Just at the moment the hydrogen bomb was detonated, a sense of alarm simultaneously rose in the hearts of everyone in Fire Oil City.
The camels pulling carts even prostrated themselves, uneasily trying to break free from the ropes that bound them...
This was the instinctive behavior of creatures sensing danger.
Even Mutuo, who had been sound asleep, suddenly sprung open his eyes and jumped up from the ground...
The evening sun had gradually set below the horizon, yet a much more powerful ray of light emerged at the end of everyone's line of sight.
"The Sun... The Sun has risen again!" Susan exclaimed in horror from among the crowd. In her view, a giant 'fierce sun' hung in the void, clearly visible despite being tens of kilometers away.
This massive 'fierce sun,' with a diameter of over a kilometer, remained suspended in mid-air for about a minute. The swirling firelight then suddenly exploded, turning into a pillar of fire shooting skyward...
In an instant, an area spanning hundreds of kilometers was as bright as day.
Everyone gaped in stunned silence at the scene of the collapsing great sun.
The terrifying wave of energy began to spread rapidly in all directions. Everywhere it reached, the ground turned into flowing magma, countless rocks and dirt were swept into the firelight, and were incinerated into ash by the billions of degrees of high temperature...
And this intense firelight was rapidly approaching Fire Oil City.
This apocalyptic scene of dark clouds bearing down and the earth splitting apart made the wizards standing on the city tower tremble.
"It's coming, it's coming!" Rafael couldn't help swallowing his saliva, his legs going weak. If it weren't for the presence of several chairmen and Master Lynn, who was casting the spell, he would have already run away.
Lynn, on the other hand, was not very nervous. The moment he saw the pillar of fire, he knew the experiment was a success. The Alchemy Array they had set up had managed to suppress the power of the hydrogen explosion to a certain extent—it had contained it for about a minute.
That minute was when the explosion was at its most intense, the energy wave spreading fastest!
Just as Lynn had predicted, the energy wave, originally propagating at supersonic speed, began to slow down rapidly after crossing a ten-kilometer boundary. By the time it reached their visible range, the energy contained had been reduced to one ten-millionth of its original strength, coming into contact with the magic barrier protecting Fire Oil City.
Ripples continuously danced upon the insubstantial magic barrier, which lasted only three seconds before bursting open with a loud explosion!
The faces of the several grand wizards present changed dramatically, wanting to intervene to stop the remaining shockwave. But seeing that the chairmen did not move at all, they dismissed the idea.
In just that moment, a violent hurricane swept over the city, and the ground began to tremble violently. However, it was merely a few aftershocks and did not cause any destruction, but it did bring people in Fire Oil City back to their senses from the bizarre sight of the great sun hanging in the sky and the pillar of fire scorching the heavens.
A few merchants collapsed to the ground with shaking limbs, having been so terrified that they wet their pants. None of the other citizens laughed, for the moment the 'fierce sun' had risen, they had almost thought that doomsday had arrived!
"Is this the Big Nuclear Explosion Technique? What terrifying magic!"
Ivina, also a wizard, had the privilege of standing on the city tower and had witnessed the entire process of the Hydrogen Explosion Technique, from creation and delivery to detonation. She was ashen-faced.
In her two years battling wizards and the Evil God in the Northlands, Ivina had seen the marvels and strangeness of magic. No matter how powerful the enemies she faced, she could always fight them with her superior swordsmanship and a body enhanced by divine potions.
Even against the Evil God, Ivina knew she was no match but had never felt fear. However, seeing the power of the hydrogen explosion had completely shattered that notion.
Ivina realized that her cherished swordsmanship was utterly meaningless against such power!
Monroe was even paler. He had come with a last shred of hope to witness and disprove the 'lies' of those wizards.
Yet now laid out before him, that harbinger of doom Lynn had recreated the so-called 'Big Nuclear Explosion Technique,' even more powerful than before, its aftermath reaching directly to Fire Oil City!
His only hope now was that the Pope's sent agents had not yet set foot into the Land of Death. Otherwise, the information he provided would become their death warrant!
Because of the urgency of the situation, Monroe couldn't even inform the spies in the city to send the message back to the Holy City!
The other scheming imperial spies, wealthy merchants, and nobles were also trembling with fear.
It was truly terrifying!
That magic could be so powerful was beyond anything they had imagined despite having seen the horrors of the Land of Death and hearing countless terrifying rumors. Nothing had prepared them for the shock of witnessing such power firsthand!
Perhaps our plan for revenge... we should just forget it?
A merchant who had gone completely bankrupt due to the grain war made a grim face and signaled to his colleague beside him.
The latter quickly nodded in agreement.
Due to the council crashing the grain prices so low, many who had speculated on high grain prices had lost everything, and could only reluctantly sell off the wheat they had bought for hundreds of copper coins for just one copper coin each.