Chapter 282: The Civil War Erupts

Chapter 282: The Civil War Erupts

November 12, 2024

Boom!

A deafening sound tore through the sky, splitting the clouds and rocks, echoing across the wilderness.

In an instant, a massive palm print appeared on the ground, as if a chunk had been carved out, with spider-web-like cracks along its edges, a truly startling sight.

At the very center of this palm-shaped pit, a Divine Abomination lay battered and bruised, its body oozing with emerald blood, looking utterly pathetic.

The blow it had just received was far more devastating than any injury it had suffered during the previous siege.

"Roar!"

The excruciating pain completely enraged the Abomination.

Seeing no way to escape, it let out a furious roar and charged towards the sky, intent on killing its attacker.

"If you don't make your move soon, this thing will be mine after I finish it off."

A cold voice echoed from high above.

"Don't be so boastful. You can't handle this thing alone," replied another voice with a hint of amusement.

As if a switch had been flipped, a burst of intense energy particles erupted in the sky, and countless dazzling spells appeared in a dazzling display.

The watching sorcerers instinctively widened their eyes, not wanting to miss a single moment.

Opportunities to witness True Spirit Sorcerers in action at such close range were rare, and many of them felt a surge of excitement.

However, when the attack truly descended, a blindingly brilliant light filled their entire field of view.

The onlookers could only see a kaleidoscope of colors and feel the overwhelming surge of energy particles.

By the time their vision cleared, the Abomination had vanished.

High above, over a dozen streaks of light streaked towards the cave like falling stars.

"Is it over already?" Bryce muttered, a hint of bewilderment in his voice.

Su Nan gave a derisive smile. "After all, more than ten True Spirit Sorcerers struck at the same time."

If it had been just two or three True Spirit Sorcerers working together, the newly born Abomination might have had a chance to escape.

But the moment over ten True Spirit Sorcerers appeared, the Abomination's fate was sealed.

Su Nan glanced towards the cave one last time, then turned and left.

The rest was no longer his concern; it was time to depart.

Soon after, Su Nan found the temporary encampment of the Star Alliance army.

The sorcerers were in the process of establishing a Plane Gateway.

Upon seeing Su Nan's return, Li Ze and the others rushed to greet him.

Before they could speak, Su Nan calmly said, "Rest assured, the matter has been resolved."

Hearing this, the group breathed a collective sigh of relief.

Finally, Rose couldn't contain her curiosity and asked, "Sir, what exactly happened?"

"It was a Divine Abomination."

Su Nan briefly recounted the events, concealing the part about him drawing upon the power of the Law Source Vein and instead suggesting that it might be one.

Upon hearing this, the group exchanged astonished glances, their faces filled with surprise.

Whether it was the Law Source Vein or the Divine Abomination, both were rare sights for ordinary sorcerers, and they never expected to encounter both in the small Crystal Plane.

"It seems like the Crystal Plane is about to become a hot commodity," the Staff sighed.

"Regardless, the Law Source Vein is not something we should meddle with. Our task now is to expedite the establishment of the Plane Gateway and then leave the Crystal Plane," Su Nan instructed.

"Yes, sir."

After the group dispersed, Su Nan and Li Ze returned to the Starlight Wizard Tower. Li Ze, puzzled, asked, "Do you think the True Spirit Sorcerers will fight over the Crystal Plane?"

"I knew you'd see through me."

Su Nan smiled slightly.

Having worked together for so many years, Li Ze could be considered the person in the Star Alliance who understood him the best, without a doubt.

Just from his previous statement, she had sensed his underlying meaning.

"A main plane with the potential to develop into a Plane Cluster is invaluable; no sorcerer faction would willingly let it go."

"Even so, they might not necessarily fight over it. They could develop the Crystal Plane together."

"That's also possible, but to be safe, it's better for us to leave early."

Su Nan didn't say much more, as Li Ze didn't have his memories of the future and wasn't aware that the Crystal Plane would be the catalyst for the Wizard Civil War. It was natural for her to have such thoughts.

Only Su Nan knew that the True Spirit Sorcerers would clash because of this, and the reasons behind it didn't matter.

The Star Alliance's priority now was to quickly leave the Crystal Plane to avoid getting entangled in the conflict.

A battle involving over ten True Spirit Sorcerers was even more terrifying than a Divine Abomination!

Li Ze agreed that Su Nan made sense, nodding in agreement without saying more.

After an hour, the Plane Gateway was constructed.

The Star Alliance army immediately passed through the gateway, returning to the Starlight Continent.

Compared to the twenty-two hours it took to transport the army to the other plane, the return journey only required four to five hours.

Until all the troops had passed through the gateway, Su Nan turned back to look towards the cave, just in time to sense a sudden surge of intense energy particles erupting from that direction.

The intensity far surpassed the previous battle between the Divine Abomination and the Sorcerers!

"As expected, they've made their move."

Su Nan's eyes gleamed as he observed for a while, then turned and stepped into the Plane Gateway.

From now on, he had to prepare for the civil war; he was going to be busy.

The day after returning to the Starlight Continent, Su Nan immediately exchanged the resources he had acquired from the Divine Corpse trade with the Codex of Wisdom and invested them all into expanding the military power.

First, he naturally increased the number and rewards for puppet crafting tasks to speed up the expansion of the Automaton Army.

With the resources acquired from the Codex of Wisdom and the abundant puppet wreckage obtained from Blackthorn Tower, there was no need to worry about materials for puppet crafting in the short term.

After replenishing the puppet losses from the Divine Corpse Battle, the Star Alliance quickly began to assemble the fifth Automaton Army.

Additionally, the repair of Sorcerer Towers was also expedited.

To enhance the Star Alliance's strength as soon as possible, Su Nan specifically introduced a new policy, allowing Sorcerers under his command to prepay a portion of their contribution points to exchange for Sorcerer Towers, with the difference in price to be paid in installments over the next hundred years.

This policy immediately gained the support of all Sorcerers.

Especially for Sorcerers like Cole, Artur, Tiana, and Fleming, who had already accumulated a large portion of their contribution points, exchanged for Sorcerer Towers as soon as the policy was announced.

Sorcerers who had already exchanged for Sorcerer Towers, such as Staff, Fachardo, and Rose, immediately upgraded their small Sorcerer Towers to medium-sized ones.

Li Ze was no exception, and the only large Sorcerer Tower captured from Blackthorn Tower naturally became hers.

Apart from Sorcerer Towers, the construction of the Star Fortress was also in full swing.

In the battle against Blackthorn Tower, the Star Fortress had proven its combat capabilities.

As the Star Alliance needed time to gradually accumulate Sorcerer Towers, the Star Fortress was undoubtedly the best supplement to the War Construct's power.

Similarly, the Flying Fleet also needed to continue its expansion.

In other aspects, the expansion of the Sigil Knight Order could only proceed step by step.

After all, even with the support of Dragonfruit and Dragon Blood Potions, cultivating knights couldn't be rushed and required a certain amount of time.

The Dragon Army was no exception.

After establishing trade channels with the Codex of Wisdom and the City of Plenty, Su Nan procured a significant amount of resources to accelerate the cultivation of high-level Dragonkin.

For example, Dragon Crystals.

These were peculiar crystals that formed under specific conditions from the corpses of dead dragons, containing the essence of the entire dragon corpse, and could greatly promote the growth of Dragonkin.

Thanks to this, the bloodline concentration of the high-level Dragonkin population increased at a much faster rate.

Nowadays, there were more than ten Dragonkin populations with a bloodline concentration above 90% in the Dragon Forest, totaling over ten thousand.

However, bloodline evolution remained a challenging hurdle.

The Star Alliance had only acquired over fifty Dragons so far.

Su Nan estimated that he needed to wait a little longer for the Dragonkin population's bloodline concentration to increase further, reaching an evolutionary node, after which the number of Dragons could potentially experience explosive growth.

The Hunter Wizard Legion also needed to continue expanding.

In the Plane War, Sorcerer-level puppets had always been the backbone.

Especially since the Star Alliance currently had far fewer Sorcerers than most second and third-rate Sorcerer forces, they needed Sorcerer-level puppets as a supplement.

Su Nan's goal was to expand the Hunter Wizard Legion to a scale of ten thousand.

This was a challenging goal, requiring an enormous amount of resources.

"The Star Alliance currently has two planes, the Starlight Continent and the Wolf Tide Plane, which are enough to support a third-rate Sorcerer force. However, it's still far from sufficient for expansion."

"If the Star Alliance wants to develop rapidly, it still needs to rely on the profits from selling Mana Stones in the current stage."

The early outbreak of the Sorcerer Civil War disrupted Su Nan's plans.

He had intended to try to conquer one or two planes before the civil war began, which would have provided more territory and resources, allowing the Star Alliance's development to reach a new level.

Unfortunately, plans often don't go as expected.

"But looking on the bright side, this Sorcerer Civil War might not be a bad thing for the Star Alliance."

Su Nan pondered silently.

Under normal circumstances, it would take the Star Alliance hundreds or even thousands of years to enter the ranks of second-rate Sorcerer forces.

If they could conquer several planes and capture more Sorcerer Towers in this war, they could significantly shorten this time.

Perhaps by the end of the Wizard Civil War, the Star Alliance could even rank among the second-tier Sorcerer forces.

This wasn't an impossible feat.

In any case, with ample resources, everything was proceeding smoothly.

After arranging all matters and delegating specific tasks to his subordinates, Su Nan turned his attention to cultivation.

At the top of the Starlight Wizard Tower, beside the Elemental Pool.

Su Nan sat cross-legged, examining the colorful crystal in his palm.

This crystal, infused with Law Power, was only the size of an egg, but its value far exceeded that of a large Sorcerer Tower.

At the very least, if Su Nan were to trade this Law Crystal, countless Sorcerers would be willing to exchange it for a large Sorcerer Tower.

After all, with this Law Crystal, the chances of advancing to a True Spirit Sorcerer would increase by at least ten to twenty percent!

Don't underestimate this increase; normally, the chances of a third-tier Sorcerer advancing to a True Spirit are less than one percent.

For this ten to twenty percent chance, most third-tier Sorcerers would be willing to pay a hefty price.

Even True Spirit Heirs would make no exception! However, under normal circumstances, no Sorcerer force would risk damaging a Law Source Vein just to create a Law Crystal, which is essentially a consumable.

Su Nan was fortunate to have the opportunity and the ability to synthesize a Divine Energy Crystal as a vessel, allowing him to obtain one.

After examining it for a moment, Su Nan put away the Law Crystal and summoned the panel.

[Mental Condensation: 32.42%]



Su Nan estimated that at his current cultivation speed, it would take about three hundred more years to break through to the third-tier Crystalized stage.

The encounter in the Crystal Plane had directly reduced his breakthrough time by over a hundred years! This was the biggest gain apart from the Law Crystal.

"Speaking of which, if the Wizard Civil War had erupted after Starlight Year 2600, as originally planned, I should have reached the third-tier Crystalized stage by then."

"No, that's not right. If so, I might not have discovered the Law Source Vein, and my breakthrough time would have increased by another hundred years."

Su Nan's thoughts scattered for a moment, but he shook his head, collected his stray thoughts, and closed his eyes to continue cultivating.

Even after leaving the Crystal Plane, Su Nan kept a close eye on the aftermath of the events.

The appearance of a Divine Abomination in the Crystal Plane caused quite a stir in the Sorcerer World.

The last time a Divine Abomination appeared was over three thousand years ago.

During that incident, the Abomination destroyed three separate planes, and countless indigenous races perished.

It took the combined efforts of five True Spirit Sorcerers to finally defeat the Abomination.

However, this time, the Abomination was less fortunate than its predecessor, as it happened to coincide with various Sorcerer forces vying for the Divine Corpse. As a result, it was slain by the combined might of over a dozen True Spirit Sorcerers right after its birth.

Nevertheless, before its demise, the Abomination inflicted significant losses on the major Sorcerer forces.

According to intelligence gathered, during the battle against the Abomination, the number of Sorcerer Towers damaged by the various Sorcerer forces reached double digits, and the number of Sorcerers who perished numbered in the hundreds.

Even for large Sorcerer forces, these losses were not insignificant.

Notably, the True Spirit Heir of the Wild Spirit perished in this battle, making the Blackthorn Tower one of the only two Sorcerer forces to lose a True Spirit Heir.

Soon after the Star Alliance army left, armies from various large Sorcerer forces successively occupied the Crystal Plane.

As for what happened in the plane after that, outsiders had no way of knowing.

It wasn't until three months later that numerous Sorcerer forces joined forces to seal the Crystal Plane once more.

However, this didn't mean the conflict had ended; the major Sorcerer forces had a tacit understanding not to let the war destroy the Crystal Plane, so they shifted the battlefield to other locations.

In Starlight Year 2269, the Wild Spirit launched a surprise attack on the Green Pasture Plane, which was an important sub-plane of the Sea Sky Plane Cluster.

The Sea Sky Plane Cluster was the territory of the Azure Alliance.

This marked the beginning of a major war between the two sides.

In Starlight Year 2270, the Celestial Bell Tower and the Blood Jungle waged war in the Wind Spring Plane, turning this unfortunate solitary plane into a bloody battlefield within two days, leaving almost no indigenous races alive.

In the same year, the Dark Throne had frequent exchanges with the Blackthorn Tower, the Pale Mask, and the Flame Pattern Guild, among other dark Sorcerer forces, seemingly preparing for a war against the Codex of Wisdom.

The outbreak of wars between multiple large Sorcerer forces plunged the entire Sorcerer World into great turmoil.

For a time, everyone was on edge!)

(End of Chapter)

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