The Supreme God

Holding the dazzling precious bead in its entirety, Austin looked at the queen lying between the two shells, carrying the weight of her body.

Austin felt the energy of the bead, emanating and channeling its close bond to the queen. In a little while, the oneness of the two became more evident—the bead belonged to the queen, and the queen belonged to the bead.

Witnessing such a process, Austin felt that he must also take the queen with him if he wanted to take the bead.

If he didn't do so, it would be very difficult to take the bead away. The bead might not even survive without the queen beside it.

With such a strong bond between the two, it would be nearly impossible for the bead to be separated from the queen.

Austin carefully ran his spiritual energy, making it flow toward the queen, yet he could not tell if she was still alive.

The queen lay quietly in a graceful position. With nothing but a thin layer of gauze around her body, she was almost half naked. Her curves were clearly defined along the edges, and her features were faintly yet pleasantly highlighted. A string of intoxicating fragrance wafted from her body constantly. She was indeed a beautiful woman.

"That's it, you are coming with me!"

Austin finally made the decision. He could not resist the temptation of acquiring the bead so he devised ways to take the queen with him as well.

"There's no harm in trying to refine this bead with the power that I already have."

Austin carefully released his power into the bead, hoping that something good would come out of it.

Hallucination Bead!" The name came to him as he ran his spiritual energy to check it.

the bead was and what it could do.

of his spiritual power into the bead,

all day, trying refining the bead, Austin stopped and simply gave up.

a disappointment. I can't completely refine it. It obviously has something to do with it sharing a strong bond

behaves as if its entire being

as far as the bead alone is concerned, I am able to control it for the time

like the queen has granted me a kind of permission to

had just realized. What did the queen want? Why did

his fingers and across his palms, wanting to

Suddenly, "Boom! Boom! Boom!"

A tirade of louder noises quickly followed and overwhelmed the maze which began to shake violently. It seemed that a terrible earthquake was

over as if caught in the middle of a strong tornado.

started collapsing in chunks of what used to be roofs, walls, and ceilings. After some time, what was left was nothing more than minute particles of sand and dust, effectively clouding up the surroundings into zero visibility.

surprise, every single chunk, fragment, and particle of whatever disintegrated, bonded together and rushed toward the Hallucination Bead, like metallic dust to

round of deafening and earth-shattering explosions

pieces merged into numerous big rivers while every bit of length of the stream was swallowed in by the Hallucination Bead akin to a helpless

"Aaargh!"