Chapter 82: Emerging From Legends


    Central District, Truth Union General Office, highest floor conference room.


    Everyone stared quietly at the screen as they listened to the cold mechanical voice announcing.


    “White 3 ss 4 Weapons Store votes to authorize.”


    “White 3 has voted to authorize the Aether Annihtion Cannon.”


    “Notion passed.”


    “All departments are to return to their posts. The Aether Annihtion Cannon is being readied...”


    ———


    Ji Zhixiu looked up at the humongous humanoid creature the size of a mountain.


    Thunderclouds and lightning shrouded around it, concealing parts of its massive body. Scales all over made some sort of armor, covering ayer of glossy, gluey fluid. In its hands was a ck axe as well as a shield.


    Further upwards was a squirming mass of noises and a pair of eyes brimming with white electricity.


    Such a giant monstrosity was as astounding as the legends told. Even the city beneath its feet seemed tiny and insignificant.


    However, this gargantuan monster that ought to immediately catch the attention of the masses in this rain-stricken city didn’t trigger any panic at all.


    It came with the lightning and opened a door at the same time...


    Ji Zhixiu knew this and all other extraordinary beings could sense it.


    Because, this ce was no longer reality... a fracture of the dream realm had been open and the boundaries between dream and reality had be blurred.


    The reason the Magic Ovum Mirror got its name was firstly because of its ability to captivate hearts during its ‘infancy’.


    All that gazed at it would develop an insatiable desire to possess it and the effect only got stronger the longer the interaction.


    It could control other creatures to do everything for itself and source the required nutrients it needed.


    In a certain sense, it could be described as a type of magical object.


    Therefore, the usual practice when discovering a Magic Ovum Mirror was to destroy it immediately.


    One definitely needed to take measures to safeguard oneself should there be a need to utilize it. If not, very few people could recover from its influence.


    Secondly, during its ‘maturity’, which was after it had absorbed sufficient nutrients, a Magic Ovum Mirror would be an ‘egg’ which dream realm creatures hatched from. Under the right conditions, a creature from the dream realm could use it to arrive in reality.


    In other words, the Magic Ovum Mirror was actually a living one-off transportation gate.


    During ancient times, magicians treated these objects as the vanguard and sentinels that were deliberately nned by dream realm creatures.


    Secret Rite Tower and the Truth Union had acted speedily and had already practically wiped out White Wolf and Scarlet Cult. At first, they thought that this matter had already been suppressed... In most circumstances, such a short amount of time definitely wouldn’t be enough to incubate a Magic Ovum Mirror.


    The ughtering of the popce by White Wolf wasn’t enough to furnish the nutrients required to create a sufficientlyrge dream realm fracture, but nobody knew that they would have just used Scarlet Cult personnel as sacrifices and even their own hunters weren’t spared.


    Therefore, nobody imagined that a dream realm fracture would be opened abruptly and without warning.


    Ji Zhixiu took two deep breaths, slowly backed off, then turned around before darting away to the distance.


    Her calm and rationality supported by Steel Resolve quelled her own instinctive fear and trembling.


    It made her understand clearly that the best option at this very moment was to flee.


    She could go all out with her Destructive-rank power, but the chances of victory were minute. This godly entity that was already radiating a threat level of a Supreme-rank being would be better left for Secret Rite Tower and Truth Union to handle.


    Heris’ maniacalughter could be faintly heard from behind her.


    Ji Zhixiu nced back and saw Heris tottering forward in the rising water towards the godly being in the rain.


    A few stepster, he raised his hands high, babbling something incoherent. There was a strange glint in his eyes as warts grew rapidly on his body before bursting into distorted limbs and ripping his body apart.


    Yet another few stepster, Heris’ staggering stopped and he fell face-first into the water with a ssh. In the next second, there was no longer any trace of him.


    He had in all of Scarlet Cult’s ck magicians, massacred thousands of civilians in the shadows, and sacrificed White Wolf whom he had painstakingly built over decades in exchange for summoning this god in the distance that hadn’t so much as given him a single nce.


    Even in death, Heris still maintained that utter devotion towards this being as a result of the Magic Ovum Mirror’s enticement.


    Ji Zhixiu nced upwards. That gargantuan entity made a loud roar undecipherable by humans. It raised its ck axe and made a cleave at the clouds.


    In an instant, the axe lit up with a ring brilliance. Just like actual lightning, forks extended from both the top and bottom ends, joining the sky and earth together.


    Thunder roared and lightning crackled within the clouds before countless streaks of electricity shot down, destroying everything in the area.


    The ‘god’ that had been summoned was unfolding its domain.


    “All personnel on standby. The Truth Union willmence the first Aether Annihtion Cannon shot. Team One to Four are to clean up dream beasts that escape from the fringes of the dream realm. Team Five and Six are to prepare for the second shot ording to the set n. All remaining personnel are to provide cover for the Aether Annihtion Cannon...”


    Gresham Winston, Section Chief of Secret Rite Tower’s Combat Department and a current Great Radiant Knight, barked out orders via themunications apparatus.


    After issuing out his orders, he put down themunications device and watched the massive rain god in the distance. Suddenly, he recalled something and turned to his aide and shouted, “Where’s Joseph?!”


    His aide hesitated for a moment before replying, “He has already been contacted. He asked for the coordinates where the dream beast appeared and said... this dream beast was walking on a path to its doom and we don’t have to be so worried.”


    Winston froze up for a moment and asked inexplicably, “How is this fellow so confident at a time like this? But it does seem like his style back then...”


    Before he was finished, he noticed an extremely bright ray of light from the corner of his eyes.


    “Annihtion Cannon? That fast...” Winston squinted and then said without a change in expression. “No, that’s not the Annihtion Cannon!


    “Who is that?!”


    ———


    The meeting concluded and everyone dispersed. Only Andrew was left alone in the conference room.


    Baam!


    “Damn it!” Andrew smashed his fists into conference desks with a ck face as he stared at the unceasing rain and lightning outside the windows.


    It was rare for him to lose his temper. However, this time, it was apse in his strategic nning. White Wolf that was originally a slight annoyance had be a full-blown issue that required the activation of the Aether Annihtion Cannon because of his mistake.


    Although the Truth Union didn’t fear the threat of Supreme-ranks, it didn’t mean that Supreme-ranks were easy for them to deal with. They merely had the ability to fight against Supreme-ranks, but the price they would have to fork out was equally as painful.


    With sufficient preparations, it wouldn’t be too difficult for the Truth Union to methodically get rid of a Supreme-rank entity.


    But now, the situation had erupted so abruptly... Andrew could basically see the ridicule in his fellow Vice-Chairman Derrick’s eyes.


    However, Andrew still persisted with his opinion that the bookstore owner definitely yed a secret role behind the scenes.


    The Aetheric Surveince Network failing, this huge, unknown array as well as their surprising familiarity with Norzin’s structuralyout was definitely not something White Wolf could have done all by themselves.


    Moreover, traces left behind by Wilde in these White Wolf hideouts as well as the hunter’s operations further verified this point.


    “Wait, what is that?!”


    Andrew’s pupils contracted as he strode to the screens of aetheric surveince apparatus disying the battle situation. He reached a hand out and erged one of them.


    Within the dark rainy sky, a bright silhouette like a zing white me had appeared at the fringes of where the thunderclouds connected with the earth.


    This figure encased in light seemed ethereal and rode on a huge and majestic griffin.


    The griffin spread its wings and released a shrill squawk, as if announcing that its owner had emerged from legends.


    Only


    At this moment, both Secret Rite Tower and Truth Union personnel could see the armored elf with golden hair, austere olive-green eyes, and a long sword which was like a burning me flying in the wind.


    Andrew didn’t know how long this battlested but it felt like a mere moment. The elf threw forth that light and me which turned into a white beam that instantly passed through the skull of that rain god.


    The sword-light made a loop and returned back to his hand with rumbling sounds echoing as if announcing his triumph.


    The god within the rain growled in anguish as its body started to crumble starting from its head. Its eyes full of lightning were extinguished, and with a crash, the massive body copsed to the ground, creating a huge wave within the floodwater.


    At that moment, Andrew had backed into the corner of a table. When he regained hisposure, he realized that it had barely been ten minutes since the order had been given to utilize the Aether Annihtion Cannon.