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Are you just going to stand there and let me hit you?
If you can beat me, you win; if you can't, you lose.
Faced with such "unreasonable demands," Lin Yi, as the creator of the Main God Space—a genocideer, a planet destroyer, a civilization destroyer—naturally responded with:
"of course can."
Three hundred and ninety orbiting satellites capable of illuminating this area were mobilized from the sky, three hundred and sixty-five antimatter emission devices within the folded space began charging, and more than six hundred three-phase bombs initiated their detonation procedures...
For some reason, Ralph felt a slight sense of regret after saying those words, but that regret disappeared completely after he felt the mana filling the magical artifact in his hand.
This Sun Wizard believed that as long as the attack intensity did not exceed ten times that of before, he could not possibly fail with "Ralph's Free Space" at his disposal. Even if things went wrong, he still had "Wizard's Will" to rely on. As long as he remained in the wizarding world, he could not possibly fail!
"Begin. This is your only chance to prove your worth. You should know that many alien races don't even qualify to become summoned creatures in the wizarding world. You can feel... honored..."
The wizard's voice grew fainter and fainter as time went on.
One, two, three...
Ten, twenty, thirty...
One hundred, two hundred, three hundred...
Centered on the point where the Sun Wizard was located, the H-84 fold space almost completely squeezed into the inner side of the Wizarding World. After replacing this space, it arbitrarily activated all the weapons that Lin Yi had taken out from the main god, forming a 360-degree all-round aiming field with no blind spots.
When more than ten gun barrels were pointed at him, the wizard was unconcerned—he could withstand ten of that intensity!
When the number of gun barrels pointed at him exceeded fifty, the wizard felt slightly uneasy—he should be able to withstand that level of force three times.
When the gun barrel pointed at him exceeded one hundred squares, the wizard felt uneasy—at that intensity, he could only block it once at most.
When there were more than 150 gun barrels pointed at him, he stopped thinking about how to defend himself and silently tried to escape by communicating with "Ralph's Free Space". However, to his despair, while he was waiting, the familiar wizard space around him was replaced by another incomprehensible space. With this magical artifact, he could only manipulate a space with a radius of ten meters, and it was impossible to escape this circular area with a radius of at least one thousand meters.
While the wizard was feeling bewildered, the number of gun barrels aimed at him had increased to two hundred, followed by beams of light shining from above, and then the metal objects being thrown into this space.
……
Ralph, the wizard of the day, gave up thinking.
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To the nightmare Mavis, who was wandering in the sky, the scene below was utterly bizarre.
One Moon Wizard was killed by a sudden burst of "sunlight," another disappeared while being intercepted by that alien powerhouse, and then a third Moon Wizard was attacked and went berserk. Instead of attacking the murderer, he attacked the Sun Wizard who came to his aid.
After being easily suppressed by the Sun Wizard, the two Moon Wizards fled the battlefield, followed by the Nightmare's long-awaited showdown between the "strongest".
At the beginning, everything was going as planned.
As the second seat of the Tower Alliance, the Sun Wizard Ralph is renowned even in the Nightmare World. His wand has torn apart the spirits of countless powerful nightmares and sealed the consciousness of countless nightmares within it. When he appeared, Mavis almost turned and ran away, but she stopped herself because of her greed for the secrets hidden by that powerful alien.
And facing this second seat in the Tower Alliance, the subsequent developments were as expected.
The powerful alien warrior, who possessed the strength to easily defeat the Moonlit Wizard, was utterly powerless against Ralph's exceptional spatial magic and was nearly killed in an instant. Just when Nightmare thought the battle was about to be decided, the fight below suddenly took a turn for the better.
The Sun Wizard, along with the powerful alien, suddenly vanished without a trace.
"Damn it, what on earth happened?"
Now that things had come to this, Mavis disregarded any potential dangers and directly manifested herself, rushing to the vicinity of their original location: "To be able to teleport away a Sun Wizard without a sound, the secret hidden by that alien powerhouse is definitely more valuable than we imagined!"
The persistent nightmare spread its consciousness outwards and finally discovered the anomaly.
"here!"
With a twist, the spiritual entity instantly moved from thousands of meters away to the other side.
On the surface, everything in front of her seemed ordinary and unremarkable, but through Mavis's mental perception, she could sense a terrifying energy raging across the way—a power powerful enough to kill her countless times in an instant.
Enter?
Or give up?
A difficult choice lies before Nightmare. If it enters, it will have the chance to obtain a tremendous secret. Not only could it become the sixth Nightmare Venerable, but it might even surpass the limits of a Venerable and become the true Nightmare King. However, the dangers involved could also lead to its demise...
Or should we just give up?
"How could I possibly give up?"
Nightmare hardened his heart and charged straight into it.
The unique nature of the Nightmare Civilization compels each Nightmare to strive to become stronger. A wizard might choose to give up in such a situation, but a Nightmare would never do so.
With a do-or-die mentality, the nightmare rushed into the "passage" and vaguely heard words like "testing," "qualified," and "candidate," but soon lost consciousness in the process.
……
After an unknown amount of time, when Nightmare Mavis awoke in a completely unfamiliar world, she heard its first words as it began its new life.
"Among this batch of new recruits, you are the one with the best qualities."
Wizarding Civilization: Chapter 811 The Ocean Purification Project (Part 1)
The seal on the folded space was lifted, and the scorching air was quickly cooled and diluted. Apart from one figure missing from the sea, it was no different from before... No, perhaps more than one figure was missing?
Eve, noticing the unusual expression, looked at them with a questioning gaze: "Father?"
"It's nothing, just a mouse."
In a sense, being able to enter the Main God Space can be considered as fulfilling Nightmare's wish, right?
……
As several Star Wizards fell and fled, the fog of war that had hung over them gradually dissipated over time, and communications, which had been interrupted, were restored to normal through concerted efforts.
More than five hours later, the expeditionary force tallied the final casualties.
All three fully-equipped carrier strike groups were wiped out.
Of the five thousand fighter jets, only three returned.
The submarine force was completely sunk before it could even leave the port.
The air force suffered heavy losses, mainly due to the mental interference hidden within the "fog of war." Even though Earth's civilization was prepared for such bizarre and strange methods, the intensity of the magical interference released by the Star-level wizards was far beyond what non-wizard wizards could achieve.
If the mental interference released by a formal wizard is a powerful, one-time attack, then the war fog combined by three Moonlit Wizards is a method with relatively reduced power, but its concealment and number of interventions are more than ten times stronger. This is also the main characteristic of "war magic": any non-wizard who enters it will be unknowingly affected, and can only escape it at the moment of death or departure.
Aside from the fog of war that caused heavy casualties in the air force, the naval losses were primarily caused by marine life on the seabed.
Those enormous sea monsters that were once driven back and disappeared in the East China Sea battle have returned—perhaps that's not quite the right word, since they used to just mindlessly destroy objects moving on the sea surface, but now, led by clearly intelligent sea creatures, they are attacking everything that leaves the west coast.
The songs of the sea creatures combined with the power of the sea beasts created a sea area that was essentially a forbidden zone. In addition, the war fog that shrouded the sky blocked various long-range fire support from the ground. Most of the expeditionary naval forces sank into the sea along with their ships without even seeing what the enemy looked like.
For the Earth Expeditionary Force, the problem of the wizards is not something that can be solved in a short time. If it were possible, it would have been dealt with when they first appeared, instead of being delayed until now and still helpless.
However, for those sea creatures who live in the ocean, who once remained neutral but now show their fangs, they neither need nor are willing to continue to tolerate it. Whether it is to vent the negative emotions accumulated from the previous defeats and casualties, or for the safety of the surrounding seas, or for the Wizard Continent expedition that may be launched again at any time in the future, Earth civilization will not allow the ocean to maintain this unilateral forbidden zone.
Admittedly, even the most powerful nuclear weapons of Earth's current capabilities cannot guarantee harm to marine creatures and beasts living at unknown depths. However, the weapons Earth has created throughout its long history of warfare are far more than just explosions...
Three days after the Tower Alliance's counterattack ended, amidst the uproar on Earth, a plan that could be described as insane was formulated and approved with unimaginable efficiency.
Ocean Purity Project
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A massive chemical plant was built along the coast, much to the bewilderment of the mermaids responsible for monitoring the area.
Although the mermaid was unable to participate in the previous battles due to her rare bloodline and lack of powerful allure like royalty, she learned a lot while accepting the surveillance mission.
This includes the current hostile stance between the sea creatures and these alien invaders; the fact that some mindless sea monsters from the ocean depths periodically come ashore to destroy the buildings constructed by the alien invaders along the coast; and the fact that the wizards of the Tower Alliance have explicitly ordered that none of their ships are allowed to remain on the surface of the sea...
In this situation, what is the point of them building such a large structure on the beach?
The mermaid's thoughts went unanswered, but that didn't stop it from reporting the news to its superiors. Soon after, a "whale" with dozens of sharp bone spikes roared as it burst out of the sea, crashing with terrifying force into the building that had been completed less than half a day ago. Its massive body easily crushed the fragile structure, and then, protected by the ocean, it safely retreated back into the sea.
Throughout the entire process, the alien invaders unusually did nothing to stop it, instead allowing the sea monsters controlled by the sea creatures to attack and destroy the coastal factories...
The next day, the mermaids discovered three new factories, and the sea monsters launched three more attacks, venturing into the destroyed and crushed buildings.
The fish discovered some jars containing a liquid that was indistinguishable from seawater.
On the third day, the mermaids, who had gradually become accustomed to the futile efforts of these alien invaders, led the sea beasts to destroy the five newly built and intact factories, where they found many traces of jars.
Day ...
Day ...
For a whole week afterward, the Tower Alliance still did not send any new orders. The mermaid overheard the royal family talking about how the wizards were looking for a powerful wizard who had mysteriously disappeared, but this had nothing to do with a little mermaid like her, did it?
All it had to do was obediently follow orders every day, leading the sea beasts to destroy some messy buildings and faithfully carry out its missions. As for what those powerful sea nobles and royalty were paying attention to, that was none of its concern as a mere lower-ranking mermaid, let alone those high and mighty wizards.
It's just a pawn, it just needs to do its job. Victory and defeat are decided by the powerful. Winning is certainly a good thing, but even if it loses, it doesn't lose anything—at most, it'll just be a change of ruler. As long as those alien invaders still need this sea, they will definitely need the sea race, just like the wizards now.
Besides, those powerful figures who can kill thousands or tens of thousands of people in a matter of minutes, even if they decide to launch an attack on the sea race, they will target nobles and royalty of the same level. Who would bother to deal with a nobody who is of no significance to the overall situation?
With this in mind, the mermaid spent a relaxing and enjoyable week.
When it woke up on the eighth day, it felt something was wrong with its body.
Wizarding Civilization: Chapter 812 The Ocean Purification Project (Part 2)
Not only the mermaids, but also the sea creatures, while patrolling as they had the previous week and calling upon the sea beasts to destroy the buildings established by the alien civilization along the coast, discovered that the sea beasts were also acting strangely.
These sea beasts, instead of their previous ferocious urge to destroy everything, appeared rather sickly. Even when faced with the commands of the sea creatures within the mermaids, they seemed indifferent. Finally, when they were driven to their wits' end, they had no choice but to rush out of the sea, destroy their target less than halfway, and then slowly moved back to the sea, after which they refused to move again.
"Maybe I'm just too tired."
After several failed attempts to urge them on, the mermaid grew tired. She was already somewhat exhausted today, and the sea beast assigned to her by her superior was also in a state of fatigue. After finding a random excuse, she simply gave up on today's mission: "It's good to rest for a day. Anyway, they no longer have the strength to resist."
Indeed, no. For a whole week, apart from watching helplessly as the buildings they had painstakingly built were destroyed, the expeditionary force lacked the energy to even deploy a single fighter jet or send out a single ship. If it weren't for the wizards' assurance that they were still on the west coast, the mermaids would have even suspected that the invaders from the alien civilization had already escaped from this world.
But, it should be soon, right?
Once these foreign invaders have retreated, I can return to those days when I could idly wander the sea every day.
With hope for tomorrow, the mermaid fell into a deep sleep.
……
The next day... or rather, the day after, when the mermaid awoke from a long, almost eternal sleep, the first thing she saw when she opened her heavy eyelids was a corpse.
The carcass of the sea monster was hundreds of times larger than its defeated counterpart.
The sea monster lying on the seabed has lost its former ferocity and bloodlust, leaving only a cold corpse and a deathly silence...
Wait, dead silence?
The mermaid noticed something was wrong.
Unlike marine creatures that have evolved organs to adapt to the transmission of sound through the air, marine species retain organs that allow them to capture various sounds in the seawater. Among them, as the darlings of the sea, which occupy 80% of the wizarding world, every sea creature is blessed with the ability to hear the sounds made by any creature in the sea after birth.
Under these inherent conditions, the marine creatures living in the vast ocean are not lonely at all. On the contrary, they live in a place that is even more bustling and lively than human cities. After all, in terms of the variety and number of organisms, the three-dimensional ocean definitely surpasses the two-dimensional land.
However, at this moment, in the mermaid's perception, the sea, which was always filled with all kinds of sounds, became so quiet. Apart from the slight movement caused by the flow of seawater, not even a "call" could be heard. Looking at the pitch-black seabed in the distance, a huge fear gripped the mermaid's heart.
It mustered its courage and swam around—only to realize that its physical condition was worse than it had expected. A sluggish numbness came from every corner of its body. After making a decision in its mind, its body often needed more than a second to respond. If swimming in the ocean had not been an instinct for mermaids, it probably would have had trouble even moving by now.
……
As they approached the depths of the ocean—the area where the Western Sea Kingdom of the Sea Clan resided—the mermaids saw countless corpses.
From enormous and ferocious sea beasts to tiny and docile fish, even the sprawling seaweed, everything lay quietly on the soft sand and mud of the seabed, as if asleep.
They are dead.
It wasn't just them that died; many more, and even more, went down in time—
With her vision blurred, the mermaid gazed into the distance. She didn't know how long she had been swimming or where she had ended up. All she remembered was that every inch of the sea she had passed through was so quiet—just like the sea when the ocean was first born, as described in the legends of the sea creatures. And her body was gradually becoming sluggish.
When the last bit of control over this body was washed away, the mermaid fell to the bottom of the sea like those floating corpses, feeling death approaching.
In its final moments before death, it shouted with all its might:
—Who else is still alive?
Is anyone else still alive...?
Who else...?
Are you alive...?
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The Wizarding World, West Coast.
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