100\% DROP RATE : Why is My Inventory Always so Full? Chapter 798 - Fix

The full Keeper network became clearer after that.

It connected their old continental formations through routes hidden beneath the seas, but those routes were only the surface function.

The deeper structures wrapped themselves around the Primordial Slime’s protections without ever piercing their cores.

They siphoned information from the seals.

They altered the energy flowing toward them.

Some sections even carried false recognition patterns designed to make damaged restraints interpret an imprisoned authority as something increasingly compatible with the surrounding world.

The Keepers had been trying to loosen the prisons without waking their defenses.

They had failed to complete the process.

The Thousand Races had stopped them before the Primordial Incarnations could return through those routes.

Yet the machinery remained.

Worse, parts of it had spent so long fused with natural flow that the world had begun treating them like ordinary structures.

That was why destroying everything carelessly would be almost as dangerous as leaving it alone.

Lucien looked over the reconstructed map.

The divination warning finally made complete sense.

Moving the continents would shift old fracture lines.

Several dormant routes would reconnect automatically.

And once enough of them matched their original geometry, the network would resume doing what it had been designed to do.

The world itself could have completed the Keepers’ work.

Lucien stared at the map for a long moment.

"Good thing we checked."

Nobody disagreed.

•••

Removing the network took considerably longer than Lucien first expected.

They could not simply destroy every Keeper node they found.

Some formations had wrapped themselves so tightly around the ancient seals that even severing the wrong auxiliary line could be interpreted as interference.

Others had fused with natural leylines that now supplied entire stretches of the ocean.

The first few attempts made the danger painfully clear.

At one damaged node, the Collegium identified what appeared to be a harmless connecting rib.

Lucien began separating it.

Arctyx’s third eye flared.

"Stop."

They froze immediately.

A moment later, the Lunarians found the problem.

The line they were about to remove had been redirected centuries ago and now carried part of the pressure balancing one of the Primordial seals.

Destroying it would not have broken the prison.

It would have made one side of the restraint bear far more pressure than the others.

Given enough time, that imbalance could have caused the seal to collapse by itself.

Lucien slowly withdrew his Living Creation.

After that, nobody called any piece harmless until three different methods had confirmed it.

The Collegium reconstructed each section before Lucien touched it.

The Lunarians separated artificial flow from natural flow and built temporary replacements wherever the Keeper network had become structurally necessary.

The Celestials purified lingering authority only after confirming that the purification itself would not provoke the ancient restraint.

Arctyx watched for concealed loops and false endpoints.

Only then did Lucien remove the Keeper structure.

Even with all of them working together, progress was slow.

That was unavoidable.

The Primordial Slime had built something meant to remain functional even after its creator disappeared.

Lucien respected that more with every node they uncovered.

•••

The first successful removal took nearly half a day.

Living Creation entered the artificial formation through a route the Collegium had isolated beforehand.

Lucien did not overpower the structure.

He gradually separated what the Keepers had added from what the world had absorbed.

Foreign runes peeled away from natural energy channels.

A hidden Gate lost its anchors one at a time.

The Lunarians transferred the pressure it had been carrying into a temporary array while Lucien restored the damaged leyline beneath it.

Only when the surrounding structure became completely independent did he collapse the Gate.

The sea trembled.

The Primordial seal beneath them remained silent.

Everyone relaxed slightly.

Lucien looked at the empty space where the Keeper node had existed.

"That’s the method."

Hundreds remained.

The work became faster once they understood the procedure, but it never became careless.

Some nodes required hours.

Others required days because their roots had spread too deeply into the ocean floor.

Several could not be removed at all until Lucien repaired the surrounding world first.

The aquatic ancient beasts guarded the operation while the others worked.

Most creatures living in those depths sensed the old authority around the seals and kept their distance.

The few that approached aggressively were removed before they could disturb anything important.

Lucien appreciated monsters that understood self-preservation.

•••

The final structure lay beneath the deepest region the Grandmaster had marked.

They found it inside a trench so deep that the water above seemed to possess its own weight.

Arctyx opened his third eye fully.

Crimson light traveled through the darkness.

Then he became very still.

"This is the center."

Lucien followed his gaze.

The formation was enormous.

Its visible portion was only a fraction of the whole. Most of it had been folded through layers of rock and threaded around one of the oldest surviving branches of the Primordial Slime’s sealing network.

Lucien’s expression hardened.

This node had once synchronized the underwater Keeper routes.

It was also the closest any of them had come to the actual seal.

That made it far more dangerous than the others.

The Keepers had constructed the central Gate around the seal’s outer recognition layer and used its own pressure as camouflage.

If continental movement restored enough of the surrounding geometry, the Gate would awaken.

Then it would begin feeding altered signals back into the seal.

Not enough to shatter it immediately.

Enough to make the ancient restraint weaken itself.

The cleverness of it irritated Lucien.

The Keepers had found the one approach that allowed them to attack the prison without making the prison realize it was being attacked.

No wonder the damage had survived for so long.

Lucien placed one hand against the water.

"Nobody touches anything until we’re certain."

Nobody objected.

They spent almost an entire day studying the center.

The Collegium traced every connection.

The Lunarians created a complete replacement path for the leylines passing through it.

The Celestials isolated foreign authority without cleansing it yet.

Arctyx kept his third eye open until blood began gathering at the corner, refusing to close it while the final hidden loops remained uncertain.

Only after every route had been accounted for did Lucien begin.

Living Creation spread downward.

Slowly.

The central formation resisted separation because too much of it had become part of the surrounding environment.

Lucien changed his approach.

Instead of tearing the Keeper structure away, he restored the world beneath it first.

Broken stone reconnected.

Natural energy channels reformed around their original paths.

Damaged portions of the ancient pressure network stabilized.

As the world recovered, it stopped needing the artificial support the Keepers had forced into it.

One by one, the foreign structures became unnecessary.

The Gate loosened.

Lucien waited.

Nothing from the Primordial seal reacted.

He continued.

Several layers separated.

The Collegium redirected their remaining functions.

The Lunarians released the temporary channels in sequence.

Finally, only the Keeper core remained.

Lucien closed his hand.

The structure unraveled.

For several seconds, Lucien did not move.

Finally, he exhaled.

"Done."

•••

They repaired the rest of the ocean afterward.

Lucien refused to leave the old weaknesses untouched simply because the Keeper network was gone.

They decided to upgrade the Tidewatch Network so it could recognize threats originating beneath the defensive perimeter instead of only approaching from outside.

The Lunarians reinforced the most sensitive leyline fractures without connecting their new formations directly to the Primordial seals.

Celestial purification nodes were positioned far enough away that their authority could cleanse contamination without provoking the ancient defenses.

Lucien restored damaged seabed structures with Living Creation and created buffer regions around the most dangerous sealing sites.

Those buffers mattered.

Nobody would accidentally wander into one of the old prisons and start experimenting.

Lucien knew exactly how people behaved once something was labeled mysterious.

Arctyx agreed far too quickly when Lucien suggested restricting access.

By the time they finished, the seas were not harmless.

Lucien no longer expected any part of the world to deserve that description.

But the hidden routes were gone.

The Keeper network could no longer reconnect itself when the continents moved.

The Primordial Slime’s remaining seals had been isolated from the structures trying to undermine them.

Most importantly, they now understood what could and could not be touched.

Lucien returned to the surface.

Sunlight spread across the water as he emerged.

For several moments, he remained above the sea and looked toward the distant horizon.

The revised divinations no longer showed the same danger around the continental reunification.

The path was finally open.

Lucien smiled faintly.

Now he only needed to convince several billion people that rearranging the geography of their world was a completely reasonable next step.