Dimensional Keeper: All My Skills Are at Level 100 - Chapter 1259

Chapter 1259: A hope for the Humans
Max reached into his robes and placed a single storage ring on the table. It looked ordinary at first glance, unremarkable even, no different than the countless rings they used every day. Yet Max pushed it toward the center of the table as though it held the fate of the world hidden inside its dull silver surface.

“This is it,” Max said quietly.

Aden frowned. He picked up the ring with mild confusion. “This is just a storage ring. How would this help humanity survive the calamity of the red cloud?”

“It is not just a storage ring,” Max replied. “Check it first.”

Aden extended his soul force into the ring and the expression on his face shattered instantly. For the first time in centuries, Aden Fireborne, leader of the Phoenix God Nation, lost all composure. His eyes widened. His aura shook. He stared at Max as though he had just handed him the heavens.

“This… this…! There is an entire small world inside this ring! How could such a thing be possible?!”

Gasps echoed through the chamber and several leaders stood again, unable to suppress their reactions. Victor Whiteclaw immediately reached for the ring with trembling fingers. He inserted his soul force and froze completely. His lips parted, but no words left him at first, as if he could not trust his own senses.

“This… this cannot be real. A storage ring housing a whole world. A complete ecosystem. Land. Skies. Energy circulation systems. This defies all logic. Even the greatest Legendary Rank artifacts never came close to this…”

Under normal circumstances, a Legendary Rank storage ring could hold the space equivalent of a large hall. A few rare ones, forged by extinct races of ancient times, could hold slightly more. But an entire world? That was something beyond human craftsmanship. That was something that belonged to heavenly beings or primordial titans.

One by one the ring circulated between the leaders. With every passing moment, shock gave way to awe, awe turned into disbelief, and disbelief transformed into pure reverence.

Even Freya’s eyes widened when she sensed it. And Lucien—calm, confident Lucien—felt a shiver of excitement run down his back. The weight of what this object meant settled into every corner of the chamber like a second atmosphere.

If one storage ring could contain an entire miniature world…

If enough such rings could be made…

If they could place their people inside them before the dark red cloud fully descended…

Then humanity had a chance.

A real, tangible chance.

The world did not have to end in silence.

Max watched them quietly, letting the realization sink deeper and deeper. And as it did, every leader present felt something they had not felt in a very long time.

Hope.

But alas a storage ring capable of storing humans hadn’t been created in the Acaris as of yet.

The weight of silence that settled over the great round chamber felt almost unnatural. Dozens of leaders—all of them beings who had lived through wars, calamities, ascensions, and eras—could not speak as the ring glimmered faintly in Lady Divine’s hand.

The woman herself, calm and composed under even the harshest pressures of the world, now appeared caught between disbelief and fascination. Her fingers tightened slightly around the ring as she looked at Max for confirmation.

“Use your soul force,” Max instructed with a casual ease that felt surreal in the tension of the room. “Just like you would when storing objects in a normal ring. Only this time, instead of directing it toward an object, direct it toward yourself.”

Lady Divine’s brows lifted ever so slightly, yet she obeyed without hesitation. A soft glow flickered around her form, her spiritual energy briefly rising as she channeled her soul into the ring. The light around her body deepened for an instant, like a mist ready to swallow her.

And then—

She vanished.

The chair she had been sitting on remained still and untouched. The only thing left behind was her empty robe sleeve gently swaying from the displaced air and the ring itself clattering onto the table with a clear, crisp sound. That single sound echoed through the chamber like an impossible truth being hammered into everyone’s minds.

Everyone shot to their feet in a collective shock that shook the hall.

Before the panic began, Max raised a hand, his tone steady. “She is in the small world inside the ring.”

Alexander Draconis was the first to find his voice, though even he sounded breathless. “How can a living being enter a storage ring?” His pupils trembled. “I have never heard of such a thing. Even ancient artifacts could not store living organisms, let alone humans…”

Other leaders murmured in disbelief. The legendary experts of the Seven Overlord Forces stared at the ring as if it were a divine treasure. Rune masters in the room felt a chill race down their spines as the foundations of everything they understood about storage artifacts cracked before their eyes.

Freya was already reaching for the ring before anyone else moved. Her expression did not bend much, but the slight shift of her eyes was enough to show that even she was unsettled. She lifted the ring with a single controlled breath and gently pushed her soul force into it with a command-like intention.

Light pulsed from the ring’s surface.

A heartbeat later, Lady Divine reappeared in the exact spot she had vanished from. Her feet touched the ground lightly, but her expression was anything but steady. Her normally composed face now shimmered with astonishment, her eyes wider than Max had ever seen them.

“I was inside the ring,” she said, her voice shaking with equal parts wonder and disbelief. “It did not feel like an artifact space. I did not feel compressed. I did not feel displaced. The world inside felt natural—sky, land, breath, essence flowing all around me. It never once occurred to me that I had entered a storage ring. It was… astonishing.”

Every leader listened with rapt attention; no one blinked, no one interrupted.

Lady Divine was not just any expert—she was one of the strongest rune masters in the world, the creator of countless storage rings and the authority behind many legendary artifacts. For someone like her to be shocked meant the item they were witnessing defied all known logic of creation.

She looked down at the ring again, her fingers trembling in a rare display of emotion.

“This completely changes everything,” she whispered. “It breaks every limitation we have ever believed storage rings possessed.”

Max said nothing at first. He simply watched the dawning awe across the faces of everyone present—leaders of nations, masters of sects, protectors of cities, wielders of divine-ranked power.

It was the same look they wore centuries ago when they first learned the sky could open portals or when the nulls had descended and changed the meaning of death. Except now, it was hope rather than despair that flickered in their eyes.

A single ring.

A single world within a ring.

A single possibility for salvation.

And everyone realized it at the exact same moment:

If one living being could safely enter that world…

Then millions could.

Humanity could survive.

Their world may crumble, but their people would not have to die with it.

The meeting chamber, for the first time in a very long time, filled not with fear…

…but with a rising tide of trembling, uncontrollable hope.