Prologue 1: Arcane's End (1)

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In the vast astral bounds, the chaotic and violent astral turbulence flows endlessly, and bits of silver-white stardust drift around.

Suddenly, the astral turbulence in one place slowed down. Slowly, the direction of travel also changed, and finally they all changed their routes, and a calm area appeared in this astral plane for a while. Then, a blue ball of light appeared out of thin air and quickly spread out in all directions, eventually turning into a huge portal.

The massive portal shone brightly, and a small black dot magnified in it, until it even became the shadow of a floating city! It was a huge hemispherical base, on which the top shadows of many buildings faintly appeared.

Eventually, a floating city rushed out of it!!

This floating city floated above the chaotic astral turbulence, and six six-diamond-shaped Acaneng battle castles slowly rotated around the floating city in the shape of six-pointed stars, and at the same time, they were also slowly rotating, and a thin shield of light covered the floating city, resisting the erosion in the astral boundary.

At this time, the already somewhat unstable portal collapsed......

The situation of this floating city is not good, and the walls are full of traces of the Great War: the chopping marks of various weapons, the broken battlements, a large number of damage to the defense weapons of the Ao Neng City, and most of the Ao Neng node crystals are broken, causing the Arcane Crystal Conduction Network to be partially paralyzed...... The city was in shambles, with all kinds of neat houses in large areas damaged, only ruins, and some of them razed to the ground. Only six of the twelve Aoneng Battle Forts, an important Aoneng city defense system, remain.

All kinds of golems and puppets in the city are shuttling around, cleaning up the ruins and various wreckage, especially the golems that have been damaged in battle. These are all logistic golems, but they had to be sent to the battlefield in the fierce battles before, so almost all of them have scars on their bodies, but now there is no way to maintain these logistic golems, and the intact parts should be supplied to the combat golems first, so that they can still maintain their strong combat power in the following battles.

In the center of the floating city, a tall tower towers. This is an arcane tower and the centerpiece of the entire Floating City, and from the outside, this arcane tower is not very tall, only seven floors. But the space inside the tower, blessed by space spells, is much larger than what it looks like from the outside.

On the first floor of the Arcane Tower, rows of steel golems were neatly arranged, totaling nearly 10,000 men, waiting to be maintained, their bodies densely scarred, apparently after fierce battles. A few logistical golems were working on them, and everything was done in silence, except for the occasional glimmer of arcane light in the golem's eyes......

The situation on the second, third, and fourth floors of the Arcane Tower is similar, except that the types of golems are different, from steel golems to diamond golems to arcane golems to arcane golems to arcane guards, and as the number of floors increases, the golems become more and more powerful...... On the fifth floor, the maintenance is carried out by the autonomous-type Arcanon power armor that is already of high legendary strength!!

The sixth floor was the rest room for the Arcanist's minions, but it was long deserted, and they had long since died in years of escape and fighting.

The seventh floor is the real core control room of the entire Floating City, a silver-white sphere is suspended in the center of this space, and there are huge spell loops and energy nodes in it, it looks as if countless numbers make up this sphere - the control core of the Floating City!

A bizarre device was placed directly below the core, a massive sphere with an ornate pedestal underneath it holding the perfect spherical device in place. It looks a lot like a crystal ball, but it's 150 feet in diameter. The orb emits a very bright light, as dazzling as if it were looking directly at the sun, with some faint shadows wandering on the surface.

One of the most important components of the Floating City!

At the same time, around this core, two huge crystals are also suspended in the air, one is silver-white, and the other is purple-black, flickering and shining—Taling! A high-level constructed life that assists the Arcanists in managing the vast and complex affairs of the Floating City, similar to a super-large computer, with immense computing power.

Now it was clear that both towers were working at full speed, with rows of data cascading down from the top of the crystal and quickly being replaced by new ones......

"The astral teleportation is complete, and the encirclement ...... is successfully escaped"

"Self-test start ......"

"Floating City Integrity 64% ......"

"Warning! Warning! The Austrian propulsion system was damaged by space shock during the forced over-distance teleportation! Critical parts are missing and cannot ......be repaired."

"The integrity of the crystal Aoneng transmission pipeline is 86%, but only 33% of the Aoneng node crystal remains, and the Aoneng transportation network is partially paralyzed and is being repaired urgently......"

"The integrity of the urban defense system of Aoneng is 46% ......"

"During the maintenance of the Golem Legion, 49% of the available combat power ......"

"The Aoneng conveyor is overloaded, has been damaged, lacks critical parts, and cannot be repaired......"

"The elemental fusion furnace is 87% intact, and one of the four elemental fission furnaces is damaged, missing critical parts, and cannot be repaired......"

......

"Based on the established model of enemy behavior, it has been calculated that the time until the next enemy is locked - six days, and the time from being caught up - eight days"

"Calculation - Floating City can no longer survive the next pursuit......"

"Master, please leave the Floating City and go into hiding, only then can you save yourself!!"

These two towers had already entered a state of high sanity operating at full speed, but at the end of the report, they still couldn't help but reveal some anxiety in their words.

And their master, the last Grand Arcanist of the Arcane Empire, Muse Newton, was standing quietly under the core of the Floating City, wearing a simple Arcanist robe, with a heavy exhaustion on his face.

"After all, can't you escape?" muttered the Muse, "damn gods, if it weren't for your despicable sneak attack and plotting against the three most powerful Arcane Emperors, how could you possibly defeat us!

"No, even if I'm going to die, I'm going to bury you damned gods!! I'm not going to walk alone on the Styx Road!" the muse smirked suddenly.

"Illya, Elijah, leave the affairs of the Floating City to the low-level Talings. The Muse then commanded, "Now help me with my arcane arts, I have to prepare a big surprise for the gods!"

"Understood! Master. ”

"Decentralization of management authority, first order: overhaul the floating city, second order: the Golem factory is operating at full power, replenishing the Golem combat power......"

"Assist mode is on, soul link is on......"

As the words fell, the souls of the two towers slowly emerged from the huge crystal, and two blue bands of light poked out of it, linking the two towers and the muse.

"Soul Link complete...... Begin arcane modeling...... Arcane model projection ......"

The two huge crystals became transparent in one moment, but returned to their original colors in the next moment, and at the same time, two rays of light were projected from them, and in this aerial image, a three-dimensional model was projected as bright as a galaxy!

It was an incomparably complex arcane model, with an incomparably deep darkness slowly rotating in the center, and around it, there were thousands of dense arcane runes of all kinds, these runes were divided into five layers, and the layers of nested darkness around the center were slowly rotating, and from time to time there was a glimmer of arcane aura......

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