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"Wait." Monroe suddenly realized a more serious problem. He grabbed Ivana's shoulders anxiously and questioned with red eyes. "You just said that those wizards are going to experiment with this magic tonight, and in that place of death?"
"Not bad." Ivana nodded, not understanding why Monroe suddenly became so excited.
Before she could ask, Monroe rushed back into the house like the wind and took out the crystal ball for communication.
"Hurry... hurry! Connect me!" Monroe's face was extremely anxious. He grasped the communicator in his hand tightly and even shook it. He knew nothing about alchemy and electromagnetism and had no idea how to charge this thing.
In a desperate situation, he could only transfer all the magic power in his body into the crystal ball.
Before they went to the City of Fire Oil to become insiders, Lord Gustav had injected demonic power into their bodies through a strange magic potion so that they could pass the wizards' tests.
Only after the mission is completed can the evil power be completely eradicated during the baptism ceremony.
Under the continuous infusion of magic power, the crystal ball began to tremble slightly. A hint of joy immediately appeared on Monroe's face, and he immediately increased his strength.
About three minutes later, the crystal ball, which had been forcibly infused with a large amount of magic power, finally...
Exploded!
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Just as Monroe was falling into endless collapse, the streets of the City of Kerosene were already crowded with people who came to watch the excitement.
"Have you heard? The wizards are preparing to pull down the sun in the sky, just like they did more than two months ago!" A short and fat man said excitedly.
The knowledgeable vendor beside him sneered and said, "This is Master Lin En's magic, it should be called the Great Nuclear Explosion Technique, and it has nothing to do with the sun in the sky..."
"That's the sun. My grandfather saw with his own eyes that Master Lin En flew into the sky and knocked down the scorching sun from the sky!" A young boy corrected confidently.
"This is ridiculous. Where does the sun come from at night?" The vendor was so angry that he laughed.
"That's because... because the planet under our feet is round, he must have flown to the other side of the continent!" The boy still insisted on his opinion, thinking that the wizards must have dropped the sun from the sky.
Discussions and arguments were heard everywhere in the Fire Oil City. Thanks to the publicity of the Magic Daily, almost everyone in the city learned that Lin En, known as the Magic Star, was going to experiment with new magic tonight.
Naturally, there are many people who are interested in this, whether they are wizards or the people of the City of Kerosene, as long as they can spare a little free time, no one would want to miss this grand event.
Even many of the kingdom's subjects came by train to watch.
In order to avoid the tragedy of hundreds of thousands of blind people in the City of Kerosene, the alchemists of the Parliament slightly improved the protective barrier covering the entire city, increasing the isolation of dangerous radiation and significantly reducing the impact of strong light.
"It's Master Lin En!"
A few hours later, someone in the crowded crowd suddenly shouted loudly, and everyone present stood on tiptoe and looked inside, wanting to catch a glimpse of this magic star.
Lin En was still wearing his usual wizard robe. He did not make much preparation for the grand scene. He just took some time during the experiment to do a little cleanup of the death land outside the Kerosene City, and to deter those who had bad intentions.
A rather strange magical beast followed behind him impatiently, its hair fluttering in the wind like flames, and it proudly swung its tail. It was very dissatisfied with the inexplicable noise made by these two-legged beasts.
Naturally, Mutos had no interest in such scenes. In comparison, it would rather stay on the grass of the manor, lazily waiting for the two-legged beasts to fearfully bring it delicious snacks.
However, seeing that it was too lazy and had not been obeying orders recently, Lin En forcibly dragged Mutos out and prepared to give it a good beating.
Lin En walked up to the city wall step by step. The wizards along the way stepped aside one after another, looking at the magic star with admiration in their eyes. The nuclear explosion technique created by the other party was the most powerful magic at present, and it could only be described as a man-made disaster!
And today they finally have the opportunity to witness this extremely powerful magic with their own eyes!
Chapter 464: The sun, the sun is falling!
Lynn walked slowly up the high wall of the Kerosene City. This was the best place to watch the explosion. Only wizards and some guards were qualified to come here.
"Are you all ready, Speaker Vittorio?" Lynn did not rush to meet everyone's expectations and show off his new magic, but asked cautiously.
"The formation you asked me to set up has been completed!" Vittorio's expression was just as solemn.
"That's good!" Lynn nodded.
Although hydrogen bombs are different from nuclear bombs and there is no so-called critical point, theoretically even one gram of heavy hydrogen can be detonated, but before breaking through the legend, he obviously cannot control it at will.
The hydrogen explosion technique used this time also used an 'ancient' and 'simple' method - using an atomic bomb as a fuse to detonate a hydrogen bomb!
This means that the equivalent of a hydrogen explosion cannot be too low, roughly equivalent to the power of an explosion of 300,000 tons of TNT, which is fifteen times more powerful than the previous atomic bomb!
Even with the most optimistic estimate, its killing radius exceeds twenty kilometers!
In other words, if there is no restriction, the entire Fire Oil City will be swept up by the powerful energy wave...
Because of this, he asked Vittorio to set up an alchemical array at the center of the expected detonation point to restrain the power of the nuclear explosion, or to artificially limit the spread of the energy wave so that most of the power of the hydrogen explosion would be released at the core.
This also concerns a new magic that Lin En envisioned using hydrogen explosion. If the experiment is successful, then maybe next time there will be no need to use this almost mutual destruction method to kill the enemy!
While thinking, Lin En slowly rose into the sky under the watchful eyes of everyone.
The citizens of the kingdom who were watching were talking about the matter. Some thought that the magic star was going to fly to the sky and knock down the sun, while others thought that Lin En was summoning a meteorite to fall. Only such power could form a terrible land of death.
Several speaker's chairmen and a dozen great wizards were concentrating their attention. They were responsible for stopping the horrific energy aftermath in the worst possible situation.
The most leisurely person present... oh, no, the energy beast was MUTO. It didn't care what these two-legged beasts were doing. After climbing up the city wall, it found the best and most spacious spot and lay down.
The scorching heat on his body made the surrounding wizards retreat spontaneously, and the already crowded space on the city wall became even narrower.
Yolande and the others dared to be angry but not to say anything. After all, the other party was Master Lin En's "pet". It was rumored that it could chew several extremely hard and extremely dangerous radioactive elements as if they were beans... Any wizard with a little bit of brains would understand that this strange monster was definitely not something they could deal with.
After a short delay, Lin En had already flown to a height of one hundred meters. This time, he did not choose to use the clone blasting method for the hydrogen explosion, but prepared to project it directly!
Lin En opened his hands, and his domain as a great wizard instantly expanded to a hundred meters around him. Then the uranium, deuterium, and tritium elements stored inside began to gather rapidly, followed by a large amount of magic power, which mimicked the various elements to form an oval shell...
In just a dozen seconds, a hydrogen warhead appeared in front of Lin En. The uranium 235, which was close to the critical mass, as well as the deuterium and tritium elements inside were placed at the two centers of the circle inside the elliptical warhead.
"Thunder!" Lin En opened his mouth slowly, and strong lightning appeared all around.
Yes, his long-range projection method refers to the electromagnetic cannon!
Although due to material limitations, the maximum attack range of this thing is only twenty-five kilometers!
But this 'only' compares to the missile's range of thousands or even tens of thousands of kilometers. In this alien world, an attack from twenty-five kilometers away is already extremely terrifying!
But there is a prerequisite, that is, you must hit the target...
Such a long distance and such a fast speed, if there is even the slightest deviation, the final landing point will definitely be very different!
Fortunately, for Lin En, who has the assistance of an intelligent brain, this level of computing power will never cause any problems!
After everything was ready, Lin En raised his right hand and snapped his fingers. The hydrogen warhead turned into a dazzling stream of light amid a sharp sonic boom and headed towards the core of the land of death, the crater caused by the last nuclear explosion.
The speed is Mach 25, which is 7,000 meters per second!
Under the gaze of the people of Kerosene City, the streak of light just appeared and disappeared from their sight, and then they heard the deafening sonic boom!
Only the great wizards could barely see it clearly, but such a speed was beyond the limit of their reaction. Unless they could evade in advance or were a thousand meters away, the moment they were pointed at, it would be tantamount to a declaration of death!
However, an electromagnetic cannon of such strength is merely a tool for throwing!
At twenty-five times the speed of sound, the hydrogen warhead, which originally had a silvery appearance, had turned red. In just two seconds, the thermal insulation layer on the surface had quickly dissolved, and the core of the land of death was already within reach!
The uranium 235 stored in the hydrogen warhead was detonated first, and thousands of neutrons began to hit the radioactive uranium element, breaking it into pieces. Then, under the action of a chain reaction, more neutrons were produced, and the process continued in a continuous cycle...
Within one ten-thousandth of a second when fission occurs, before the explosion even rises, light is already produced!
A large amount of high-energy rays generated by the collision rushed in all directions and then hit the solid reflective layer.
According to the ellipse law, any ray emitted from a focus will be focused on another focus after being reflected by the ellipsoidal surface.
And the fusion fuel is placed at the center of the circle on the other side!
An even more terrifying force emerged from within the nuclear explosion, swallowing up the flames produced by the fission, and then erupted with a force ten times more powerful!
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Ten minutes ago, at the border of the empire, Thesis led 20,000 imperial soldiers and quietly set out. Under the cover of divine magic, they detoured through a valley, and then cautiously and fearfully stepped into this land of death.
"Hurry... keep up, the land of death is ahead, wear protective gear, everyone get through here as fast as possible!" Thesis' voice, blessed by divine power, rang in everyone's ears.
In fact, there was no need for him to remind them, as the imperial soldiers were all holding their hearts in their throats.
There was cracked wasteland under their feet and the surrounding area was devastated. Huge charred and destroyed tree trunks lay in the blood-stained soil. It was foreseeable that before the destruction, this place should have been a dense forest, but now it has been razed to the ground!
The closer they got, the more frightened the imperial guards became. The interior of the Land of Death was empty, not even any debris could be found. It was as if they had entered a desert, but what they were stepping on was not sand, but pieces of broken glass that were gleaming in the afterglow of the setting sun!
After only a few minutes of walking, the morale of the legion began to show signs of collapse.
Over the past two months, various rumors about this land of death have spread throughout the empire.
There are rumors that wizards opened the gate to hell, right in the center of the land of death, and some people believe that wizards pulled down the stars from the sky...
Thesis' heart was beating fast, but he still spoke with forced calmness.
"Don't be afraid. According to our spies' reports, this is a natural disaster called a volcanic eruption, not the magic of those wizards. The protection bestowed on you can resist all evil. Remember that God is with me!"
Thesis spoke in a high-pitched voice, not only to comfort the soldiers, but also to boost his own confidence and courage.
And just as Monroe said, after entering the Land of Death, he did not feel the slightest discomfort in his body, nor did he see any guards or cruising airships...
Everything was going so smoothly. As long as they passed through here, they could bypass the wizards' defenses, enter the kingdom, carry out harassment, and force those wizards to send troops to support, thus creating a favorable situation for the empire to launch a general offensive.
Just as Thesis was fantasizing, a Divine Punishment Knight beside him suddenly spoke.
"Lord Tethys, it seems to be a meteor..."
Thesis looked up in surprise, but saw nothing. The Divine Punishment Knight quickly said, "It's too fast. It was right in my sight just now..."
Thesis did not question the other party's words, but a trace of uneasiness arose in his heart. Then this uneasiness continued to intensify, and the warhorse under him began to neigh violently.
In the distance, the afterglow of the setting sun slowly fell on the horizon, and then another bigger sun rose slowly in front of them!
Everyone present was staring in shock at the incredible scene before their eyes—the sun was so huge and majestic that it was beyond description. The strong light instantly filled their field of vision...
The divine spell that was originally cast upon everyone to protect their eyes was torn apart in an instant.
The eyes of an imperial guard were burned blind at this moment, but he could no longer feel the pain and shouted in fear, "The sun, the sun has fallen..."
Thesis felt a chill running straight up from the soles of his feet to his heart.
"No... No, no! This is not the sun, this is the wizards' destructive magic!"
"Retreat, run!"
Thesis shouted at the top of his lungs, then without hesitation urged his horse to flee madly in the direction he came from.
The 20,000 neatly-lined imperial legions instantly became a mess. At the moment the 'sun' rose, all those who looked up at the sky became blind and could only flee in all directions.
Countless soldiers were knocked to death or trampled to death by their companions. For a while, screams and cries were heard one after another, and the smell of blood filled the entire land of death.
But no one cared about the lives of these people anymore, everyone was running desperately.