Hermione·Granger stood quietly outside a magnificent temple. This temple was a temporary foothold specially created by Planar Will'Chevalier' for her arrival, and it was extremely rare that she was given certain permissions, allowing her to move freely within a few meters of the temple.
At this moment, she was wearing a deep purple Arcanist robe, and several sophisticated magic detection instruments emitting blue light were slowly floating around her like satellites, continuously transmitting the collected massive environmental data back to her retinal projection.
'It's an incredible energy concentration... The concentration of free magic power contained in this Void environment is actually several times the average level of the entire Milky Way Galaxy.' Hermione secretly marveled in his heart, Crystal's clear eyes Blink showed the unique enthusiasm of a scholar, 'It seems that this is a plane that has developed magical civilization to an extremely high level?'
She did not stop her work and continued to control the detector for deep scanning, "Although the gravity coefficient, ambient temperature, atmospheric pressure, air humidity, and air composition quality here are slightly different from the standard environment of the earth, the various survival indicators of this land... are completely sufficient for ordinary humans to thrive without any obstacles."
"Not only that, precision instruments have detected abundant water resources, as well as many other key life indicators. All of this conclusively shows that humans or carbon-based species with similar physiological structures can definitely survive and establish civilization on this land."
After this series of rapid and rigorous detections, Hermione has built an extremely basic cognitive model in his mind for this plane named 'Aequus'.
"Then let me see for myself what the underlying power system and high-level social structure of this world are like."
She did not wait for too long. Along with the deafening sound of sonic booms in the sky, three escaping lights of different colors, but carrying the same terrifying pressure of destroying the world, shot from the end of the line of sight, and landed with a bang only a dozen meters away from Hermione.
The violent air waves stirred up smoke and dust all over the sky. When the dust settled, the three strongest natives of Aquis Plane revealed their true appearance.
They were extremely careful to maintain a safe distance from Hermione that could be attacked or defended, and stared at the uninvited guest in front of them with a scrutinizing gaze.
Just a few minutes ago, they simultaneously received the chilling highest-level war warning from Planar Will, claiming that a crisis that could destroy the entire world was coming, requiring them to come and deal with it immediately.
However, when they really saw the details of Hermione, these three giants who stood at the top of the world frowned in unison, with completely different reactions in their eyes.
'The energy fluctuations in her body are extremely weird. Although the quality is very high, in terms of magnitude, it is equivalent to a Grand Knight level at best, and has not even touched the threshold of Mystic Knight.'
The golden knight, who was shrouded in the bright holy light, thought to himself full of doubts, 'With this weak strength like an ant, how can she threaten the survival of the entire plane?' At the same time, the silver Guardians, who was carrying a black bow on his back, had exactly the same contemptuous thoughts flashing through his mind.
'It turns out to be a Pure-blood human?' The burly orc lord with animal ears and a wolf tail narrowed his wild pupils and thought secretly in his mind.
"From your eyes, I can probably guess your contempt and confusion about my meager strength. But please allow me to explain that our Arcane Empire's civilization evolutionary tree focuses more on 'Creation' and 'Truth' (Artificer), rather than pure physical fighting." Hermione said calmly in the native language of these three indigenous people.
Before she finished speaking, she didn't give the other party any chance to ridicule, and directly raised her hand and slapped the Snap.
"Boom--!"
Above the sky, the originally cloudless sky suddenly seemed to be torn apart by an invisible hand. A huge building that covered the sky and the sun slowly revealed a corner above the clouds. It was a Floating City full of cold metal texture and extreme violent aesthetics!
The most heartbreaking thing is the Tenth Tier Star Destroyer main gun at the bottom of the Floating City that has entered the charging state! The destructive energy fluctuation that is enough to instantly wipe out the entire plane is like a substantial Mount Tai, locking the three people below.
A haze of fear instantly enveloped the faces of these three strong indigenous men, a sense of despair in the face of absolute death with no power to resist.
Fortunately, to be able to reach the top of the legend in this plane, their willpower is far beyond ordinary people. They bite the tip of their tongues and use the severe pain to forcefully break away from the fear of freezing their souls in just a few seconds and regain control of their bodies.
'In terms of strength of willpower alone, the race that looks like Beast seems to be the best.' Hermione took in the three people's subtle reactions and silently made an assessment in his mind.
"Let me formally meet you. My name is Hermione·Granger, the queen of the Arcane Empire, and I am also Archmage of Seventh Tier." She lifted up her skirt slightly and performed an impeccable aristocratic lady ceremony.
"Marcus·De Luck lowa, the paladin of the Holy Kingdom, Legendary Tier." The knight in the golden armor suppressed the shock in his heart and responded in an extremely restrained and elegant tone.
"Elaine·Silver Bow, Guardians of the Ehere Empire and the Shield of Shelter are also Legendary Knight." The blonde woman said coldly, her eyes still warily staring at the giant cannon above her head.
The strong orc man hesitated for a moment, and then his rough voice sounded angrily, "Fury, the supreme chief of Beastfolk Federation, the legendary warrior."
'The level system is a common measure of power used by most planes in the Astral Realm when communicating across dimensions, but they are obviously extremely unfamiliar with this term, which means that they have almost no experience in contact with external Astral Realm planes.' Hermione's brain, which is comparable to a supercomputer, is running rapidly, 'The conclusion is obvious: this civilization has not yet come up with a true plane-dimension shuttle technology.'
According to common sense, since these three strong men have reached the power ceiling of this plane (Legendary Tier), they should have the ability to break the plane barriers and explore the vast Astral Realm.
However, blindly roaming Astral Realm is definitely the stupidest act of suicide, because in the vast Void, you may wander for millions of years without encountering the next living plane.
All truly advanced civilizations must have mastered the method of sending advance probes to find plane coordinates, or have an extremely strict set of coordinate calculation formulas.
'In addition, the atmosphere between this Beastkin leader and the human knights seems tense, and it seems that racial relations are very tense.
It is unclear whether there are other intelligent races in this world,' Hermione continued to analyze in his heart, 'and the extraordinary power system they use is not pure magic. It is similar in form to the Battle Aura we are familiar with, but in essence it has a completely different core.'
"So, Her Royal Highness the Queen from afar, I wonder what your purpose is in coming to our plane?" Elaine took a step forward with a hint of questioning in his tone.
After all, with the terrifying firepower that the other party had just displayed, which could destroy the world, it would be easy to conquer this plane by force, and no one would be able to organize effective resistance.
"We Arcane Empire never advocate meaningless killing and violence. We are a civilization centered on the pursuit of endless knowledge and the ultimate Truth, and we always firmly believe that 'Equivalent Exchange' is the fundamental law that maintains the operation of the universe.
Therefore, rather than launching a full-scale invasion war that will destroy all lives, I personally prefer to adopt a milder, win-win method: transaction." Hermione smiled and threw out the bait.
"What do you want to trade?" Marcus frowned and asked in a deep voice.
"Anything you want. Let's take the most realistic example," Hermione's gaze slowly swept over the three of them, his eyes so sharp that he seemed to be able to see through their souls. "I can see that although the three of you are already peerless experts at the top of Ninth Tier, due to the limitations of your skills and bloodline, the remaining lifespan of each of you is definitely less than five hundred years."
"And I can provide you with Potions or a magical elixir that will grant you eternal life; if you think it is too expensive, I can also provide you with biomodification surgery that can greatly extend your lifespan; or, I can sell you a new extraordinary power system that can completely break the shackles of lifespan. Take a step back Wanbu Dao, even if your body is decayed, we Empire can even perform a perfect 'body replacement surgery' for you, transplanting your soul intact into a vibrant new body, allowing you to start a second or even countless new lives!"
As soon as these words came out, the hearts of these three legendary strong men who were originally rock-solid could not help but beat violently! Immortality! What a fatal temptation this is! Although their brains are frantically warning themselves that the other party may be lying, what if all this is true? This temptation is really big enough to make them abandon all bottom lines!
"Your Highness, may I ask... does your transaction terms also apply to our war beast clan?" Fury took a deep breath and suppressed the excitement in his heart and asked. Upon hearing this question, Marcus and Elaine immediately secretly exchanged looks full of hostility and defensiveness.
"You don't have to worry about being ostracized. We Arcane Empire are a multi-ethnic the Great Merge civilization that embraces all rivers and rivers. As of now, there are as many as 156 legal citizen races registered within the Empire, and this number is still increasing - including some races that are very similar to you in appearance."
"There is also a clan of war beasts in your plane?" Fury's eyes widened in surprise.
"In the Empire, they are collectively called 'Fur Race', but they are essentially the same." Hermione nodded.
Fury finally let go of his hanging heart and breathed a long sigh of relief. What he was most afraid of before was that the human camp would monopolize such heaven-defying trading resources, which would lead to their war beast clan being completely wiped out in the future competition of strength.
"Your Highness the Queen, I personally have no objections to this proposal." Elaine's attitude softened significantly.
"But?" Hermione keenly heard the hidden meaning.
"However, as a warrior, I am eager to witness with my own eyes what kind of impressive combat power the so-called advanced civilization possesses!" Elaine's eyes were filled with blazing fighting spirit.
"It seems that your civilization has a very strong military culture. Very good, I will help you."
Hermione chuckled indifferently, and took out a Magic Cube-shaped Divine Artifact that exuded mysterious space fluctuations from the space storage ring. "But before we do it, in order to avoid hurting innocent people, we need to use this gadget."
"What is this?"
"We will enter 'Mirror Dimension' for discussion." Looking at the confused expressions on the three people's faces, Hermione patiently explained, "You can understand it as a parallel folded space that perfectly reflects the real world.
There, you can release all your destructive power without any scruples. Even if you smash that space into powder, it will never have even the slightest impact on the real Material World."
"Is there such an incredible Divine Artifact in the world?" Marcus took a breath and couldn't help but mutter to himself.
You must know that the biggest reason why this world has been able to maintain a fragile balance of three pillars for a long time is that the three legendary strong men are afraid of each other. They know that once they attack with all their strength, the aftermath of the destruction of the world will definitely bring irreversible disaster to the entire plane and billions of living beings.
"Everyone, please relax and don't resist." Magic power flowed from Hermione's fingertips, and Magic Cube was instantly activated. Along with a burst of Space Folding like water ripples, the four people's bodies were instantly pulled into a bizarre Mirror Dimension.
The moment she stepped into Mirror Dimension, an imperceptible digital light flashed across Hermione's eyes. She had quietly completed a deep spiritual link with the Floating City main control center hanging high above the real world, and began to fully utilize the terrifying computing power of Tower Spirit that was comparable to the gods.
"Are you all ready?" She held the staff inlaid with the best magic power Crystal in one hand and looked at the three people facing them with a calm expression. "Then, the competition has officially begun. Don't worry, I will be merciful."
These slightly contemptuous words obviously did not anger these three battle-hardened veterans. Their hearts were as clear as ice and they were not disturbed by any words at all.
In an instant, Marcus's whole body erupted with dazzling sacred golden light, and an illusory seraph silhouette flashed behind him. His various body functions and combat attributes were horribly increased in all directions in an instant!
Immediately afterwards, he turned into a golden lightning that cut through the darkness, dragged a two-handed broad sword upside down, and charged towards Hermione with an extremely violent attitude!
On the other side, Fury let out an earth-shattering roar. His already burly body expanded crazily again amidst the tooth-piercing sound of bones exploding, directly rising to an astonishing three meters!
His eyes became as scarlet as blood, and his whole body exuded a bloodthirsty murderous intent that was as real as substance, and he roared out like an ancient ferocious beast coming out of the gate!
Elaine then retreated, like a dancing elf, he drew a black long bow in mid-air. With the bow string Full Moon, a terrifying arrow completely compressed by pure energy condensed into shape in an instant, locked on the target, and shot through the air!
Facing this devastating three-way attack, Hermione didn't have any panic on her face. She just raised the magic wand in her hand calmly.
Marcus was the fastest and was the first to kill. However, at the moment when he raised his broad sword and prepared to split Hermione in two, a solid and blazing pillar of fire that reached the sky like a high-energy laser beam suddenly erupted from the tip of Hermione's staff. With the momentum of burning everything, Marcus was directly blasted away with his sword!
Marcus reacted extremely quickly. He forcibly stabilized his body in mid-air, shouted loudly, and immediately condensed a thick golden energy light shield in front of him, resisting the high temperature of the fire pillar. However, he soon discovered that he was completely wrong - this was not a simple elemental magic at all!
Hermione had dozens of vicious curses nested inside the seemingly violent fire spell! The moment Marcus came into contact with the fire, those invisible curses penetrated into his body like gangrene in his bones, instantly weakening all the amplification states he had previously blessed, making him feel weaker than ever before.
Marcus was shocked and angry, and frantically activated the power of the sacred light in his body, trying to dispel these negative states, but desperately found that it was useless! At this moment, he felt a deep sense of frustration.
You know, in Aquis Plane, he is known as the holy sanctioner who is the absolute nemesis of all curses, poisons and dark elements Battle Aura! But today, the purification power he is proud of has completely failed.
While blasting away Marcus, Hermione didn't even need to recite a spell. It directly used the computing power support of Tower Spirit to achieve multi-tasking and instantaneous Dual Casting, in order to deal with the killing moves of Elaine and Fury.
"Whoosh--!"
A huge, cold ice spear stabbed out from Void behind Fury's visual blind spot without any warning, and went straight to his back at a supersonic speed that the naked eye could not catch!
However, what is incredible is that the orc in a violent state, like a prophet, twisted its huge body in an extremely small amount, and avoided this fatal back stab in an instant.
'The sixth sense? The legendary wild intuition?' A trace of surprise flashed in Hermione's eyes. She clearly saw that there was no trace of eye observation in Fury's movements, as if he had eyes on his back, able to accurately predict dangerous trajectories.
Immediately afterwards, Hermione noticed the second anomaly. The powerful 'resistance and repulsion field' she released was unable to deflect the energy arrow shot by Elaine!
The moment the arrow came into contact with the repulsion field, it strangely disappeared out of thin air. The next second, it directly crossed the distance of space and teleported to her face without any warning!
'It turns out to be an extremely rare space Law Force? For a marksman, this is as perfect a talent as cheating.' Hermione admired in his heart.
Seeing that the arrow tearing apart the space was about to pierce Hermione's white throat, at this critical moment, a miniature Black Hole, only the size of a fist but exuding absolute devouring power, blocked the path of the arrow with incomparable precision, swallowing it instantly like a Pacman until not even the dregs were left!
"Let's end the warm-up." Hermione waved his backhand, and thousands of magic light balls densely appeared in the sky instantly, turning into a devastating rainstorm, trying to blow Fury into a string of kebabs. However, Fury relied on his perverted intuition to dodge crazily in the hail of bullets and remained unscathed.
Hermione snorted coldly, flipped his wrist, and changed his tactics.
"Buzz--!"
A terrifying super-gravity field instantly descended around Fury, like a hundred thousand mountains pressing down at the same time, directly suppressing this wild orc to the ground, unable to move at all!
At the same time, thousands of Blink elemental magic arrows with colorful light weaved a dragnet in mid-air like tracking missiles, completely surrounding Elaine in the distance and blocking all her escape routes.
And at this juncture, Marcus, who finally suppressed the curse in his body with brute force, burst out like a ghost at an extreme speed exceeding the speed of light, and instantly flashed behind Hermione!
'Extremely exquisite tactical coordination.' Hermione gave a very high evaluation in his heart.
When low-level Arcanist faces this kind of melee priest, the biggest fatal weakness is that the brain's nerves Reflection and thinking processing speed are far unable to keep up with the opponent's attack rhythm.
At least this is indeed the case without the Tower Spirit auxiliary hang-up.
A trace of determination flashed in Marcus's eyes, and the golden broadsword in his hand carried the power of cutting off mountains, mercilessly cutting Hermione in half!
However, there was no scene of blood splattering. Marcus was shocked to see that the broken body in front of him, which had been cut in half, slowly dissipated like bubbles in front of him.
'Fantasy Shadow Clone?! How is it possible! When did she arrange it? Where is her true body hiding?' Marcus felt a storm in his heart, and cold sweat instantly soaked his back.
On the other side, Fury, who was suppressed by the gravity field, let out a thundering roar. He frantically squeezed every bit of violent Battle Aura in his body, turning it into an indestructible armor covering his whole body, resisting the gravity pressure that crushed everything.
Although his Beast-like intuition was frantically calling the police, reminding him that danger was coming from all directions and there was nowhere to hide, it was of no use at this moment.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
With the support of Battle Aura's protective body, Fury continued to move forward despite the greatly weakened speed, like an out-of-control heavy tank against the magic bombing. Wherever it passed, the ground of Mirror Dimension was trampled to pieces and became a mess.
Elaine, who was in mid-air, was calmly waiting for the last moment when those elemental arrows were about to attack, and in an extremely thrilling way, he performed a high-level space movement combat skill called "Void Walk", and forcibly escaped into Void, avoiding this wave of killing blows.
Looking at the three strong indigenous people who still showed amazing resilience in Extremis, the true form of Hermione slowly emerged in the mid-air not far away. She gently held the flower of her staff and made the final declaration in a tone like a divine judgment:
"The performance was quite good. But it's time to bring this boring game to an end."