Wizard's Journey

Chapter 1999 Abyss Battlefield (Twenty-Four)

Immediately, centered around Green's research institute, the power went out with a "whoosh".

The city at dusk, after the noise and commotion from the electricity has subsided, is exceptionally quiet. It should be a beautiful afternoon, but modern people, because of their inner anxiety, have no mood to appreciate the beauty of the twilight.

"Oh damn, the Wi-Fi's gone! What the hell? Why is the power out? Haven't those power companies made enough money already?"

"No matter the reason, no matter who it is, restore power to me immediately!"

The anxious people nearly overwhelmed the power company's phone lines within minutes.

In Green's case, a strange change in the flow of time could be clearly perceived, from apparent time to half-step time, followed by real time and the illusion of superconducting time. After entering the illusion with superconducting time, the originally calm and stable real material energy world suddenly showed some strange and unusual things that should not exist.

This is already a layer between reality and illusion!

After a two-headed fish emerged from the black crack, its scales with black stripes and a yellow base, its fins and long tail swaying incessantly, was quite strange. One head's two eyes were mechanical clock wheels, while the other head's two eyes were electronic numbers. It had no intelligence; it simply swam aimlessly. In its time-based vision, Green and the others appeared as static beings, much like the mountains and trees Green and the others saw in the material world. Such illusory creatures of time were far too numerous to be surprising.

However, just as the two-headed fish was about to swim into another time rift and disappear, with the old man of time's laughter, the distorted spacetime caused the two-headed fish to split into a kind of illusory energy, which, along with the other time-related creatures that had just appeared, became part of the old man of time.

Thus, the Old Man of Time was finally able to exist in the real world of the intercontinental continent in his true form!

Nourishing.

After the power was cut off, Jenny's head, which was floating in the air, flickered twice, clearly affected to some extent, but then returned to normal. She said to the old man of time, "I've long since passed the stage where I need local electronic signal support. If you're so capable, then cut off the power grid in every area covered by the network. But if you can't, hehehehe..."

Amid Jenny's cheerful, arrogant, and eerie laughter, time around them began to distort once again. Although everything seemed unchanged, Green, Millie, Jason, and even ordinary people not in the center of the battlefield clearly sensed some unusual and unknown changes.

It feels like everything around me has become unreal?

If I had to force an analogy, it would be that the surroundings become a backdrop in a photograph, and I become the person in that photograph.

However, even if people doubt this strange logic for a moment, they will immediately dismiss their self-righteous wild thoughts and return to their normal lives.

At the same time, Jenny's head disappeared amidst the laughter.

"Dimensional reduction attack? However, it's different from all the dimensional reduction attacks I've researched before."

Green murmured in a voice only Millie could hear, then looked outside at the somewhat artificial pixelated sunset and the people whose traffic was paralyzed due to the rule-breaking power outage. When he turned back to look at the Old Man of Time, he saw five black discs appearing above the Old Man of Time's head, and they were constantly enlarging, which was very strange.

"Huh? What's this?"

Millie asked in surprise.

The old man of time also sensed the strangeness of this new and unknown ability. The huge clock on his back suddenly spun, and five small clocks appeared on the black original. Then the magnification speed of the black original slowed down significantly.

As he entered a state of contemplation, the old man of time vanished in a flash and reappeared on the rooftop. However, the five black discs remained attached to him, still hovering above his head.

Grimm and Millie flashed to the rooftop, watching the two gods, old and new, wage war using rules within the limited scope of their abilities.

Millie squinted slightly and murmured, "In terms of strength, they've at least reached the first level, and they're accompanied by extremely strange abilities. This battle shouldn't last long; it's probably just a declaration of war between the two sides."

"The God of Machines did not appear. The God of the Stars should have gone to the Abyss Battlefield. Perhaps he is joining forces with the Wizard Demon Hunter Expeditionary Legion to fight against the Abyss. Time and space are the old camp, media and machines are the new camp. Time and space, illusion and reality."

As Green spoke, the Old Man of Time underwent another change. The five black circles on his head grew larger and larger until they merged into one, forming an irregular shape that seemed to be about to surround the Old Man of Time.

Clearly, the two had never had direct contact, and the Old Man of Time knew nothing about the God of Media's abilities.

After a moment of contemplation, the Old Man of Time simply stood still and allowed the war to dictate his actions. The black disc had completely enveloped the Old Man of Time and was constantly changing into various shapes. As the black disc grew larger, people on the surrounding streets noticed it and pointed in astonishment. Some even took out their digital cameras and phones to record and take photos as souvenirs.

With the advent of these multimedia electronic devices, the eerie black discs were significantly enhanced and made larger, looking like a string of giant sausages when connected together.

"Could it be...?"

With his rich imagination and extensive knowledge, Green suddenly realized something, and exclaimed in surprise and barely concealed curiosity and delight, "There's such a thing?"

As the black disc completely covered the old man of time, under everyone's gaze, the previously "false" spacetime seemed to gradually become real. At the same time, in a daze, those strange black discs extended to a greater height, and the previously irregularly shaped black discs were clearly the hand of the god of media.

And the old man of time has been held firmly in the palm of the god of media, like a puppet.

In that brief moment, what Green and the others saw was a scene of flat paper creatures looking up at a higher dimension invasion after they and the surrounding spacetime were attacked by the God of Media in a lower dimension!

hiss……

Even a higher being like Green, forced to descend to a lower dimension, couldn't react to this attack method in a short time. The perception of lower-dimensional beings towards higher-dimensional beings is far too limited and one-sided. Just like what Green and Millie saw before, it was only the part of the God of Media's hand that was in contact with the flat paper. At first, it was five fingers, and later it became a whole palm. But for purely lower-dimensional beings, it would be a completely different experience. They simply couldn't imagine what a high-dimensional being with such a large volume would be like through these partial perceptions.

"Now that you are completely under my control, what else do you have to say?"

Jenny's cold and beautiful head displayed a smug expression. Apart from this hand, the rest of her body, including every strand of hair, was a series of illusory codes, as she arrogantly asked.

Modern humans spend far more time in the media than in prayer each day, so she has every right to be arrogant!

However, the old man whose time was being controlled did not show any abnormalities.

"Hahahaha, as expected of a new god even more threatening than the God of Machines! Such wondrous divine power, able to fully sense it beforehand... the outcome of the future all-out war is still uncertain!"

The old man of time laughed maniacally. With a sudden turn of the clock behind him, his figure became illusory. Under the time manipulation power that reversed the flow and eliminated all unfavorable factors, he simply disappeared. Everything returned to the time when Jason was in a panic behind Green, and Jenny was still mysteriously smiling, walking over in her high heels with a "thump, thump, thump, thump."

However, Jenny's smile froze as she regained her sense of time.

(End of this chapter)