Guznader The face under the hood wrinkled slightly. After a short pause, he continued to say in a joking tone:
"Ancient Magekind's process of dominating Astral Realm was not as smooth as you imagined. During the years of their rise, they encountered countless unimaginable obstacles and many respectable and powerful enemies. Among them, the most deadly and dangerous one is none other than [Witch Plane]!"
Guznader completely ignored Ian's fierce eyes that seemed to be capable of killing people, and sneered to himself:
"In the battle to conquer that plane, Magekind paid an unprecedentedly heavy price. Even in a strict sense, they did not achieve the final victory at all. Do you want to know why?"
I don't care whether Ian will answer at all, because all Guznader wants is to delay:
"Because that crazy witch queen actually sacrificed the origin of the entire plane at the last moment of her defeat, casting an extremely terrifying ultimate curse on Magekind! To be precise, she directly cursed the source of Magekind's bloodline!
Therefore, after the war, Magekind not only failed to obtain that powerful plane, but the whole family was burdened with a vicious Bloodline Curse. If it were me, I would definitely define this war as a disastrous defeat, wouldn't it?"
"After experiencing that incident, in order to completely eradicate this Bloodline Curse, Magekind began to study blood science in depth like an obsession. Of course, they did succeed in the end, but they also paid an immeasurable price for it."
"In order to dilute and break the curse, Magekind was extremely frantic and forcibly transplanted their cursed blood into countless innocent races in the universe. If my deduction is correct... these humans on the earth are actually all descendants of the experimental subjects used by Dark Age and Magekind to share the curse!"
However, at this time, Ian was not listening to this madman's tirade at all. He was staring at the holographic screen in front of him, his eyes wide open!
The picture displayed on the screen is the giant Space Elevator on Earth Brazil Region! Just now, an extremely terrifying series of explosions occurred in that magnificent building!
Hundreds of millions of the Empire citizens were torn to pieces by high temperatures and shock waves in an instant! If not for the fact that all citizens of the Empire have now popularized magic education and have a certain ability to protect themselves, the number of casualties in this disaster will definitely increase several times!
"This is a decisive situation that I put in unimaginable effort to set up. In order to get rid of the watertight security defense on your planet, I even had to forcibly lower my spiritual mind and work with one of Abyss to take charge of [Curse Authority Lord Demons of ] made an extremely dirty deal, and then barely controlled those who had authority." Guznader was still chattering and showing off his "masterpiece".
Ian's fists were clenched tightly, and his nails almost pierced the palms of his hands.
In this duel, he really underestimated his opponent! In his subconscious mind, Guznader was just a chess piece that he used to isolate Milky Way Galaxy and cover the development of the Empire. Since this battle still needed to be recorded as political material for the Empire's invincible propaganda, he always had a cat-and-mouse mentality during the fight.
Even though he had been keenly aware that the other party was stalling for time, he naively thought that Guznader's trump card must be hidden in the five remaining star systems outside. He never thought that this madman would be able to bypass all the defenses, steal directly, and target the earth!
How is this possible?! After the last attack, he has obviously upgraded the defense system of the earth and the entire Empire to the highest level. How can he still get in? As for the so-called remaining bloodline of Magekind?
After learning about the glorious history of Magekind in the world of Naruto, Ian did have doubts about the hidden dangers of his own bloodline. Therefore, after returning to the Empire, he immediately set up a top-notch scientific research team to deeply analyze the bloodline genes to ensure that the [Ultimate Magic Body] he was building would not leave any flaws.
But until today, Empire's most advanced instruments have not detected any traces of the magic curse in their blood!
"Boss, we have the latest battle report." Morgana's voice interrupted Ian's thoughts.
Ian turned his head sharply to look at her.
"We have successfully captured all other attackers lurking throughout the Empire."
"What are the casualties?"
"Due to timely response, the number of casualties in other locations was controlled to less than 100 people."
Upon hearing this news, Guznader's skeletal face changed drastically in an instant! His original plan was to use these insiders who were secretly controlled by him with the Abyss curse to create large-scale chaos in the Empire hinterland, and then destroy these billions of civilians As a hostage, he came to blackmail this Arcane Emperor! But he never expected that except for the detonation in the Brazil area, all the other trump cards in his hand would be uprooted by the intelligence department of the Empire in the blink of an eye!
"Very good." Ian's voice was surprisingly calm, but under that calmness, there was suppressed a terrifying murderous intention that could make the entire universe tremble. "Charge the main gun and fire! Eradicate Guznader and the few shabby galaxies outside him from this universe completely!"
Morgana opened her mouth, as if she wanted to dissuade something, but looking at Ian's scarlet eyes, she finally closed her mouth obediently. She immediately took over the highest authority of Netheril Floating City, pushing Planet-Killer Cannon's energy output to the limit.
"Boom--!"
A dazzling pillar of pure white light instantly penetrated the universe! In the face of this destructive energy that exceeded the limits of mortal cognition, Guznader's five remaining star systems, and even the Mirror Dimension they were in, were all completely torn apart in an instant, and Annihilation became nothingness!
However, even in such violent destruction, Morgana, who still maintained absolute sanity, still absorbed something extremely secretly from the wreckage of Guznader that was about to completely dissipate.
At the same time, Ian personally controlled Floating City, directly tearing apart space and returning to Earth in an instant.
When he was suspended above the tragic ruins of Brazil Region Space Elevator, and when he heard with his own ears the heart-rending wails of countless injured people below, as well as the shrill cries of the families of the deceased, an unspeakable sharp pain crushed his heart like a sharp blade.
As a Empire supreme ruler, his only duty is to protect his people. But today, he failed miserably.
"Come here!"
Ian roared angrily, and [Time Scepter], which symbolized Law of Time, instantly appeared in his palm. He knew very well that Guznader was extremely ruthless when detonating, and directly gave [True Death] to those who died, so it was meaningless to use Death God Scepter to revive the souls at this time.
The only thing that can save all this is to reverse time!
Ian pushed his own Law of Time to the extreme, and under the terrifying increase of the scepter, he forcibly condensed a huge illusory clock on the sky of Brazil Region!
The hands of the clock began to move counterclockwise with difficulty. At this moment of reversing cause and effect, Ian immediately felt a suffocating resistance as huge as the roaring waves of the angry sea. The underlying laws of the entire universe were frantically preventing him from turning back time!
But Ian doesn't care at all.
"Unlock the seal and push Aether Core's power to the limit of overload!" Ian roared at the communicator. Morgana hesitated to speak again, but in the end silently chose to execute the order.
Infused with the terrifying energy of the overloaded core of Tenth Tier, Ian pushed the power of Law of Time to unprecedented limits.
However, in this universe, the greater the cause and effect you are trying to reverse, the more terrifying the backlash of the laws you face. Gradually, Ian feels that he can no longer hold on, but he will never allow himself to give up!
He frantically activated the Arcane Spark in his body and forcibly activated [Karma Amplification]! Immediately afterwards, he even used the forbidden secret technique exchanged from Akashic Records to forcibly extract all Empire drew an extremely weak source of magic power from all the citizens and concentrated it on himself! Then, he completely took over the Aether Mana Network of the entire Milky Way Galaxy, frantically squeezing the Cosmic Energy!
In the end, he even placed his Soul Link on the other two Floating City, desperately extracting their backup energy!
After gathering such a shocking amount of energy, Ian directly entered [Magic Sage Mode], forcibly raising his micro-manipulation and control of energy to the realm of God!
"Crack!"
Suddenly, an extremely clear cracking sound came from the depths of Ian's soul. It was like the sound of some kind of taboo shackles being forcibly broken! What followed was an extreme terror that could freeze the soul!
His [Cosmic Perception] was passively triggered. In that extremely brief extra-dimensional vision, he saw with horror a huge machine with an extremely strange shape and an ancient atmosphere, and his name "Lynn Bones" was flashing on the death list of that machine!
He didn't know what the weird machine was, didn't know which dimension the picture belonged to, and he didn't know why his name was recorded. But his instinct to call the police frantically told him that he was in big trouble!
However, now Ian can no longer care about these distant crises.
He gritted his teeth and devoted all his attention to reversing time. After suffering for more than half an hour, this forbidden magic that could be called heaven-defying was finally completed!
He watched with his own eyes as the mutilated corpses in the ruins were put back together as if they were rewinding, and he watched the dead people regain their breath one by one. The magnificent space station that was blown into two pieces also restored its original grand posture as if it had gone back in time, as if the tragic disaster was just a false alarm and a nightmare.
However, Ian was keenly aware of something amiss.
"What's wrong?" Ian's voice was extremely hoarse.
Morgana was silent for a while, then spoke with difficulty to report, "According to the preliminary scanning comparison of the system... there are more than three million citizens who have not been targeted by Resurrection."
"What?!"
Although the figure of three million seems to be a miracle compared with the previous horrific casualties of hundreds of millions, for an empire that values the lives of its people, this is still an astronomical number that is enough to cause collapse.
"Can you find out the reason?" Ian's voice was trembling.
"There are currently no samples in the database for reference... Insufficient data to analyze."
Ian's face was as heavy as water. He raised Time Scepter again in disbelief, and desperately activated his magic power, trying to forcefully bring back the three million people who had disappeared. However, no matter how hard he tried, the flow of time in this space seemed to be welded to death, and there was no response at all.
Unwilling to give up, he even tried to combine Time Scepter and Death God Scepter to activate the forbidden spell, but the result was still hopelessly futile.
In the end, Ian lowered his hands feebly and let out a long sigh full of deep exhaustion and self-blame. Then, his figure disappeared from the place.
After the disaster, there were still countless messes waiting for him to clean up. When he returned to the highest combat conference room, Empire all the military and political bosses with the highest authority were already sitting there waiting for him with livid faces.
Ian silently walked to his supreme throne and sat down heavily. His face was so gloomy that it seemed like it could drip water. The entire conference room was silent, and even the sound of a pin falling to the ground could be clearly heard. Because no one present had expected that the final battle, which was originally regarded as the coronation ceremony of the Empire, would end in such a tragic and extreme tragedy.
After spending more than ten minutes in suffocating silence, Ian took a deep breath and was about to speak to break the deadlock, but suddenly froze.
The next second, his consciousness was forcibly pulled into a pure white mysterious space.
"Klonai?"
"My time is very tight, I'll keep my story short!" Cosmic Will Klonai's voice sounded extremely anxious. Ian was even horrified to see that on the white wrist of this supreme being, several law chains exuding the breath of terrifying laws appeared loomingly!
"Your desperate actions just now completely broke [Fundamental Law of Spacetime Continuity] in this plane! [Guardians] in this plane have been alarmed, and they will come to kill you soon!"
"Guardians?! What the hell is that?" Ian was shocked.
"They are the only ones that exist in this plane...[Eleventh Tier]!"
"What?! Didn't you swear to me before that this plane doesn't exist at all Eleventh Tier?!" Ian felt like he had been deceived.
"Because of an extremely ancient ancient contract, they can [only] show the terrifying power of Eleventh Tier in this specific plane! Once they leave this plane, they are at best the top group of Tenth Tier gods among the Astral Realm and will never be able to display the power of Eleventh Tier!" Klonai explained very quickly.
Ian finally realized it. He had always wondered why the terrifying civilizations in other planes around him, and even the greedy Abyss lords, had never launched an attack on Milky Way Galaxy A full-scale invasion? It turns out that it is not only because they are afraid of the evil reputation left by Ancient Magekind, but also because this starry sky is dormant with this kind of absolutely suppressive [Eleventh Tier Guardians]!
"I tried my best to exploit the loopholes in the underlying code of the universe, temporarily blinding their perception, and bought you a buffer period of about 50 years. If you still want to survive, you must find the legendary [Sage Clan] before the deadline! Only with them can you find the answer to the problem!"
"Can you please speak more clearly?! What are these so-called Guardianss? Why do I have to find that Sage Clan?" Ian asked anxiously.
"I just forcibly interfered with the cause and effect, which has seriously violated the highest rules!" Klonai raised his wrist in pain, and the chain of laws representing punishment became clearer and thicker. "As the embodiment of Cosmic Will, I am set to maintain absolute justice and treat all lives equally. But in order to help you, I have exhausted all the loopholes in the rules that I can exploit!"
"You can only walk the rest of the way on your own."
With Klonai's final instructions full of helplessness, Ian's consciousness was instantly ejected from the pure white space.
When he reopened his eyes in the conference room, for the first time, his usually stern face showed deep Sichuan lines that were extremely solemn and even tinged with a hint of fear.