Chapter 247: The First Day of Total Annihilation

Chapter 247: The First Day of Total Annihilation

October 21, 2024

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The dull, thunderous sounds of strikes echoed through the air, occasionally mixed with the crisp sounds of shattered bones!

Under the dense strikes of the dark tentacles, Milton’s bone armor quickly crumbled and shattered, turning into fragments of bone that scattered in all directions.

The regeneration speed of the bone armor couldn’t keep up with the shattering speed!

In just a few breaths, the once-thick bone armor had already become a shattered mess, and one could see Milton’s form through the dense cracks.

“Damn it!”

Milton’s shock and anger mingled, and he let out a fierce roar. The remaining bone armor suddenly shattered, turning into countless fragments that shot out in all directions.

These bone fragments seemed to contain some corrosive energy, and upon hitting the hard metal tentacles, they actually created dents.

With accumulated strikes, the surrounding dark tentacles were quickly turned into sieves, and many were directly broken.

Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!

The tentacles rapidly contracted back.

Milton finally got a chance to catch his breath and only then saw the form of the attacker.

It was four enormous Puppet Masters, their dark metal bodies gleaming with a cold, heart-stopping luster in the sunlight.

“Puppet Master! How could the trademark puppet of the Starfall Guild be here?”

Recognizing the puppets’ origins, Milton couldn’t help but be shocked.

The Starfall Guild should have been destroyed by internal strife two thousand years ago, and all their knowledge and heritage should have vanished with their Falling Star City. How could there still be Puppet masters?

However, there was no time left for Milton to think. The secret girl quickly attacked again.

The four-headed Puppet Masters also emerged from the house,,, the tentacles growing back, their surfaces gleaming with the six-colored magical radiance.

Seeing this, Milton’s heart sank to the bottom of the valley.

Five high-level puppet masters, even if only two came, were not opponents!

The Wizard Tower, beside the Elemental pool.

Su Nan sat on the ground, holding an elemental crystal core, absorbing the divine energy within.

After an unknown duration, he slowly opened his eyes, let out a long breath, and his eyes were filled with joy.

“Finally broken through.”

It took nearly three centuries, but he finally broke through to the crystallization stage.

At this moment, deep in his sea of consciousness, the second innate crystal was surrounded by mental energy that had condensed into grains, like a star belt, slowly flowing, magnificent and beautiful.

“My mental energy has increased significantly.”

Su Nan’s face showed a satisfied smile.

With this, the Imprint Gem and Wizard Tools could be further synthesized and enhanced.

[Innate Specialization] and [Mental Capacity] could also continue to be synthesized and enhanced, or the third mental rune could be carved.

However, these were secondary. The most important thing was advancing to the second crystallization stage.

"Next, I can construct the third innate crystal model!"

Su Nan’s eyes gleamed with excitement.

For the third innate ability, he had long been planning and designing an ultimate attack innate ability.

Over the past few centuries, he had been researching the corresponding innate crystal models.

After more than five hundred years, the new innate crystal model was completed.

It was derived from the Starfall Guild’s superior innate crystal model ‘Falling Star,’ which was the original model, and on this basis, he added inspiration from other innate crystal models and magical items. It took more than five hundred years to design it.

Although the specific effects would only be known after successful construction, Su Nan was certain that this innate ability would not disappoint him.

He named it ‘Falling Star Rain.’

Like a super innate crystal model, ‘Falling Star Rain’ was more complex than ‘Liquid metal’ and ‘absolute no-go zones.’

However, with sufficient construction agents, Su Nan estimated it would take no more than two years to construct the innate crystal model.

The key was still the final step of mental energy filling.

To fill the mental energy needed for the third innate crystal, it would be far more than the previous two.

Even with the current particle energy concentration of the Starlight Continent restored and the large elemental pool buffs, Su Nan estimated it would take at least four to five hundred years.

“However, once the dimensional blockade is lifted, I can trade resources with other wizard forces, and perhaps find items to accelerate mental energy filling, thus saving this long time.”

Su Nan felt somewhat exhilarated.

After recovering from the joy of breaking through, he took a deep breath and prepared to start constructing the innate crystal model.

But then, he suddenly froze in place.

When it reappeared, he was already in his study, his gaze falling on the figure of Lizze behind the desk.

"What's the rush to find me?"

Lize didn’t answer but instead gave Su Nan a few appraising glances, a faint smile on her face.

"You’ve broken through?"

"Exactly." Su Nan nodded, "I received your message right after breaking through."

"Congratulations."

Lize wasn’t too surprised.

She had shattered and reshaped her understanding of cultivation many times on Su Nan.

To her, Su Nan’s breakthrough seemed almost inevitable.

Composing herself, Lize began to speak.

"The Dark Throne’s wizards have arrived."

Su Nan’s eyes narrowed. "How many?"

"According to the Eye of the Stars, there are fourteen energy signatures. The Hunter’s Legion has already been dispatched to capture them, and we should have confirmation soon."

As soon as she finished speaking, Attil walked in from outside.

"Teacher, Lord Starfall." Attil bowed to both of them.

Lize asked, "Do we have confirmation yet?"

"Yes." Attil’s expression was excited. "According to the Hunter’s Legion, eleven of the fourteen energy signatures belong to the Dark Throne’s wizards, and the remaining three are unrecorded third-level apprentices."

"Counting the one we captured before, that’s twelve wizards, right?" Su Nan’s eyes flickered. "What about their strength levels?"

"All are first-level, with the highest being a first-level crystalized wizard."

Su Nan’s heart steadied, the numbers and strength matched his memory, unchanged.

Lize smiled with a relaxed expression. "The Dark Throne probably didn’t expect to find such a monster on the Starlight Continent, so they underestimated the difficulty of conquering the Starlight Continent, hence the small force."

Su Nan smiled but said nothing.

In fact, the lineup of twelve first-level wizards was enough to conquer a weaker plane.

Just recovered from the Elemental Wasteland, the Starlight Continent was considered a weaker plane in the Dark throne’s eyes, so their arrangements were not wrong.

"Don’t get too relaxed. This is just the first wave. The truly formidable ones are still to come."

Lize frowned. "Could they be second-level wizards?"

"Not just that." Su Nan smiled, then turned to Attil. "What about the others?"

"They have all been captured by the Hunter’s Legion and are currently detained in the Restricted Zone."

"Let’s go and see."

Restricted Zone.

In the quiet, gloomy detention cell, Andrew sat on the ground, his face pale and defeated.

This cell was specifically designed to imprison wizards, with enchantments on the floor, walls, and ceiling to seal spiritual power and weaken physical strength.

Additionally, he was shackled with anti-magic manacles.

His mental sea was completely silent, unable to muster any strength.

He was barely as strong as a knight, let alone dealing with the heavy guards outside, he couldn’t even break free from the reinforced cell.

Andrew was still in shock.

He had thought this invasion would be an easy victory, who could have imagined that there would be wizards, and not just one.

This had caught him off guard.

"Those two must be high-ranking members of the Star Alliance!"

Andrew recalled the two wizards who defeated him.

Whether it was a mid-level talent crystal or a wizard’s artifact, such things were rare in the wizard world.

In a minor wizard faction, only the core members usually possessed them.

Since those two had mid-level talent crystals and wizard artifacts, their status in the Star alliance couldn’t be low.

Thinking about this, Andrew was both furious and frustrated.

He should have known the Star Alliance had such formidable wizards and shouldn’t have split from his companion.

Fortunately, they had twelve people, including Evan, a first-level crystalized wizard, making a powerful lineup.

They should soon discover their disappearance and come to their rescue.

Andrew couldn’t believe the Star Alliance could withstand a joint attack by eleven wizards.

Just as he was thinking, heavy footsteps echoed from the corridor outside.

Andrew frowned, thinking it might be the Star Alliance people coming to interrogate him, a dark smirk on his face, he looked up.

But at this sight, his eyes widened.

A steel golem walked to the cell door, its hands holding the limp and clearly wounded figures.

Fortunately, Andrew was familiar with these people.

Milton, Wilson, Hargraves, Caspar, and even Evan, whom he had placed such high hopes in!

The first batch of wizards to enter the Starlight Continent, the eleven others besides him were actually all here!

Andrew’s face turned deathly pale, his chest filled with intense shock and disbelief.

He never imagined that their grand return to the Starlight Continent would result in a complete disaster on the first day, with everyone falling into the hands of the enemy!

What was going on?

For a moment, Andrew felt as if he was in a bizarre dream.

Clang!

The iron gate opened, and the steel golems threw each of the Dark Throne wizards into the prison, then closed the door and slowly left.

The eleven wizards were already severely injured and weakened by the magic array and the anti-magic shackles, their bodies in a dire state. This fall made their vision go dark, and they almost couldn’t catch their breath.

Lying on the ground for a long time, they gradually recovered and struggled to stand up.

The twelve of them looked at each other, faces full of confusion, not knowing what to say.

After a while, Evan broke the silence with a hesitant voice.

"How did you all get captured?"

Milton replied with a bitter smile, "I was intercepted by a group of steel golems and gold golems as soon as I entered the city. Then, not long after, five wizard-level puppets appeared. I wasn’t an opponent, so they caught me."

Andrew was startled.

Five wizard-level puppets?

What was happening?

However, more shocking was to come, the rest of the wizards also started to speak.

"I was also surrounded by five wizard-level puppets soon after entering the city!"

"I didn't even enter the town, and was ambushedly attacked by five wizard-level puppets in the wilderness!"

"I had it worse; the wizard-level puppets attacking me numbered seven!"

After a brief exchange, the prison fell into a dead silence again.

The atmosphere was thick with tension in every inch of space.

Everyone’s face looked extremely grim.

Clearly, they were attacked in quick succession.

This indicated that the enemy had enough forces to capture everyone simultaneously.

Rough calculations showed that the enemy dispatched nearly sixty wizard-level puppets in this operation!

This was an astounding number!

It also meant that a qualified wizard power had likely emerged on the Starlight Continent!

Only a wizard power could have the capability to refine so many wizard level puppets.

What puzzled them most was how such a force could arise in the Starlight Continent, which had been in an elemental wasteland for a thousand years, making it extremely difficult to produce formal wizards?

It was mind-boggling!

Among the group, Andrew was the most shocked.

He originally thought the Star Alliance had only a few wizards, but never expected so many wizard-level puppets!

Most crucially, the ability to produce so many wizard-level puppets indicated that the Star Alliance likely had a second-tier wizard!

Clearly, his earlier guess was way off, and the two wizards who defeated him were not the Star Alliance's top echelons, but likely just two among many wizards.

The Star Alliance's strength was far greater than he imagined!

Seemingly aware that Andrew hadn’t spoken the whole time, Evan directed his gaze at him and asked, "Andrew, how did you get captured?"

Andrew snapped back to his senses, "I was surrounded and captured by two wizards."

At this, he suddenly remembered the report from the mouth of Baron Viscount, and quickly narrated it.

Listening, everyone's faces changed in unison.

Unlike Andrew, they had all been caught before gathering enough intelligence, and their understanding of the enemy was only in the guessing stage until now, truly realizing the existence of the Star Alliance.

"Where did all the wizard apprentices and wizard colleges get so many resources?"

"I think the numerous stars were mostly destroyed by the Star Alliance!"

"What has happened on the Starlight Continent in this millennium?"

Everyone’s mind was filled with shock and confusion.

At that moment, the corridor outside suddenly echoed with footsteps.

The sound was faint, clearly not the footsteps of golems.

Everyone’s expressions shifted, and they looked up to see a man and a woman approach the prison door.

"First meeting, Dark Throne wizards."

The man among them half-smiled, his eyes twinkling with a hint of amusement.

(End of Chapter)

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