"What... what is going on here!?"
Lan Qingyou frowned, squinting at the scene before her in sheer bewildernt.
The herb field outside the main tower remained exactly the sa, and the Great Alchemy Workshop in the distance stood just as she had left it.
Everything seed perfectly peaceful and quiet, completely unchanged.
But that facade could only fool outsiders. As the master of this place, who had personally arranged every blade of grass and every tree, Lan Qingyou naturally recognized the glaring difference between how things were now and how they used to be.
Simply put, the outermost circle of her magic array was gone!
No, more accurately, the form was still there, but the soul was missing.
To be even more precise, her magic array had been inexplicably dismantled.
It was incredibly bizarre!
If the magic array had been dismantled, the entire formation should have completely failed, yet right now, everything was operating normally.
Unable to wrap her head around it, Lan Qingyou simply took to the sky, intending to get a top-down view to spot the exact problem.
Ignorance was bliss on the ground, but once airborne, the sight gave her a genuine fright.
Squinting and leaning slightly forward to steady her broom's sway, she finally spotted her runaway outer circle.
It was not too far away—just a few kiloters out from its original position.
'Why did this happen?'
Completely baffled, Lan Qingyou hopped onto her Magic Broom and darted straight toward the boundary.
Judging by her own senses, she estimated the distance to be roughly two and a half kiloters. Did that an the total diater of the magic array had instantly expanded from one kiloter to around five kiloters?
Observing the chaotic destruction wreaked by the Mana Tide just outside the barrier, Lan Qingyou realized that her Five Dragons Reincarnation Magic Array had indeed expanded—and it was still fully functional.
'Could it be because I plugged in the big cute eye?'
'That cannot be it.'
'The Eye of Cthuya is, at best, ant to serve as a power source. It absolutely should not possess the ability to alter the magic array itself.'
'Furthermore, this boundary array is not actually a real, solid magic array. At most, it has just been forcibly inflated to this massive size by the sheer energy output of the big cute eye.'
In layman's terms, it had bloated, yet it remained remarkably stable.
Determined to get to the bottom of this mystery, Lan Qingyou skipped lunch entirely and flew a ticulous lap around the entire circumference of the magic array.
Afterward, she pulled out her notebooks filled with array diagrams and threw herself into research.
In her eyes, once she eliminated all impossible explanations for this phenonon, only one conclusion remained: the magic array itself had a flaw.
The Five Dragons Reincarnation Magic Array and the Demonic Energy Evil Sealing Magic Array.
She had only installed these two specific magic arrays in this location.
Because of their diverse functions, either one could be considered a composite magic array. But perhaps it was precisely because they both tried to do a little bit of everything that a conflict arose?
It was just like building a custom computer.
If the hardware components were incompatible, it was extrely easy to trigger all sorts of bizarre, unprecedented errors.
"Hmm... there seems to be a slight issue here, and here, and here..."
She never would have noticed without taking a closer look.
When she overlaid the two magic arrays and analyzed them as a single, unified formation, Lan Qingyou discovered quite a few glaring problems.
The Five Dragons Reincarnation Magic Array was originally designed to project a barrier that ensured internal stability.
Yet, right inside that barrier, she had erected a Sealing Magic array designed to protect against the outside.
Both arrays firmly believed they were solely responsible for protecting this territory.
This overlap resulted in a rare phenonon of mutual repulsion between the two forces.
The final result acted just like a pair of magnets. Under the pressure of like poles repelling each other, the outer magic array was violently shoved away.
That was right, it had literally been sent flying.
This reaction forced a circular periter that originally asured roughly one kiloter across to violently expand into a circle stretching five kiloters in diater.
Her actual controlled territory had skyrocketed by five tis.
Ultimately, after figuring out the underlying chanics of this bizarre phenonon, Lan Qingyou made a firm decision to do absolutely nothing.
Yes, absolutely nothing.
She would just let this expelled magic array maintain its current expanded state.
If a block of haphazardly mashed code sohow managed to run perfectly, the best possible troubleshooting thod was to never, ever touch it.
Besides, now that she understood the exact principles behind the glitch, she even pondered using this logic to design a brand-new iteration of the magic array. She could keep it securely tucked away as a backup, ready to deploy the mont her current setup failed—or even looked like it might fail.
With that satisfying thought in mind, her stomach grumbled, prompting her to return to the main tower for a very late lunch.
Leaving aside Lan Qingyou's alti for a mont.
Over on the Regional Channel, a massive, storm-like discussion was currently raging.
And the eye of this conversational hurricane was none other than the sudden, violent expansion of the magic array.
"Did you guys feel that tremor just now?"
"I felt it. I have no idea what caused it this ti."
"The weather has been warming up lately. Do you think we are about to get hit by an earthquake disaster?"
"A natural disaster? This world literally has magic in it, and you are worrying about a mundane natural disaster?"
"Are you listening to yourself? How could simple magic ever compare to the sheer destructive force of nature?"
"Holy crap! Holy crap! Holy crap!"
Just as the crowd debated the rits of natural disasters, one survivor abruptly burst into the chat, using an incredibly obvious, panic-stricken tone to instantly draw everyone's attention.
"What is up with you? Did you eat crap?"
"No, listen! That tremor just now, guess what caused it?"
"An earthquake?"
"Do not tell a giant is out there throwing a dance party?"
"No! Let tell you, but brace yourselves. Do not freak out."
"Relax, we are professionally trained. Under normal circumstances, nothing phases us."
"Spit it out already! Stop keeping us in suspense over so trivial nonsense."
"Alright, alright! I will tell you. That tremor just now was caused by the Witch."
"The Witch?"
"Are you talking about sothing similar to that magic array that dyed the entire sky purple last ti?"
"Exactly! In fact, it is highly likely that it was the very sa magic array."
"Give us the details. What exactly happened?"
Hearing that Lan Qingyou seed to be stirring up massive trouble yet again, the crowd's interest was instantly piqued.
"I was chilling in my Shelter playing mahjong with the others when, out of nowhere, we felt a violent, unmistakable tremor. Right as the shaking stopped, a brilliant purple ring of light from a magic array swept straight through our Shelter. And imdiately after that, the Mana Tide outside completely vanished!"
"Hold on a second!! Are you saying a purple ring of light actually penetrated right through your Shelter?"
"Yes! I absolutely did not see it wrong."
"What kind of misplaced focus is that? Shouldn't the main takeaway be the fact that the Mana Tide straight-up disappeared?"
"The Mana Tide disappeared? Now that is a genuinely hilarious joke. It actually caught off guard and made chuckle."
The survivor's recounted experience only drew widespread mockery from the majority of the chat.
After all, you could never expect humanity to imdiately comprehend phenona they had never witnessed before.
"He is telling the truth. The Mana Tide over here also vanished right after a burst of purple light. I just stepped outside to take a look, and it feels like our entire sector has been enveloped by so sort of massive do. The Mana Tide is only raging furiously outside the boundaries of that magic array now."
"Huh?"
"Wait a minute!"
"Why do I suddenly feel like I can no longer read the common Federation language?"
"Are you trying to say that the Witch sohow cooked up a magic array capable of completely isolating the Mana Tide?"
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