Volume 1 The Mystery of the Shadows Chapter 48 The Crown of the Cracks
During his five years at the Kingdom Academy, Levi had seen too many times of inferior magic—whether it was cold, hot, or natural—and he knew by heart the process, sight, and destructive power of those spells.
He remembered every detail of every spell, but Ornos, the Frost King, who had spent a thousand years in the Tombs, could not do it.
Ornos's illusion is a deception of sight and perception on a spiritual level, the same principle of reality it creates, and the result of the illusion depends on its own ability to codify. Ornos may have been a good writer and poet, but he couldn't create a play that convinced Levi.
Because Levi sees more, remembers more, and understands more than anyone else.
The bloom of every spark, the trace of every wisp of wind, the corrosive range of every drop of venom...... In the midst of these strange but different magical effects, Levi quickly locked on the true position of the Frost King.
For there is a [whistling knife] that dissipates in the air, not in the form of air dispersion, but in the form of a rout.
Once the [Whizzing Knife] comes out of the effective distance, it will turn into a wisp of breeze and will never collapse out of thin air.
Almost at the same moment as he noticed this change, Levi reached out with a palm and released the [Great Earthquake Wave] that had been gathering momentum:
The twisted energy stream turned into a visible ripple hammer and flew into the air, bombarding the air somewhere, making a scalp-tingling sound of friction and collision.
With a high, angry dragon roar, Ornoth's ice-blue body emerged from the sky and fell.
The right half of its wings was struck by a large shock wave, and countless metal feathers broke apart, turning into sharp shards and flying in all directions - it was not the shock wave that really destroyed the wings, but the resonance between the metals, and the original intricate structure became Ornos's Achilles' heel.
Levi waved his sleeve and gave Flora a levitation technique to keep her from falling to the ground. Unwilling to give up the opportunity to pursue, he flew to Ornoth's side, and more than a dozen wheel-sized [Great Fire Bomb Technique] appeared between his palms.
The fireballs flew swiftly towards Ornoth's wounded right flank—its wings were no longer flawlessly rigid after being opened up by [Shockwave], and could have been further damaged with a little bombardment.
A series of explosions set off a wave of heat, and Ornos lost her balance in the air, her trajectory becoming very difficult and twisting, and on its wings, more pieces of metal feathers peeled away, revealing the silver wing bones beneath its shell.
"It's amazing."
Flora landed on the ground and looked up at the scene in the sky, dozens of magic spells filled the air and dyed the space below the arc with a brilliant glow, which was very beautiful.
By astonishment, she was referring to Levi's method of identifying forgeries, the most stupid and the most difficult, relying on extremely meticulous observation and a detailed knowledge of all kinds of magic, a method that perhaps no one but him could replicate.
High in the air, Levi's hands were raised again, and he repeatedly threw out a mess of low-grade magic - as a [Blacksmith Bellows] unnaturally exploded in midair, he once again locked onto Ornoth's true location, and [Great Shockwave] gathered into a bundle and shot out from between his palms!
Covered by layers of illusions, Ornos swung her wings and swooped up to avoid the shockwaves, then swooped down with the help of her illusions—only to get close to Levi's before a cold dragon's breath erupted from its mouth.
Levi moved quickly, but in the boundless dragon's breath, the whistling cloak could hardly make him fly away safely, but he didn't intend to distance himself from Ornos, but to rush in front of it—
[Arrow Thunder] shot out, and Levi turned into a leaping lightning bolt that shot high, and the lightning rushed out of Ornos's neck at great speed, revealing his form above Ornos's head.
He raised his right fist to his ear, and in his fist there were countless twisted lines, each of which contained strong vibrational energy. With Levi's punch and his fingers spread, [Shockwave] bloomed at close range, rolling towards the back of the Frost King's head...... If Ornos is an alchemy creature, then its center is in the skull, and if the center is destroyed, the dragon soul will dissipate.
Facing the imminent shockwave, Ornos's neck bent down, curling up like a snake, and withstanding the full power of this quasi-forbidden spell with the hardest back in her body.
The shockwave swept through, and dozens of broken dragon scales floated from the back of the Frost King, and these metal scales shimmered like glass slag and fell from the sky.
Its smooth back was incomplete, and it looked like an ugly python that had been half-peeled, but it wasn't so much hurt to say it was hurt.
Levi's heart was a little regretful, [Great Shockwave] couldn't invade the Frost King's body, and could only cause some skin trauma on the surface of his body, but if the blow just hit Ornos's head accurately, he might be able to kill the metal dragon directly.
There was no time to sigh, Ornos's angry claws had already struck, and Levi could only fly off into the distance while casting a distraction spell.
Ornos was afraid of Levi's [Great Shock], and Levi had to spend a lot of energy to interpret the illusion, a man and a dragon hovered in the sky, setting off bursts of ice blue dragon breath and fierce winds, and the wind continued to flicker with magical brilliance, and no one could help anyone for a while.
At this moment, a black figure flew into the hall from outside a large long door.
"Looks like it's going to be lively here, Ornos?"
Hearing this familiar voice, Levi couldn't help but stop moving, and looked at the black-haired woman in mid-air in surprise.
Among the black wings, Terrela floated in the air, her scarlet eyes sweeping over Flora below and the Frost Lord in the air, and finally resting on Levi's.
For some reason, Levi had a vague sense that Terrela was a little different from the last time they met, but he couldn't be sure of that feeling.
"Is that you?" Ornoth's dark blue eyes stared at Terella, "Have you finally woken up from that gorgeous coffin?" ”
"You have no small courage to reign in my land." Tyrella withdrew her gaze from Levi, turned to Ornos and said, "You know very well that the true master of Ozer is only one man. ”
Ornos didn't show any emotion, but said calmly: "You have been asleep for too long, Saladin's design is outdated. ”
It raised the crown of the gap on its right paw, then nodded to Terella as much as a greeting and a mockery.
Wake up from the coffin...... Levi's attention to Ornos's wording, which was clearly not a conversation with the real Terrela, confirmed that Terrela was the one who had lived in Ozer for a long time.
It's just that which one is the real Shadow Queen between Terrela that Levi knows and Terella in the coffin? Will Terella's soul be devoured, or will she return to her full self?
Levi shook his head, for a brief moment, he hesitated for the truth, but he still chose to believe his earlier guess when he thought of Saladin's message—that Terella's situation at this point was not what she really wanted.
On the ground, Flora also hears the conversation between the Shadow Queen and the Frost King, and her views are skewed towards the intellectuals: Ornos was originally only a guard of the Himeling, but it stole the Crown of the Gap and wielded greater authority; As for Terella's situation, Flora can't be sure, but she only guesses that the Shadow Queen and Ornos can't reach a consensus.
All in all, the situation has become more complicated.
"It shouldn't be like this." Terella's red eyes flickered slightly, and she narrowed her eyes and whispered, "Neither Ji Ling nor I seem very wrong. ”
She looked into Levi's face, "It's all because of you...... Because of you, my heart is so restless, and my kingdom is in chaos. ”
Levi shook his head and said, "It's not me who shakes your mind, it's yourself. ”
"Really?" Terella raised [Thorn of Pleasure] and grinned, "Whether it's you or not, if I kill you, I'll know the answer." ”
Hearing this illogical answer, Levi couldn't help but curse in his heart, this wayward decision was really Terella's style.
"Your decision is very wise, let's deal with the outsiders first." Ornos's vertical pupils lit up with satisfaction.
"Don't worry, after killing him, you have to bow down to me." Terella said coldly.
Ornos shook his head and said with a feigned regret, "It seems that there is only a partial consensus. ”
Tyrella didn't talk nonsense, she leaned forward, then disappeared into the dark red light, and when she reappeared, she was already in front of Levi, and the thorn of pleasure was thrust from her hand and stabbed Levi in the chest.
Levi still vividly remembers the pain and joy of being pierced in his palm...... He suppressed the distractions in his heart, and his body flew upside down, but suddenly a huge shadow appeared behind him, and it was Ornos who came from behind.
The ice-blue dragon's breath flowed down like a waterfall, and Levi's body turned into countless photons and leaped hundreds of meters away, and before he could catch his breath, he saw Terella throw a thorn of pleasure from afar, and the sword flew towards his face.
Levi dodged sideways, the blade of the forked sword slicing through his shoulder and shooting backwards, and at the same time, Terrela flashed behind Levi, catching the thorn of pleasure, then puffing her lips open and spitting out a dark red sound wave.
Levi only felt a burst of pain and pleasure from the wound on his shoulder, and he couldn't tell whether it was torture or enjoyment, so he could only prop up a [crystal shield] to ward off the invading sound waves.
Levi felt dizzy from the mental impact contained in the sound waves, and he covered his head and taunted as he flew quickly, "Isn't there a stronger attack?" ”
Behind his body, ice-blue dragon's breath swept in, freezing a thick layer of ice wherever he flew, and the shadow of death followed Levi's like a bone appendage.
"You like sharp pain?" The dark red light flickered, and Terrella's figure appeared above Levi's head, and she looked down at him, the corners of her mouth curled in a moving arc, "It seems that I underestimated your desires. ”
Levi's eyes narrowed, and he began to chant silently under the effect of the attributeless high-level magic [Lip Language] and [Distraction Spell Cast].
And above him, Terella stretched out her pitch-black wings, leaned her neck forward, and between her black lips erupted an extremely violent dark red sound wave, which contained a hundred times more devastating energy than before, and struck him like a tsunami—
On the ground, Flora couldn't help but hold her breath, and at this point she could no longer help Levi, but could only watch him be hit by the terrifying sound waves.
A sleek, circular mirror suddenly appeared in front of Levi's, the mirror was so wide that it obscured the entire space around Levi's body, and it spun rapidly, facing the dark red sound wave of Tyrella above him.
The distorted sound waves visible to the naked eye rushed to the mirror, like a mud cow entering the sea, and without a single ripple, they all disappeared into the mirror, and the originally clear mirror was dyed with a beautiful dark red.
Levi's wrist flipped, and the mirror floating in front of him also flipped, and the mirror turned to focus on Ornos not far away, and the dark red halo in the mirror became more and more intense.
In the face of pure energy body attacks, the forbidden spell [Greedy Mirror] is an advanced magic of [Funny Mirror], which is best used in the current situation.
If you want to kill the Lord of Frost, [Shockwave] is not enough, but the Shadow Queen's sound waves can do the same, and be more destructive.
Levi's arms raised, and he stretched out his palms, ten fingertips aimed at Ornos at the same time: before the tips of his left fingers, [Greedy Mirror] spun around, and a dark red sound wave erupted from the mirror, exactly the same as the one Terrela cast, the same sound wave that had just disappeared into the mirror; Between the tips of his right fingers, the scorching flame swirled in his five fingers, glowing with a white terrifying heat, and an arm-thick blazing flame condensed into a forbidden spell-level white lightning, the lightning burned through the air and nothingness, and shot out in a short thunderclap like the sound of steel handover!
Flame Forbidden Spell [Gloss God Slash]!
In the face of the overwhelming dark red sound waves, Ornos, the Lord of Frost, did not expect that the catastrophe given to Levi would fall on his head in a blink of an eye, and it also came with an additional forbidden spell.
It let out an angry and painful roar in the crimson sound wave, the dragon's scales peeled off its body, revealing the silver keel within its body, and the blazing white lightning struck its left side of the head, causing its facial bone to explode and metal shards scattered.
The battle situation changed rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, Ornos suffered a fatal injury, its body falling from the sky, and ice-blue metal shards continued to fall from it, like a ship on the verge of falling apart, slowly disintegrating on the way to the bottom of the sea.
After a heavy thud, the Lord of Frost fell to the center of the hall, its body shattering the stone brick floor to pieces, and a large mass of metal shards were tossed away in the impact, making a clanging sound on the ground.
It was prostrate on the ground, most of the scales on its back had fallen off, revealing a silver spine, and its tail had been broken off, hanging limply behind it; The metal feathers on its right wing had completely disappeared, and its wing bones had twisted into a miserable arc, while its left wing was in slightly better shape, but only partially retained.
The most horrific sight was that its elegant and slender neck looked like it had been gnawed by a dog, its originally smooth scales were scattered, and more than half of the beautiful dragon's head shell was torn apart by the flames and lightning, and the cracks were stained with a layer of charred black.
"Levi Davy ......"
Ornos stretched out a tattered front paw, a low, angry roar in her throat. With great difficulty, it straightened its proud neck and raised its head, staring at Levi with the only dark blue vertical pupil that remained.
"I'm going to kill you...... No, I will let you live in pain, and I will write for you the most painful psalm in the world, and make you weep in endless sorrow and regret! Forever! ”
Its speed of speech became faster and faster, its emotions became more and more intense, and the twisted ring on its right front paw squirmed as if it had come to life, exuding a strong aura of contradiction!
Neither Levi nor Flora, nor even Terella, did not have time to react before they realized that the reality around them was forcibly frozen, and both their minds and bodies were frozen for the last second, and they were unable to resist at all.
And Ornos who forcibly used the Crown of the Cracks was paying an unimaginable price, its dark blue vertical pupils trembling violently, and the depths of its soul were tormented by tears and terrible pain—this was the consequence of overloading the Crown of the Cracks, the more power, the higher the level, and the greater the range, the heavier the pressure and the deeper the damage it felt.
In the crown of cracks, the delicate balance between reality and mirrors has been completely broken, and a catastrophe capable of destroying the entire Ji Mausoleum has been born.
In the twilight of Öze, the setting sun seemed to be stained with the color of blood.
Benedict held Harriet's head and leaned against a broken wall, a huge wound in his chest that could be seen between the broken ribs.
He has been desperately fleeing, using all the means he can on the way, and he has fallen into a desperate situation many times, but he still gritted his teeth and forced his way through...... Even so, he still couldn't get rid of the countless Ozer people, as well as the two killing gods behind him.
Just when he thought he was going to die in Öze, the unknown Emperor Gorer and Connellus of the Horn of the Sun suddenly stopped their pursuit, and even if they could cut off Benedict's head with just one more swing of their blades, they still did not delay in the slightest and turned together and hurried in the direction of the black tower.
"What the hell is going on......
Benedict hugged Harriet's head and muttered.
In his arms, Harriet's godless eyes suddenly reflected a deep blue brilliance, and her eyes were directed in the direction of the Tower of Nothingness.
……
Anna Christer, the Saint of Winter, stands on the top floor of a building, and at her feet, a radius of nearly 1,000 meters is a scene of ice and snow, and every street and alley is filled with ice sculptures of different postures.
Anna's state was very weak, and the price of forcibly harnessing that wisp of extreme cold was that her body was eaten by the cold, and the Demon Palace was close to exhaustion, and if she didn't cultivate in time, she might fall down from the rank of a sage.
She was able to survive not because of the forbidden spell she forcibly chanted, but because the five Sages who besieged her chose to leave unanimously...... For some unknown reason, they seemed to be in a hurry to get to the black tower.
Looking at the Tower of Nothingness in the distance, Anna's expression was slightly moved, because in the center of the tower, a ray of deep blue light bloomed, and a strong aura of nothingness filled it, dyeing a deep blue in the pale red twilight, and the Sea of Void gushed out like a wave that burst the embankment.
……
Thorne floated in the air, staring silently at the Tower of Nothingness, his face shifting, eventually revealing a somber smile.
"Has that pseudo-dragon been forced to a desperate situation?" He said to himself, "It's good, it's great, it looks like my chance to be Master Conrad is finally coming." ”
He laughed and flew towards the Black Tower, his laughter filled with evil.
……
Under the Tower of Nothingness, Hill and Archer had just arrived here, when they suddenly noticed a devastating and terrifying wave above their heads, and they both raised their heads in unison.
In the sky centered on the Tower of Nothingness, the air seemed to be torn apart, taking on the form of dusk and nothingness, and the warm rays of the sunset filled the cold sea of stars of nothingness, which looked strange and inexplicably beautiful.
Hill seemed to sense something, she looked back, and was surprised to find that the dark street behind her had changed wonderfully: on the left side of the street, it was still the familiar scenery of Eze, and on the right side of the street, there was a pale palace under the dark blue starry sky.
Immediately afterward, there was an even more violent wave above the Tower of Nothingness, and countless void turbulences flew out of it, slicing the entire obsidian city to pieces—in every corner of Öze, there were both pitch black and pale buildings, and every inch of the sky of Ozer was filled with both dusky sunlight and cold void.
Confusion, chaos everywhere the eye can see, the order of space is gone, the people who are close at hand are actually thousands of miles apart, and the buildings far away in the sky may appear in front of you in the next moment-
At this moment, the dragon horn bow [Death Touch] clenched in Hill's hand suddenly emitted a chill, and bursts of dragon groans came from the bow, as if it was about to tear a gap through the spatial turbulence in the infinite chaos, bursting out a dazzling ice blue dazzling.
("Some alchemists believe that the Dead Touch is not a complete holy object.") —The Illustrated Book of Relic)