A mage? A spell engineer!

Chapter 546 From Missiles to Vacuum Cleaners

Rorschach's speed before he hit the ground was...

He didn't know either; he was just experiencing the thrill. Anyway, his current body was the ultimate creation—oh, that was meant for space; what's diving towards the ground now is the body of a "perfect being."

The concept of "axiom" is similar to Plato's "forms," ​​which holds that all things are imperfect replicas of their prototypes. And the Creator is the light of truth.

This holds true in another world where "original texts" exist.

On the other hand, the description of the Mother Goddess seems to be their opposite—the ultimate in imperfection, the end of all original texts. Therefore, Her authority over "abnormality" is both a manifestation of disordered and excessive reproduction and proliferation, and also implies another kind of opposition.

Of course, Rorschach's body is not entirely the model for all humans, otherwise he would not be able to establish a subordinate relationship and control it. Just like the equation describing an ideal gas, in order to fit the special case of "Rorschach", the result of [Axiom Creation] has many modifications, which destroys its absoluteness and sanctity.

On the other hand, the Mother Goddess's power, which had unconsciously invaded the real world, was also corrupted. It had to go through the intermediary of mortal flesh and blood, and it had gained form, boundaries, and rules. It was no longer completely deformed and disordered.

The two sides then had a very close encounter.

In an instant, the shield enveloping Rorschach released all its energy, causing a massive explosion in the "Abyss." He had already decided, when he observed the most severely distorted area within Oward City at the border, that he would use the simplest and purest potential energy to break through the fog and the carpet of flesh.

Although this body wasn't made of tungsten steel, Rorschach continuously added shields to himself and absorbed a lot of energy while passing through the metamorphic dust layer. With his control over magic, he gathered and compressed it into part of the shield.

As the starship's shields passed through the laminar flow, they grew thinner and thinner. Rorschach passed through, and the original force field head was forcibly molded into a high-energy-density "warhead".

A double impact from physics and magic!

Unfortunately, Rorschach was just an ordinary engineering student in his previous life, lacking the experience of rich guys skydiving and being a missile pilot. He didn't adjust his posture properly and accidentally hit the deepest and largest hole.

A small, blue mushroom cloud rose.

A sharp, shattering shockwave spread out from this center, and instantly the ground of this dead city was like a fountain, with scarlet liquid and bits of flesh gushing out from the craters and soaring dozens of meters high to release the pressure waves caused by the impact.

This impact also shattered many monsters, sending them back to the sticky earth to spawn anew. Many crooked buildings collapsed completely. As a result, "Oward" as a city should be completely removed from the map.

The release of immense energy vaporized the flesh covering Rorschach's body, revealing the underlying structure and expanding the cavern several times over. However, to Rorschach's surprise, the regenerative power of the flesh carpet was beyond imagination. The rotten liquid and charred fragments were immediately absorbed by the wall, then they changed from deep red to a tender pink, and began to expand, wrapping Rorschach in layers at the very center.

Embedded in the flesh wall, Rorschach felt himself being constantly sucked, the thick, rotten smell carrying a hint of sweetness and fishiness. Below him, the biological tissue in the conventional sense had become mixed with inorganic matter, and the sand that had been smashed out had fascia and veins, pulsating and contracting lightly and heavily under his feet.

The spaces beneath the city, such as underground rivers, caves, and fissures in the strata, now transform into biological structures, rising and falling together.

How disgusting. Rorschach could even sense that the way magic was organized here had been rewritten, especially the nature magic. If it were cast, a new power would dominate, mobilizing prototypes that did not belong to the original layer, and of course, it would produce different effects.

Is this the domain of the Earth Mother Goddess? Rorschach was eager to try releasing it and see what would happen, especially the divine magic related to Delyuats. But his duty was to "put out the fire," and if something went wrong while he was recklessly trying it out, there was no one who could cover for him.

Rorschach was truly interested in how the Mother Goddess's power altered the workings of environmental magic and how it influenced nature-based spells. He activated "Resurrection" but did not release it, while simultaneously sensing the Tree of Law bound to it at the border.

There's no corresponding node response right now, but the magic can still be released—well, what the effect will be is another matter. After lightly testing the limits of recklessness, Rorschach determined the way the Mother Goddess's power interfered. It seemed to have tampered with and polluted the link between the caster and the spellbook, and this pollution was widespread; anything involving Her authority seemed to be affected.

Holy crap, this tactic looks so familiar. Isn't this some kind of Cyber ​​Great Wall?

Just as Rorschach was thinking about things he shouldn't be thinking, the mutated flesh around his body intensified its "massage" force. The living cave seemed to be trying to expel Rorschach as a foreign object, and at the same time, it seemed to be craving the clones created by Rorschach's axioms, just like Dionysus had been before.

The two contradictory reactions turned into a tug-of-war—Rorschach's upper body was lifted up, while his lower body was sucked into the ground.

Having clarified the situation that interested him, the Archmage dared not delay any longer and officially began his operation. At this point, Rorschach was acting as a janitor, intending to proceed step by step:

The impact of the initial fall was intended to break up the "stubborn stains," and it worked quite well. As the fall reached low altitude, Rorschach detected that the energy transmission pathways were still relatively clear, indicating that the initial impact had successfully dispersed them. The second step is to thoroughly remove the "stains," cleaning until these disgusting substances are no longer visible before performing final disinfection to eliminate any potential contamination.

He pushed aside the fleshy walls, raised one hand, and two black balls appeared above Rorschach's palm.

This is the signal that he's transforming from a "Rorschach-1 missile" into a "Rorschach vacuum cleaner." He doesn't intend to throw it out like a gaseous plane, but rather to continuously control the amplification of the "miniature black hole."

The matter surrounding the body, imbued with the power of the Mother Goddess, began to be drawn in. Once it approached the small black sphere, its form immediately collapsed, transforming into a fluid-like substance that was sucked in.

"What was that just now?" The mages inside the "ship" were filled with doubt and surprise. They could feel the room, which was on the verge of collapse, shaking violently. An unprecedented impact shattered the two layers of defenses they had painstakingly set up.

The entire carpet of flesh now seemed to be feeling unbearable pain, convulsing incessantly. The proliferating granulation tissue had grown enormous, each one the size of a child.

They are now practically food being digested in an open digestive system, with the "intestinal villi" constantly peeling away the outer walls and transporting them to the cave into which the blue meteor had just fallen.

During the time the monsters were merging, the spellcasters got a short rest. The group worked together to barely provide "Lone Boat" with a comforting protective field, as well as the more useful [Levitation] spell, allowing them to float away from the dangerous flesh and blood on the ground.

The remaining people were researching ways to escape, trying teleportation arrays. However, they discovered to their despair that all coordinates were severely interfered with. The only time there was a response, it wasn't a success—before the array could fully deploy, a foul stench gushed out from the other end, seemingly indicating that the Mother Goddess's power had altered the destination.

This frustrating situation had no effect on Richard.

He stood at the highest point of the drifting "houseboat," constantly aware of his surroundings and fighting off monsters. Richard was not a navigator to lead everyone out of danger; his belief lay in finding the initiator of the ritual.

At this point, in Richard's eyes, whether the ritual could be stopped and everyone could survive was no longer important; what mattered most was that those who had harmed the entire city received the punishment they deserved.

He saw a dark, black hemisphere rising on the horizon, even obscuring the faint light of dawn.

The entire carpet of flesh began to surge toward the lightless sphere, faster and faster, until the final waves resembled a flood. Fortunately, the mages had lifted up the remains he was standing on, allowing them to remain stationary relative to the ground.

Countless pieces of building debris flew past him, and Richard, with his sharp eyes, suddenly noticed what appeared to be a person lying on the rubble of a building he had just passed.

(End of this chapter)