The night had fallen over Ithaca. In the Lanche dormitory, the balcony curtains made the living room dim, with only the light from the card-making workshop soft and warm.

On such a night, everything in the card-making workshop seemed more tranquil and smooth.

Lanche repeatedly put down and picked up the tools in his hand, working with the Great Poet. Both of them had reached an unspeakable state of peace.

On Lanche's workbench, a semi-transparent magic card, not yet completed, was constantly emitting arcs of dangerous light, its structure unable to be fixed, twisting constantly under high pressure.

Previously, every time he made a magic card, this phenomenon would occur just before it was about to explode.

But even in this state, Lanche turned a blind eye to its abnormality, carrying out the final steps: sealing and fixing the magic circuit of the card, and the final debugging and encapsulation.

He resolutely refused to give up on this magic card that was on the verge of collapse, or perhaps already beyond repair, linking together the magic imprints that he and the Great Poet had carved throughout the day, forming a complete magic operation cycle so that the card could continue to operate after the user's mana was filled.

Although the card-making seemed to be approaching success, in reality, it was heading towards its end.

Because this card seemed to have gone wrong from the previous steps, and its unstable structure was the most obvious proof.

Originally, this kind of seriously flawed failure should have been abandoned and detonated, but Lanche was still forcibly continuing.

It was almost impossible to save this kind of structure, make it work smoothly, and prevent it from exploding.

And once he couldn't hold it, the destructiveness of the card explosion would far exceed any previous time.

Boss Cat outside the workshop door widened its eyes.

It finally understood.

Rather than saying Lanche was saving this magic card, it was more like he was constantly throwing terrifying fuel into the crater of a volcano about to erupt!

This guy's card explosion research from that previous period was really intentional!

He just wanted to explode the card.

To develop the magical engineering principles of destruction with the highest power.

Everything was for this card today!

"Meow meow meow! I'm not playing with you anymore, meow!"

Boss Cat was scared to death.

It was all because of its curiosity that it had been staying outside the card-making workshop watching Lanche make cards.

It couldn't imagine if this card exploded, whether it would break through the barrier entirely.

It didn't dare to stay in Lanche's house for a second longer, jumping out of the balcony and hiding under a tree far away from the Sage Academy, looking at the window of Lanche's dormitory.

In the card-making workshop, the Great Poet was still staring at the magic card, concentrating on helping Lanche complete the final life-threatening steps.

"Lanche, what if the reaction can't be stopped?"

The Great Poet asked softly.

According to her judgment, the entire protective barrier was enough to block the explosion from affecting other rooms, but the exquisite technique inside to protect the card maker was not enough to protect Lanche, and might even burn down the entire card-making workshop due to the violent destructive explosion under high pressure.

If Lanche died, she would die with him.

But as a craftsman, she had never been afraid of death. She was even many times more obsessed with persistence than Lanche.

Her question to Lanche was actually—

Compared to the failure of this card, the more dangerous thing might be the success of this card.

The new magic card explosion principle used by Lanche would produce a chain reaction, and under certain conditions, it could even chain-detonate another magic card.

If the temperature, pressure, and time all reached a certain level, the energy generated could make this magic formula work again, maintaining the occurrence of new magic card explosions. Lanche called this self-sustaining card explosion, and he had even successfully experimented with chain-exploding cards.

The magic card itself was an excellent explosive material. As long as it was sealed back from a stable state to an unusable semi-finished state, it became detonable.

Under ultra-high temperature and pressure, combined with the chain formula that Lanche had researched in repeated card explosions, it was possible to trigger a chain explosion of magic cards.

If it couldn't be stopped, the consequences might be unpredictable!

"..."

However, Lanche's emerald green pupils shone with compassionate light, as if he had already considered it deeply.

"Humans always imagine the future, and this future should actually be frightening."

"But most people are not afraid because they cannot understand the meaning behind it."

He muttered calmly as he engraved.

Hearing this, the Great Poet said nothing more and began to cooperate wholeheartedly in the end.

Although Lanche's idea had duality, she agreed with it.

It was both the love and peace that Lanche wanted.

It was also the terrifying balance she liked.

Perhaps it was because they were both too focused that the drastic changes in the card in their hands no longer caught their attention until the final moment of shaping and disintegration occurred, and they did not waver in the slightest.

That was the intense light that burst out before the two of them could react, instantly illuminating the entire card-making workshop, spreading out circles of runaway magic ripples.

Several magic props in the workshop exploded one after another!

In the intense fire and roar, it gradually stabilized and subsided...

...

"Who's renovating again!"

"There was a guy making banging noises when school started, and now it's starting again!"

Students gradually walked out onto the balconies of the Sage Academy dormitory building, holding onto the railings and denouncing.

"..."

In the garden outside the dormitory, Boss Cat poked its head out from behind a tree.

It felt that Lanche's dormitory had exploded, but it wasn't as serious as it had imagined, but the soundproof barrier seemed to have been blown up.

"So it exploded after all..."

The little black cat covered its cat ears with its two front paws, and had been lying on the ground just now.

"What a pity for those materials, how much money would that be..."

Especially that silver heart-like material, it was very sure that it was not something that could be bought with money or measured with value.

After confirming for a while that Lanche's dormitory would not continue to explode, it quickly ran back, if Lanche was injured, it had to save him quickly.

Its human can't be gone!

The little black cat quickly ran to the balcony of Lanche's dormitory, slipped in through the window, and then easily came to the door of the card-making workshop.

However, it widened its cat eyes in surprise.

Behind the workbench in the card-making workshop, Lanche and the Great Poet were both slumped on the sofa chairs, left and right, not wanting to move, as if they were exhausted.

In front of them, a finished magic card was suspended in mid-air!

This was an extremely unstable orange magic card, and its shape seemed to be erratic, as if it could cause a violent explosion at any moment.

"Orange... Orange Epic?"

Boss Cat's brain had completely crashed.

"Let me see what's so powerful about this card."

The Great Poet perked up a bit from her lazy state and sat up straighter.

Although this card had her participation in its creation, she was very sure that she was the most powerful magic card.

When she wanted to touch it, she recoiled as if she had touched a raging fire, crying out in pain.

"It's best not to touch this card with a magic card."

Lanche shook his head with a helpless smile as he watched the Great Poet roll around on the sofa.

"It is a seal technique of truly warm sunshine."

He turned his head, as if not afraid of the pain, grabbed the magic card, and looked at it with a smile.

[Nuclear Fusion Wolf]

[Category: Summon Card]

[Grade: Orange Epic]

[Rank: 4]

[Effect: When attacking summons and equipment, it can seal them back into the magic card state and devour them, lasting for 10 seconds, with a cooldown of 10 minutes. It can cause a violent self-destruction. During self-destruction, it is not affected by any magic cards, and chain-detonates all magic cards in the devoured state. The explosion power is affected by the number, rank, and grade of all magic cards. The magic card cannot be used again within 30 days after the explosion.]

[Note: Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.]

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Asking for monthly tickets at the end of the month!

ps: There is a separate chapter of Lanche's character art after this chapter~

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