After Defeat, the Empress’s Negotiating Chip Turns Out to Be Me

Chapter 279

279~ A Walking Hydrogen Bomb!~

"Huh? I can leave now?"

"Mm, you can leave now. You don't want to die, do you?"

Although he was just a false character in the Little Princess's dream world, fabricated based on the Little Princess's memories, when the dream collapsed, the mental constraints had already been severed. The mental bindings of dream magic and memories were already almost the same as real people.

Moreover, if they could solve that thing, perhaps the dream world wouldn't continue collapsing.

After Chen Ze left, the Empress summoned a Magic Wand, her exclusive weapon that could greatly enhance the effect of magic she released. However, it had a fatal flaw: she couldn't activate Chant Reduction when releasing magic.

Chant Reduction could maximize the speed at which she released magic, but it also had a drawback: the magic released would be weakened to a certain extent.

And how much it was weakened depended on how much the Chant Reduction effect reduced the originally required chanting duration.

For instant-cast magic, it would be weakened by about forty percent in total.

And with her exclusive weapon in hand, she could at most increase the magic effect by more than double. It was just unfortunate she couldn't use it together with Chant Reduction. Otherwise, she could probably fight a group of Great Archmages by herself.

After waiting for a while, timing it to ensure Chen Ze had enough time to safely leave Pengcheng, she began gathering magic power to attract the shadow's attention.

"Mo, lend me the dream control authority for a moment."

She pulled the Little Princess behind her.

She didn't know how long it had been since she had completely chanted through an entire magic spell.

"Darker than black, pitch-black darkness, fuse with my crimson red..."

Continuously chanting the spell, massive amounts of magic power had already condensed on her magic wand. Mixed with the power of dream control authority, it continuously formed a Magic Circle.

"The time of awakening has come. Fall into the realm of infallibility, form the formless distortion. Appear! Explosion!!!"

"Megumin!?"

The suddenly emerging chuunibyou lines made her unable to react for a moment. After repeatedly reciting them several times in her heart, she discovered these were actually Megumin's lines!?

Magic was divided into four grades, with each grade subdivided into Low-tier, Mid-tier, and High-tier. These four grades were Normal Grade, Super-Grade, Forbidden Spell Grade, and Fourth Grade respectively.

The vast majority of what ordinary mages used was Normal Grade. Super-Grade was rare; at minimum, an Archmage was needed to barely release it. And Forbidden Spell Grade could only be used by Great Archmages.

And the even higher Fourth Grade magic was the highest-level magic that human mages could achieve. Under magic of this level, all resistance was meaningless.

But the cost was instantly draining all the magic power from a Great Archmage's entire body. The amount of magic power required was too much even for the most top-tier Great Archmage to bear.

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Wait, that useless magic? No! If the Empress could release it, then that would be nuclear bomb-level magic!!!

Boom------

A violent explosion resounded through the heavens. The thick magic power surrounding the Empress's body was also drained in an instant.

And at the moment before being drained, the Empress had already used the last of her magic power to construct defenses.

An explosion like a nuclear blast instantly bloomed near ground level in Pengcheng.

Let her see whether her Fourth Grade magic would prevail in this head-on bombardment, or whether this thing's almost instantaneous regeneration ability was more formidable.

The entire city was enveloped by white light.

"This is bad..."

Under such terrifying power, the magical barrier the Empress had constructed with her remaining magic power didn't seem quite sufficient!

In that case...

"Xuan!!!"

"......"

This call received no response, but suddenly her entire body shook violently. A certain power descended into her body.

Divine Power!

...Although it was the dream-limited edition...

This Divine Power wasn't true Divine Power, just a projection of Divine Power. But it was also enough to maintain this magical barrier that was about to collapse.

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"Holy shit! Didn't they say the nuclear weapons would take some time before being dropped? There's still a full half hour left! Did the plan get moved up!?"

But when he confirmed with the military, he received a denial.

The military hadn't dropped nuclear weapons, because the higher level hadn't given instructions yet. The explosion in Pengcheng fundamentally wasn't from nuclear weapons they had dropped... And besides, you tell me, whose nuclear weapon has this much power!? Forget Echeng and Yangcheng, even Qingshui City, separated by several Pengcheng's worth of distance, could see this mushroom cloud rising to the sky!

Even Echeng was affected by the explosion. If they hadn't evacuated Echeng's residents near Pengcheng together, Echeng would probably have had casualties.

Something that could have this power definitely couldn't be an ordinary atomic bomb. It had to be a hydrogen bomb! Only a hydrogen bomb could have this kind of power!

"Oh... almost forgot. From the footage transmitted back by satellite, this explosion wasn't caused by that thing, but rather by that thing from the island nation a few days ago..."

The footage transmitted back by satellite showed that starting yesterday, inexplicably an iceberg directly smashed onto that thing, then produced an explosion affecting buildings within a hundred-meter radius. Buildings within forty to fifty meters were directly completely destroyed.

And looking at it, the instigator of these two explosions was actually the same person? Or rather, a humanoid creature?

No matter what, this was fundamentally a walking hydrogen bomb!

"Commander! Look, there seems to be a little girl following beside that person!"

Scanning the satellite images again, they discovered a little girl standing to the side, ultimately swallowed together with the instigator of that explosion by the intense white light.

This... fundamentally shouldn't exist in reality! This kind of existence that would almost only appear in novels or anime.

But almost the entire command center witnessed all of this with their own eyes. And everything that was currently happening in the island nation had also been seen by the entire world.

"Um, Commander, should we still drop the atomic bombs?"

"Not for now. Let's see how things develop."

This terrifying scale of explosion was far stronger than the three atomic bombs "Savior," "Azure Dragon," and "Red Star" combined. After the explosion ended, they could assess the situation before delivering the finishing blow.

And more importantly, those two people. Being able to create a hydrogen bomb-level explosion, such dangerous existences were even more worrying.

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"Mo, are you okay?"

"I'm fine..."

The Little Princess's tone had already become somewhat weak and slurred.

Even if it was bootleg Divine Power, the backlash it caused to her in the dream still existed, just not as severe as in reality.

So the backlash was also projected over?

Shaking the newly regrown cat ears and cat tail, she felt some indescribable strange sensation in her heart.

She had clearly already gotten used to life without these two things. Now that they suddenly came back, this feeling was really too strange!

However, after the terrifying explosion, within visible range, the shadow's existence could no longer be seen.

Which meant that this single strike, which had drained all her magic power, plus the enhancement from her Magic Wand exclusive weapon combined with half of the dream control authority, had achieved significant results!