496 The Empress of the Burning Valley Arrives, Part Three (1/2)
Translated by XephiZ
Edited by Aelryinth
”Meteorite!”
”Run, a meteorite is falling!”
”I can't start my car's engine... AH, it's on fire!”
”The lights in the factory are all gone, quick, anybody, go and turn off the main switch...”
All of Lehuo Town was in a total mess. The people who were working overtime in the factory had no idea what was happening. They only felt a flicker, before all the lights went out!
Machinery that was powered up through combustion all broke down, including the cars on the roads. As the meteorite in the sky approached the ground, machinery that was powered up with Fire Magic Ores were set aflame by spontaneous combustion...
There were many factories in the area, thus there were lots of flammables around the place. Many factories were on fire, setting off piercing alarms. The workers ran away in panic, not caring less about the infrastructure in the factories!
The fire did not spread rapidly, thus it gave them enough time to escape. However, those who managed to run out into the open immediately saw a huge fireball, like the sun falling toward them, setting the entire sky aflame! The workers had no idea where they could possibly run to, and were left dumbfounded in place!
Luckily, the meteorite was only passing by the sky above Lehuo Town. Otherwise, the town would have turned into an ocean of flames, like Hell on Earth!
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”Oh, mama!” Zhao Manyan raised his head and stared into the sky with disbelief.
The night sky was now brightly illuminated, the hill dyed blazing red by the light of the fire. The group was just discussing how impossible it was for the Fiery Sorceress to appear in the town, when they discovered the outline of a woman standing above the meteorite. She was standing on the meteorite that heralded a great calamity, sliding across the night sky!
Safe zone?
Fortresses?
When the Empress of the Burning Valley was infuriated, human defenses were nothing but mere decorations!
The descending meteorite served as a blatant warning to the humans who dared to touch her reverse scale!
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The meteorite slammed into the hill and instantly razed half of it to the ground.
The villa was protected by a barrier. The meteorite would be reduced in half by the water-blue barrier. As such, the Fiery Sorceress simply aimed the meteorite at the hill instead...
The people in the villa were utterly dispirited. They simply stood there and watch the areas outside the barrier burn into ashes, completely vanishing from the world.
There were still quite a few Magicians patrolling on the other half of the hill. They had most likely evaporated together with it. They did not have the chance to scream for help, or even have the time to figure out what was happening.
At the pool in the villa, Mo Fan, Zhang Xiaohou, Lingling, Xinxia, Chen Yi, Zhao Manyan, Mu Xiu and Mu Tingle all turned into statues, not believing what had happened outside of the barrier!
Half of the hill...
Half of the hill was gone, just like that!
If the meteorite was aimed at the villa instead, could the petty barrier even stop it?
Would the people in the villa even be alive by now?