Build an ancient-level power in the nightmare world

The air atop the tower already carried a faint chill.

Mars was merely an image conjured up in Chris's mind.

But the red light emanating from it gave him a very real feeling of warmth.

His skin began to turn slightly red, and a layer of red light slowly formed above his spiritual energy.

Although Chris could not observe his own spiritual state, he could feel the warmth emanating from within.

Just as he closed his eyes, pondering the purpose of this strange warmth from Mars, he felt a flash of red light through his eyelids.

It wasn't the kind of red light that existed only in his consciousness, as he imagined it in his mind.

Instead, it was a real, vibrant red light dancing before his eyes.

"this?!"

Chris suddenly opened his eyes and his gaze naturally drifted downwards.

The Martian card he was holding was now enveloped in a fist-sized ball of flame.

The flames also enveloped part of his hand.

But Chris didn't feel the burning heat of the flames.

As a young man who had received nine years of compulsory education, he still remembered that flames need fuel and oxidizers to burn.

But the flame in his hand seemed to have attached itself to the Mars card and started burning out of thin air.

What does the occult have to do with science?

Chris suddenly grinned, shook his head slightly, and stopped thinking about fuel and accelerants.

The fact that the flames didn't burn his palms already indicated that they were no ordinary flames.

After focusing his attention on the flame in his hand, Chris suddenly noticed a clue to the flame's burning.

His spirituality is diminishing.

To be precise, on top of the spiritual energy required to maintain his stay in this mysterious space, his spiritual energy is decreasing at an even faster rate.

Visualizing the Star Key and Mars only takes up part of his attention and does not consume his spirituality.

At this time, he did not do anything else that might deplete his spiritual energy.

The only thing that could have caused this was the flames burning in front of him.

Can the flame born of spirituality burn away matter?

Chris looked away from the flames.

After glancing around and at himself, he finally plucked a hair from his own head.

In this mysterious space, the only thing suitable for testing whether the flame could burn matter was his hair.

Other things, such as the Star brand and his clothes, could absolutely not have been used to conduct this kind of experiment.

If it actually catches fire, that would be hilarious.

He carefully brought his hair closer to the flames, his eyes fixed on the end of his hair closest to the flames.

But even after he submerged his entire head of hair, along with his other hand, into the flames, nothing happened.

Chris frowned as he looked at the intact hair in his hand.

Suddenly it occurred to him that perhaps the flames didn't burn because he was holding the hair, which made them think it was part of him.

So Chris held his hair above the flames and then released his fingers from the hair.

Let your hair fall naturally onto the flames.

The next moment, the hair passed directly through the flames and landed on the Mars sign.

Seeing this, a hint of disappointment flashed in Chris's eyes.

It seems that this flame really cannot burn substances that exist in reality.

Although he knew that the flame couldn't just be used for warmth, it must have other uses.

However, the inability to burn real-world materials and the lack of the effects of conventional flames left him somewhat disappointed.

Looking at the Mars card in his hand, Chris had a sudden thought and stopped visualizing Mars in his mind.

The flame on the Mars card in his hand flickered violently a few times, then vanished without a trace with a "poof".

The rate at which spirituality was decreasing returned to normal.

Chris looked at the Mars card in his hand and noticed that the exquisite patterns on it were gradually darkening.

A few seconds later, the Mars card reverted to its original black printed form.

A while later.

After numerous attempts, Chris fully mastered the steps of controlling the Mars card's transformations and generating flames.

He carefully placed the Mars card on top of the Star card, and then put the Star card back into the bronze box.

Because he didn't know why the star-shaped plaque and the bronze box had appeared in this mysterious space.

Therefore, Chris didn't dare to move these things around.

He closed his eyes slightly to communicate with the Star Key, and his body quickly faded.

After his body became translucent, the surrounding yellow mist suddenly gathered, and the huge hexagonal yellow seal once again condensed inside Chris's body.

The next moment, Chris's body completely disappeared into the mysterious space.

But the yellow mark remained in place, with some dark yellow, misty fluid flowing over it without any discernible pattern of movement.

The light from the starlight lantern occasionally shone near the yellow mark.

Each time the starlight sweeps across it, a still human-shaped silhouette appears outside the yellow mark.

The humanoid silhouette was almost identical to Chris's figure before he disappeared.

……

Apartment 037, Room 102.

Chris slowly opened his eyes.

The gas lamps inside the house were still providing steady illumination.

He quickly got up and walked briskly towards the living room.

He found the cabinet containing the bronze box, opened it, and discovered that the box was still lying there quietly. He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Chris carefully took out the bronze box and placed it on the table. With very gentle movements, he slowly lifted the lid of the bronze box.

By the light of the gas lamp, Chris could clearly see that the deck of cards was still lying quietly in the bronze box.

He carefully turned over the first card.

Upon seeing that it was the Mars brand, Chris's pupils still trembled slightly, uncontrollably.

He was now almost certain that the star cards used in the mysterious space were indeed the same ones he held in reality.

The bronze box and star-shaped plaques in that space were not projections, but real objects brought into that space from reality.

Although he hasn't figured out the underlying principles yet.

But if you can bring things into a mysterious space, then can you also bring things from a mysterious space into reality?

Although apart from the starlight lanterns, there didn't seem to be anything else that could be taken away from the tower.

But the mysterious space contains more than just towers.

Could we try putting the water from that mysterious lake that reflects the starry sky into a bronze box and bring it into reality? Maybe it will have some amazing effects.

Moreover, Chris hasn't yet explored the cluster of black buildings surrounding the lake.

I hadn't thought about it this way before.

First, these black buildings are very far from the tower. The time he spends in the mysterious space will continuously deplete his spiritual energy. Time is limited, and he will probably run out of spiritual energy before he even reaches the edge of the lake.

Secondly, as he gazed at the black silhouette-like buildings from afar, he felt that something bad might exist within these buildings, most of which were hidden in darkness.

Therefore, he had no prior idea of ​​exploring these remote architectural complexes.

But now it's different.

Chris was extremely excited at that moment.

He did not use the Star Key to calm his excitement, but instead let it gradually subside naturally in his heart.

Then, holding the Mars card, he began to try to visualize Mars in his mind.

The image of Mars appeared almost instantly, and continued to rotate slowly and naturally around the Star Key.

A surge of spiritual energy was absorbed by the Mars card in his hand, and a faint flame began to emerge from the pattern in the center of the Mars card.

The design on the Mars card transformed into a beautiful hand-drawn image in less than a second.

Then, a spark leaped out from the Mars pattern in the center of the card.

But in the blink of an eye, the flame disappeared.