Mage Manual
Chapter 426 - 356: Falling from a High Building Once Again

Chapter 426: Chapter 356: Falling from a High Building Once Again

Boom, boom!

The once peaceful Illusion Realm abruptly turned topsy-turvy: the sky was filled with sudden downpours and thunderclaps, the earth burst with magma, and monstrous creatures emerged from the ocean.

But what differed was, earlier the calamity had been the ’Evil Demon’s’ psychological apocalypse.

This time, it was a natural disaster actively triggered by the Secret Guard!

"You seem to know a great deal that Princess Lissdia shouldn’t," the Secret Guard said amidst the storm, opening the Gospel Book, "but if you think these words can sway my resolve, you’re greatly underestimating the Secret Guard."

"I only need to confirm two points: 1) You are not Princess Lissdia, but a Technique Spirit that has deceived and enchanted the princess; 2) I must kill you to escape this Illusion Realm."

"Accept the Gospel’s punishment. To eliminate you phantoms who conspire against the princess, I will pray for the most severe Gospel."

Even amidst the cataclysmic roar capable of destroying heaven and earth, the holy and majestic Gospel still resounded with utmost clarity and force. As the opening song for the execution, it delivered despair seamlessly to the condemned.

First came eight streaks of darkness like black serpents, the ’Eight Forks Fang’—a wonder that once pierced Hell, inflicting eternal, unhealable scars upon it. To this day, Hell still echoes with the hiss of venomous snakes amidst the thunder.

The Eight Forks Fang instantly annihilated the Black Witch, but the Secret Guard had no intention to stop there. Her Gospel Book shimmered with waves of rainbow light, as the chaotic winds and sudden downpour turned to a golden deluge, converging at the Black Witch’s location, forming a Flowing Gold River that pierced heaven and earth!

Wonder·Time Flowing Gold!

The All-knowing Weaver could borrow a Flowing Gold River from the Time Continent, using time to destroy all tangible life, even Technique Spirits could not outlast the decay of time!

The Secret Guard turned the page of the Gospel Book, then suddenly moved to the sky thousands of miles away, watching a huge meteor break through the clouds, shake the air, and strike the earth!

Wonder·Meteor Fall!

Although it was the world-ending wonder of an Exotic Realm’s Evil God, its use for execution was indeed fitting!

Then tsunamis overwhelmed the continent, countless frantic waves formed a massive Vortex, vaguely resembling two titanic serpents chasing and entwining each other, mercilessly crushing the continent, shattering life!

Wonder·Vortex Double Snakes!

A wonder borrowed from ancient history by the All-knowing Weaver, it’s said that the Vortex currents in the Sea of Knowledge are merely the aftershocks of the ancient Vortex Double Snakes!

Suddenly, flames burst from the turbid Deep Sea, forming a large expanse of flaming battlements, while hot magma within the city walls boiled the sea, filling the air with currents hot enough to burn lungs, a terrifying vision of Hell’s descent!

Wonder·Million Evil Souls Molten Iron Hell!

This was a punitive wonder created by the All-knowing Weaver, taking a glimpse of Hell itself, temperatures capable of melting steel, unbearable even for the dead, where all emotions and thoughts evaporated, leaving behind only the essence of knowledge and memory!

As the Molten Iron Hell slowly shrank and disappeared, the Secret Guard slowly closed her Gospel Book.

The clouds gathered around her to form the divine and solemn Cloud Palace, where she stood on the white jade floor, overlooking the distant ashes as if watching Hell from Heaven.

In the spiritual Illusion Realm, wonders could destroy all things tangible but could not extinguish the intangible heart.

Just as Ash’s ’Evil Demon Shock’ created apocalyptic scenes to intimidate the target, the Secret Guard could only resort to the torment of wonders to snuff out the light of her opponent’s spirit.

In the vision of the Illusion Realm, to give up is the only true defeat.

But the fear, suffering, and torture that wonders bring were in no way discounted; even merely standing at a safe distance as an observer, the Secret Guard was shocked and frightened by the wonders she had prayed for. She couldn’t even imagine the bone-deep agony that the Technique Spirit, who faced the wonders directly, endured, bathed in piercing despair.

In theory, under such a relentless onslaught of wonders, that Technique Spirit should not have lasted even a second before collapsing and dying, yet...

She had yet to leave the Illusion Realm.

"Pain..."

From the burning embers, a chilling, pitiful woman’s voice emerged: "It really hurts."

The Secret Guard trembled slightly, hardly able to hold the Gospel Book steady. She flipped it open quickly, and then a Meteor Fire Rain fell from the sky, aiming to thoroughly cleanse that pile of ashes!

From the burning rubble, a fragile silhouette of black smoke in human form emerged. She took feathery steps—on the first, bones condensed from the smoke. On the second, buds of flesh sprouted from the bones. On the third, naked nerves grew from the flesh, and on the fourth...

The Eight Forks Fang’s dark lightning serpents had already arrived.

Then came the Flowing Gold River, the Thunderstorm, Meteor Fall, vacuum distortion, Black Coffin Corrosion, Molten Iron Hell, neural riot... Dozens, scores, even hundreds of country-destroying wonders followed in rapid succession, but their significance was as bland and tasteless as the flat narrative that introduced them, triggering no terror in the condemned, nor calm in the judge.

Useless.

All useless!

The entire Illusion Realm has been devastated and desecrated into Hell by wonders; here, the light would melt all things tangible, the air would corrode all things substantial, nails would attempt to escape amidst the chaos, and neurons would rebel and harm their own body.

If not for the Secret Guard being protected within the ’Heavenly Palace’, mere exposure to the outer air for a second would torture her to death with curses from all directions, causing her body to disintegrate.