Chapter 486
Calm and Crushing
Chapter 486 Calm and Crushing
hum...
A deep, rumbling sound, as if the whole world was trembling, suddenly rang out without warning.
The wizard of the Chaos Cult suddenly stopped moving.
He looked up in surprise and glanced around.
The light within a ten-kilometer radius of the lava basin began to distort eerily.
The sky became blurry, the ground became illusory, and even the energy he had gathered in his palm began to fluctuate and dissipate uncontrollably.
It was as if an invisible giant hand gently lifted this area from "reality" and then... kneaded it at will.
"what?!"
The wizard of the Chaos Cult's pupils contracted, and the smile on his face disappeared for the first time.
Instead, there was an indescribable horror.
Because he sensed a presence.
A cold, calm aura, yet carrying a certain absolute sense of "dominance," was slowly descending from a distant direction.
That aura wasn't powerful—judging from its energy intensity, it was at most level five, definitely not level six.
But for some reason, the moment he was locked onto by that aura, every hair on his body stood on end, and a frantic alarm sounded from the depths of his soul:
Danger! Danger! Danger!!!
"who?!!"
He turned his head sharply, looking in the direction from which the aura was coming, and roared angrily.
At the same time, his body instinctively began to contort, as he prepared to activate a life-saving spatial jump spell to escape the area immediately!
But it was too late.
At the very instant he turned, roared, and began casting his spell...
A beam of light appeared.
A dark golden light.
Scorching hot, yet icy cold.
It quietly emerged from the distant horizon, initially just a faint glimmer, like the first morning star in the darkest hour before dawn.
Then, just like ordinary light.
It instantly traversed a distance of at least hundreds of kilometers and appeared before the Chaos Mystic Wizard.
It gently "tapped" the distorted body of the Chaos Cult wizard.
laugh.
A casual, understated tone.
Like a hot knife slicing through butter.
All the protective spells being activated on the Chaos Cult wizard's body, all the curse rituals in progress, all the distorting spatial ripples...
Everything "stopped" the moment it came into contact with the dark golden light.
It was as if those witchcraft, rituals, and ripples were all false illusions from the very beginning, and now, with a gentle touch of real "reality," they vanished into thin air.
Then, the light continued to move forward.
It penetrated the defenses, penetrated the flesh, and penetrated the soul.
The expression on the Chaos Mystic Wizard's face froze.
It was a mixture of shock, bewilderment, and finally, in the last instant, despair.
He wanted to say something, but his vocal cords had already disappeared.
He wanted to do something, but his body no longer existed.
A dark golden light "sliced" across his body, and wherever it passed, flesh, bones, internal organs, energy, soul... all the elements that constituted his "existence" silently "disappeared".
It's like someone using an eraser to gently erase a line from a pencil drawing.
Simple, clean, and thorough.
When the dark golden light disappeared, the spot where the Chaos Mystic Wizard had stood was now empty.
There was no blood, no remains, and no residual energy.
Dead silence.
Above the lava basin, only the gurgling sound of churning lava and heavy breathing could be heard.
The wizard of the Tower of Annihilation was stiffly turning his head, his neck making a "clicking" sound, like rusty gears turning.
He looked in the direction from which the dark golden light was emitted.
In the far distance, a figure was slowly flying towards them.
Then, it stopped about one kilometer away from the wizard of the Tower of Annihilation.
He was a male wizard who looked very young.
He wore a grey battle robe without any decoration, had black hair and black eyes, and his appearance was quite ordinary among wizards—the kind that you'd easily blend into a crowd and not notice.
But at this moment, no one would think he was "ordinary".
The wizard of the Tower of Annihilation subconsciously looked into the other person's eyes.
Because those eyes... were so calm.
It was as calm as a bottomless ancient well, reflecting no emotion and no ripples.
He looked at the wizard of the Tower of Annihilation with no hostility, no murderous intent, and not even a hint of "staring".
It was as if he wasn't looking at a level 5 peak enemy, but rather at an insignificant object sitting there.
That absolute, indifferent calm sent a chill down the spine of the wizard in the Tower of Annihilation.
monster……
He roared inwardly.
This is definitely not an ordinary level 5 wizard!
Absolutely not!
But before he could react...
The gray-robed wizard raised his hand again.
He extended his index finger, aiming it at the Norn Workshop wizard who had transformed into tentacles in the lava basin below.
"Wait...no!"
Amid the female wizard's gasp, the young wizard's fingertips once again coalesced into a ball of dark golden light.
However, the emitted light was slightly off-target, not the tentacle itself, but the area next to it.
There, there was a small, inconspicuous mass of dark red flesh and blood that was quietly seeping into the ground.
That was the last "contingency plan" left behind by the Chaos Mystic Cult wizards—a high-level flesh and blood regeneration spell. As long as a small piece of flesh escapes, it can reshape the body elsewhere.
But at this moment, the dark golden light reappeared.
It gently "tapped" the mass of flesh.
puff.
The flesh and blood turned into a wisp of green smoke and vanished completely.
"No..." A desperate scream flashed by, then fell completely silent.
The wizards of the Chaos Cult were... completely wiped out.
From body to soul, nothing is left out.
After doing all this, the gray-robed wizard slowly turned his head.
Those terrifyingly calm eyes glanced indifferently at the wizard of the Tower of Annihilation.
It was just that one glance.
This drove the wizard of the Tower of Annihilation completely... insane.
"Ughhhhh!!!"
He let out a beastly roar, his face contorted to the extreme beneath the mask.
Fear? Anger? Despair?
No, it's a mixture of all these emotions, plus the final... madness.
"No matter who you are!! No matter what kind of monster you are!!!"
He roared, slamming his hands against his chest:
"You're just a level five wizard!!!"
"Die!!!"
boom!!!
A violent burst of energy erupted from his body.
Left hand, blazing light.
The right hand, a deep darkness.
He forcibly compressed and mixed the two opposing and conflicting energies, and then... injected them all into his body.
His body began to glow, and two energies clashed and annihilated within him, releasing terrifying energy turbulence.
The skin cracks, the muscles swell, and the bones deform.
His size expanded several times in just two seconds, turning him into an eight-meter-tall, half-light, half-dark "energy giant".
A violent surge of energy raged across his body, forming destructive energy storms that scattered the surrounding lava.
A terrifying aura soared into the sky, even causing a small-scale spatial tremor and producing a piercing sonic boom.
"Did you see that?!"
A crack appeared on the "head" of the energy giant, its face no longer recognizable as human, emitting a deafening roar:
"This is my power!!!"
"Have you seen that yet?!"
"Are you scared?!"
"Be afraid!!!"
With each roar, the energy fluctuations around him became more violent, and the surrounding space became more distorted.
"That's right!!! Even I am terrified by such power!!"
He raised his giant hand, now transformed into an energy form, and aimed it at the gray-robed wizard:
"This is the real..."
The conversation abruptly ended.
Because the gray-robed wizard interrupted him.
Not with an attack, but with a single sentence.
A very soft, calm murmur:
"Is it simply about increasing one's own energy intensity...?"
Jemin tilted his head slightly, looking at the imposing energy giant in front of him, which seemed capable of destroying the world, and a hint of disappointment flashed in his eyes.
"boring."
He uttered two words softly.
Then, raise your right hand.
Extend your index finger.
Aim at the energy giant.
At the fingertip, a point of dark golden light quietly shone.
The energy giant was stunned.
He stared blankly at Jemin, at the gray-robed figure that remained motionless in the raging energy storm, at those terrifyingly calm eyes, at that index finger... that seemed capable of "erasing" everything at any moment.
A sense of absurd unreality washed over me.
What...did this guy say?
boring?
He said...bored?!
"you!!!"
The energy giant wanted to roar, to howl, to unleash all the energy within him at once, and to blast this arrogant bastard to smithereens.
But then, a dark golden light descended.
This time, Jemin chose to change the "Extinction of Fire Divine Light" to an area-of-effect attack mode.
Then, a dark golden light, like an inverted ocean, poured down from the sky, completely engulfing the energy giant.
The energy giant roared and tried to struggle, but to no avail.
Wherever the light reached, the energy was extinguished.
The enormous energy body, like ice and snow under the sun, melted away silently.
Starting from the fingertips, moving to the arms, to the torso, and to the head.
Little by little, it transforms into the most basic specks of light and dissipates into the air.
The entire process was eerily quiet.
The last thing the energy giant saw was that boundless expanse of dark golden light, and deep within that light... a pair of calm eyes.
Then, consciousness faded.
The light dissipated.
Calm returned to the skies above the lava basin.
The spot where the wizard of the Tower of Annihilation stood was empty.
Jemin slowly withdrew his hand.
The dark golden light at the fingertips quietly faded away.
He turned around and looked in the other direction.
The female wizard was staring at him blankly, her face filled with disbelief, shock, and...fear.
The male wizard, who still maintained his tentacle form but had a huge, empty hole in his chest, was staring intently at him with unfocused eyes.
Jemin met their gaze.
Then, he nodded slightly.
"Mission accomplished."
He said calmly.
"The enemy has been eliminated; you may retreat now."
(End of this chapter)