Chapter 470

Ke La Ke cast his gaze toward Dionysus Spencer tens of kilometers away.

"How is the result in terms of fate confrontation?"

Dionysus Spencer was floating at a high place, and on the surface of his silver-blue starry robe, those constellation light spots that were originally flowing slowly now appeared with subtle disorder.

At the edge of the monitoring light screen in front of him, data streams occasionally broke, twisted, or jumped out error symbols without warning.

Hearing Ke La Ke's inquiry, this wizard who was good at fate showed a bitter smile on his face.

He made a helpless gesture of "spreading hands."

At the same time, detailed spiritual information came along the connection:

"Originally, we had already snatched the 'high position'."

Dionysus's consciousness fluctuation carried obvious fatigue and unwillingness.

"Our Nuolun Workshop mobilized all 170 Level 7 wizards specializing in the fate system this time, cooperating with three large-scale fate anchoring magic arrays, and began weaving 'advantageous futures' three hours before the war started. According to calculations, it could at least increase our overall win rate by 37%."

Ke La Ke was silent, waiting for the following.

"But the other side... those lunatics from the Chaos Secret Sect and the Tower of Annihilation." Dionysus's emotional fluctuation revealed disgust, "They didn't want to compete with us for control of the fate line at all. After discovering they couldn't snatch it, they directly launched a large-scale fate pollution ritual."

"Pollution?" Ke La Ke's consciousness paused slightly.

"Yes, pollution. Using the souls of at least three Level 7 wizards as fuel, forcibly injecting 'chaos', 'disorder', and 'anti-logic' toxins into the fate river of this area. Now, all the fate lines of this abandoned plane have become a mess of tangled hemp."

Dionysus sighed:

"Destruction is always simpler than construction. They can't use fate power themselves, but they also make us unable to use it. Now, all wizardry involving fate peeping, future pre-performance, and causality interference has failed. Even the simplest 'luck blessing' and 'bad luck curse' effects have become extremely unstable, possibly taking effect, possibly backfiring, or possibly acting randomly on any target on the battlefield."

Ke La Ke closed his eyes.

As a wizard who also dabbled in fate laws, he could clearly "feel" that the river composed of countless possibilities that should have been flowing clearly had indeed turned into a boiling chaos full of malicious screams.

He opened his eyes again and nodded.

"That's fine." Ke La Ke's consciousness fluctuation returned to calm, "At least neither side took advantage."

In the case where high-end combat power is roughly equal, kicking factors that are difficult to control like fate completely out of the chessboard, to a certain extent, instead makes the war return to a more "pure" level.

Comparing whose wizardry reserve is deeper, whose tactical execution is more efficient, and whose will is more tenacious.

And... comparing who can seize that fleeting opportunity in the chaos.

Just at the moment this thought fell...

Boom!!!

The deafening vibration, accompanied by the tremor of space, came from a distance.

That is the "roar" that can act directly on the soul level when mass and energy are violently distorted.

From the far distance, the end of the leaden grey sky, four indescribable terrifying fluctuations swept over like a tsunami.

All wizards below Level 6, whether they were casting spells, flying, or just landing to build defenses, all felt their bodies sink suddenly!

As if invisible giant hands were pressing on their backs.

Thump, thump, thump...

Continuous kneeling sounds rang out.

Tens of thousands of Level 4 and 5 wizards turned pale, their knees hitting the ground uncontrollably, and their hands could only barely support the ground.

They gritted their teeth, trying to resist this pressure, but their body's instincts were screaming "surrender" crazily!

That is the absolute gap in the life level.

Level 3 wizards were even more miserable, many of them lying directly on the ground, even breathing became difficult, their pupils scattered, and their consciousness trembled on the verge of collapse.

Even some wizards who had just entered Level 6 couldn't help but bend their waists, cold sweat seeping from their foreheads.

Jie Ming's body swayed, although he barely didn't kneel down, he was also pressed so hard that he couldn't lift his head.

He felt as if a mountain was pressing on his back.

No, it's not weight in the physical sense, but something more essential.

It is the "will" contained in those four fluctuations, it is the natural radiation generated when Level 8 wizards leak their control over world laws.

If it were a normal Level 5 wizard, they would probably have knelt on the ground like those around them by now.

But on the surface of Jie Ming's body, the dense "Body Refining Method" runes under his skin automatically lit up with faint light.

The adaptive ability of the Body Refining Method began to take effect.

Muscle fibers completed seventeen adaptive adjustments within one-thousandth of a second, bone density temporarily increased by 10%, and the blood circulation mode switched to a high-pressure anti-pressure state.

Like deep-sea fish gradually adapting to water pressure, his body was rapidly parsing the "frequency" and "nature" of this pressure and generating corresponding resistance.

One second.

Two seconds.

The third second, Jie Ming slowly, inch by inch, stood up straight.

He raised his head and looked in the direction from which the fluctuations came, his pupils reflecting the collision happening in the distant sky that mortals could not look directly at.

He could distinguish four different "tastes" among them, undoubtedly, that was the battle of four Level 8 wizards.

"Already... matched?"

Jie Ming muttered to himself, his eyes flashing with amazement.

This is Level 8.

Just the pressure from the aftermath of the battle is enough to make more than half of the wizards in the million-strong army lose their ability to act.

If they really fought with all their strength inside this plane, I'm afraid it would only take a few minutes for the entire pieced-together abandoned plane to completely disintegrate from the structural level.

High above, Dionysus Spencer's voice resounded through the camp through amplification wizardry:

"Everyone, steady!"

At the same time, the high-tier wizards who had been prepared long ago also activated the magic arrays in their hands, releasing the power to calm the mind, barely offsetting part of the influence of the pressure.

"Lord Nuolun and Lord Buchanan have already dragged down the opponent's highest combat power! According to the original plan—our task now is to build a defensive system capable of supporting long-term combat before the opponent's army presses on!"

"Alchemy department, responsible for the foundation and main structure!"

"Rune department, responsible for defensive array engraving!"

"Elemental department, responsible for energy supply and environmental stability!"

"All other personnel, according to the pre-war assigned groups, start working immediately!"

The wizards who were originally shocked by the pressure forcibly lifted their spirits and began to act.

Ke La Ke was the first to move.

He didn't even chant, just raised his right hand, spread his five fingers, and aimed at the grey-white earth that had been initially leveled below.

In his palm, a phantom of a complex alchemy array emerged.

"Reshape."

Two words fell.

The earth began to roar.

The structure of the ground underwent a more essential change, the molecular bonds in the soil were violently disassembled, and different elements were rearranged.

Only the most basic oxygen and silicon were left in this barren soil, and under the drive of alchemy laws, the two underwent a transformation that violated natural laws.

The grey-white ground, centered on Ke La Ke's feet, quickly took on the color of metal.

That is transformation, soil turning into steel.

And this steel "grew" upward like living flesh and blood, bulging, extending, and differentiating into structures.

Base, city wall, tower, internal support skeleton...

The prototype of a square steel fortress with a side length of more than three kilometers rose from the ground in just ten seconds, and its height exceeded fifty meters.

But this is not enough.

Ke La Ke waved his left hand, and seven metal ingots flickering with different lusters flew out from his sleeves, floating in mid-air.

"Jie Ming." His voice was calm and waveless, "You are responsible for the 'Composite Material Reinforcement' module. The standard is designed according to 'Level 6 continuous bombardment resistance'."

"Yes."

Jie Ming didn't have any hesitation, his hands quickly formed seals in front of his chest, spiritual power mixed with elemental energy surged out, turning into seven energy tentacles of different colors, wrapping around those seven metal ingots.

The tentacles penetrated into the interior of the metal, starting micro-level transformation:

The first one, mixed with "Energy Absorption Rune Array," giving it the characteristic of absorbing and dispersing impact force.

The second one, embedded with "Self-Repair Catalytic Crystal Seed," can slowly regenerate after being injured.

The third one, injected with "Elemental Resistance Deflection Field," has extra reduction for energy attacks.

The seven metal ingots were processed within thirty seconds, and then Jie Ming "slapped" them into the seven key structural nodes of the steel fortress with superb alchemy.

Hum...

The entire fortress emitted a low resonance, and the luster flowing on the metal surface became deeper and heavier.

And at this moment, other alchemy-type wizards also showed their abilities:

Some summoned lava rivers, poured them on the outer layer of the city wall, and formed a thick volcanic rock armor after cooling.

Some pulled "diamond threads" from the void and wove them into an energy flow-guiding net covering the top of the fortress.

Some directly transformed the local space structure, creating folded interlayers inside the city wall, making the actual thickness far exceed what was seen visually.

At the same time, the wizards of the Rune department had already stuck to every inch of the fortress's surface like locusts.

They held special "engraving pens" and engraved at high speed on the metal.

Every stroke that fell, a glowing rune circuit lit up, and then quickly disappeared, merging into the interior of the material.

Defensive runes, anti-stealth runes, mind interference runes, energy reflection runes, physical deflection runes, curse resistance runes, space stabilization runes...

Hundreds of millions of runes were engraved at the same time, layered and layered, constituting a three-dimensional and complex giant array.

The wizards of the Elemental department set up twelve large-scale elemental gathering magic arrays around the fortress, forcibly extracting free energy from this barren plane, and inputting it into the temporary elemental pool at the bottom of the fortress through the laid energy pipelines.

Three minutes.

In just three minutes, a steel fortress that was pitch black, one hundred meters high, and covered with ferocious turrets and rune light stood on this barren land.

It was like a metal giant beast crouching, waiting silently for the arrival of war.

Ke La Ke nodded slightly and cast his gaze into the distance.

There, at the end of the leaden grey sky, the omen light of the enemy's spell array activation had begun to emerge.

"The first round of probing is over."

He said calmly.

"Next, it's time to fight with real swords and guns."

(End of chapter)