Leo, who was watching the Red Dragon and Administrator slowly accumulating their own powers made him felt terrible, it was like he's just the ornamental flower between the three of them, who only looks good on the surface but inherently has no purpose to serve.
He hated this type of helplessness and inability to help when a certain situation arises, he should've been the one who could command and assess a situation easily, and yet...
He vigorously shook his head and forced himself to calm down while silently thinking.
'I shouldn't bother myself with these useless feelings of inferiority, I should focus on finding a way to help with the current situation we're in.'
Then he thought that he should be able to provide some assistance to Administrator by doing what he could only do.
Thus, he closed his eyes and willed his energy some more to speed up the search for his other teammates while still maintaining high vigilance towards his surroundings at the same time.
This kind of multitasking is quite an easy feat for Seers to do as their class is inherently focused on monitoring the statuses of their connected teammates, so it is only natural for them to have the ability to divide their consciousness to talk to multiple people at the same time.
Though he could also provide some buffs for Administrator, they're not even fighting right now so what could his tactical buffs possibly do to her accumulation of energy?
He also had a thought of distracting the dragon from its energy accumulation but he did not dare risk it as the dragon was far more dangerous than when he fought it before.
With how terrifying its energy level it was currently in, it would be a wonder if Leo wouldn't get sent flying with just a single whip of its huge and sharp draconic tail.
So he could only guard Administrator by her side against any possible attacks from the Red Dragon and wait for her to finish her energy accumulation.
Of course, he had not forgotten to maintain his carpet scanning on the entire Endless Desert to search for the possible traces of his roaming teammates.
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The scorchingly hot aura of the Red Dragon was getting increasingly hot as time passed by, and right now, the heat that it produced had even reached Leo and Administrator who were a whole mile away from the place it was revamping its aura.
Leo had a solemn expression while Administrator had a slight frown on her face but they did not let themselves get distracted from focusing on their own respective tasks.
Leo had already scoured at least 75% of the whole continent but he still could not find anyone so his face was quite solemn and anxious, meanwhile, Administrator's aura was surging rapidly while her hair was wildly fluttering behind her because of the ferocious aura coming from the dragon and the artifact in her hands at the same time.
The first restriction of the artifact had already been slowly corroding under her endless assault using her vast reserves of energy and it's only a matter of time before it would completely dissipate and turn into nothingness.
If this first restriction really broke then she would gain the ability to wield at least 15% of its power while also receiving various benefits from it at the same time.
It should be known that with the various restrictions imposed on the artifact its mighty prowess had been mostly sealed and suppressed to a depressing amount of 5-8%, but even with this meager amount it still had the capability to give its owner an astonishing increase in their fighting powers.
What's more if she had really unlocked 15% of the artifact's power? One could only say that the benefits and effects that it would give to their wielder would be a shocking qualitative increase to their fighting prowess that even Irene who binded the artifact for herself dared not try to imagine.
A few seconds passed and the artifact in the hands of Administrator suddenly produced a soft kacha noise as if something inside was broken and what came next was the shedding of its 'skin', the surface of the artifact seemed to glow more bright than before and even its closed eye looked more alive and realistic.
It then produced a gentle wave of aura which temporarily offsets the scorching heat of the dragon, the effects of breaking its first restriction did not just end on that though, because it seemed like the Shamanistic Space which she established earlier was even affected by it.
Her space occasionally produced a low humming noise which made the obscured and mystical mumbling of the space sound more cryptic and mysterious with each humming that it produced, this, in turn, gave her skills an increment on their effects while also enabling her to cast each of her skills faster.
This sudden increase in powers gave her even more confidence in herself but she did not stop pushing her shamanistic energy towards the artifact in her hands in an attempt to break the second restriction of the artifact sooner.
When a whole minute passed, her aura had already become even more strong and unfathomably deeper than ever, this was the sign that she had already managed to fully absorb and get used to the effects that the artifact had brought to her.
Her much stronger energy surged again and ferociously attacked the barrier which represented the toughness of the second imposed restriction of the artifact.
It was much easier to corrode the first layer of restriction as it was relatively weaker in defensive strength but the same could not be said to the second barrier as it would only consume much more time instead if she were to indeed use that same method.
Thus she could only hit the barrier repeatedly for another minute before she felt that it was already sufficiently weak which was the sign that her time has come so she immediately gathered and hurriedly but carefully compressed all of the energy she could muster into a single entity which would enable her to pierce the second barrier in one single swoop.
It did not take too long for her shamanistic energy to gather and become a huge ball of light which produced a series of extremely dangerous sparks of wind and lightning inside her.
She immediately and unhesitatingly released the terrifying ball of energy and used it to break through the artifact's second barrier of restriction.
The seemingly tough second barrier was instantly torn apart by the energy that she accumulated and in that instant, the artifact glowed another light yet again, the light made the artifact look new and bright but then its somewhat smooth and shining surface suddenly displayed another series of cracks, it did not take too long for its surface to break apart like a beautiful butterfly coming out of its cocoon
The new look of the Pyramidal Eye of the Ancients finally revealed itself before the eyes of those present.
It had an extremely smooth and seemingly glistening surface that made the artifact look like a triangular black jade, and the closed eye on its center became even more alive than ever, one could even vaguely see that its eyelid was slightly fluttering as if its in the midst of waking up when in fact it was not.
Administrator, who held the artifact in her hands was slightly fascinated by its current appearance but she immediately snapped out of it while her peerlessly beautiful face displayed a slight and displeased frown.
All this time, the artifact was steadily consuming her energy to maintain its appearance but even then she did not feel that it took a huge burden on her, in fact, she could even ignore its measly expenditure from before, but now, she suddenly felt that her energy was being rapidly consumed by the artifact which made her feel pressured to rush things out.
She feared that all of her energy would be sucked out by the artifact in her hand if she were to keep this type of huge expenditure for a longer amount of time, the artifact truly consumed too much, it was like it had suddenly become a terrifyingly bottomless black hole.
Administrator had no plans on unlocking the third layer of restriction any further as it wouldn't be beneficial to her at all and would instead give her a heavy burden on her mind to bear, she also had to maintain her clarity in regards to her status and energy to prevent herself from dropping to tremendously dangerous levels that would usually result to the so-called energy deviation.
It's a terrifying injury that a body would get from fully exhausting the energies in their bodies that could even lead them to their untimely and tragic deaths, which would only happen if the person in question had recklessly used and completely exhausted the energy reserves of their body.
Administrator did not want her predecessor's body to die because of her recklessness thus, she immediately released the artifact in her hands and let it remain afloat above her left hand while its closed eye was directly looking up towards the vast azure blue skies.