Chapter 185 (1/2)
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at 10th of July 2019 12:35:07 PM
Chapter 185
Chapter 182 They Attacked His Home
(SORRY . I CAN PRIORITIZE YOU, BUT I CAN'T BETRAY MY OTHER HOSTS . UNTIL HE WAS WILLING TO SPEND POINTS TO CONTACT YOU, I COULDN'T GIVE YOU THE INFO . )
”Saisho . I need to go,” said Joseph climbing to his feet .
”Of course . You cannot use magic through the barrier . Do not try and teleport from here . Youngling, take them out of the barrier quickly,” she said to the dragon that brought them here .
Rus.h.i.+ng towards the barrier, Joseph could see a man standing just outside of it .
(HE HAD TO GET THAT CLOSE IN ORDER TO SEND A MESSAGE . THE BARRIER IS INTERFERING WITH MY NETWORK . )
'Noted . I'll want my own barrier later, most likely . Don't care at the moment, system . '
As he pulled Stella through the barrier, he locked eyes with the man . Nothing was said between them, though . Rage flushed his mind, and he realized it had been gone during their time in the barrier . He would have to investigate that later .
TELEPORT .
Daisy and William immediately contacted him as he gazed down at the scene below them . Several large slices had been cut into the mountain . A number of smaller houses were broken down . One of the skysc.r.a.pers collapsed, but it shouldn't have had people just yet . Several spots in the field before the mountain had been turned molten, and cooled again, and thousands of dead humans were in the fields in front of the mountain . The most damaged section below them was…
”Joseph . They went straight for the nursery,” whispered Stella, horrified .
A message from his dad started pouring into his mind .
”Joseph, the armies of the north have attacked, but they aren't using anything I've ever seen before . When they had most of us out on the line, their champions snuck around . The barbarians swear on their honor they didn't let them past, so I think they may be able to teleport . They attacked near the nursery and the children's schools, because that's where the guards were the thickest . They may have been targeting the cafeteria . It looks somewhat like a barracks . The mages have had trouble healing the wounds made by the champions . Stephan says it takes four or five times more mana to close the wounds . They don't heal naturally at all . Son, Selena was killed driving them off . ”
Daisy's voice entered his head, but he was so busy trying to handle his dad's message, that Joe ended up handling her .
”Joseph, Selena was killed . The kingdom attacked with weapons we've never seen before . What do we do? The army was hard, but then these realm jumpers came . They had strange powers, and one was a mage . They attacked where the babies were being kept . Selena fought them off, and wounded the leader, but he attacked her with some giant glowing thing and she disappeared . ”
GREAT VOICE .
”Quiet . ”
Everyone, who had been in a panic, calmed, confident that Joseph would handle things, now that he had returned . He flew down to the crushed section, as Joe cast BODY DOUBLE and headed to the generator . The spells they were going to use, were going to take more juice than he had available . Hundred of mages were trying to clear the ruble, and look for survivors .
SCHEMATIC .
The way this section of city should have been, appeared in his mind's eye .
REBUILD .
It took an extra point of mana for every 500 pounds of weight . The stress on the generator was incredible . For a moment, Joseph wondered if he should have finished the True Sun generator, that he had been thinking of installing in the castle . There wasn't time now .
ALTER TERRAIN .
Concentrating, Joseph overwrote the city surface with fine rune circle carvings .
”Join the circle,” he said, knowing that GREAT VOICE would make everyone hear him .
The circle lit up as he poured in mana from the generator . He struggled to fit everyone into his territory, but he hadn't practiced it without a circle before, and didn't have time now to practice . Mana flowed in from the Wizar, and was quickly replenished by the excess mana in the area . Channeling as much of the mana in his territory, into the rune himself, it built quickly . 1,000 mana, 2,000 mana, 5,000 mana, 10,000 mana . More Wizar came running from throughout the city to help . 100,000 mana, 150,000 mana . More and more mana was being channeled into the rune .
Stella slid up next to him and grabbed his hand .
”Calm down . Your mind is too angry . You've never been this upset before,” she said, worry in her eyes .
”They killed the children in my kingdom, Stella . And they used magic granted by NURKONG . They killed my people with magic . ”
Each word was growled, deep and menacing .
'Joe, the people are outperforming the generator . I need you to cycle the dead mana for me . '
Joe left the BODY DOUBLE and returned to him .
The sky above lit up in a gold and blue swirl, and the ground below lit up in a green and red swirl . With the circle in place, Joseph could control the mana to the edge of the circle, instead of just within his territory . Over 10,000 Wizar have arrived . 2,000,000 mana . . . 3,000,000 mana . . . 4,000,000 mana .