After playing the role of Furcas, Jacob didn't stay any longer and vanished just as he appeared after 'instructing' Constant Baron-0.
Although he knew this might be risky, he was willing to take the risk for long-term benefits instead of short-term ones.
Furthermore, with the Eyes of Judge, he knew Constant Baron-0 wasn't lying or faking her devotion at all. She was really convinced about getting Furcas' favor and would follow his instructions diligently because she saw nothing but benefits in doing so.
"Do you really want to release her? What if she figured out we had been playing her and revealed everything?" Nyx inquired since she had her concerns about Constant Baron-0 and didn't want to let her go just like that.
Jacob replied impassively, "I know it's a gamble, but do you think she can get in touch with soone who knows the King of Hell Knights? She was even having trouble with a Constant Viscount and his minions.
"Furthermore, if I killed her now, the ATLAS will be alerted to her death just like in the past. I don't know about the others, but Constant Viscount and his Golden Constant minion knew who Constant Baron-0 had targeted before she perished.
"That's why I'm willing to take this risk. This is a chance to enter the core of the ATLAS and get as much information as possible about it. Even if I don't get their secrets, as long as I can have enough of them killed imdiately, it'll be worth the effort."
Jacob's eyes flickered cunningly as he ordered, "I need you to prepare her before we set her free, and then she'll personally welco the 'proxy' of the King of Hell Knights to this Tiless City! I'm tired of others ambushing all the ti; it's ti I started returning the favor! You'll also start with the Virtual Star World and gather the Lifespan!"
"Alright, give a few hours to 'educate' her." Nyx agreed, as she also understood Jacob's position better than anyone else.
Jacob nodded before he cut Nyx's vision again. He didn't tell her about the lifespan he'll get from raiding the Tiless City since it was irrelevant for her to know.
At this mont, he summoned Specin-1, Alma, and she seed to have regained her previous form after Jacob stopped his research on her.
Nonetheless, the mont she appeared before Jacob, she shuddered in fear but remained still as she had accepted her new reality with Soul Tether Hex's help.
"Let's start," Jacob impassively said as the Life Bane Wheel appeared behind Alma, and her nightmare began again!
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The process lasted for only a few hours, and this ti, Jacob didn't hold back and only stopped when Alma was on the verge of death before sending her away for recuperation.
Nevertheless, he gained more insights and knew he was closer to getting what he wanted.
"She's ready!" Nyx's voice rang out at this mont.
Jacob's eyes flickered before he left the Infinite Space again, used the Infinite Blood Sacrifice, and made a wish.
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Wish: I wish to teleport into the residence of the Constant Baron-0 inside the Tiless City of ATLAS within the Legendary Plains/Middle Galaxies!
Cost: 100% Infinity Blood… or 25,000 Years of Lifespan!
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'It's more than I've expected…' Jacob thought, but he still felt quite thrilled about the prospect of appearing right next to his target as long as he knew their nas and locations.
"Carry through!"
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-Lifespan: 789,144 Years (All Youthful)
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The next mont, Jacob vanished from the Evil Domain, and he instantly activated the Gluttony Mask as well. After all, he knew that 'person' would probably sense his location here because he had appeared there previously.
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Stretching across the far reaches of the Legendary Plains was a monstrous crack torn into space itself, a pitch-black rift.
There were no stars around this Rift, only a sky sared with streaks of corrupted aurora, flickering like dying embers trapped in a vacuum. Jagged cliffs jutted from the ground at impossible angles, shrouded in a perpetual twilight haze. Gravity shifted unpredictably here—stones floated, rivers bled upward, and shadows twisted in directions that defied logic.
But the most unnerving part was the silence, not the peaceful kind, but the kind that scread of unseen eyes, of things slithering beneath the fractured crust, watching.
This was one of the most dangerous forbidden regions of the Legendary Plains, the Shadows of the Abyssal Rift!
Everyone avoided this place. So brave ones who dared to enter were found decades later, aged beyond recognition, their minds lost in endless loops of trauma. Others simply vanished—swallowed by the Shadows of the Abyssal Rift.
The reason for these phenona was that there were zones within the Rift where space bent like liquid, and ti unraveled in fits and starts. Entering was easy, but Leaving was as difficult as ascending to the Upper Plains!
Furthermore, this place also makes it impossible for prying eyes to probe because the space-ti distortion and anything related to magic won't work here.
However, despite that, deep within the Rift's innermost distortion zone, where ti blurred and light itself slowed to a crawl, floated a city that shouldn't exist.
The Tiless City was neither ancient nor new. Its architecture shifted subtly with each breath—sotis a spiraling palace of black jade and silver, sotis a broken ruin of charred ruins, and sotis a vibrant sprawl glowing with neon arrays of terrifying formations.
It was shielded by a massive hourglass-shaped barrier suspended upside-down in the sky. Its sands flowed upward, each grain a fragnt of ti itself.
No outsider stumbled upon the Tiless City by accident. It existed on a fragnt of spaceti carved out by the most heinous origination, the ATLAS—sealed away from cause and consequence.
Only those recognized by the city's core formation, the Temporal Sigil, could find their path, and even then, they would find themselves caught in a trial of mory and illusion before being granted entry.
However, today, soone suddenly appeared in this place after bypassing all the terrifying protection asures—it was Jacob!
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