Versatile Mage: Get the Desert Emperor clone at the start

Chapter 226 The Encirclement Begins, Target: Silverwing Ant Queen
Deep within the Temple of Liberty, several long-dormant yet terrifying auras suddenly erupted!

One after another, figures radiating vast magical energy, some aged and some majestic, appeared on the temple square!
Their gazes were sharp as swords, all fixed on the direction of Newt Harbor!
These are the foundation of the Temple of Freedom—the Forbidden Spellcasters!
Each one possesses devastating power capable of altering the course of a local battle!
At the same time, the elite force belonging to the Temple of Freedom—the Knights of Freedom's Wings—piloted flying magical artifacts with shimmering magical runes, taking off from various bases like a golden meteor shower, forming a tight battle formation in the air, their sharp spearheads aimed directly at the sea area where the dark silver light spot was located!

In the short time that the Silverwing Queen had infiltrated, Newt was like a giant beast that had been awakened, baring its most ferocious fangs!
The speed of response, mobilization capabilities, and resolute will demonstrated by the Temple of Liberty showcase its profound heritage and inviolable authority as the Magic Association of America!
"How dare she infiltrate the heart of my Temple of Freedom alone?" A forbidden spell elder, who had just arrived at the plaza and resembled a thunder god, spoke with a voice like rolling thunder, filled with a provoked rage. "Utterly arrogant! Today, she will not leave alive!"

Another stern female elder, whose eyes were solemn yet resolute, said: "Emperor-level... This concerns our dignity! The Temple of Freedom will spare no effort to keep her here."

A chilling atmosphere permeated the entire sky above Newt.

The golden glow of the Statue of Liberty is reflected in the defensive light curtain rising on the edge of the city.

A hunt and extermination operation targeting the Silverwing Ant Queen is about to begin in the sea area on the edge of this world capital!

The Silverwing Ant Queen's original intention was simply to conceal her aura and lurk near His Majesty (Qin Xiaonan), awaiting any possible summons or orders.

She had no interest in immediately razing this human city, at least not at this moment.

However, the sudden appearance of the pale golden defensive light screen that covered the entire city, the piercing alarm that echoed through the sky, and the sense that several auras were locking onto her.

The Silverwing Ant Queen realized she had been discovered!
None of the people she had fought before had put any pressure on her, so so far she has a very low opinion of human mages.

But how come the human mages here possess such keen detection abilities?

How could they still pinpoint her location after she concealed her presence?

It seems that human mages are not entirely without value.

But this unexpected event lasted only a moment.

"Heh..." The Silverwing Ant Queen let out a low, cold laugh.

She watched as those powerful humans rushed towards her location with resolute killing intent.

Leave? Avoid war?
Absolutely impossible!

As the demon queen of the Shurima Empire, how could she tolerate the provocations of these ants?

Since they are so reckless as to offer themselves up for conquest... then let their blood and wails quell the emperor's wrath, and offer the first bloody sacrifice to this city that may soon become a new conquered territory!

The Silverwing Ant Queen no longer bothered to conceal her aura. A vast, cold, and destructive imperial pressure, like an invisible tsunami, erupted from her center!

boom--! ! !
The entire sea area within hundreds of miles of Newt Harbor instantly boiled over!
The sea was no longer turbulent, but as if it had been struck by an invisible giant hammer, it suddenly sank into a terrifying crater several kilometers in diameter!
A ring of giant waves, hundreds of meters high, surged from the edge of the crater, roaring and surging outwards like a wall of water!
Two human mages had already approached. A great battle was about to break out!
The one who launched the first attack was none other than the Thunder Forbidden Spell Elder, who had the most fiery temper!
He knew the importance of seizing the initiative when facing a demon of emperor-level power!
He raised his hands high, as if holding up a thunder pool from the heavens! The sky above Newt, already turbulent due to the defensive barrier, was instantly swallowed up by the raging thunderclouds!
Countless bolts of purple lightning, as thick as giant dragons, twisted and converged wildly in the clouds!
"Annihilation Thunder Punishment - Nine Heavens Divine Thunder!"

With a roar, his ultimate attack, imbued with a vast amount of forbidden lightning magic, crashed down!
The target was the silver figure radiating terrifying pressure at the center of the giant crater in the sea!

It crashed down with the majestic power of judgment and destruction! Its brilliance instantly illuminated the dark sea as if it were daytime!
Faced with this forbidden spell lightning, powerful enough to level a mountain, the Silverwing Ant Queen's reaction was extremely simple.

Just a short distance away from her silver armor, visible, extremely distorted spatial ripples spread out.

This ripple is not a defensive shield, but more like a folded and crumpled spatial vortex!

Boom!

The purple-gold lightning pillar seemed to have crashed into an invisible yet indestructible wall of sighs!

Blinding lightning and distorted spatial ripples intertwined and annihilated each other!
The seawater was instantly evaporated and ionized, creating a vacuum zone!
However, the lightning that seemed capable of destroying everything was completely distorted and dispersed the moment it hit the spatial barrier, and some of it was even strangely refracted in all directions!

Like a torrent crashing into an invisible reef, it stirred up a raging torrent of energy and billowing water vapor, but failed to harm the silver figure behind the vortex in the slightest!
"what?!"

Elder Thunder's pupils shrank sharply. Although he knew that Emperor-level demons were difficult to deal with, his full-force attack had actually been blocked.

The moment the lightning was blocked, the Silverwing Ant Queen's counterattack arrived!

The next moment, less than a hundred meters away from Elder Thunder, a huge forelimb covered in exquisite silver armor and shimmering with cold spatial cutting light emerged from that distorted space without warning!

Like the scythe of death, it silently slashed towards Elder Thunder's neck!

This is the ultimate spatial attack technique—Spatial Blink followed by Dimensional Slash! Precise, deadly, and unavoidable!
The chill of death instantly enveloped Elder Thunder!
"The Frozen Throne: Absolute Barrier!"

Another cold, authoritative voice rang out.

Om-!
A colossal, seemingly carved ice crystal throne appeared out of thin air in front of Elder Thunder!
Crack!!!!
The silent blade of space slammed fiercely into the ice crystal throne!

The Space Blade attempted to tear apart and annihilate the Ice Crystal Throne, while the ultimate freezing power contained within the Ice Crystal Throne frantically froze and solidified the surrounding spatial traces, even attempting to freeze the indestructible Space Blade itself into ice shards!

The blinding silver-white spatial turbulence and the icy blue extreme cold air intertwined wildly, as if they were about to collapse at any moment!
But it ultimately blocked the Silverwing Ant Queen's attack!
The one who made the move was none other than the stern-faced female elder who practiced forbidden spells!
"Pfft!" But her face turned pale, and a trickle of blood spilled from the corner of her mouth.

Forcibly resisting an Emperor-level spatial slash was also a huge burden for her.

(End of this chapter)