Rebirth Of The Noble Mage Behind The Scenes
Chapter 211: The Moon in the Mushroom Cloud

Chapter 211: Chapter 211: The Moon in the Mushroom Cloud

The dark night sky suddenly lit up in an instant, turning into an utterly pure shade of blue, unobscured by the layer of fog.

The ’sun’ rose from the sea, tearing apart the dark night sky as if dawn had broken.

Between the islands and mountains, the glowing Mutated Magical Beasts, their eyes illuminated by the radiance in the sky.

In Lavales Port, people with phosphorescent bodies also lifted their heads expressionlessly, watching this scene as if witnessing a miracle.

In the houses of the Anomaly Zone, the timorous Half-Elf Players were startled by this scene and poked their heads out of the windows.

Even the Alien God believers in the underground caverns faced the direction of the explosion, as if they could see the endless brightness through the thick rock walls.

As the light dissipated, a huge blue-and-white Light Ball, carrying a deep and terrifying Magic Fluctuation, swelled violently on the sea surface like a rising sun.

The air was ionized by the immense magic power and the frightening high temperature, countless blood-red frictional lightning bolts formed around the perimeter of the Light Ball, striking the ruins and sea surface like raindrops.

The massive shockwave spread even faster than the Light Ball, vaporizing both the fragile ruins that had lost their protective fields and the dark shadows hiding within.

Then, the blue-and-white destructive Light Ball began to rise, forming a giant blue-and-white mushroom cloud. The shockwave pushed the air at the top of the mushroom cloud, forming white cloud rings that circled around it.

Caught off guard because he was conducting the Mystic Ceremony to summon the Purple Moon and unable to move freely, the High Priest was instantly engulfed by the mushroom cloud pulsing with immense Magic Fluctuations.

In fact, due to the Anti-magic Field, the Secret Plutonium Core, which had already far exceeded the critical mass and should have exploded, did not detonate initially but was suppressed for a second or two.

During this process, as the core itself maintained a supercritical mass, more neutrons were induced, making the chain reaction even more thorough.

When it could no longer be contained, the Anti-magic Field was directly blown open, making the final explosion immensely more powerful than if it had been detonated under normal conditions.

The mountains closest to the epicenter of the explosion were permanently altered in topography by the scattered aftermath. The remnants of the recently collapsed castle were directly blown away and flattened by the shockwave, leaving only the uneven foundations in their original location.

Then, a ferocious wind howled from the direction of the ’sunrise’, carrying the dense Curse Field within the wind, sweeping rapidly over the entire island.

After the catastrophic explosion’s aftermath had passed, a faltering Magic Shield reappeared on the sea surface.

This was the Magic Shield sustained by Jom, and due to its proximity to the blast center, the outermost protective layer, supported by the strength of an eggshell, had been destroyed by the massive shockwave of magic power.

The explosion of the Secret Plutonium Core was not just intense heat and destructive force; it also carried a strong ultra-high-frequency magic shock.

This magic shock seemed to be attracted to and accumulate around objects also containing magic power, causing the shield’s Magic Fluctuations to instantly spike to an overload level.

After releasing the Magic Shield, Anvis breathed in the explosive residue, still laden with astonishing heat and high-energy magical radiation, looked towards the direction of the city ruins, and began to evaluate the destructive power of the explosion.

——Approximately equivalent to a superposition spell of the Eighth Rank Peak.

Unlike normal spells, the term ’superposition’ in Superposition Magic means that its power far exceeds that of ordinary spells of the current rank, yet it can’t be categorized as Ninth Rank Magic due to its lack of rule changes.

This power is reflected in the range of the attack and the total amount of magic power. Casting a complete Superposition Spell requires a long preparation time, and its targets are usually not individuals but armies or cities.

In fact, Magic Nuclear Weapons are not particularly cost-effective in terms of magic power utilization rate.

Because using Anvis’s method to purify a secret plutonium sphere like this consumes enough magic power to support an Eighth Rank Mage in constructing two to three superposition spells of roughly the same destructiveness.

Of course, the nuclear bomb also has irreplaceable advantages over superposition magic, such as being more convenient to use and the materials being easier to obtain than those required for superposition magic scrolls.

In the distance, among the ruins of the ancient city. As the closest and largest target, the ancient temple endured an explosive destructive force far exceeding that of the other buildings.

But due to the support of some mysterious power, the temple did not utterly perish; that massive stone gate still stubbornly remained.

However, the gate now seemed on the brink of collapse, causing the darkness that seeped through it to become unstable.

Originally, as a ’Divine Domain’, its environment should not be this fragile.

But at this moment, most of the strength of the Purple Moon in the sky was fiercely contending with the Duke. To be able to spare some strength to barely maintain the stone gate from being directly destroyed was already the limit.

At the same time, the figure of the Great Sacrificial Priest also appeared, but he could no longer maintain that enormous projection, manifesting instead in his true form.

The superhigh-frequency magical impact from the explosion caught him off guard, his Divine Power Shield shattered nearly instantly, taking a severe blow.

At this moment, his originally multi-layered priest robes were pocked with burns and holes of various sizes, and the energy around his body also became somewhat disordered.

But most crucially, the explosion had destroyed the arrangement of the city as a core node.

Although the most important ’gate’ was still there, the invisible energy beam that had been transmitted from the direction of the island was cut off—

The Purple Moon in the sky suddenly paused, its radiance starting to become even more unstable, like the flame of a candle burning out its wax oil.

"No! What have you done!?"

Without the time to seek out the trouble from Anvis, the Great Sacrificial Priest raised his scepter high, attempting to continue guiding the ceremony with his own strength.

But this illusory shadow of the Purple Moon could no longer continue to descend, and a terrifying rule power suddenly flowed out from the void, enveloping the Purple Moon in the sky.

Pure white frost of rules even completely encased this conceptual incarnation of Divine Power, making the Purple Moon seem as if it had suddenly turned into the Silver Moon.

"What have you done?"

Looking at the huge mushroom cloud rising in the distance, and the Purple Moon wrapped in ice, Evan, carried by Jom, opened his mouth wide, somewhat dumbfoundedly turning his head to look at Anvis.

However, Anvis could not respond to them for the time being.

In his perception, the moment the Purple Moon transformed into the Silver Moon, everything around him suddenly came to a halt.

In that moment of utter silence, across the deep darkness inside the gate, a pair of cold eyes met Anvis’s in a silent confrontation.

Like a rough grinding wheel that had not been used in a long time suddenly turning, causing a harsh friction noise, a cold and evil sound echoed in Anvis’s mind.

"You cannot stop the true march; we will eventually return."

The next instant, time resumed its normal flow, and with the loss of the Purple Moon’s power, the deep darkness inside the gate flickered once and then disappeared abruptly.