Chapter 977: Tail and Infinity
Roaring sky.
Shock the earth.
Amid the roar of the double Paradise Lost colliding, all the surrounding spells were continuously suppressed.
Even the magical sky curtain that served as a camera and screen was distorted because of this.
The sky's canopy first showed noticeable stuttering, then began to tear. Then, amidst the continued collision of gold and purple, the image became increasingly distorted and unresolved... Finally, the entire canopy shattered!
——The dark purple "night" was torn apart, and the sky returned to its pure blue color.
The entire planet was plunged into chaos... Those who were following this godslaying war could no longer get the latest updates from the "live broadcast".
Even if the spell could still hold, it would be useless - because even the "director" on the roadside had been killed!
Not even a single blade of light flew towards them, yet the aftermath of the explosion was enough to completely destroy them. The damage dealt by the Lost Paradise was even greater to the fleshless Phantom Demons; and the Nightmares, overly reliant on teleportation, were unable to teleport away after the Lost Paradise caused significant interference to surrounding spells!
In a sense, they died at the hands of the Fallen Angels!
Cardinal Galatea watched this scene.
There was a clear hint of emotion in her jeweled eyes.
As a former scaly being, she had of course heard of this legendary spell called "Ultimate".
——Paradise Lost.
She still remembered... the original name of this spell was not this.
It is so named because it is the "taboo among taboos".
The "second half" of Paradise Lost is centered around an extremely valuable... disenchanted and consumed fragment of the Celestial Master.
Through the transmutation cycle of the six elements, the mana element continuously transforms into another element within the ring behind it. As it transforms, the dissipated power is used to strengthen itself, allowing the weightless mana to continuously accelerate - until no more mana is added. The more mana is stored, the faster the ring behind it will rotate. The theoretical upper limit of its speed is infinite.
Then, you can release the magic power that has been accelerated to the limit.
It can be any attribute, or even "no attribute," a balance of the six elements. Spell energy is shaped into the sharpest and most efficient attack pattern—a needle attack. No complex spell model is necessary; the mana, accelerated to its limit and thus overactivated, is inherently destructive.
But that's not why it's taboo.
But it is because the theoretical upper limit of this spell configuration is "infinite"!
To allow it to reach, or even approach, its limits, Lucifer, the Lord of the Tower of Babel, integrated 666 classic spell configurations, enabling it to disintegrate all derivative spells based on these 666 basic spell configurations and automatically draw upon their mana to replenish itself. This is the "first half" of this spell.
Just by preparing this spell, one can continuously destroy all surrounding spells, absorb souls, and drain vitality; and this spell can be charged almost infinitely... If this spell is released with perfect preparation, its power is enough to destroy everything.
If this spell is used in the Tower of Babel, it will disrupt a large number of basic spells and cause chaos in the Tower of Babel.
Thus, this spell ultimately became a taboo that could not be passed down. To use it—or even to attempt to learn or record it—would result in expulsion from the Tower of Babel. And because the Tower of Babel was considered the "Elysian Paradise" by the Winged Ones, the forbidden spell's final name became "the consequence of attempting to use it"—"Paradise Lost."
When Aiwass used this spell in the Tower of Babel before, she had not yet reacted; and Aiwass's automatically released Paradise Lost did not absorb any magic power from the outside world.
After all, in her time, Paradise Lost was just a legend.
Cardinal Galatea was just an apprentice at the time, so he naturally did not have the honor of witnessing this spell with his own eyes.
And now, the vision of the Fallen Angel disrupting all spells while preparing a spell made Cardinal Galatea immediately understand its nature—and recall the past:
This spell that ends everything actually once had another forgotten name...
That is its true name, the real name given to it by "Lucifer", the one who developed this spell.
"...[Tail Ring]."
Galatea murmured softly.
- To commemorate his precious friendship, and the person who came up with the inspiration for this spell, provided the Tiansi fragment that is the core of the spell, and completed the second half of the spell.
A scaly being who wears a monocle, has long blond hair, and always smiles calmly.
Its name is - Ouroboros.
It was with this jointly developed forbidden magic that Ouroboros was able to kill a celestial official with a single blow and seize his authority... thus ascending to godhood.
With the core of this spell, he embarked on the path of transcendence and obtained the law of transmutation.
When he became a god, his honorable name was Huan Tiansi - the Tiansi of the Tail, the Tiansi of Infinity!
That is the "ring that holds the tail"!
He could have been promoted with the fragment of the Tiansi he possessed, but he chose to construct a forbidden spell with it and hunt down another Tiansi again.
Because power cannot give birth to power, but knowledge can copy knowledge.
All of this was done to share this power with Lucifer—this was the beginning of their friendship. It was the time when the scaly and winged peoples had their closest cooperation, bringing peace to the entire world. It was also because of this that Galatea had the opportunity to enter the Tower of Babel and learn magic.
With the peace between the scaly and winged peoples, the world finally stopped all wars. Under the bright sun, the world began to move forward into a new era.
At the same time, the birth of this outstanding spell made the wizards of the Tower of Babel begin to doubt their own talents.
Because before Paradise Lost, all spells are powerless. They can't even maintain their own structure, which means Paradise Lost possesses a special configuration that transcends ordinary spells. It's a "corner of the obvious truth."
If a person has witnessed the truth, he cannot bear to step into the land of foolishness.
So, the mages tried to develop new spells beyond the 666 basic configurations, or spells with the same status as Paradise Lost, but they never succeeded.
In front of Paradise Lost, wizards were ashamed to register all the new spells they developed.
Thus it became the "final spell" of the Tower of Babel.
——Undoubtedly, this is a spell powerful enough to kill gods. Because it has actually been used to kill gods.
This wasn't the incarnated celestial being dragged down by the Tail Ring Ceremony, but the true God who walked the material world during the Second Sun Period, before the Jedi and Heaven were connected!
Because of this, the Fallen Angels didn't dare to be careless. Even if he were still wearing "Taurus," let alone now, he wasn't sure it could truly block the Lost Paradise's attack.
Paradise Lost's attack can strip away elemental resistance!
It’s not “ignoring” or “penetrating”, but stripping off!
Just as fire elementals cannot be harmed by flames, rock monsters cannot be petrified... However, after being hit by Paradise Lost, even the flames themselves can be burned!
But fortunately... Paradise Lost can only be used once within seven days. Using this spell also places a huge burden on the caster... as the caster's life, soul, and magical power will be completely absorbed and obliterated. Only the "Seven Days' Binding" can protect and conceal them.
If you use Paradise Lost for the second time, it will cause irreversible damage to yourself!
Therefore, just getting through this time is enough—
The Fallen Angel precisely controlled each stream of purple light, causing it to collide with the stream of light from Aiwas's spell, not daring to miss a single blow.
Although one would not die from taking damage once, under this near-infinite bombardment, even if one was damaged just once, the chain reaction could be fatal!
If you take damage once, you'll likely expose a lot of flaws. Then, all the attacks will follow.
Although it is impossible to move while maintaining Paradise Lost, fortunately other spells cannot get close to it at all - even if they just get close, they will disintegrate on their own; and all physical attacks will be completely disintegrated by the energy torrent accelerated to the limit.
Ground, masonry, walls, rock formations, forests…
No matter whether it is gold or purple, any substance affected by the influence will turn into gold or purple, and then disintegrate silently.
It didn't explode or burn, but simply dissolved into the light.
Their spells have the same origin, and the number of attacks they can launch is exactly the same - all 666 strikes!
This means that if you hit the opponent's shot, the opponent will also hit you with one; if you block the opponent's shot, one shot from both sides will be canceled out.
However, Aiwass's attack logic is different from that of the Fallen Angels.
Aiwass only attacks and doesn't defend!
He did not try to block any of the attacks from the Fallen Angels, but instead directed all of his light streams towards the attack!
Aiwass's tactical intention was very clear - I wouldn't block an attack anyway.
——If you don’t block all the attacks, we will die together!
It's like two motorcycles accelerating to their limit and colliding with each other on a single-plank bridge - if no one gives way, both of them will be destroyed and killed; if someone chooses to retreat and drive his car into the river, the other motorcycle will be able to cross the single-plank bridge smoothly, and he will suffer losses.
In the end, the Fallen Angel hesitated.
He didn't think it was an honor to trade one for one with a mere snake tail, nor did he think it was worth it.
So, the Fallen Angel could only do his utmost to precisely control and intercept every attack from Aiwass. This inevitably consumed a great deal of energy and extra mana... He was like the person who drove the car into the river.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Chongbo began to revive his fallen teammates one by one.
Although he was already far away from the battlefield... but due to the interference of Paradise Lost, he still had to use his spell three times in a row before it barely succeeded.
Chongbo removed one of his amber bracelets, melted it, and pressed it against the Great Guardian's mutilated body. The melted amber, the color of olive oil, gradually spread over his body; the corpse, still unable to close its eyes, was gradually melted by the amber essence, turning it a deep brown, resembling a wax figure without any coloring.
Saint John is helping him perform the resurrection ceremony - when the wax figure is solidified, Saint John will use illumination magic to inject vitality into the wax figure.
The next moment, the "wax figure" of the Great Guardian moved suddenly.
He suddenly stretched out his hand and tore the wax figure into pieces. Then he quickly crushed the wax figure covering his face, gasping for air as if he were suffocating.
——He crawled out of there intact!
(End of this chapter)
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