Richard appeared on a street in Pompeii Town.
Everywhere in Pompeii Town, Wizards stood in place.
They did not appear to be injured, but each of them maintained an almost motionless posture, warily watching the utility-pole-like energy nodes nearby.
The nodes specifically supplying energy to Pompeii Town's buildings were now covered in dazzling, blazing-white energy, flickering extremely unstably like lightning, as though they could explode at any moment.
This—
Richard stood on the street without making any large movements. Like the other Wizards, he remained quietly where he was so as not to stand out too much, though countless thoughts raced through his mind.
What was going on?
From the looks of it, after the spell electromagnetic pulse spread out, part of its power had weakened. It had not damaged the Wizards' spell sources in Pompeii Town and aroused their suspicions. However, its remaining destructive force had still affected Pompeii Town's Energy System.
Pompeii Town's Energy System was simply too massive. Like a gigantic magnet, it had absorbed all the power of the spell electromagnetic pulse.
As a result, Pompeii Town's Energy System had directly lost its usual stability and begun to run out of control, creating the current situation.
If this continued... it might truly cause a complete collapse of Pompeii Town's Energy System. For Pompeii Town, that would be no less than a minor disaster.
At that thought, Richard raised an eyebrow and saw red light flash across the surface of a cylindrical energy node more than thirty meters away.
That change was like a signal, prompting every other cylindrical energy node to "follow suit."
In mere seconds, the cylindrical energy nodes throughout Pompeii Town turned scarlet. The scarlet color then rapidly spread toward the mountaintop along the "veins" of the Energy System. The originally silver-white strips of