novelraw Chapter 572: Ash and Wall
Chapter 572: Ash and Wall
Chapter 572: Ash and Wall
Jie Ming stood at the edge of the camp’s deployed barrier, his hands continuously waving.
Streaks of twisted gray light shot out from his fingertips, accurately piercing into the information beings that had been segmented and surrounded by the high-tier wizards using Information Weaving.
Wizardry: Painful Glitch.
With every gray light that struck true, an information being’s outer energy layer would convulse violently, its core information fluctuating wildly, and then… collapse. A blue Entropy Brain emerged from the disintegrating cluster of light and was collected by the wizards waiting nearby.
The wizards had practically turned the process from killing to harvesting Entropy Brains into an assembly line, their efficiency shockingly high.
But Jie Ming soon noticed something was off.
“These things… have become harder to deal with.”
He frowned, staring at an information being struggling not far away.
The being had just been hit by an Information Plague released by a high-tier wizard, yet it had not crashed immediately like before. Although it was ultimately destroyed by subsequent attacks, its resistance was completely different from earlier.
“They’ve evolved isolation methods.”
A seventh-ring wizard’s voice came from beside him.
The powerful expert maintained Information Weaving while speaking in a low voice, “From the analysis, it seems these things now subject all incoming information to review. The effectiveness of the Information Plague wizardries has clearly dropped.”
Jie Ming nodded, understanding in his heart.
The information beings’ adaptability was simply too strong.
How much time had passed since the last virus outbreak?
They had already evolved targeted defensive mechanisms.
If they tried to infect them with the same Information Plague now, it would be difficult to succeed unless they developed an entirely new variant.
“However…”
Jie Ming looked at the information beings being segmented and surrounded, the corners of his mouth curving slightly.
Although they now had firewalls, their reaction speed had clearly slowed down.
Every piece of incoming information had to be reviewed, which meant processing speed had decreased.
The computational power that could once be mobilized instantly now required filtering first, then analysis, then response.
The once-smooth network connections now showed visible lag.
For high-tier wizards, this lag was more than enough.
“Continue!”
Jie Ming waved his hands repeatedly, sending out another dozen streaks of Painful Glitch.
The battle continued.
One information being after another was slain, turning into blue Entropy Brains.
The segmented and surrounded regions grew smaller and smaller, and the number of information beings decreased at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Then, Jie Ming sensed something wrong.
It wasn’t that anything unusual had appeared on the current battlefield, but on another “battlefield.”
He jerked his head up and looked into the distance.
There, the fight between Martin and the Silent Abyss was still ongoing.
But at this moment, the scene in that region had completely changed.
The originally pure white sea of light had vanished, replaced by a distorted grayish-white.
Countless flames burned in the void, but the flames were not red—they were gray.
Gray to the point of whiteness, gray in a way that made one’s heart palpitate.
“That is…”
Jie Ming’s pupils contracted slightly.
Martin’s laughter rang out from that direction, echoing across the entire plane.
“Hahahaha… Good! Very good!”
His voice carried undisguised delight. “To be able to block so many of my attacks, you are qualified to make me take this a bit more seriously!”
In the distance, the hundred-meter-tall Silent Abyss was operating at full power.
Blinding white light flowed across its body as countless information tentacles extended from it, connecting to every surviving node deep within the plane. It was mobilizing the power of the entire plane.
No, not just that.
Jie Ming saw that at the planar barrier of the Information Plane, countless twisted energies were pouring in—that was the power of the endless chaotic void! The originally disordered, chaotic, and violent void energies were forcibly restrained and integrated by the Silent Abyss, becoming orderly before merging into itself.
Because it had sensed danger.
Martin raised his right hand, and the surrounding grayish-white flames rapidly converged toward his palm.
In the center of his palm, a single point of gray light was condensing.
The light was very faint, like a candle flame in the wind, ready to extinguish at any moment.
But with just one glance, Jie Ming felt his spiritual sea trembling.
It was not ordinary flame—it was something he could not comprehend!
“Do you know why they call me ‘Ashheart’?”
Martin’s voice was calm, as if chatting idly.
The Silent Abyss did not answer. It would not answer.
It simply gathered power frantically, constructing layer after layer of defensive barriers in front of itself.
Martin smiled.
“Because I can turn everything into ash.”
He pushed his right hand forward.
That point of gray light flew out.
Very slowly.
So slowly that Jie Ming felt he could clearly see its flight trajectory.
But wherever that trajectory passed, everything collapsed.
Space collapsed. Time fell into chaos.
The once-stable spatial structures, the instant the gray light swept past, shattered like glass into countless tiny fragments. Those fragments had no chance to scatter before they were ignited by the gray flames and burned into nothingness.
The flow of time in that region began to twist wildly—sometimes fast as lightning, sometimes slow as if frozen.
Among the things caught in the temporal turbulence, even light was twisted into bizarre shapes.
The barriers the Silent Abyss had set up collapsed layer by layer.
Information barriers were burned through. Energy barriers were set ablaze.
The Silent Abyss roared.
It mobilized every ounce of power it could, frantically drawing void energy from beyond the plane and constructing a final line of defense in front of itself. That was the ultimate barrier formed from the majority of its own core information—almost its entire life.
Then, the gray light collided with it.
Thus, the massive giant of light began to annihilate silently.
That ultimate barrier, the instant it touched the gray light, began to “disappear.”
The entire barrier was erased from the level of existence, as if it had never been there at all.
The Silent Abyss’s body began to disintegrate.
Its hundred-meter-tall form, starting from the point of contact, turned bit by bit into ash.
Finally, the gray light pierced through its core.
The Silent Abyss’s disintegration accelerated dramatically.
In just a few seconds, that terrifying existence capable of mobilizing the power of the entire plane completely vanished within the gray ash.
Nothing was left behind.
Not even an Entropy Brain.
Jie Ming looked in that direction, momentarily speechless.
Just like that… it died?
That existence that could mobilize the power of the entire plane was erased by a single move?
But in the next second, he froze.
Because after erasing the Silent Abyss, the gray flames did not stop.
They continued advancing, pressing deeper into the Information Plane.
“Is it going to pierce straight through the plane?”
The moment this thought crossed Jie Ming’s mind, the situation changed.
The gray flames, just as they were about to touch the core region of the Information Plane, suddenly halted.
Then, a wall rose.
Or rather, a stretch of pure “nothingness.”
It spanned between the gray flames and the core of the Information Plane, pitch black throughout, without any light, without any fluctuation, and without even any sense of existence.
Yet it simply existed there, isolating everything.
The gray flames collided with the wall and vanished without a sound.
Jie Ming’s pupils shrank sharply.
What was that?
He turned to look at Martin.
Martin was also looking at the wall, his brows slightly furrowed.
“Interesting…”
He murmured, a trace of surprise in his tone.
“So they can actually reach this level?”