Chapter 1071: Natural Enemy

The "Hidden Sage" felt that he had to respond, but he didn't know which plan to choose for a moment:

Should he repel the invading enemy as soon as possible, or destroy the unknown place he created, thereby creating chaos, escaping the lock, and hiding again?

He had never been so hesitant, unable to make a decision, as if he had been affected by some kind of Beyonder ability.

Then, he heard the *clang* of a bell.

It seemed to come from ancient times, spanning long years.

The illusory shadow of a mottled and vicissitudinous clock appeared, and the hands jumping between gray-white and cyan-black were pressed down by the left palm wearing a black glove.

In such a stagnation, "The Fool" raised his right palm and thrust out the tightly held cane.

That cane was inlaid with numerous star dust, causing the void wherever it passed to collapse layer by layer, surging toward the "Hidden Sage."

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When "The Fool's" cane thrust out, in the Astral World, which was full of various concepts, abstractly distorted and chaotic, a dim light lit up, as if it wanted to bring thick, magnificent scrolls down to the unknown place where the battle was taking place.

Just then, in the high sky of daylight, the crimson moon suddenly stood out.

It became brighter and rounder, and its color deepened, gradually as if stained by fresh blood.

The "Blood Moon" descended.

The crimson light of the blood moon shone on the invisible barrier in the Astral World, illuminating all the distorted concepts here, making every god located here unable to leave, and making that dim light dare not fall into the intended destination.

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Above the wilderness, Toriopo, who was rushing toward the misty and dim place in the form of an information torrent, suddenly found that the distance of only a few dozen meters instantly became winding and tortuous, circling around, as if he had to walk through a maze to reach the destination.

And outside the maze, it was illusory, dark, and full of bright stars, with no roads at all. Once entered, he would likely get lost directly, unable to find the exit, let alone go to the intended place.

This was the control of the journey and space by a high-level being of the "Door" pathway.

Although there must be a door and a destination, they could set the exit to the furthest place and turn the journey in the middle into a maze that could not be passed quickly.

This was also equivalent to a kind of seal, a seal with a time limit.

After restricting Toriopo's actions, the figure of Lady "Magician," who was in mid-air wearing a silver-starred black robe, suddenly split.

She split into nine, and behind each figure, planets with different color schemes vaguely emerged.

A terrifying, huge suction force emanated from these nine figures, causing the maze that had trapped Toriopo to be torn apart instantly, making the passage of time seem slow as a result, and making the light in this area flow toward different illusory planets, unable to shine along the predetermined trajectory anymore.

Toriopo, who was reorganizing his body and wanted to rely on the information added before to release multiple spells instantly to force the enemy back again, felt that nine invisible big hands had grabbed his head, neck, left rib, right leg, and other places, pulling them outward crazily.

He was about to be dismembered.

He had to turn into an illusory, transparent, and complex torrent of information again.

This information torrent was also being pulled, strand by strand, but the main structure was not destroyed.

When Lu Mian "teleported" into this wilderness, what he saw was the scene of nine Lady "Magicians" surrounding the place where the space-time storm was raging.

Those nine figures were all flickering, constantly switching between false and real, at a speed so fast that it was hard to tell them apart.

Seeing this, Lu Mian did not hesitate to take out the mobile phone made by the "God of Steam and Machinery" and throw it into mid-air.

The nine figures suddenly returned to one, no longer flickering at all.

The position where Lady "Magician" fixed was exactly where Lu Mian threw the mobile phone.

She caught the mobile phone and skillfully clicked into the corresponding mini-program.

At this time, in the space-time storm that was pulled out, in the dark area full of danger, streams of illusory and transparent information surged out, reorganizing into Toriopo's figure.

He was only injured, and the overall structure of the information flow did not disintegrate or compress under the terrifying suction force.

Compared to just now, Toriopo's height seemed to be a bit shorter. The ferocious wolf head that should have been on his right chest moved to the position near his neck, his hands appeared on his belly button, and his two legs were one long and one short.

These were caused by information misalignment, but the overall balance was still maintained.

Lady "Magician's" figure disappeared in mid-air again. Seeing this, Lu Mian also silently retreated from the edge of the wilderness.

Toriopo got his wish and immediately turned into a complex, transparent information torrent, rushing toward the collapsed large hole just a few dozen meters away, rushing toward that misty and dim place.

In an instant, he saw the "road" become tortuous again, full of misleading.

He was trapped in the "maze" again.

Lady "Magician" was back again!

Just then, the torrent of information of Toriopo in the "maze" collapsed instantly and disappeared quickly.

This was "false information"!

This was "false information" that Toriopo had specially prepared for the enemy!

At the same time, his hidden real information had quietly arrived at the entrance of the secret passage, still in the form of an illusory and transparent torrent, projecting toward that mist.

Lady "Magician's" figure in the silver-starred black robe "flashed" to the edge of the exit, "flashing" directly in front of Toriopo.

Toriopo had long expected this. The information torrent instantly dispersed into multiple strands of entangled information, preparing to bypass the enemy from the top of the enemy's head, both sides, and feet to enter the exit.

In this process, even if part of it was intercepted, as long as the overall structure and balance remained, Toriopo would not die, at most missing arms and legs after reorganization, losing a part of his spells, and then re-researching and adding them later.

Seeing those strands of transparent information about to disperse and escape, Lady "Magician" raised the mobile phone she was holding and clicked the start button of the "Information Shredder."

The originally bright mobile phone screen suddenly became dark, as if all the light had been absorbed into the mini-program that was running.

This emitted a majestic and terrifying suction force, a suction force aimed at information.

The strands of information that Toriopo had decomposed into could not help but change their destination, rushing toward the dark mobile phone screen.

Lady "Magician's" face and the back of her hands also showed signs of flesh wriggling.

In essence, these were also a kind of information, and the surrounding wilderness and the mist behind were the same.

However, they existed in a very stable physical form and could effectively resist the majestic suction force emanating from the mobile phone screen.

As one strand after another of information was thrown into the mobile phone in Lady "Magician's" palm, a scream suddenly came from the depths of the dark screen.

That scream was unusually panicked and unusually fearful, as if it had encountered a natural enemy, as if it had encountered the most terrifying thing in the world!

The scream was also information.

The scream stopped abruptly.

By the time all the information that Toriopo had differentiated into entered the "Information Shredder," the mobile phone screen quickly restored its brightness, and one after another "crystals" that seemed to be condensed from transparent information were spat out, as if a monster had spat out bones after eating a human.

This was the Beyonder characteristic of the "Reader" pathway Sequence 2 "Sage."

An angel had fallen.

Seeing that the "crystals" had all been spat out, Lady "Magician" threw the mobile phone back to Lu Mian, who had re-entered the wilderness.

"Hold on tight." She urged, and then disappeared from where she was.

She was preparing to "teleport" back, change the robe she was wearing, and then come back to help.

This was only a second or two, because she was wearing two layers of robes, and she just needed to take off the outer one.

Lu Mian caught the mobile phone that had the divine power of the "God of Steam and Machinery" and the latest research results, and took the opportunity to activate the "Teleportation" mark on his right shoulder.

His destination was the depths of the wilderness, the entrance to the secret passage filled with mist.

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In the library with messy bookshelves but many books.

Ohaiz, another "Ten Pillar" who stayed behind in "Utopia," had just come out of the place where sealed magical items were kept.

He was holding a mask that looked like it was cast from black gold.

This mask was asymmetrical on the left and right, and it wasn't even the kind of regular asymmetry where one side was small and the other was large; it was very chaotic:

The left eye socket was large and empty, the right was small; the left bridge of the nose was collapsed, the right was high; the left cheekbone was protruding, the right was sagging downward. Overall, it had an unspeakable madness and majesty.

This was one of the three Grade "0" Sealed Artifacts currently possessed by the "Rose Redemption Order," obtained by the "Rose Redemption Order" during the chaos of the "War of the Four Emperors," and named "Suoluomen's Mask."

Ohaiz chose it from the remaining two Grade "0" Sealed Artifacts, preparing to support Vice President Letitia or his colleague Sidis.

It was a pity that the only demigods currently guarding "Utopia" were the three of them plus President Toriopo. Even if they wanted to find another saint to use the last Grade "0" Sealed Artifact, they couldn't.

—The negative effect of that sealed artifact was too fatal for Beyonders without divinity, and they couldn't bear it at all.

"I can only hope that the President or Vice President can come back to take the 'Post-Apocalyptic Book,' and then repel the invaders, or take everyone to escape together..." Ohaiz looked back at the place of sealing, praying that the mid-sequence wizards practicing on the dark side could find their way here.

With "Suoluomen's Mask," he could no longer use those Grade "1" Sealed Artifacts!

And if these sealed artifacts did not exert their effects, the winning rate of the "Rose Redemption Order" would drop again. If they retreated later, they would have to abandon them, suffering heavy losses.

At this critical moment, regardless of whether there was a Sequence 5 or not, whoever could use the Grade "1" Sealed Artifact should quickly take charge of it so it could be taken away!

Glancing at the asymmetrical black gold mask, Ohaiz gritted his teeth and put it on his face.

The black gold mask suddenly wriggled, as if it wanted to merge with his flesh and blood.

Ohaiz let out a muffled groan of pain, and his entire body instantly became much larger.

At this time, a figure was reflected in his eyes.

That figure was barefoot, wearing a simple robe, tied with a belt made of tree bark at the waist, and dark hair swayed gently behind him.

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