Reborn With A Technology System In A Fantasy World-Chapter 115: Visions

When Adrian’s gloved hand brushed against the cool surface of the magic crystal, an immediate jolt of pain ripped through his mind.

It wasn’t a physical ache but a sharp, searing intrusion, as though a thousand invisible needles had plunged into his skull, each one threading chaotic, fragmented visions into his consciousness.

What he saw defied understanding, and the images flashed relentlessly, a torrent of otherworldly scenes crashing against the fragile shores of his mind.

For several agonizing moments, Adrian stood frozen, his hand locked against the crystal as the visions assaulted him.

His breath hitched, his chest tightening under the weight of it all, until instinct finally overrode the shock.

With a ragged gasp, he yanked his hand away, stumbling back as if the crystal had burned him.

He was panting now, his breaths shallow and uneven.

The cavern’s blue glow seemed to spin around him as he pressed a trembling hand to his forehead.

"What... what was that?" he said in a low voice before staring long at the crystal.

Before he could dwell further, a sharp familiar chime cut through the haze of his thoughts.

[Magic crystals cannot be harvested without neutralizing the mana source!]

Adrian blinked, the words sinking in slowly as he rubbed his temples, trying to dull the ache.

"Neutralizing the mana source?" he echoed in suspicion.

He narrowed his eyes, glancing sidelong at the glowing crystal as if it might answer him.

The System wasn’t usually so talkative. Most of the time, it left him to puzzle things out, dropping cryptic hints or silent judgments that forced him to rely on his own wits.

But now, it was feeding him information in real time, guiding him with an almost unsettling clarity.

’Why is it being so helpful all of a sudden? Does it know something I don’t?’

His gaze swept across the tunnel walls, where countless magic crystals glittered like a constellation of blue stars.

They were everywhere, embedded in the stone, and the temptation stirred a quiet hunger in his chest.

But his earlier attempt had made one thing painfully clear: these crystals were beyond his reach.

"If what the System says is true," he murmured, "If I can conquer the source, then all of them would be mine."

Doubt crept in despite his determination. Conquer the source? He didn’t even know what it was, let alone how to subdue it.

The System’s recent actions made him even more wary. What if it was leading him into a trap? What if the price of this treasure was more than he could pay?

For a fleeting moment, the thought of turning back flickered through his mind. But then he got himself, the system was him after all, and he doubted it would want bad against them.

He could also see through it, and he could tell that its intentions were pure.

With renewed purpose, Adrian pressed forward, following the large, pulsing dot on his map.

As he walked, the cave transformed around him. The oppressive darkness that had cloaked his descent was gone, banished by the magic crystals lining every inch of the walls.

Their blue glow intensified, casting a radiant, ethereal light that bathed the tunnel in shimmering hues.

It was breathtaking yet it did nothing to ease the unease he felt.

The brilliance only sharpened the shadows, making the unseen corners of the passage feel more ominous.

The path ahead was so bright that Adrian retracted the helmet of his Power Suit with a mental command.

The nanites peeled back, exposing his face to cool air. He took a steadying breath and kept walking.

The tunnel twisted and turned, leading him deeper into the earth, until after several minutes, it opened into a massive chamber.

Stepping through an archway of interwoven crystals, Adrian felt the atmosphere shift.

The mana here was so thick and saturated, and Adrian could feel it everywhere.

The chamber was enormous, its walls encrusted with magic crystals so densely packed that no stone remained visible, only a seamless expanse of glowing blue.

At the center stood a simple podium, and atop it rested a crystal ball.

Unlike the radiant crystals surrounding it, this orb was dull and lifeless, its surface a muted gray that seemed to absorb rather than reflect the light.

Yet Adrian knew, with a certainty that settled deep in his bones, that this unassuming sphere was the supposed source.

He approached it slowly, his eyes locked on the orb.

For a moment, he stood there with his hand hovering just above the crystal ball, hesitation rooting him in place.

Touching it would trigger something. He was sure of it that, so he didn’t want to rush. Rather, Adrian turned around and felt the mana.

"The mana here must to be ten times more potent than when I use an array. Maybe even more."

Magic crystals didn’t emit mana on their own. This density, this overwhelming presence, could only come from the orb before him.

And that meant an opportunity. His dantian was stable, tempered by the constant battles he had fought in recent days.

But he hadn’t made much progress in his cultivation, due to the lack of time he always faced.

Now, with mana this rich, he could make up for lost time in a fraction of the effort.

"I don’t know what will happen when I deal with the source, but I’d be a fool to waste this chance."

Without another thought, Adrian sank to the cold stone floor, crossing his legs and closing his eyes.

The chamber’s silence wrapped around him as he turned his focus inward, drawing mana into his dantian.

Nearly an hour passed before a warm sensation spread through Adrian’s body like wildfire.

His muscles tightened, then relaxed and a surge of strength pulsing through his veins. His bones felt denser and his senses sharper. He had broken through!

Adrian opened his eyes, a quiet satisfaction settling over him as a soft glow faded from his skin.

He summoned his stats with a thought.

[TECHCORE SYSTEM – STATUS PANEL]

Knight: ★ ★ ★

Mana: 0%

Name: Adrian | Age: 10

System Level: 12 | EXP: 1480 / 149850 | TP: 76400

[Stats: Speed - 96 (64) | Strength - 105 (70) | Constitution - 100 (75)]

[Inventions Created: 41]

He felt stronger and more alive than ever and the Power Suit amplified the breakthrough even further.

Satisfied with his progress, Adrian decided to try drawing in the dense mana for another five minutes before checking his interface once more:

[Mana: 0%]

The System had sealed his dantian again, locking away further progress.

"Just don’t keep me waiting too long," he muttered under his breath, half-hoping the System might hear him.

Rising to his feet, he turned his attention back to the crystal ball.

"I can’t delay any further," he said firmly.

With confident strides, he crossed the short distance to the podium and placed his hand on the orb.

As expected, the System’s voice sliced through his mind:

[Harvesting Soul...]

As the System’s voice faded, a fresh wave of visions crashed into Adrian’s mind.

The assault was immediate, a torrent of chaotic, unrecognizable images that tore through his consciousness like a storm.

Pain shot through his skull, sharper and more relentless than before, as though his mind were being stretched to its breaking point. fɾēewebnσveℓ.com

Colors and shapes swirled. He saw fractured landscapes, pulsating lights, and fleeting glimpses of things that defied form or logic.

It was overwhelming, incomprehensible, and for a moment, Adrian thought he might lose himself in the chaos.

His knees buckled, his hand still pressed against the dull crystal orb, anchoring him to the source of this mental onslaught.

But then... Slowly, the pain began to fade away.

The visions sharpened, their edges coming into focus, and the chaos resolved into something clearer, something Adrian could almost grasp.

His breath steadied, though his heart still pounded, and he clung to the clarity as the images unfolded.

They appeared random at first, yet, as he watched, a thread of meaning wove through the visions, pulling them into a narrative that chilled him to his core.

He saw it... A being, or perhaps a construct.

Its nature was so alien that Adrian couldn’t decide what it was.

It wasn’t human, nor beast, nor anything he could name. It simply was, a presence woven into the fabric of reality itself, as if it had existed since the dawn of time.

Its essence pulsed with a quiet, eternal certainty, but there was a fracture in its existence, a growing void.

The being was fading, unraveling from reality like a thread being pulled away. It didn’t know what it was. It didn’t have a name or a purpose, but it knew one thing: it didn’t want to disappear.

That realization stirred something within it, a desperate hunger to endure, to understand itself before it was lost forever.

Adrian’s vision shifted, and he saw the being’s response to its impending erasure.

Mana was its lifeblood, the very essence of its existence, and so it began to siphon it from the world around it.

The images showed tendrils of energy snaking through the earth, draining mana with relentless greed.

Adrian’s stomach twisted as he saw the scope of its hunger. At this rate, it wouldn’t stop at the Corrupted Lands... it would reach beyond.

But the process wasn’t perfect. The being struggled to contain the mana it stole, and the excess bled out, crystallizing into the countless magic crystals that now studded the cavern walls.

The thick, oppressive mana saturating the air was a byproduct of its failure, a testament to its desperate, flawed attempt to cling to existence.

The visions shifted again, and Adrian’s breath caught as a new presence emerged in the narrative.

The being, which had always believed itself omnipotent, froze in terror.

Something else had appeared... Something boundless and infinite. A force so vast it dwarfed the being’s entire existence.

It wasn’t just powerful; it was incomprehensible, a presence that felt like reality itself distilled into a single, overwhelming entity.

The being quaked before it and its fear was evident in the visions, as this new force began to erase it, unraveling its connection to the world with surgical precision.

Adrian watched, his heart racing, as the being’s essence frayed, its fear spiking into a silent scream as it lost its final tether to reality.

Then came the realization, sharp and cold. Cutting through the haze of the visions, Adrian came to know...

That boundless entity was... him.

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