The flower bud was twirling in a certain someone's hand. The supposedly hard metal, the Dragonblood Copper braid, was now like a natural plant, swaying gently in the twirling process.
Amidst the secret unlocking incantation, the calyx locks of the Labian Rose were unlocked one by one. The swaying petals were affected by the centrifugal force, peeling off piece by piece and scattering everywhere. However, as soon as the petals fell off, the crimson Dragonblood Copper would be turned into extremely fine dust under the effect of the magic array, and then like a laser, it would randomly fly in a straight line until it adhered to something.
As long as this dust adhered to something, the authority virus hidden within would begin to infect the authority of the object itself, forcing it to reorder. When the new authority turned into the same sequence as the authority virus, it would also turn into dust and continue to spread the infection according to the way it was compiled into a program.
And the time needed for this process to go through was in the nanosecond. When there was more dust flying, sometimes it would coincidentally have the same flight path, and then the cluster of dust would become visible to the naked eye, like a beam of light, although it was just a flash.
In the end, in the eyes of the onlookers, with the mage who suddenly appeared in the middle of the demon army as the center, all the demons surrounding him turned into dust without the slightest pain. And the more the range spread, the faster the speed of the entire change.
When the amount of dust reached a certain level, the originally fleeting flash would become visible at any time, and naturally form a familiar totem. Just like the blooming of the metal rose, a gorgeous flower that represented death bloomed on the land of the Abyss.
More importantly, this flower did not only devour demons, but within the range, all objects with the eight authorities, regardless of whether they were living or dead. Even if they only contained a small amount of authority, they would not be spared from the effects of the rose. Of course, objects with too little authority would only feel a slight discomfort after being infected, and the entire body would not turn into dust.
It could be said that the more ordinary a living thing or object was, the more likely it was to survive the ravages of the virus. But in the Abyss, there was no ordinary thing. Even a blade of grass or a stone, after being left in this special environment for a long time, would be eroded by the chaotic energy, and naturally carry the eight authorities unique to the Abyss, unable to maintain a balanced state.
This did not mean that a single metal rose could destroy the entire Abyss. The damage mechanism of the Rose of Labian was actually viral self-propagation, as well as the assimilation mechanism of Divine Power and Authority, with the latter being the most crucial.
If one was not a god or an existence of the same level, they would not be able to maintain their Divine Power Authority without limit. True gods could also bestow divine power to their oracles at will, allowing mortals to possess it temporarily. Lin could not do that, and neither could the weapons he had designed.
As long as it was a certain distance away from the control center, the Authority Virus would lose its support and collapse on its own. The virus could not even exist in the natural environment on its own. In microseconds, if it could not infect the next host and carry out assimilation and self-reproduction, it would naturally be destroyed.
However, Lin had no intention of fixing this flaw. Or rather, from the very beginning, he had never intended to create an uncontrollable god-slaying weapon. With such a flaw, he did not have to think about how to limit the Authority Virus.
And this time, in addition to verifying whether the process was as expected, he also had to test the controllable range, and whether the solution to the virus was truly enough to resist this fixed form of Authority Virus. Because the problem of the solution was related to whether the user would be threatened, and not to create another self-destruct skill.
In Lin's vision, he did not see the blooming flower of death. Instead, countless data surged into his thoughts. Some were observed, and some were recorded by the virus, including the location of its effects, the time, the range of infection, and the general information of the infected.
And this information could be used to establish a transmission model of the Authority Virus for further research. It could be said that if the function of sending back records was removed, the Authority Virus could be reduced in magnitude, and its transmission and infection ability would be further increased.
But setting aside the follow-up research for now, a certain person at the center of the storm had keenly noticed something. It was that the control center of the Authority Virus, the bone flower in his hand, was actually not very powerful.
First, the theoretical range of the virus's influence was around one kilometer, but in reality, it was only a little more than half, which was a radius of around five hundred meters, including the sky and underground.
Second, the protection mechanism for the user within did not seem to be thorough. Originally, the Authority Virus should be at least one and a half meters away from the user holding the bone flower, and as long as it was less than this distance, the virus would be killed by the detoxification program transmitted by the bone flower.
But perhaps because the magnitude was beyond imagination, or perhaps because of some other reason, the longer the effect of the Rose of Labian lasted, the more the safe distance of one and a half meters was reduced. It even stimulated the spiritual beast from his hometown that had been hibernating in the Black Tortoise Robe on Lin's body.
The Black Tortoise did not take form, and Lin only felt the clothes on his body resisting foreign objects. Even the part of the Authority Virus that had been affected by the Authority Virus had somewhat faded. But the other half from Earth resisted the erosion of the Authority Virus with brute force.
This also indirectly proved that Lin's virus against Authority was a success. Because once it encountered other types of biological or energy codes, this virus would be defeated.
Fen had once mentioned that imitating the form of biological viruses, during the process of self-reproduction, it would give the virus an uncertain characteristic of self-mutation. But this request was rejected by a certain person without hesitation, and instead allowed the Authority Virus to retain its characteristics similar to a computer virus, and unless it was manually modified, the virus would not mutate on its own.
This was done not only to ensure that the detoxification distance of the user was effective, but also to prevent the Authority Virus from going out of control. At least, from the results of the experiment before their eyes, even without the self-mutation characteristic, this Authority Virus still exerted unexpected power, especially when it threatened the user. This meant that the Rose of Labian still had room for improvement.
Compared to a certain human mage in the center of the storm, the moment the Flower of Death bloomed, the battlefield fell silent. All the demons, as well as mages and non-mages who were quite sensitive to the changes in Authority, felt the despair brought by this flower.
The eight Authority Viruses in the Abyss were like air and water to the Land of Mystery and the Abyss, something that everyone was used to. But if the oxygen in the air could burn without the need for combustible substances, or if the ubiquitous water became a highly toxic substance, how would the humans who relied on them for survival react? That kind of feeling was what the demons and other people were feeling now.
The demons in the battle, regardless of friend or foe, all stopped moving. Lich, standing at the edge of the rooftop, frowned, which was rare. Although the heavy sniper rifle "No Life for Me" that hadn't been officially used yet was designed based on the same Authority Virus, it was an instantaneous attack.
However, that gun emphasized instantaneous attack power, so it would have the effect of extinguishing material smoke. Unlike the slow way of playing with the Rose of Labian, which gave people a completely different feeling.
Even Shi Dong, the original sutured corpse who had been unperturbed since he regained his body, looked at the blooming flower for the first time with a serious expression. Or rather, the mage who should be in it.
Azzad, the Demon Prince, was silent. He was sure that this was the first time he felt so close to death.
He had actually long been prepared to die in battle. As long as he went through a carefree battle, it was normal for the loser to give up his life. He had never thought that he would always stand in the position of the victor.
But this … this kind of death, Azzad couldn't even describe what kind of death it was. It was unacceptable to him. Because the dead had no ability to resist, and even said that no one would understand how they died. They just passed away like this.
Even when facing the gods, Azzad couldn't feel this sense of powerlessness. But this mage did it …
The most shocked was none other than the Demon Lord Sha Bin. He thought that he had found an external aid, but he found out that there were big shots hiding among his companions.
Whether it was the woman who used to be known as the Demon King, the unremarkable young man who was suspected to be her subordinate in the past, or even the human who wore exaggerated red clothes and seemed to have demon blood. Any one of them had the strength to fight with him.
And the mage who he had originally thought of as an external aid, according to the other's previous tactics and that unstoppable weapon, he had already thought highly of the other party. But Sha Bin had never thought that what he had seen in the past was far from the limit of that mage.
The three demon commanders who attacked, any one of them was quite close to his level. Even when he was at his peak, it would take some effort to deal with any one of them. So even if he knew that the other party coveted his position, he didn't rashly make a move on the three of them. But today, he died in one breath.
It should have been a happy thing, but he couldn't be happy at all. Now, Sha Bin could only hope that the mage would also die in the Flower of Death. However, the chances of that happening were slim.
Just like flowers blooming and withering, even the most beautiful flowers would have a time to fall. Especially the Death Flower that sucked human blood, when the human blood was sucked dry, it was the beginning of its withering.
When the blooming state of the Rose of Labian gradually faded, the demons and people on the sidelines could finally see what was inside.
The three demon armies were no longer visible, and there weren't even any remnants left. The originally bare ground, which was also the only way to connect to the castle on the cliff, was now covered by the Rose of Labian, and now it was dead gray, a strong contrast to the original appearance of the land next to it. And it looked so fragile that it would break with a touch.
That mage was still alive, standing upright in the center of the withered flower. The black robe exuded the oppression of the Divine Level, which once again refreshed people's understanding of him.
Perhaps his apprentices and companions didn't feel so strongly. But the demons present all understood that the birth of a new star was in front of them, and it was unstoppable.
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