Chapter 304 - 297: That Year I Was Newly Promoted, Standing There Like a Grunt
Chapter 304: Chapter 297: That Year I Was Newly Promoted, Standing There Like a Grunt
In the Seven Towers Alliance’s public course, "Plane Science," there is a detailed description of the "Sea of Magical Power," the bedrock of the universe.
The Sea of Magical Power gives birth to countless planes, which are like bubbles floating on its surface.
The vast majority of these are unremarkable, ordinary material planes. Only about a tenth are special planes with their own unique Laws.
Then there are planes that are special among the special, renowned throughout the entire universe.
The Abyss is one such multi-layered, forbidden plane.
It is the source of chaos and evil, filled with chaotic Magic Power.
Its environment spontaneously tends toward filth and strangeness, and it is home to countless demons and other vile creatures.
The Laws of the Abyss are chaotic and filled with malice. Both its Magic Power and the materials it produces contain a strong "contaminating" property, and long-term exposure leads directly to madness or demonization.
This plane is also the main stronghold for many Black Wizards and the Eternal Secret Sect, where they acquire forbidden knowledge and conduct wicked bloodline experiments.
At this moment, the behemoth forcing its way out of the void was slowly revealing its full form.
Far away in Zone 18, Allen stared at the projection with a solemn expression, having clearly recognized the creature.
"An Abyssal Calamity Beast."
It was a terrifying creature that lived in the depths of the Abyss. It had no reason, no sense of pain—only the instinct to devour all matter and Magic Power.
Even the lofty Morning Star Wizards, when exploring the Abyss, would never want to face such a terrifying monster that knew only destruction.
Killing them was time-consuming and difficult, yielded no valuable loot, and a moment of carelessness could lead to severe contamination by the abyssal aura.
And now, this Son of the Abyss had not only summoned it to the Material Realm but had also actively fused with it.
When a mindless machine of destruction was connected to a brain possessing the intellect of a High-tier Wizard, its threat level would rise exponentially.
Before the fortress, the Abyssal Calamity Beast had completely descended into the Material Realm.
Its appearance reminded Allen of a monster from a movie in his past life named "Godzilla."
It had stout, bipedal legs, a body covered in dark violet, keratinous scales, and a massive tail hundreds of meters long that swung slowly behind it. Every time it slammed into the ground, it triggered a small earthquake.
Its back, from its cervical spine to the tip of its tail, was lined with black dorsal fins as sharp as sword blades.
"ROAR—!"
The Calamity Beast threw its head back and let out a roar that shattered the clouds.
The black dorsal fins on its back began to glow with a piercing red light, one by one, starting from the tail. Abyssal Magic Power compressed madly within its great maw, and the surrounding space twisted and shrieked under the extreme energy.
It took aim at Forged Fire Fortress ahead.
Inside the fortress command hall, piercing alarms blared in unison.
"High energy reading! Energy levels have surpassed twenty thousand! Still rising!"
"The fortress’s energy shield can’t block a breath attack of this magnitude!"
Mercer Iron Star stood at the top of the tower, the fierce wind whipping his silver hair back.
His crystalline, dark blue eyes reflected the intensifying red glow in the Calamity Beast’s mouth, his face still completely devoid of expression.
"Lysander, is this all you have?"
Mercer’s voice, amplified by Magic Power, spread coldly across the battlefield. "To entrust your life to the control of another... how pathetic."
He raised his right hand, his long fingers pressing a complex Rune into the empty air.
"Authorization unlocked."
"Giant Divine Soldier, deploy."
Before Forged Fire Fortress.
The once-solid space seemed to turn into a silken curtain, gently parted to the sides by a pair of massive mechanical hands.
Allen subconsciously held his breath.
A metal giant beyond all description slowly strode out from the depths of a demiplane and into the real world.
It was huge—so huge it defied all common sense and comprehension.
This Ultimate Golem, which Mercer called the "Giant Divine Soldier," stood a full ten thousand meters tall!
The thick, ochre clouds of the Molten Iron Mountain Range only reached its waist.
Its body was pieced together from countless armored plates, its surface coursing with mysterious, dark blue Magic Circuits.
In its chest was a transparent Energy Storage unit, over a hundred meters in diameter, which seemed to contain a miniature burning star.
As it strode forward, the earth groaned, and even the Law of gravity seemed to fail in that moment.
It didn’t need to cast any Magic. Its mere existence—its terrifying mass and Magic Power density—was enough to crush the surrounding space.
The Abyssal Calamity Beast, which had seemed so imperious and massive just moments ago, was like a slightly oversized dog standing before an adult human in the face of this ten-thousand-meter-tall Giant Divine Soldier.
"Wh-what the hell is this creation?"
Lysander’s furious, panicked roar came from the light screen.
The abyssal monster he had summoned at great cost seemed utterly laughable before his mentor’s Ultimate Golem.
"The truth of Alchemy."
Mercer’s voice emanated from the head of the Giant Divine Soldier, like a Judgement handed down by a God.
The Giant Divine Soldier moved.
There were no flashy moves, no complicated incantations.
It simply raised its sky-blotting metal hand and, with a terrifying sonic boom that tore through the atmosphere, slammed it down toward the Abyssal Calamity Beast below.
The abyssal breath the Calamity Beast had been charging in its mouth erupted, forming a black beam of light a hundred meters in diameter.
The beam struck the palm of the Giant Divine Soldier, erupting in a blinding flash of light.
The light screen in front of Allen instantly turned pure white.
[Warning! Over-limit energy shockwave detected!]
[Signal lost...]
[Demon Eye IV has been destroyed.]
The feed cut out completely.
Allen spun around and rushed out of his private workshop, stepping onto the open-air platform outside.
The wind had stopped.
All of Zone 18 was deathly silent.
Allen looked up, his gaze traveling past the continuous mountain ranges toward the far west.
Even from nearly a thousand kilometers away, he could still clearly see the apocalyptic scene.
On the horizon to the far west, a black beam of light, too thick to describe, shot toward a giant taller than Mount Everest from his past life, carrying with it the power to annihilate everything.
Immediately after, a dark blue sphere of light, thousands of times more dazzling than the sun, exploded outward across the land.
A blinding light swept across the landscape.
In that instant, it felt as if nearly half of the Molten Iron Mountain Range plane had been stripped of all color, reduced to pure black and white.
Following that was a deafening roar, audible even from hundreds of kilometers away, and a hurricane laced with volcanic ash and rampaging Magic Power.
Allen activated his Magic Shield, letting the hurricane whip his robes about him.
He watched the world-ending phenomenon in the distance, his eyes holding no fear, only a fanaticism that bordered on greed.
’This is a battle between Morning Star Level Wizards.’
Two completely different, world-destroying energies were colliding in the far distance.
It was a pity he couldn’t witness the full scope of a battle between Morning Star Level Wizards with his own eyes.
But from the celestial phenomena in the distance, he could understand just how grand the scale of this battle was.
’That is a power great enough to easily flatten a country, a power that can truly interfere with planes.’
’This is the ultimate violence, built upon a foundation of knowledge and truth.’
"How beautiful..." Allen murmured softly.
He looked down at his own hands, which were dusted with a bit of Mithril powder.
He was still just an "unqualified" Second-level Wizard who had to painstakingly craft even an Earth Vein Magic Furnace by hand. He was far, far too distant from the realm where one could move mountains and fill seas.
’But the path... is now clear.’
Just then, another change occurred on the distant horizon.
Countless scarlet lightning bolts suddenly tore through the expanding dark blue sphere of light. The aura of the Abyss, like a bursting dam, began to spread madly in all directions, with Forged Fire Fortress at its epicenter.
The ochre clouds in the sky were completely dyed a nauseating blackish-purple.
The fanaticism on Allen’s face gradually faded, and his brow furrowed slightly.
"Jarvis."
[Here, Commander.]
"Seal the workshop immediately."
Allen narrowed his eyes, staring intently at the roiling black fog on the distant horizon.
’Will my mentor win?’
’A clash of that magnitude could never be without a price.’
’The Abyssal Calamity Beast’s counterattack, or whatever that madman Lysander has up his sleeve, will definitely bring immeasurable consequences to this plane.’
’I hope my mentor’s Giant Divine Soldier is tough enough.’