I changed the world.

The magic circle was covered with strange symbols. Apart from Tang Jingyuan, no one could understand what she was drawing. Everyone stood aside laughing and watching the novelty, feeling that everything was full of mystery.

"Haven't Luo Yan and An Huiling arrived yet?" After finishing the last stroke with a brush, Tang Jingyuan stood up, rubbed her temples, and asked.

"Not yet, they're probably still resting," a boy nearby casually remarked.

Frowning, Tang Jingyuan shook her head: "Never mind, it's almost time. Let's not wait for them and start."

As she spoke, Tang Jingyuan took off a necklace from her neck. At the end of the necklace was an irregular stone pendant, which was made of a material similar to jade, was bluish in color, and had irregular indentations all over its surface.

Tang Jingyuan held the pendant in her hand, a strange light appearing in her eyes. The beginning of all the changes started not long ago when she picked up this seemingly extraordinary stone.

That day, she was taking a walk on the hill behind the campus when suddenly something fell from the sky and landed in front of her. When she curiously looked for it, she found this rather beautiful jade stone. Because it had a hole in it, she threaded a rope through it and hung it around her neck.

After that, she often heard a voice whispering in her ear, an unusually affectionate call, just like the call of her parents when she was a child...

Sometimes, the whispers would tell her certain knowledge, which she was sure was different from any human language, yet she could miraculously understand it.

And with the knowledge she gained from whispers, she gradually gained fame, having been ignored at school before. She explained that knowledge as "magic."

She felt that she must have had some kind of good luck, just like the protagonists she had read about in novels...

And she felt increasingly close to, trusted, and even admired the voice that appeared in her ears every day.

It was as if he were the person she could trust most, the person she could open her heart to and accept completely. That was...

Her God!

Chapter 131 The Arrival

After that, she founded a club and became a prominent figure at school. The whisper in her mind grew clearer and clearer; not long ago, she had received information from that voice: a great being was about to descend upon this world, but needed her help.

She was excited; she felt that she could finally do something for that existence!

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"Xiao Qing, you stand here, Lan Lan, you stand here..." Under Tang Jingyuan's guidance, the students stood in their designated positions.

"That's so cool! I wonder if it actually works!"

"If I become a great mage, I'll protect you all!"

"Cough cough, ha!!! I'm the magician Ran!!!"

The students' faces showed no solemnity as the ceremony began. Clearly, they still regarded it as a novel experience. After a noisy and playful time, they finally stood still, while Tang Jingyuan walked straight into the magic circle and stood at its core.

"I want to tell you all in advance that once the ceremony starts, no matter what you see, you cannot stop. Otherwise, there will be serious consequences, and you will never be able to learn magic again for the rest of your life. Do you all understand?" Tang Jingyuan looked at everyone seriously.

"Don't worry! Jingyuan, you've said it so many times, there won't be any problems." A boy patted his chest with a grin and then added, "I'm just worried that nothing will happen, that would be so boring."

"That's good then." Tang Jingyuan didn't say anything more to him, but just glanced at him again. For some reason, seeing that look, the boy inexplicably swallowed back the joke he was about to make and fell silent.

Although two people were missing, according to the information she had obtained, this magic array only required 13 people to operate, which was enough... Tang Jingyuan silently calculated in her mind, then stopped thinking about it, took a deep breath, and said:

"Now, everyone, prick your fingers and drip a drop of blood into the magic circle..."

Led by Tang Jingyuan, all the students took out the tools they had prepared beforehand, gritted their teeth, pricked their index fingers, squeezed out a drop of their blood, and dripped it into the magic circle...

As everyone dripped blood, Tang Jingyuan began reciting a strange, difficult-to-pronounce syllable, while the others, who were already prepared, also began reciting strange syllables that they themselves did not understand.

These syllables echoed across the empty wilderness, gradually forming a strange resonance. As this resonance continued to reverberate, the blood that had just dripped from each person on the ground began to writhe, as if they were living individuals. Even more strangely, this blood seemed to multiply out of thin air, rapidly growing from a single drop into a small pool of blood. Then, as if drawn by some force, this blood began to outline new runes within the magic circle...

The students stared in astonishment at what was happening before them. This was a far cry from the tricks and fortune-telling skills Tang Jingyuan usually performed for them in the club; it completely overturned their worldview, even though they had previously claimed they wanted to learn "magic," and even though Tang Jingyuan had demonstrated various methods that defied scientific explanation. But deep down, most of them still viewed this as a cool and exciting experience.

However, the scene before them completely shattered their previous understanding, as if a voice was clearly telling them:

Welcome to the real world!

However, what surprised these students even more, and some even began to panic, was that they found their bodies were starting to lose control. They lost the ability to move, standing there blankly, repeating the strange syllables in their mouths like a broken record...

As they chanted repeatedly, the strange syllables echoed continuously, and the resonance that had been lingering around them grew stronger and stronger.

The sounds echoed from all directions, layer upon layer, as if it were not fifteen people reciting, but hundreds or thousands of people reciting together.

As the chanting continued, they all began to raise their hands, walking and dancing in a strange posture, circling the magic circle. This dance was quite bizarre, resembling the ritualistic movements of shamans in some primitive tribes...

It's unclear when it started, but all the students, as if struck by a sudden inspiration, gradually began to understand the meaning behind the sounds they made:

"Transcendent being of the void, Nirkicaberon, your servant raises the beacon, requesting your descent upon this place..."

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"Luo Yan, I feel much better. Let's keep going." After resting for a while, An Huiling opened her water bottle, took a few sips of water, and forced herself to continue on her way.

"Huiling, it's alright. You don't look too well. Let's rest for a while longer," Luo Yan quickly stopped her and then comforted her, "It's okay. Don't overwork yourself for a club activity."

Since Luo Yan said so, and her body was really feeling a bit weak, An Huiling sat down and rested for a while until her complexion gradually recovered and she felt much better. Only then did the two of them get up and continue forward in the direction their classmates had gone.

When the two finally reached the top of the mountain, the summit was a viewing platform formed by a large, flat ridge. The ancient pagoda was about 100 meters away to their east. They could reach it by walking across a relatively flat ridge. To the west, the pagoda continued to extend to more distant peaks.

Two girls, panting, looked towards the direction of the ancient pagoda.

"Ah, it seems they've already started..." Luo Yan pointed to the students gathered in a circle beside the ancient tower and pulled An Huiling over.

An Huiling was about to follow when she suddenly felt a warmth in her chest, followed by an instinctive feeling that something was amiss:

"Wait, Yan Yan, I feel like something's not right..."

"Where is it..." Luo Yan paused when she heard An Huiling say that. An Huiling's reminder made her realize that something seemed amiss.

The students, standing in a circle, seemed to be chanting something, but their faces were all blank and expressionless. At the same time, they were all moving in a specific rhythm, gesturing wildly around the same center. What struck the two as odd was the uncanny precision of their dance, as if they had rehearsed it countless times.

However, both An Huiling and Luo Yan could clearly state that they had never rehearsed this kind of dance before coming here.

There was no laughter, no interaction, only synchronized chanting and dancing, over and over again, with the same rhythm, the same pace, the same movements, stiff and rigid...

It was as if they weren't living, breathing people, but rather mechanical puppets.

As the two girls watched, a chill ran down their spines...

"It seems... something's not quite right..." Luo Yan looked for a while, then subconsciously lowered her voice and said to An Huiling beside her.

In fact, she didn't even need to say it. The strange syllables surrounding her grew louder and louder, forming layers of resonance, as if countless small amplification devices were hidden around her, and all the resonances were reciting the same syllable.

The next moment, something even stranger happened. Dozens of meters directly above the magic circle where the students were, space began to fluctuate. This fluctuation expanded at a speed visible to the naked eye, just like a heat wave hitting a hot day.

From An Huiling and Luo Yan's perspective, the ancient pagoda beside them had already begun to twist and sway.

The students below continued dancing as if oblivious to what was happening. In the center of the circle formed by these students, the club president, Tang Jingyuan, was kneeling with her eyes closed in prayer. Suddenly, she stood up abruptly and opened her arms wide!

In the sky, a thin crack appeared out of nowhere, and then began to expand rapidly into a visible gap tens of meters long.

The clouds in the sky began to gather, and the surrounding air currents began to pick up speed...

"The wind is picking up..." Luo Yan looked around with some concern, feeling a little panicked: "Huiling, should we go further afield to see?"

What she saw amplified An Huiling's curiosity, and she wanted to see what would happen next.

However, her instinctive fear of the unknown still made her feel very uneasy, so she nodded and said, "Then let's go and see further."

So the two girls crouched down, lowered their heads, and ran along the ridge to the west, with their backs to the ancient pagoda. They soon arrived at a viewing platform with artificial hills. The two girls hid behind the artificial hills, which were about 150 meters away from the ancient pagoda, and felt much safer.

The wind quickly grew stronger, whipping up fallen leaves that danced in the air. The crack in the sky was being widened at a visible speed, accompanied by flashes of bright white lightning that streaked back and forth between the spatial rifts.

"My God! You are finally coming!" In the magic circle directly below the crack, Tang Jingyuan stared at the crack in the sky with a mesmerized look in her eyes, like a girl in love looking at her lover. Her mental state was obviously not that of a normal person.

The other students were not so calm. They had already sensed something was wrong. In particular, almost everyone felt as if something was being constantly pulled out of their bodies. Although they did not know what it was, the inexplicable sense of loss made them feel extremely frightened.

However, at this moment, apart from the terror in their eyes, they could neither cry out nor move, just like puppets.

Chapter 132 Wrath

Immediately afterward, some students began to convulse. Their mouths were wide open, but they couldn't make a sound. This symptom quickly spread to all the students, even Tang Jingyuan at the center of the magic circle. Soon, everyone was convulsing violently within the magic circle, as if they were suffering from epilepsy, their eyes rolling back, as if they were enduring some kind of immense pain.

In the sky, as the rift continued to widen, something emerged from it after a while—hundreds of black, rope-like objects that resembled shadows or strands of hair. These black ropes, like tentacles, darted out of the rift and danced back and forth, as if exploring and understanding the world.

One student collapsed to the ground with a thud, then a second, a third…

As the student collapsed, a gigantic monster finally began to crawl out of the crevice, and soon it was fully revealed to the world!

After it crawled out of the crevice, the huge crevice quickly closed and disappeared.

At this moment, there were no longer any students standing in the magic circle on the ground. In the center of the magic circle, Tang Jingyuan stared at the huge, strange creature in the sky with a fanatical expression. She looked like a broken doll and murmured, "Haha...haha...you have finally descended, my god!"

It was a monster that resembled a maggot magnified countless times, its body covered with countless dark, shadowy tentacles that danced like strands of hair whipped by a gale. On its body were tens of thousands of disgusting organs, resembling swollen blisters or eyes, faintly glowing, densely packed together, emitting a dim, yellowish light, like countless pus-filled eyes constantly scanning their surroundings.

This monster is estimated to be over two hundred meters long, and it moves freely in the air as if gravity has no effect on it at all.

Tang Jingyuan reached out her trembling hand, seemingly trying to touch the monster in the sky, but her arm slipped down halfway, and she closed her eyes, remaining motionless...

Under the lights of the mountaintop lighting project, two girls held their wind-blown hair and stared blankly at the unimaginable monster in the sky.

"What...what exactly is that?" An Huiling murmured to herself. From the moment she saw the monster, an indescribable sense of fear filled her heart, making it almost impossible for her to think.

Just then, An Huiling felt a slight warmth in her chest, which immediately pulled her back from that feeling of fear.

"I don't know..." Luo Yan, standing to the side, had the same expression, looking terrified, and had even fallen to the ground.

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"Yanyan, let's go quickly..."

"I... Waaah... My legs are weak... I can't walk..."

"Right, call the police!!!"