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Jieming didn't hesitate either.
He abruptly rotated the Great Light Phase, aiming its light wheel toward the interior of the camp.
In an instant, he launched a fully charged volley of energy bullets toward the camp.
But Jieming had no intention of attacking the camp. Under his precise control, the energy bullets didn't immediately fly outward. Instead, they coalesced before him, forming a blazing energy shield that radiated intense heat!
This was the primary reason Jieming still relied on energy bullets as his main offensive method.
Energy bullets possessed physical properties. When concentrated, they functioned as a reactive shield with exceptionally high physical resistance!
The initial advantages of rune-imbued magical artifacts, beyond their ability to continuously cast spells, included allowing users to control spellcasting more easily compared to other artifacts.
Jieming had conceived of this technique long ago, but his mental power had been insufficient to execute such a delicate maneuver.
Now, with the Five Aggregates Rainbow Transformation Mirror's enhanced spirituality and his increased mental power after reaching the mid foundation establishment realm, Jieming could finally deploy this defensive measure.
The instant everyone activated their shields...
From the Wizard Camp erupted a light countless times brighter, hotter, and more magnificent than Jieming's energy shield!
Rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble!!!!!
Spanning dozens of kilometers across the entire Wizard Camp, a colossal earth vein formation was instantly activated by three fifth-tier wizards!
The moment the formation activated, the earth groaned under the surge of overwhelming energy.
At the core of this formation lay the Energy Reserve, painstakingly cultivated by the wizards deep beneath the ground for four long years.
With a deafening roar, a pillar of pure, destructive energy, thick enough to pierce the heavens, erupted from the formation's center in the camp's core region!
Instead of soaring into the sky, it plunged downward with unimaginable speed, striking the ground directly beneath the camp!
Crack... BOOM!!!
The entire plane seemed to tear apart under this force!
The terrifying energy shockwave triggered a cataclysmic earthquake deep underground.
The earth groaned, space twisted, and countless streams of magma erupted skyward, as if an entire chain of volcanoes had erupted simultaneously!
This was an attack launched from within the plane, targeting the earth vein below.
An attack capable of piercing through the planet's core!
Immediately afterward, an endless, terrifying aftershock, carrying a chaotic mix of magma and shattered rock, radiated outward in a shockwave, spreading madly in all directions!
The "Great Light Phase" energy shield before Jieming was tossed about like a tiny boat in a raging sea, buffeted violently by the monstrous shockwave.
The shield's light flickered violently, as if it were glass on the verge of shattering! Jieming's muscles tensed, veins bulged on his forehead, and he poured every ounce of his strength into maintaining this final defense!
But Jieming was only enduring the second wave of the aftershock.
The defense node before him was the first to bear the brunt of this cataclysmic force!
Even with the node's formidable defenses, it emitted a pained groan under the overwhelming pressure!
The energy field strained beyond its limits, emitting a sickening "crackling" sound!
"Aaaaaah!"
The surrounding wizards, caught in the shockwave, strained every fiber of their being to maintain their defenses.
Several, unprepared or with insufficient protection, let out agonizing screams as their shields shattered instantly, their fleshly bodies torn apart by the force.
As the aftershocks gradually subsided, Jieming struggled to regain his footing.
Suppressing the boiling blood within him, he turned his shocked gaze toward the former location of the Wizard Camp.
Where the massive fortress of the Wizard Camp had once stood... nothing remained.
In its place, the hundreds of square kilometers where the camp had been situated had been violently carved into a bottomless, colossal sinkhole.
Within the crater, molten magma still churned, its fiery energy radiating outward, scorching the land into a blackened wasteland.
It was as if... the very skeleton of the plane had been pierced by this single strike!
After the cataclysmic blow, Jieming stared into the terrifying abyss that seemed to have pierced the entire plane. His heart pounded with an overwhelming sense of awe and dread.
Could it be that the true rulers of this plane are actually hidden beneath the surface? Jieming couldn't help but wonder as he witnessed the terrifying attack.
Moments after the cataclysmic shockwaves subsided, Jieming suddenly felt a strange, indescribable "distortion."
It was a sensation even more elusive than the earlier vague "time stop," as if the very foundations of the plane's existence were being silently manipulated and altered by an invisible force.
Instinctively following this sensation, he glanced upward.
The humming node core, despite having endured the earth-shattering explosion, still flickered with a faint glow.
However, the frequency of its light pulsed erratically, as if disrupted by some interference.
Even more startling was the sudden movement of the massive dust cloud on the horizon, which had been stirred up by the movements of the lava giant and snow monster legions.
Jieming realized with a jolt: The time stop has been lifted!
Jieming couldn't help but frown, his gaze sweeping over the corpses of lava giants and snow monsters that had survived the earlier attack.
Although both monster legions had suffered heavy losses, with many giants and snow monsters torn to shreds by the energy attack's aftershocks, Jieming felt it wasn't nearly enough.
"This doesn't make sense..." he muttered to himself.
Drawing on his understanding of energy fields and runes, a strong sense of doubt arose within him:
"Even a planar-Level attack like that one was targeted at a specific underground area. Unless it directly struck the enemy's energy field core, there's no reason why the time-stop energy fields surrounding those monsters—which have been active for so long—should have been so easily neutralized."
A time-stop domain, especially one as vast as this, qualifying as a strategic-level weapon, would have a core that was exceptionally stable and powerful.
A simple area-of-effect attack could only kill creatures in the fringe areas, unable to touch the domain's core foundational laws.
(End of the Chapter)
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