Chapter 1 The Planned Assassination

The plan that Dawn and the others had discussed beforehand was for Mr. Mirror and the other two to restrain those top-tier mages at all costs, creating an opportunity for Suren.

As long as they held on for a moment, the plan would succeed.

And the reality was just as they had anticipated. The moment they broke in, they were met with a fierce attack.

Especially Mr. Mirror and the other two, who used large-scale moves that forced the enemy to focus their fire on them.

With the magical restrictions in place, even Mr. Mirror's mirror replication ability, which could be considered an unsolvable life-saving technique, was repeatedly hit by the combined attacks of several ninth-tier archmages in a short period of time, causing him to be severely injured and cough up blood.

Pandora's Tsukuyomi Dharma form was also shattered multiple times. Although it wasn't fatal, the divine power Dharma body was faintly collapsing, and she was also in critical condition.

Qian Tiao was even worse off. She originally walked the path of a one-sword style that emphasized offense as defense. Either she quickly killed the enemy, or if she couldn't, the risk of being injured herself would be extremely high. At this moment, she alone was holding off Constantine Reynolds, a demigod with countless magic arrays supporting him. His combat power at this moment was even half as weak as that of the Great Princess Octavia, who was blessed by divine power.

Faced with this combat power that could be considered the pinnacle of the plane, Qian Tiao's sword techniques, no matter how sharp, could not win. After several rounds of fierce fighting, even though her sword qi was so overbearing that it cut several openings in the cabin, she had only managed to inflict a few non-fatal sword wounds on the old mage god. She herself was already severely injured.

In the huge command room, all kinds of alchemy and magic were in chaos.

The mages paid a very small price and completely overwhelmed the three top combat forces of the Alchemy Plane.

Moreover, the moment they broke in, all kinds of anti-intrusion restrictions were locked, making it impossible to escape.

If this continued, they wouldn't be able to hold on for long, and the three of them would be killed on the spot.

However, at this moment, an unexpected change occurred.

......

The command cabin of the Golden Airship was already in complete chaos.

Almost everyone's attention was focused on Mr. Mirror, Qian Tiao, and Pandora, the three people who had caused such a commotion when they broke in, and they ignored Suren, who had been quiet since he entered.

However, it was Mr. Mirror and the other two's desperate efforts that created the opportunity for Suren to cast his spell.

In that instant, it seemed as if someone whispered: "Puppet Mystery - I am a God!"

The words had barely faded when...

A second before, those mages had mobilized their magic power hundreds of times over, as if possessed by gods, beating Mr. Mirror to the brink of death.

But in the blink of an eye, they realized that they had lost that sense of control, and their magic power instantly dropped dozens of times!

The mages in the midst of battle hadn't understood what had happened, but in that instant of stiffness, Mr. Mirror, Qian Tiao, and Pandora suddenly erupted, turning from defense to offense, and instantly killing several people in a row.

The situation seemed to have taken a turn for the better.

The "Evil Magic God" Constantine instantly understood something. His expression changed drastically, and he shouted: "Not good, quickly kill that puppeteer!"

He had been paying attention to the entire scene and had long discovered those countless transparent silk threads.

But he didn't understand what the point of doing this was.

Because in the midst of a million-strong army formation, even the strongest puppetry couldn't do anything.

However, at that moment, when the magic god saw the vast mental power spread out on the silk threads and extend over, Constantine understood what was happening: This person wanted to mentally control everyone in the command room?

This idea wasn't bad.

As long as he controlled the mages who were manipulating the restrictions, the situation could be reversed instantly.

But he couldn't understand how it was possible!

This command room was full of high-level mages above the fifth or sixth rank. Even with his demigod-level mental power, it was already difficult to control a hundred people with mental secret techniques.

What about the others?

What was the meaning of the puppeteer doing this?

Constantine didn't know the mysteries of alchemy, so he naturally didn't know about the [Blasphemer].

Although he didn't understand why that alchemist was doing this, his intuition told him that he had to stop him.

Unfortunately, it was too late.

Mr. Mirror and the other two risked their lives to restrain these top-tier mages in the command room, waiting for this moment!

Moreover, without the magic array buff, who else on the entire magic airship besides Constantine, the demigod, had the ability to kill Suren?

......

The layout was complete.

Suren's soul perception accurately locked onto the precise locations of all the mages on the main ship and the nearby airships, and silk threads were precisely extended.

The core of the [Roc Magic Array] was composed of the main ship and a dozen combat airships. The original design had considered various situations, such as being suddenly broken into by top-tier experts who released large-scale illusions, domineering intimidation, etc., which would cause low-level mages to suffer mass casualties.

Therefore, various complex partition restrictions were designed between cabins and between airships to block various mental power techniques and ranged magic.

Under normal circumstances, even if the silk threads were sharp, they could only spread in the main ship's cabin and would be difficult to penetrate into other cabins.

However, Suren was now extremely proficient in using the [Ouroboros Time-Space Ring].

The silk threads also had the ability to penetrate the void.

Previously, it was impossible for Suren to split his mind to create so many sand-grain-like space wormholes, but now, after merging with the [Blasphemer], he was able to do so with ease. It was as if his focus could be divided into hundreds of thousands of strands, each of which was precisely controlled.

At this moment, it could be seen that there was a subtle spatial fluctuation at the tip of each silk thread.

Countless silk threads, like needles, directly pierced into the space. Through various restrictions, they silently pierced into the various airship cabins at the core of the battle formation.

Even the escort airships hundreds of meters away were close at hand in the face of space folding. Suren's current strength, comparable to the ninth rank, allowed him to control those sixth and seventh rank mages with almost no resistance. The silk threads instantly pierced into the bodies of countless mages.

Almost the moment the silk threads established a connection, mental power surged in along the silk threads.

In an instant, Suren felt as if he were a god, dominating everything.

Finally, at this moment.

He understood what his teacher, Saireya, had taught him about the ultimate goal of the Weird Puppet Master.

His expression turned stern, as if thousands of heroic feelings湧涌涌 into his heart, and he murmured in his heart: "How can puppets be inconvenient objects? Everything within sight is a puppet!"

In an instant, the expressions of tens of thousands of mages froze. A vacant look appeared in their eyes, as if they had fallen into an endless nightmare.

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Controlling a human with independent thinking ability is a thousand times more complicated than controlling a puppet. This unstable control is greatly affected by the strength of the other party's mental power and willpower.

Previously, Suren could accurately control two or three thousand gargoyles, but he could control at most a hundred humans around the fifth rank.

But now it was different. After merging with the [Blasphemer] colonization, the mental control technique [Mind Flayer's Mental Control] advanced to [God's Nightmare].

This was a soul shock from the level of life, almost like divine might or dragon might. It could ignore the willpower of most professionals below the eighth rank. Directly shock, and then control their consciousness.

Those who were controlled would be subjected to the dreams created by Suren, regarding him as a god.

Moreover, Suren's silk threads were still physically conducting, which was a hundred times better than transmitting through the air.

Once controlled, it was almost impossible to break free.

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And controlling these mages in the command room was only the first step.

Suren's ultimate goal was to directly destroy the structure of this magic airship fleet!

The [Roc Magic Array] was a super battle formation that had been assembled with countless resources. It was like a huge castle piled up by countless ants, spending a lot of time, effort, and materials. It was simply not something that could be destroyed by one or two ants. Even if the ants were stronger, it wouldn't work.

Only an attack of the same magnitude could destroy this magic airship fleet!

Therefore, Suren's plan was to use the various magic restrictions in the command room to destroy the great bird battle formation from the inside out.

"It's done!"

Mr. Mirror and the other two, who were fighting hard, heard Suren's voice in the communicator and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The most dangerous step in this raid plan was the time after they broke in and Suren controlled the command room.

During this time, they had to face all kinds of top-tier mages with magical restrictions, which could be said to be a life-or-death situation.

Once they came in, there was no turning back.

The few of them came with the determination to die.

If the plan failed, Suren wouldn't even have a chance to save them. They could only fight to the end.

Fortunately, their decisiveness made the plan go very smoothly. Even the estimated battle time was accurately calculated to the second. Suren also successfully controlled most of the enemy ship's command center according to the plan!

The three of them heard the communication and retreated from the front line with great tacit understanding.

This was just the beginning.

Their most important task now was to protect Suren and give him enough safe output conditions.

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The demigod Constantine saw this and his expression changed drastically!

He also immediately raised his staff and released an instant ninth-tier magic towards Suren, wanting to kill this biggest variable.

However, the [Annihilation Beam] that pierced through was reflected by a mirror image.

Mr. Mirror's nine clones had already guarded Suren's surroundings, forming a defensive formation.

However, just as this attack was blocked, another ninth-tier rune mage was also extremely fast. He rushed up like a volcanic eruption, blasting a fist that had already been burned into a molten state towards Suren.

But as soon as he rushed over, there was a "pa" sound in the air, and the space rippled.

Qian Tiao, covered in blood, fearlessly transformed into lightning and intercepted him.

With a "bang", the lightning sword qi and the lava magic touched, exploding violently.

A wave of flames rippled through the large cabin.

The two retreated at the same time.

However, the mages in the command department were all elites among elites, and their cooperation was already extremely tacit.

Just as Qian Tiao blocked the mage, three magic spells simultaneously hit the lightning she had transformed into. The sword qi had just cut halfway when it stopped abruptly.

Qian Tiao's movement was like lightning, and it was originally difficult to be captured.

But now the enemy predicted that she would definitely return to support Suren, so they used a combined attack technique and hit her with one blow!

With a "poof" sound, Qian Tiao spat out a mouthful of turbid blood.

Her face was as golden as paper, and the Rakshasa golden body behind her was also severely injured and collapsed.

Mr. Mirror had to guard Suren and couldn't get away, and Pandora on the other side was too late to rescue him.

Seeing this extremely critical moment, suddenly, an unexpected change occurred again!

The nine crystal pillars in the command room lit up with dazzling magic patterns, and in an instant, white light flourished, followed by dense lightning strikes of "ka-cha", "ka-cha".

Everyone took a closer look and saw that it was the epic-level magic restriction [Eye of Regulas] that had launched an attack again!

Countless lightning bolts were woven into a net, gathering into spears, covering the entire cabin in range.

However, this time the target of the lightning strike was not Suren and the other three, but the "Evil Magic God" Constantine, who knew that something was wrong and was now inviting the will of the gods to descend to kill the intruders!

"Not good!"

The old mage's expression changed drastically, and he secretly said that something was wrong.

But he wasn't a member of the Celestial Clan after all, and the speed of his god's descent was much slower than that of the Great Princess Octavia before.

Suren had already anticipated this.

But this time of chanting was enough for the situation to have been reversed!

"Pa-cha!"

A thunderous explosion sounded.

The attack range of the [Eye of Regulas] covered the entire command room, and the old mage couldn't avoid it. The lightning instantly struck him. The lightning pierced through the body-protecting sanctuary, and like a cannon strike, blasted his entire body away, slamming heavily against the wall a hundred meters away with a "dong" sound.

A strong smell of焦糊 immediately filled the air.

But after all, he was a demigod-level expert. Even if he resisted this terrifying blow head-on, he was only injured, and the old mage was not killed.

However, the others were not so lucky.

There was more than just one [Eye of Regulas] in the magic restrictions in this main ship!

Just as this lightning had fallen, the more than ten super restrictions on the main ship had finished accumulating energy and were released at the same time.

These restrictions were not a large-scale coverage, but a precise pinpoint strike.

Each one posed a deadly threat to top-tier professionals.

What's more, Suren knew the strength of everyone here, and the killing effect was doubled. He split his mind into ten thousand hearts, and almost every restriction went towards the mages' weaknesses.

Those with weak bodies were subjected to mental attacks, those with strong magic power were subjected to magic prohibition, and those with strong spirits were subjected to blood qi extraction... all were targeted measures!

In just an instant, the high-level mages in the command room who were not controlled by the silk threads were knocked down in pieces, and screams rang out.

How terrifying was the power of super-level restrictions? After just this round of attacks, most of the mages below the ninth level died on the spot!

How miserable Suren and the others were suppressed before, how miserable the mages were now.

The cabin was full of corpses, and broken limbs and arms were flying everywhere.

Suren manipulated the tens of thousands of mages, mobilizing hundreds of times their own combat power to kill wildly in the cabin.

The mages were still struggling, but in the face of this destructive power, there was nothing they could resist.

In just a few breaths, in the huge command room, only Constantine and a few ninth and eighth level mages were left defending in a group, barely surviving.

And the other mages who had not been controlled had already died!

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Suren knew that he couldn't kill Constantine in a short time, and if he dragged on, the million-strong army nearby would come to support him.

Seeing this, he did not hesitate to issue the "Airship Self-Destruct" order.

The [Roc Magic Array] was one of the most mature airship battle formations in the Celestial Plane, and it had a very complete security system. It itself was composed of individual cabins, controlled by independent control teams. Under normal circumstances, even if the enemy secretly infiltrated to sabotage, it would only be possible to destroy a part of it.

However, Suren was now using his spatial ability and silk threads to directly control almost all the cabins in the core command room.

He also knew almost everything about the fleet's layout.

Even all the permission instructions and magic passwords that only the marshal knew.

The self-destruct order was transmitted along the silk threads to the minds of the nearly 100,000 controlled mages. They simultaneously manipulated their respective parts of the restrictions and began the self-destruct sequence.

Just a moment after the order was issued, the runes on the huge golden main ship and the nearby dozen magic airships became brighter and brighter, surging with destructive magic power.

Constantine and the few remaining ninth-level experts watched with their own eyes, but were powerless.

The magic power did not stop at all and continued to surge.

Like a balloon that had been blown to the extreme, suddenly, it burst open with a "bang" sound.

In an instant, it seemed that the world was quiet.

But in the next instant, a terrifying shock wave exploded in all directions.

Rumbling...

Rumbling...

Rumbling...

In the sky, the cross-shaped bird composed of thousands of airships was torn apart at this moment.

With the core destroyed, the invincible defense of the [Roc Magic Array] was completely broken.

Hundreds of magic airships fell apart like the feathers of a giant bird.

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At the same time.

In the distance, the United Empire fleet, which was constantly monitoring the million-strong magic army, also discovered this bizarre scene through telescopes.

Looking at the raging fireballs that suddenly exploded in the sky, everyone was in disbelief and thought they were seeing things.

The Celestial Plane's cross-shaped bird, which had not been destroyed even after countless ammunition had been poured on it for the past few days, had now exploded? And it was the core command department?

"What happened!"

"Marshal, emergency intelligence! Emergency intelligence!"

"What? The enemy's magic airship exploded, and the battle formation broke on its own?"

"Yes! A violent explosion occurred for unknown reasons, but it has been confirmed that the cross-shaped bird battle formation has been broken, and the enemy's airship fleet is in a state of chaos..."

"..."

In an instant, this sudden situation spread throughout dozens of surface fleets and major steam airship fleets.

Tens of thousands of warships in the nearby sea became lively.

Everyone was holding binoculars, watching the terrifying explosion in the storm in the distance.

It was a blue mushroom cloud.

This was a sign of magic energy overload explosion.

The commanders were also at a loss, completely unaware of what had happened.

They had not received any instructions beforehand, and now that this had suddenly happened, everyone was in a state of short-term confusion.

Seeing this incredible scene, a thought immediately popped into everyone's minds: Dawn!

"What's the situation with the Dawn Legion?"

"The Yongye is already rushing towards the explosion at full speed!"

"Oh my goodness, it must have been created by those Dawn adults! Hahahaha... It's too incredible. Notify the brothers, charge! Full army attack!"

"General, aren't we waiting for orders? If we go to war without authorization, I'm afraid..."

"Hahaha, the command headquarters is probably also confused now. Don't worry, the orders will definitely come. We'll charge first! Otherwise, if we go late, those Celestial Plane guys will escape!"

"..."

Although they didn't know what had happened, the experienced generals immediately knew that this was an excellent opportunity that absolutely could not be abandoned.

In an instant, even without receiving orders, the fleets that had discovered the explosion tacitly rushed towards the sea area where the incident occurred at full speed.

And as the generals expected, it wasn't long before the general command headquarters of the United Fleet also received accurate intelligence and issued an order for the entire army to attack!

In an instant, millions of troops rushed towards the million-strong army of the Celestial Plane in a mighty manner.

No one had expected that this decisive battle between the Alchemy Plane and the Celestial Plane would be advanced due to an explosion that seemed like an accident!