Chapter 717: Chapter 501: Ice Wind Demon Serpent VS Thunderboltous Demon Serpent Avatar

"The node of the life cycle is here. It must be guided by the purest Power of Nature!"

The old woman leaning on a Withered Wood Staff said.

"Nonsense! What would an old hag who only knows how to plant flowers and grass know!"

The old man exuding an Undead Aura immediately retorted.

"This is clearly a transfer node for Soul Energy! It should be neutralized with Negative Energy!"

"Enough bickering!"

The mysterious Mage completely enveloped in a Liquid Metal Robe spoke up. Their voice was devoid of any emotion, like a mechanically synthesized sound.

"According to my calculations, this node possesses the two contradictory attributes of life and death simultaneously. Injecting any single type of energy will cause the structure to collapse. The only solution is to use the ’Hedge Balance’ principle from Mechanization Science to input both types of energy at the same time, allowing them to achieve a perfect equilibrium inside the node..."

Twelve Legendary Mages sat in a circle, discussing a puzzle.

The scene was simply staggering.

Raylo stood at the doorway, his mind a complete blank.

He finally understood what Master Fran had meant this morning when he said, "I’ll call over all those old fossils!"

So he really had... "summoned" all the top Legendary Mages from every field in the Mage City!

This also revealed the unfathomable depth of the Mage City’s power.

Twelve Legendary Mages!

This was enough power to silently sway the political landscape of a mighty Empire, or even decide the final outcome of a continent-level war!

And now, they were all gathered here just to... open a door.

Raylo watched from the side for a while, feeling as if his entire worldview was being shattered and rebuilt, over and over again.

He found that he couldn’t get a word in edgewise. He could barely even grasp half of what they were discussing.

Just then, a hand gently tapped his shoulder.

Raylo turned around to find that Ed had come up behind him at some point.

His expression was grave and anxious.

"My Lord."

Ed’s voice was hushed.

"Gordo... Gordo just sent a message from the Jade Swamp."

"Something’s happened in the Jade Swamp."

Ed took a deep breath and said, enunciating each word.

"A... a Catastrophe Level power is rapidly approaching!"

Catastrophe Level!

"What’s the situation? Be clear!"

Raylo demanded.

"It’s... it’s a message from Gordo."

Ed’s lips had turned a little pale.

"He said... a sea of thunderbolts is surging out from the depths of the swamp, and it’s approaching fast!"

’A sea of thunderbolts?’

Raylo spun around at once.

"Moonlight! Coal Ball! Lightning!"

Raylo issued the summons.

"Mrow?"

"Awoo?"

"RAWWR!"

Three flashes of light later, three "cats" of different forms appeared at Raylo’s feet at almost the exact same moment.

"Let’s go!"

Without another word, Raylo led the three little guys toward one of the spatial rifts next to the workshop hall.

This was the very rift he had previously instructed Coal Ball to leave open—a spatial passage leading to the highlands in the Jade Swamp.

Raylo took a step in, and his figure vanished into the rift in an instant.

The three little guys followed close behind, transforming into three streaks of light and plunging into the rift.

Inside the workshop, the twelve Legendary Mages’ fierce debate continued. They were completely immersed in their own world, utterly oblivious to everything happening outside.

...

「Jade Swamp.」

The moment Raylo stepped out of the spatial rift, a gust of wind thick with the stench of sulfur and burning hit him full in the face.

He found himself standing on land that was being "Abyssalized."

Beneath his feet, the once-solid ground had turned completely scorched-black and dark red. A web of massive fissures spread across the entire highland, constantly spewing forth Abyssal-tainted air and sinister Hellfire from their depths.

The air was thick with the heavy smell of sulfur, and the sky above the entire highland had been churned into a colossal, slowly rotating black vortex.

This place had already become a veritable Abyssal Realm!

And at the very center of the realm, a massive figure over thirty meters tall sat quietly on the ground.

It was none other than the Demon Monarch Agrean, who had possessed the body of a Flame Demon Lord!

At this moment, his colossal body, which seemed to be made of molten lava and blackened rock, was trembling violently. Countless streams of Abyssal Power flickered across its surface, as if he might collapse at any second.

An immense, yet extremely unstable, energy was rampaging wildly within his body.

From the looks of it, he had clearly reached the most critical stage of his advancement from Domain Level to Catastrophe Level!

Success would mean ascending to the heavens in a single step and returning to his Peak.

And beside him, three enormous corpses lay on the Scorched Earth, which had been corrupted by Abyssal Power.

One was a Swamp Multi-headed Snake Lizard over fifty meters long, another was a poisonous toad the size of a small hill, and the last was a powerful Snake-man with a serpent’s tail for a lower body, who had wielded a Trident.

Without exception, they all exuded the powerful aura of the Domain Level.

But now, they had all been turned into desiccated husks, barely recognizable. All the flesh, blood, and energy within their bodies had been completely drained, evidently used as "nourishment" by the ascending Agrean to replenish his power.

Raylo’s gaze went past Agrean, who was struggling with his advancement, and settled on the distant sky.

Sure enough!

In the distance, high in the sky over the center of the Jade Swamp, a boundless "ocean" made of raging Thunderbolts was sweeping in from the horizon!

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