Chapter 1055: All Eyes on It

Tiris Floating City was built using the "Naisier City‑Building Method", which involves cutting off a section of a mountain peak, flipping it so the cross‑section faces upward, arranging a rune formation within the mountain, and propelling it into the sky with the energy of the Iola Core.

It rose into the sky in New Era Calendar year 1285, becoming the Empire's fifth floating city.

It has been 1,260 years to the present!

Among the Empire's eight floating cities, Tiris Floating City has the lowest presence; its area is about the same as Naisier's, not particularly large, and cannot compare with the magnificent ParrasFloatingCity, just as its master, the PurpleFlameDuke, is little known.

Nevertheless, it is still a floating city, and until today it represented the pinnacle of military power in the Prime Material Plane, the greatest magical creation in the world.

At this moment, countless people gazed up at Tiris Floating City.

Nine massive beams of light pierced the Dark Sun Divine Realm, cutting through the endless black‑mist torrent, illuminating the avatar of the deceiver Luoxi.

Boom!

Luoxi's avatar froze for an instant, then exploded in an instant.

Their two halves resembled eggs crushed by a boulder, shattering into countless tiny fragments that melted and vaporized in the terrifying energy; even a colossal divine power beyond mortal imagination could not halt the process.

The Dark Sun Divine Realm boiled madly, as if to release all divine power, reaching its peak in an instant, then abruptly shifted from motion to stillness, plunging down and becoming utterly silent.

The heavens and earth fell silent as well.

The rune formation of Tiris Floating City ceased operating, the energy collapsed, hundreds of thousands of Luoxi's followers turned into statues, immobile, and the entire floating city became a dead city suspended in the sky.

But this silence lasted less than a second.

Rumble…

Endless energy erupted from within Tiris Floating City, causing the massive mountain mass that bore the city to explode instantly.

Hundreds of thousands of Luoxi's followers were reduced to ash in the blast; the towers, gardens, and houses built atop it, all the things that had consumed countless resources and wealth, no matter how beautiful or precious, were shattered along with the foundation into countless fragments.

Billions of pounds of broken stone and soil flew outward in all directions, falling from the sky.

The largest few core rocks fell directly to the ground.

The massive anti‑gravity field, constant levitation technique, and super flight technique—among a series of rune formations—failed, and the true weight of the floating city caused a tremendous motion; under the accelerating pull of gravity, merely watching its fall terrified millions of Nuosiruier's residents to the brink of panic.

The gods in the heavens also changed expression.

First, because of the destruction of Tiris Floating City; what moved them even more was that Lei En's Star Destroyer volley killed Luoxi's high‑rank avatar.

Without the true divine form descending, the high‑rank avatar was already the strongest force.

Luoxi's high‑rank avatar was even not inferior to some weaker deities!

This means that Lei En is already invincible in the Prime Material Plane; unless a deity descends, the entire Prime Material Plane is Lei En's to command. If Lei En wishes, his fleet could sweep across the whole plane, placing the entire world under his rule!

The gods, of course, would not stand by and let him do so.

The intelligent races of the Prime Material Plane are the gods' most important source of followers, comprising over seventy percent, and some deities' mortal followers are entirely within the Prime Material Plane.

If Lei En conquers the Prime Material Plane and rules all mortals, it would be tantamount to gripping the deities' weak point.

The gods absolutely will not allow it!

However, if the true divine form descends to stop Lei En, the deities would have to leave their divine realm, giving the enemy an opening, which could likely spark a divine war!

A single hair's pull can set the whole body in motion.

In an instant, the gods' gazes toward Lei En changed, filled with surprise, suspicion, jealousy, hatred, and anger.

Several deities, including evil gods and demon lords, have already begun scheming.

They are plotting conspiracies around Lei En.

Either to win over and use, or to corrupt and fall, or to destroy outright—such an important mortal must not be allowed to be monopolized by VijesCui.

After a dozen seconds.

The exploding Tiris Floating City crashed to the ground, its billions of pounds slamming the earth with a series of earth‑shaking roars, like an earthquake; the entire Nuosiruier's populace felt the intense tremor, which propagated hundreds of miles away.

Fortunately, Tiris Floating City did not fall into Nuosiruier.

Its impact point was at the edge of West Mountain, where a peak only a few hundred meters high was toppled, and massive stone and soil cascaded down from the summit, creating a huge debris flow.

The largest core fragment lodged on the mountain, slanting into the earth, replacing the toppled peak.

It could be seen from dozens of miles away.

This massive remnant will serve as proof that Tiris Floating City once existed, and as a marker of today's world‑shaking battle.

"Ryan Augustus!"

A frenzied roar echoed from the distant void, resonating across the sky; anyone could hear the anger and madness in it, coming from the deceiver Luoxi: "You'd better pray you never fall into my hands in the future, or I will make you taste the most painful flavor in the world!"

People were terrified, yet also felt a thrill and pride.

The deceiver Luoxi, a powerful deity, was thwarted before a mortal and personally issued a threat, revealing his impotent rage.

Lei En immediately responded.

"A low‑IQ, feeble waste, daring to call itself a god?" his voice rang out from the Augustus, each word dripping with contempt.

Everyone was dumbfounded; he truly dared to insult a deity to its face!

The gods in the heavens fell silent.

"Very good! Very good!"

Luoxi, enraged to the point of madness, let out a nonsensical laugh as if he had lost his mind: "Hehe hahaha… ant‑like foolish mortals…" The terrifying laugh could haunt people for days, laced with snarling curses, its volume gradually fading until it vanished.

Lei En ignored it and went on with his own affairs.

The main cannons of nine Star Destroyers recharged, this time targeting GrandSage KangJieladeGreatSage's Ein Floating City.

Meanwhile, the Extreme Warriors, Empire's Fist, and the Rainbow Dragon Knights, after eradicating all Luoxi followers, split into three forces, adjusting their approach toward their respective targets.

The Empire's Fist flew toward the hovering ParrasFloatingCity.

Marrius led the entire Extreme Brigade to land on Eight‑Leaf Plaza within Flaniss Floating City; the barely‑surviving Flaniss residents and the Eight‑Leaf Legion, seeing these familiar yet foreign foes arrive, fell silent with dread.

The descending Extreme Warriors swiftly seized control of Flaniss Floating City; the Wizards dared not intervene, nor could they.

Tim*Kenan never appeared.

On the other side, three hundred Rainbow Dragon Knights repeatedly teleported in the sky, closing in on Ein Floating City within seconds, and halted just outside the Arcane barrier.

The wizard and the residents in the city stared at the rainbow dragons filling the sky, both fearful and amazed.

A noticeably larger rainbow dragon hovered motionless, and the golden‑armored knight on its back shouted, "GrandSage, the Consul orders you to halt the leap‑migration at once and shut down the Arcane barrier!"

It is an order for Aeon Floating City to surrender.

KangJieladeGreatSage appeared on the high tower, shook his head, and said, "What if I refuse?"

"The Consul does not wish to see Aeon Floating City fall into the wake of Tires Floating City," the knight on the dragon replied.

The people of Aeon Floating City showed terror as they looked toward the edge of West Mountain. The explosion of Tires Floating City had not yet finished falling, the rising dust rose thousands of meters, the ground still trembled, all reminding them how grim the fate of not surrendering would be.

The knight on the dragon said again, "GrandSage, time is running out."

KangJieladeGreatSage glanced at the distant Star Destroyer; its main cannon grew brighter, set to fire in no more than ten seconds, while Aeon Floating City's leap‑migration had not even reached half activation, making escape impossible.

His gaze swept over the faces in the city.

Every face bore fear, despair and pleading; they did not want to die.

"Fine… Aeon Floating City surrenders!" KangJieladeGreatSage sighed, halted the city's leap‑migration, the Iola Core's energy ceased, and the Arcane barrier protecting the entire floating city dissipated, leaving it fully exposed.

The Star Destroyer's main cannon charging also stopped.

This let KangJieladeGreatSage breathe a sigh of relief; Lei En kept his promise and was not deceiving himself about lifting the city's protection.

But the next moment his mood grew complicated again.

Three hundred rainbow dragons flew into Aeon Floating City, landing throughout; they clearly knew the most crucial spots, swiftly seized the key nodes of the rune array, thereby taking control of the entire city, and even if the Arcane barrier re‑opened, the control could not be reclaimed.

A rainbow dragon rose, its altitude level with KangJieladeGreatSage's eye line.

The golden‑armored knight on the dragon rose, saluted, and respectfully said, "GrandSage, the Consul requests you appear at Fubei Deng Plaza for a meeting."

It is called a request, but in fact it is a capture.

A Holy Soul wizard left his own floating city, like a deity abandoning the divine realm, placing himself in peril.

But now, KangJieladeGreatSage knew he had no room to refuse.

"Fine."

He nodded, opened a teleport gate and stepped through.

After the GrandSage departed, the golden‑armored knight landed in the city, ordered the rainbow‑dragon knights to gather the crowd, then commanded the wizard and the city's upper officials to rush into the teleport gate and leave the floating city for Nuosiruier.

Flaniss Floating City experienced the same thing.

Several Eight‑Leaf members—Otiluk, Bigebai, Tansen, Niesitu and other Empire‑renowned Masters—as well as other legendary wizards, the leader of the Eight‑Leaf Legion, and a host of legendary super‑beings, were driven together by the Extreme Warrior corps.

Under the overwhelming pressure of the Extreme Warrior, the wizards dared to be angry but not to speak.

"Lord Duke."

Ma Li Wu Si looked at the tower where Tim*Kenan stood and shouted, "Consul, please have the lord appear at Fubei Deng Plaza for a meeting."

There was no response from the tower.

Ma Li Wu Si hummed, and the Extreme Warriors raised the muzzles of their Bolt Guns slightly, fingers on the triggers.

"Understood."

Tim*Kenan and Ma Youfu flashed onto the plaza, coldly staring at Ma Li Wu Si, "I'm curious to see what tricks he'll pull."

Having said that, they teleported away.

Ma Youfu gave Ma Li Wu Si an apologetic look, opened a towering teleport gate, and led the Flaniss crowd inside.

ParrasFloatingCity hovered over West Mountain, only a few hundred meters above the ground, its interior already reduced to ruins. When the Empire's Fist landed in ParrasFloatingCity, it saw only devastation, the ground riddled with huge craters blown by Thunder Spear Missiles.

The only relatively intact structure was the tower where Kai Er Si Tong stood, located in the middle of the floating city.

Originally there were two twin towers; after being destroyed in an earlier attack they were rebuilt, but today they were razed again, leaving only half of the north tower.

Parras' residents now number fewer than one hundred thousand.

Most of them hid inside the floating city when the attack came, thus surviving. Over two hundred thousand on the ground were killed instantly, leaving no bodies; a few severely wounded survivors were healed by the Mother Earth deity, and their injuries have recovered.

Physical wounds can heal, but mental scars cannot be erased.

Many people are desperately digging through the ruins, clinging to a faint hope that their family members buried below survived by luck.

However, the overwhelming majority stare at the destroyed homes with numb faces.

The arrival of the Empire's Fist caused their expressions to shift; when they saw these powerful warriors in bright‑colored armor, hatred flashed in their eyes. Most dared not act rashly, but some went berserk and charged.

Bang bang bang…

A burst of gunfire rang out; the Empire's Fist soldiers did not aim at people but fired upward as a warning.

The massive gunshot immediately stunned the ordinary people.

But even more people weren't afraid of death, or rather, they were seeking death, fearlessly rushing toward the Empire's Fist.

Three identical black silhouettes appeared.

Their skin was pale, bodies gaunt, each holding a straight staff; their indifferent gazes swept the charging crowd, and whether ordinary people or super‑beings, including psychics mingling among them, were instantly immobilized, their thoughts frozen.

One figure's spirit leapt forward; he wore a red magical robe, his visage dignified, yet his eyes were extremely grim, as if boundless rage and hatred churned within, unable to be released.

It was Duke Hong Shi Kai Er Si Tong.

"Lord Duke."

"Lord, you must avenge us…"

The surrounding people, seeing Kai Er Si Tong, seemed to clutch a lifeline in desperation, uttering a chorus of pleading cries.

Kai Er Si Tong gave no reply.

He seemed not to hear the pleas, stared intently at the three Reslin for several seconds, a hint of realization flashing in his eyes, and in a slightly hoarse voice said, "You were the ones who attacked Parras back then? Don't think I can't see this is a magical duplicate."

Reslin expressionless, "Come to Fubei Deng Plaza, and I'll give you a chance for revenge."

Having said that, the three Reslin vanished.

A thousand Empire's Fist soldiers also rose, engines roaring, soaring like a thousand bolts of lightning toward Nuosiruier.

Fubei Deng Castle was divided into sections: the He Palace on the left, the Temple of Truth and the God of Magic statue on the right, with a massive plaza between He Palace and the Temple of Truth paved with giant stones, etched with a rune array capable of holding millions standing together.

This plaza is the Fubei Deng Plaza, and the Rike Palace, which represents the Empire's imperial authority, sits on the north side of the Fubei Deng Plaza!

The Empire's senators have already moved from the Temple of Truth onto the plaza.

The Rike Imperial Guard and ten thousand Thundercast Celestial Soldiers spread around the plaza; the senators still didn't know why they were brought here, they were still reeling from the shock of the Fu Kong Cheng being struck down, and shortly after the Deceiver's avatar was slain, they were all somewhat numb.

The Consul won a perfect victory!

Countless residents of Nuosiruier, hearing the wind, rushed to Fubei Deng Castle, wanting to enter the plaza to watch; the Rike Imperial Guard did not block them, admitted one hundred thousand people, and maintained order.

Weizelan Fu Kong Cheng, Erasuo Fu Kong Cheng, Alagron Fu Kong Cheng and Naiser Fu Kong Cheng—these four Fu Kong Cheng that did not take part in the battle all gathered and hovered over the plaza.

On the steps at the north side of the plaza, figures began to appear.

Anxiwodasi, Duke Oroin, Prophet Medif, Sabbath Dean, Duke Silver Star, Storm Queen, O Xiliya, Kronomanse, Howai Master and Black Robe Duke all arrived.

The legendary wizards of each Fu Kong Cheng followed behind them.

Soon, portals appeared in the middle of the plaza, and KangJieladeGreatSage and Tim*Kenan emerged with their own people.

Duke Hong Shi Kairston appeared alone.

They are the defeated!

The three Holy Soul wizards did not step onto the stairs to stand side by side with their former comrades.

Boom boom boom……

One thousand Extreme Warriors and one thousand Empire's Fist fell from the heavens, their powered armor slammed the ground with a heavy clang. Every individual radiated a fierce aura, comparable to a Saint Rank strongman; the combined aura of the two thousand warriors covered the sky, so overwhelming that even the Holy Soul wizards felt a bit suffocated.

Then, massive, agile yet elegant and beautiful dragon silhouettes descended.

Iridescent Dragon Knights!

On the back of each iridescent dragon sat a golden‑armored knight; their armor was also powered, they wielded golden spears, their aura was steady as a mountain, drawing everyone's gaze.

Rumble!

Above, a deafening thunderclap sounded; nine Star Destroyers leapt from the void, hovering over the Fubei Deng Plaza, blocking the sky and sun, casting vast shadows.

Earlier, when the Star Destroyers fought the Fu Kong Cheng, they were far away; although everyone knew the Star Destroyers were huge, only up close could one truly feel their grandeur. Nine colossal vessels hovered above, less than a kilometer away, like mountains overhead; just their weight made souls tremble.

The people looked up, gazing at these epoch‑defining great creations, unable to utter a single word.

They felt only one thing: awe!

The Star Destroyer hangar doors opened, armored warships flew out one by one, landing on the plaza, continuously pouring troops.

Ten thousand, twenty thousand, thirty thousand… soon it reached one hundred thousand!

The largest Star Destroyer even launched thirty thousand Thundercast Celestial Soldiers; they were all clad in golden armor, wore masks, bore lightning war hammers, had bolt guns at their waists, and in groups leapt from the hangar onto the plaza, forming unified battle formations, exuding a sky‑piercing aura.

Everyone was dumbfounded.

The avatars of the Empire's three gods did not depart; they hovered high above the Fubei Deng Castle, looking down at the ground.

The Evil God and the Demon Lord also watched all of this.

At this moment, gods and mortals alike awaited the appearance of one person, staring unblinkingly at the Augustus, the atmosphere on the Fubei Deng Plaza solidified to the extreme.

Tomorrow is the final chapter of this volume, exactly chapter 1000.

(End of chapter)