Wadah tempat mereka berada terbuat dari kaca, tapi tidak perlu dibilang kalau ini jauh dari kaca biasa. Lex tidak tahu spesifiknya, tapi pasti harus cukup kuat untuk menahan tekanan apapun yang ditimbulkan dari teleportasi jarak jauh melalui Void.
Mengingat Void berbahaya bagi hampir semua orang, minimal wadah kaca itu harus memiliki pertahanan tingkat Immortal. Kalau Lex harus nebak sembarangan, dia bilang kemungkinan besar levelnya setara Celestial Immortal.
Lex percaya dia bisa memperbaiki pertahanan item level Celestial itu agak arogan. Tapi bukan itu yang dia lakukan. Dia tidak perlu memperbaiki pertahanan seluruh wadah.
Sebaliknya, dia hanya perlu memperkuat proteksi wadah itu secara spesifik dari apa yang melacak dan melukai mereka.
Dengan mata tertutup, Lex merasakan wadah itu, dan spesifiknya retakannya. Tapi ngira tracker berada persis di lokasi wadah retak itu naif. Tracker mungkin tersembunyi cerdik di tempat yang tidak diduga dan tidak bisa ditemukan.
Bukan, yang Lex fokuskan adalah hukum-hukum. Dia tidak bisa lagi melakukan hal-hal sesederhana dan selurus dulu. Dunia lebih rumit dari yang terlihat di permukaan.
Dia juga tidak secara spesifik mencari hukum yang digunakan musuh, siapapun dia dalam kasus ini. Bagi mereka yang bisa menipu pasukan bank, penguasaan hukum mereka, setidaknya dalam menyembunyikan hukum dan aplikasinya, jauh melampaui Lex.
Tapi tujuan mereka hanya melacak diam-diam, lalu menyerang wadah, Lex hanya perlu memperkuat proteksi wadah itu sendiri dari kekuatan eksternal.
Kalau wadah bisa menahan Void, dan segala ancaman lain perjalanan ini secara normal, berarti wadah ini dibuat dengan baik. Lex memanfaatkan kemampuannya menahan Void, dan memperkuatnya, memperluas cakupan hal yang harus diamankan.
Dia menggunakan konsep abstrak untuk melawan banyak hal tidak diketahui situasinya, dan konsep konkret untuk hal-hal yang jelas.
Dulu waktu Lex melawan Cornelius, dan menemukan Lawcraft pertama kali, mempelajari cara raja, Lex menemukan kedalaman hukum yang melampaui pemahamannya, tapi sekaligus kompleksitas itu didasarkan pada pengalaman Cornelius sendiri.
Dia menyatukan identitas dan pengalaman sendiri ke Lawcraft-nya. Lex tidak tahu apakah itu membuatnya lebih baik atau tidak, dia akan bereksperimen nanti. Untuk sekarang, Lex mengungkapkan Lawcraft buatan sendiri pertamanya.
Hukum-hukum di dalam wadah bergetar, dan tiba-tiba semua orang merasakan perubahan.
Gerard dan Velma tidak akan terkejut apa pun yang Lex lakukan. Meski mereka tidak percaya teori Z soal Lex menyembunyikan realm kultivasinya, mereka percaya padanya. Ripley, di sisi lain, tidak bisa menahan diri untuk tidak memandang Lex dengan tatapan saat dia audit sesuatu, dan yang dia lihat luar biasa.
Di lingkungan wadah yang terus berubah, wadah itu seperti titik di kosmos. Tiba-tiba titik itu mendapatkan aura dominasi yang sulit digambarkan. Bukan dominasi pejuang atau penyerang. Tidak, ini rasa dominasi yang datang dengan keyakinan mutlak bahwa tidak ada yang bisa melukainya sama sekali. Aura yang datang dengan memandang ke bawah segalanya, karena pasti tidak cukup.
Saat Lex membuka matanya lagi, dia menoleh ke gambar yang Velma masih tampilkan. Gambar seluruh ruangan tidak terlihat, lebih seperti mereka melihat keluar dari portal atau koneksi apa pun yang terhubung ke wadah mereka.
Mereka melihat tim-tim gargoyle berpecah, dengan beberapa bahkan kelihatannya memasuki gambar, jelas menuju ke arah mereka.
Semua orang menyiapkan diri untuk serangan… tapi tidak terjadi apa-apa. Sama sekali tidak ada reaksi. Mereka menunggu beberapa saat lagi, bertanya-tanya apakah butuh waktu, tapi Lex tersenyum tipis.
Tidak ada yang lain merasakan, tapi dia merasakan. Seperti serangga hancur di kaca jendela mobil yang berjalan. Gargoyle-gargoyle, yang Lex duga sebenarnya jauh lebih kuat darinya, mati begitu saja, tanpa sedikit petunjuk memperlihatkan perlawanan.
Pikiran Lex cepat menganalisis apa yang benar-benar terjadi, dan memahami bagaimana dan mengapa dia bisa menunjukkan kekuatan jauh melebihi levelnya. Lex percaya diri, tapi tidak bodoh. Tidak mungkin dia seharusnya begitu mudah menghancurkan tim gargoyle yang dikumpulkan untuk menyerang delegasi ke bank.
Kalau ada… Lex curiga ada rahasia lebih besar di balik wadah ini dari yang dia duga.
"Ripley, kamu tahu tidak wadah ini terbuat dari apa? Kaca apa ini?" tanya Lex santai, tanpa menyebutkan serangan sama sekali.
"Saya tidak tahu spesifiknya, saya tidak biasa bepergian lewat wadah," jawab Ripley. "Ini wadah standar yang dipakai bank. Saya bisa cari tahu asalnya. Kamu bertanya-tanya apakah ini dimanipulasi dari sumbernya?"
"Bukan, saya bertanya-tanya beli di mana," bisik Lex. Sebenarnya dia ingin bikin pedang dari material ini, tapi begitu pikiran itu muncul, dia merasakan Naraka marah, jadi dia cepat mengubah kalimatnya.
Satu-satunya alasan lain yang dia bisa pikirkan kenapa dia bisa memamerkan kekuatan luar biasa itu adalah wadah ini istimewa, atau mungkin lawcraft-nya bekerja sangat baik selama teleportasi.
Gambar yang Velma tampilkan tiba-tiba menghilang, tapi sebelum ada yang bisa bertanya, Gerard berbicara.
"Kebocoran energi sudah berhenti."
"Kurasa sudah beres," kata Ripley.
Lex menggelengkan kepala. Orang-orang ini… Seperti mereka tidak pernah terlibat masalah tak terduga sebelumnya. Gimana mereka bisa bilang sudah beres? Jelas baru saja dimulai.
Beberapa menit kemudian, wadah tiba di Uzuz, dan yang mereka lihat adalah kekacauan.
The container they were in was made of glass, but it need not be said that this was far from ordinary glass. Lex did not know the specifics of the glass, but it definitely needed to be strong enough to resist whatever pressure was exerted from long distance teleportation through the Void.
Considering that the Void was dangerous to just about everyone, at minimum the glass container needed to have defense at the immortal level. If Lex had to take an arbitrary guess, he would say that it was probably at the level of a Celestial Immortal.
For Lex to believe that he could improve the defense of an item at the Celestial level was more than a little arrogant. But that's not what Lex was doing. He didn't need to improve the defense of the entire container.
Rather, he needed to improve the containers' protection specifically from whatever was tracking and harming them.
With his eyes closed, Lex sensed the container, and specifically the crack. But to assume that the tracker was located at the exact location where the container was cracking was naive. The tracker was probably hidden ingeniously in some place no one would suspect or could find.
No, what Lex focused on was the laws. He could no longer do things as simple and straightforwardly as before. The world was more complicated than what appeared on the surface.
He also did not specifically look for the laws used by the enemy, whoever it may be in this case. For them to be able to fool the bank's forces, their mastery of laws, at least in hiding the laws and their applications, far surpassed Lex.
But while their purpose was to covertly track, and then attack the container, Lex needed only to enhance the container's own protection from external forces.
If the container could resist the Void, and everything else this journey threatened in the norm, then it was well made. Lex used its ability to resist the Void, and enhanced it, made it greater, and broadened the scope of what it was to defend against.
He used abstract concepts to fight against the many unknowns of his situation, and used the solid concepts for the things that were straightforward.
Back when Lex fought Cornelius, and discovered Lawcraft for the first time, studying the king's means, Lex discovered that there was a depth to laws that surpassed his comprehension, but at the same time that complexity was grounded in Cornelius' own experiences.
He merged his own identity and experiences into his Lawcraft. Lex did not know if that made things better or not, he would experiment later. For now, Lex revealed his first ever self created Lawcraft.
The laws in the container trembled, and suddenly everyone felt a change take place.
Gerard and Velma would not be surprised no matter what Lex did. Though they did not necessarily believe Z's theory of Lex hiding his cultivation realm, they had faith in him. Ripley, on the other hand, could not help but look at Lex with the same gaze he did when he was auditing something, and what he saw was something remarkable.
In the ever changing, ever in flux surroundings of the container, the container was like a speck in the cosmos. But suddenly that speck gained an aura of dominance that could not be described so easily. It was not the dominance of a warrior or an attacker. No, this was the sense of dominance that came with having absolute faith that nothing could harm it at all. It was the aura that came with looking down at everything else, for it would inevitably be insufficient.
When Lex opened his eyes once more, he turned to look at the image that Velma was still portraying. An image of the whole room was not visible, it was more like they were looking out of whatever portal or connection was attached to their container.
They saw as teams of gargoyles split up, with a few of them even seemed to enter through the image, clearly coming towards them.
Everyone braced themselves for the attack… but nothing happened. There was no reaction at all. They waited a few moments more, wondering if maybe the attack would take some time, but Lex smirked softly.
No one else felt anything, but he did. It was like an insect getting squished on the window of a driving car. The gargoyles, who Lex suspected were actually much stronger than him, died just like that, without the slightest hint of putting up a fight.
Lex's mind quickly started to dissect what actually happened, and figure out how and why he was able to show strength way beyond his level. Lex was confident, but not stupid. There was no way he should have been able to so easily take out a team of gargoyles that had been assembled to attack delegations to the bank.
If anything… Lex suspected that there was a greater secret to this very container than he expected.
"Ripley, do you happen to know what this container is made from? What is this glass?" Lex asked very casually, without mentioning the attack at all.
"I do not know the specifics, I don't normally travel through containers," Ripley said. "These are standard containers used by the bank. I can find out their origins. Are you wondering if it was tampered with from the source?"
"No, I'm wondering where I can buy one," Lex said softly. Actually, he wanted to make a sword out of this material, but as soon as he had that thought, he could feel Naraka getting upset with him, so he changed his sentence real quick.
The only other thing he could think of why he was able to display such amazing power was that the container was special, or maybe his lawcraft worked particularly well during teleportation.
The image Velma was showing suddenly disappeared, but before anyone could ask what happened, Gerard spoke.
"The energy leakage has stopped."
"I think it's over," Ripley said.
Lex shook his head. These people… It was as if they'd never been involved in unexpected trouble before. How could they say that it was over? Things were clearly just beginning.
A few minutes later, the container arrived at Uzuz, and what they saw was chaos.
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