All residents around the red barrier on the outer surface of Stevenson Magic Academy have been evacuated, and most of the easily demolished buildings around the translucent barrier of the scarlet barrier have been demolished.
Research scholars recruited from various guilds are working with the five and six technical teams of Night Blade to study the scarlet barrier that suddenly covered the entire academy.
A technician placed a metal spike with complex magic circuit carvings in his hand against the surface of the barrier, and tapped the back of the spike with a metal hammer inlaid with magic crystals.
As the metal hammer struck the long nail, the magic crystal embedded on the hammer flickered, transmitting magic power to the long nail through the hammer body. The supply of magic power caused the carvings on the long nail to It flickered quickly, driven by an invisible force and pressed toward the scarlet barrier.
The tip of the spike collided with the scarlet barrier, making bursts of crunching sounds, and pressed into the interior of the scarlet barrier with some difficulty. It was slow, but not indestructible.
After about ten seconds, the long nail was pressed in about three centimeters. The light engraved on it quickly dimmed after a few flashes, and the entire long nail also lost the force that drove it to press inward. Invisible force.
The gap in the scarlet barrier was quickly closed, squeezing the spike out from the inside.
"The steel barrier has a strength between level four and five. It can be forcibly destroyed and has the ability to self-repair. The pure destructive strength needs to reach level six or continuous level five damage. Currently, we have deployed a barrier with sufficient destructive power. How long do you need the equipment?" The technician quickly asked the member of the Night Blade who was in charge of logistics next to him.
"Magical equipment with level five continuous destruction and level six destructive power needs to be applied directly to the captain level or the royal family. Mr. Shugein Smoke seems to be out of the effective range of communication or not connected to the magic communication. He needs to apply to the royal family. It will probably take about half an hour.”
"What are the main components of the barrier, what is the energy content of the void, and whether it can be handled by using a reality stabilizing spear to destroy nodes."
"The content of void components is very small, and the main component is relatively pure magic power. We are currently trying to figure out how to deal with the source of these magic powers. The source of these magic powers seems to be within the academy. If it can be successfully intercepted, it only requires a normal level five destructive magic weapon. , we are prepared.”
The logistics members answered the technical staff's questions and unloaded the items from the carriage that followed the Night Blade Team 5 and Team 6. It looked no different from a drill with a shelf, but the alchemical fuel was injected into it. Once it is ignited, the directional blast released through the magic circuit will not be able to survive even a big knight.
"Can you contact the academy?"
"No, all magic communication equipment cannot be transmitted to the inside of the academy. There seems to be a layer of something in the area inside the outer rigid barrier that blocks all magic power. No communication equipment can enter the interior."
"Trouble, it's obviously a targeted attack against Stevenson Academy of Magic. We can quickly complete the layout of the academy without any warning. We can only rely on internal response..."
"What is the level of damage caused by the impact and explosion caused by a direct drop of the Reality Stabilization Spear?"
"The peak of level six is close to the destructive power of level seven... You don't want to cause damage by detonating the reality stabilizing spear like the captain did in the last Hell Gate incident, right? Do you know the cost of this thing? How high is it and how long does it take the logistics department to complete one? We haven’t had any vacations for months since nearly a hundred were consumed last time.”
"Do you think Stevenson School of Magic is more important or a few reality stabilizing spears?"
"Okay, you're right...but we don't have the authority to control the movement or fall of these reality stabilizing spears."
"I know your logistics department has a back door. Bring me a few. If anything happens, I'll take the responsibility."
"Okay... okay..."
The technicians uniformly beat the logistics members with heavy punches and retreated steadily, and they had no choice but to agree to the technicians' arbitrary demands.
However, when they were preparing to take the next step, the new conclusions reached by other technicians completely rejected their plan to use violence to dismantle this barrier with strong defense and self-healing ability.
"This is an internal annihilation barrier, which is more difficult than we imagined. Once this barrier is forcibly broken from the outside through violence, this barrier will be destroyed along with the power it contains and the force that breaks it. The power will collapse toward the interior together, completing the annihilation of the interior. Give up the idea of violent cracking, we are already cracking the magic circuit."
The new conclusion means that the significance of this barrier is not just a barrier between the inside and outside of the academy, but also a huge deterrent. Once this barrier is tried to be broken through violent means, it will lead to internal annihilation. The world will blow up the entire Stevenson School of Magic.
"There is no doubt that this is another conspiracy against us." The technician stood in front of this scarlet barrier, with complex magic circuits emitting red light reflected in his pupils.
"Speed up the cracking and do what we can." Shaking his head, he didn't mean to give up.
The situation is very troublesome. It is a very troublesome thing to start from scratch to crack an enchantment that has not been seen before, has no reference examples, and does not know whether there are any traps and misdirections hidden inside. Fortunately, the Blade of the Night The technical team has gathered here. In Wangcheng, they are also one of the top teams. As long as they are given a certain amount of time...
No, I'm afraid the person who created this barrier needs just this time.
While the technicians were racing against time to crack the next step, Wang Yu and three others, who were in the mountains and forests outside the royal city, also arrived nearby ten minutes later.
"Sugeyin has not responded to communications or issued next orders for a long time. This is a very abnormal situation. I have to check on his condition. You first go to the vicinity of Stevenson Magic Academy and check. Let’s see what we can do, and Wang Yu, especially you, don’t be impulsive.”
Sieg turned his attention specifically to Wang Yu. His meaning was very clear. Aviya was among the people who were sealed in the school.
He didn't know if Wang Yu would do anything impulsive because of this. Although based on his understanding of Wang Yu, Wang Yu's calm personality should not allow him to do such a thing, but he still warned Wang Yu once.
"Yeah." Wang Yu nodded
Qie Ge patted Wang Yu on the shoulder, and then quickly entered the gap through a nearby gap node, heading to the place where Xiuge Yin was before.
Wang Yu and Edward sped up and ran together, arriving next to the Night Blade technicians who were cracking the scarlet barrier.
The two members of the special operations team also have good recognition in the Night Blade organization. When they saw their technicians, someone immediately reported to them the current status and problems they were facing.
After listening to the report, Wang Yu thought for a few seconds, then walked to the side of the barrier, put his hand on it, and ripples came out of his body. This layer of things did not mean much to his ripples, and it was not considered life. In terms of structure, it is no different from a masonry wall.
The ripples passed through a wall about one meter thick and then reached the interior. Wang Yu tried to use void energy to strengthen his ripples to peer into more of the situation inside. However, he was a little surprised to find that his ripples could not find anything from the inside. Supplementary void energy.
There was some familiar feeling... The void energy was marked by a certain existence, and his ability to use the internal void energy was greatly restricted. Coupled with his extremely poor void affinity, he failed to obtain any void energy.
Moreover, what is very strange is that within the extreme distance that his ripples penetrate, as long as he is inside the barrier, there is no magic at all.
This is a very strange point. Magic is almost everywhere, the only difference is the concentration. Generally speaking, it is even more common than void energy.
But inside this barrier... he didn't sense even a little bit of magic power. With the ripple detection precision, if he didn't sense it, he could basically be sure that there was no magic power inside. How could this be done?
"Do you have any formations such as anti-magic fields? There seems to be a magic-free space inside this barrier. What's going on?" Wang Yu frowned and asked the technician next to him.
The technician was stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it, he showed some strange expressions.
"No, even if the void is used to suppress the existence of magic power, it can basically only reduce the concentration of magic power. Magic power, a basic existence that is almost an integral part of the world, is difficult to completely eliminate, unless it is a strange object. …”
After the technician finished speaking, he fell into a brief thought.
"Thank you for informing Mr. Wang Yu. In this case, we have found the reason why the magic communication cannot be carried out at all. However, in this case, the difficulty of cracking the barrier has gone up to another level. We may need more time to complete the crack. "
After obtaining the information about the internal magic-free space discovered by Wang Yu, the technicians have answers to some situations. However, at the same time, there are some very troublesome restrictions in the work of cracking this barrier. The cracking time may be further. of extension.
"... Strange objects, as long as you live in the royal city, the war with Seventan will inevitably affect this place. What a piece of shit."
Wang Yu cursed silently, unsuppressed anger burning in his heart. Since he came to the royal city, how many bad things have happened in Seventan, and now Aviya is also involved. This It made him a little irritable.
Once again he placed his hand on the barrier here, and the void energy in Wang Yu's mental space began to boil. This time the barrier was a simple high-strength magic barrier. Even if he used the Wall Breaker's Hammer, it would not be too big. usefulness.
But if it is activated with enough void energy, just like Aviya borrowed the power of the Lady of the Night to activate the Evernight Sky, it should be no problem to open a hole for him to enter alone...
The professor asked him not to be impulsive, but there is no doubt that Wang Yu cannot let Aviya face the unknown situation internally, enter, and find a way to unite the internal scholars to break this barrier together. This is Wang Yu's plan The most important thing to do is still to provide protection for Aviya.
Just do it as you think of it, and the void energy begins to mobilize. Although it is a bit rude, you can only trouble Ms. Night again. However, as the void energy is mobilized, Wang Yu's ripples are also blessed and extend the range. Some familiar things appeared under the ground not far from Wang Yu.
A tarot card was suddenly buried under the soil, and Wang Yu's extended ripples captured its existence.
Stepping forward, Wang Yu dug out the unexpectedly discovered tarot card from the ground. The soil on the tarot card was wiped away in Wang Yu's hands, revealing the face of the tarot card, facing up to the star. .
"Char, what on earth did you do?" Wang Yu looked at the tarot card that suddenly appeared, feeling the direction of the card that he and Edward had used for directional teleportation, and the corners of his mouth involuntarily revealed. A smile.
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The perspective returned to the academy. The entire academy was in dead silence. It seemed that there was no movement of any living thing under the sky that was replaced by a blood-colored barrier.
In the entire empty college, there were only two "people" walking outside the building.
Weber Lanqi had a sullen face, walking with Vanessa beside him, or in other words, the existence using the body of Vanessa, an orphan girl who lost her parents in that disaster, walking in the academy surrounded by a blood-colored barrier. .
"Why are you so gloomy? Your wish will be realized soon." The expressionless "Vanessa" tilted her head and looked at Weber Lanqi who was silent beside her.
"..." Weber Lanqi still remained silent, just glancing at "Vanessa" with bloodshot eyes.
"Are you regretting it? Do you regret it because you are about to personally destroy the academy that gave you a platform and allowed you to have this status?" "Vanessa" kept an expressionless face and continued to talk to Weber Lanqi. He was asking endless questions, and his tone was obviously not sarcastic, but it made people feel an extremely serious sense of disgust.
"I don't regret it." The hoarse voice came from Weber Lanqi's mouth, with a ferocious face, as if he was answering, but more like convincing himself.
"If you didn't regret it, you wouldn't have tried to keep your granddaughter and the apprentice. You knew very well what Stevenson Magic Academy was going to face next, but you still tried to keep those two people. This shows that You didn’t lose all your courage for the sake of “resurrection”, Weber Lanqi.”
"...Do what you promised." Weber Lanqi's whole body was shaken, and he was silent for a long time. It seemed that he didn't know how to refute, and in the end he could only choke out a sentence from his stomach.
"Look, you didn't even confirm that I would complete what I promised you, but you still did it. How contradictory you are, but it's normal. Human beings are such an interesting thing. I have to thank that The first body I used was probably a guy named "Shugein". After taking over the body of this girl named Vanessa, I learned a lot about human beings. It's interesting and complicated."
"..." Weber said nothing more and just walked.
"You know, after occupying this girl's memory, the prayers I heard the most were not in temples and churches, but in the hospitals in the royal city, because when all the knowledge we know tells us that nothing can be done, we can only pray The miracles of those gods, so I know exactly what you think, and sometimes I think about it, should we so-called "gods" believe in a god who is above us?"
"Vanessa" had a strange smile on her dull expression.
Weber Lanqi on the side was trembling slightly, and his already numb mood once again stirred up waves. He didn't know what Seventan had done, but he knew the true identity of the person in front of him. What this guy showed made him frightened and convinced at the same time, "Sevantan, are you really not playing with fire and burning yourself?"
