Chapter 1430 Dunes

Chapter 1430 Dunes

Just the energy surplus leaking from the attack was so intense that Hao Xuan could feel it prickling his skin from a thousand meters away. Countless megatons of raw energy being suppressed into a single point smaller than the tip of a pin increased its potency to an unprecedented degree.

Even other skills were being affected by it as it became obvious by their extremely short-range teleportation.

'I have heard about such effects before but never seen them up close and personal. Only a peak 7th-grade spell could disrupt the surroundings to this degree. Meaning, we can't run away even if we wanted to...' Trace the roots of this material to n0v★lbin

Hao Xuan fixed his sights on the holy miracle about to take their lives but as bright as that light was, somehow, without any warning, it vanished.

At first, he thought the spell had already gone off killing them and this was how his brain interpreted those last moments but...that was not the case.

He squinted hard trying to get a better view because what he was seeing now did not make any sense.

"Is that-"

There was a cloud of billowing red smoke with a giant mouth. It had swallowed the mass of holy energy whole!

"Illya!" Baba Jezda exclaimed, "That is his 'magnum opus', a blessing given only to the most devoted of the Crimson King's followers!"

She sounded happy, akin to a child opening a present.

"Is that his...astral form?"

"It is. Quite fitting, isn't it? That's what the personification of madness is to him. But the price to pay for that-"

Before she could even let out the remaining sentence the red cloud suddenly expanded to 200 meters shrouding all the beings of light within.

*Sigh*

She shook her head while reaching into the robe, "No, both of the bridges are under constant guard. We will meet up with the others before going in."

She took out a small pouch full of herbs. One of them was a bright yellow flower without any scent. She picked one of the petals but it withered almost instantly.

"This should be enough," she muttered and crushed the petal into fine dust before sprinkling it on the white sand.

"I don't think we have time for another needless ritual."

She let out a laugh, "We have all the time in the world," and pointed at the dial.

"You know what I mean..."

"The land here might not seem that big but it would take two of your lifetimes to get to the bridge. I could cast a spell or two to hasten our progress but that will make things harder later on."

"And the petal will help?"

"It will," she said cryptically and Hao Xuan did not have to wait long to see what she meant.

The sand dunes began to shift left and right en mass as something big made its way over to them from just underneath the surface.

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