Volume 4: The End of the World Chapter 24: Anti-entropy, Legacy
The moment she heard the name "Nehe", the expression on Flora's face froze, and at the same time her fingers clasped the armrests of the Kuruo throne.
Suddenly, the instructions left by the humans whom she should perhaps call "adoptive parents" echoed in her ears again like some kind of lingering curse.
"You must remember, you must never... you must never let others discover the source of your power, otherwise..."
Those two nagging old guys had made so many troublesome rules for her when they were alive, and she had never thought of following most of them.
But this one thing, she was determined to carry out to the end since the moment she sat on the throne of withering and flourishing, holding the power over the prosperity or destruction of all living things in the entire Jade Province.
Anyone who dares to peek into the truth of this power will be granted eternal sleep by me.
Therefore, no matter who this unknown guy in front of her is, she must not allow him to walk out of this hall alive.
Restrictions lifted...
The quality transformation starts at full power...
Critical Engineering…Routes 1, 3, 4, 5, 7 are open…
The puppet technique starts...
The construction of the pseudo-God's Eye begins...
Now that the nature of this battle has been determined, it is no longer a test, nor is it just playing around as usual. Even the curiosity to know the other party's true identity has been suppressed.
At this moment, she had only one goal - to kill the other person.
The entire Bone White Palace completely transformed into her body, and magic power roared and surged throughout the palace, activating countless deadly spell weapons within it.
As her mind turned, the doors and windows automatically closed in unison, and several seals were applied for reinforcement, blocking any possible escape routes. The statues and figures in the murals in the hall seemed to come alive, turning their eyes to the man who was still strolling towards the throne.
In the venue, dozens of spells used to weaken the opponent were activated at the same time.
Heavy pressure, exhaustion of magic power, curse of aging, slowness, fragility, space blockade...
At the same time, the three divine realms and four legendary-level high-energy spells began to accumulate energy, waiting for the opportunity to wipe out the opponents from here in one go.
"Wow, are we getting serious now?"
Faced with such lavish preparations, the man in front of him simply gave such an indifferent comment.
Although the other party's overly calm attitude made Flora a little uneasy, she was confident enough in the temple she had built, so she still activated the spells she had prepared according to the original plan.
The pseudo [Eye of God] developed from the data plundered from the Blind Sisterhood completely locked the opponent's position. After confirming that the opponent had no room to dodge, seven single-target damage spells of different colors and attributes, but equally destructive power, accurately hit the man at the same time.
As the deafening explosion sounded, a turbulent flow of magical power instantly emerged with the man as the center. The brilliant colors instantly illuminated the entire hall, and the light that escaped through the windows was dazzling even to people several kilometers away.
A sound of glass ball breaking came from nowhere, and Flora, who was sitting on the throne, raised one hand and wiped her right eye.
At this moment, the magical light in her right eye had dimmed.
This was a blow that was enough to banish the demon general directly back to the Moon Realm in the mortal world. The magical turbulence created by the simultaneous interweaving of the three divine realms and four legendary spells caused the Pseudo-God's Eye technique she activated to be overloaded and shattered.
Although it was a valuable prototype, there was nothing that could be done about it. After all, this was the strongest attack that could be launched with the strength of his own etheric domain under the power of the Throne of Withering and Flourishing.
Although it is unclear what the other party's mentality is, and he did not take any defensive measures, even if he did take defensive measures, he would probably end up like he is now - being directly killed.
As long as you are determined to kill the opponent, you must use your strongest attack from the very beginning.
No probing, never underestimating the enemy, and not giving any chance for counterattack, this is Floro's fighting style in a death battle.
When she was far from being as powerful as she is now, she used this tactic to defeat many people who were stronger than herself.
Looking at the residual magic power flowing around the center of the hall, Flora breathed a sigh of relief.
But then, she immediately realized something strange - without the support of the spell, the remaining magic power did not dissipate as quickly as usual, but continued to surround the explosion point.
Something is wrong...
Before she had time to reload her spell, the man's voice came from the center of the magic explosion:
"That's really surprising. Are you the type who comes up and throws bombs when playing Landlord?"
Hearing the voice that was supposed to not exist, even the usually calm Flora couldn't help but tremble as she asked:
"How could you still be alive..."
In the vision that he had observed with the Pseudo-God Eye, the man did not weave any magic spells around him for defense. Even if the other party was wearing extremely advanced protective gear and accessories, it would be impossible survive without any defense.
Are you kidding me? Even if the demon general of the Moon Realm took that blow head-on, he would be banished back to the Moon Realm.
But now is not the time to panic. Flora immediately took herself as the control core again and started a new round of spell reloading.
What happened afterwards made her stop what she was doing.
In other words, it erased the meaning of the work she was doing.
The remaining magic power lingering around the opponent began to condense again, forming the shape of the spell he had released previously.
Is the other party planning to use the remaining magic power to retaliate against him in his own way?
Using the magic power that escaped from the surroundings to reconstruct the previously released spell, this kind of control over magic power can only be described as horrifying.
To put it in a metaphor, it's like catching an arrow shot by the enemy with bare hands on the battlefield, and then throwing it back to pierce the enemy.
"this……"
However, after seeing clearly what the other person was doing, even she was speechless for a moment.
What the other party is doing is not as simple and straightforward as returning the favor.
As the magic power began to return to the form of the spell, the light that had escaped to the outside shrank back from the window, the airflow generated by the explosion was blown back, and the floor that had been blown apart before also began to repair itself...
Not only on the opponent's side, the spell he had reloaded earlier began to fade, the magic power he had used began to flow backwards, even his raised hand was put back uncontrollably.
Simply put, time began to flow backwards.
The broken Pseudo-God's Eye spell was repaired, and the magic power that had been released previously returned to the etheric realm.
In a flash, the entire hall returned to the way it was five seconds ago, and even the opponent retreated to the position it was in five seconds ago.
Apart from the memories of the two people and the magic power , there will be no evidence to prove that the previous five seconds ever existed.
The seven spells he had cast earlier were ready to be cast again, and the Pseudo-God Eye floating in front of his right eye was still locked onto the opponent's weakness.
It was as if everything that had just happened was just an illusion.
The other person was still looking at him and walking towards him leisurely.
The look on his face seemed to say - you're welcome, you can try again.
"Anti-entropy..."
Flora looked at the other person and uttered these two words with great difficulty.
Peak magic - the ultimate spell that transcends the divine realm and points directly to the mystery of creation. No, it can't even be described as a spell.
In this day and age, pinnacle magic is like those ancient myths and legends. No one knows whether they really existed or whether they are lies fabricated by people with ulterior motives to favor the past over the present.
But she knew that pinnacle magic really existed.
Or rather, it once existed.
At the same time, she also doubted whether peak magic would exist in the future.
Because even though her attainments in frost magic had reached the highest level that could be achieved in theory, she had never even touched the surface of the pinnacle.
The essence of frost magic is "solidification", which is to solidify the invisible creative substance of the realm of light into tangible matter itself, and all matter in the world originates from this.
In the ancient Platinum Plain, the Kos people who first invented the calendar and mathematics believed that the whole world was created by the god "Mon" who possessed a "perfect geometric structure". This god lost its purpose because it was too perfect, so she created a flawed world of ideas by calculating and imitating her own structure, using numbers and lines. She also asked her lover "Nu" to kill her in order to complete that world of ideas.
"Nu" lamented, cried, and finally killed "Meng" who had lost all possibilities helplessly. She dismembered her body, filled it with "Meng"'s design drawings, and finally created the world we see today, which is no longer perfect.
Later imperial scholars believed that although this Kos myth was mainly a metaphor for the historical change in which the priest class in charge of calendar and mathematics was replaced by the military aristocracy, the complex symbolic images also provided another possibility for the creation of the world: at the beginning of creation, there was a perfect material world - this image is mutually confirmed with the "other shore" in many regional myths and legends.
The creative essence flowing out of the Realm of Light first formed a perfect but stagnant material world. After it was broken again, the current world was formed.
In other words, all matter in the world, from a speck of dust to an ocean, has a desire to return to perfect order. But that perfect and orderly material world only existed in the distant past. Every second that passes will make the world move one step further towards chaos.
Therefore, in the past, a magic chanter proposed a crazy idea: if a huge amount of magic power could be provided by the outside world, by reversing the myth of the broken "Mon" in the Kos mythology, would it be enough to arouse the desire for the origin of matter and allow us to reach that world of perfect order?
But the reality is cruel. According to rough calculations, even if all the astral magic channels are cut off, all the souls in the world are burned, and the entire Vic continent is restored to creation matter, the energy obtained is not enough to send a person to that world of perfect order.
But a byproduct of this hypothesis was that it also pushed frost magic forward in a crucial step.
Although we cannot reach that world of perfect order, we can get closer to that world in a small area for a short period of time.
Time is eternally moving forward, and one second is always closer to perfect order than the next. Using this principle, the genius magic casters of the time created the divine spell [Zero Entropy] that can stop time, and... the pinnacle spell of the frost system [Anti-Entropy].
And now, the forbidden spell that can even reverse time is displayed before her.
Flora's long-term and rich combat experience told her that she could launch another attack at this moment.
In any case, as a pinnacle spell, [Anti-Entropy] requires a terrifying astronomical amount of mana to reverse time. Since the opponent has released it once, it is absolutely impossible for him to release it a second time in a short period of time.
If she wants to defeat the opponent, now is her only chance.
but……
Flora watched the other person walk up the stairs and come in front of her.
The other party's previous use of [Anti-Entropy] was actually a warning to himself.
Even time can be reversed, so can't the opponent use other methods to resist my previous attack?
If I were to take action again, I would definitely not be greeted with such a gentle response.
Looking at the man who was walking in front of her and looking down at her, Flora lowered her head slightly and said:
"As you said before, I now understand my position."
Without waiting for the other party to speak, Flora asked first:
"But I want to know one thing. Are you also the inheritor of the legacy of the Frost Witch Nich?"
