Chapter 151: Will to Survive

This is a volume theoretically impossible to rotate, but what if the "weight" on one end is always lighter than the other?

The magical girl who controls the authority of gravity did not reduce the weight of the entire sphere; that was simply impossible. She only needed to make the rolling slope slightly lighter.

The principle similar to a seesaw played out continuously; the difference in gravity caused tilting and displacement, and displacement brought inertia, so the "wheel" began to turn.

At this moment, the sphere was somewhat like a constantly rotating water wheel, pressed by the weight in front, accelerating faster and faster.

"Boom!"

Naturally, the massive boulder accelerated, faster and faster.

"If it crashes directly, even a dragon would become dragon meat paste."

It was hard to say whether the geography of the underground world limited its performance; in the underground plain area where the underground city was located, the volume was larger and the terrain flatter.

This also allowed the boulder to crush everything with increasingly powerful momentum.

The authorities of gravity and direction were, in fact, producing inertia and kinetic energy out of nothing!

Li En gazed at the destructive battlefield before him; the mind flayers blocking the way had already given their all, yet it seemed they still could not resist this simple and outrageous "physical mass."

At this moment, he knew he had underestimated the most dangerous aspect of the "Beasts"; their terror never lay in their incredibly powerful bodies, but in their innate privileges.

The privilege of being children of the world, able to directly rewrite the laws of physics!

"Let there be light." Thus, light came.

"Heaven and earth inverted." Thus, the direction of gravity overturned.

Borrowing this authority, along with their practical combat experience from past history, whatever strange maneuvers they could produce were possible.

In a sense, they were similar to spellcasters, yet more pure. Hasn't someone said that for spellcasters utilizing "rules," whether they prepare before battle or not makes a difference of two entire strength levels?

With sufficient preparation beforehand, a spellcaster's combat burst power could even double or multiply several dozen times, and the Beast's authority, which was also a rule, was even more unreasonable than the spellcaster's "magical rules."

Li En pondered the possible abilities of the mind flayers; the vast majority were psychic abilities, seemingly already a dead end, but...

"Buzz!"

Suddenly, deer antlers protruded from the earth, emitting an eerie radiance.

As that energy gathered, it gradually condensed into a point of light... then transformed into a beam and completed its explosion!

It struck the boulder without any obstruction.

This was likely the only solution.

Facing a fully prepared authority, fighting head-on was like trying to forcibly dismantle an oncoming semi-truck with bare flesh and blood hands.

Using the same authority to counter authority was the only logical solution.

"Crack."

But the "forced braking" that observer Li En expected did not occur.

Instead, its speed became even faster.

"Did something go wrong? No, it was intentional."

It didn't stop; it even accelerated, but its direction seemed to have developed a slight deviation.

Perhaps there was only a small difference now, but by the time it reached above the nest, it would likely just graze past the edge.

"I see. Forcible resistance is meaningless; it simply cannot be stopped. It is better to push it diagonally down the slope."

When the authorities of gravity collided, the best result was mutual cancellation, and even if this rolling boulder lost the authority's boost, it would still require a very long distance to stop; by then, it would still be a stone hammer smashing an egg.

Therefore, it further strengthened the opponent's authority but specifically halved half of the gravity within it; this was like a vehicle rushing halfway, where the left side suddenly dropped off, becoming half as light, causing the vehicle to naturally tilt.

Its authority was not that powerful, but making the "vehicle" take a curved path was indeed not difficult.

The Beast Princes on the magical girl's side inherited the ancient Beasts' authority usage techniques; the Beast Princes controlled on the other side had them too, and under the control of the high-intelligence main brain, they used them even more exquisitely.

"Boom!"

The boulder's speed increased further, yet a subtle deviation appeared.

"Stop, coward."

"Our shame."

But its two brothers also intervened.

The pure white radiance on the two magical girls intensified greatly, as if the world around them was dyed white by them; this was the phenomenon of them forcibly using their authority.

Through the contract, the two Beast Princes borrowed the magical girls' bodies to maximize the output of their authority.

The already tilted boulder adjusted its direction slightly once more at this moment.

Both sides began a contest invisible to the naked eye; the boulder's trajectory constantly tilted and adjusted.

If it were the Li En of before, he would probably have thought they were competing in strength, but now, as a Ring Mage, he knew this was actually a contest of computing power.

The gap in authority between the two sides should not be large, but it was more about the position and angle of their effect; every use of force, after colliding with each other, had to be calculated regarding its guidance on the final result.

After repeatedly investing force, with more and more variables introduced, the final calculation data would increase geometrically.

"Boom!"

An even stranger scene occurred; under the condition where both sides simultaneously "added force," that stone became even faster.

"Damn it! Main Brain! You are setting me up!"

Another shell ship, which had clearly escaped the straight-line trajectory, was still caught up by the boulder and crushed.

This accelerated stone became a mad stone reaper; countless slaves and even mind flayers turned into flesh fragments in an instant, with despairing wails and psychic screams echoing through this space.

This was a scene that made even observers feel despair; if this were the Radiant City, there would probably be no difference; the people in the city would not know how they died.

The strength of the Beasts was displayed before the eyes of the surface dwellers for the first time during this Demon Tide.

Fortunately, the mind flayers and the residents of the underground world helped block the disaster.

"Boom!"

Finally, the moment that had to come arrived; the struggle between the two sides had ended.

The boulder grazed past the side of the nest, causing a large area of collapse and ground fissures; the entire underground nest collapsed by more than half.

Screams of agony echoed everywhere; those "precious" mind flayers died in this moment like chickens at a slaughterhouse.

But the area where the Elder Brain and that deer-headed creature were located had "just so" avoided the boulder.

Neither side won, but at least neither lost completely.

"Boom!"

The authority over gravity and direction had been revoked; naturally, that boulder lost its power source to keep rolling.

It rolled slower and slower, even beginning to disintegrate on its own. But at this moment, no one cared about it, nor about the unlucky souls in its path of collapse.

"Set out, to wash away the shame of our bloodline."

A multitude of small beasts lunged out from the shadows, revealing fangs and sharp teeth as they transformed.

For this very moment, the Beast Prince had mobilized nearly all the beast herds from the Underdark.

These charging beast herds targeted the survivors along the boulder's path—scattered survivors who had already lost their defensive positions and command systems, each dying miserably.

Spatial gates were opened one by one; driven by the Elder Brain, the mind flayers themselves arrived to turn the tide.

But they still fought with great difficulty.

Most psychic abilities were meaningless against the heartless beast herds; their excessively low "intelligence" and "emotion" were, in fact, the natural enemies of most psychic and charm abilities.

Just as Li En's Command spell (Enchantment) required the target to understand, psychic spells that instilled fear, unease, or joy were equally ineffective against the beast herds.

Even the mind-shattering blast, that universal spell, could only make the beast tide pause for an instant.

One could say the mind flayers had encountered their natural enemy; these new-generation brain-eaters could not comprehend how such "pure" creatures could exist.

"Crash!"

But at this moment, the Elder Brain of the mind flayers also deployed its ultimate weapon.

That giant deer, mostly buried underground, slowly rose to its feet.

Had the control succeeded? How could it be so much faster than expected?

"Perhaps I should thank you for your attack. Faced with a life-or-death crisis, it finally stopped resisting, allowing me to obtain it."

The delighted Elder Brain revealed the truth.

Just as the greatest limitation of Enchantment magic is that one can never command a controlled being to commit suicide, the Beast Prince, yielding to the instinct of self-preservation, was successfully enslaved by the Elder Brain ahead of schedule!

(End of this chapter)