parentshiftbook Chapter 670 The Hollow City
Chapter 670 The Hollow City
Chapter 670 The Hollow City
Beneath the dark purple sky, Jemin's figure glided silently above the clouds.
The Tai Xu Step compressed his existence to below the limits of perception, and even the wind avoided his body.
His gaze did not fall on the rapidly passing wasteland below, but rather on the picture of destiny composed of countless points of light deep within his consciousness.
A faint golden halo appeared between his brows, helping him process the incoming data rapidly.
His consciousness followed the threads extending from destiny, constantly selecting the right one.
Ultimately, Jemin chose a path that aligned better with his destiny.
In terms of location, the ultimate goal is a medium-sized city in a remote part of the plane.
Jemin adjusted his direction and gradually accelerated.
Suppressing his speed, Jemin flew for a full half month before finally getting close to the direction of his target.
The first thing you perceive is the energy field in front of you.
The strange energy emanating from it was completely different from any other strange energy before. The energy of the strange energy covered the entire city, and the energy density was abnormally uniform.
He lowered his altitude, emerging from beneath the clouds, and the All-Seeing Eye shone brightly deep within its pupil.
Soon, Jemin saw the city.
From the outside, it is no different from any other medium-sized city in this plane.
The streets crisscross, the buildings are of varying heights, there are factory chimneys on the outskirts and church spires in the city center.
It was dusk, and the city's streetlights were lighting up one by one. Cars moved slowly along the main roads, their taillights leaving red streaks in the twilight.
Near the outskirts of the city, there is a low-rise residential area where you can see smoke rising from chimneys and drifting in the hazy sky.
Everything seemed normal.
But the All-Seeing Eye told Jemin that there wasn't a single living person in the city.
Moreover, it's not just that there are no living people; it's that there is absolutely no life, not even microorganisms.
The whole city is like a painting. The painter used the most delicate brushstrokes to depict every street and every street lamp, but forgot to put anything that could breathe in the painting.
The traffic lights and cooking smoke are all projections.
Projections have mass, energy, and even a realistic physical texture, but they do not actually exist.
The Empty City.
The word popped into Jemin's mind.
He hovered above the city's edge, his all-seeing eye peeling away the city's energy structure layer by layer, revealing it to his consciousness.
The energy level of this city was ridiculously high, several orders of magnitude higher than all the strange things he had encountered before combined.
The numerical superiority is merely the most insignificant difference between it and other bizarre phenomena; their fundamental natures are fundamentally different.
If the eerie and dangerous are like torches, the hazardous are like bonfires, and the catastrophic are like forest fires.
That city—it's like the sun.
Therefore—it's devastating!
Jemin's pupils contracted slightly, and he couldn't help but feel a little excited.
Having calmed himself down, Jemin shifted his gaze from the city to several directions on its outskirts.
There are people there, and it seems that some wizards have also chosen to come here.
After sensing the energy fluctuations, I detected four level-seven archmages and a dozen level-six wizards.
They hovered in different locations on the outskirts of the city, maintaining a subtle distance from each other, their gazes fixed on the city, each with a different expression.
Jemin recognized several of the faces; he had seen their data projections in the intelligence-sharing area of the Magic Network terminal.
The old man on the far left, wearing a deep red robe and with white hair and beard, is a seventh-level Grand Wizard named "Crimson Flame," specializing in fire-based laws, and has been famous for at least eight thousand years.
The blurry figure on the far right, shrouded in black mist, is the seventh-level archmage "Shadow Sha".
The youngest-looking woman in the middle is the seventh-level Archmage "Frostwhisper," a top master of the ice-based laws, who rose to fame tens of thousands of years ago.
The other level six wizards were scattered further away, as a sign of respect for the level seven wizards.
Upon seeing this scene, Jemin naturally did not rush to approach, but instead landed on the outermost edge of the crowd.
He maintained only the bare minimum of Tai Xu Step, making him appear like a wisp of unclear air.
This way, he wouldn't appear to be deliberately hiding himself, nor would he be too conspicuous.
His gaze fell upon the gathering place of the several level-seven archmages.
Although there was no sound between them, Jemin could feel the mental energy of those high-level wizards colliding, clearly using their mental energy to transmit information, probing and negotiating with each other.
High-level wizards communicate at an extremely fast pace and with a very high information density, completing several rounds of negotiations in just a few seconds.
Then, Chi Yan, as the representative, explained the results of the negotiation to all the wizards present.
The voice wasn't loud, but every word clearly reached the ears of every wizard.
"You should all have seen the true nature of this city. It's a destructive, urban-type anomaly, its core being the city's administrative district itself. Its strength far surpasses any anomaly we've encountered before, and it has a fatal flaw: its influence can only cover its own city boundaries and cannot expand outwards."
He paused for a moment, his gaze sweeping over everyone present.
"However, a large number of secondary anomalies also reside within this city. The energy fluctuations of those anomalies are integrated with the city itself, and any attempt to seal the city will fail if they are not cleared out first. Our consensus is simple: subdue these secondary anomalies first, each according to their own abilities. As for the city itself, we will compete based on our strength after the outer perimeter is cleared."
No one raised any objections.
As soon as they finished speaking, the wizards moved at the same instant, transforming into streaks of light and flying towards different areas of the city.
The golden halo between Jemin's brows changed from extremely faint to bright, and the Destiny System was fully activated, assisting him in processing knowledge of destiny.
Deep within my consciousness, countless lines of fate extend from different areas of this city, some thick, some thin, some bright, and some dim.
Most of the lines pointed in a direction on the outskirts of the city, areas that other wizards were heading towards.
He chose a path that led to the eastern part of the city.
That line wasn't the thickest, but it had a unique "texture".
It was as if something had formed a vortex at the end of the fate line, sucking in all the surrounding lines.
Under the cover of twilight, Jemin's figure silently glided into the low skies of the city's eastern district.
There were three other people going in the same direction as him.
Judging from their goals, these people should also be skilled in the knowledge of fate, so they chose the most special location without hesitation.