The god on the Holy Throne suddenly opened his eyes, and there was an awe-inspiring aura in his golden vertical pupils.

Almost immediately, the dragon priests who were waiting near the Holy See prostrate themselves to pay their respects to the gods they served, including the highest dragon priest chief, Hragore, who was closest to the Holy See.

After a few moments, the dragon priests heard the voice of the god coming from above, as if with a slight sigh: "Only He can do this......"

"My lord?" Hragor cautiously raised his head and looked at the dragon god above, "What happened?" ”

"You don't have to care," the dragon god Enya glanced indifferently at the silent priests in the temple, and her tone sounded unwavering, "It has nothing to do with dragons. ”

……

The whistling sound was sudden.

With this scream for no apparent reason, all the equipment in the hall showed obvious abnormalities, the magic net terminal began to project all kinds of strange lines and patterns that were difficult for humans to understand, the call signals from all over the empire instantly crowded into a mess, and became a mess, the energy supply system also went wrong, and the lighting began to flicker violently - all this, like an invisible storm suddenly swept the entire magic web, causing this huge system to roll up stormy waves.

The staff in the hall were unsurprisingly caught in a brief moment of panic and tension.

But the panic lasted less than two seconds - Gawain had already reacted after a moment of stunned, he suddenly got up, and the aura effect that could calm the spirit unfolded, and the knight skill of the legendary realm covered the entire field, forcing everyone back to their calmest state, and at the same time, Rebecca's voice also came from the front of the hall: "Keep calm - all systems start checking themselves immediately!" ”

Immediately after that, Kamel's voice sounded not far away: "First check the situation of the building's power ridge - is there a problem with the energy source?" ”

The shrill whistling sound continued, and the technicians, sheltered by the knight's aura, shielded this part of the disturbing factors, began to check all the systems nervously and quickly according to the plan and the experience of each person, and soon there were reports from all over the hall: "The power ridge is still running, and none of the main systems are offline......" "A few buffer units and safety barriers have been broken down, but the equipment in the rear is in good condition." "Reconnecting with the Imperial Hub......"

The Imperial Hub is a magic web hub tower located in Cecil City, and it is also the upper-level node of all "main hubs", when the howling suddenly sounded, some powerful energy surge affected its operation, and now it is temporarily offline.

"Can the internal channel still work?" Gawain left his seat and walked over to Rebecca in a few steps, patting her on the shoulder, "Take a look at the situation outside." ”

Rebecca was visibly flustered, too, but after Gawain's hand pressed on her shoulder, she suddenly calmed down.

"The internal channel and the main network are isolated, I'll take a look at ......," she said quickly, while controlling the rune "palette" in front of her with great skill, and after a while, she exhaled, "Yes, I turned the screen over-"

In the next second, the crystal array at the front of the hall projected the image taken by a surveillance device on the surface, in the holographic projection with several clutter, a huge white tower was standing on the high ground near the Magic Energy Research Institute, the tower itself seemed to be unharmed, but the mechanism and crystal array at the top of the tower had stopped working, and the crystals that should have been charged and shining were also visibly dimmed at this moment.

Gawain frowned at all this, but soon, he saw that the dimmed crystals were getting brighter and brighter again.

The power ridge in the tower was successfully reactivated, and the surging energy was once again injected into the units, and the massive crystal array came to life again in a matter of seconds, and the previously emergency self-locking mechanism also unlocked itself, and they began to slowly rotate and recalibrate themselves, and one of the technicians in the hall shouted, "Reconnect with the Imperial Hub!" ”

Gawain breathed a sigh of relief, but his expression was still tense, and Rebecca immediately asked in a loud voice, "How is the situation in the main hubs of various places?" ”

"I can't get in touch for the time being...... All channels are broken, but if we can restart here, they should be able to ...... there We're trying to call ...... single-line"

"Keep calling, anyway, contact the main hubs in the various places first and make sure they are safe," Rebecca spoke quickly, "Master Carmel, please contact the computing center to confirm the situation on the neural network; Cohen, you take your group to the third basement, and the energy group at the bottom needs help; Marlin, open the public window of the Imperial Hub, and the other main hubs may call us through that window......"

She had completely calmed down and began to methodically assign tasks and stabilize the situation.

Gawain looked at this Rebecca who was completely different from his usual life with some surprise, and after a long time, he sighed in his heart with some relief - his "Iron Mind Aura" was really very effective.

……

The chaotic howling phenomenon does not only occur in Cecil City's control center, but also in every main hub and the magic net terminals connected to it.

In that instant, and in the minutes that followed, the same thing happened to every main hub of the Demon Web in the Empire, a terrifying howling sound, a powerful surge of energy that destroyed the newly established connection, a massive shutdown of equipment, and chaos in the control center. An invisible storm raged in the web that covered the entire empire, and the heads of all regions, from Ten Forest City to the Fortress of the Long Wind, from Saint Sunil to Wintercastle, were in a hurry.

A cold will suddenly came, like a sudden condensation of frost "frozen" the minds of everyone in the hall, and then the cold will gradually faded, and the technicians quickly calmed down - the first to react first looked at the high platform not far away, where Victoria Wild stood quietly, surrounded by crystal ice crystals, with no expression on her snow-like face.

"Stay calm and start troubleshooting," Victoria's cold voice rang out throughout the hall, "check the energy situation first, and then try to restart our hub tower." ”

"My lord," Victor, the high-level mage advisor, flew directly to Victoria's platform, "our communication with the Imperial Capital has been cut off—with all the other main hubs in the region. ”

"The energy outage just now has affected all systems, and the communication interruption is normal," Victoria said with a blank face, "First try to call our nearest St. Sunil to see if something similar is happening in other areas." ”

"Yes, sir." Victor bowed his head and bowed back.

After the old mage left, Victoria calmly looked around the hall.

Under the effect of the "cold mind", the panicked technicians have all calmed down, although the situation is still unclear, everyone has returned to work, and began to investigate the problem and find the cause of this vision.

Perhaps in the future, it is necessary to set up a set of magic guidance equipment with a "cold mind" or similar magic effect in all important departments, just like a water tank used for firefighting, as an "emergency disaster prevention device", once an incident occurs that is enough to cause chaos in the whole department, the magic guide device can be directly activated to force the staff to calm down, even if it can only last for half an hour, it is enough to save many situations...... This is a feasible idea, which can be discussed with His Majesty later.

For a moment, something unrelated to the situation in Victoria's mind came to mind, but she immediately retracted her thoughts and returned her attention to the current situation.

This sudden anomaly...... What the hell is going on?

The Ice Grand Duke, who was knowledgeable in the traditional realm of magic, but felt lacking in the modern realm of magic, shook her head in confusion and prayed softly to herself, "O goddess of magic...... What the hell went wrong......"

After the prayer, there was no return, and the goddess of magic, Mirmina, did not respond.

No, not only was there no response, but there was not even a vague sense of prying after a prayer to God and a sense of "detachment" to connect with a transcendent being, Victoria felt that there was nothing at the end of her prayers, and she even felt as if she was facing some kind of "emptiness" in the keen spiritual perception of the legendary powerhouse.

There was supposed to be a god there, but now there was no - after realizing this, the Duchess's eyes widened instantly.

……

There is also a "wind" in the neural network built on the magic web, and this wind is completely substantial to the world in the network.

In the vast expanse of heaven and earth, countless gray-white chaotic lines quickly entangled, flying in the air, mixed with the whistling wind blowing through the whole world, between the violent winds, the originally clear and bright sky became bright and dark, large and small cracks and some kind of sparkling confusion of light and shadow continued to breed from all corners of the sky, but they were quickly repaired by another force. The only "city" in the world is protected in a translucent silver-white "light cocoon", which blocks the harsh "weather" outside, and the city remains stable inside.

Inside a large pyramid-shaped building in the center of the city, Yuri was nervously watching the undulating runes and data in front of him, and his voice was urgent: "There is a huge stream of anomalous data 'flowing' through our network, very large!" ”

"Can you catch it?" Wendy asked.

"There's nothing I can do on my side, it's so weird that it's hard to know where to start, and it's still moving along the 'unconscious zone' at the very edge of the network......" Yuri looked confused, "what the hell is this......

"Whatever it is, it's clearly here to wreak havoc!" Magnum's loud voice suddenly exploded, "If I need to, I can go to the edge of the unconscious zone and put a few psychic storms right now......"

"Shut up, be quiet, your psychic storm won't do anything to this weird statistic!" Yuri immediately glared at Magnum, then an even more confused expression appeared on his face, "Wait a minute, this weird outsider...... Moving away? It's receding from the border, it's getting faster and faster......"

"What do you mean?!" Magnum glared, "Don't tell me it's just a 'passerby'!" ”

"I don't know if this thing was 'passing by,' but it's almost out of sight," Yuri said quickly, "Semler, can you contact Naretir and Duvalt outside the city?" Let's see what they can do over there. ”

"I'll try - now that the load is a little smaller, it should be fine."

In the hills outside the city, huge white spiders were still crawling silently on the top of the mountain, and the wind in the online world could not shake her body in the slightest, and the chaotic data and information quickly calmed down beside her.

The safety of the city has been ensured, the overall load of the network is improving, and this sudden storm seems to be over, but Naretir does not relax at all, the invisible silk thread is spreading out from the nothingness beside her, like a huge web covering the sky, the earth, the flowing water, and every mind behind it all, everything in the neural network is gradually becoming the end of her spider silk, and her perception spreads like never before—

At this moment, the "neural network" perfected, and it began to reorganize itself the way it was originally designed, functioning as its name suggests.

Standing on the high ground near the hill, Duvalt watched Narityr's work from afar, he could see the way the threads spread, and he himself was using his own power to help Naritir further expand his senses and search for the "outsider" who was trying to wreak havoc.

At some point in the following moment, a certain "spider silk" on this giant web was suddenly moved abnormally.

It may be just an accidental touch, or it may be a temptation with too much curiosity, or a bold provocation, no matter what the reason behind it is, spider silk...... was dialed.

The web-weaving spider vanished into thin air—she had followed the plucked silk, and in this world built by the mind, she outpaced the quickest, shortest thought of man.

Duvalt only heard one sentence left by the other party: "I'm going to hunt!" You stay here and take care of it! ”

The old man standing on the high ground in a black dress was stunned for a moment, shook his head with a helpless smile, and said to himself: "...... After splitting into two individuals, I feel more and more like a babysitter......"

At this moment, some jumping golden runes appeared out of thin air beside the old man, and the runes trembled and made a voice: "Duvalt, this is Semler - how is the situation over there?" ”

"Naritir seems to have spotted an intruder, she's gone to hunt," Duvalt said casually, "and the situation here is stabilizing – but I don't recommend turning off the City Shield until there is definite news from Naritir's side." ”

"Okay, we get it."