As the third chime fell, the rotunda was torn into three layers.
At the top, there was still a cracked dome, in the middle it became a snow-covered stone bridge, and the rooftops of Belma Town appeared beneath their feet. The three spaces overlapped, and anyone who took the wrong step could fall into an unknown mezzanine.
"Everyone, stay still!" Lin Yuan shouted.
Black silver magic split into four streams from his palm, each pinning one of the four corners of the hall. The ground that had just shifted closed up again, but the images of the stone bridge and the roof did not disappear; instead, they became clearer and clearer.
Mira's expression changed instantly when she saw the pedestrians on the street below.
It's going to Belma Town.
And it didn't appear outside the town.
The castle is connecting its foundations to the town center. Once the two spaces completely overlap, the seven spires and the entire city wall will press directly into the houses.
Lin Yuan released his senses along the ground.
The number of spatial connections inside the castle has increased to thousands. Each one is changing; every door, every corridor, and even every paving stone is preparing to abandon its original position.
He first identified the twelve nodes closest to the hall.
The black silver magic transformed into thin threads, pinning them back to their original positions.
The bells rang again.
Seven nodes simultaneously disconnected, while the remaining five dragged the new room away. Just as Lin Yuan had secured the right-hand corridor, the dome swapped positions with an underwater cave, and icy lake water poured down along the cracks.
Mira spread her demonic wings and stood above the group, smashing the falling boulders with her fist.
"At this rate, it's too late!"
Lin Yuan certainly knew.
He can see a connection, sever a change, and fix dozens of nodes at the same time. But each chime of the castle's bells produces hundreds of new combinations.
This is not due to a lack of strength.
He was chasing after the entire castle.
Lin Yuan suddenly released all the spatial threads.
The investigation team leader saw the black and silver light at the four corners extinguish and hurriedly erected a barrier. "The fixation has disappeared!"
The hall tilted again.
Mira stomped on the floor tiles, breaking them, and managed to steady herself. " Lin Yuan?"
"Never mind the door."
"What?"
"Let it change as many rooms as it wants."
Lin Yuan straightened up, and a massive amount of magical power surged up from beneath his feet.
The air in the hall suddenly felt heavy.
The black and silver light spread along the ground, passing over stone pillars, walls, and the intertwined rooms. It didn't chase any connection; it simply spread out simultaneously in every direction of the castle, centered on Lin Yuan.
One floor, ten floors, one hundred floors.
The severed courtyard, lava rift, inverted dining room, and countless corridors were successively submerged by magic. The black and silver light continued to pass through the castle's outer walls, touching the coordinates of the desolate valley it was abandoning.
When Lin Yuan entered, he left his magic there.
That was the last remaining section of the castle that hadn't been completely cut off.
He caught it.
Above the desolate valley, the space mage in charge of monitoring was watching the magic power readings steadily rise in the direction of Belma Town. The next moment, a thunderous roar suddenly echoed through the empty valley.
Seven pitch-black spires emerged inch by inch from the void.
The castle did not return voluntarily.
Some force, through the ever-changing space, has seized it and is forcibly pressing it back into place.
A dark silver light swept across the desolate valley from the base of the city wall, climbing up the surrounding rock walls. Gravel continued to fall, and the wind blew as usual, but the people on the monitoring platform found that their prepared short-range teleportation True Magic had completely stopped working.
It's not that the magic is being suppressed.
These are the two coordinates required for transmission, and a connection can no longer be established.
Inside the castle, Lin Yuan's magic had filled every inch of space.
He didn't calculate where those rooms would go, nor did he continue repairing the roads that could break at any moment. Since he couldn't find the castle's next location, he simply sealed off all the possible locations where it could be moved.
The fourth chime rang out with a deafening roar.
Thousands of spatial connections simultaneously broke free. The entire castle trembled violently, countless cracks appeared on the walls, and the seven spires flickered wildly between reality and illusion.
Lin Yuan spread his five fingers and pressed down.
The immense magical power suddenly tightened.
Black and silver patterns covered the doors, windows, walls, floors, and dome, like countless chains running through the entire castle. The two rooms that were exchanging positions stopped halfway, the twisted corridor was fixed into a curved shape, and the connections behind all the doors froze at the same moment.
The bells stopped abruptly.
The situation in the lobby has returned to normal.
The rescued people were still able to walk, and the water continued to flow down the paving stones. Only teleportation, displacement, and spatial folding were completely prohibited.
Mira tried to spread her wings and found that her flight was not affected. Then she looked at Lin Yuan, who was standing in the center of the hall.
"You've fixed the entire castle in place?"
"Not just a castle."
Lin Yuan could feel his magic power covering the desolate valley outside, drawing a complete boundary along the surrounding rock walls. As long as he continued to maintain it, no spatial coordinates within the boundary could change.
A deep, rumbling sound echoed once more from the depths of the ancient castle.
The giant bell wanted to ring, but it seemed to be held down by an invisible hand, leaving only intermittent tremors.
Lin Yuan looked in the direction from which the sound came.
"Before we send them out--"
The black and silver patterns suddenly lit up, and the entire desolate valley fell silent.
"Do not move in this area."