Chapter 604: Chapter 519: The Foolish Natives, I Am Here to Pronounce the Fate of This Plane!
“Chairman Harrov, what happened?”
Seeing several chairmen suddenly stand up from their seats, Rafael immediately sensed something was amiss and hurriedly asked.
“Master Rafael, you’ll have to preside over the upcoming knighting ceremony. We’re afraid we need to make an immediate trip to the Empire!” Harrov spoke at an extremely fast pace, not even having time to explain further before he strode out of the conference with Lynn and others.
The wizards in the great hall also noticed Harrov’s sudden departure and were discussing what kind of situation could make a group of chairmen take such drastic action.
At the same moment, Lynn and the others who had left the hall turned into streaks of light and disappeared into the sky at the fastest speed.
If it weren’t for the fear of causing panic, they would have been prepared to fly directly out of the hall’s windows.
The problematic Space-Time Gate was located in a mining cave outside Steel City. Lynn was unaware of this information when the city was conquered. It wasn’t until after the conquest of Holy City that related records were found among the vast amount of confiscated secret books.
The Space-Time Gate had been inoperative before, and then they added a few more protective spells. Now, one of the warning spells had been triggered!
In roughly half an hour, Lynn, the fastest, arrived first in the mining cave, with Harrov and Vittorio arriving several minutes later.
Aurora was the slowest, taking forty-five minutes, because quantum theory induced cognitive fear in her, preventing her from daring to travel as an Energy Body like Lynn and the others.
Fortunately, Aurora had clearly realized this shortcoming in advance and temporarily developed an alternative magic to meet the needs of flying, barely managing to reach subsonic speeds.
“Thank goodness, it looks like the situation isn’t as bad as it could be,” Aurora breathed a sigh of relief as she entered the mining cave, because the protective spells set up in the area were still in place and had not been destroyed.
Then, Aurora turned her gaze to the center of the mining cave.
The Space-Time Gate had become restless, the originally coiled spatial node, which had shrunk to a mere centimeter in diameter, had now expanded many times over.
An enormous amount of magic power kept surging out, and the vortex was swirling incessantly as if something was trying to squeeze through from the other side.
The sealing spells set up here had already been activated.
Rune Chains extended from the realm, wrapping around the expanding Space-Time Gate, trying to push it back, yet the effect was limited.
“Is it Elagan?” Aurora stared intently at the surging space-time vortex as if she wanted to see through to the scene on the other side.
“I don’t know, but it’s quite possible!” Vittorio’s expression was particularly grave.
Several months had passed since the last battle of Holy City, and roughly counting, even the heaviest injuries should have healed by now.
As he spoke, Vittorio was not idle. He stood only fifteen meters from the node, controlling the entire protective Array within the mining cave.
On the other hand, Harrov had constructed a Force Field Magic several meters around the exterior of the Space-Time Gate, creating an area isolated from inside and outside.
In Lynn’s hand also appeared a dense water sphere, filled with swirling tritium and deuterium elements.
Although he had not yet developed quantum-level magic in the past few months, he had further improved the Hydrogen Explosion spell, especially in terms of power and release speed!
As the outcome of the battle at Holy City showed, Hydrogen Explosion alone seemed unable to kill Elagan, but that didn’t mean it was useless. Every time her body was destroyed, her state would weaken a bit, and she even fled inexplicably at last.
Moreover, this was the only means currently capable of threatening Elagan!
“Damn, everyone be careful, the other side suddenly increased their strength,” Vittorio’s face suddenly turned very ugly, and his words were almost squeezed out of his mouth.
Under the control of the Rune Chains, the expanding trend of the space-time vortex, which was gradually slowing down, seemed to have gained some sort of assistance and abruptly swelled several times in size.
Harrov and Aurora were both on high alert.
Lynn was even considering whether or not to directly throw the fusion bomb in his hand into the Space-Time Gate. If the other side could come through, then he should also be able to throw something through!
Alternatively, he could wait for the other side to arrive and then launch the attack, combining with Harrov’s Force Field Magic to confine the energy of the explosion to a very small area.
Just as they had done when they last defeated Elagan!
There might only be one chance, as a single fusion bomb would consume more than seventy percent of his reserve energy. If the attack failed, there would hardly be another opportunity!
Just as Lynn was hesitating, a black object suddenly sped out of the Space-Time Gate, utilizing the surging magic power as cover, so fast that it nearly broke through the restriction of the Rune Chains in a flash.
However, the few who were prepared would not allow it to escape so easily.
The black object quickly plunged into the outer Force Field Magic laid down by Harrov, and Aurora acted simultaneously, with dense laser grids sweeping over from all directions.
It was only then that Lynn saw clearly. It was not the false god Elagan they had imagined that rushed out of the Space-Time Gate, but a black… raven?
However, this was clearly not a normal raven, for it managed to evade Aurora’s laser grids—the body simply turned into a streak of black light and slipped through the grid’s gaps!