At the mont the hydrogen bomb detonated, in the City of Fire Oil, everyone's hearts simultaneously felt an ominous premonition. The cals pulling carts all tried to lower their bodies, uneasily attempting to break free from their restraints—a natural instinct for danger.
Even Muto, who was deep in sleep, abruptly opened its eyes and leaped up from the ground...
The evening sun had gradually sunk below the horizon, yet a stronger beam of light erged from the end of everyone's sight.
"The sun... the sun has risen again!" Susan, amidst the crowd, exclaid in shock. In her view, a 'fierce sun' of imnse size hung in the void, clearly visible even from tens of kiloters away.
This 'fierce sun,' over a kiloter in diater, coalesced in the sky for a minute before suddenly exploding into a column of fire shooting skyward...
In an instant, an area of hundreds of kiloters lit up as if it were daylight.
Everyone watched in stunned silence as the giant sun fractured.
Terrifying energy waves began to rapidly spread in all directions, transforming the land into flowing lava, countless stones and dirt sucked into the fire, incinerated into ash by temperatures reaching billions of degrees...
And this intense blaze was rapidly advancing towards the City of Fire Oil.
The apocalyptic scene of dark clouds overhead and the earth splitting open made the wizards standing on the city wall tremble.
"It's coming, it's coming!" Raphael couldn't help but swallow hard, his legs going weak. If not for the presence of several councilors and the casting Master Lynn, he might have already run away.
Lynn, however, was not so nervous. Seeing the column of fire, he knew the experint was a success. The alchemical array they had set up had managed to suppress the power of the hydrogen explosion to so extent—confining it for about a minute.
This minute was precisely when the explosion was most violent and the energy wave spread the fastest.
As Lynn had anticipated, the energy wave, initially propagating at supersonic speed, began to slow rapidly after crossing ten kiloters. By the ti it reached their visible range, the energy had been reduced to a millionth of its original strength, colliding with the magical barrier protecting the City of Fire Oil.
Ripples continuously danced on the invisible magical barrier, which only held for three seconds before bursting open!
The several grand wizards present turned pale, wanting to intervene against the aftermath, but seeing no movent from the councilors, they dropped the idea.
In that mont, a fierce gale swept over the city, the ground beneath them started shaking violently, yet it was just a minor aftershock, causing no damage but snapping the citizens of the City of Fire Oil out of the spectacle of the giant sun and fire pillar.
Several rchants collapsed on the ground, scared to the point of wetting themselves, and none of the citizens laughed at them. At the mont the 'fierce sun' rose, they all thought the apocalypse had arrived!
"Is this the great nuclear magic? Truly terrifying magic!"
Ivina, having the status of a wizard, naturally had the right to stand on the city wall and witnessed the entire process of the hydrogen explosion technique, from creation and delivery to detonation, turning pale.
During her two years fighting wizards and demonic gods in the North, Ivina had witnessed the marvel and weirdness of magic, but no matter how powerful the enemy, her excellent swordsmanship and body enhanced by divine potions always allowed her to fight back.
Even against demonic gods, Ivina knew she couldn't win but felt no fear. However, witnessing the power of the hydrogen explosion shattered this notion.
Ivina realized her proud swordsmanship was aningless against such force!
Beside her, Monroe was ashen-faced. He had co with the last shred of hope to watch, wishing to expose the 'lies' of the wizards.
But there it was before him, the so-called 'great nuclear magic' demonstrated by the ssenger of Apocalypse, Lynn, even more powerful than before, its aftermath directly reaching the City of Fire Oil!
His only hope now was that the smugglers sent by Pope Alves hadn't yet stepped into the Dead Zone, otherwise, the information he provided would beco their death warrant!
Due to the urgency, Monroe couldn't even notify the spies within the city to relay the ssage back to the Holy City.
Other empire spies, wealthy rchants, and nobles with ulterior motives were also trembling with fear.
Terrifying, truly terrifying!
Magic could be so powerful. Although they had witnessed the horrors of the Dead Zone and heard countless terrifying rumors, nothing could prepare them for the shock of facing such power directly.
Maybe... our plan for revenge should be canceled?
A rchant, completely bankrupted by the food war, gave a aningful look to his colleague beside him, who quickly nodded in agreent.
Because the council had driven grain
prices to rock bottom, many rchants who had speculated on grain prices suffered imnse losses, forced to sell their wheat, bought at hundreds of coppers, back at the price of one copper.
Many disgruntled rchants secretly ford a small group, plotting revenge, like sabotaging the railways or even defecting to the empire!
But before their plan could start, the grain rchants were already frightened off. To them, the empire was likely already beyond saving...
Who could stop an electromagnetic cannon firing at thousands of kiloters per second? Who could withstand such a fearso attack?
It wouldn't be long before the wizards could control the entire continent. No matter where they fled, they would be captured...
Lynn's figure slowly descended from above the City of Fire Oil, with Raphael and others imdiately surrounding him, showering him with complints.
Even Harof expressed admiration, "Truly remarkable magic. I didn't expect your great nuclear magic to increase in power again."
When Lynn first ntioned he had improved the nuclear magic, increasing its power by eight tis, Harof was sowhat skeptical. Now it seed, it wasn't just eight tis; the power had clearly increased by more than ten tis!
If they hadn't set up the energy-binding array in the Dead Zone in advance to slightly block it, the entire City of Fire Oil would likely have beco ruins by now!
Lynn smiled and didn't explain further. What he ant was the mass loss ratio caused by the hydrogen bomb's explosion was about eight tis higher than that of an atomic bomb, not rely the maximum power.
After all, the power of a hydrogen bomb theoretically has no upper limit; if desired, creating a hydrogen bomb with a yield of hundreds of millions of tons isn't impossible, while the maximum yield of an atomic bomb is only a pitiful five hundred thousand tons.
"Let's go, let's take a look!" Lynn looked towards the destroyed area, calling the councilors and grand wizards to fly towards the explosion's core.
The Dead Zone was thoroughly destroyed by the nuclear energy wave 'plowing' through twice, with previously visible charred trees or half-lted armor and swords now completely obliterated.
The terrain of the entire area had changed from high to low, the closer to the center, the more severe the depression, revealing a three-kiloter-wide abyss to everyone.
Water from the west flowed down the terrain, continuously pouring in. Because the heat from the nuclear explosion hadn't fully dissipated, steam rose as cold and heat alternated, gradually enveloping the area.
"In the future, this should form a new lake!" Grand Wizard Alade exclaid, marveling at the terrain and landscape changed by a single strike, hard to believe they were all grand wizards like the Star of Magic.
"Let's call it—Lake Starfall!" Lynn suggested, naming this future landmark lake of the City of Fire Oil.
In fact, using hydrogen bombs to create lakes was not a novel idea in his previous world; it had long been a practice liked by so. However, it was still quite trendy in this otherworld...
Besides, Lynn had already nad this hydrogen explosion magic—【Skyfall】. Having previously used the principle of atomic bomb detonation to create the great nuclear magic, this ti with the hydrogen bomb, it couldn't simply be called the great hydrogen bomb technique, right?
It seed a bit too revealing—although the fusion reaction used isotopes of hydrogen, deuterium, and tritium, it was better to be cautious.
"Let's asure it, see how much radiation is in the air now," Lynn turned to Raphael, reminding him.
Raphael rembered the main task and quickly took out a disk-shaped alchemical device. Due to technological limitations, they could only use the property of fluorescent substances glowing after absorbing high-energy rays to detect nuclear radiation levels, not very accurate but sufficient for their needs.
About a minute later, Raphael solemnly stated that the radiation level had returned to normal.
Lynn was very satisfied, it seems the cleanup was thorough, and now the oil drilling project could also be put on the agenda.
The hydrogen bomb test was a complete success!
"Wait... what's that over there?"
Just as Lynn and others were about to return to the City of Fire Oil, sharp-eyed Aurora seed to have discovered sothing, suddenly stopping everyone and then flying towards the other side of Lake Starfall.
About five minutes later, Aurora stopped on a glass wasteland. Before her was a silver 'river' that they realized was not a river at all, but a large amount of lted and then solidified iron.
Harof instantly realized sothing, speaking playfully, "It seems your magic did have so harvest!"
Lynn also frowned, wondering to himself.
Could soone really be that unlucky? The Dead Zone's reputation in both the kingdom and the empire was well-known, with rumors as terrifying as they co. Normally, no one should approach it.
Could they be smugglers, driven mad by profit, attempting to transport goods through here? In Lynn
's mind, only rchants blinded by profit would undertake such foolish acts.
Curious, the group followed the direction of the iron flow and flew for a while longer. Soon, a large number of weapons and half-lted armor that hadn't been completely destroyed appeared before them, their owners obviously turned to ash by the terrible temperatures.
"So many people tried to sneak through the Dead Zone..." Lynn glanced around and from the distribution of the wreckage, inferred that those killed under the hydrogen explosion must number over ten thousand!
And so many weapons and armor couldn't possibly belong to a rchant convoy.
"This looks like the church's border legion..." Raphael picked up a scalding, half-lted badge from the ground, its faintly visible holy light emblem visible.
"But why would they appear here just at the right ti?"
Harof and others were puzzled. Were these people mad, attempting to invade through the Dead Zone? Whose brilliant idea was this?
Lynn was sowhat amused and confused, seemingly having inadvertently eliminated an empire border legion without understanding why.
...
As Lynn and others were examining their 'battle results,' the impact of the hydrogen explosion was rapidly spreading throughout the empire.
The imnse destructive power was felt even in the Holy City, hundreds of kiloters away, with slight vibrations.
Pope Alves, standing atop the Tower of the Heavens, stared at the sudden aurora erupting in the distance, his unease reaching its peak. After hesitating for a mont, he took out the communication crystal orb, preparing to contact Monroe in the City of Fire Oil again.
Although it was less than half a day since their last communication and the device hadn't fully charged, it could still make ergency contacts!
However, Alves waited for three minutes in place, receiving no response from the other end.
The faint glow of the crystal orb sank his thoughts into despair...
Just then, the door to the prayer room was suddenly opened, and an archbishop urgently reported, "Your Holiness, it's top-secret information from the City of Fire Oil!"
"Speak!" Alves, suppressing the anxiety in his heart, calmly said.
"Those wizards... the minions of the demonic gods have used the apocalypse magic again, just... just half an hour ago, many saw another sun rise in the sky." The archbishop said in terror.
Furthermore, dozens of cities in the western territories of the empire simultaneously felt the ground shake violently.
Alves's back was imdiately soaked in cold sweat, urgently asking, "Tell , where did those wizards release this magic?"
The archbishop cautiously replied, "It seems... it seems to be in the Dead Zone..."
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