"Forbidden Spell—Absolute Silence!" Saine pointed the Staff of Ashes forward in the sky.
A terrifying forbidden spell strike that blanketed nearly a third of Faelun Continent's southern region began.
One gray meteor after another fell from the sky, bombarding the region below without distinction.
Besides the vast numbers of Faelun Continent believer legions buried in the assault, hundreds of millions of ordinary creatures were caught up in the disaster as well.
Saine had previously told Rose not to inflict too much destruction upon Faelun Continent's lower-class creatures and to consider future sustainable development.
Yet today, Saine himself had gone against the very reasoning he had used to persuade Rose.
At this moment, after casting this Medium Forbidden Spell in the sky, Saine did not feel any depletion of magic power.
His eyes were tightly shut as he carefully experienced the power of "Ashes."
The scorched earth below, along with the anguished, despairing cries of hundreds of millions of lowly creatures, seemed to become an external blessing embellishing Saine's strength.
This realization lasted several months in all.
Only when specks of gray-white Law of Light gathered from every corner of this battlefield toward where Saine was located did he slowly open his eyes.
"So this is the power of Ashes?" Saine said, spreading his hand and looking at his palm.
Although it was not as overbearing as the Destruction Power Saine had studied in the Despair World.
What it possessed beyond Destruction Power were the unique traits of deathly silence, blankness, and burning all things to ruin held by the Flames of Ash.
"The offensive power of this force is indeed astonishing."
"But to fully grasp it all and apply it in actual combat will still require a rather long period of research," Saine murmured.
After lingering in the sky for