The Arcanist's Ultimate Dream, Mirror Space Descends, and a Deathmatch with the Divine General
John followed the two men to his deployment starship.
"Only one spaceship?" John couldn't help but ask, "I thought there would be a whole fleet coming to pick me up."
"One ship is enough." Gom replied calmly.
John opened his mouth, but for a moment he didn't know what to say, and finally he shut his mouth obediently. He turned his attention to the magnificent metal ship in front of him. This starship was 2.6 kilometers long and 5 meters wide, like a peerless sword with an icy luster.
"Is this the latest model of the HTS-136 starship? I have read about its parameters in top-secret files before, but seeing the real thing with my own eyes is much more shocking than I imagined." John sighed sincerely.
"Indeed." Abiodun nodded, "Although this is the latest model installed, it has already brought countless brilliant victories to the Empire."
"As Empire's most powerful conventional weapon at present, I am very much looking forward to it showing terrifying combat power beyond my imagination." John said with emotion.
"The most powerful weapon?" Gom heard this and sneered unceremoniously, "Can this broken ship be compared with 'that thing'?"
"You are being a bit arrogant. Is there anything in this world that can be compared with 'Floating City'?" Abiodun retorted.
When the two men mentioned the word "Floating City" at the same time, the same undisguised emotion instantly burst out in their eyes: fanatical Envy and extreme desire.
I think back then, on the day when Floating City made its first public appearance in the Empire, all Arcanist looked up at the miraculous with great awe. Creation. At that moment, some instinct deep in their souls was completely awakened, as if a voice was telling them crazily: This great Creation is simply the ultimate romance tailor-made for Arcanist!
From that day on, there is no Arcanist among the Empire who is not dreaming and longing for one day to own a Floating City that is entirely their own. They dream of driving it to travel across the sea of stars, across endless dimensions and planes, to unscrupulously plunder knowledge, and to pursue the ultimate Truth of the universe.
"Do you think... we will still have a chance to own a Floating City of our own in this life?" John suddenly asked quietly.
"Unless you have the alchemy master level to build it alone, don't even think about it." Gom poured cold water on it mercilessly. He didn't even bother to mention the terrifying resources required to build a Floating City, which can be called Astronomy.
Hearing this, John could only let out a long sigh full of loneliness and unwillingness.
Throughout the entire multiverse, there are only two people who really know how to perfectly build Floating City: Arcane Archon Ian, who conceived and designed it, and the chief alchemist who is responsible for turning the drawings into reality - Nikolai Si Flamel.
John knows many arrogant top alchemists, and they all tried to design their own Floating City. However, the highest achievement they could achieve in their entire lives was to barely make a city "float" in mid-air.
When it comes to the core endless energy matrix, the star-killing weapon system, the cross-dimensional navigation system, the extremely sophisticated control center, and the absolute defense barrier that can resist the attacks of gods... No one knows how to independently develop these heaven-defying systems, let alone perfectly integrate them to work together.
Several leading alchemists in the Empire once jointly published a very important academic paper. The final conclusion of the paper is despairing: even if we gather all the alchemists and magical engineers in the Empire and open up Empire's endless resource library to them without reservation, they may... just maybe, they can barely piece together a Floating City of their own.
But the cruel thing is that the final product that was built with all the efforts of the whole country is just a "Sixth Tier" large magic weapon. And most of its functions are just flashy decorations and cannot be used in actual combat. What's more terrible is that the failure rate of this project is as high as 67%!
Once this paper was published, it caused a sensation and huge controversy like a major earthquake among the Empire's senior management and academic circles.
Countless people stood up with red eyes to refute and curse this paper - no matter how ironclad the deduction data the authors produced. Many Arcanist were like crazy, trying to discredit and overturn the conclusions of this paper by any means. Although the vast majority of them were not alchemists at all and knew nothing about alchemical engineering, they just could not accept this cruel reality.
There is only one fundamental reason why they have such a hysterical overreaction: these arrogant and powerful people subconsciously refuse to admit that the superior Arcane Archon Ian's personal wisdom and ability have reached a terrifying level that is enough to leave Empire and all Arcanist combined far behind!
"I don't think so." Abiodun said in a deep voice, "I think we will definitely have a chance in the future."
"Why are you so sure?"
"I think that Arcane Archon Ian will eventually open up the authority of Floating City to the senior management of the Empire. But the premise is that he must first build a more heaven-defying and more powerful building for himself. The perfect new generation Floating City, and... he must find an absolute way to tightly restrain those crazy Arcanists in the Empire who are extremely thirsty for power and may lose control at any time."
"What you said does make some sense." Gom's eyes flashed with excitement.
"I think you think that His Majesty the Consul is too great. He is not a generous philanthropist." John shook his head.
"On the contrary, I think he has the absolute confidence and courage to ignore all threats, so he dares to do this." Abiodun retorted.
John shook his head again. "There is a fatal flaw in your logic. Floating City is already the absolute pinnacle of Alchemy, and it is a Creation that can be called a god. Do you think it can become stronger? How else can it be upgraded?"
"Why not?" Abiodun replied matter-of-factly, "Don't forget, from a strict rank classification point of view, the current Floating City is only an ultimate weapon at the 'Ninth Tier level'. I believe that it is only a matter of time before His Majesty Ian can forcibly elevate it to the 'Tenth Tier level' with his heaven-defying methods."
John opened his mouth to refute, but after rapid deduction in his extremely rational Arcanist brain, he sadly discovered that what the other party said was very likely to be right. Looking back at His Majesty the Consul With his unparalleled experience since his rise, it seems that it is not difficult to accept such a feat that ordinary people dare not even think about. In fact, John has a strong premonition that this day will definitely not be too far away.
After all, His Majesty the Archon has disappeared from the public eye for ten years. Although there has always been a fake clone sitting in the center to appease the people, those high-level Arcanists in the Empire who are truly capable have long known the truth through various secret channels.
Based on past experience, every time His Majesty the Consul returns from traveling abroad, the entire Arcane Empire will usher in a technological explosion and leap in strength like a blowout!
"Okay, the starship has completed its warm-up preparations." Gom looked at the holographic projection that popped up on the wrist terminal, and interrupted everyone's reverie with a deep voice.
The three of them immediately stepped aboard this cold and huge war beast. Gom led John into a specially modified Chamber of Secrets with ease.
"You can complete the binding and registration with the highest authority during wartime here." Gom pointed at an instrument and said.
John didn't waste any time. He immediately completed a set of extremely tedious and strict military procedures and signed a large number of magic contracts that exuded law fluctuations. At the moment when the last contract came into effect, he suddenly felt a vast sea of terrifying energy that could destroy the world and destroy the earth along the starship's magic circuit and crazily poured into his limbs and bones!
"This... is this the power of the 'Eighth Tier bit'? God, I feel like I am omnipotent now! I am simply invincible!" John looked at his hands in disbelief, his eyes full of fascination and fanaticism.
"Every mage who obtains starship skip-level charging for the first time has this kind of virtue. Calm down, this false sense of expansion will soon pass." Abiodun poured cold water on the side.
"Listen carefully, your core mission this time is to confront and hold back an undead lich at the Eighth Tier position."
"It's a piece of cake, take care of me." Feeling the seemingly endless surging magic power in his body, John was so confident at this moment.
"Things are definitely not as simple as you think." Abiodun warned with serious eyes.
"After all, your true realm is only Seventh Tier. Forcibly crossing the level to control and control the terrifying magic power of Eighth Tier will cause an extremely terrifying tearing load on your soul! Although the 'artificial ship spirit' carried on this starship will share most of your pressure and assist you in casting spells, over time, the origin of your soul will still completely collapse due to overload."
"Fortunately among the misfortunes, you have the extremely rare 'Pure Arcane Perception' talent. This means that you can directly control this starship magic outside your body to construct high-level spells, without having to let these violent energies flow through your physical circuit every time. Because of this, you can definitely last much longer than most Seventh Tier mages who have been temporarily elevated. But it is only a little longer, and it is still not enough for you to fight a protracted battle."
"Don't forget, there is still 'Kailos's Poison' lurking in your body. This thing will seriously erode your upper limit of physical strength. Therefore, you have only two choices: either use Law of Thunder to achieve the goal in the shortest possible time. Kill that lich to nothing; or, use all your strength to hold him back, buy us enough time to regain control of the entire galaxy, and then mobilize an army to support you." Gom added sternly from the side.
John sighed helplessly and nodded heavily. He knew very well that the fundamental reason why he was forced to use this almost suicidal method to forcibly create high-end combat power was that the development time of the Arcane Empire was too short. From the local heritage of the Empire, not even a real Eighth Tier bit Arcanist had been born.
At the same time, although Empire possesses Eighth Tier-level star-killing weapons, the flexibility, tactical deception, and fine control of laws of this dead creature on a rapidly changing battlefield cannot be compared with a living Eighth Tier powerhouse - even if these weapons are controlled by the most advanced artificial intelligence.
In this multiverse dominated by magic and laws, great power belongs to oneself, and the strategic value that an individual's absolute power can exert in war is far superior to any powerful ship or cannon.
"As long as you can understand the seriousness of the situation." Gom said in a deep voice, "Now, listen carefully to the next tactical deployment. You..."
After an extremely brief and efficient tactical docking, the war beast suddenly ignited, breaking through the planet's atmosphere like a silver lightning, and then activated the 'Void Jump engine' deep in the core without any pause.
Whoa--!
Accompanied by a violent space distortion, in just a blink of an eye, the starship had crossed the endless sea of stars and appeared extremely accurately on the outer orbit of Red Number Star System.
The reason why they did not jump directly into the galaxy is because at this moment, the entire atmosphere of Red Number Star System has been completely sealed by a super shield that exudes a strong aura of death and is as black as ink.
Just when the starship had just stabilized its position, a strange figure wearing a black and broken robe emerged from the vacuum without warning.
This so-called "mage" has no trace of flesh and blood at all, and is completely a white and cold skeleton. Deep in his empty eye sockets, there are two groups of purple soul fire that make the soul tremble. In his hand, he tightly holds an evil staff made of countless vertebrae, with a ferocious human skull inlaid on the top.
Eighth Tier lich, Bleach's subordinate First Divine General--Tuniz!
John took a deep breath, turned into a stream of light and flew out of the starship, directly confronting this monster in the cold vacuum of space. What is surprising is that John, who always puts his life first and is as timid as a mouse, now faces a terrifying and powerful enemy that can crush him to death, without the slightest fear in his eyes.
As for Tuniz on the opposite side, he also had no intention of underestimating the enemy just because John's level was one level lower than his own.
As an old monster who has lived for countless years, he knows very well that he is facing a "Arcanist"! The gold content represented by these three words alone is enough for him to put away all his arrogance and give him the utmost vigilance and attention.
In the past ten short years of brutal interstellar battles, Arcane Empire has used the corpses of countless gods and Demons to prove an iron-blooded fact to the entire Milky Way Galaxy: with that With bottomless firepower coverage, outrageous tactical adaptability, and absolute omnipotence comparable to all mages, Arcanist is the most powerful, terrifying, and unreasonable spellcaster profession in this multiverse, bar none!
Tuniz didn't talk nonsense at all and directly launched a fatal raid!
"Death Ray!"
An energy beam as black as ink, containing the absolute Annihilation law, instantly ejected from the mouth of the skull on the top of his staff. The speed of this beam broke through the limits of physical laws, and with enough terrifying destructive power to penetrate the star, it reached John's face!
However, the Death Ray, which was enough to instantly kill the powerful Seventh Tier, actually penetrated John's body, as if passing through a layer of incorporeal holographic projection!
'Illusion?!' Tuniz The purple soul fire in his eyes shrank suddenly, and his fighting instinct drove him to turn back to defense in an instant.
Unfortunately, it's too late.
Accompanied by a heart-wrenching crisp cracking sound, the space behind Tuniz suddenly spread out with countless ferocious cracks like a shattered mirror. Before he could make any evasive action, the entire starry sky around him shook violently.
Tuniz looked around in confusion. Looking around, the starry sky was still the same starry sky, the dead silence was still the same dead silence, and all the scenes seemed unchanged. But his keen sense of the high-level undead clearly told him that the laws of this world had been completely rewritten!
'Mirror Space! Damn arcane bastard!' Tuniz cursed extremely Wrath deep in his heart.
In the current intense stage of the Cataclysm war that has swept Milky Way, all forces have long figured out the disgusting mainstream tactics of the Arcane Empire. One of the most notorious tactics is that they are extremely keen to force powerful enemies into the "Mirror Space". This almost shameless space isolation tactic allows Arcane Empire to protect Empire's native galaxy and resource planet from the flames of war to the greatest extent when it bursts out with devastating firepower, with minimal losses.
After all, when the level of fighting rises to the Sixth Tier level or even the Eighth Tier level, even a trace of the energy aftermath generated by the fight between these gods is enough to easily tear apart planets, destroy stars, and even completely wipe out an entire galaxy!
In the previous confrontations, Undead Legion, who had no bottom line, did not care about collateral damage at all. They were eager to cause as much large-scale destruction as possible to harvest more death energy. In contrast, those orthodox civilizations had to be timid and deliberately suppress their own power in the battle in order to protect their civilians and territory, and the fight was extremely frustrating.
It is precisely because of this concern that Undead Legion can undoubtedly have an overwhelming advantage against any civilization or race in Milky Way Galaxy - except for the group of the Arcane Empire lunatics who treat "Mirror Space" as if they were their own home!
The purple soul fire in Tuniz's eyes was beating violently. He stared at John, who had revealed his physical form not far away and was looking at him with a teasing look. His eyes were full of resentment and extreme murderous intent that were almost solidified.