Poverty makes me capable of anything.

Let's leave it for now; it'll be easier once we level up.

Defeat the leader of the Tianya Haijiao guild to complete the hidden quest [Star River Impact]. Rewards include 120 billion free experience points, [Great Star River Advancement Protocol]*1, and [Impact Blade] crafting blueprint*1.

Let's not talk about the blueprints; they're useless to Anran, so we can just sell them.

That agreement is a good thing; it can increase the speed of mechanical manufacturing by 20%, but it can only be used 10 times. Anran can use it to quickly repair his mechanical legion.

The new version is just around the corner, keep up the good work, Anran!

Then there were a bunch of small, scattered tasks completed during the demolition, all of which were E-rank tasks with negligible rewards.

The experience gained from these missions, along with the large amount of experience gained from demolishing buildings, allowed Anran to level up three times in a row, reaching level 195.

Even without considering the extra healing and the second health bar, Anran's health points exceeded 200 million.

Of course, the increase in health points and level is not really that significant.

The important thing is the supplies seized from the Tianya Haijiao group. Although some key materials are missing, these materials can be purchased from the Flanor Consortium. Taking into account the transportation time, Anran can safely produce twenty or thirty Guardians in a year.

Want to fight? Like, a bunch of people beating up one person!

"We will fully support your development at Twilight Sanctuary."

"It's Dawn Camp!"

"Yes, yes, Dawn Camp."

Nigel never expected that his initial investment would yield such a great return.

Although Twilight Sanctuary is not a resource-rich area, sailing from here to the Exiled Empire can save the Flanor Consortium's transport fleet more than half the time.

Overall, he made a huge profit!

After the war ended, the hyperspace era entered a period of rapid construction, and An Ran's figure disappeared from the public eye.

Even though the wind was howling outside, she didn't come out.

At this moment, if someone were to enter the underground research institute of the new transdimensional base, they would discover that An Ran was studying the Myriad Machine God and the free consciousness that had been separated from the Myriad Machine God.

"The Mechanical Church, the power of faith, the God of Machines..."

This has potential.

Anran only emerged from underground after Brian followed his contract and arrived at the new base in the transdimensional space.

The Mechanicus is promising, and the tool Brian has that can produce [Spatial Marker Portals] is also quite good.

Chapter 75: Let the Machines Take Flight (End of Volume)

Brian's hometown wasn't in Twilight Sanctuary, but it wasn't too far away either.

Anran arrived at her destination after more than four days on the road.

The sector called Watchers Coast is geographically closer to the current core area of ​​the Exiled Empire, but due to its proximity to the Twilight Sanctuary, it often becomes the first target of pirate raids. Over the years, Watchers Coast looks no different from an old industrial area abandoned by the times.

However, it is probably hard for anyone to imagine that such a desolate place could hide a rare item related to spatial power.

Brian led the way, with An Ran following closely behind.

They are now in the basement of Brian's rebuilt mansion.

The downward corridor is constructed of crystals that can shield spatial fluctuations, and at first glance it looks like glass.

They continued walking for seven or eight minutes before Anran finally arrived at the magical item.

On the central platform of the room, a crystal-clear, diamond-shaped piece is inserted into a recess, exuding an ethereal aura. A translucent shimmer can be seen constantly dancing around the crystal, causing the room's light to flicker.

An Ran cast a scouting spell towards the crystal.

【tool】

Hollow Stone

Note 1: [The crystal, which happened to grow near a spatial node, has finally merged with the node after countless years of weathering. It contains immense power powerful enough to shake galaxies. You'd better not move it; no one knows what terrible consequences it might have—perhaps it's an eavesdropping from another dimension.]

Note 2: [The Hollow Stone will continuously shed its outer shell, and these shells also possess a portion of the Hollow Stone's power. However, according to Brian's decades of observation, no matter how it sheds its shell, the size of the Hollow Stone remains unchanged. Perhaps, the crystal that merges into space is only a part of it.]

An Ran took out the six [Space Marker Door] cards that Brian had given her from her inventory.

She turned to Brian and asked, "Did these things fall off from the Hollow Stone?"

Brian was startled.

He only told An Ran the name of this crystal—the Hollow Stone, which was the name he had given it.

But he never told Anran how those cards were made.

Is it just a guess?

Or did An Ran peek into his heart?

Brian nodded in surprise: "That's right. Hollow Stone regularly drops some crystal fragments, and I cut them up to make them look like this."

How long will it take for it to fall?

“The cycle is about two years,” Brian replied.

"..."

That's taking a while.

An Ran now only has 6 cards left.

Brian said, "There are still seven months until the next drop, and each drop will allow you to collect about 20 to 30 cards."

Seeing that An Ran had no further questions, he continued, "I've tried to study the Hollow Stone, but with my limited knowledge of space, I haven't made any progress. However, I believe that the Hollow Stone, which can produce spatial marker gates, must be something extremely powerful. To be honest, I'm a little reluctant to give it to you like this, but it's a promise I made before. You helped me avenge the Horizon Pirates, and now it's yours. I'll also transfer the house on the ground to you later."

"Thank you for your help." An Ran nodded slightly.

Brian laughed and said, "Don't worry, I'm not the kind of person who breaks promises. I won't tell anyone that you have the Hollow Stone. I will make another pact with the power within me, and I won't tell anyone until I die."

"Huh?"

Anran was initially worried that Brian would scheme against her, but she didn't expect that Brian had already thought of a solution to the problem.

"Sometimes I'm too suspicious."

After a moment, Anran felt that being more wary of others wasn't necessarily a bad thing.

Even the strong need to be cautious.

"Interested in joining our Hyperdimensional Dimension?" Anran extended an invitation to Brian.

"This one……"

Brian hesitated for a moment.

Now that his hatred has vanished, his greatest wish is to travel around. Before, he was like a bound spirit trapped in Watcher's Shore and Twilight Sanctuary because of his resentment.

However, joining the time-space realm seems like a pretty good option as well.

Anran said, "Super Dimension will be hiring a lot of people in the coming period. If you can't make a decision yet, it's okay to wait."

Brian replied, "I understand, I will seriously consider it."

After that, Brian went to the transaction center and transferred the property to Enron's name.

With all his belongings in hand, he embarked on a journey to tour the entire Watcher's Coast.

An Ran also pulled the panda over.

When it comes to props related to space, the panda needs to provide guidance.

It has to be said, the Primal Void is truly the Primal Void!

Brian had been researching for decades without any results, but the panda, after only two days of tinkering, figured out how to use the power of the Hollow Stone to travel quickly.

Standing before the hollow stone emitting a soft white light, An Ran saw a control panel that only she could see.

[Teleport]

[Tip: Please use the key to set the destination.]

The so-called key is the [Spatial Marker Gate], and Anran has six of them.

The interface has three buttons: [Mark], [Map], and [Reset].

Anran opened the map.

The map bar only imported the maps that were lit up in her personal panel, which meant that unless it was a place that Anran had been to before, she could not teleport using the Hollow Stone.

"You have six chances. Hmm, one for the Dawn Camp base, another near Silent City, and one for the old base near the Hogs Galaxy. Wait, can we use the neighboring star system too?"

An Ran was surprised to find that even across a distance of two star systems, the Hollow Stone could still be used for teleportation.

If those star system rulers were to obtain it...

Even if they get it, they can't go there, since they've never been there before, and the Hollow Stone recognizes people, so it's fine.

An Ran built another teleportation point on Baplo Star, and kept two cards for emergencies.

Instead of rushing back there, she first returned to the Dawn Camp base and built several psionic portals and psionic towers, connecting various parts of the base and indirectly strengthening the transdimensional space's control over the Dawn Camp.

About half a month later, news officially released by the Exiled Empire reached An Ran's ears.

[Given the recent dramatic changes in the situation at Twilight Sanctuary, the name Twilight Sanctuary is becoming outdated. After deliberation, the Imperial Council has decided to change Twilight Sanctuary to Dawn Camp.]

The official recognition confirms the dominance of the Time-Space faction in the Dawn Camp.

Most of the pirates, feeling hopeless about turning the tide, left Dawn Camp with disappointed expressions and headed towards more remote areas.

The remaining pirates also temporarily ceased all operations, intending to assess the situation first.

As for those interstellar nomads, their lives were already very difficult, so it was even more impossible for them to go to the desolate frontier to make a living.

They chose another path—

Collaborating with transdimensional space.

If there's anything inconvenient to do in the time-traveling world, or if you're missing anything, you can contact them.

The terms of the trade were to provide interstellar nomads with a space to live and to conduct trade.

An Ran readily agreed and promised that if any strong individuals from the nomadic tribes were willing to take up positions in the rapidly developing transdimensional space, the transdimensional space would provide their tribes with more favorable conditions.