Wizard: Starting with Dealing with Magical Plants

Chapter 236 The Purifier's Attack

About two miles ahead, above a relatively flat lava plateau, space began to twist violently without warning!

Immediately afterwards, a thin, dark blue crack with flickering unstable electric light at its edges appeared out of thin air!

From the crack, a cold, pure energy fluctuation, filled with a sense of destructive order, surged forth!

Then, three humanoid figures, all silver-white with smoother and sharper lines, and wielding complex energy weapons, stepped out of the crack and hovered in mid-air!

Their "gaze" instantly locked onto the squad below!

The style is similar to the visitor's, but sharper and more aggressive!

The energy fluctuations also closely match the characteristics of the Purifier units described by the Arbitrator!

Purifier!

They appeared so quickly?!

Moreover, they blocked the team's way back!

Three silver-white Purifier units hovered in the air, the humming of their energy weapons charging clearly audible.

Without any communication or warning, the weapons in the hands of two of the units glowed with a blinding white light, signifying the annihilation of high-energy rules, locking onto Rolin and Blake, the two with the strongest energy reactions in the squad below!

The third unit raised its arm, and the sensor was aimed at the constant temperature chamber in Rolin's hand.

To be precise, it targeted the Moon Silver Flower seedlings inside, emitting a sharper energy fluctuation that seemed to carry a scanning and judgment meaning!

Are their targets not only mutants and violators, but also—the benign seed of the Moonflower?

Blinding white light rapidly converged at the tip of the silver-white energy weapon, emitting a heart-pounding high-frequency hum.

The air seemed to be frozen by that pure and destructive force of order, even the scorching smell of sulfur was pushed away.

The team members on the lava plateau below instantly felt a chilling, deadly threat, as if countless sharp blades were pressed against their vital points!

There were no warnings, no negotiations, only the most direct intent to attack!

This is the logic of the Purifiers: once a potential source of pollution or anomaly in the rules is detected, they immediately lock onto it and prepare to eliminate it!

"Spread out! Defend!" Blake roared, and the tower shield that had been ready to be used suddenly rose upwards. Dark red furnace energy surged out like a volcanic eruption, forming a thick and solid fire shield above their heads!

Ancient runes flashed wildly on the shield's surface; this was his trump card defensive technique—[Furnace Barrier]!

Gore and Iron Anvil reacted just as quickly, roaring as they channeled their battle aura into their heavy tower shields, which they then crossed to form a simple triangular defensive array with Blake's shield, attempting to buy time for the magic-based classes to follow.

The moment the opponent's weapon charged, Ayla rolled backward, and at the same time, the bowstring twanged. Three arrows were not aimed at the Purifiers themselves, but at the ground beneath their feet and to their sides. The arrows detonated the pre-buried small explosive runes and interference dust upon landing, attempting to disrupt the opponent's lock-on and vision!

Liana then contracted the purification aura to its maximum, transforming it into a thin membrane of flowing golden flames that covered Rolin and herself. At the same time, she raised her staff high and began to rapidly chant a defensive Holy Word Shield.

Abel, his face ashen, frantically pulled out a palm-sized metal disc engraved with spatial interference runes, activated it, and threw it at his feet, attempting to create a localized area of ​​spatial disorder to interfere with possible long-range attacks.

Rolin was the focus of all eyes and attacks. Not only were there two Purifiers aiming at him, but a third unit was also targeting the Moonflower seedlings with a scanning wave!

He could clearly sense that the scanning wave contained not only detection, but also a cold judgment and—

A barely perceptible hint of doubt, as if a programming error had occurred?

The silvery-white seedlings shone brightly in the incubator and trembled violently!

What was conveyed was no longer the previous calm or curiosity, but extreme fear and resistance.

That is a natural fear of a force with a cleansing mission that is of the same origin but completely opposite in nature!

There's no time to think about it!

Rolin shoved the constant temperature box into Liana's arms, then stepped forward instead of retreating, facing the two balls of destructive white light that were locked onto him!

Within the spiritual sea, the light of the [Morning Star] and the [Silent Star] burst forth with unprecedented brightness!

[Myriad Stars] is operating at overload, and star power is surging out like a flood bursting its banks!

The deeper understanding of order and rules gained from previous exchanges with the arbitrator, as well as the fleeting perception of the purifier's energy characteristics, transformed into an almost instinctive response at this moment!

He cannot withstand that kind of annihilation attack at the level of rules.

But perhaps it can—interfere!

Use forces that originate from the same order, but whose nature and purpose are completely different, to create conflict!

With his right hand outstretched, pointing towards the tip of the Purifier weapon on his left, which was about to complete its charge, the spell model of [Disruption of Order] was being reconstructed in his mind at an extreme speed.

This time, the self-mark is not a physical structure, but rather the highly condensed, soon-to-be-launched beam of rule-annihilating energy itself.

He intends to attempt to disrupt the stability of its energy structure before its launch.

His left hand pressed lightly against the ground. The power of the [Starflow Aquatic Field] was not used for defense or attack, but rather to frantically draw upon the chaotic yet massive amount of geothermal energy contained in the lava earth beneath his feet!

This energy is forcibly restrained and compressed, not for attack, but to create an extremely unstable, highly concentrated chaotic energy field, like splashing a large amount of chaff in front of a precision-guided missile about to be launched!

At the same time, Luo Lin rapidly recited a string of extremely difficult syllables, seemingly from the deepest layers of a civilization stele, the meaning of which was unclear.

This is not any known incantation, but rather a rudimentary technique he conceived during his research at the Holy Tower, combining stone tablet fragments and his own star power characteristics, attempting to simulate the flow of information at the rule level!

All of this was accomplished in the blink of an eye!

The energy weapon of the purifier on the left seemed to have reached its critical point of charging, and a blinding white light was about to burst forth.

But in that instant, a barely perceptible silver glint from the tip of Roland's right finger struck first, like the finest probe, touching the edge of that white light!

There was no collision, and no explosion.

The highly condensed annihilation white light, on its surface, resembled a calm lake where a small pebble had been thrown in, creating extremely subtle and irregular ripples.

The stable energy structure inside the white light experienced a very brief period of disorder and stagnation!

It was this delay of less than 0.1 seconds that gave others time to react!

"Now! Disrupt the barrage!" Blake roared, pushing the shield forward simultaneously with Gore and Anvil.

The interference dust and explosion smoke fired by Ella also spread out at this moment!

The energy weapon of the purifier on the right was not directly interfered with, and white light shot out!

But the target wasn't Rowling, but rather—the [Forge Barrier] built by Blake and his two companions!

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A piercing sound of energy annihilation tore through the air!

The pure white light collided violently with the blazing fire shield.

The fire shield melted and thinned at a visible rate, emitting a cracking sound as it succumbed to the strain.

Blake and his two companions groaned repeatedly, blood gushing from their mouths and noses, the ground beneath their feet cracking as they were pushed backward!

But the shield didn't shatter instantly, barely managing to block the attack.

The Purifier on the left, whose attack was interrupted by Rolin, still fired its weapon after a brief delay. However, the trajectory was slightly deflected due to the internal disturbance, whistling past Rolin's left side and striking a huge lava pillar dozens of meters behind it!

Without a sound, the solid stone pillar that required several people to encircle, along with the ground within several meters around it, vanished instantly, like pencil marks erased by an eraser.

All that remains is a perfectly round pit with smooth, mirror-like edges and an unfathomable depth.

Everyone gasped in shock! This was the power of rules being annihilated.

If hit head-on, not even a trace of the soul would remain.

The third purifier, who aimed the scanning wave at the Moon Silver Flower, seemed to have completed the judgment at this moment.

Its arm lowered, the sensor turned towards Rolin, and a cold, synthesized electronic voice sounded. This time it wasn't the common language, but a more ancient and logically-driven strange language. However, through some kind of mental fluctuation, everyone understood its meaning: "Benevolent rule-bearing individual detected — Mark carrier detected — Individual status stable, no signs of contamination — Linking external logic unit secondary maintenance unit Border Patrol 7 — Data synchronization in progress —"

Its tone seemed to reveal a hint of confusion and logical inconsistency: "Cleanup priority determination — conflict."

"Target benign individuals carrying imprints, potentially covered by the Supplementary Provisions for Heritage Protection — Existence of external logical units — Data request sent —"

Is it in contact with the arbitrator?

Or rather, is it making some kind of internal logical judgment?

Taking advantage of this brief respite, Luo Lin, enduring the dizziness and stinging pain from the combined depletion of his mental and stellar energy, growled, "Retreat! Towards the northeast, into the lava ravine!"

The terrain there is complex, with crisscrossing lava ravines that can effectively obstruct the line of sight and attack angles of aerial units.

Blake and his two companions retrieved their nearly shattered shields, turned and ran without hesitation, but maintained their defensive formation.

Ella and Liana supported the swaying Rolin on either side, while Abel followed closely behind, occasionally turning back to throw a few small gadgets to create distraction.

Baha let out a sharp cry in the air, then suddenly swooped down, grabbed the spatial interference disk that Abel had dropped on the ground, and slammed it down on a Purifier who was trying to adjust its angle to attack again.

The disc was swept across the air by a thin beam of white light and instantly vanished, but it also slightly hindered the opponent's movements.

The team unleashed their full speed, charging into a complex network of deep trenches formed by cooled lava not far away.

The three Purifiers hovered in place, seemingly in no hurry to give chase.

The sensor light from the unit that was communicating with the arbitrator was flashing continuously.

The other two cautiously scanned their surroundings, their weapons still charging, but they did not fire again.

A few seconds later, the organization that had been communicating with the arbitrator appeared to have received a response.

It turned to the other two units, sending out a rapid data stream fluctuation.

Immediately, the three Purifiers turned around at the same time, ignoring the team that had fled into the ravine, and instead turned into three silver-white streaks of light and sped away towards the boiling blood lake!

In the blink of an eye, it disappeared into the horizon.

They...left?

Did they go to the Boiling Blood Lake?

Was it because the arbitrator's communication was effective?

Or is it determined that the squad is not the primary target for elimination?

In the lava ravine, the group leaned against the scorching rock wall, breathing heavily, their faces showing the shock of surviving a close call.