Max watched in awe, his eyes narrowing slightly. He had never seen these types of red energy stones before—not in any texts, not in any guild vault, and certainly not in the wild. But even without recognition, his senses were sharp enough to understand one thing clearly—the power emanating from these crystals was on a completely different level.
Their energy fluctuations dwarfed even the most advanced high-rank monster cores or the infamous Sinful Bone Frames he had seen in the darker corners of the Mourning Depths. It was like comparing the light of a candle to the radiance of a star.
And it made sense. For a teleportation rune formation of this scale—spanning ten miles across and capable of crossing planetary boundaries—ordinary energy sources simply wouldn't suffice. The tower would need something rare, something ancient, something far beyond what this realm commonly produced.
