Chapter Fourteen They Once Existed
Zach put on his clothes and followed Erica through the narrow corridor, the rotating stairs, the crowded hall, and finally came to the outdoors.
At this moment, he suddenly remembered what the trainee wizard told him before - he was in a floating city!
More precisely, it is composed of several floating cities - in the floating city cluster.
At Zach's feet is the largest of the peaks floating in the air - the Holy Tower Floating City.
The Holy Mages used the high-ring spell to flatten the huge mountain range, then flipped the entire mountain, and then hung it upside down in the sky. The flat cutting surface became a natural square, and various buildings and mage towers were built on it, forming the mages' war base.
As an arcane mage who has been on the ground for many years, staying in the mage tower and has never participated in the mage war, Zach saw these huge war bunkers for the first time today, and he was immediately deeply shocked.
The floating peaks cast huge shadows on the earth and clouds, and countless mages flew between these floating islands like migrating birds.
The center of the floating island is a mage tower that is thousands of meters high and hundreds of meters in diameter. It is surrounded by buildings of varying heights and sizes, surrounding a huge open space.
When the two walked through the square, people came and went around. Some people flew away from the square in a hurry, or landed on it, and then walked into the surrounding buildings.
From time to time, people stroked Erica's chest and luggage, while more people looked at Zach with curious eyes, but no one stayed for a moment.
These people are war wizards.
Many of them, like Zach, wore black robes, or purple and red robes representing second and third-level mages.
More people do not follow the common clothing rules among arcane mages, but wear armor of different forms.
Someone buried his face deep under the cloak, and his body emitted a strange red light.
Some have even lost their human form, as if they are just purple mist wrapped in a robe.
Zach followed Erica to the edge of the square, and the scene directly below the floating city made him stagnate.
On the ground several thousand meters below, a "scarlet ocean" stretches to the end of the horizon.
It was a sea of flesh and blood composed of countless howls and wriggling flesh and blood.
"The Flesh Demon is the official name of this creature by the Star Push Ring." Erica said, "This is a civilization that has never been recorded, if it could be called a civilization."
Zach looked at this sea of flesh and blood. It swelled and squirmed, but seemed to be trapped under the floating city and could not continue to expand around.
What blocks it is the "dike" composed of trillions of strange creatures.
Among them were giant snakes dozens of meters long, with several huge heads shaking left and right, biting and swallowing the flesh and blood demons around them.
Some are like crawling transparent worms, swallowing the flesh and blood demons around them into their bodies and digesting them into a pool of blood.
Some of them looked like hills with legs splashed with huge rocks, and walked slowly with heavy steps, crushing countless flesh and blood monsters into meat paste.
The army of soul slaves of the wizards.
Bloody waves hit the "dike" surrounding it, and the waves of flesh and blood were splattered at the collision. Blood of various colors gathered into colorful liquids, gradually filling the intertwined canyons.
From time to time, huge bright white fireballs shot out from the floating city, falling into the bloody ocean like huge rocks, splashing the pillar of flesh and blood to the sky. After a few seconds, a huge explosion sounded faintly across a thousand meters of altitude.
"In the past month, the Star Shu Magic Ring has summoned all affiliated and ally civilizations, but no civilization has ever been in contact with or even heard of this creature." The female mage's voice returned to calmness, as if it was frozen on the surface of a frozen lake.
"Under the leadership of the Holy Masters, the War Mages have removed all the blood nests that can be found..."
"But the war is not over. We must figure out the origin and ability of these flesh and blood demons, as well as the ways and purposes of invading us." Erica clenched her fist.
With long black hair fluttering, she pointed to the ocean of flesh and blood below: "This was the Principality of Rola before, and it was the last blood nests we have retained for research. We hope to use them to locate the mother world of the flesh and blood demon!"
The female mage said word by word "mother world".
Zach looked at her, and his eyes that seemed calm were burning with all the anger and hatred.
The mage civilization has always been in active expansion, and has always been conquered and assimilated different civilizations, and has rarely been invaded, let alone being penetrated by other civilizations and directly destroyed the entire world.
Even if it's just a small world.
Since the Soul-Devouring Demon War three thousand years ago, the mage civilization has never experienced such a great shame.
The mage civilization will definitely take revenge in the most extreme way.
But another message in Erica's words caught Zach's attention.
In his impression, the Principality of Rola was an island country in the ocean.
As if he saw Zach's doubts, the female mage slowly said: "Yes, this was once a sea of oceans. But now it has been evaporated."
She pointed to the sky again, and then Zach noticed that the entire sky was covered by thick clouds, only a little sunlight penetrated, and the world was gloomy.
"It's not just here, in order to find all the blood nests, the oceans of the whole world have evaporated into rain clouds, and this world has also degenerated from a rich world to a barren world."
"The ocean of the whole world?"
"Xingshu attaches great importance to this battle, so he sent out a total of thirteen holy mages."
This number was completely beyond Zach's expectations. There were only more than one hundred holy mages in the entire mage civilization.
‘No wonder the whole world’s landform structure was so unrecognizable in a month’ he thought silently.
“Kopatus is just a small world, and doing so is devastating.”
"Yes, this is far beyond the limit that a small world can withstand. Therefore, the origin of this world is deteriorating at an accelerated pace, and we don't have much time left."
Zach fell into silence. Although he was just an arcane wizard, these common senses were no strangers to him.
The origin is the foundation of a world, and it is the inner will of each world.
It is the source of rules, and it is these rules that support most extraordinary phenomena, including magic.
The process of mages communicating with the origin of the world through spell models and creating extraordinary phenomena within the rules is magic.
However, for various reasons, the origin of a world will deteriorate.
In addition to common reasons such as invasion by rules from other worlds, abuse of prohibited spells, and the proliferation of gods, the invasion of excessive high-level lives will also lead to the same consequences.
The origin of a world can only support limited rules "calls", while a large number of advanced lives will cause the origin of the world to "overload".
In other words, the "brain" of this world will be "burned out" and "crazy".
The initial stage of deterioration is just the instability of the rules, and the casting effect of the same magic begins to fluctuate.
As the deterioration deepens, the "authority" of manipulating rules begins to become chaotic. Even in some extreme cases, strong emotional fluctuations in ordinary people can cause distortions in reality.
Later, the rules of the whole world became random and irregular, and were filled with distortions of reality that they generated on their own.
At the end of the deterioration, time and space begin to be discontinuous. The world falls into a state of disorder, the "flame" of order is extinguished, and the heaven and earth fall into darkness and chaos.
The whole process is the original deterioration.
Zach has heard of a world that is close to collapse, where the extraordinary people "burn" their souls through blood magic to try to delay deterioration, but it is just a drop in the bucket.
What makes the situation worse is that the mage civilization has long used "rule resonance" to connect the entire world community.
The advantage of doing this is that the rules that are shared and shared indiscriminately even when connected to the world.
The residents of the mage civilization travel through different worlds and do not feel the differences in rules.
But the downside is that original deterioration can spread among these worlds.
Throwing a madman into a group of normal people will be more or less affected over time.
The way the mage civilized method to deal with this situation is to execute this "madman".
"How much time do we have?" Zach asked.
"At most days, the world will be destroyed." A small metal object that appeared in Erica's hand at some point: "Zach Stuart, your application for Hunting Mage has been approved. This is your pendant, and you will also belong to the second star zone."
Zach took the pendant reflecting metallic light, and the diamond-shaped surface was engraved with complex patterns, representing the first rune created by the original mage Casar.
The female mage continued: "We know that this battle will cause you heavy losses. Although the Star Push Ring cannot compensate for all your losses, the second star area will build a new mage tower for you. At that time, you can link the pendant to make it a hunting mage tower."
"You will continue to stay in the Holy Tower Floating City for the past few days and evacuate with us at that time." After leaving this sentence, Erica turned around and walked towards the Holy Tower in the center of the Holy City.
However, Zach did not follow: "I will go back to my own mage tower."
Erica turned around in surprise, as if looking at a fool: "Did you lose your memory? Your previous mage tower has collapsed long ago."
"As long as the central part is still there, the remaining part of the Mage Tower can continue to operate."
"But the Zakaland area has been completely destroyed and there is nothing left in this world."
The two looked at each other, and Erica suddenly saw a moment of murderous aura and an indeceptible sadness in the eyes of the young mage.
But everything was fleeting, leaving only a trace of indifference.
Zach turned his head and looked south, crossing the bloody battlefield and the bloody mist that shrouded the distance.
"You said that this is the Principality of Rola."
"That's right." Erica turned around.
"From the shape of the coastline, not far away is the palace of the capital of the Principal of Rola - the Palace of Reef Blue." Zach pointed to the ground.
There was only a dry seabed left, and the densely distributed reefs barely pieced together a little shadow of the coastline. No matter what existed on it, it had long been erased.
"I came here as a guest a few years ago and lived here for a while. I meditate in the Reef Blue Temple every night..."
"I still remember the sea breeze blowing from the Molan Sea, the tides of sea waves, and the bells ringing all night in the fishing port..."
He turned to look at the female mage: "Erika, you are a war mage..."
"For you, this world may be just one of countless war worlds. The end of a battle may be the beginning of a counterattack, or it may be just a shame that needs to be remembered and washed away."
"But for me, this world represents Zakaland, represents my mage academy, everything I once had..."
The black-haired mage was silent for a long time, and seemed to be trapped in memories:
"In the early morning, the shadow of the Mage Tower will cover the West City, and the apprentices who live there will always be late, and every time Tyros is furious..."
"In autumn, the moisture from the Flanren forest makes the whole south rainy. Pullman always complains to me that the flood control budget is too small..."
"All stories, all people, will disappear with the collapse of this world."
"I need to leave something to prove the world and prove those people..."
Chapter completed!