Translator: AnubisTL
Dead silence blanketed the remaining lands of the Giant Spirit Realm.
The surviving soldiers of the Giant Spirit Realm and the Mental Realm stood like puppets whose souls had been ripped out, their eyes hollowly staring at the vast void Dixon had erased with a single strike.
Their will to resist, their desire to survive—all shattered completely in that instant.
The wizards' Cannon Fodder Legion surged forward like a silent tide, efficiently cleaning up and capturing the demoralized remnants without any further resistance.
Dixon hovered high in the air, nodding slightly as he surveyed the battlefield. It was largely subdued, though its value had been drastically diminished by the destruction.
The core of the Giant Spirit Realm's resistance had been uprooted, and the main force of the Mental Realm had been annihilated here.
His next objective was to travel to the Mental Realm to plunder its knowledge, then follow the map to cleanse all colonial planes under the Triangular Plane Cluster's control, completing their total extermination.
Incidentally, he would also acquire a large number of "ownerless" planes that had already been partially developed. While the harvest wouldn't be as great as he'd hoped, it would still be considerable.
Just as he was planning his next moves, a highest-priority alarm blasted through the special soul link in both his and Obolos's minds!
It's Merist!
An emergency transmission from the ship plane, located outside the Triangular Plane Cluster!
"Attention! The Propagation Realm is undergoing a cataclysmic transformation! Repeat, the Propagation Realm is undergoing a cataclysmic transformation!"
Almost the instant they received the message, Dixon and Obolos—whose senses far exceeded those of ordinary beings—pierced through the planar barrier and detected a terrifying life fluctuation that made even their hearts shudder.
The source was none other than the Propagation Realm, a place they had always believed to be devoid of civilization, inhabited only by powerful wild creatures!
Pulling the perspective back to the area outside the Triangular Plane Cluster...
At this moment, the surface of the Propagation Realm—once a vibrant tapestry of forests, deserts, and oceans—was undergoing a bone-chilling transformation!
The earth was writhing!
The mountain ranges were heaving!
The oceans were boiling!
This was no metaphor; it was a literal, physical "awakening"!
The vast green forests wrinkled like the skin of some colossal beast. The endless gray deserts swirled like quicksand. The boundless oceans churned with waves that defied all reason, as if some gargantuan entity were stirring beneath them.
No, not as if!
The wizards' conjectures were correct, but they had vastly underestimated its scale and nature—the entire surface ecosystem of the Propagation Realm was nothing more than a disguise, an extension of an unimaginably colossal living being!
It was the "Fungal Lord"!
Its true body was the very biosphere of the Propagation Realm itself!
Now, this terrifying creature, which had slept with the plane as its bed, had been completely awakened by the planar chain reaction and ecological upheaval caused by Dixon's destruction of most of the Giant Spirit Realm.
Merist, the seventh-tier wizard who had remained behind to guard the rear, was stationed on the most mobile Ship Plane. She was the first to observe this scene that defied all common sense and immediately issued a warning.
Dixon and Obolos's expressions instantly turned incredibly grave.
They could clearly feel the crushing pressure transmitted across planes, a force brimming with endless vitality and pure, unadulterated devouring desire. Its energy level... far exceeded that of Kog and Hilla!
"In terms of rank, it's still eighth-tier, but this... is on a completely different level from those four we just faced..." Obolos's low voice carried an unprecedented seriousness.
Under the horrified gazes of countless wizards, the fully activated Fungal Lord revealed its true form.
Countless colossal tentacles, each wide enough to encompass a star and forged from mountain ranges, forests, and even oceans, erupted from the surface of the Propagation Realm.
Defying all laws of physics, these massive tentacles tore through the planar barrier between the Propagation Realm and the Shattered Giant Spirit Realm with staggering speed.
The sight was as if one world had extended its limbs to violently invade another!
Below, Jieming's pupils constricted, his heart pounding uncontrollably.
The sheer might of the Fungal Lord in motion was no less than that of the Living Planes of old!
But... a being of this nature was far rarer than even a Living Plane!
On the Fungal Lord's indescribably vast "main body," an invisible maw seemed to gape open.
The moment it appeared, a terrifying torrent of energy—a fusion of insatiable devouring desire and life-assimilating power—crashed down upon the Wizard Army gathered in the Giant Spirit Realm like a galaxy-level supernova!
"Stop it!"
Dixon and Obolos roared in unison, unleashing their full power without reservation!
Dixon raised his hands in a sweeping gesture, the Law of Fate warping reality to divert the destructive torrent into the void.
Obolos transformed into a heaven-reaching Shadow Giant, thrusting both palms forward. Pure darkness erupted like a shield, meeting the energy surge head-on!
BOOM!!!
The clash between these three pinnacle beings instantly shattered all matter within tens of millions of kilometers, even reducing space itself to a stream of fundamental particles!
Yet, the result of the counterattack made Dixon and Obolos's pupils contract.
Their combined strike—a blow capable of easily obliterating an ordinary plane—struck the Fungal Lord's "soft" body, which seemed composed of earth, rock, and water. It was like a stone sinking into the ocean, causing only the slightest ripple.
The colossal force, having dealt minimal damage, was effortlessly absorbed and dispersed, failing to inflict any substantial injury!
Dixon's expression darkened as his formidable analytical abilities surged to their limit. "Energy absorption, Law solidification, high-energy resistance, ultra-fast regeneration, and... area-of-effect energy siphoning?! So many troublesome traits concentrated in a single entity..."
If an ordinary enemy possessed such traits, they would have plenty of ways to counter them.
But the problem lay in the Fungal Lord's sheer size.
Though not a living plane, its body was no smaller than any plane!
The energy reserve contained within was a trillion times that of an ordinary level 8 existence.
The difficulty of fighting it was no different from fighting an eighth-tier living plane!
It wasn't a matter of being unable to defeat it, but rather that if they fought with all their might, they would be unable to protect the wizards behind them.
The aftershocks of the battle would completely annihilate the Wizard Army on the field!
In the instant the top powers of both sides faced off, the Fungal Lord's massive body had already sprouted countless relatively "small" but mountain-range-sized tentacles, which swept toward the Wizard Army on the other side.
"Form formation! Combined wizardry!"
Without the need for further orders, the Wizard Army, having experienced the initial chaos, displayed astonishing discipline.
Under the command of the legion commanders of various levels, the wizards with experience in coordinated operations quickly drew close, linked their mental powers, and constructed super large-scale composite spell formation diagrams!
The berserk elemental power was once again unleashed—Dixon's previous attack, which had obliterated the Giant Spirit Realm, had shattered the earlier elemental inertia, even driving the surrounding energy into a frenzied state.
Wizards like Jieming, who excelled in solo combat, also unleashed their strongest attacks without hesitation.
The [Great Light Phase] array operated at full power, firing concentrated energy beams like a dense rain of arrows against the mountain-like tentacles.
Surprisingly, the wizards' attacks were extraordinarily effective!
As the radiance of the combined wizardry and Jieming's energy beams struck the tentacles, vast areas of "tissue" were visibly evaporated and disintegrated, effectively halting the tentacles' advance.
Dixon keenly noticed this, his brow furrowing. "The attacks are effective... but my and Obolos's attacks are being absorbed in large quantities..."
"It seems... its defense and characteristics are closely related to its own size and energy concentration? The larger the body, the more concentrated the energy, the stronger the defense and characteristics? When the tentacles are spread out, their defensive power drops significantly?"
This discovery was invaluable, but in the face of the overwhelming attack before them, it seemed almost useless.
He wanted to order the Wizard Army to retreat immediately, but against an enemy that used the world as its body, where was there any truly safe zone?
Just then, Merist's calm voice echoed in Dixon's and Obolos's minds again:
"Everyone! Maximum-level impact protection! Now!"
Dixon and Obolos both stiffened!
Without hesitation, they instantly broke off their melee with the Fungal Lord's main body. Their figures flashed, and they appeared at the very front of the Wizard Army as if teleporting.
"Barrier!"
They roared in unison, unleashing their immense mental power without reservation!
A composite energy barrier, so thick it seemed to connect heaven and earth and fused with the trajectories of fate and shadow, abruptly rose, firmly protecting the entire Wizard Legion behind it.
And at the very moment this barrier rose...
Outside the Triangular Plane Cluster, on the surface of the ship plane—which was as massive as a small continent—tens of thousands of formation nodes simultaneously lit up with a blinding radiance.
Incalculable energy was forcibly extracted from the plane core, from the connected elemental planes, and even from the void itself—compressed and then converged.
Finally, at the center of the ship plane, before the muzzle of a super-colossal main cannon over a hundred kilometers in diameter, it condensed into a sphere of destructive light!
The next moment, the sphere vanished.
No, not vanished, but transformed into a torrent of energy—purest of the pure—hundreds of kilometers wide.
The light cannon tore through the void, ignoring distance, and struck the Fungal Lord—who had just ripped through the planar barrier and thrust more than half its body into the Giant Spirit Realm—with a speed that transcended the very concepts of time and space!
There was no sound, for sound's propagation was meaningless before such energy.
Only light! A light that devoured everything!
The torrent of energy, like a red-hot branding iron cutting through butter, effortlessly pierced the Fungal Lord's colossal body, which had been formed from the entire surface of a plane. It pierced through the Propagation Realm where it resided, and even... burst out from the other side of the Propagation Realm, plunging into the endless chaotic void!
The Fungal Lord's soul-shattering shriek, a mixture of countless lives' wails and the earth's lament, lasted for less than half a second before abruptly ceasing.
Its core region was instantly and completely vaporized by the absolute power of that destructive torrent!
Without its core support, its unimaginably vast body began to collapse and disintegrate.
Like a toppled sandcastle, it broke into countless fragments and dust, each radiating the last glow of life. Like a meteor shower covering the entire starfield, they rained down upon the shattered Giant Spirit Realm and the empty void.
One strike!
Just one strike!
Not only was the eighth-tier peak Fungal Lord, whose body was like a world, completely annihilated, but the entire Propagation Realm was also... completely erased from physical existence!
Behind the shield, Jieming, like the other wizards, stared dumbfoundedly at the terrifying existence that was dissipating.
And at the dark gap representing "nothingness" that had appeared in the distant starry sky.
Jieming opened his mouth, but found he couldn't make any sound.
Is this... the true power of a high-rank wizard?
(End of the Chapter)
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