Yashan's Past
An even more terrifying energy was released. Within a radius of 600 meters, the temperature instantly soared to a level sufficient to vaporize steel. The overpressure shockwave, like an invisible giant hammer, slammed violently in all directions!
Along the corresponding path, the outer wall of the Sanctuary, which served as a defensive fulcrum, began to glow red and soften with Mana Alloy. In the core area of the explosion, an absolute kill zone with a diameter of two hundred meters was instantly formed, and the oxygen within the area was instantly depleted.
As the smoke and dust dissipated slightly, only a deeper and more menacing crater remained, along with a tattered, blackened, and Shedding Holy Giant Eye at the bottom of the crater, its light dimmed to the extreme.
It has already [Rebirth].
Xi Ji, carrying a long sword, charged forward at full speed to finish off the enemy, much to the amusement of his teammates.
He had only run halfway when the scorching heat around him instantly incinerated the cigarette in his mouth.
Approaching the wreckage, he swiftly brought down the knife!
The blade, enhanced with his strongest single-target buff, sliced through the already severely injured remains of the Holy Giant Eye into pieces as easily as cutting through paper.
Before it died, Xi Ji saw the almost overflowing resentment in its eyes:
Why did you just kill me?
That's not how it works in tower defense games!
You should keep applying gua sha to me and then give me all sorts of debuffs. Occasionally use items to deplete my [Radiant Shield]. My health should still be perfectly healthy when I'm halfway through the journey.
Until I get to the [Tinder], I'll feign an attack twice to create the tension of the final battle, then you can focus your attacks on me and take me down. Then this boss will drop some good loot for you.
Why did you start by bombing me with these things?
That's not how it works in tower defense games!
I don't accept this!!
"You should be grateful to have lived this long. You might not even last two seconds in the hands of some people." Xi Ji bent down expressionlessly and picked up a card from the monster's remains.
Yashan's intangible body rippled, and after a moment's thought, he chose to consume the Tinder Shards to initiate the next wave.
[Wave 20]
A terrifying, colossal creature, over twenty meters tall, suddenly appeared. Its entire body was covered in dull black scales, its upper body was covered with all sorts of exaggerated weapon-like limbs, and its lower body consisted of tentacle-like moving parts. Its whole body emanated terrifying energy fluctuations.
This is a level 10 monster with Main Attribute of Constitution close to 22.
As soon as it landed, its filthy liquid poured onto the ground like spilled ink, bringing with it an aura of Contamination and death.
The [Tinder] of Yashan has been upgraded to Perfect quality, and its flames have covered a radius of five kilometers.
In other words, it has a strategic depth of five kilometers.
But it was still too short. This creature, which seemed to represent disease and Contamination, appeared before Yashan in the very next second.
Starting at zero frames, without considering the initial acceleration phase, the opponent covered a distance of five kilometers in one second and rushed towards Ghost Yashan's face. The ground along the way exploded, forming an exaggerated chasm. The air that was blasted apart was compressed into walls of air, flattening the surrounding ground.
Faced with this level of attack, Yashan remained expressionless, his body radiating multicolored light and carrying terrifying energy fluctuations.
The air, the Mana, the soil... everything around it, even the surging energy within it, suddenly froze, like a flying insect thrown into amber.
Yashan's ghostly form silently crumbled and shrank, eventually coalescing into a negligible singularity. Then, a seemingly ordinary soul flowed out from it.
This is a soul without any distinguishing features, like a pile of corn porridge that couldn't hold it in any longer and was produced by the roadside.
After a moment of contemplation, Yashan's soul slowly transformed into the form of a handsome young man, then tried to transform into a little girl, an old man, a bird...
Finally, an ordinary-looking soul appeared in the spot, next to a level 10 monster that was fixed in place by some unknown force and whose body had been half melted away.
"Very good, the reconstruction is quite good, and advanced Forbidden Spells can be used at will."
Satisfied, Yashan stood suspended in the air with his soul, watching his Forbidden Spell torment and dissolve the giant beast's body.
"Unfortunately, I forgot my gender, my physical body, my relatives and names, and even the original form of my soul... But thankfully, I haven't forgotten my power."
As he sensed this Chaos yet terrifyingly powerful soul vessel, his thoughts drifted to the distant past...
About... a thousand years ago? Or two thousand years ago? He really couldn't remember.
That era was incredibly glorious. The sky was the domain of dragons and Floating Cities, and on the earth, the songs of elves and the hammering of dwarves mingled. Countless geniuses rose and fell like Stars, and the forbidden Forbidden Spells they wielded could destroy cities, fortresses, mountains, and rivers.
That was the golden age of world history, a time when numerous races coexisted.
In this prosperous era, Yashan stepped into the torrent of history.
As someone... wait, what kind of breed am I again?
Yashan was confused again, then realized what was happening.
"Oh, so I was originally human. The Yashan Empire I founded is a human-dominated nation. No wonder I find the life forms in this world so agreeable; they all seem human... My empire is called Yashan, so is my real name Yashan?"
He was not particularly Talent and came from an ordinary family. In an era teeming with geniuses, he was like a grain of sand.
Perhaps in fifty years, perhaps in a hundred years, Yashan will become a Conjuration, and in modern terms, his Attribute will reach over 18 points.
He remained unremarkable; his Forbidden Spells lacked creativity, merely the most solid and ordinary model constructions, making him insignificant among the vast group of Conjuration throughout history.
In the end, however, Yashan launched the largest war of Conjuration in world history, with powerful figures falling like rain, and the once invincible nobles and their nations perishing together.
The strongest among the Forbidden Spells, when converted to the data in this [Survival System] panel, has Attributes exceeding 22 points, pushing the power of the Forbidden Spells to their extreme, and beginning to walk a more unpredictable path, like God.
Therefore, in historical records, that war is also known as the God War or Twilight of the Gods.
From then on, only one Conjuration remained in the world— Yashan.
He established the only country in the world to come, the Yashan Empire, becoming its master and the National Guardian Mage, Command all living beings, and sealing away all Forbidden Spell Spells.
Yashan survived behind the empire for a thousand years, constantly striving to become stronger while drawing inspiration from the geniuses of the era.
Until an unknowable Calamity swept across all living beings, and the Yashan Empire, which had stood for a thousand years, collapsed within a month. This included Yashan, whose strength had grown to a point that even it itself was unaware of.
Feeling his strength fading away, by chance, Yashan saw the only way out.