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This single attack from the water elemental creature posed a threat of completely destroying the fleet...
Unlike metal warships that are too large to avoid at this distance, the automated humanoids, which were designed from the outset to deal with equally massive sea monsters, suffered no losses and quickly regrouped to continue fighting after the surging waves crashed over them.
However, the shipborne firepower, which is powerful for both marine life and humans, still appears insignificant when faced with this massive water element that weighs over one million tons and is entirely composed of seawater.
No matter how much seawater is shattered and evaporated from its surface, the water element can replenish itself in the next second by relying on the seemingly endless seawater beneath its feet, and continue to wield that "trident" to destroy and smash the warships at its feet in a brutal and direct manner.
Humanity did not refrain from resistance against the one-sided slaughter by the aliens. Heavy bombers carrying various high-powered bombs and even liquid nitrogen capable of instantly freezing the water elemental quickly took off from the coastline and approached. However, after the effectiveness of the first attack—one of the water elemental's hands was frozen and then shattered by the cannons of the automated humanoid and crashed—the wizards who reappeared immediately targeted the flying machines.
Admittedly, wizards cannot travel long distances at supersonic speeds like fighter jets in terms of distance and speed. However, in terms of agility within a small area, the latter is far superior to the former. After losing more than a dozen heavy bombers (the lightweight liquid nitrogen they could carry was insufficient), they had to abandon this desperate and futile endeavor.
Suddenly, the entire Second Fleet found itself in a precarious situation.
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"Sure enough, these mortal weapons are only effective against forces below level three. Even without the Morning Star Wizard's intervention, a level four water elemental creature is enough to destroy and kill them."
Looking down at the people being swallowed by the surging sea, the great wizard Michelle smiled for the first time in days.
"Our worries are meaningless. The vitality of the water element replenished by the sea is virtually inexhaustible. Not to mention destroying these metal structures, it would be easy to flatten the entire west coast."
"Don't be careless."
Unlike Arch Wizard Michelle, Arch Wizard Lordren still felt uneasy: "It's fine if it's just mortals, but those 'humans' who use high-powered alchemical weapons..."
Looking at the automated humanoids beneath the sea, relentlessly launching futile attacks on the water elemental, Archmage Lordren had a bad feeling: "They seem different."
Adhering to the most basic wizarding mindset, Archmage Anderson suggested: "Take one back and dissect it; perhaps we can find out how they differ from ordinary mortals."
Just as he was about to nod, a voice that sounded almost like that of a level two wizard suddenly came from afar.
"The white-robed wizard?"
"Why are they here?"
Turning around, he saw a figure in white robes also hovering in mid-air. Although the style of the white robes was slightly different from the academic wizards in Lordren's memory, the "magical ability" to hover in mid-air was indeed a standard feature of wizards. The question was, weren't these white-robed wizards always staying in academies to study magic? Why was she now in this remote western coastal area, and what was her position here?
Thinking back to his last contact with the second-level wizard Castleriel not long ago, Archmage Lordren already had a general idea in mind, but out of basic wizarding etiquette, he still tentatively asked.
“I am Lordren, a third-level Archmage, representing the Five Rings Tower of Charles to punish these mortals who dare to challenge the tower’s majesty. State your purpose in coming here, Archmage.”
What I got in return was silence.
After glancing at the Second Fleet, which had suffered heavy casualties under the attack of the water elementals, Archmage Lordren felt no unease. After all, besides himself, there were two other archmages, ten second-level wizards, and more than fifty first-level wizards. Not to mention the fourth-level water elemental that was practically "immortal" in the sea. If this white-robed wizard was rational enough to surrender, he could still live. But if he was foolish enough to try to stop it, then being crushed to death by the majesty of the Five Rings Tower would be his only possibility.
While the great wizard Lordren was pondering, the "white-robed wizard" in the distance had already made a move. Contrary to what the great wizard Lordren had imagined, she neither attacked the wizards nor the water elementals. Instead, she raised her head and looked up at the sky.
Sky?
The next second, a dazzling white light descended from space 360,000 meters above, enveloping a 200-meter radius sea area, including the water elemental life form.
Wizarding Civilization: Chapter 766 Bauhinia
The intense white light came and went quickly. When the great wizard Lordron subconsciously closed his eyes under the stimulation of the light—and immediately opened them again when he realized what was happening, the intense white light from the previous second had already dissipated into nothingness. Only the scorching heat emanating from the air and the distorted traces leading directly to the end of the sky proved that everything just now was not an illusion.
And that water elemental?
As the "hole" was rapidly filled by the surrounding seawater, the great wizard Lord Lun felt a deep bitterness in his heart.
"Morning Star Wizard..."
Even without sensing the fluctuations of magical energy, the fact that a level four water elemental life form could be completely wiped out with just one "magic spell" demonstrates that only a Morning Star Wizard could unleash such power, let alone a higher-level Moonlight Wizard.
The great wizard Lord Lun had never encountered him, nor dared to imagine it.
The wisdom of wizards led Archmage Lordren to decide immediately upon realizing that the "white-robed wizard" standing in the opposite position was likely a powerful Morning Star wizard: "Run!"
The next moment, not only Archmage Lordren, but also more than sixty formal wizards, including the two archmages, scattered and fled in all directions using various means. Their efficiency was even higher than when they had joined forces to attack. However, no one could guarantee whether such actions would be effective against the "Morning Star Wizards".
Raising his right hand, he completed the "diffusion" at his fingertips within a second, establishing the "tracking" position. The energy from Our Lady of the Rose was projected through the magic circuit, transforming into beams of particle light invisible to the naked eye, which approached the fleeing figure in the distance.
Several slow-moving official wizards were immediately hit by the tracking particle rays and fell into the sea. A level two wizard tried to use teleportation magic to evade, but the tracking nature still led him to his desperate demise. Only the protective magic that level three wizard Michelle gritted his teeth and erected to retrieve the water element truly negated the attack.
However, given the significant mental energy she had previously expended to summon water elemental life, this was practically her limit.
Faced with the second, third, and dozens of particle beams that followed, the fear of death made Michelle abandon the composure and wisdom that wizards were proud of. She poured all the last of her mental energy into the water element core in her hand, which was still radiating a terrifying temperature because of the "particle railgun" irradiation.
“alisita, puhami!!!”
The seawater in front of him suddenly rose, and the heat was instantly frozen by layers of hard ice blocks in front of the Great Wizard Michelle. When it came into contact with the pursuing particle rays, it made a sharp and ear-piercing sound. Even so, the pale-faced Great Wizard Michelle still showed a look of joy.
"This white-robed wizard is not the Morning Star Wizard at all!"
Although the "witchcraft" that destroyed the water elemental just now was indeed at the level of a Morning Star Wizard, the current "witchcraft" is only at the level of a Grand Wizard. If it were a Morning Star Wizard, it would be impossible for it to be blocked so easily, even if Michelle held the core of a level four water elemental creature in her hand.
"Damn it, if only my mental energy hadn't been depleted."
Realizing that the other two great wizards had already fled far away, Great Wizard Michelle did not intend to continue fighting the white-robed wizard of unknown strength with her depleted mental energy. Just as she had just completed a transfer spell using the water elemental core, an unbelievable scene suddenly occurred.
"How can it be!"
At some point, the water elemental core, which was originally just used as a prop, was placed here and took control of her body. Not only that, but as the connection between their minds deepened, it even showed a tendency to directly replace her thoughts.
"No, no, no—wait, it's you, why?! I've already—"
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The anomaly behind the ice barrier made Eve stop what she was doing and instead approach it with caution.
As the representative of the "Main God Space" in the wizarding world, even with various external enhancements, Eve's power, when converted to the wizarding world, is only at the level of a third-level archmage. Only with the help of the "Celestial Particle Orbital Cannon" can she unleash attacks at the fourth or even fifth level, but her defense is just so-so.
—A typical character with high attack but low health.
It was precisely because of this state that Eve did not appear immediately after the wizards summoned the level four water elementals to attack. Instead, she waited for the right moment, and only after confirming that the three great wizards' mental energy was almost depleted did she connect to the space-based particle orbital cannon and fire a shot directly at the water elementals before dealing with the wizards who were already "out of mana".
The first half of the plan went quite smoothly, but an unexpected incident occurred in the second half.
"..."
Beneath the white hood, amber eyes were fixed on the gradually disintegrating ice wall behind which appeared a "wizard" with the body of a level three wizard, but whose essence had been completely transformed.
Incarnation?
Possession?
Or is it possession?
Even though the energy limitations of Our Lady of the Rose prevented Eve from achieving the leapfrog growth that the reincarnators could, her long-term and frequent contact with the God Space still gave her a lot of knowledge that the natives could not obtain. In her understanding, there are many ways that could lead to this scene, but without exception, it is all done by the stronger against the weak.
In other words, only a fourth-level Morning Star wizard, or even..., could perform such a body-stealing act on Michelle, a third-level archmage.
“My name is Charles, the master of the Five Rings Tower—the Bauhinia Tower.”
The voice emanating from the woman's body was male, a stark contrast that made Eve slightly uncomfortable, but it paled in comparison to the expanding frozen sea beneath "his" feet.
Despite not uttering any incantations, the magical fluctuations, dozens of times stronger than those cast by the great wizard Michelle using the water elemental core not long ago, spread and radiated across the sea surface for thousands of meters around.
The frigid temperature of over -150 degrees Celsius, carrying radiation that could kill a person within three seconds, swept outwards. Eve had no choice but to retreat a distance. Faced with this force of unknown origin, Eve adopted the same attitude as her father: keep her distance.
However, "Charles" in front of him did not think so: "Beautiful lady, it is not good etiquette for the host to leave when a gentleman has already accepted the invitation and arrived at the stage."
Wizarding Civilization: Chapter 767 Long Time No See, Humans (Part 1)
One moment it was just radiation spreading unconsciously in the surroundings, the next it became a controlled force, immediately restraining Eve who was trying to retreat and slowly pulling her closer to the frozen sea.
"As the original master of the West Coast, I should have welcomed you guests from another world on behalf of all the wizards, and I should have admired your foolish and ignorant actions. Unfortunately, I am now forced to stay in that magma-filled other world to suppress the rebellious alien races, so I can only use this body to express my sincerity."
Even with all her struggle, she would be bound by the omnipresent radiation field in the next second. The light wings on her back were also sealed by an unknown force the moment they unfolded. As the distance between them closed, Eve stared at the hand reaching out to her face and connected to the space-based particle orbital cannon at an altitude of 360,000 meters without any hesitation.
At this moment, even the Moonlit Wizard's expression changed, and his hand, which had been reaching out towards the hood, froze.
After a long pause: "...a rather intricate and interesting creation."
A smile returned to her face. This time, the avatar of the Radiant Moon Wizard did not hesitate. Instead, she sped up, seemingly determined to see her face clearly even if it meant enduring a single particle irradiation: "Is this what you think you can rely on to invade wizarding civilizations?"
At an altitude of 360,000 meters, the particle railgun, which had just finished accumulating energy and was about to be launched, suddenly stopped operating. Eve, who noticed this situation, could no longer help but change her expression under her hood. She thought that the wizard in front of her had stopped it with unknown means, but after receiving the recording feedback from the space-based particle railgun, she found that it was prevented from firing by a higher authority.
"The power of wizards is beyond your imagination."
"Oh, is it so?"
This time, the Moonlit Wizard's expression changed completely, but all of this could not change his fate of being pierced by the fingertip-thick dark red beam of light that embedded the water elemental core in his heart.
After disintegrating the water element core, the graviton beam continued its momentum into the frozen domain behind him, leaving behind a deep, unseen void.
Half a second later, the frozen sea surface shattered into pieces, and waves thousands of meters high formed a "sky barrier" that stretched for tens of thousands of meters, carrying millions of tons of seawater straight into the sky and then covering everything below.
“Hua La La————————”
The coastline is 43000 meters away in a straight line.
H-84, a folded space, intervened in the thousands of "gaps" formed in the wizarding world. The slightly heated gravitational emission device slowly retracted, and the reports from the main god space on the various effects and consumption of the previous gravitational ray were directly fed back into the consciousness.
As a price for the increased range and power, the energy consumption is 1842% higher than the original version of the graviton emission. In a sense, it can no longer be called a graviton emission, but rather an "antimatter particle emission device"—thanks to information recorded by the Information Integration Thought Entity, the God Space has finally made progress in this aspect of technology.
Of course, although they are antimatter particles, due to the instability of antimatter itself, they cannot carry too many. They can only be mixed inside the graviton in the form of a very small number of micro-particles until they hit the target and then come into contact with the outside world to complete the chemical reaction. This is why such a strong explosion can be produced at the bottom of the sea.
"With the molecular-level penetrating power of gravitons combined with the annihilation properties of antimatter... two million points, I guess."
Lin Yi directly put the "Antimatter Particle Ray (1/1)" with a price tag into the exchange section of the God Space, and looked towards the distant sea.
Through repeated detection by the hundreds of satellites set up in the sky by the main god, it can be confirmed that the Moon Wizard who appeared on the west coast in a manner similar to "possession" has left this sea area, but that is all. The power of technology is indeed great, but it still has limitations when it comes to mysterious concepts. At least, it is impossible to expect that the avatar that was just destroyed will have any effect on the Moon Wizard Charles himself.
Moreover, that "avatar" that was not even a complete one was merely using the water element core to bring down the will of the Moonlit Wizard. What was truly destroyed was only the water element core, not the will of the Moonlit Wizard.
Of course, it can't be said that there was no gain at all. At least from the words of that Moonlit Wizard, one fact can be confirmed: he was not staying in the Wizard Tower, but was on an expedition to another world.
"A five-ring tower without the presence of the Moonlit Wizard?"
As I pondered, my gaze fell upon Eve, who had arrived at top speed. The instant she landed, she removed her hood, revealing herself in all her glory, which truly embodied the concept of "perfection."
"You acted impulsively."
Looking directly at Eve, Lin Yi's voice remained calm from beneath his hood: "Weapons are meant to be used against enemies, not against ourselves."
"Yes, Father."
As she answered this question, Eve decided that next time she encountered something like this, she would directly detonate the magic circuit within her body instead of using a particle orbital cannon.
"...Let's go back now, we can move on to the next stage."
The H-84 folding space, with its interface to the real world, surrounds the body. As the anti-gravity device within the folding space activates, it carries the two of them one after the other towards the base.
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When Lin Yi brought Eve to the Earth Alliance's base on the west coast, news of the outcome of the battle in the East China Sea had already reached them.
In the end, it was still a victory for Earth civilization. They once again repelled the invaders, including even a Moonlit Wizard!
However, the price paid was that the entire Second Fleet was almost wiped out. Not to mention that what truly repelled the wizards was not themselves, but the automatons and the two "people" in front of them.
"you are……"
Although still grieving the destruction of the Second Fleet, the diplomat put on a different expression when interacting with Lin Yi. Noticing the presence of a figure resembling a "black-robed wizard" in addition to Eve, who was still dressed in white, the diplomat appropriately expressed his confusion.
If it weren't for the fact that the two people in front of him were clearly "men in black robes" leading the way, the diplomat would have even suspected that the man in black robes was a "wizard" captured by Eve.
Faced with the diplomat's doubts, a calm voice came from beneath the black hood: "This shouldn't be our first contact."
"This isn't the first time... Wait, could it be that you are—"
"Long time no see, human."
Wizarding Civilization: Chapter 768 Long Time No See, Humans (Part 2)
Decades later, when this semi-fantasy world—a world that once displayed inhuman power on Earth and represented the "Main God Space" in establishing a "teleportation portal" through cooperation with humanity, forcefully leading humanity from an isolated, closed-off planetary technological development system to conquering other worlds—reappeared before them, this "human" who was both despised and cursed by countless people, yet also intrigued and longed for by countless others, uttered these words:
—Long time no see, human.
At this moment, the diplomats had many questions to ask, such as "Aren't you human?", "Why are you here?", "Why did you build the portal?", "Don't you know this will kill many people?", "Is all of this part of your conspiracy?", "What is your relationship with the Main God Space?"...
But in the end, what came out of his mouth was: "...Long time no see. On behalf of all those whose lives have been changed because of your appearance, I would like to express my respect to you."
It's not gratitude, nor a curse, but respect.
Whatever the purpose of the portal, it is an undeniable fact that it altered the future of a race, a planet, and a civilization, and this achievement is indeed worthy of respect, regardless of whether its outcome was good or bad.
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Ignoring the thoughts of the human in front of him, Lin Yi got straight to the point after confirming his "identity": "You all saw the battle just now. The wizards not only showed no intention of stopping the war, but were also constantly expanding the battlefield. One-sided defense is destined not to last long. Compared to direct combat, the wizards are far superior to Earth civilization in their ability to invade, interfere, and influence in various ways."
This is not an exaggeration. Just look at Caslir, the second-level wizard who has been hiding on the West Coast gathering intelligence and sending messages to the outside world. If he hadn't happened to run into Eve by chance, he might still be hiding somewhere, continuing his underground work.
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