Kurkel Castle, four in the afternoon.
Lemo was jolted awake from the sofa. He looked at his coffee table, desk, and bookcase, which were shaking like they were possessed. They were moving in one direction in the room, and the teacups on the table were clinking non-stop. "It's an earthquake!" Just as this terrifying thought surfaced in his mind, a loud bang sounded. The walnut door was smashed open by the guards.
The one who rushed in was his trusted aide, but his expression was no better than his own. "M-my lord … You better come out and take a look."
"Where's the princess?!"
Lemo jumped up from the sofa like a leopard, grabbing his aide by the collar and roaring, "Evacuate everyone!"
The aide shook his head desperately. At this moment, a calm voice came from outside the door. "Mr. Knight, let him go. Calm down." The voice seemed to stab Lemo, causing him to let go of his aide. He looked up and saw the half-elf girl standing behind the swaying door. Behind her were a few Knights. Duke Viero was beside her in his long robe. The princess's expression was normal, and the duke did not seem to be panicking. Dust fell from the ceiling like smoke from time to time, landing on the two of them, but no one cared.
Lemo's face reddened. He did not expect the princess to be here. He had been sleeping too soundly. "Your Highness, we have to leave the building quickly," he suggested.
"No need. This is not an earthquake."
Princess Gryphine replied, "Mr. Knight, take your men and inform the wizards of the Tower of Stars and Moon to activate the city's magical defenses."
"Magical defenses?"
Lemo was stunned. Could it be that they were attacked?
He subconsciously looked at the others suspiciously. Gryphine sighed, but only the aide approached him carefully and whispered in his ear, "My lord, you'll understand once you go out and take a look."
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Wallerstein, 3: 55 PM.
The alarm bell on the Holy Cathedral tower rang, and the Gryphon Guards immediately rose into the sky and flew in all directions. In the outskirts of the town, the lush forest seemed to have been blown by a gust of wind. The emerald green treetops rolled in waves, revealing the grey-white leaves below. The shockwaves passed through the clouds in the sky and tore the cotton-like clouds into pieces. The monk soldiers came out in full force and walked up the city wall in a long line. In the four directions of the city center, the minarets were shining with strong magic light.
In the blink of an eye, a light purple hemispherical screen of light appeared above the city, covering the entire area from Mandolin Market to the Water Gate.
Looking down at the city from the sky, the panicked crowd was gathering along the streets towards the city center, as if some invisible fear was driving them forward.
In the central plaza, Consul Kanin looked up with a pale face, as if he was facing the end of the world.
"Martha above, please protect your people!"
Right behind him, the security chief's roar sounded like the roar of an angry dragon. "You damned idiots, what are you doing here?! Go and inform the headquarters of the Holy Cathedral of Fire! Get out! Tell them we're done for! All done for! "
"Let them find out who did it! Who cast this spell?! "
The patrolling cavalry scattered in all directions.
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Toquinin Fortress, four ten in the afternoon.
In contrast to the tense atmosphere in Waller, the Golden Lion City seemed to have been cast into a spell of silence that enveloped the entire city.
The whole city was still. Every street, every square, and even the entrances of the bazaars and shops, the Lion-Men with long manes, the Dwarves with axes, and the Halflings in the Gray Wilderness were all like puppets under a spell. Everyone looked up at the sky in a daze.
In the sky, there were still dark clouds, but it was as if a circle of ripples was spreading out with the city as the center. All the dark clouds were instantly dispersed in all directions. The shockwaves spread out layer by layer, and the thick clouds were torn apart, torn apart, and rolled. In the end, they turned into light clouds in the shape of fish scales and were still drifting into the distant sky. The sky behind the clouds was blue, and the sun shone down directly. It was as clear as the surface of a still lake, without a single blemish.
There were no clouds for thousands of miles.
The golden steeple of the Asamoah Temple shone brightly under the sun.
But no one cheered, no one praised such a miracle, and no one even dared to make a sound.
The doors of the golden palace opened, and the elderly Lion-Men priests walked out of the temple with the help of the accompanying monks. Their white robes were like waves. But everyone looked at the sky, and almost lost their souls as they knelt down and prayed for the forgiveness of the gods.
In the dark blue sky.
The white lines of the Tiamat Magic Array were as clear as a magic array diagram drawn on a blackboard with chalk, but the arcs of different thicknesses did not intersect with each other. Each of the arcs spanned half the sky and had a diameter of more than ten thousand miles. The lines were a little like white trails, coming out from the light clouds in the distance, crossing the top of the head, and then connecting to the other side of the sky.
A few vertical lines connected to the center of the circle of the entire magic array. Such a spectacular scene could only be seen on the most sunny days.
But today, such a scene only made the people who were watching it feel suffocated.
The white magic array was overlapping, as if they were moving horizontally from the other half of the sky. Although there was no sound, it was as loud as rolling thunder in people's hearts. The magic array overlapped one another, and every time it moved, it swept across hundreds of miles of the sky. Finally, these rotating gears were aimed at the Toquinin Fortress.
Heavy pressure descended from the sky.
At that moment, everyone in the city involuntarily prostrated themselves.
It was as if they were listening to the teachings of the gods.
…
Maynild looked up.
The buzzing sound was getting louder and louder, and the Folded Sword Knights were slowly retreating, but it was at this moment that several people present felt an indescribable feeling in their hearts. It was as if they were witnessing some kind of indescribable majestic power breaking out of its cocoon. Maynild, Little Pero, and the others, who were the last to retreat, turned their heads in unison.
As if all of a sudden, there was a slight flash of light, and everyone saw a circle of faint light gathering from all directions. It seemed slow, but in fact, it was very fast. Little Pero could tell at a glance that the light pattern started near Violet Castle in the west, and reached Kurkel in the east. It covered a range of hundreds of miles in the blink of an eye. The light wave swept across their position with a buzzing sound, and gathered at the center of the black building complex.
It was just a blink of an eye.
The light pattern completely gathered together, forming a dazzling ball of light.
Then, a beam of light rose straight from the center of the ball of light, and with a buzzing sound, it directly pierced through the clouds in the sky. The clouds were turbulent like waves, rippling layer by layer. Just the aftermath alone was enough to shock everyone to the core.
"This … this is …"
…
Ko Hua only touched it lightly with his hand.
There was only pure white left in the image, and the white light spread out from the point where the beam of light fell like a tsunami, flooding the entire city. The towering towers, the city walls, the fortress, and the iconic golden minaret of Toquinin were all submerged in the dazzling light. There was no earth-shattering explosion, no sound of houses collapsing, no screams, no fire, only a flawless white light, just like the light that Martha descended when the world was born.
After the light faded.
Toquinin, the fortress that the Lionfolk were proud of, was completely erased from this world, and there was not a trace of its existence left. The thirty-four thousand Lionfolk, dwarves, and halflings that lived in this city were all turned into ashes. In the grasslands of Toquinin, there was only a deep pit a few miles in diameter left. Smoke curled up from the pit, bearing witness to everything that happened just a moment ago.
Brando stared at the scene with his mouth agape.
Judgment of God, a fourteen-circle light elemental sorcery.
Ko Hua did not even blink, and pointed his finger at another image — Wallerz.
"You're crazy!" Brando roared. He stared at the other two images in fear — Ampere Seale, Kurkel.
Princess Gryphine was still in Kurkel!
Ko Hua turned around and looked at him with his silver-white eyes that had become emotionless, and asked, "Why do you say that, Mr. Human? Aren't you the ones who woke me up?" Her voice echoed in the hall, without a hint of guilt or excitement, as if that was all there was to it.
"The ones who woke you up were the believers of All For One. What does it have to do with us? Those people are innocent!"
"The believers of All For One are the generation of Black Iron, and have the power to decide the fate of the world."
"They are a group of scum whose minds have been corrupted by Dusk!"
"So, you have turned yourselves into the messengers of destruction." Ko Hua smiled proudly.
"Damn it!"
Brando flew up and slashed his sword at Ko Hua above the platform, but when the blade was still ten feet away from her, there was a buzz as if it had hit a wall of air. The space that was hit shook violently, and with the point of contact as the center, ripples of hexagonal light rippled out. Ko Hua glanced at him and moved her left hand in his direction. A circle of blazing white static electricity spread out with her as the center. Brando screamed and was directly bounced out, landing heavily on the ground.
With just that, he lost a quarter of his life.
He immediately gritted his teeth and got up from the ground, but it was at this time that a hand pressed down on his shoulder from behind. Even Brando himself did not notice when Veronica and Mephisto had come up behind him. The two Sword Saints put Peya and Yaruta down. The two siblings had probably fainted again during the fall and had yet to wake up. The two of them raised their heads at the same time and looked at Ko Hua in the center of the hall. "Brando, what's going on?" In the end, it was Veronica who asked first.
"Stop her, she's destroying the cities on the projection. She's now controlling Milos' body and can use Milos' divine power at will!" Brando took a breath and immediately replied. Seeing Veronica and his teacher arrive, he was finally relieved. Now the strength of the three of them combined was not inferior to the entire team of around level 50 in the game.
Veronica recognized Volez on the holographic projection at a glance. Her expression changed, and without any movement, the thin sword in the scabbard automatically came out of the scabbard and appeared in her hand. Brando glanced at the sword. It was not the Azure Firmament, but just a high-quality magic sword. Only then did he realize that the female commander's strength seemed to have grown a little. He did not know if it was the influence of the experience in the Loop of Trade Winds or the Great Demonic Wave.
"A complete True God?" Mephisto frowned and asked.
Hearing this question, Brando calmed down.
No, from what Ko Hua said before, she should still be in the process of merging with Milos' body. In this state, she could at most be considered a false god. However, even if she was a fake God, there was still a qualitative difference between her and a mortal. The barrier of light around her was the legendary divine barrier. Attacks from the mortal world would never be able to penetrate this barrier. But damn it, how was this battle supposed to be fought? If even Ko Hua himself could not be attacked, then wouldn't it be a one-sided slaughter?
Impossible.
If Ko Hua was really the legendary hidden boss, the Awakening God Surash, then there must be a flaw.
Brando narrowed his eyes. He had already seen Veronica rushing toward Ko Hua. Her speed was astonishing. Like a green shadow, she circled behind Ko Hua in the blink of an eye. She stopped there, raised her longsword, and crossed it in front of her. A green dragon flew out of the blade and went straight for Ko Hua. However, just like Brando's previous attack, the moment the green dragon hit the light screen, a hexagonal grid appeared in layers. The dragon instantly disintegrated, and then a ring of static energy bounced off the light screen. But this ring of static energy was cut in half by the Green Sword Saint's sword before it could get close to Veronica. It did not affect her at all.
In a breath's time, Veronica had finished her attack and counterattack. She landed lightly beside Brando, frowning deeply. "Absolute difference?" She looked at Brando.
Brando nodded.
Absolute difference was the natural chasm between all mortal power and divine power. This was the core law of the Tiamat Law — divine power, also known as the absolute law. The power of existence took precedence over all laws and order. Only the power of existence could affect the gods. The power of mortals was like a bubble at this level. No matter how brilliant it was, it was meaningless.
"She's not a true god. How can there be an absolute difference between us?" Veronica almost gritted her teeth as she asked this question.
Brando shook his head blankly.
Indeed, Ko Hua was not a true god. How could there be an absolute difference? But that divine barrier was clearly a type of absolute difference. Moreover, if there was such a thing as an absolute difference, how could this battle be fought? He felt that there must be a problem somewhere. A battle of this level would not be prepared for players. He looked around, trying to find the hidden flaw. But at this moment, he had a vague idea in his mind.
This was a world quest.
The world line in the game was split into two.
The players in the past had chosen the former path, but he had accidentally chosen the latter. The future line had been completely changed.
But whether it was good or bad was unknown.
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