main hall, Elias was greeted with a notification. Without a second of delay, he opened his storage.

He looked inside his storage, and was pleasantly surprised to find the materials from his temporary storage being shifted to his class storage.

"It worked."

There were hundreds of thousands of objects floating in the space that was even bigger than his temporary storage used to be. There was no instability in the storage space.

With the evolution, the class storage was not restricted to just the materials of his creation. He was able to keep anything in it.

He tested the theory by placing a nearby chair in his storage. The chair disappeared magically, and ended up inside the Advanced Storage.

"Why are you surprised that it worked? Didn't you already expect that?" Astralious watched Elias bring the chair out and keep it back where it used to be.

"I knew that the merger would be successful. But even I couldn't be confident if the materials from the temporary storage will be shifted to the new space or not."

Elias brought out a packet of chips from the upgraded storage. "Looks like we won't be going hungry anytime soon."

He tore open the chips packet and started eating the child, savoring in the taste like a child with a taste for spices of earth.

"Have you thought about what will happen after two weeks?" Astralious reminded Elias. "Didn't that professor say that you won't be allowed to interfere personally?"

"So?" Elias sat on the chair, and placed another chip in his mouth.

"Only the Soul Beasts can take part, and your soul beast is only a low tier beast. Your personal strength or ability to kill other Soul Beasts is useless there. Won't it be dangerous for Lyra?"

Astralious crossed his arms, waiting for Elias to offer an explanation. He didn't believe that the boy hadn't thought about this. So why was he so carefree? That was the answer that Astralious wanted.

"Are you going to skip it and use some excuse to stay behind?" he asked, thinking of a possible solution.

"If it was any other world, I would have skipped it. But we are going to earth." Elias answered, a blue flame lightning up in his hands to turn the remnant empty packet into nothingness. "I am definitely going there."

"So what's the plan?" Astralious directly asked. "And don't you dare lie to me that you don't have a plan."

"I don't have a plan." Elias shrugged his shoulders innocently. "I'm not omnipotent after all."

"Why do I feel like you are not being completely honest with me?"

"Aren't I?"

"Are you?"

"Do I have a reason to lie?"

"If you aren't lying, then why don't you seem worried? I don't think you just want to sacrifice that girl."

"Will worrying solve anything? Don't we have two weeks to think of something?" Elias answered as if he didn't have the slightest care in the world. Still, Astralious was quite suspicious of him.

He rubbed his forehead and started thinking deeply. 'If I was in his place, what would I do?'

"Ah, that's right!" His eyes lit up when he thought of something. He had completely failed to consider the most important aspect of Elias. "Are you thinking about using your merger to make her stronger?"

"See? I was able to read your mind. Aren't I clever?" He smugly looked at Elias, waiting for confirmation.

"You truly are clever." Elias raised a brow.

"Hahaha, of course I a-"

Astralious started laughing. But Elias's next words put an early stop to his laughter.

"Except you're completely wrong. She is an incomplete fable. I already checked the compatibility with merger. It's zero percent. She would die if I tried to merge her with the fables."

"What? How can that be?" Astralious expressions worsened. He had just complimented himself, only to be informed that he couldn't be any more wrong.

"As a human, even you can merge with the fable essence. So why can't she? Just because she's an incomplete fable?" he asked.

"Do I look like a merger scientist who has been researching these abilities for centuries?" Elias shrugged. "Even I can only roughly guess how compatibility actually works."

He paused for a moment, then added, "Maybe it's entirely because she is an incomplete fable. Or maybe it's because I only have the mid-tier and high-tier essence while she is just a low tier?"

"So you can't make her stronger with your shortcuts?"

"That's correct."

"And because she is an incomplete fable, she can't absorb other fables either. So she can't become stronger through normal means either. Doesn't that mean that she is completely useless?"

Under normal circumstances, Astralious wouldn't have cared about the fate of a mere low ranked fable. Their existences were insignificant after all. But she was the contracted beast of Elias.

If she actually died after two weeks, then it was going to affect Elias. Not only was his soul going to be injured, but he might actually die. Lyra's failure felt like his own personal failure to him.

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In this situation, Elias should've been the most worried. But the boy was simply listening to him calmly, not showing even the slightest of fluctuations in his expressions.

"On a scale of one to ten, how worried are you?" he asked Elias, since he found it impossible to read his face.

"Zero," Elias answered, and brought another packet of chips out of his storage. "Even if she can't defeat others, she won't die. So I am not worried."

"And how can you be sure that she won't die?" Astralious grimaced. "With how weak she is, she would be no different than a fish on a chopping block."

"I will be there, so she won't die." Elias answered with a single sentence.

"Aren't you not allowed to interfere? Don't tell me you are planning to..."

He couldn't even complete his question when he saw the look on Elias's eyes. He didn't ask any further, and simply sighed, "Why did I even ask?"