Eroma was not a talkative demigod. She merely nodded and followed Brando towards the direction of the lightning storm. The two of them flew against the wind, but they were not affected at all. Soon, they caught up with the fleet of the Icesea clan. The Tyrmosians on the ships all raised their heads to look at the two people flying over the fleet.
"Eroma," Brando looked down and shouted, "Slow them down."
Eroma looked at the dragon-headed warships, and the lightning and flame wings on her back flapped gently. Countless lines of law flashed in the void, protecting the Tyrmosian fleet and slowing them down in the vortex.
But it only slowed them down. They were still moving towards the center of the vortex. Brendel looked back at the Port of Everwinter and the Dense Fog Clan's fleet. He estimated that they should be able to catch up with them, then nodded and no longer cared about the Frozen Sea Clan.
The two flew past the Icesea Clan's fleet in an instant. The center of the storm had already taken shape in front of them. Several purple lightning bolts formed a huge net of electricity and enveloped them. However, Eroma merely raised her hand, and these lightning bolts turned into sparks that scattered into the void. The Icesea Clan's fleet could not help but cheer when they saw this from afar.
This was the power of a Planeswalker, another kind of power that could create a world.
Brendel and Erama continued to move closer to the center of the storm. To prove his theory, he opened the battle log in the System Panel and paid attention to the surrounding situation while paying attention to the information in the battle log.
The lightning bolts around them became denser and denser. Brando could not help but feel a little shocked when he saw the information on the combat log. Every time those lightning bolts struck an area within a hundred meters of Eroma, it would cause thousands of damage in the battle log. Before the damage reduction was applied, it was basically equivalent to a strike from a Sage. However, without exception, Eroma's Domain of Law absorbed all of the lightning bolts without a hitch. Yet, it was as if nothing happened to her.
The Lines of Law that flashed around Eroma's body extended in a certain direction in a regular pattern, forming a spherical area that was as solid as a rock. Even when the lightning bolts bombarded it, the Lines of Law only flickered slightly, and did not even shake in the slightest.
This was the Law Domain. In fact, Brando's Law of Space and Law of Time had a similar effect. It was just that his Order value could not withstand the consumption. Only when his body was perfected and his Law Domain and the Law of Tiamat combined into one would the Law System be upgraded. After that, the Law Domain would no longer consume Order value because it was the Law of Tiamat itself. A person's Order value would only have a maximum value. As long as the damage output did not exceed the maximum value, there would be no problem in using the Law of Element. This was similar to how an Elementalist used the Elemental Pool.
But he was still far from that level. Eroma's Law Element was the 'Holy Sword'. It protected the Holy Sword, and the Holy Sword protected Eroma. In a sense, this ability was similar to an absolute defense. As long as Eroma did not absorb more damage than her Law Pool within a certain period of time, she was almost invincible.
Obviously, the large amount of energy released during the Mana Transition was not enough to break through Eroma's defense.
The two shuttled through the lightning storm, attracting a large number of lightning bolts to a narrow area like a moving lightning rod. At the same time, they also reduced the pressure on the Icesea Clan's fleet behind them.
But Brando's goal was not only to save the Icesea Clan. When he and Eroma entered the center of the storm, a new line of green notification popped up on the battle log. It was different from the blood-red one.
'System Notification: 327 EXP gained!'
Then, this line of text appeared on the screen, like a waterfall, and instantly appeared dozens of rows below.
'System Notification: 333 EXP gained!'
'System Notification: 329 EXP gained!'
'System Notification: 335 EXP gained!'
'System Notification: 341 EXP gained!'
In an instant, he had gained nearly 20,000 EXP. Although this was only a drop in the ocean for his character level, it was only the beginning. The EXP screen was far from stopping. In fact, it was like the system had malfunctioned. In the blink of an eye, dozens of pages had been turned.
Each notification was only a few hundred EXP, but the interval between notifications was too short. It was as if in a breath, Brando found that he had gained enough EXP to upgrade the Frostsoil Guard or the Templar Knight to the next level.
However, he was not in a hurry to level up. Instead, he insisted that Eroma continue to move forward. The EXP bar gradually increased from 330 to 350 with each jump, then to 370, 380, and finally stabilized at 420 in the center of the storm.
In just a few minutes, Brando had gained more EXP than he had gained from the fragment of Mavekart's Grimoire. With this EXP alone, he could upgrade the Frostsoil Guard to Level 20, or the Templar Knight to Level 30 or above.
However, the speed of gaining EXP was not constant. Soon, the rate of EXP notifications in the center of the storm slowed down. At first, there were dozens of notifications in a second, but soon it became a few times, and finally stabilized at a frequency of once per second.
Brando was not surprised by this. In fact, this was the normal frequency. When they were first baptized by the Mana Tide in The Amber Sword, it was at this frequency, or even a little slower. After all, after mana escaped into the elemental barrier through the tide, it would be greatly weakened.
The first time the great tide of the sea of magic was observed in The Amber Sword was also in the Year of the Sword, but the first time the tide of magic passed through the elemental barrier and affected the Prime Material Plane was about six years later, before the start of the slate war.
Brando was sure that at this time, Wohnde in the inner layer of the Elemental Barrier had not begun to experience the Mana Tide. The residents of the land at most observed the fierce collision between the Mana Tide and the Elemental Barrier.
This was the beginning of the Mana Tide beginning to transform the shallow sea and the other three Elemental Planes. According to the game's calculation, it was about three months before the first Mana Tide came. However, the progress of this world seemed to be faster. He estimated that in less than a month, or even a month, the Mana Tide would come to Wohnde.
That was six years earlier than in history.
In fact, he was not wrong. At this moment, in Wohnde, Fanzin, Cruz, and Saint-ausol, as well as in the civilized border places such as the Ten Cities, Erouine, Hazel, White Mountain, and Falcon Plateau, residents everywhere observed the changes in the sky.
At first, it was the Black Moon that fell.
Countless meteors were falling from the sky, setting off the night sky in a gorgeous light, but it was the light of death. The brightness of the sky seemed to indicate the darkness of the land, and the lights that represented civilization were extinguished from the dark land.
In Onechi and Sinta, the Bugas lowered their floating cities from the clouds. These Silver Folk who dominated the sky found that many cities along the Silver Bay coast had disappeared. The starry lights that were used to mark civilization under the night sky were replaced by flames spreading over the dark land. The dark land seemed to be burning, and it was full of holes and cracks.
Then came the storm.
The storm with purple clouds swept through almost all of Wohnde that night. Purple lightning zigzagged in the clouds, or rather, in the sky. The sound of thunder seemed to come from the horizon. There was a rainstorm in some places, but in most places, it was just a gust of wind.
Almost every Tower of Stars and Moons observed at the same time that the magic in Wohnde was active thousands of times. Astrologers in robes opened portals from all over the place, and all kinds of magic messages and magic letters passed through the Astral Plane or the low-dimensional plane in Wohnde.
But under the ashes of death and despair, there seemed to be hope.
The astrologers could soon confirm that on this day, about one-third of the surviving newborns were born with extraordinary magic talent, and half of the other two-thirds had far more potential than ordinary people.
If they survived, a new chapter in the history of the Iron Folk would be written.
The Great Astrologer predicted the birth of thirty-three Chosen One in the next year. This was an unprecedented number, and they were called the 'Iron Folk'. The astrologers decided on the name of the next year that night:
The Year of Sparks.
It was a full half a century earlier than in history.
In this year in history, Mesha was killed, and the wizards started the Slate War.
But all of this seemed to have nothing to do with Brando at the moment. He did not know the drastic changes that were happening in Wohnde at this moment. Although he might have guessed in his heart, he knew that he was in an independent time stream.
Compared to him, Wohnde should be still at this moment.
Besides, what he needed to worry about now was no less than what the people of Wohnde had to worry about.
In fact, he did not expect to encounter the Millennium Tide outside the Elemental Barrier. Fortunately, this place was still covered by the law of Tiamat. Otherwise, the violent magic would not only give him EXP, but also directly drown him and the fleet of Tiamat. Even Eroma would not be able to help.
For a moment, he did not know if he should say that he was too lucky or too unlucky.
Because even within the law of Tiamat, the current storm was still very threatening. One only needed to look at the fleet of Tiamat to understand this. Although the heart of the storm nurtured a large amount of low-level wandering mana that mortals could use — or perhaps some sort of 'easily obtainable EXP' — the tremendous energy generated by the violent mana during the Warp was equally destructive.
That was the lightning storm.
Letting the fleet pass through the center of the storm vortex was actually a helpless choice. Compared to sacrificing the fleet of the Icesea Clan in exchange for an unpredictable result, it was better to take the risk. Besides, he was not completely without confidence. Although the center of the storm was filled with energy lightning, time, and space vortices, there was also an advantage. The large amount of low-level magic converted would quickly increase everyone's strength, and they would not have to worry about mana and stamina exhaustion.
If they could avoid the effects of the energy lightning and time turbulence, the fleet might even gain immeasurable benefits in the center of the storm.
As for how much they could achieve, it depended on their understanding of the law of time and space.
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