Flash!!
A blindingly intense light flashed, followed by a heat source that seemed to scorch the heavens and earth.
Hundreds of spell-based artillery strikes unfolded in rapid succession across the smooth deck of the War Magic Tower.
Beams of bright blue lightning slammed down at incredible speed where Lenok stood.
[Thunderclap Cannon: Qi Piercing Activated]
[Inviting Thunder Spell, 264 Gates Deployed]
[Heavy Tremor Flower Lightning Siege Cannon Activated]
Thud thud thud thud boom!!!!
Lightning crackled within the dark clouds, and bright blue lightning bolts relentlessly struck the pavilion.
All the spell-based artillery emplacements installed on the outer edges of the War Magic Tower operated at full power.
They unleashed their output directly from the deck, targeting a single mage.
Kugwagwagwagwa!!!!
Spell equipment based on lightning magic. Artillery fire, created by shaping magic into projectiles, combined to create a surging wave.
The countless flashes of lightning and heat gathered, breaking the boundaries of the spells and engulfing and scorching the space itself.
True to its name, the War Magic Tower, this massive fortress, was a strategic weapon capable of single-handedly handling an entire front in a war.
“…Crazy.”
However, the expressions of the technicians operating the tower’s main cannons were as stiff as could be.
Weeeeeeeeeeeng!!!
The lightning siege cannon, fired at supersonic speed, was bent in mid-air without being grasped.
The Inviting Thunder spells, which surged from all directions, stopped without even touching his body.
The Thunderclap Cannon’s projectiles, formed by compressing lightning magic, were deflected without even exploding.
As if light were being refracted through a lens, all the lightning strikes that poured down curved around Lenok’s body.
“They combined more than three spells and then combined them through a curse binding. Did they borrow the mysteries of sorcery?”
Thud thud thud boom!!!
The spell-based barrage, distorted and refracted around Lenok, twisted and scattered behind the deck, scattering eerie explosions.
Lenok glanced back at the blue pillars of fire rising behind him and muttered.
“The photon manipulation of the lightning siege cannon. Seeing that they’ve partially adopted the light-based system, it’s clear that this tower values practicality.”
Kwawoooong!!!
Each time the halo of lightning behind Lenok’s back rotated violently, all the magic power and thoughts pouring towards him were bent and deflected.
He completely deflected the thousands of spell-based artillery strikes fired at him, simply by rotating the lightning himself.
The divine power that nullified all barriers and resistance simply by walking into the courtyard of the massive pavilion.
The tower’s mages were speechless at Lenok’s bizarre response, which could not be explained even by the word ‘monster’.
“He’s single-handedly taking more than half of the firepower of the Thunderclap Main Cannon used in the siege of the magic tower…!!”
“I knew he was a mage of a different dimension, but I’ve never seen anything like that before.”
“He’s even better than the Tower Lord when it comes to property transformation. How is he taking the spells without even turning his body into lightning?”
The War Magic Tower’s main cannons cannot be ignored simply because they have strong spell resistance or lightning resistance.
Their spells, which have been used in war efforts across the continent, have blurred the boundaries between matter, attributes, and thoughts, making it impossible to deal with them with just one type of resistance.
This War Magic Tower, which contains the enlightenment passed down through the Torben family, has enough power to supply the electricity for a small city, just in terms of simple output.
However, that mage is distorting the direction of the War Magic Tower’s spells by applying different property transformations to each one.
It was proof that the great mage was seeing through and toying with the essence of the spell-based barrage fired at supersonic speed.
Even though he was standing right in front of their eyes, it was as if an immeasurable wall was placed between them.
Kwagwagwagwa!!!
The spell-based barrage, which had been fired endlessly, stopped. Lenok raised his head amidst the storm of flashing lightning.
“I think I’ve seen enough of the spell-based artillery, so is it my turn now?”
Lenok, who had raised his head with a blank expression, asked.
Lenok, who looked around the silent pavilion, raised his index finger.
Pajijik!!!
Above the finger he raised as if aiming at the void, a bright blue light rotated and formed a sphere.
The photons, which were divided into hundreds of strands and emitted light, gathered at Lenok’s fingertip and completed their concentration in an instant.
He extended his finger forward and cast a spell.
“I’ll just return it as it is.”
[Heavy Tremor Flower]
[Lightning Siege Cannon]
The upper part of the lightning pavilion was completely annihilated.
Bbeoeoeoeoeong!!!!
“…!!”
As if a giant sun had swept past the pavilion, only the circular scar of annihilation remained, collapsing.
Even Ron and Harlin, who had retreated after the conversation to prepare for battle, were shocked by the sight.
“He stole the tower’s artillery spells in that short time…!!”
“Impossible. It’s not a spell made to be used by a human body!!”
However, even with the shock of a pavilion being half-destroyed and collapsing, the barrage did not stop.
The light of the bombardment, moving between the sky and the ground, violently pounded Lenok’s domain and the area of the Funeral Sea.
The moment Lenok realized that this was not the end of the preparations made by the War Magic Tower, he raised his gaze.
Pajik…!!
Torben’s great-granddaughter, Lyell, standing on top of the half-destroyed and collapsing pavilion, pulled up her magic power.
She inserted her staff between the roof tiles of the pavilion and formed hand seals with both hands.
Lenok chuckled as he confirmed the rapidly expanding thoughts at the same time as she formed the hand seals.
“That’s refreshing.”
“Magnetic Field Deployment.”
Lyell chanted with a cold expression and clasped her hands together.
Magnetic Field Deployment
Origin-Level Mental Image Manifestation
[Breaking Flower Lightning Net Inclination]
Kugugugugugu!!!!!
The colorless ripples that spread through Lyell’s entire body covered the pavilion of the War Magic Tower.
The moment Lyell’s domain spread over the collapsing pavilion, hundreds of sharp lightning horns soared up.
Pajik, pajik…!!!!
The lightning horns, which covered the entire pavilion like a hedgehog, resonated with each other and emitted intense lightning.
The lightning extending from the horns resonated with each other, burning and consuming the surrounding magic power.
“The Tower Lord did it too, but Torben’s mages handle the magnetic field in a rather interesting way.”
Lenok tilted his head as he looked at Lyell.
“Is it that they reversed the effect of the domain to face outwards, at the cost of drastically narrowing the range of the domain?”
Lyell did not include Lenok within the range of the domain while deploying the magnetic field.
Instead of limiting the range of the magnetic field to only the pavilion she was on, she simply turned its ability outward.
“Reversing the function of a fixed domain would require a special sense. It seems that Torben’s bloodline has considerable talent.”
Lenok, who had also done something similar in the final battle with Machina, knew how difficult it was to tamper with the function of a domain.
Although she was not a mage of Akendrias’s level, it was proof that the great-granddaughter named Lyell also had outstanding senses and talent.
Lenok’s eyes gleamed as he looked at Lyell, who had slightly lowered her head.
‘She’s forcibly connecting magic power and lightning to burn them. Is it a net of lightning that destroys the harmony of spells?’
The surrounding magic power was distorted around the magnetic field deployed by Lyell.
Each time the lightning horns that soared up above the pavilion resonated, the magic power was rapidly consumed, disrupting the surrounding magic flow itself.
Kwaang!!
With a heavy thunderclap, mages descended from all sides of the deck, riding lightning.
The mages, wearing flashing blue robes, chanted different spells.
Lenok pondered as he looked around at the mages who had quickly completed their battle preparations.
‘The enhancement effect that other mages get within the domain is also unusual. Is it because of the nature of lightning magic?’
Since the life domain of the grafting technique was not a domain specialized for combat, he had never experienced such an enhancement from the domain itself.
However, the war domain deployed around the tower was a power specialized for war, literally, that exponentially increased spell capabilities.
It was not strange that the nature of the lightning system, which was specialized for instantaneous output amplification and power maximization, was imbued in the war domain, but even to Lenok, the extent was unusual.
In Lenok’s eyes, it seemed that the higher the level of a mage who had mastered lightning magic, the better the enhancement effect they received.
“The property transformation that allowed you to take the spell-based barrage with your bare body is amazing, but within this war domain, we can try to gauge a meaningful chance of victory.”
Lyell’s eyes gleamed as she pulled up her magic power once again.
“From now on, we will go all out.”
Clank!!
The heavy sound of war mages who had descended from all sides of the pavilion taking out firearms and polearms.
Predator machine guns. Sightglass sniper rifles. Automatic shotguns. Top-tier firearms that were familiar to Lenok’s eyes appeared everywhere.
“Firearms, not bad.”
However, instead of protecting his body with his armored wings, Lenok stepped inside the pavilion.
The front entrance of the half-destroyed pavilion. The moment he turned towards the mages who were chanting spells in the hallway.
The war mages who had thrown their magazines into the air began to pull their triggers simultaneously.
Tatatatatatang!!!
Hundreds of thousands of bullets poured down on Lenok’s body, creating countless sparks.
[Crescent Moon Slice]
[Flip Pull]
Kagagagagak!!!
The lightning that spread out in a semicircle burned and evaporated the bullets.
The moment Lenok’s figure disappeared beyond the flashing lightning, heavy armored wings fell among the war mages, crushing everything around them.
Kwaaaang!!
“Kkeuek…!!”
“In terms of supplementing physical strength, there is room for it to be used in spell battles as well.”
Lenok, who had taken an automatic shotgun from the hand of a mage who had collapsed under the weight of the wings, smiled as he loaded the magazine.
“It reminds me of the old days, shall we continue like this?”
“Run!!”
Clank!!
At the same time as loading the shotgun, he fired at the lightning shield that had been struck down from the air.
Taking advantage of the gap where the buckshot was fired, he swung his armored wings behind him as if swinging a weapon.
Tzeok!!
The armored wing joint split into five pieces, spreading out like a giant’s hand.
He grabbed a mage who was running while flashing lightning and slammed him into the opposite direction.
Kwaaang!!
The mage, who had been slammed headfirst into the deck, foamed at the mouth with his eyes rolled back.
Hundreds of lightning spells were chanted simultaneously behind the fallen mage.
“Ooooooo!!!!”
Mages wrapped in blue lightning unleashed their magic towards Lenok at tremendous speed from all directions.
[Remaining Lightning Body]
[Eight-Shot Lightning Rain]
[Seven-Lightning Flash Mirror]
Tzeojeojeojeong!!
Hundreds of streaks of lightning swirled and surged, and the resonance of the lightning exploded, deafening the ears.
The fragments of lightning that spread out like buckshot scattered and flashed above their heads,
War mages rampaged madly amidst the lightning spells that poured down like rain.
Kwaaaang!!!
The spells fired at Lenok collided, changing direction, bending, and breaking into pieces.
A storm of lightning that pushed into the gaps, regardless of close or long range.
However, Lenok did not chant any spells, even as he watched the dazzling lightning magic pouring down from all sides of the hallway.
Instead, he only raised a light lightning and lowered his body forward.
Sswaeek!!
[Concealing Lightning Stealth]
[Great Flower Flying Blue]
Lenok’s figure flashed and disappeared behind the lightning that had pierced through the mages.
A powerful explosion of lightning bloomed and faded like a flower in the wide hallway of the pavilion, and Lenok’s body accelerated as it flickered.
He charged towards the war mages with his body, without even wearing his coat, having even removed the armored wings he had been wearing on his back.
With that alone, Lenok’s figure began to break through the lightning mages at tremendous speed.
Dududududu!!!
“Uwaaaak!!”
“Kgeuk…!!!”
Each time Lenok’s lightning-covered hand moved, the mages who blocked his path knelt down, stiff as if they had been electrocuted.
Lightning struck the forehead of a mage who had tried to face Lenok head-on, and eerie cracking sounds echoed from all directions.
Pajijijik!!
Streaks of lightning flashed among the mages. The bright blue distorted lightning flashed dozens of times in an instant and disappeared.
The sounds of thunder and screams echoed alternately, along with the dull sound of their skin colliding.
‘This man is completely ignoring the domain effect of Lyell…!!’
Ron, the boy who was running alongside Lenok, who was overwhelming dozens of war mages, trembled with a stiff expression.
‘Is he planning to deal with us all with just simple lightning manipulation!’
In the war domain, the ability of the Breaking Flower Lightning Net Inclination deployed by Lyell was limiting the control of the surrounding magic power.
However, in the extreme environment where the surrounding magic power was rapidly consumed, Lenok was not affected in any way.
“It’s a matter of compatibility.”
As if reading Ron’s thoughts, Lenok, who had grabbed a war mage by the collar, raised his magic power and turned his gaze.
Pajijik!!”
“Kkeuk…!!”
The lightning flashing from his fingertips flowed through the body of the mage he had grabbed by the collar.
A young man who looked to be about the same age as Lenok chanted a spell as if resisting with gritted teeth.
However, the lightning that penetrated his body ignored his magic power and struck him directly.
“You have a habit of mixing property transformations into all your chants. Should I say that’s typical of a war mage?”
Chijijik!!
Lenok said as he threw the young man, who had collapsed without even screaming, to the floor.
“But if you carelessly discuss the changes in magic power in front of me, you’ll only lose control.”
“Carelessly? That’s a cruel thing to say.”
Ron smiled wryly as he clasped his hands together.
“I know that Jerold, who just collapsed, is about the same age as you.”
Kiiing!!
At the same time as Ron clasped his hands together, something was trying to break out of space behind him.
The moment Lenok noticed it and reached out his hand to nullify the spell, Harlin, who had jumped out from the side, twisted her lightning blade and deflected Lenok’s lightning.
Tzeoeoeoeong!!
Harlin, who had staggered and blocked Lenok, clicked her tongue.
“Keua…!! It’s not even magic, but my hand is tingling.”
“That mage from earlier.”
“You can just call me Harlin, senior.”
The woman who had revealed her name, Harlin, smiled brightly.
“That skill you used to beat up the Tower Lord, would you mind if I took a look at it myself?”
There was no answer.
Harlin, who was clutching her blade, and the war mages who followed her, ran along the walls of the pavilion.
Sharp attacks that flashed and pushed out magic power as if they were floating in the air, ignoring gravity.
The moment the lightning blade that cut through the air and Lenok’s fingertips crossed in the air, a thunderclap exploded.
Kwaaang!!
Ignoring the shockwave that pushed his entire body back, he repeatedly struck the lightning that he had wrapped around his fingertips.
However, Harlin deflected all the lightning that Lenok was unleashing by swinging her blade at tremendous speed.
Lenok chuckled as he looked down at Harlin.
“Your reaction speed is very good. Did you accelerate your bioelectric signals to make them almost instantaneous?”
Lyell saw it and tried to block it by rotating her blade, but Lenok’s hand surpassed her reaction speed and pressed down on her.
“But if your reaction is fast, you’ll have to react to a miss as fast as that speed.”
Pajijijik!!
“Kahak…!!”
Lightning mages were flung away like toys from all directions, and Harlin, who had been holding her ground in the center, was pierced through.
Harlin gasped for breath as she held on, but Lenok did not stop and continued to push her.
A war mage of the Saint rank. Moreover, one who had honed both magic and hand-to-hand combat skills.
The fact that she had appeared at this point to buy time was to buy time for the boy mage named Ron.
He could have stopped it long ago if it was ordinary magic, but what that boy was chanting was not lightning magic.
Chik!
Ron, who had bitten his lip and drawn blood, then smeared the blood on his fingertips, completed his chant.
“Summoning Technique.”
At that moment, a giant lightning bird, wrapped in intense lightning, appeared, breaking through space.
[Kiooooo!!!]
The moment the lightning bird flapped its wings, the upper part of the pavilion was shattered and collapsed, and dozens of lightning bolts fell from under its wings.
The mages, who were not concerned about the damage to the tower’s facilities, were doing their best in this situation.
Lenok chuckled as he looked up at the lightning bird amidst the falling rain of lightning.
“Have we perhaps met before?”
[…!!]
The moment the lightning bird flinched at Lenok’s gaze and averted its eyes, the remaining mages chanted spells towards Lenok.
They each held lightning that had been transformed in different directions in their fingertips and swung them at Lenok.
Tzeojeojeojeok!!!
The light emitted from all directions was so dazzling that it seemed to blind them.
However, Lenok did not even think about dodging or blocking them, and instead raised his hand.
Ignoring the lightning strikes from all directions, he closed his eyes and clasped his hands together.
“Summoning Technique.”
[Oooooooo!!!]
The head of a toad the size of a house soared up and swallowed all the falling lightning with its mouth.
Kugwagwagwagwa!!!!
It broke through the lower part of the deck located below Lenok’s feet and devoured the lightning that the mages were pouring out.
The toad, chewing and swallowing the lightning, covered Lenok with its thick jaw and acted as a shield.
“No way. I’ve never seen a summon like that anywhere in the spirit realm…!!”
[Toad]
Ignoring Ron’s shocked voice, the toad opened its mouth wide.
The moment the toad’s long tongue began to sweep around at tremendous speed, the thick power lines connected to the deck were pulled out with a crash.
Tudududuk!!!
[Bururururub]
The toad, with a mouthful of thick bundles of power lines, emitted intense power from its entire body.
The connection points that supplied power to the spell equipment installed on the deck.
Harlin immediately raised her lightning blade when she realized what the intention was of having the toad hold it in its mouth.
“I was wondering how a magic tower of this size could float in the air.”
Lenok smiled amidst the storm of lightning.
“There’s no reason to refuse such a teaching material.”
[Floating Magic Tower Engine Power Unit Hacked]
[Automatic Flight Algorithm Duplication Complete]
Buaaaaang!!!!
The moment Davi began hacking using the toad summon as a medium, the air around the three people changed.
He completely stole and duplicated the automatic flight algorithm of the War Magic Tower itself, and interfered with its authority.
The moment Lyell’s complexion changed at the sense of deja vu, as if the will itself that filled the tower’s domain was changing.
Lenok flicked his finger towards the toad and pulled up his magic power.
“First, let’s start by taking over the control of the War Magic Tower.”
[Control Authority Reclaimed. Floating Engine Overload Initiated.]
[Ascending at Full Power in Place.]
Kuooh!!!!
The War Magic Tower, which had been slammed into the Funeral Sea’s domain, changed direction and began to soar into the sky.