Volume 2: Funeral Song of Crows Chapter 62 Fire
As an extremely huge amount of magic power was injected into the ritual through the crystal magic medium in William's hand, the entire staff instantly turned fiery red, and spider-web-like cracks began to appear on its surface.
At the same time, boiling magma began to emerge from the lines that outlined the complex magic circle. The air around it also became scorching hot, and the rolling heat waves seemed to melt the clouds in the sky.
There are only thirteen so-called pinnacle spells.
They represent the pinnacle of each magic skill tree, and the operating principle of each pinnacle spell refers to the event of creation itself. Therefore, they are all spells that most touch the origin of the rules of the world.
Although in the game, these thirteen pinnacle spells have high fashion values, but are not very practical - either the chanting time is too long, or there are too many restrictions on casting, or the mana consumption is too high. Basically, players will only use them a few times after learning them, and then usually put them at the end of the skill bar to collect dust.
The most critical issue here is still the cost-effectiveness.
The magic power required to cast [All Remains is Ashes and Dust] once may be enough to cast [Fireball] more than 200 times, and the cumulative damage of the latter is much higher than the former.
Not to mention, every time you release [All Remains is Ashes and Dust], you will need to permanently damage a magic medium of no less than the holy relic level. Although holy relic-level magic mediums are not very valuable to late-stage players, they cannot afford to be wasted like this.
And under so many restrictions, the panel strength of this spell is undoubtedly the best.
Aside from some special cases, the fire spell [All Remains is Ashes and Dust] is undoubtedly the AOE spell with the highest DPS in the entire game.
The confinement effects of the seven or eight [Shadow Cage] ring blades on Coles were torn apart by it, and only at this time did put its attention back on William who was chanting spells not far away.
What kind of technique is that?
Looking at the huge magic circle and feeling the huge magic power flowing in it, Coles couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.
Even though it was currently in an incomplete state as the Void King and theoretically could not be killed by worldly magic, it still felt uneasy.
Coles was very familiar with the Judge's fighting style. Compared to large spells that required multiple chants, he preferred to fight with simple instant spells to reduce unnecessary magic power loss.
The Chief Judge is a genius in calculation. Sometimes he seems to be able to predict the future. Even if he goes to a place he has never explored, he can predict the future by putting on the most suitable equipment and using the most powerful spells to restrain the enemy.
But Coles had never seen the Chief Judge use such a huge spell. No, not only had he never seen the Chief Judge use it, in Coles's long life of more than a thousand years, he had never seen such a huge spell - no matter who it was.
He must be stopped...
The Wall of Dusk, which was built with the support of the Dusk Fortress, is now on the verge of collapse. Under the attack of the four Void Kings' original powers, the power of the Scene of the End is about to be exhausted. By then, the Dusk Fortress that has guarded the world for thousands of years will completely become history.
With just over a minute more, they would be able to completely break through the barrier, and that would be Coles' victory.
The above thought process took less than a second in its mind. In an instant, Coles turned into a black shadow and rushed towards William who was chanting the great ritual.
Two pillars of fire shot up into the sky and instantly blocked its way. This was a magic trap set by William in advance, but Coles, who had anticipated this, suddenly flipped his wings behind him and passed through the gap between the two pillars of fire at one side.
Then a bolt of lightning struck it head-on and knocked it to the ground.
William looked at it and couldn't help but said:
"Your action pattern is too predictable. How come you are not even as good as a boss who can read commands?"
Although Coles had no idea which myth or legend the judge was referring to, he could still hear the obvious sarcasm in the judge's tone.
But before it could spread its wings again, a feeling of weakness spread throughout its body.
At this moment, tiny electric currents were running all over its body, making it unable to move for a while.
But it was at this moment that William's surgery was completed.
"In the future, when facing high-level lightning spells, remember to prepare corresponding countermeasures for the [Paralysis] effect."
William looked at Coles who was standing up from the ground tremblingly and spoke slowly. With the sound of "crashing", the crystal staff in his hand turned into ashes and flew in the wind.
"However, it probably doesn't make sense to make this suggestion now..."
William raised his right hand high as he spoke, making a gesture as if he was grasping something.
Coles looked over in the direction of his movements.
At this moment, in the broken sky of the end scene, in the sky that was always at dusk, a sick sun appeared.
It was fiery red, and you could see the burning outline around it, as if the sun would go out at any moment.
"After all, there is no 'later' for you."
After William finished speaking, he made a pulling motion.
Then, the "sun" fell towards Coles...
There was no sound of explosion, no dazzling light, and everything was destroyed in the intense silence.
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Fire spells are also known as plunder spells.
The flame is the light of decay.
Light, that is, creative quality, constitutes everything in the world.
As they sank into the world, they were like being decomposed into different colors through a folding mirror. Some of the light ones turned into the breath of the soul, while some of the heavy ones turned into solid earth.
In this process, some lights have changed. They cannot solidify into any concrete things, nor can they exist in the world on their own. They must destroy other concrete things to exist, and must devour and plunder other things to appear.
And this transformed light is flame.
Light can directly provide energy and temperature to the world, but fire must rely on destroying something to do so.
Of course, this does not mean that fire is a bad thing. In fact, fire is also an indispensable part of creation. The cornerstone element symbolized by the "young man" among the seven holy spirits who balances cost and gain is fire.
The deep meaning of fire is plunder, destroying other energetic things to bring light and heat to itself, and this process also injects the initial impetus into the food chain, the biggest contradiction and conflict in the world.
If there were no fire, the entire world would become a desolate world with only plants growing wildly.
Therefore , for all magic casters who study fire magic, finding the source of firewood and choosing the targets to plunder are the most important issues.
Those who need to rely on burning grass and wood to assist combustion are often inferior creatures. They have degraded themselves to the same level as cattle and sheep.
Those who choose to try to ignite gold and stone are the most foolish, because they often have to spend ten times more effort than ordinary people, but can only reap less than half the results.
Converting light (magic) directly into flame is a broad road, and generally speaking, this path is enough to reach the master level. But to go deeper, you need to have a deeper understanding of "plunder".
Igniting the soul or igniting the memory is more in line with human society's understanding of the concept of plunder. In fact, most flames with special effects require these two as materials.
So , what is the firewood chosen for the pinnacle fire spell [All Remains is Ashes and Dust]?
William walked on the white ground.
With the point where the spell landed as the center, everything around it turned into dust.
There is nothing left here but ashes, dust and loneliness.
Even the air you breathe smells like ashes.
A thin spirit like the black smoke produced by a burning candle was floating in the wind, and William walked over slowly.
That was the remaining soul of Coles.
A tiny white light bound the spirit and prevented it from dissipating.
"Luckily I didn't kill you outright, otherwise I would have to wait for your resurrection in that lighthouse."
William pulled out Judgment Two and said.
As a high-level Moon Realm being, Coles would not truly die even if his body was destroyed. If he was not killed by a force of the same nature, he could still slowly recover from his own domain.
Of course, given its current injuries, this "slowness" would probably take hundreds of years.
"What was that just now?"
Coles' spirit asked weakly.
"Simulate a false creation."
William replied.
The sun is a projection of the realm of light.
The principle of this spell, [All that remains is ashes and dust], is to simulate a false creation, create a symbol of the sun with the purest magic power, and then assume that it lost control during creation and all the created matter became corrupted - therefore, in order to research this spell, one must first make the three spells of light, illusion and fire reach the level of the divine realm, and then defeat the incarnation of Lady Hungry and Corrupted to gain insights into corruption before one can finally learn it.
So what kind of world will it ultimately create?
The answer lies in the name of the spell "All is Ashes and Dust" itself.
Coles didn't understand what William meant by "simulating a false creation", but he didn't intend to continue asking. He just continued:
"You know, when Blake and I first went to the Moon Realm to find the Seed of Life, I really wanted to revive you."
William nodded, then looked at the wall of dusk that was constantly collapsing around him and asked:
"So, I want to know how you know about the existence of the Seed of Hope."
