Quantum Miracle Vial and the Hidden True God Spirit Realm

"You're certain there's nothing missing?"

Rosen stared at the projection of the wizard tower's Machina Spirit.

"Absolutely," it confirmed firmly.

Rosen fell into deep thought.

The former owner of this wizard tower had been a Sequence 1 wizard, Albedo Braga.

Albedo had ventured into Storm Canyon as a Sequence 2, and while evading a Sequence 1 elemental lifeform, he had accidentally discovered a high-purity Wind Copper Vein.

He then transformed the site into a secret base.

Wind Copper was a Sequence 2 extraordinary metal, making this vein incredibly valuable.

Thanks to it, Albedo built this Wind Copper Wizard Tower and successfully ascended to Sequence 1.

Albedo had specialized in the alchemical path and was particularly skilled in crafting alchemical golems.

The Machina Spirit, which had served Albedo for over a thousand years, claimed it had never seen him possess any vial-series miracle treasures.

"Where did Albedo go in the end?" Rosen asked.

"I don't know. One day, the master suddenly disappeared," the Machina Spirit replied.

Rosen pondered the situation.

Given the depth of their location within Storm Canyon, if Albedo had planned to travel far, it was unlikely he would have left the Wind Copper Wizard Tower behind.

Even for nearby trips, the perilous environment of the canyon would have compelled him to take at least three Sequence 1 alchemical golems for protection.

Yet the tower and the golems had all been left behind.

This suggested that Albedo hadn't intended to go far when he vanished.

It was even possible that he had met with an accident right within the Wind Copper Vein.

To make a Sequence 1 wizard disappear without a sound, leaving no time to even call the Machina Spirit for help, was a troubling thought.

Rosen deployed hundreds of Sequence 4 Shadow Demons to conduct a meticulous search of the entire mine.

After several hours, no clues had been found.

"You said he disappeared suddenly?" Rosen realized he might have overlooked a key detail.

Indeed, upon further questioning, the Machina Spirit confirmed that Albedo had vanished from the seventh-floor living quarters.

Since the Machina Spirit lacked real-time surveillance capabilities there, it had no idea when exactly he had disappeared.

Rosen began an extremely thorough search of the living quarters, even using an Archaeological Magnifier and Historical Analysis.

Finally, he found the exact spot where Albedo had last been seen.

Rosen sat at the desk, staring at the book Albedo had been reading before he disappeared.

It was a novel—not the type written by novelists that contained spiritual realms, just an ordinary wizard's novel.

However, the material of the book was unusual.

The desk, unlike a bookshelf, lacked magical protection for books.

The fact that this novel hadn't decayed after thousands of years was peculiar in itself.

Yet the content seemed utterly mundane—just an ordinary wizard tale.

Following Rosen's command, numerous Magic Eye intelligent lifeforms began searching for information on the novel.

They analyzed everything from its title to its content with painstaking precision.

Days later, the results came back.

The protagonist of the novel, Jensen Stanley, had actually existed in real life.

Moreover, Jensen had been one of the founders of the Wizard Sequence.

His specialty? Quantum Magic.

Like Albedo, Jensen had also mysteriously disappeared.

"Quantum Magic... could it be...?"

Rosen picked up the novel and began reading it carefully from the very beginning, meticulously committing every word to memory.

As he finished the last page and recalled every word, he vanished from the study without a sound.

Rosen cautiously surveyed his surroundings—a boundless void with no perceivable spatial boundaries.

He could distinctly feel his sense of existence gradually fading in this space.

The Mysterious Study Room was still accessible, but data transmission had completely failed.

Rosen immediately activated the Mysterious Study Room.

As he stepped inside and approached the window to observe the external void, the void outside suddenly vanished.

The Mysterious Study Room's anchor point was re-established in Albedo's study.

At the same time, a bottle manifested in Rosen's sea of consciousness.

"Quantum Miracle Vial..."

Rosen's expression brightened as he sensed his newfound connection with it.

The vial-series miracle treasure detected by the Miracle Pouch earlier was none other than this Quantum Miracle Vial.

The Quantum Miracle Vial was highly unique, designed specifically to handle extremely dangerous transcendent materials.

Its terrifying feature lay in its very existence: it only existed when observed.

If unobserved, it ceased to exist.

Moreover, unless one mastered the Quantum Miracle Vial, simply observing it would result in being absorbed into the vial.

The sole condition for mastering the Quantum Miracle Vial was escaping the Quantum Void inside it.

Since Rosen had retreated into the Mysterious Study Room, he had effectively exited the Quantum Void, satisfying the requirement to master the vial.

The original material for creating miracle potions was said to be nine true gods.

This Quantum Miracle Vial was likely used to imprison them.

As for why reading that particular novel had naturally triggered an observational effect on the vial, Rosen had no idea.

Perhaps only a wizard who mastered Quantum Magic could uncover the answer.

With a mere thought, Rosen re-entered the Quantum Void.

Before him was Albedo, sealed in self-imposed stasis.

It was clear that Albedo had been trapped inside the vial for millennia.

After countless failed attempts to escape, he had no choice but to seal himself to avoid going insane over the centuries.

Rosen attempted to awaken Albedo but quickly realized it was impossible.

Although Albedo was still alive, his divine consciousness had completely collapsed.

He had become a spiritual husk—a vegetative state at the level of divine essence, from which recovery was nearly impossible.

Rosen immediately recalled the unsettling sensation of his own existence fading within the Quantum Void.

He released several prisoners from the Void Divine Prison, observing their behavior within the Quantum Void.

Some were isolated, while others were in pairs or groups.

The pairs and groups fared fine, but isolated prisoners began to vanish whenever Rosen shifted his attention away from them.

After numerous experiments, Rosen confirmed the truth:

The Quantum Void was like Schrödinger's cat.

Life trapped within it existed only when observed; without observation, they were assimilated by the void and transitioned from life to death.

Although Albedo was Sequence 1 and carried his own divine domain, in the Quantum Void, only the master of the Quantum Miracle Vial could open spatial domains.

Unable to release his followers to observe him, Albedo could only watch as his existence and life slowly faded away.

With no other options, he sealed himself.

However, while the seal preserved his body, it had no effect on his divine consciousness, which ultimately crumbled.

In the end, Albedo's divine consciousness ceased to exist due to the lack of observation, leaving only a sealed but still living body and his divine essence.

If this had been a lower sequence, the loss of divine consciousness would merely result in complete memory erasure.

However, for a Sequence 1 being, the complete collapse of divine consciousness was far more severe.

Even if new divine consciousness were to be born within the divine essence, it would be as naive as a newborn child.

And how could a newborn possibly wield the immense transcendent power of a Sequence 1 being?

Without the ability to control such power, it would spiral out of control, causing the transcendent essence to mutate into a grotesque form.

In such a situation, total death might be preferable.

With complete death, there was still a chance of revival deep within the spirit world.

But this half-dead state, with divine consciousness obliterated, extinguished even that chance of rebirth.

Raising Dragon God's Wrath, Rosen fired a shot straight into Albedo's divine essence within his sea of consciousness.

Albedo died instantly.

Even without activating Vengeful Judgement, his body transformed into a normal loot sphere.

Crushing it, Rosen obtained a skeletal Divine Domain.

The Quantum Miracle Vial had severed the domain's connection to the spirit world for thousands of years, causing continuous depletion of spirituality until no living creatures remained.

In addition to the divine domain, Rosen also gained a portion of Sequence 1 wizard transcendent essence and several transcendent artifacts.

He kept the transcendent essence but sent the wizard artifacts to the Main God Hall.

Since the most powerful wizards in his domain were only Sequence 4, far from Sequence 1, it was better to exchange these unused items for damaged Sequence 1 transcendent artifacts and maximize the benefits through equal-value trades.

After exiting the Quantum Miracle Vial, Rosen decided not to sell the Wind Copper Wizard Tower.

Instead, he planned to integrate it into Radiant King City.

But before that, he needed to completely mine the Wind Copper Vein.

Leaving several trained wizards behind to command the alchemical golems with the assistance of the Machina Spirit, Rosen focused on treasure hunting using the damaged transcendent artifacts he had exchanged from the Main God Hall.

In the blink of an eye, more than a decade passed.

Rosen had made a fortune in Storm Canyon.

He even unexpectedly found another Sequence 3 Sea God Fragment Ring.

However, he hadn't come across any new vial-series miracle treasures.

The Miracle Pouch also failed to detect any omissions.

Rumor had it that the remaining six vials had once been gathered by someone and subsequently vanished for over ten thousand years.

Finding them would clearly not be an easy task.

Looking at his gains over the years, Rosen estimated they would be enough to sustain the World Tree for two to three hundred years.

But after nearly twenty years of constant lightning strikes and hurricane chases, he was reaching his limit.

As he prepared to return the way he had come, he suddenly realized he couldn't find his way back.

His directional compass had somehow malfunctioned without him noticing.

Rosen immediately attempted to leave via data transmission, but to his surprise, it failed as well.

The Quantum Miracle Vial could block data transmission—now even Storm Canyon could do the same?

Estimating his position, Rosen realized he had already reached the final quarter of Storm Canyon.

At this depth, even Sequence 1 beings would struggle to survive for long.

Had Rosen not spent significant effort painting a Sequence 1 Wind-Stabilizing Pearl, treasure hunting at this stage would have been nearly impossible.

It seemed the final quarter of Storm Canyon concealed extraordinary secrets.

After entering the Mysterious Study Room, Rosen used the Sea God Fragment Ring to connect to the Mysterious Sea, summoning his pixie companion.

Over the years, Rosen had frequently taken time to nurture the pixie, forming a strong bond with it.

Faced with the Nightmare Shackles fused with the divine beast seal, the pixie offered no resistance.

It soon evolved from a Spirit World Messenger into Rosen's Sequence 3 hunter pet, allowing both to share most of each other's power.

"Pixie, take a look at the environment outside," Rosen said, placing the pixie on his shoulder as they walked to the window.

"This place feels really strange," the pixie remarked, nibbling its finger while observing the storm and lightning beyond the window.

"This is Storm Canyon, a place where the real world and the surface layer of the spirit world intersect," Rosen explained.

"No, this is already the Deep Spirit World," the pixie said with certainty.

"But it's different from a normal deep spirit world. This seems like a Thought Spirit World, something only a true god-level Spirit World Messenger can access. A true god-level Spirit World Messenger must have fallen here."

"A true god-level Spirit World Messenger?"

Rosen's pupils contracted.

So the formation of Storm Canyon was far more complex than just a battle between true gods.

It was highly likely that the current state of the canyon was due to a great true god from ancient times.

Otherwise, a true god-level Spirit World Messenger wouldn't have fallen here—such beings could only be killed by entities at least one sequence higher.

As Rosen contemplated his way out, the pixie flew through the window without hesitation.

Surprisingly, neither the hurricanes nor the lightning showed any hostility toward the pixie, parting gently to let it pass.

Rosen immediately shared the pixie's power and followed it outside.

After several hours, the pixie led him through the storm to a spatial vortex.

Rosen recognized it at a glance—it was a portal to a spirit realm.

Judging by its strength, it most likely led to a true god-level spirit realm.

The pixie instinctively wanted to enter but simultaneously felt hesitant and fearful.

In the end, it turned back and landed on Rosen's shoulder, looking at him with eager eyes.

Rosen sketched several prophetic paintings, but none showed a way out of Storm Canyon.

It seemed entering this spirit realm was inevitable.

As Rosen stepped through the spatial vortex, he was randomly transported to a corner of the spirit realm.

Surveying his surroundings, he found himself in a nighttime landscape.

Dim moonlight and starlight cascaded over the mountain ranges.

The sky above was both familiar and strange—there were more stars than in the current era.

The environment had low spiritual concentration but unusually dense elemental energy.

Raising the Hunter's Magic Eye high into the sky, Rosen spotted lights thousands of miles away.

Locking onto the location, he activated the Void Eye, opening a wormhole.

Encased within his world domain, Rosen shrank to marble size and entered the wormhole, emerging in the city illuminated by the distant lights.

It was a human city with a population of over a million.

However, the mental state of its inhabitants was filled with numbness and despair.

Using the Ashen Curtain to reflect consciousness and combine it with mind-reading abilities, Rosen quickly understood the situation.

This was the Storm Continent, one of the Sea God's pastures, ruled by the subordinate god, the Storm God.

Countless sea clans lived around the continent, while the humans residing on it were nothing more than sacrifices for the Sea God.

No one knew when they or their family members would be selected as offerings.

Most families carried painful memories of losing loved ones as sacrifices.

The island's humans could access transcendence, but their system differed from the transcendental sequences.

They practiced extraordinary professions such as elemental mages, elemental warriors, and elemental assassins.

It was an era where spirituality was dormant, and elemental power flourished.

Yet this era had even birthed Elemental Messengers, akin to Spirit World Messengers but emerging from the Elemental Realm.

Just as Rosen wanted to learn more about the continent's history, he suddenly sensed a gaze from behind.

Turning around, he saw a towering, muscular figure several meters away, radiating a terrifying pressure.

"The Storm God?" Rosen probed.

"Follow me."

The Storm God nodded and headed toward a nearby tavern.

The patrons inside, who had been drowning their sorrows, suddenly rose with vacant eyes and silently left for home.

The Storm God took a bottle of the strongest liquor from the shelf, sat at the bar, and poured two glasses.

"Let me see your Sea God Fragment Ring."

The Storm God fixed his gaze on Rosen's left hand.

Rosen removed the ring and handed it over.

The Storm God examined it carefully for a long time before returning it.

"You may ask me anything you want," he said bitterly after taking a sip of the potent drink.

Realizing the Storm God bore no ill will, Rosen asked all the questions weighing on his mind.

Several hours later, the Storm God personally escorted Rosen out of the true god spirit realm.

Holding the divine essence crystal gifted by the Storm God, Rosen easily exited the depths of Storm Canyon.

The entire way back, his mind was occupied with the terrifying truths revealed by the Storm God.

The Storm God was a human true god and had once been the object of worship for the humans of Storm Continent.

But he was ultimately forced to bow before the Sea God.

However, the Storm God didn't submit entirely—he secretly conspired with true gods from other races to ambush and kill the Sea God.

Rosen wasn't the first outsider to enter the spirit realm.

Before him, other gods and true gods had ventured inside.

Through exchanges with these other true gods, the Storm God had pieced together the true history of the outside world.

The Storm Continent became the battlefield where the gods besieged the Sea God.

In the end, the Sea God fell there.

But before his death, the Sea God seemingly sacrificed himself to awaken a slumbering Ancient God.

Storm Canyon was essentially the birthplace of the spirit world's prototype.

By sacrificing himself and merging with the Elemental Realm, the Sea God provided the raw materials for the Ancient God to establish the spirit world.

Thus, the Sea God Fragment Rings granted authority over oceanic regions within the spirit world and the ability to create Spirit World Messengers.

The Sea God Fragment Rings were key artifacts for the Sea God's resurrection, and the true god spirit realm was his intended place of rebirth.

The Storm God couldn't erase the Sea God's faith from the spirit realm—doing so would force the realm to reset.

But neither did he want to see the Sea God resurrected.

Thus, whenever an outsider appeared, the Storm God would reveal the truth and send them away.

Knowing that the Sea God Fragment Rings could revive the Sea God, the true gods of the real world would undoubtedly seek to prevent it.

This likely explained why there was not a single mention of the Sea God Fragment Rings on the Spirit World Deep Web.

However, even with such efforts, the Sea God's resurrection could only be delayed at best.

According to the Storm God's estimation, within a few thousand years, the Sea God would meet the conditions for resurrection even without relying on the fragment rings.

If the true gods of the real world didn't want to be subjugated by him, they would have no choice but to kill the Sea God again.

A newly resurrected Sea God would be extremely weak; three to five true gods would be enough to kill him.

But the Sea God had the power to sacrifice himself to awaken the Ancient God.

If that slumbering Ancient God were to awaken again, it would spell catastrophe for the entire main world.

The first to suffer would be humanity—the dominant race of the current era.

(End of Chapter)