Experiment

The thug Lai had dragged over stood there in a daze for quite a while. Only after catching sight of Lai's icy gaze did he realize that if he did not do as she said, he probably would not be leaving today.

So he could only grit his teeth and follow the pronunciation written on that slip of paper, but... he did not know how to pronounce it?!

As expendable material raised in Bohan, simply surviving in a place like Bohan was difficult enough. Where would he have found the chance to receive a proper education?

Even Fran, who had not yet joined the Mage Academy, could barely manage the pronunciation, but he clearly could not.

With no other choice, after he asked Lai for help, she could only break the spell's pronunciation apart and mix the sounds into other sentences.

She then had the thug combine the final spell according to a specific sequence of pronunciations.

It took Lai a full ten minutes before the thug understood how to pronounce it.

Ten minutes later, the thug's previously nervous expression had settled. Without hesitation, he recited the spell.

From a distance, Lai first saw purple light emerge from the Black Stone Slab. Then, the violet radiance began extending toward the thug's arm.

Only after reaching all the way to his shoulder did the purple light stop spreading.

Then, centered on him, a purple shockwave abruptly condensed. It spread outward, and anything that obstructed its path shattered into several pieces. Even the wreckage could not be found, as though it had vanished from the continent altogether.

Lai watched that power. Since she had no high-grade materials for comparison, she could not directly determine what tier it had reached.

Judging by its range, the purple light had destroyed nearly half a block,