The Puzzle To Find The Core.
"Darn it, how much time did we waste?" Alex asked Botoz.
"About -3 Hours, Master," Botoz responded, flying up into the sky. He approached the crack, quite a distance away, and examined it.
"Looks like it's chaos." Botoz gasped, returning to Alex.
Understanding, Alex flew to another escape point, this time entirely serious.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
They flew around the entire World Absolute Treasure as it was getting destroyed, and they reached many of the exit points, As Alex Activated his entire focus, His Entire Senses were telling him if the place they were flying to could be an actual danger, he would go towards it and avoid it and immediately go in and escape not to awaken whatever would pose them a danger, this worked many times but also fucked them over many times as well, looks like whatever the things that were overseeing this places were angered and took this as a challenge going at them even stronger, and for some reason, they never met anything. actual physical entity they needed to fight, this was weird but Alex didn't think anything about it this worked in their favor so why would be he mad at this, he needed do go to many places at once, they had to do so much but if the Core was at the place they would uncover it was completely good for them to go at this places, they would work for the Core, Alex knew Core would not just appear this easy so he was ready to face anything right now, he wanted this thing so bad he would not let anything deter him from finding out where the World Absolute Treasure was, he would kill anything that was going to stop them, he was basically in the madness mode that would not flame down if they didn't find the Core, Botoz was also like in this mode, he was Alex right now, moving around not even holding back his strength, they forgot they were even tired for a moment and flew around this place, thinking they had immense power and could do anything, this was a good feeling you would get when you knew what you were working for was something very precious. and you would be extremely satisfied by finding it, he had an adrenaline boost to find the World Absolute Treasure he would find the thing here and he was flying through space speed.
-3 Hours Later.
"CORE!!! WE FINALLY DID IT!!!" Alex laughed maniacally, stopping to admire the energy holographic island.
They had located the core.
They finally found the location of the core.
"Looks like we were right, the escape points were the beacons that were being released from the core itself, and the real location was like a map in the formation... if we connected every escape point we would get a puzzle." Botoz looked at this and immediately looked at the puzzle-like pieces they had on the map, it was like a puzzle game puzzle you had to fix.
"Fuck this will take so much time," Alex swore and started to fix it.
"Let me, Master." Botoz approached the hologram.
BZZSSSTTT!!!
In seconds, it was fixed.
Botoz almost facepalmed "Master there were not even 30 parts here."
"I Know but they were weird sha---" Before Alex said anything Botoz looked at the map and they managed to find another thing they needed to do.
"MASTER LOOK THIS IS AC---" Botoz got interrupted by Alex.
"The Technique Holy!!!" Alex observed the puzzle pieces fully on the island. They realized they needed to connect space with the beacons.
"I see now... Looks like we needed to connect space with the beacons." Alex concluded.
Botoz raised an eyebrow. "Master, there are no beams. The hologram shows us the puzzle piece, and we need to do something at every escape point." Botoz clarified, pointing out the circular arrows on the hologram indicating escape points. They needed to take action at each one.
"Let's think about this... Botoz, we were shown the core's location, but it could be anywhere within the hundreds of kilometers indicated by the circular space arrows. Why would we need to do this... The arrows aren't just pointing at the escape points; they're pointing towards the center of them, where the space is most cracked." Alex showed Botoz, who was even more confused when he looked at the exact center.
"I don't understand." Botoz scratched his head.
"Let me show you. Let's go," Alex said, heading towards the escape point.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
Botoz followed.
-3 Hours Later.
They reached the escape point and stood at the center in a random forest.
"Look, concentrate on the space," Alex instructed, posing a stance.
"Oh..." Botoz did as told, sensing the most cracked space...
"THE LINEAR PATTERN!!!" Botoz shouted. The space was cracked in a beam-shaping pattern, invisible to the naked eye.
"I GET IT NOW, MASTER!!! YOU ARE A GENIUS SMALL!!" Botoz praised.
"I don't know what Genius Small is, but I'll take it as a compliment. It's like space is being shattered by something inside of them!!!" Alex explained.
"SPACE!!!" Botoz echoed.
"[Space Shatter Fist (3 Shatter)]" Alex used his technique.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
The space broke into more than just a crack.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!
A light beam shot into the sky. They witnessed energy being sucked from everything, the beam flashing as the absorption continued. The sucking came from all around.
"I see now... we just need to connect everything," Alex said, flying back.
They were on the brink of discovering the core after all this time.
Alex despised puzzles, but this was a clever one—a decoy puzzle to waste time, offering a slight clue before uncovering the actual secret. Only by solving this puzzle could they find the core. It was a cunning plan to make people quit their pursuits.
With this, Alex now understood the strange occurrences in this crazy place. He confirmed his theory and realized...
"I think I found the actual enemy, and I am very confused. This is weird."
End Of Chapter.