738 In Vain (1/2)
In San Ivansburg…
When the shooting stars passed the sky and hit Allyn like a storm, Belkovsky, the pontiff of the North Church who was inside the cathedral, sensed something although he did not see anything. Looking at the ceiling, which had beautiful embossments, he said to himself in shock, ”Has Viken taken action? They're planning to capture an artificial planet?”
He and the Grand Cardinals of the North Church had already made a plan to ”claim” one of the artificial planets when the South Church was capturing them. They were even scheming to bolster the progress behind the curtain in case the South Church procrastinated and gave the artificial planets a better opportunity of performance. However, when it really happened, he remained absolutely still and did not even summon the saints and the other Grand Cardinals.
That was because the South Church took action too fast for the Congress of Magic to react. Naturally, the huge battle that they envisaged did not take place at all. If they were to jump to the orbit through the preinstalled transmission circles at this moment, they would see nothing but the back of the Grand Cardinals of the South Church who were leaving, encounter the reinforcements of the Congress of Magic who had come late, and bear the fury of the Congress of Magic instead of the South Church!
Who would ever take somebody else's blame without earning any benefits from it?
”The Congress of Magic cannot so inert, can they? However strong Viken is, he cannot stay out of Lance for long, or how can he suppress so many top legends and grand arcanists?” Belkovsky frowned as he sensed the anomaly in the matter.
Under normal circumstances, Viken should've attacked Allyn to stall a few top legends and most grand arcanists, but since he could not block all of them, the remaining arcanists would lead the other legendary sorcerers into the orbit and fight the Grand Cardinals such as Melmax. Although they could not stop the South Church from taking away the artificial planet because they had been slowed, a huge battle that the North Church looked forward to would inevitably break out. However, as it turned out, the sky was absolutely quiet at this moment! Where were the grand arcanists of the Congress of Magic?
Without the navigation of grand arcanists, it was impossible for the other legends to arrive at the orbit through projections because they were two levels away from Melmax and would be crushed. If Melmax had ”Purge Cross” with him, they would probably be killed!
A prophecy divine power was performed immediately. Since the thing was happening, and nobody tried to interfere with or cover the trajectory of fate, Belkovsky immediately understood what was going on. The Will of Abyss had arrived at the northland without a sign!
”He's working with Viken?” Belkovsky felt as hilarious as if he had seen his own death notification. Not believing it at all, he knew that there was only one way to cooperate with the Will of Abyss, which was to establish a ritual that could summon him and open the barrier of planes, and if the ritual happened to be near the enemies that needed to be dealt with, the Will of Abyss would not hesitate to kill them.
Therefore, Belkovsky would rather believe that Viken took advantage of the brainlessness of the Will of Abyss, but how exactly did he summon him? Allowing a demigod that did not belong to the main material world to arrive had a great cost. However, there was no sign before the incident, and there were no disguises such as ”Paradise on Earth” on the surface…
Belkovsky considered Viken's approach in case he was dealt with in the same way in the future. Suddenly, his heart of faith rippled again. The strange feeling prompted him to blink to the window and look at the sky.
In the gloomy afternoon of a winter day, a glittering light seemed to have flashed in the high sky.
It might've escaped everybody else's attention, but Belkovsky, as the strongest top legend, certainly had no trouble distinguishing it. He squinted and said, ”Has the artificial planet exploded?
”Also, the explosion is as powerful as legendary!
”Those heretics of the South Church did not even cast any divine power to eliminate the effects? They couldn't have been that dumb, could they?”
He suddenly felt lucky that they did not take action just now. Otherwise, not only would their effort have been in vain, but they would have also exposed their intention and pissed of the Congress of Magic.
Although other interests would still maintain their cooperation, it was possible that the Congress of Magic would return the ”favor” someday.
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On the empty orbit, Saint Kati, Astira, and the other people, who stayed on alert far away, sensed the anomaly of the artificial planet when they sensed the overwhelming heat coming at them. The surging energy storm swept out like a torrent.
”Damn it!”
”How could this happen?”
Their divine items were triggered as they exclaimed to themselves, before they were all drowned by the storm of energy.
Fernando and Hathaway's fission reactor was mostly based on reverse engineering on ”Atomic Fission” and their own studies on the fission reaction. They had a rough idea about the role that neutrons played, but they were still far away from utilizing it steadily. To quote Lucien, the core of their fission reactor was essentially an atomic bomb, whose energy was slowly released by magic. That was why accidents happened all the time and legendary explosions were generated.
When the Purge Cross eliminated the magic circles outside and stopped magic from blocking the reactions, the ”failed reactor” inside the artificial planet began to function. At this moment, the elimination effect hadn't reached the core and could not eliminate the reactor magic circle inside.