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Lu Ming has always been careful in his verification and bold in his practice.

Ever since he officially embarked on his spiritual journey (referring to listening to Ishtar's lecture on the basics of alchemy for a few minutes), he has boldly put his ideas into practice, targeting his own body.

From blood vessels to nerves, from nerves to muscles, every step was taken steadily and meticulously, tailored to his own body. Now that the ability to 'see' has been involved, from Lu Ming's perspective, it naturally requires modifying the eyeballs.

"...As for how to modify my eyes, my specific method is to create a proliferation (alchemical) circuit inside the eyeball through external nerves, thereby rapidly improving my ability to 'see'..."

Listening to Lu Ming's surprisingly organized and methodical explanation, I realized that he had gotten to this point.

Skadi couldn't help but glance at the back of the group.

The first person she thought of was her Master, Aozaki Touko.

Putting aside stances and values, my Master is a very interesting modern magician.

Not only does it carry many legacies from ancient times, but it also has a very sophisticated magic circuit.

Especially the Magic Eye. (In a narrow sense, a magician's Magic Eye is a semi-independent magic circuit, thus it can be created, removed, and transplanted. In a broader sense, the Magic Eye is something like clairvoyance.)

Orange's magic eye is quite special.

Although it is a relatively low-level Accumulated Demon Eye, it can still be used through its unique internal structure—

Create a magic eye within a magic eye, forming a mirror on the retinal level.

Then, by using the principle of mirror reflection and superimposed vision, the effect of the Mystic Eye can be enhanced, and it can even suppress higher-level Mystic Eyes.

Since leaving the base, Skadi has witnessed Orange's Mystic Eye abilities during this period of frequent battles.

Undoubtedly, Orange's ingenious ideas in this area make her a true genius.

"But there are tricks to how to proliferate the circuits and modify the eyeballs. I need to improve my ability to 'see,' and I need to improve it as much as possible!"

At that moment, Lu Ming also happened to be talking about this topic, and he began to speak eloquently:

"So I thought of the principle of mirror reflection. For example, a flashlight uses the directional reflection of a parabolic mirror to uniformly adjust the diverging light into approximately parallel light."

"If we take the reverse approach and visualize the ability to see as 'sight,' then simply replicating this curved structure inside the eyeball can enhance this specific function of the eye."

Skadi nodded slightly.

Since Lu Ming had also thought of this method as Chengzi, she was willing to set aside her position and praise Lu Ming as a genius with extraordinary comprehension!

"But that's far from enough!"

Lu Ming paced back and forth, frowning in deep thought, and then uttered something startling:

"You know, the field of view of a flashlight still spreads at a distance. In other words, the specular reflection structure is not ideal. So I thought of a type that is more 'concentrated' than a flashlight: a laser!"

"To achieve this, I need to construct an 'optical resonant cavity,' which involves placing two strictly parallel, highly polished mirrors at both ends of the gain medium. One mirror is a total reflection mirror, and the other is a partial reflection mirror. The line connecting the centers of the two mirrors is the main axis of the resonant cavity."

"In this way, a small portion of the light that deviates from the axis will be filtered out, and most of the light that propagates along the axis will be reflected back and forth between the two mirrors, and more light in the same direction will be induced by stimulated radiation, so that the light intensity will be continuously amplified and eventually emitted from the cavity!"

"This laser pattern has a divergence angle that is at least 170 times smaller than that of a regular mirror pattern. If you convert it by the square of the divergence angle—which can also be understood as the line of sight used for 'seeing'—the concentration is at least 30,000 times higher than the previous mirror scheme!"

Skadi was a little dazed until the last sentence, when she finally snapped out of it and gasped. She didn't quite understand the others, but numerical beauty was straightforward and instantly grasped.

Well... I'd like to compliment you, you're a genius, but don't go too far!

If the Magic Eye's stats could be increased tens of thousands of times, and even if it were based on the fact that Orange already had the ability to defeat stronger opponents, then it would be even more powerful.

That truly is a Mystic Eye that rivals the mythical level of Barol's Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, achieved through artificial Mystic Eyes!

To compare yourself to a god with the eyes of a mortal, all modern magicians who have acquired the Magic Eye would have to kowtow to you!

"By the way, Skadi, Ishtar, you two come and lend a hand. I won't be able to see where I'm going much when we move forward."

"Huh? Oh, okay."

Skadi reached out her hand upon hearing this, but before she could react, she saw Lu Ming decisively blind her eyes, and warm blood gushed out from her eye sockets!

The Super Artificial Eye Overhaul Project is now underway!

"...?!"

Since this was the first time Skadi had seen Lu Ming's 'cultivation method,' this deeply shocked the Ice Goddess's heart.

Ishtar, having seen it all before, wasn't surprised. She casually came over to lend a hand to prevent Lu Ming from going astray while on his journey.

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As Ereshkigal, leading the rear guard, raised her eyelids, she suddenly realized that Skadi, Ishtar, and Lu Ming were standing way too close together.

Hey, what are you doing in public?!

......

Outside the snowfield city, large swathes of the southern districts were engulfed in a raging and magnificent sea of ​​fire, flowing between the city's buildings to form a bluish-green "river of flames".

This strange sea of ​​fire reaches thousands of degrees and seems to spread terrifying heat, yet it will take away all the heat and blood from a living being the moment it touches it, leaving only a charred and carbonized corpse.

After Hierro kicked Suga and Olga Marie away, he was also swallowed up by the river of flames.

But she moved freely in the high temperature. With her magical fire resistance, she was not afraid of the hidden tricks in the cursed flames. Instead, she stared straight at the figure in the center of the sea of ​​fire.

A gloomy young man wearing a fur coat.

'Something seems off about you?'

Hiel stared at the youth who resembled an Ancestor. 'The way he's releasing magic so roughly suggests a problem with his rational mind... There's an opportunity! The Seventh Holy Scripture!'

hum-

Hiel's signature weapon, the 'Conceptual Armament,' instantly transformed and unfolded, with countless densely packed, jet-black bone blades rapidly extending to form a chain sword exceeding two meters in length.

The third cause of death: Hemorrhage!

If the blades were split and extended, they could even reach 30 meters!

whoosh-

With abundant magical power infused and strengthened, Hiel approached the enemy's shadow with the speed of a gale, his eyes fixed on the youth, as if observing the soul of the Dead Apostle through him!

The next moment, he swung his sword! The atmosphere tore apart, and the sea of ​​fire was blown away!

This is a divine-level sword technique that Hiel inherited from the 'Sword Monk Beze'—it captures the soul fluctuations of the target and influences them with physical attacks.

In other words, it is an attack technique that directly strikes the soul, and even if a Dead Apostle is injured, it is difficult to recover!

"...So cold... Hmm? Your swordsmanship..."

The moment the young man was struck, it was as if he had suddenly woken up from a nightmare, his eyes becoming deep and unfathomable.

At the same time, a sudden, unexpected chill, the complete opposite of the heat, struck Hierle right in the face!

Volume 1: Chapter 80 It's almost time.

"So cold...so cold..."

Hiel was taken aback. He had just been listening to the delirious ramblings of the young man opposite him during the battle, and now they were becoming a real reflection of his own situation.

The raging river of fire was replaced by a cold and fierce storm!

This icy power is the true essence of this dead apostle's ability!

"Oops!"

In the blink of an eye, Hiel was enveloped by endless icy air, and the temperature suddenly dropped to more than 100 degrees below zero. She was immune to magical flames, but she could not ignore the extreme cold!

"My name is Freud Arhanger."

As the icy power erupted, the gloomy youth's rationality also returned simultaneously. "He's also the nineteenth seat of the 'Twenty-Seven Ancestors' that your church speaks of..."

The principle of icy power was in the hands of Frofor, who conjured a frost-like knight's lance out of thin air and unleashed his skillful close-quarters combat techniques.

'The nineteenth? So this guy is the new Dead Apostle who replaced the original nineteenth, Zelia Offenbaum...'

Hier exhaled a breath of hot air, which instantly froze into frost in the air. Lines of the church's past investigation records flashed through her mind, but unfortunately, she no longer had time to delve into the information that Freud had suddenly conveyed.

If you cannot get off the battlefield quickly, frostbite on your limbs will slow your movements and put you in a fatal crisis!

First, evacuate the area of ​​the icy domain!

“Agent of the Church, your swordsmanship just now—”

Flof's tone was low as he swung the enormous knight's ice spear with the ease of a slender dagger. "It's from a disciple of the sword monk Beze, isn't it?"

Sword Monk Beze, rumored to be the strongest church swordsman in the year 300 AD who mastered divine-level swordsmanship, and also said to be the inventor of the Black Key. He was once ranked as the '25th seat' of the Twenty-Seven Ancestors.

Huhu——

The wind was biting cold.

Hiel was about to speak when he was hit in the face with a mouthful of ice shards. "Cough cough!"

She composed herself, then stepped back quite a distance before speaking:

"You are so familiar with Master Beze's swordsmanship, could it be that you were once a knight who trained under him?"

Froford made no secret of it, "Indeed, the other two weaklings (Sugata Naoki and Olga Marie) were easily defeated, so you do have some skill. However, the so-called 'knight' is a thing of the past..."

"Yes, the knights who once began their training have now become Death Apostles, slaughtering the world!"

Hierl noticed that Frofor's rationality was becoming clearer and tried to provoke him, "As a knight, you should have kept to your proper place, but now you have become a monster that plunders flesh and blood. You have truly disgraced the name of a knight!"

Flof's expression remained unchanged, but he felt a vague sting in his heart, as if a sensitive minefield had been touched, and the magic surging through his body became volatile.

"The dignity of a knight in the past was lost the day the curse of eternal freeze descended!"

Whoohoo!

A bone-chilling cold burst forth, instantly forming a fierce blizzard around them, with icy blades slicing through the air like raindrops, emitting a piercing shriek.

However, during this gap, Hiel finally took the opportunity to adjust and switch to the Seventh Holy Scripture's armed form—Pain!

The black bone armor moved layer by layer, and a magical armor covering her body instantly took shape!

The official name of the magical armor is Virgin Pain, which possesses high conceptual defense and resistance to various special attacks.

Once the transformation was complete, Hiel breathed a sigh of relief. The icy chill was blocked by the armor, and his gradually stiffened limbs began to relax.

but......

"Time is running out."

Unexpectedly, the opponent also uses the sword monk Beze's techniques, and given that the opponent has a large blood reserve, this battle will likely be difficult to resolve quickly.

“Your time is indeed running out,” Flores sneered. “My cold current, like my heat current, will continue to spread outwards, and those two won’t last long.”

It's Sugata Naoki and Olga Marie! Oh no!

The images of those two people flashed through Hierle's mind, and in the instant she hesitated, Floyd's figure rushed up like lightning!

The ice flow sliced ​​through the air, revealing dozens of swift ice spear afterimages!

This set off alarm bells in Hiel's mind. Such superb martial arts! She could still rely on her armor to defend herself and buy time, but dealing with the other two in the cold wave—

Boom!

Right next to where the two were standing, a tall building and a large street suddenly collapsed and disintegrated!

In a mere instant, a terrifying tremor, as if the sky were collapsing and the earth were sinking, reverberated in all directions. Buildings tens of meters high were like paper houses, shattered in the blink of an eye by the unseen impact, turning into countless tiny fragments scattered across the sky.

A large area of ​​the ground affected by the tremor suddenly shook violently, and countless fine, spiderweb-like cracks surged and spread, causing the earth to shatter, collapse, and crumble like mud and sand!

"what!"

Just then, Floyd's charging posture was affected by this strange change. His movements became distorted, his body tilted, and he fell straight into the deep rift valley created by the collapse of the ground!

"Huh, what's going on...?"

Hierre stared blankly at the huge abyss that had suddenly collapsed in front of him.

......

Lu Ming slowly withdrew his fist, while simultaneously wiping away the warm blood that had seeped from his eyelids.

The walls blocking the way, as well as several high walls further ahead, and even the ground itself, all showed signs of cracking and collapsing.

“Ishtar, make a note of this.”

"The seventeenth 'optical resonant cavity' circuit construction experiment... was still successful, reducing eye damage by 3%, but it also affected areas outside the target range, and the deflection needs to be fine-tuned."

Skadi's face was blank. "It actually works..."

The newly completed artificial magic eye already possesses terrifying performance, which completely overturns the theoretical common sense of the magic eye!

However, her constant sharing of knowledge along the way also contributed to this success...