novelraw Chapter 531: The Ultimate Destructive Power
Chapter 531: The Ultimate Destructive Power
Chapter 531: The Ultimate Destructive Power
Dionysius Spencer stood on the observation platform of the command center, gazing at the scattered lights of the enemy camp on the distant horizon, and spoke calmly:
“Begin.”
His voice was not loud, yet it was transmitted clearly into the ears of every wizard through the arrays spread across the entire camp.
There was no impassioned pre-battle mobilization, no rousing slogans.
Just one word.
But everyone understood the weight behind that word.
The defensive lines composed of cannon fodder units, elemental creatures, constructs, summoned beings, and the like, poured out of the camp like a tide, spreading out layer by layer at the outermost edge of the defensive perimeter.
Under the wizards’ commands, they silently formed formations, ready to defend against any possible impact.
Inside the camp, within every fortress, every wizard was already in position.
From third-ring wizards to sixth-ring elites, from logistics specialists to combat specialists, regardless of their usual field of expertise, a palm-sized miniature transmission array engraved with intricate patterns now sat before each of them.
These were the “spiritual power supply nodes” of the super-wide-area transmutation array.
“Begin transmission.”
With the second command from the command center, the entire camp lit up.
It was the visible pale blue halo created by the excessive aggregation of energy when countless streams of spiritual power poured into the arrays simultaneously.
A fifth-ring wizard closed his eyes, pressing both hands onto the transmission array and allowing his spiritual power to pour out like floodwaters from an opened sluice. Even those wizards who had not fully recovered clenched their teeth inside their nutrient pods, channeling every last bit of their remaining strength into the arrays.
At the same moment, the entire plane stirred.
From a high-altitude view, one could see the surface of this barren abandoned plane, from the gray-white plains to the jagged mountain ranges, from the dried riverbeds to the dead-silent basins, countless different locations lighting up with faint glows at the exact same instant.
At first, the lights were scattered and isolated, like sparse fireflies in the darkness.
But soon, they began to spread, connect, and intertwine.
One glow linked to another.
The halo of one region merged into the halo of another.
In just a few breaths, the entire continent, from south to north and east to west, every inch of land was covered by a faint, almost illusory layer of pale golden light.
It was the light of the transmutation array.
The super-wide-area transmutation array—activated.
“Alchemist formation, assume control,” Dionysius’s voice sounded once more.
Deep within the camp, inside a specially excavated vast space, more than twenty thousand wizards specialized in alchemy sat cross-legged.
Before them were even more precise and larger control arrays. Above their heads flowed real-time information on the material distribution of the entire plane, gathered through countless nodes.
Leading them were dozens of seventh-ring wizards proficient in alchemy.
At this moment, their eyes had completely turned the pale golden color unique to the transmutation array. Deep within their pupils, the material structure map of the entire plane was rapidly rotating, analyzing, and marking targets.
“Target: alliance camp.” The leading seventh-ring alchemist spoke, his voice calm. “Transmutation array… deploy.”
The pale golden light surged violently toward the alliance camp.
And so, the earth came alive.
Around the periphery of the alliance camp, the solid rock fortifications suddenly began to twist.
The hard rock deformed like kneaded clay, caving inward and compressing.
The ground inside the camp collapsed without warning, revealing bottomless pits.
Cannon fodder units that had no time to react screamed as they fell, only to be completely swallowed by the rock layers that suddenly closed at the bottom of the pits.
Even in the sky, countless enormous spikes formed from dust and stone began to coalesce, hanging upside down like stone stalactites, densely packed and aimed at the alliance camp before pouring down like a violent rainstorm in the next instant!
Even more alarmingly, five thick stone pillars gradually rose from the ground around the alliance forces.
Only when the pillars rose higher did the wizards inside the alliance camp realize in horror that they were not pillars at all, but giant hands made of rock!
These genuine giant hands clenched fiercely, gripping the protective barrier of the alliance camp and attempting to crush it!
The entire earth had turned against the alliance.
The first to react on the alliance side was the Tower of Annihilation.
Facing this sudden assault, the upper echelons of the Tower of Annihilation showed not the slightest panic.
Their response was also simple and brutal.
The magnetic field confinement layer that had been suspended behind the Tower of Annihilation’s camp, reinforced day and night by countless high-rank wizards, suddenly dissipated.
The seventh-ring wizards responsible for maintaining the magnetic field all rose at once, withdrawing their energy supply to the confinement layer.
At the same time, they formed hand seals and pushed fiercely toward the white sphere of light with a diameter of one kilometer…
“Go.”
The enormous white sphere of light, like a released prisoner, slowly rose from its originally fixed position.
Then its speed increased.
It streaked across the sky, trailing a dazzling white tail of light, like a second falling sun, hurtling straight toward the Noren Workshop’s camp!
Carrying twenty trillion tons of antimatter within it.
Dionysius stood at the highest point of the command center, watching the approaching white sphere of light. His expression remained completely unchanged.
“Execute contingency plan,” his voice still calm. “Phase One.”
Inside the alchemist legion, the several thousand sixth-ring wizards who had been on standby acted simultaneously.
Under the control of alchemical power, an invisible force spread out, sweeping across the entire battlefield.
Thus, the air was expelled.
In the entire region between the Noren Workshop camp and the white sphere of light, all gas molecules, all floating dust, and all microscopic particles invisible to the naked eye were instantly pushed to the sides by an overwhelmingly domineering force.
A completely absolute vacuum corridor over ten kilometers wide was formed.
Without air, there was no contact.
Without contact, there was no annihilation.
At the same time, the other alchemists, led by the seventh-ring wizards, temporarily halted their assault on the enemy camp.
Instead, they gathered the power of the super-wide-area transmutation array, stabbing into the magnetic field confinement layer of the white sphere of light like invisible tentacles!
The core ability of alchemy—material reshaping.
As long as they could convert all the antimatter into ordinary matter before it came into contact with any normal matter, this crisis could be eliminated without a trace.
“Analyzing antimatter structure…”
“Transmutation array penetration in progress…”
“Target magnetic field confinement layer interference is severe. Penetration progress… three percent, seven percent, twelve percent…”
However, just as the power of the transmutation array was about to touch the antimatter itself…
Deep within the Tower of Annihilation camp, the several seventh-ring wizards in charge revealed cold smiles at the corners of their mouths simultaneously.
“Did you think we didn’t prepare for this?”
The contingency they had left inside the magnetic field confinement layer activated.
In the final instant before the confinement layer dissipated, a rock mass with a diameter exceeding one hundred meters was directly teleported into the very center of the antimatter light sphere by the hidden teleportation spell within the magnetic field!
Inside the light sphere, the delicate balance between antimatter and normal matter—originally separated by the magnetic field—was completely shattered by the sudden intrusion of the rock mass.
Contact.
Then…
Annihilation.
BOOM!!!!!
In that instant, heaven and earth fell silent.
The sound was too vast, too shocking, already surpassing the limits of what human ears could receive, transforming into a shockwave powerful enough to directly shake the earth.
A pure white light pillar with a diameter exceeding one hundred kilometers erupted from the position of the antimatter light sphere, piercing through the atmosphere and stabbing straight into the void beyond the plane!
The shockwave from the light pillar even blew away the gray clouds that had always lingered in the sky.
From the Noren Workshop to the alliance camp, from one end of the horizon to the other, everything turned into blinding white in an instant!
What followed was the true crisis.
The intrusion of that rock mass had not caused all the antimatter to annihilate at once. It had only detonated the small portion it came into contact with. The terrifying energy released by that small portion’s annihilation instantly tore apart the now-unstable confinement layer, blasting even more antimatter fragments outward like a blooming flower of death.
Each of those fragments was a piece of antimatter of varying sizes.
They were blasted outward, and then…
They came into contact with air.
They came into contact with dust.
They came into contact with light.
They came into contact with everything.
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!
Countless explosions bloomed madly across the sky above the entire battlefield!
Every annihilation of an antimatter fragment was like a small-scale solar eruption.
And the clustered antimatter would be blasted further apart the instant of explosion, expanding the affected range once again!
Their brightness, their temperature, and the destructive energy they released intertwined and stacked, then resonated.
In the end, they converged into an apocalyptic tide of flames that covered nearly half the plane’s sky, as if it would burn all things!
Enormous mushroom clouds rose one after another in the void, only to be quickly torn apart by the shockwaves of the next wave of explosions.
Flames and light became “everywhere.”
The sky was burning, the earth was melting, and even space itself began to show fine, web-like cracks under the continuous high-intensity energy impacts!
“Defend!”
Inside the Noren Workshop camp, Dionysius’s voice carried a trace of urgency for the first time.
The super-wide-area transmutation array operated at full power!
On the ground, endless rock and soil were seized and condensed by invisible forces.
Above the camp, around it, and even underground, layer after layer of incredibly thick physical shields were constructed.
One layer of rock shell was vaporized by the annihilation shockwave, and the next layer was already rapidly forming under the effect of the transmutation array!
When a gap was blasted open in one direction’s defenses, even more material surged from the ground to tightly seal the breach!
At the same time, another portion of the transmutation array’s power began frantically “redirecting” the explosions.
The destructive energy that was about to reach the camp’s core area was forcibly “guided” to the other end of the plane—those uninhabited barren regions.
Thus, distant lands collapsed, distant mountain ranges melted, and everything in the distance was wantonly ravaged by the unending stream of explosive energy.