Chapter 288

This time, Meng Ying, through prayer, obtained a Burst Flame of one million energy points!

That's equivalent to the Burst Flame gathered from ten thousand Horseman warriors praying simultaneously.

But concentrating one million energy points of Burst Flame is entirely different from dispersing them into ten thousand portions.

Its power is not the sum of ten thousand Horseman warriors hurling spears at once.

It must be a thousand times greater than the combined force of ten thousand Horseman warriors hurling spears simultaneously!

Dispersal and concentration are completely different.

Like firecrackers—a single small firecracker with only ten grams of gunpowder can't even shatter a rock.

Ten thousand such small firecrackers still can't shatter a rock.

But if you concentrate all the gunpowder from these ten thousand firecrackers into one giant firecracker weighing a hundred kilograms, not only could it shatter rocks, but if used properly, it could even collapse a mountain!

By the same logic, if ten thousand Horseman warriors each hurl a Burst Spear of one hundred energy points at this castle, they could collapse its outer layers—but only the surface.

But when these energy points are concentrated into a single Burst Flame of one million energy points, combined with Meng Ying's magic, a single strike blew the entire castle—nearly a kilometer on each side—straight into the sky!

This power is nearly on par with a forbidden spell!

The nobles who came to watch were stunned by the scene before them!

The Slo family's massive, impregnable castle had been blown into the sky.

If it had been their own castles, only three or four hundred meters—or even one or two hundred meters—on each side, wouldn't they have been reduced to dust?

And they did it with just one strike!

This, is the crucial point!

To destroy such a colossal castle with a single strike—this young Grand Mage's power is terrifying.

Some nobles with high magical proficiency even believed Meng Ying's power had reached the level of a forbidden spell!

"This Yan Kingdom is terrifying!"

"Yes, why do I feel this girl from Yan Kingdom isn't even a Grand Mage—she's a Forbidden Spell Mage? Didn't rumors circulate months ago about a Forbidden Spell Mage appearing in the Misty Ranges, burning half the forest? Could it be her?"

One noble voiced a terrifying suspicion.

"What girl? High-level magicians use magic to preserve youth—if she were truly a Forbidden Spell Mage, how could she be a girl?"

Another noble said.

Beside these nobles, several noble girls wanted to refute them—they knew Meng Ying.

But they lacked the courage, because if their fathers learned that the terrifying mage who destroyed the Slo family's castle was the very person they had once foolishly provoked, they might be beaten to death by their own fathers!

These noble girls were truly terrified now.

Not just superficial fear.

But a deep, inner chill had taken root—especially the girl as fat as a pig, who suffered nightmares for years afterward.

Meng Ying's power had become an indelible shadow in their hearts.

The news of the Slo family's complete eradication spread rapidly across the entire eastern region.

It caused a massive uproar among the region's millions of people.

Soon after, the news began spreading even farther!

The nobles learned first.

Then, the news trickled down from the nobles to the common people.

As for the very top of the kingdom—the Wangshiyu Sect and the Royal House—they had known from the very beginning!

Although the Wangshiyu Sect and the Royal House had jointly abandoned the Slo family,

they had not ceased paying attention to this event.

East of the Misty Ranges, a unified orc nation had emerged, calling itself Yan Kingdom, and this Yan Kingdom possessed an astonishingly abundant yield of Divine Beans!

After the Divine Beans were reported upward, even the headquarters of the Church fully grasped their value.

Yet the Divine Power Mark rendered even the Church headquarters powerless.

The Church naturally gave this matter the highest priority.

But for reasons unknown, despite Yan Kingdom's rapid growth and its potential future threat to the Xiling Kingdom, the Church and the Royal House currently refused to oppose Yan Kingdom.