Chapter 835 - 556: Reaching the Peak Upon Entering the Catastrophe Level
Chapter 835: Chapter 556: Reaching the Peak Upon Entering the Catastrophe Level
"Let me feel your new power."
Raylo nodded. He slowly extended his right hand and opened his palm.
There were no earth-shattering energy fluctuations, nor were there any dazzling visual effects. A wisp of a grey, almost tangible air current silently appeared and hovered above his palm. It was only as thick as a strand of hair, looking completely unremarkable. Yet, the moment it appeared, it was as if it swallowed a fraction of the light in the lounge, causing the room to dim.
The dancing flames in the fireplace suddenly stalled, seemingly suppressed by an invisible force.
Mage Delin stared at that wisp of grey air, his body leaning slightly forward. The expression on his face shifted from solemnity to shock, then to disbelief, and finally settled into a complex look of sheer horror!
"This... this power..." He reached out a hand to feel the power.
"Your... your power actually... actually contains a fraction of the properties of the Power of the World!" Mage Delin said, enunciating every word.
"The Power of the World... is the most fundamental cornerstone that makes up our world; it is the physical manifestation of rules. Ordinary powerhouses could spend their entire lives without ever touching a sliver of it.
"Only those entities standing at the peak of the world, those capable of destroying or creating a world by their own power—what we call the World Destruction Level—can truly master and utilize it!
"Even powerhouses at the Half-Step World Destruction Level can only leverage the barest surface of the Power of the World!
"By using it as a Melting Furnace, you didn’t just fuse your Fighting Spirit and Magic Power. You... you actually branded a portion of its properties into your new power during the fusion process!"
Mage Delin suddenly looked at Raylo, his eyes burning with fervor. "Raylo! Do you know what this means?
"This means that, on a qualitative Level, your power has already surpassed the Catastrophe Level! Even those veteran Catastrophe Level powerhouses who have been famous for centuries and accumulated immense strength will find their power Levels inferior to yours when facing you!
"The Catastrophe Level is about studying and leveraging rules. But you, in a sense, can already attempt to use the properties of the Power of the World to alter and define the rules!
"Although your new power is essentially still your own power, it has been tainted with a trace of the Power of the World’s properties! Its Level has already transcended all Elemental Power and Fighting Spirit in this world! In a way, it is a ’higher dimensional’ power!"
He finally looked at Raylo and drew a conclusion. "Although you have just advanced, once you truly master this new power, I’m afraid there won’t be many opponents at the Catastrophe Level who can match you. You are now standing among the small group of people at the absolute Peak."
Raylo withdrew his hand, making the mass of grey energy vanish without a trace. His heart surged with turbulence. He knew his new power was strong, but he never expected it to receive such an incredibly high evaluation from a Legendary Mage like Mage Delin—to be standing at the Peak of the Catastrophe Level.
Marquis Orlando was completely lost in a fog listening from the side, but he caught the key piece of information: his son-in-law was stronger than an ordinary Catastrophe Level powerhouse!
The smile on his face grew ever more genuine, nearly stretching from ear to ear. "Hahaha, Mage Delin is overly praising him. I have already arranged for the kitchen to prepare a luncheon; they are just waiting for us to head over."
After the luncheon, Raylo did not stay long. He mounted Lightning and soared into the sky once more.
"ROAR!"
In its Thunder Dragon form, Lightning let out a joyful dragon’s roar. Flashes of lightning tore through the sky as they sped swiftly toward the west of Baisha Port.
Looking down from an altitude of ten thousand meters, the western coastline of Baisha Port resembled a sharp Thrusting Sword, plunging straight into the boundless azure sea. The sharpest tip of that sword was a massive promontory named Cliff Horn.
At this moment, the area around this Thrusting Sword was already enveloped by a giant invisible net. With Cliff Horn at its center, a radius of dozens of kilometers spanning both land and sea was completely locked down. On land, squads of Baisha Port Knights clad in Heavy Armor set up multiple checkpoints under the guise of a winter hunt, turning away all approaching caravans and travelers. In the sky, the elite Sea Eagle Knights belonging to Marquis Orlando patrolled in low-altitude circles astride agile sea eagles, their sharp gazes sweeping over every inch of the land.
This was martial law at the highest Level.
When Lightning’s dazzling blue electric glow landed on the flat cliff top of Cliff Horn, a sweltering heat mixed with Magic Power and sweat washed over them.
The scene before their eyes was nothing short of spectacular. Thousands of Mages from the Mage City were working intensely yet systematically on this vast expanse of flat land, functioning together like gears in a well-oiled machine. They operated in small squads, each performing their own specific duties. Some were using Secret Silver Solution to draw Magic Power circuits so intricate they made one’s scalp tingle, while others were carefully embedding Magic Crystals the size of human heads into pre-arranged nodes.
The entirety of Cliff Horn had been transformed into a colossal Magic Position.
"HUM!"
A low, resonant hum of energy permeated the air. Mage Delin, along with several Elder Mages who also exuded the oppressive aura of the Catastrophe Level, were currently hovering above the Array. Wearing solemn expressions, they continuously issued commands to correct the minute mistakes made by the Mages on the ground.
"Seventh formation, the spatial coordinate parameters have shifted by zero point zero three! Calibrate it immediately!"
"Logistics team, the consumption of Star Sand has exceeded expectations! Restock thirty pounds to the central core area immediately!"
"Pay attention to the synchronization rate of the Magic Power tides! I do not want to see a single rune node burn out due to energy conflicts again!"
Amplified by Magic, their voices rang clearly across the entire construction site.
This was the deployment site for the Star-Attracting Array. Activating it required not just the power of a few Catastrophe Level powerhouses, but the collective, massive strength of thousands of elite Mages from the Mage City, fueled by an ocean of rare Magic Materials!
"MEOW?"
Coal Ball poked its black cat head out from behind Raylo, observing everything with curiosity. As a Space Dragon, it could keenly sense that the spatial structure of this area was being forcibly twisted and reshaped by a tyrannical power. The runes flickering with spatial fluctuations held a fatal attraction for it.
Raylo did not disturb anyone. He merely stood quietly at the edge with his little companions, observing like an outsider. However, after his advancement, to his eyes—which could now peer into the origin of "rules"—the scene before him looked vastly different from what others saw.
In the eyes of Mage Delin and the others, this was a complex engineering project composed of countless runes, nodes, and Energy Circuits. But in Raylo’s eyes, the entirety of Cliff Horn had morphed into a gigantic net woven from countless lines of rules.
Every rune drawn by the Mages was not merely a simple pattern; it was plucking a specific "string of rules." Every Magic Crystal they embedded served as a fulcrum, preparing to leverage the deeper rules of the world. In an instant, the principles behind this Star-Attracting Array became clear and unambiguous in Raylo’s eyes.
As a former Magic Knight, Raylo had studied basic Magic theory, but his knowledge was superficial; he knew how it worked without understanding why it worked. His Magic Ability also came from his two Giant Dragon companions, Moonlight and Coal Ball.
The Star-Attracting Array below used the entire Cliff Horn as a "tractor" and massive amounts of Magic Power as "fuel" to leverage Space Rules. It was designed to forcefully "drag" a Star from the distant Star Realm straight into this world, much like hauling cargo!
It was simple and brutish, yet it glimmered with the brilliance of sheer genius. Raylo recalled a quote from a scholar in his previous life: "Give me a fulcrum, and I shall move the Earth!" Although the principles utilized were different, this world had genuinely accomplished this unimaginable feat using Magic Power.
Previously, when fighting the Nine-headed Demon Serpent Hydra in the Jade Swamp, Mage Delin had borrowed the power of other Legendary Mages to pull down a falling Star. This severely wounded the Nine-headed Demon Serpent and created the critical opening for their ultimate victory. However, the Star pulled down at that time was, in a sense, a Meteorite or a Star fragment. It had been drawn from the void by Mage Delin’s Lifebound Star to serve as a satellite orbiting it. Only because of this could he utilize his bond with his Lifebound Star to pull down a Star fragment and heavily injure Hydra.
But now, he was attempting to pull down a genuine Star to crash into the ocean. This was absolutely beyond comparison to the fragment he had summoned before.
In Mage Delin’s words, unless a World Destruction Level powerhouse personally intervened, there was absolutely no chance for the fleet of the Light Holy See to survive the impact of this summoned Star.