Industrial Revolution of the Mage Lords

Chapter 127 Hacker Defense War

What's wrong with me?
When Harvey opened his eyes and woke up again, he found himself in the familiar magic network space.

Next to him was the still floating positioning magic pattern, a strangely shaped polyhedron star-like magic pattern.

This three-dimensional magic pattern, as bright as a star, is still expanding and contracting on its surface, just like a spherical cactus with thorns.

No! Harvey noticed that something seemed amiss around him.

Why did I suddenly faint and then be pulled into the magic network space without any meditation guidance?

There seemed to be some unknown gazes around the phantom condensed by his mental power, which were now fixed on him.

Moreover, these invisible gazes locked onto him carried hostility and disgust that could not be concealed at all!

Someone tracked down and locked onto Harvey through the spellcaster forum or through the residual traces left in the magic network by accident!

Thinking of this possibility, Harvey felt the hairs on his body stand up.

What kind of powerful enemy can locate his position so accurately in the boundless magic web plane and pull himself directly into the magic web?
At this moment, Harvey suddenly felt an abnormal surge of magic power around him, as if it was quickly woven into a fine fishing net and rushing towards him.

Harvey immediately tried to cut off the connection between his mental power and the magic network space, wanting to return directly to the real world.

Oh no! Unable to disconnect, he tried several more times without giving up, but still couldn't get out.

I felt like I was trapped in the magic web plane by an invisible lasso...

A powerful pure magic energy suddenly came from the positioning magic pattern, reconnecting Harvey with the spiritual anchor.

Harvey immediately guessed that it was his companion in the real world who connected his body to the energy gathering array and was trying to help wake him up.

Without any hesitation, he immediately controlled his mental projection, turned around and crashed into the magic pattern.

The rapidly approaching magic net behind him immediately turned into three pure white streams of light, following Harvey's projection and invading his magic pattern.

……

Harvey tried his best to control the mental projection and flew towards the blue planet in the mental anchor.

He knew that there were three mysterious shadows behind him, chasing him closely. The malice that seemed to be real was following him like a leech on his bones.

Hometown...is getting closer and closer.

Harvey seemed to have broken through an invisible membrane. After a rapid visual change, he seemed to plunge into cold water.

He struggled desperately for several times and took a few gulps of salty sea water before he recalled his past swimming skills and swam towards the nearby coastline with his arms.

How did I fall into the sea... Harvey struggled to get ashore, with countless doubts in his mind.

Looking around, I found a beach that was very familiar to me: light grey sand and slightly turbid deep blue water...

This was the scene he saw when he first came to the seaside in his previous life.

As a child living in an inland area who had never seen the sea since childhood, when he graduated from high school at the age of 18, he was finally taken by his parents to a beach that was not a popular tourist attraction. What he saw at that time was this scene.

There is no golden and fine sand beach as imagined, nor is there pure blue water as clear as crystal.

The weather that day was not very good. It was gloomy and seemed like a rainstorm would come at any time. The sea water was so turbid and the beach was extremely rough.

He subconsciously looked down at himself and found himself shirtless, revealing his bony, thin body. He was wearing a pair of oversized swimming trunks with a SpongeBob SquarePants cartoon pattern on them. A series of splashing sounds were heard, and three figures suddenly appeared from the sky and fell from the shallow water not far away. They struggled for a long time before swimming awkwardly to shore.

Harvey's heart tightened, his eyes fixed on the three men in pure white robes who were slowly approaching him.

"Are you...priests of the Church of Light?" he asked tentatively.

The other party fell silent for a moment. The three of them turned and looked at each other. The strange man with gray curly hair in the middle slowly spoke, "Is this your evil domain? Devil."

He glanced around and sneered disdainfully, "It's completely different from what I've heard before. Don't you prefer realms forged from darkness and flesh and blood the most?"

Harvey frowned, completely unable to understand the other party's nonsense. He could only repeat, "Why did you attack me in the magic network? Was it the Church that instigated this attack?"

The shorter man on the left raised his chin arrogantly, "Yes, we are the church's... demon slayers."

"By order of His Holiness the Thirteenth Pope, I come to slay you, the High-ranking Demon who dares to invade the real world!"

Everything made sense. Someone in the church used high-level divine magic to lock onto his magic network in some unique and unknowable way, and then pulled himself into the magic network space, attempting to shatter his magic pattern projection and destroy his soul in the magic network.

But...why was he so hostile towards me? And why did he mistake me for a demon?

Harvey felt that he had only been forced to fight back and killed a low-level witch hunter who had concealed his identity. It was impossible for him to shock the top leaders of the church and send out such a large force to specifically target him.

The three demon slayers took steps together and slowly approached him.

Harvey felt that it was too late to explain the possible misunderstanding to them, and even he himself couldn't figure out the ins and outs of it.

He immediately raised his hand and was about to release his instantaneous three-ring spell - Mirror Curse.
But he found that there was no sign of magic power flowing in his body, as if he had completely lost touch with the magic net and the positioning magic pattern.

The three people in front of him also raised their hands to release magic, with six arms raised to the sky, but there was no divine light emanating from their palms.

"No! Is this... an absolutely forbidden magic zone?" the gray-haired man in the lead roared. The three men immediately gave up their divine attacks and rushed towards Harvey, who was also stunned.

Damn it, a church priest and a research-based spellcaster engaging in hand-to-hand combat! Harvey cursed inwardly, but his body honestly turned around and ran away.

He had only taken two steps when he was immediately knocked to the ground by a demon slayer who had quickly caught up with him.

The other party raised his muscular arm and tightly strangled Harvey's thin neck, as if he wanted to strangle him to death.

Suddenly, a loud thunderclap sounded in the dark sky.

A scream suddenly reached the ears of Harvey, who was about to suffocate and faint. He struggled to pry open the demon slayer's strong arms, turned his head and found that the other party's body seemed to be stuck to his for some reason.

Harvey's originally thin body like a teenager suddenly cracked into deep red cracks on his limbs and chest and abdomen. Countless densely packed sharp teeth were revealed in these cracks, firmly biting the spellcaster who attacked Harvey, and constantly making creepy chewing and sucking sounds.

The demon hunter's skin all over his body seemed to be corroded by strong acid and dissolved rapidly, revealing the bright red flesh and tendons beneath the skin. He opened his mouth and screamed, but was unable to stop this horrific scene from happening.

Another demon hunter flew over, trying to rescue his companion, but the moment he touched the other's body, he was also stuck tightly together, and no matter how he screamed and struggled, he could not get rid of it.

There was another horrible sound of chewing, biting and swallowing, and the two demon hunters who were tightly stuck to Harvey seemed to be dissolved in an instant and disappeared in the cracks that suddenly appeared on Harvey's body.

Harvey stumbled to his feet and suddenly felt an unstoppable nausea. He lowered his head and dry-heaved, but found that he couldn't vomit anything out.

The sound of muffled thunder continued to explode in the sky.

He stood up and looked at the last demon hunter, who had collapsed on the ground and was twitching with fear, and slowly walked towards him.

(End of this chapter)