Desperate Night

Absolute Equilibrium Isolation Zone.

Inside the floating city, within a light window in one of its depths.

Harvey and another young female mage with blonde pigtails were leading Yu Hong to the location of the new coordinates.

Inside the vast, empty, and dark black castle, the three were surrounded by emptiness, without any other figures.

Beneath their feet, stone bricks, each over ten meters long and wide, were the primary building units here.

A large number of asterisk-shaped, diamond-shaped, and circular shapes mingled with various mysterious symbols, scattered all over the walls, appearing somewhat chaotic.

As Harvey and the other mage walked, they suddenly stopped halfway.

"Yu, this area nearby is the front line where our Absolute Equilibrium confronts the Origin Disaster. Would you like to take a look?"

"Is that allowed?" Yu Hong was quite eager to see it.

He also wanted to know how arcanists actually fought.

"Of course." Harvey still felt a bit of pity, wanting to spark Yu Hong's interest in arcane arts.

"Actually, since you're new, you might not understand the difference between arcane arts and spells. How about I give you a rough explanation?"

"I'm all ears." Yu Hong saw that he was in high spirits, clearly entering some kind of promotion mode.

Harvey turned a corner and began to describe it in a slightly proud tone, raising his voice.

"Spells, in fact, refer to all supernatural abilities that can be released. Whether they are innate or learned, they can all be collectively called spells. But arcane arts are different."

"Spells can be learned without thinking. You can rely on talent and brute force. But arcane arts require a spirit of exploring mysteries. We divide elemental energy into many disciplines, and in an extremely specialized way, we constantly delve into and study its essence. Disciplinarization and in-depth exploration, that is the essence of arcane arts!" Harvey's eyes gleamed when he talked about arcane arts.

"Very impressive!" Yu Hong said sincerely.

"It's good that you understand. Arcane arts, simply explained, are the art of exploring mysteries. So for grand arcanists, many things in the world have no secrets. But," Harvey changed the subject, "this is both the source of arcanists' power and our great weakness. A huge curiosity and a desire to explore mysteries will make any arcanist almost unable to resist a strong curiosity. Therefore, many arcanists have gone astray."

As Harvey spoke, he led Yu Hong quickly into a side hall on the left.

Here, there was a floating red oval teleportation gate.

From the center of the gate, a large number of red chains extended, linking to the surrounding walls.

"This is the Principle of Balance. We use the power of multiple Origin Disasters to check and balance each other, forming a defense system that can last for a very long time," Harvey introduced.

"In addition to sealing off the contact points, arcanists also actively patrol the surroundings, immediately acting to neutralize any Origin Disaster radiation they detect."

Harvey continued, "I am one of them. Besides the patrol team, there are also golem masters, who alone can control thousands of troops and horses to repel attacks from Origin Disaster monsters."

He turned in a different direction, heading towards another side hall.

Soon, the three arrived at the second hall.

On the surface, it looked no different from the previous one.

But Harvey took the lead and walked towards the teleportation gate in the middle.

Harvey was at the front, continuing to walk along the city wall.

"This is the Edge of Wind. As the name suggests, it's the front line of the Wind Disaster." He pointed his staff towards the outside of the city wall on the right.

He pointed to the giant black spheres rolling on the gray-black earth in the distance, resembling hot air balloons.

These spheres rolled on the ground, occasionally splitting off many louse-like small dots from above.

Yu Hong took a closer look and found that those small dots were actually densely packed tall black statues.

As soon as they came out, they wandered around on the ground, patrolling.

"Each of these spheres is a unique base for the golem masters. They contain thousands upon thousands of golems, ready to respond to any Origin Disaster monsters that may appear," Harvey explained.

"Don't underestimate these golems just because they are only the size of a building. In fact, they contain self-destruct cores. Once they are in a desperate situation, they will instantly self-destruct. Their power is enough to instantly create an annihilation effect, destroying almost all matter and energy that approaches. Even undying energy will have its structure forcibly broken up. After all, you understand that undying is just a reconstruction, a new reconstruction that is more stable and powerful than ordinary structures. But this reconstruction can also be broken. The annihilation effect can do it."

Yu Hong nodded slightly. At this time, he estimated the number of those giant spheres and felt a little numb.

There were hundreds of these giant spheres in his field of vision, not to mention that this should only be a small corner of them.

The three continued along the top of the city wall.

The scenery on both sides gradually changed from black plains to dense sea of trees, and then from the sea of trees to a desert full of yellow sand.

Finally, they passed through the desert and arrived at the depths of a rugged and steep snow mountain range.

Amidst the white snow mountain, there was a grape-shaped black cavity suspended in mid-air, constantly emitting black smoke outwards.

"We're here, this is it." Harvey stopped, and with a flash of his figure, he teleported to the front of the black hole.

Yu Hong and the other arcanist also teleported over.

"You can also teleport short distances?" Harvey and the other person were a little surprised.

"A little, not much." Yu Hong nodded.

"What a pity." Harvey sighed. He didn't continue to speak.

Yu Hong could guess what he was regretting, but there was nothing he could do. If he hadn't accepted the Black Ship Contract back then, he wouldn't have been able to reach the floating city now.

"When do you plan to go in? Your ship can be driven directly over and parked nearby," Harvey said.

"Is this the depths of the Wind Disaster?" Yu Hong asked in return.

"According to the teacher, it is. It's just too chaotic inside, and the radiation interference is too great. It's very repulsive to the power of order. So once arcanists go in, powerful practitioners like us who are extreme on the order side will trigger a boiling reaction immediately, and then either we will be repelled, or the coordinate entrance will be completely destroyed by the violent fluctuations," Harvey said.

"So the Ark of Salvation is not so repelled?" Yu Hong asked.

"That's right. The structure of the Ark of Salvation is essentially very rough. The original structure brings a more stable and non-precise whole. The principle of the order side is that the more precise it is, the less it tolerates errors and distortions," Harvey nodded.

"How dangerous is it?" Yu Hong asked again.

"I don't know, but that's the price, isn't it?" Harvey smiled.

Yu Hong fell silent.

"Okay, when do we leave?"

"Whenever you're ready."

"Then now."

Yu Hong turned around and headed back the way he came.

"I'm starting to admire him," the other female arcanist with blonde pigtails said.

"Me too," Harvey nodded.

"My father was like this back then. Relying on his absolutely decisive courage and extraordinary action, he successfully escaped the original world and came here. He reminds me of my deceased father," the female arcanist sighed.

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Harvey didn't speak, but just patted the other person's back.

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Half an hour later.

The huge Black Spirit slowly floated, and under the purple halo of arcane arts, it sailed towards the black hole in the depths of the snow mountain.

The black hole had been enlarged many times, enough for the ship to slowly enter.

Yu Hong sat alone in the ship's control room, looking out through the circular window.

Whoosh!

Suddenly, the Black Spirit seemed to be pulled by something, accelerated inwards, and plunged into the black hole, disappearing.

The circular window in front of Yu Hong also plunged into darkness.

But the next second.

The darkness faded.

Glug glug.

A series of bubbles floated up from outside the window, streaking past.

Yu Hong steadied himself, quickly adapting to the changed gravity, and then looked outside.

Outside the window, the Black Spirit was floating in countless liquids like the deep sea.

There were no special colored lines of the Wind Disaster, only countless black mists, surrounding it, constantly wandering like living things.

Below the window, in the distance was a dark and solemn black city, as if soaked and ignited by magma.

The city was mainly in the style of a church, with jagged and sharp decorations everywhere.

Between the buildings were reflective cobblestone paths that seemed to be covered in grease.

On the paths, some strange and twisted creatures were staggering around.

"A city? In the depths of the Origin Disaster, there would actually be a city?!" Yu Hong squinted his eyes, carefully looking at this strange city.

Whirr.

Far outside the window, a huge black shadow suddenly flew from the sharp top of a building.

It was a stone statue with a black body and wings on its back.

He held a giant sword, his face solemn, and flew towards the Black Spirit.

With a thought from Yu Hong, the huge black shadow of the Agris avatar automatically condensed outside the Black Spirit.

Whoosh!

The two black shadows rapidly approached and collided fiercely in mid-air.

Boom!

A ripple of shockwaves exploded.

Agris forcibly knocked the opponent out of the way, but as it was about to continue chasing.

Whoosh!

From inside the city below, thousands of the same black stone winged statues suddenly rose into the air and flew up densely.

In an instant, before Yu Hong could even control it to return, Agris was submerged by a large number of winged statues.

The connection was broken.

Yu Hong's expression was solemn, and he continued to summon Fear Shadows, and the power of the Undying Realm of the Tai Ling Technique poured out completely.

In an instant, densely packed colored mirror Taoists also appeared outside the Black Spirit.

A total of seventy-three colored mirrors, this was the maximum limit that Yu Hong could maintain balance with at this time.

"I've been hiding everywhere all this time, I've had enough. This time, I'll try to overwhelm them head-on!" Perhaps the departure of the team members stimulated his emotions.

An unspeakable oppression squeezed in Yu Hong's chest. At this time, he rarely stopped hiding, but truly and completely let go, releasing all his power.

Spiritual light covered the bodies of the seventy-three colored mirror Taoists.

This summoning was not the weakened version of the past, but condensed and compressed the power as much as possible, imitating the strength of the original colored mirror Taoists as closely as possible.

This also led to a huge continuous output, allowing Yu Hong to see clearly how much his current maximum output was.

"Go." he muttered to himself, looking at the seventy-three colored mirror Taoists appearing outside the window.