Chapter 941: Collapse
Edward fell to one knee, clasped his hands together, sweat pouring down his forehead, wetting his hair into a shiny patch.
With his current strength, it is not easy to send language into the minds of everyone in the city with the help of psychic abilities...... Not to mention that everyone must be hypnotized to make their minds close to the Cheng Dù of faith - if it weren't for the fact that he had already manifested a psionic resonance with the Soul Sucking Monster Mastermind, I am afraid that the next wave of attacks from the Goddess of Magic would have landed in the city of Burgundy!
That terrifying power has gone beyond the realm of magic, and the magic web is no longer a carrier of energy, but a tool of oppression...... The energy is forcibly extracted, so that all the magic operation will be disturbed and transformed, and even become a part of this simple destructive power!
That is the destruction of the infrastructure, the traditional way of shaping and transmitting magical energy and divine power is almost impossible to resist - whether it is attack or defense, it will be directly swallowed by the wanton distortion of the magic web, reflection, and even spiritual energy, will be greatly reduced due to the change of energy! Even if the protective ability of Burgundy City and the Remnant Sun of Cataclysm, with the help of the laws of space, is second to none in terms of defensive ability, it is a little powerless in the face of this attack against energy.
Running away or resisting is not right......
Then since the enemy asks for submission, surrender.
Of course, this is not a simple indifference - Misla's current state, no matter how you look at it, is definitely not normal. Therefore, there is no need to think about countermeasures in a normal way.
The so-called surrender represents one-sided fear. Obey...... But this is by no means a control.
Under normal circumstances, eradication is a more suitable means of dealing with 'heretics' like herself, so the goddess of magic in front of her is obviously in a subtle anomaly, and Edward can't be sure how much divinity she still retains, but at least, the rational part. There has been a great deal missing!
That may be some kind of after-effect after she absorbed the scum, so at that moment just now, the telemancer chose to start a new gamble.
Now it seems. He was right.
Raising his gaze slightly, the psychic warlock stared at the tiny figure outside the window lattice, staring at the stunning beauty. But there was no expression. A face hidden in a cloud of light—as if something could be seen in her eyes.
Like, her contentment.
A moment after the eulogy sounded, the figure finally moved.
It was not the beam of light around her body, but the movement of her body, and the barrier of space opened up on her side and slowly moved towards the magic tower.
What is she going to do?
The purpose of making demands on the 'Surrenderers' is the same as that of the Lord of the Dawn. Will she use that mutated divine power to control all the 'newly ascended believers'? If that's the case, it's not a problem, as long as she waits for the opportunity to drain that divine power. But what if her purpose was to ask for the 'key'? or not? It was up to her to continue the seal, or to keep it for herself?
If it's the latter, then it's the worst-case scenario.
With her current strength, it seems that she still can't resist a pure energy-type attack like a sub-light bullet, but if she wants to attack her, how can she be sure that she will be hit? If she misses the first blow, and at such a close distance, there is no guarantee of a second blow, so why not drop the city as bait to ensure ......
The chaotic thoughts stalled with the figure.
The incarnation of the Goddess of Magic stopped at a distance of a hundred feet from the magic tower, and she lowered her head slightly, as if she was looking at the tower, but when she raised her gaze, a colored light burst out of her hand and pierced straight into the foundation of the tower!
Broken!
The heart of the telemancer is cold!
He didn't even need to look to know that the colored light had pierced through the gaps between the five layers of armor plates and the rocks, and pierced straight into the mage tower...... The location of the core power room!
But it was clearly too late to react...... He could only watch as the incarnation of the goddess of magic waved his hand, and the power cores that radiated luster flew out of the ground one after another!
Thundered!
Terrible tremors poured out from the heart of the city!
All the magic light sources began to dim almost instantly, but there were flickering bright lights that continued to burst through the space......! The magically supported structure creaked overwhelmingly, and some of the unreinforced auxiliary passages beneath the city were already in the restored gravity, and began to crumble inward!
What a hell of a life!
Edward only felt his scalp tingle for an instant, and he grabbed the table next to him to stabilize himself, but he felt the shaking of the entire tower even more truly- If it weren't for the fact that outside the window, the pillar of magical light connected to the Remnant Sun of the Catastrophe was continuously channeling its own energy into Burgundy to stabilize the energy of the city, and the rock structure of the magic tower alone might not have been able to support itself in this tremor, but judging from the glowing appearances, it was obvious that this temporarily opened passage could not support all the parts. The outermost layer of the spatial defense circle had already begun to collapse into large and small gaps, and the light curtain gradually contracted, and countless symbols slowly dispersed in it, and then disappeared!
But now, these were actually inconsequential trivialities—the psychic mancer gripped the corner of the table fiercely, barely fixing his gaze on the figure of the woman in the void, looking at the twenty or so flickering halos that lingered around her...... It's slowly extinguishing!
That's right, it's going out!
The glow of the little sun swam around her, but the bright glow kept dimming, from the harsh golden light to the bright gold, and then to a dark red like the cooling of magma, the closer it got to her. The transformation became more and more rapid, as one of the gods' outstretched hands swiped lightly, fingertips skimming over a dark red orb. Silently, the red light burst suddenly! The subtle lines stretched outward densely, and finally cut it into fine dust, and the countless fragments scattered fell into a comet-like luster, which had disappeared in the blink of an eye!
What's going on?
Edward watched the scene, for some reason. Suddenly I felt my scalp tingle, and I couldn't help but subconsciously ask, but no one could answer him - "I don't know ...... either" after a while. The lich showed her helplessness for the first time: "It looks like she's a replica of the core of the Floating City...... Eaten?"
Eaten.
It may sound like a ridiculous description, but it does fit the truth - the goddess of magic doesn't just destroy those cores, when each core shatters and turns into nothingness. A huge amount of energy would converge into the rainbow light around her. It's just the so-called eaten. It should be a way to describe supplementation.
But if she did this only to replenish her own power, it would be completely puzzling - the essence of the core of magic power is nothing more than a device to absorb and gather energy through the magic net, and the energy in it is completely derived from the magic net, as a god who controls all the magic nets, what is the use of her eating this kind of thing?
Before the question is answered, all the cores of the Floating City have been wiped out!
in the eyes. The avatar of the goddess also fell silent, and she was silently suspended there. The colored light around his body lingered, but he lost all his breath in an instant...... It's like an incomparably delicate statue. The majesty that pressed like a mountain over the heads of the mundane was gone...... The surrounding qiē was also silent, in the sky, the rocks ignited by the magic were slowly cooling, the remnants that were once used as slag had gradually disappeared, the silver mist of the star slowly rolled, the subtle sound of the wind blowing, and a humming low whine sounded very pleasant.
It's over?
Several people in the mage tower looked at each other, but no one opened their mouths to ask—in their eyes, the psychic warlock hung his head slightly, the corners of his mouth pursed and his eyes narrowed, and this god solemnity suddenly seemed to be substantial, so that everyone couldn't help but suppress the full questions in their hearts, and subconsciously fell into full attention.
In Edward's eyes, there was no such thing as calm as it seemed.
Somewhat misty......
As far as the eye can see, the scenery seems to be immersed in water, and all the surfaces are swept by hair-thin ripples from time to time, and in the distant firelight mixed with silver ash and crimson embers, these textures may not be noticeable, but only the eye can recover a little...... A single qiē in the field of vision, whether it is furniture, crystal lamps or decorations engraved with magical symbols, will be slightly distorted with these ripples.
The rippling texture slowly spreads.
Airplanes!
The sudden sound of the pin broke the audible silence, at a moment when there was barely time to think!
The space was as if a fragile crystal artifact had been slammed with a sledgehammer and scattered into countless tiny pieces!
However, no one admired the magnificence of this spectacle, for the terrifying power swelled outwards like a ring of razor-sharp intensity!
In the loud rumbling sound of thunder, this circular storm blew through all the qiē in the field of vision, leaving behind the shattered ruins and broken walls along the way! Walls, stones, wooden stakes, or other originally indestructible objects had already turned into powder in the storm the moment they came into contact! The violent explosion even blew open the ubiquitous silver in the astral plane, revealing the deep darkness behind it, a huge rift! The unflickering starlight lit up in it, and immediately shook with the surrounding qiē into a blurred trace!
The world is spinning.
The walls of the magic tower made a piercing grind, as if they had been broken in this bursting shake! The whole room, even the whole city of Burgundy, the whole world was spinning! Colorful light, silver light, dark red light...... All the light had dissipated in this instant, and the deep darkness merged with the rumbling roar, taking over all the organs of sight and hearing!
Time seems to pass very slowly, but it seems to be very fast, in this haze......
"Ahem......"
Edward coughed a few times, and the astral dust spewed a string of tiny colored light in front of him, and he shook his head. Slowly propping himself up from the edge of the table, his eyes swept over the surroundings, and several people who were also slowly moving. I finally settled down a little.
The surroundings seemed silent, as abrupt as the outburst...... There were no tremors or rumbling noises, and it was as if nothing had happened before. Edward craned his eyelids and looked out the window, only to see a mess of stumble—a silver sheen, and the whole of Burgundy was shrouded in a stellar sheen, a myriad of messy debris. Stones, plants, or whatever, just float like that. Slowly fluttering, frighteningly wide fissures crisscrossed the ground, and the only thing that was fortunate was that the shape of the cascading shadowy stone remains barely made out for him. It should still be the central street of Burgundy......
So the good news is. The magic tower didn't seem to really break, and even the city wasn't really destroyed in the explosion.
Or, most of Burgundy's rocky structures that have been modified by stone elemental organisms are quite strong, and the structure of the entire hemisphere is relatively easy to dissipate forces, so that most of the structure can be intact. Although the buildings on the surface of the earth were nearly completely destroyed, and the energy from that explosion seemed to push it a considerable distance, however. In this vast astral space, the gap between motion and rest is far less meaningful than in the main material plane.
But the relative bad news is not without it...... The incarnation of the goddess of magic has vanished.
Edward looked around. But as far as the eye could see, the figure of this goddess was completely missing, and she couldn't even feel the slightest breath. If anything, there is more trouble than a great enemy disappearing...... That is, the Remnant of the Catastrophe, which was originally connected to Burgundy, has also disappeared at this moment!
What the fuck...... Trouble!
Edward grinded his teeth hard.
Either way, now we have to think about running away...... He sighed, reached out and picked up Daherne and Anna Sui beside him, and then turned to Katzejek: "How big is the loss?"
"It's not big, as long as you add the core, you can ......recover soon."
Well, that's good news.
After a moment's hesitation, Edward slowly gathered his spirit and opened a portal in the space.
The door opened, but before Edward could enter, a figure had stepped through the watery plane and stood in front of him.
"What the hell is going on......? You?" The confusion in her eyes made the Blazing Sky Servant stunned, but her eyes fell on Edward, and a flash of surprise flashed on her face: "You...... Get rid of him?"
"That's it?"
"What?"
"I've saved the world...... Shouldn't you reward me with a pledge or something?"
The Psychic Warlock's words made Ariel frown, but she had noticed the unhappiness in the other's tone and the astonishing changes in her surroundings.
Even if you know almost nothing about what you've just experienced here, the cracks in the magic tower, the messy wreckage outside the window, and the peculiar light of the astral plane...... There were all kinds of things, which was enough for this Blazing Heaven Divine Servant to deduce some general severity of the situation: "What happened?"
"There won't be any problems for the time being, but Misra may have joined the camp of the Ancient Evils......"
Edward shook his head slightly and let out a long sigh.
And this understatement was enough to make the Blazing Sky Divine Servant gasp. "Are you sure...... I mean, is there anything that could be ...... here" She changed the method of two inquiries in quick succession, but finally stopped talking - although the human in front of her was a lie many times, but at this time, such a monstrous lie seemed to mean nothing.
But...... Misla, the goddess of magic, may have joined the ranks of the ancient evils?
If there is no problem, hasn't that majesty already created a magic circle that can seal the ancient evil thing? Could it be that the ancient evil thing made some kind of counterattack in the seal, thus causing the goddess to be polluted by the evil force? But the staff of royal power ...... Isn't it right here?
The Blazing Celestial Attendant's gaze fell on the pillar in the center of this room, the pillar that exuded a golden luster, although the luster had blurred the appearance of the items contained inside, but the understanding brought by the many encounters still made Ariel very easily sure that the silver staff body in the golden luster was the evil artifact.
"I couldn't explain it for a while, but at least I was lucky, this thing was finally sealed, and I was no longer the messenger of Pandorian Ryan...... So leave the rest to the gods for a headache," Edward couldn't help but smile slightly wryly at noticing the change in her gaze, but he didn't bother to discuss these consciousness issues with the Blazing Divine Servant: "I remember I told you, you have to stay over there honestly, right?"
On the other side of the spatial door, there is a separate half-plane, which Edward gave to Asari to build as a way back for the telemancer, where Edward Ariel was placed, but there are a few other things that have been scattered and stored inside the zài - for example, as a backup replica of the core of the floating city.
As long as you have those, it shouldn't be difficult to restore the floating city simply.
Just then, Edward suddenly heard Katzeyek's curse
"Damn it...... The web of magic in this area has collapsed!"
"What?" Edward (to be continued......