The flame-like magical energy surging through Lu Yi's body was the mark of his success. The connection of the magic furnace nodes was finally complete, and the second stage of the magic furnace had been successfully activated.
With the completion of the second stage, the rate of Lu Yi's magical recovery underwent a qualitative transformation. At that moment, the magic within his body was violently stimulated, bursting forth.
After the furnace framework was strengthened, Lu Yi's magic recovery rate instantly increased to a hundred times its previous level. Once this new recovery level was reached, it continued to drive the growth of his overall magical capacity.
His magic even overflowed from his body, forming blazing magical flames across his skin, influencing everything around him.
This was an entirely unexpected delight!
Sensing the changes in his internal magic, Lu Yi's lips curled upward into an expression of pure happiness.
Compared to enhancing his physical strength, improving his magical power had never been easy. Usually, Lu Yi only needed to bask in the sunlight to increase his physical abilities.
More importantly, every improvement in his physique brought massive gains in speed, strength, and defense.
Compared to this, the growth of magical power had always felt insignificant.
If physical improvement was like driving a high-speed sports car, then magical cultivation was like a snail crawling forward—completely different experiences.
This time, however, the magnitude of his magical growth made Lu Yi realize that magic, too, could advance at the speed of a sports car.
He estimated that this breakthrough had increased his magic by at least ten times—and even that was likely a conservative estimate. The magic furnace was truly remarkable. Not only could it stimulate magical energy, but it could also elevate its overall level.
"My magic recovery speed is now a hundred times faster, and my total magical capacity is more than ten times higher. Even without considering physical strength, just my current magic alone is enough to contend with the vast majority of people on Earth."
Feeling the power surging within him, Lu Yi smiled.
Only after a long while did he restrain his joy. Glancing around, he suddenly placed one hand on the grass.
A massive magic array instantly appeared beneath his feet, centered on Lu Yi and glowing faintly blue.
Boom!
Within the array's coverage, the air itself seemed to twist and distort. The grass was instantly crushed flat.
The gravity inside the array had increased by hundreds of times, directly pulverizing the vegetation. If any living beings or objects had been present, they would have been crushed just like the grass.
"My strength is quite impressive. If someone with a weak physique dared to stand before me, they'd be in real trouble."
Not everyone could endure a hundredfold gravity. As a mage, Lu Yi could withstand it, but others could not.
Even among the Avengers, Inhumans, and mutants, very few possessed the physical strength necessary to survive such gravitational pressure.
With a wave of his hand, Lu Yi dispersed the magic array, then began restoring the damaged grass.
Lightly tapping the ground with his toe, a new emerald-green magic array formed where the previous one had been. A surge of rich life energy burst forth, revitalizing the flattened grass.
Tender shoots broke through the soil and grew wildly. In less than a second, the crushed turf was replaced by fresh green grass that spread to ankle height.
"Is this the power of magic from a higher world? Its effects truly can't be compared to the magic of lower worlds."
In the world of Fairy Tail, some powerful figures claimed they could destroy the world.
While such claims were exaggerated, truly obliterating a world was impossible. At most, they could devastate its surface. Still, this was enough to demonstrate their terrifying power—especially those legendary world-destroying magics.
What Lu Yi had just used was merely a basic gravity spell, not even a powerful technique.
In the world of Fairy Tail, there existed far stronger forms of magic—Dragon Slayer Magic, Lost Magic, Black Magic, and more. What he used was merely the most ordinary spell.
"It looks like the future will be quite interesting," Lu Yi said with a smile.
He stopped casting and let the magic array fade, then began wondering whether he should find someone to test his newly gained power.
"Things have been pretty quiet lately. There was supposed to be X-Men 2, but it collapsed. There doesn't seem to be any X-Men storyline at all right now."
The original plot of X-Men 2 had been scheduled to unfold soon, but after Lu Yi killed Stryker, the entire storyline collapsed. Without Stryker controlling mutants to carry out assassinations, the plot simply couldn't exist.
Lu Yi hadn't even gotten the chance to enjoy it. The plot of X-Men 3 might meet the same fate.
With X-Men 2 gone, the secondary personality within Jean Grey still hadn't broken through Professor X's mental seal.
That meant things couldn't get exciting yet.
Fortunately, this world wasn't limited to the X-Men storyline. There were many others. If he couldn't rely on the X-Men plot, he could still look forward to the Avengers.
"Recently, the storyline of The Avengers seems about to begin. A massive battle, an alien invasion of Earth—it should be very entertaining."
Thinking of the sudden, intense spatial fluctuations appearing across the planet, Lu Yi found his target.
The trigger of the Avengers' storyline was the Tesseract. The spatial energy erupting from it was now so powerful that even Lu Yi could sense it, which meant the plot was about to start.
Lu Yi was now simply waiting for Loki's arrival. Once he came, the game could truly begin.
He only hoped that day would arrive sooner—even if some people, like Nick Fury, didn't want it to.
Fury was someone who hated loneliness. While struggling with his own inner conflicts, he still insisted on using the Tesseract to develop weapons. He really wasn't afraid of death.