A mage? A spell engineer!

Chapter 593 Attempting to Clean Up the Aftermath

During Rorschach's "Q&A session," the effects of the explosion dissipated. The cracks still existed, and the shattered space was even narrower. However, it was clear that the parts that had become illusory were much quieter. The active orbs of light and colors could no longer be seen inside, indicating that the monsters from the other world had been cleared away.

The Senate arranged this "observation meeting" both to remind everyone of the significant threat posed to the Mother Goddess and to demonstrate military force. It is believed that those who appreciate "ultimate art" will recognize reality and actively cooperate with the guild.

After Rorschach completed his task, it was time for the other mages to work hard.

The circular structure still floats in the air, projecting downwards devices to suppress pollution.

However, this time, what was inserted into the ground was an advanced version—the Magic Weaver. They surrounded the city ruins, forming a matrix that reshaped the magical environment.

The Tower of Arcane Arts is now closely connected with Rorschach, and they naturally have the advantage of proximity. Many of their members are already able to use string magic, and led by Feuerbach, they have begun to reorganize Opfer's field.

They used secret techniques from ancient texts, and ingeniously integrated them with new spellcasting techniques.

During the chanting and rituals, the magical net reassembled by the weavers began to twist. The warp and weft of this net could penetrate and connect the broken reality and illusion, temporarily stabilizing the material world that was originally collapsing toward the symbolic field of the Mother Goddess.

Abstractly speaking, those fragments are simply hanging on the internet, and the spellcasters of numerous arcane towers use the magic network to provide a safety net for the decaying reality.

Next, Master Feuerbach will begin the forging process. All abnormal information, existence, and energy in this space will be concentrated at the center, in the place where the magic network intertwines and overlaps most densely.

The dregs that the Mother Goddess projected into the material world can no longer be compressed or destroyed. Monsters are the easiest to deal with. What is truly indelible is the influence caused by the gods. For example, when the material world and the symbolic realm where the Mother Goddess resides merge, the symbols that originally had no substance are immediately registered in the real world, changing from "less than nothing" to "existing, but not existing".

Feuerbach was able to distinguish between the two and knew that it was impossible to completely reverse them. In the end, he chose to complete the last secret technique.

The process of melting down the fragments of the world and reshaping the contaminated environment lasted for three days and three nights. After determining that the contamination could not be eradicated, the Senate decided to separate a portion of the prime material world to absorb the contamination and then seal the plane fragments layer by layer.

This plan also originated from an ancient scroll collected by the Tower of Arcane Arts. Following the detailed steps recorded on it, the seal was successfully sealed, and with the addition of a magic weaver, the possibility of leakage was absolutely prevented.

Perhaps stripping a part of a plane doesn't have the same visual impact as Rorschach's "Ultimate Art," but the difficulty and the spellcasting skills it represents are no less significant. In the end, this miracle, equivalent to a super-level magic, was barely completed through the collaboration of almost all the elders, archmages, and many intermediate spellcasters.

First, Feuerbach, Poincaré, the chiefs of the Tower of Time and the Tower of Emptiness deciphered the recorded rituals and runes into spells, extracted the spell prototypes, and had Rorschach register them on the Tree of Law.

Then, the first step of casting the spell is completed using the magic weaver and the spell cloud. Finally, several archmages work together to guide the spell, precisely manipulating the plane and gradually separating the field where the city is located from multiple concepts of time, space and symbolism.

This plane is extremely small compared to the mother plane, like a grain of gold dust painstakingly scraped off a gold brick.

The attempt was successful, and if they wish, they could hide and banish the tiny planes that were cut off.

However, the problem lies in the fact that it was too successful.

The leader of the Dark Tower did not participate, but after listening to the reports of several elders at the follow-up meeting, he slowly uttered a chilling statement:

"Your ability to recreate such a special seal according to ancient texts, does that mean that similar situations occurred in ancient times? Are there still many fragments of contaminated planes around us?"

"If so, how long can these seals last?"

"Furthermore, the Mother Goddess's influence is now very pronounced, revealing its profound impact on our physical world. Sealing it is indeed an extremely difficult task. So, was the previous purification truly thorough?"

The other monks were speechless for a moment.

The final resolution of the meeting was to add three more sets of celestial ladder systems, in addition to the second set operated by the dwarves, covering low to high latitudes to accelerate the connection with the outside world.

Some monsters managed to escape the city limits, or perhaps they didn't even infiltrate through the rift in Upfer in the first place. In the rural central part of the empire, the worship of the Earth Mother Goddess flourished rapidly, fueled by the widespread fear caused by the war.

Some of the soldiers who returned home due to injuries or illness also became henchmen of the Mother Goddess Cult, because for them, the cult's promise to restore their missing limbs and faces was an offer they could not refuse.

Gregory's preparations went beyond holding sacrifices in the city and hunting down the archmages of the Tower of First Flame. The entire Order was attempting to tear a long, chaotic strip from the center of the Empire, launching a military campaign blessed by the Mother Goddess to attack the Empire, the Alliance, and the Republic.

The legions born through sacrifice and the blessing of the Mother Goddess are not powerful; even the smallest, decaying mosquitoes can be considered cannon fodder. Groups of various monsters constantly wander, launching unprovoked attacks on any settlements they encounter.

Among them, the swarms of "ground flies" encountered by Rorschach and Feuerbach were considered elite units, and those with wings and the ability to fly were the elite of the elite.

The calls emanating from their spiracles are like a psychotropic drug to ordinary people. Hearing them will cause them to become paralyzed, convulse, and lose their will, waiting for their sharp mouthparts to pierce their bodies and suck out their flesh.

After feeding, the groundfly injects its larvae into its skin, where they develop into soft, plump maggots that drive the skin to find food. Once metamorphosis is complete, the new groundfly joins the hunt for and destruction of life on the ground.

These elites possess a certain level of intelligence, serving as commanders within the legion. They also include believers who have been blessed by the Mother Goddess and transformed into undead creatures, heavily armored infantrymen covered in tumors and keratin, and scouts who nimbly leap and tumble.

When the monster army accumulates to a certain number, a huge lump of flesh will be born, constantly vomiting pus. It is made up of "combat supplies" and is constantly rotting inside and out. The pus that flows out will become temporary supplies for the monsters when they cannot find humans or animals. In other words, the lump of flesh is food and supplies when marching.

Upon reaching villages, especially fortified cities, the massive lump of flesh becomes a powerful weapon for siege warfare—it wriggles and rolls its enormous, decaying body, stops in front of city walls and gates, and after a spasm, spews out a torrent of digestive juices and secretions, teeming with countless germs and corrosive substances.

If the spray hits, the guards' leather armor and wooden poles will melt instantly, and the survivors' wounds will fester and secrete pus that resembles fleshy lumps, spreading deadly diseases throughout the city.

The spread is happening in all directions. In areas where infectious diseases are rampant and mutated plants and fungi are everywhere, quadrupedal structures, originally used to breach trenches and destroy fortresses, have found a new purpose.

(End of this chapter)