Chapter 522

Time returned to a short while ago.

Just at the moment when the molten lava and rocks under her feet were seized by invisible power, condensed into giant fists covering the sky and sun, and slammed together fiercely from all directions, the alarm bells in the black-robed wizard's heart had already exploded.

This was a trap!

But he was not talking about this trap right now, but a trap at a deeper level.

The key to which was: the "wasteland" chosen by the wizard civilization as the battlefield for this super-large plane war was where resources had long been extracted, leaving only inert gray-white rock layers.

In this land, let alone metal mineral deposits, even decent organic matter was nearly extinct.

The opponent being able to use magnetic fields to manipulate these non-metallic molten lava and rocks, this was by no means simple "magnetic force manipulation"!

This meant that this Tier 5 female wizard known as "Martial God" had already touched the threshold of some kind of qualitative change in her understanding and application of magnetic fields.

She had achieved what usually only Tier 6 magnetic field specialists could achieve—using pure magnetic fields to directly interfere with and manipulate the structure and movement of non-metallic substances!

This was not just an expansion of the manipulation range.

The more terrifying implication behind it was that if magnetic fields could influence non-metallic substances so precisely, then theoretically, it could also act directly on the interior of living bodies, interfere with nerve currents, affect biological magnetic fields, and even tear cell structures from the microscopic level!

"Interference—has it already started?"

The black-robed wizard's thoughts turned rapidly, and the extreme sensitivity to "environmental variables" endowed by the 【Fiction】 law immediately fed back information.

He clearly "perceived" that the biological magnetic field around him and the spiritual force field used for external perception had appeared extremely subtle but definitely existing disorder and stagnation.

Although because of the absolute gap in strength between the two sides, this interference was still very weak, far from enough to directly affect his movements or defense, but it was like a layer of mist, making part of his perception appear with slight "ghosting" and "misalignment."

"Not only that—she also conversely amplified and distorted certain characteristic bands of her own magnetic field, forming a false signal similar to 'enhanced attraction'—the two combined, successfully at that moment just now, made my main attention subconsciously locked more onto her and the flood of matter she controlled!"

In the blink of an eye, the black-robed wizard completely understood the full picture of the opponent's tactics.

The magnificent, endless metal giants, drill bombardments, and even the suppression field and molten lava giant fists that seemed like traps—were all just feints and cover-ups!

The real killing move was the magnetic field-level interference and induction that permeated the battlefield silently, targeting his perception system!

And the opponent went to such great lengths, also to interfere with his attention, the purpose of which was self-evident—

Naturally, it was to make him temporarily "ignore" or "underestimate" another person!

That little wizard, Jie Ming, who had made him feel tricky from the beginning and kept evolving in the battle!

"Sounding east and attacking west—she is buying time!" A fierce light flashed in the black-robed wizard's dark red pupils, and he no longer hesitated.

His figure, at the last moment before the molten lava giant fists slammed down, disappeared directly from the area where the magnetic field interference was strongest, like handwriting being wiped away.

The next instant, he appeared in the high altitude, spread his spiritual sense, and sent out his information: "Not bad, found you!"

And after that, he successfully captured the subtle spiritual fluctuation that appeared on the battlefield because of his words by relying on the 【Fiction】 law.

However, he did not appear beside the metal drill where Augusta was hiding, but with her location as the origin, tracing back to the "root of attention shift" by the 【Fiction】 law, and the reverse analysis of the "attraction" signal that was cleverly distorted and amplified, he instantly locked onto a void area in the distance that looked calm but was actually deliberately "smeared" by layers of weak magnetic fields.

His gaze penetrated the magnetic field camouflage and saw the target that Augusta was desperately protecting—

Jie Ming!

At this moment, Jie Ming's state was completely different from before.

He was floating quietly in the low altitude thousands of meters away, his eyes closed, and no violent energy fluctuations leaked from his body; instead, he presented a strange "inward-looking" state.

His entire body seemed to have turned into a "humanoid" composed of pure light.

But this light was extremely unstable, fluctuating, flickering, collapsing, and expanding violently, as if it were a supernova core ready to erupt at any time!

Every flicker of the light caused subtle wrinkles and tremors in the surrounding space, and even faint, fine spatial cracks were born and died on his body surface.

The moment the black-robed wizard's gaze fell on Jie Ming, a sense of crisis capable of threatening him rose suddenly!

"Don't even think about completing it!"

His killing intent boiled, and he was about to disregard everything, mobilize the remaining quota, and directly "define" the result of "Jie Ming's energy structure collapsing" or "the space he is in completely annihilating"!

However—

Hum!!!!

A low hum, as if coming from the depths of the ancient starry sky, resounded through the world suddenly!

Accompanying this hum was a terrifying magnetic field that seemed to want to twist and collapse the entire sky!

Augusta knew it was bad the moment she heard that voice and produced a subtle spiritual fluctuation.

Discovering that her core tactic had been seen through, and the moment the black-robed wizard re-locked onto Jie Ming, she launched her ultimate attack reserved for this pinning battle without hesitation.

High above, the clouds were torn apart and pushed aside by invisible power!

A huge ring with a diameter of thousands of meters and extremely regular and smooth edges slowly emerged completely from the gray clouds!

The ring presented a dazzling, pure, azure blue color that seemed to contain endless energy.

But this blue was not a physical color, but the glorious light phenomenon caused by the extremely powerful magnetic field itself in the material world!

It was the glorious light halo produced by the magnetic field intensity being high enough to deflect visible light and excite air ionization!

Through that layer of rich blue magnetic light, one could vaguely see that the interior of the ring was not empty.

It was filled with metal fluid heated to a completely plasma state!

These scorching plasma bodies were frantically accelerated circle after circle, layer after layer, in the multiple magnetic field orbits inside the ring that were complex to the extreme!

Accelerate! Accelerate! Accelerate again!

Every cycle, the speed of these plasma metals soared, and the intensity of the magnetic confinement field inside the ring also climbed geometrically!

To bind the extreme energy and speed inside, the structure of the entire magnetic ring was strengthened to an unimaginable degree, and the blue light it emitted also became more intense, as if a piece of concentrated stellar surface had been hooped into a ring!

This was the trump card Augusta had hidden until now, an ultimate technique combining her ultimate understanding of magnetic fields: 【Heavenly Dome Magnetic Track · Annihilation Ring】!

Theoretically, as long as given enough acceleration time and energy, the speed of the hundreds of tons of high-temperature plasma metal inside this magnetic ring could be pushed infinitely, until approaching the speed of light!

At that time, what would erupt would no longer be a metal jet, but a destructive flood capable of evaporating and piercing through a star core!

At this moment, time was tight, and Augusta only had time to accelerate it to a "mere" ten thousand times the speed of sound.

But, it was enough!

"Annihilation—launch!"

Augusta's spiritual shout resounded through the battlefield!

Following her will, the huge magnetic ring hanging in the sky, emitting blue light that made heaven and earth lose color, trembled suddenly!

From the inner side of the ring, a condensed-to-the-extreme, only arm-thick, yet presenting a scorching bright blue-white light beam that seemed capable of burning through space, shot out silently!

This light beam was too fast!

Its speed was so fast that it exceeded the dynamic visual capture limit of the vast majority of wizards!

Wherever the light beam passed, its extreme kinetic energy and high temperature directly evaporated and annihilated the air, dust, and even the finest spatial structures on its path.

Leaving behind a straight, dark void trajectory that could not be healed for a long time!

As if the sky had been livingly gouged out a scar by this judgment light!

The black-robed wizard's face under the hood became incomparably solemn, even carrying a trace of rare shock and anger.

The power, speed, and the pure physical destructive will contained in this strike had reached a level capable of truly threatening the life of a Tier 6 wizard!

More importantly—could not dodge!

Because just now, he was interfered with by Augusta's magnetic field again.

The opponent guided him along his thoughts, making most of his attention more concentrated on Jie Ming.

And at this moment, when he was overly attracted by Jie Ming, there was no time left to dodge.

"Damn it!"

He cursed secretly, having to give up the immediate strike on Jie Ming, and forcibly mobilized the vast majority of the "quota" that was not much left, concentrating it to deal with this annihilation descending from the sky!

Boom!!!

The blue-white light beam slammed solidly into the position where the black-robed wizard was!

There was no earth-shattering explosion sound, because the propagation of sound could not catch up with the speed of energy release.

Only an extreme strong light that made Augusta, who was watching the battle in the distance, have to squint her eyes erupted, accompanied by a destructive shockwave that scraped another dozens of meters of rock layer off the ground below!

A giant crater with a diameter of over a thousand meters, where everything inside was instantly vaporized, appeared at the light beam impact point.

The rocks at the edge of the crater presented a glazed crystalline state, rising with heat waves that distorted the air.

When the strong light and dust dissipated slightly, the black-robed wizard's figure was still floating in the original position, looking completely unharmed.

But the black-robed wizard's face was gloomy enough to drip water.

And almost at the same time the annihilation beam bombardment ended, Augusta and the black-robed wizard's gazes fell on Jie Ming in the distance simultaneously!

The attack of the Annihilation Ring might have only bought her a brief moment of time.

But this moment was enough!

Only to see in the distance, the scorching light on Jie Ming's body, which was originally fluctuating violently and extremely unstable, had calmed down and stabilized at some unknown time.

The color of the light was also fixed as a deep, restrained, yet seemingly containing endless destruction and vitality dark gold.

And this dark golden light was no longer just a halo of energy release, but a physical entity forged after being tempered by the top forging master using light as material!

Looking from afar, Jie Ming's whole person seemed to have turned into a perfect humanoid statue cast from pure dark golden unknown metal!

A fatal sense of threat that made the black-robed wizard's corner-of-eye muscles uncontrollably twitch slightly, like a cold poisonous snake, instantly wrapped around his soul!

His intuition, the combat instinct tempered through countless life-and-death trials, was screaming frantically—

Danger!

Extremely dangerous!

Jie Ming in this state—could kill him!

This was the first time since the battle began that the black-robed wizard had truly, uncontrollably felt the shadow of death.