Chapter 122: Collapse of the Underground Space
Then, Li Qing released all the power absorbed by Aluto's magic vortex without hesitation, condensing it into a gray chaotic light column that combined all the absorbed power and blasted towards the core mage tower.
Everyone only heard a loud noise that shook their souls, and the transparent crystal wall on the surface of the core wizard tower suddenly sank inwards.
Countless rune array lines on the surface of the core wizard tower suddenly lit up, becoming brighter and brighter, and soon a flame-like aura emerged, gathering near the sinking crystal wall to form a light net to support the attack.
"It's now!"
Li Qing turned around and shouted to the Dragon Guardian and the Lava Crystal Dragon behind him:
"what are you waiting for!"
The dragon guards and dragon magicians all paused and no longer dodged the attacks from the mage towers. They passed through many spells and the dangers deep inside the city-state and came near Li Qing. From a distance, they sprayed a ray of dragon breath towards the core mage tower.
The Lava Crystal Dragon also rushed out, and sprayed a ray of blazing white dragon breath towards the core mage tower from a distance of thousands of meters.
The core mage tower lost its host, leaving only the tower spirit. Many of the permissions that only the mage tower master had could not be used, and it could only watch as three dragon breath rays sprayed onto the body of the mage tower.
When attacked, the defense system automatically defended itself. With the naked eye, a large amount of spiritual light could be seen separating from the location where Li Qing attacked and converging at three other locations.
However, the defensive crystal wall that was barely holding out suddenly lost some of its strength, and the crystal wall sank visibly to the naked eye. When it reached a certain point, there was a crisp "bang" sound, and the crystal wall was pierced.
The transparent crystal wall centered on the hole began to shatter like glass, quickly spreading to the entire Mage Tower.
At this moment, the defense of the core mage tower was forcibly broken by their concentrated fire.
At this moment, Li Qing opened his mouth without hesitation, and a ray of hot dragon breath sprayed towards the mage tower.
The tower glowed with light, and a dazzling burst of light exploded, transforming into countless fine light nets that covered the entire Mage Tower.
This is the second layer of defense of the Mage Tower. If the first layer of defense barrier of the Mage Tower is broken and the owner of the Mage Tower is temporarily unable to activate the second layer of defense, a circle of magic circle will be drawn on the structure of the Mage Tower itself, which can provide a light network that can both reinforce the Mage Tower structure and greatly enhance the hardness and impact resistance of the Mage Tower structure.
This layer of light network does not exist independently, but is attached to the structure of the mage tower, similar to an enchantment on the structure of the mage tower.
The walls of many super fortresses are also enchanted in this way to increase resistance to various powerful spells and physical impacts, ensuring that the walls are not easily affected by various spells.
This enchantment is very powerful, but unfortunately Li Qing's dragon breath is 100% true damage, and the light net only lasted for a few seconds before being pierced through.
The hard obsidian at the bottom was melted quickly, and soon a large hole was melted on the surface of the Mage Tower.
But this is not the end. The dragon's breath turned in a circle, and within twenty seconds, it drew a large circle on the surface of the Mage Tower, and melted out a large hole with a diameter of more than three meters.
Then he flashed towards the big hole.
Only then did Ta Ling react when a thick lightning bolt struck him. He just tilted his body and rushed back into the cave.
After entering the wizard tower, Li Qing spoke dragon language without hesitation and cast the second dragon language magic.
Lower-level Dragon Language Magic: Arotu's spatial collapse.
Effect: Powerful force shakes the surrounding space and destroys the spatial structure, lasting for 1 round.
As the last word of the dragon language spell was uttered, an invisible ripple was released with him as the center, and the structure of the surrounding wizard tower quickly twisted, and the structure collapsed into pieces and began to collapse.
This invisible fluctuation is not a visual effect, but the space is really distorted.
The structure in this space is twisted so forcefully that when the structural strength is insufficient, it will collapse along with the twisting.
Under normal circumstances, a wizard tower of this level cannot be shaken, but at this time he is inside the wizard tower, and the defense system of the wizard tower is all external, with no internal defense.
In addition, the external defense of the mage tower was also destroyed by him, so this space collapse of Arotu directly destroyed the inner and middle structures of the mage tower.
Yes, it’s just the inner and middle layers. The outer structure of the Mage Tower is still stable and unaffected.
A wizard tower like this definitely has more than one layer of walls, usually three.
The outer layer is a defense system, the middle layer is the core support layer, which can block various sound waves and other factors. It is also one of the main support points of the wizard tower structure, and the inner layer is a decorative layer. The internal architectural layout and changes of the wizard tower can only affect the inner layer structure.
When the inner and middle layers were shattered and collapsed, only the outer layer of the Mage Tower remained to maintain the stability of the Mage Tower.
Li Qing raised his head again facing the enhanced ice cone from the Mage Tower Spirit, preparing to use Arotu's Space Destruction.
Then, just as he opened his mouth to recite the first word, he heard a loud "crack" sound, and then saw the obsidian structure of the Mage Tower's outer wall suddenly crack after it collapsed around him, and the entire layer of stone collapsed into powder at the crack.
Li Qing was stunned for a moment. This was the strange phenomenon that would appear when the structure was under unimaginable huge force and could not bear it.
“It’s going to collapse!”
Li Qing immediately interrupted the spell, spread his wings, and rushed out along the gap where a corner had collapsed.
Just as he rushed out, he heard another loud cracking sound. Looking back, he saw a large amount of dust rising from the broken part of the Mage Tower again. An invisible distortion spread from the broken part to the bottom of the Mage Tower. Wherever it went, the light on the surface of the obsidian outer wall quickly collapsed and disappeared.
This means that the outer structure of the Mage Tower was crushed by the terrifying force and collapsed completely.
This is a good thing in itself, as it means that even if nothing is done next, the core mage tower will collapse on its own.
But at this moment, there was no excitement on Li Qing's face. Instead, his mouth was slightly open and he looked up at the sky with a serious expression.
"Are they crazy?"
Accompanied by a loud cracking sound, smoke and dust filled the dome above, and a huge crack suddenly appeared when the core mage tower collapsed.
At this time, Li Qing had already understood that this core mage tower, which supported the ground and the dome of the underground space, was actually the supporting pillar of this huge underground space.
After they dug out several underground spaces and expanded a huge underground space, they found that the dome structure was unable to support a piece of earth as large as the dome.
So we use the core mage tower to support it.
But now the core magician has been destroyed by Li Qing, and the supporting force is not enough to hold up the billions of tons of rocky ground above, and it has begun to collapse.
Li Qing almost immediately fled towards his own troops and ordered Xie Zhu to gather the troops.
The Dragon Guardian Dragon and the Lava Crystal Dragon ignored the attacks from behind and fled frantically for their lives.
The wizard towers in the city-state had no time to attack them at this time, and a large number of wizards escaped from the wizard towers.
Fortunately, Li Qing was very fast. He used flash and portal to arrive at Zhong Haiying's divine realm when the second crack appeared. He opened the door to the divine realm in the city and summoned the troops to enter.
At this time, the space lock of the eight-ring spell has become invalid and teleportation can be done again.
The other apprentices also saw this horrifying scene and gathered their troops to take back the divine domain.
“Crack!”
Accompanied by a deafening roar, a large crack suddenly appeared somewhere on the dome, and it began to split and sink in all directions with a certain point as the center.
The next second there was a loud bang and the sky collapsed.
Everyone was so frightened that their souls were about to die. Many apprentices of the war lords did not care that they had yet to recall their subordinates, and quickly closed the divine domain and fled.
Li Qing also did not recall some of his troops, but most of them were new recruits and low-level soldiers. The high-level soldiers were recalled first. The Dragon Guard, Dragon Magic and Lava Crystal Dragon all escaped back. These few were the most important and were taken into the Divine Realm first.
He decisively abandoned the remaining thousands of troops who had not returned, retracted the divine domain, flashed and used the Anywhere Door to fly along the edge of the stone wall towards the passage not far away.
There was another loud 'crack' sound halfway through, and the collapse had spread to this side. Billions of tons of rock lost their support and fell into this underground space. Unimaginable shock waves swept countless pieces of stone and dust into the air, and the sky and the earth were dark.
Relying on continuous flashing and agile flying, Li Qing managed to escape into the passage before this underground space completely collapsed.
“Boom!”
Standing in the passage and looking outside, it looked like the end of the world. Billions of tons of earth collapsed, completely submerging the underground world where the wizard city-state was located.
Li Qing stood at the entrance of the passage for a long time without saying a word. He did not expect that destroying the core mage tower of the mage city-state would have such consequences.
If he had known earlier... he would still do it.
The entire mage city-state has turned into a kingdom of the undead, which are natural enemies of the living and there is no mercy for them.
But for the three-headed lich, the underground world where their school had survived for thousands of years suddenly collapsed. To them, it was as if the whole world had collapsed.
Even at the critical moment of attacking the core tower of the Scourge Lord's domain, they couldn't help but distract themselves and look back.
But this is a critical moment, and no matter how angry you are, you can't get away.
Even at this time, they had to worry about Li Qing's interference, so they could only order the undead near the passage to intercept them.
At this time, eight War Lord apprentices also gathered here. They gathered around Li Qing involuntarily, and one of them asked:
"Mr. Li Qing, what should we do next?"
Li Qing stretched out his hand and pressed it lightly, and a huge gate to the divine realm opened up. Then a heat wave surged out, and a lava crystal dragon with many shattered lava dragon scales and seven or eight arm-thick armor-piercing crossbow arrows stuck in its body came out.
Li Qing took out a full one hundred units of pure soul essence, gathered them together with a thousand pure flesh and blood essence crystals, and threw them into the wide-open mouth of the lava crystal dragon.
Then he flew onto his back, grabbed the thick armor-piercing crossbow and pulled it out forcefully.
The hot dragon blood fell to the ground and quickly caught fire.
The upper dragon race itself has a very strong recovery ability, and there are a thousand pure blood and flesh essence crystals to replenish the lost physical strength. The wounds are recovering at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Then Long Shoulong used the Long Fa and went out again with many troops and easily wiped out the undead at the entrance of the passage.
After doing this, he said to the War Lord Apprentices:
"You can take a rest now, leave the rest to me."
The Mage City-State was completely wiped out, and the main force of the Scourge Lord also fell in the collapse of the underground space. Although there are still hundreds of thousands of undead in this underground space, their main combat power is basically gone, and the comprehensive combat power is estimated to be less than 20% of that of the Scourge Lord at his peak.
Of course he couldn't miss such a rare opportunity, he wanted to keep it for himself.
Of course, the apprentices knew that he wanted to keep it all for himself, but no one objected, nor did they dare to object.
They had witnessed Li Qing's strength in the previous few battles, and they didn't think that the eight of them together could snatch a bite of meat from him.
After all, they had suffered heavy losses in the previous series of battles, and some of them had failed to escape just now. Now the eight of them together could only form a force of about 10,000.
Faced with Li Qing's more than 3,000 elite soldiers, 900 dragon vein snake people, and a superior dragon, they simply did not have the courage to make any demands.
Elite infantry led the way, with more than one hundred rock golems and twenty-six iron golems in the core, dragon vein snakemen following behind, dragon guards and dragon mages, as well as lava crystal dragons specifically dealing with abominations and other large monsters.
As for air units, they will be dealt with by the army's long-range shooters, but shooters are not very effective against skeleton zombies anyway.
The troops were in position, and at Li Qing's command, the front row began to advance forward.
The undead army on the intercepting road could not be stopped at all.
At this time, the Scourge Lord Salar had not yet resurrected, and the one or two surviving Undead heroes under his command were currently in charge of the defense of the Divine Realm against the three-headed lich Kanovino. The two sides were constantly controlling the Undead troops that originally belonged to the Scourge Lord, and had no energy to care about the many skeleton zombie cannon fodder on the periphery.
The overwhelming fireballs and fire rain swept across the battlefield, piling up all the way to the end of the passage, where an underground space with a diameter of about two to three kilometers could be seen on the opposite side.
The divine domain of the Lord of Natural Disasters completely covers this underground space. In other words, as long as you enter the underground space through the passage, it is equivalent to entering the divine domain of the Lord of Natural Disasters.
The moment they stepped into the Scourge Realm, the three-headed lich fighting with them and the undead heroes in the core of the realm all noticed it.
The undead hero immediately proposed to Canovino that they defeat the humans first and then decide the winner, but the three-headed lich refused and instead intensified the offensive.
Although his hatred for Li Qing reached its peak at this time, the lich Canovino still had a head that remained rational. He knew that he only had one choice at this time, which was to snatch the life box of the Scourge Lord Salar first to have a chance to turn things around.
Without the support of the city-state, he could no longer obtain the life box. Once the Lord of the Scourge was resurrected, he would surely die.
Li Qing also knew this, so after reaching the edge of the divine realm, he ordered his troops to attack without hesitation and advance towards the center of the divine realm.
And he, the dragon guarding the dragon method, together with the lava crystal dragon Dikong, attacked into the divine realm from two directions.
Thanks to the three-headed lich, many undead defense buildings in the divine realm along the way had been destroyed. Canovino forcibly controlled the troops of the Lord of the Scourge and destroyed them on his own.
As he flew along, there were no other undead to resist him except for a small number of them.
In less than twenty seconds, he flew to the center of the divine realm and saw the three-headed lich Canovino hanging in the air only a few dozen meters away from a crystal bone tower, with blue flames burning all over his body, like a blue meteor madly crashing into the crystal bone tower.
With every impact, a small piece of the crystal bone structure would break off. At this time, a large pit more than one meter deep had appeared at the impact site, with countless fine cracks spreading around the pit.
