Chapter 287 Mechanical Heaven
Chapter 287
Following Searle's indiscriminate mental pollution attack, the inky black giant wall trembled again.
What emanated from it was a disgusting, insane, and nauseating wave, like a tentacle cast by an evil god from the abyss, carrying with it an indescribable smell of corruption.
That aura was not a physical attack, but it was more deadly than any spell.
It ignores physical defenses, shields, and even the protection of multiple magic arrays is useless in front of it!
The entire mechanical city is still fully armed and steel-clad as usual. The towering city walls are intact, and there are defense towers and dense mechanisms. The appearance is intact.
But beneath the "iron shell" of this city, within that indestructible shell constructed of runes and fine steel...
The spirits of countless wizards have been quietly annihilated!
Silently, it was eroded by the pollution of the black wall, like a snowflake falling into the abyss, instantly melting into the invisible spiritual turbulence.
Inside the entire mechanical city, there are wizards, wizard apprentices, alchemical creations and mechanical creations.
In this cross-dimensional wave of spiritual pollution, there is no way to resist, and they fall down, go crazy, or become twisted and mutated!
This is not an ordinary battle, but a spiritual massacre that has completely crossed the traditional battle lines and all tactical defenses!
The defense tower did not fail, the formation did not collapse, and the alarm did not even have time to sound.
But the next moment, ninety-nine percent of the wizarding life forms in the entire city had quietly died!
You should know that the number of resident wizards and wizard apprentices in the Mechanical City alone is counted in the hundreds of thousands.
In other words, Searle's attack actually killed hundreds of thousands of extraordinary life forms on the spot!
This is an unprecedented massacre in the wizarding world!
What’s even more terrifying is... this is just one of the ten largest cities!
If Sel also unleashed similar "Black Wall Pollution" on other fronts, then this battle... might really cause the Nightmare Rift to lose all its vitality and its foundation to be severed!
Through the perspective of the Spirit Eye Wizard, Lin En clearly sensed that the spiritual network of the entire Mechanical City was shaking violently.
Countless high-level beings who had been hiding underground, in towers, and in magic rooms were finally forced to show up in this "pollution storm"!
Whether it was the Morning Star wizards who were originally neutral and only wanted to conduct research, or the guardian wizards who were responsible for the defense mission and were loyal to the city, they all took off into the air at this moment!
In an instant, between heaven and earth, one after another terrifying witchcraft aura as shining as stars rose from the ground!
The spiritual storm roared, and the brilliance of will intertwined into a river of light in the air.
Lin En looked from afar and saw that above the towering city, there were dozens of shining morning star figures, breaking through the air like meteors, pointing directly at the evil black wall!
That scene was like the gods descending to earth, magnificent, solemn, and terrifying.
Even through the "relay perspective" of the Spirit Eye Wizard, Lin En could still clearly feel the powerful pressure coming towards him!
However……
Facing so many Morning Star wizards gathered together, Sel still stood in front of the black wall with an indifferent expression.
He simply opened his eyes gently and looked at the figures rushing towards him, as if he was looking at a group of insignificant dust.
There was no panic, no fear, not even a trace of emotional fluctuation.
"Meteoric Council! Are you truly crazy? How dare you act rashly in the Nightmare Rift?"
A roar like thunder exploded in the sky.
The first to react were the Morning Star Wizards belonging to the Mechanical City.
They were like stars falling to the ground, and each figure was a powerful and steady spiritual torrent, carrying tremendous rage, shooting out from all over the city!
An exceptionally eye-catching wizard figure rose from the ground, wearing a highly recognizable heavy exoskeleton armor.
The entire armor is metallic gray, like flowing molten steel, with complex energy patterns engraved on the surface. On the chest is a warhammer emblem that symbolizes destruction and power, shining brightly in anger.
He is actually the famous Warhammer Master in the Mechanical City!
At this moment, under the helmet that covered his entire body, his face was extremely gloomy, and murderous intent was rolling in his eyes like a tsunami!
Beside him, several other Morning Star Wizards from the Mechanical City also had gloomy expressions, and each of them was surrounded by powerful and heart-pounding magical fluctuations.
In this solemn and murderous battlefield atmosphere, Lin En, through the long-distance perspective of the Spirit Eye Wizard, was suddenly startled, and a strange light flashed in his eyes.
"Hmm? That's..."
His expression became serious and his eyes suddenly flickered.
In the crowd, he suddenly saw a familiar figure.
He was a wizard wearing exoskeleton armor and surrounded by small robots like a swarm of bees.
His body structure and energy circulation method are very different from those of ordinary people. He is the unforgettable existence when he participated in the expedition to the Goddess of the Magic Net: the Mechanical Puppet Wizard!
Lin En naturally would not forget this name.
After Lin En obtained the Spirit Eye Wizard, he naturally learned everything that had happened through the latter's memory.
He was originally practicing peacefully in the Mechanical City, but this mechanical puppet wizard forcibly transferred him into the plane expedition.
Although the instigators were the Spirit Eye Wizard and Qi, they have now paid the price.
It’s also time for Lin En to settle accounts with the mechanical puppet wizard!
All the past events now burned in Lin En's mind like flames.
What impressed Lin En even more was that later the Goddess of the Demonic Net sent down her clone, setting off a devastating space-time storm. The entire battlefield was swallowed up by the terrible storm, and countless wizards died.
Lin En clearly remembered that he had used all his trump cards to barely survive on the edge of the space-time storm, and the great wizard Yude who had hurt him was killed on the spot in the storm!
I originally thought that the mechanical puppet wizard also died in the natural disaster, but I didn’t expect to meet him again in this chaos today!
"Not dead yet..."
Lin En narrowed his eyes, feeling cold in his heart, but not surprised.
"Never mind. With his background as a Morning Star Wizard, it's not surprising that he managed to survive such a natural disaster."
But soon, a cold smile appeared on Lin En's lips, his eyes fell on the familiar figure like a knife, and he whispered to himself:
"That's fine..."
"The Meteoric Council's invasion of the Nightmare Rift. I didn't expect... this would also allow me to settle old scores."
In addition to the Warhammer Master and the Mechanical Puppet Wizard, these Morning Star Wizards belong to the local system of the Mechanical City.
At this moment, there are also many external Morning Star wizards who reside here for academic research or transit. They quietly emerge from the Mechanical City and stand in mid-air.
Most of these wizards are neutral, their own forces are not dependent on the Mechanical City, and they have no intention of getting involved in any internal wars.
However, Sel's attack was too cruel.
The devastating pollution fell like a meteor in various areas of the Mechanical City, killing countless low-level wizards, wizard apprentices, wizard assistants, and alchemical creatures.
Such a large-scale massacre of weak creatures made these neutral wizards change their expressions for a moment.
They can sit idly by and watch the rivalry and struggle between the Meteoric Council and the Nightmare Rift, but if it involves the mass slaughter of innocent lives, they must respond.
Otherwise, if you stay out of this matter today and watch it with indifference, no one will be able to escape responsibility when the Wizard Council conducts a thorough investigation in the future.
In the wizarding world, any wizard must abide by the rules of the Wizarding Council.
Then, one by one, the foreign Morning Star wizards, with cold eyes, stepped out of the void and stood beside the Warhammer Master.
Together with the Mechanical City camp, it formed a larger spiritual sky, and the pressure swept across the world like a tide!
And at this moment, facing the combined forces of so many powerful people, facing the thunderous questioning of the Warhammer Master...
Sel's clone remained as calm as ever, his expression expressionless, as if he didn't care about what was happening in front of him.
Finally, he spoke, his voice gentle, even with a hint of sarcasm:
"Let your city lord come out."
"I've heard a long time ago... that 'legendary mechanical city lord', in order to attack Huiyue, has long since abandoned his physical body and survives only as a pure spirit in the core of this city. To reach Huiyue, he intends to build his own mechanical paradise..."
These words almost revealed some secrets of the sixth-level Morning Star Wizard, causing a stir and shock.
In the distance, Lynn captured this scene clearly through the perspective of the Spirit Eye Wizard, and also heard Sel's speech full of hints and provocations.
"A pure spiritual body that has abandoned its physical body? Mechanical Heaven?"
Lin En muttered to himself, his eyes gradually becoming serious.
Of course he knew that the mayor of the Mechanical City was an extremely powerful sixth-level Morning Star Wizard.
During the dimensional expedition against the Goddess of the Demonic Web, this mysterious existence had made a brief appearance and fought against the Goddess of the Demonic Web's clone, demonstrating a power beyond common sense.
Although Lin En knew very little about the city lord, he was sure.
This person not only possesses the power to reach the heavens and the earth, but has also found a brilliant moon path of his own!
"Mechanical Heaven... Could this be the core concept behind his breakthrough to Huiyue?"
Lin En's heart was slightly shaken, and he kept deducing this possibility in his mind.
And almost at this moment.
"boom!"
A series of deafening roars suddenly emanated from the mechanical city below!
Just like a sleeping giant beast being awakened, the city core that was originally as solid as a mountain and as huge as a fortress suddenly... began to split!
The entire city slowly disintegrated with some incredible rhythm.
Towers, platforms, and track structures were lifted into the air and reconfigured under the influence of psychic energy;
The streets turned into armored plates, rising into the clouds;
The originally integrated mechanical capital now seems to be reverse analyzed and broken down into parts!
The entire city is like an enormous "psychic machine".
It is activated at this moment and transformed from its original "whole" form in a combined state into layer upon layer of "functional components".
These components continue to be finely disassembled in the air, floating, moving, and rearranging like thousands of screws, gears, tubes, and floating chips, as if they are assembling an unprecedented super-giant structure.
This scene caused all the Morning Star wizards to change their expressions drastically.
In Lin En's spiritual eyes, the surging metal ocean was continuing to expand, as if there were no boundaries and no end.
Layers of floating parts, energy nodes, and psychic matrices rolled like tides, suspended in the void, connecting to each other and moving with each other.
Those energy cores that vibrate like heartbeats, interwoven with thousands of sensory modules, create a heart-pounding picture.
At this moment, Lin En suddenly had a strong illusion:
This metal ocean, so vast that it almost swallowed up the Nightmare Rift, is giving birth to consciousness.
It is like a magnificent and indescribable "body of consciousness" built up by countless parts, quietly taking shape!
And during this suffocating decomposition process, a huge black castle suddenly flew out from the deep structure!
The inky black fortress was massive, like a floating continent, covered with psychic turrets, floating radars, and tactical magic arrays, each of which was filled with a cold witchcraft light combined with precise mechanical logic.
Lynn's expression changed slightly. He recognized this castle.
This fortress had appeared in the Plane Expedition War that had shocked the entire wizarding world, fighting against the projections of gods in the void, which left a very deep impression on him.
It is exactly the "real residence" of the lord of the Mechanical City!
As a Morning Star Wizard who has completely abandoned his physical body and survives in a pure spiritual form, if he wants to fight, he must have a "carrying shell".
For a top mechanical wizard who is proficient in construction, machinery and psychic energy conversion, this fortress is undoubtedly the "body" he carefully built for war!
Immediately afterwards, the decks and hatches around the fortress opened, and black mechanical figures emerged one after another, floating in the void.
Each of these mechanical creations, clad in alloy armor and with embedded psychic cores, possesses the power of a Morning Star.
Almost real soul fluctuations and intelligent command chains are running in his body, just like a real "high-level wizard clone"!
What is even more shocking is that there are not just one or two such bodies, but hundreds of them!
It was as if a legion composed of Morning Star Wizard-level combat units had brazenly appeared before the world!
At that moment, a violent psychic storm swept across the sky, and these mechanical legions unreservedly released their oppressive force.
As heavy as a mountain, as cold as the night, and as irresistible as the abyss!
The eyes of many Morning Star wizards changed drastically. Even when they just looked at these "war figures", they seemed to feel their minds were locked and their bodies were suppressed, as if they were facing some kind of regularized termination mechanism.
But... facing such an oppressive scene, facing the iron army that was like the gates of hell slowly opening.
Searle, however, did not move.
He looked indifferent, his eyes calm, and he didn't care at all.
He just stared quietly at the mechanical fortress floating in the center of billions of parts, standing like a throne of gods in the sea of steel.
At this moment, the entire mechanical city, which was once majestic and magnificent, with a structure as complex as star tracks, has completely disintegrated.
In its place was a vast sea of floating parts.
The disassembled components: drive core, psychic reactor, floating node, tactical transmission arm, energy crystal storage...
Billions of them are floating in the void of the rift, slowly rotating, converging, and calculating under the control of spiritual will.
Like the dust at the beginning of the universe, and also like a star cluster where souls gather.
At this moment, the scene that Lin En saw through his spiritual eyes was so shocking that it took his breath away:
The entire city has transformed into a cold and vast sea of steel.
The black fortress standing tall in the middle of the ocean, like the "center of will", is like a continent in the sea, and also like a beating cold heart.
It's breathing.
It is thinking.
It is watching Sel, the invading enemy!
However, facing the grand display of the City Lord of the Mechanical City, Searle shook his head with deep regret and said with emotion:
"You disappoint me so much... I originally thought your Mechanical Heaven would reach great heights, but I didn't expect that these mechanical legions of yours would still only serve as your bodies..."
"Don't you even have a modicum of independence? Your path to the Brilliant Moon is truly ridiculous!"
As the voice fell, deep in the sea of countless parts, in the depths of the mechanical fortress, an unnatural spiritual wave flickered slightly.
(End of this chapter)
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