Chapter 1 The Beginning

Eternal Night, in the captain's cabin.

Hearing the outrageous plan, Mr. Mirror asked in surprise, "You mean, you plan to teleport in alone?"

Su Lun nodded and explained, "Yes! This [Shitz Giant Bird Magic Array] cannot be broken from the outside, so we can only find a way from the inside. The weakness of the Cross Bird Battle Formation is the core flagship and the dozen or so airships in the bird's belly. As long as the command center can be destroyed, the invincible defensive formation of the entire magic airship fleet will immediately collapse. When the Empire's legions launch a full-scale attack, there will definitely be a chance to break through. However, there are usually nearly 100,000 mages in the command center, as well as that 'Evil God of Magic', Constantine Leroz. I need you, Senior Sister, to hold back those top combatants."

After listening, Mr. Mirror frowned and murmured, "This plan is very risky..."

These days, she had been observing the million-strong magic legion, and no matter where she looked, she couldn't find any flaws in the battle formation composed of those thousands of magic airships.

It wasn't as if she hadn't considered the possibility of internal breakthroughs.

But she immediately rejected it.

The enemy must have considered the possibility of a surprise attack on the command center. Therefore, they must have set up various magical restrictions and defenses. Once someone broke in, they would immediately be countered. There were also demigod-level powerhouses guarding the place. A ninth-tier would probably die instantly. Even Mr. Mirror himself didn't have a shred of confidence in surviving.

But Su Lun's current plan was actually this?

Saying that the command center was a weakness, but in reality, it was still a frontal assault.

A dignified look flashed in Mr. Mirror's crystalline eyes. Before she could say anything, she suddenly heard Qiandiao excitedly ask, "When are we going?"

This gambling-addicted young woman had been bored while soaking in the bathtub, but when she heard this plan, she stood up from the water with a splash, not caring at all about the trembling scenery in front of her chest.

With a fight to be had, the lazy look on her face was swept away, revealing a burning anticipation. It was as if as soon as he said to go, she could immediately draw her sword and rush forward.

Pandora also lay on the edge of the bathtub, looking at Su Lun with an interested expression.

Mr. Mirror pondered for a moment and asked, "How confident are you?"

She naturally also saw the change in Su Lun and guessed that his combat power must have soared after successfully merging with the eighth-tier colony equipment.

But no matter how she looked at it, this plan was too crazy.

The meaning of a battle formation was to gather sand into steel. A million-strong legion was not so easy to break. Normally speaking, even if they were all ninth-tier, they would be wiped out in minutes if they forced their way through.

Su Lun looked at the gazes of the three Mr. Mirror and responded in a deep voice, "I have a method that can instantly control almost all mages below the seventh tier within range. As long as you, Senior Sister, can hold back that Constantine and a few ninth tiers, leave the rest to me. Once we control the operators of the core formation, our chance will come..."

The larger the magic restriction, the more personnel are needed to control it, and 99% of the operators on those magic airships are mages below the seventh tier. As long as they can be controlled, any battle formation would have to crash.

Could that work?

As soon as these words came out, the eyes of the three Mr. Mirror lit up.

The risk of this plan was indeed not small. After all, a surprise attack on the enemy's headquarters, with the slightest mistake, would almost certainly lead to death.

But if it succeeded, they might really be able to break through the invincible battle formation of the million-strong legion at a very small cost. At that time, this might be a breakthrough to reverse the battle.

And Su Lun now knew the information about the million-strong legion in the Heavenly God Plane like the back of his hand. He dared to say it, so the success rate of this plan was naturally not small.

The three also listened with great interest.

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Today, the visibility at sea was not high, with storms and thunderstorms.

Especially thirty nautical miles southeast of the Eternal Night, which was covered by a storm of thunderclouds and completely invisible.

Occasionally, when the mist blew open a corner, the shadows of magic airships could be seen.

In order to prevent shelling, the guys from the Heavenly God Plane had been continuously releasing various large-scale interference magics such as [Fog of War] and [Mirage], interfering with artillery aiming. In addition, the continuous shelling in the past few days had also turned the elements in the nearby sea area into a pot of porridge, with all kinds of unpredictable and extreme bad weather every day.

An hour later, Su Lun, Mr. Mirror, Qiandiao, and Pandora were ready with everything they needed.

"Okay, we'll set off when we're ready." "Yeah."

Everyone nodded at each other, with a bit of sternness in their eyes.

Su Lun raised his hand, and a black hole appeared in his palm. The three Mr. Mirror all rushed in.

He also took out the [Shroud of Oz the Ice Man] and wrapped it around his body, completely concealing his aura. Although he knew that no matter what preparations he made, he would inevitably be discovered, it was naturally better to have an extra layer of protection. Even if it could delay the enemy's reaction by a second, it would increase the odds of winning.

Su Lun pinched a warlock seal, and his whole body disappeared in the captain's cabin.

......

Dozens of nautical miles away in the thundercloud layer.

Thousands of magic airships from the Heavenly God Plane formed a cross formation, advancing westward unhurriedly.

In the center of the airship group, there was a thousand-meter-long golden flagship. If someone looked at it from the outside, they would find that this flagship and a dozen or so auxiliary combat ships formed a diamond-shaped battle formation. This was the core of the [Shitz Giant Bird Magic Array]. Upon closer inspection, it could be seen that the diamond-shaped magic array was like a heart, constantly outputting a surging magical power to the four wings of the cross-shaped battle formation, and then circulating back and forth.

This was the superiority of this epic-level magic battle formation.

The four wings of the cross formation were supported by wind, water, fire, and earth element magic arrays, which converged at the core to form an energy internal circulation system. It achieved the greatest defensive effect with the least consumption.

This was also the most important reason why this airship fleet could sail all the way through the artillery fire.

The magic airship fleet flew steadily, and the sound of artillery fire could still be heard in the ears.

The shelling frequency of the Allied Fleet had long since lost the density of the previous two days, but even so, a large number of alchemical shells were still bombarding the million-strong army's legion battle formation every moment.

"Boom~"

"Boom-"

"Boom-"

"... "

Some shells missed, and some hit the magic airship fleet.

But the alchemical shells did not explode on the airships. Instead, they were blocked hundreds of meters away by a layer of honeycomb-shaped yellow light magic shields, creating a thick magical ripple visible to the naked eye.

The legion magic shield shared the shock wave brought by the shelling, and even the shock comparable to a ninth-tier professional attack would be instantly divided and dissipated. After the energy shock wave dissipated, the light of the magic shield also dimmed, and the airship was not damaged in the slightest.

This "Cross Giant Bird" composed of magic airships roamed all the way through the thunderclouds. It was like a terrifying beast from the abyss, swimming in the storm, spewing thunder, and no one could stop it.

At this moment, on the golden flagship, the "Evil God of Magic" Constantine Leroz was meditating.

But suddenly, a sense of crisis surged into his heart, and he suddenly opened his eyes.

"Huh... Strange..."

Constantine frowned, and a puzzled look appeared on his face as he looked at the magic crystal ball in front of him.

The images in the crystal ball were not only the images of various parts of the magic airship, but even the battleships firing dozens of nautical miles away were monitored.

Everything was normal.

But precisely because of this, the old mage felt a growing sense of inexplicable palpitations in his heart as he looked at the calm in front of him.

A magic god was the ultimate in human cultivation beneath the gods. This was already a realm that had glimpsed the secrets of the universe, possessing some of the abilities that only gods had. For example, some directional malice could be perceived.

The sense of crisis just now came very abruptly.

It was as if someone had just had malicious intent and had already taken action, coming very decisively!

Constantine realized that this could definitely not be an illusion.

Years of combat intuition made him immediately shout, "Everyone, increase vigilance!"

As soon as these words came out, the tens of thousands of mages on the flagship and the mages on the nearby warships immediately took action. Various defensive restrictions were activated to their maximum effect, and emergency combat personnel were also in place at the first time, instantly entering a state of combat readiness.

Constantine pondered for a moment and did not take it lightly.

He was not sure where the palpitations came from. After pondering for a moment, he faced the magic crystal ball and chanted a mysterious incantation: "Great God, please grant me the power to see clearly the mist of fate and use divination to tell your devout believers where the danger comes from..."

Most mages were good at divination, and he, as a demigod, was even more proficient in various divination magics.

But he also knew that the top professionals of the natives of this alchemy plane could not be underestimated, so he used the power of God at the first time, wanting to get some instructions.

However, he did not know that Su Lun had long expected this, so he had already let Pestoia attach to him.

Not to mention that this Constantine was a demigod. With Pestoia, a special existence that had condensed the divine fire, even if a god personally divined, he might not be able to get a directional clue.

Moreover, while he was divining, they had already arrived!

......

On the golden flagship, the "Evil God of Magic" Constantine was frowning and staring at a piece of mist on the crystal ball in front of him.

The more he could not get a result from the divination, the stronger the sense of crisis in his heart became.

If he could not peek into a trace of the trajectory of fate even by borrowing the power of God, then the problem was big.

However, it was during this gaze that a scene suddenly flashed on the crystal ball.

Constantine looked puzzled for a moment and thought, wasn't this the scene of his flagship command room?

What bad things could happen here?

A thought flashed through his mind, and he suddenly realized that the enemy had arrived!

He never expected that the enemy would dare to attack the headquarters!

But before he could think too much, in the next moment, an imperceptible spatial fluctuation flashed a hundred meters away.

Low-level mages were completely unaware, but those top mages above the eighth tier clearly saw a spatial crack. But because it was too slight, and they didn't see anyone coming in, many people mistakenly thought it was an illusion.

However, the magic restrictions in the command room reacted at the first time.

Suddenly, blue lightning flashed on the nine crystal pillars around the cabin, and in the blink of an eye, they weaved into a lightning web that covered the entire space.

And those lightning bolts seemed to be spiritual, avoiding the mages and all striking towards a certain point in the void.

Originally, there was nothing there, but this sky full of lightning struck out a figure.

This was the top magic restriction specially designed to guard against various stealth targets—the [Eye of Regulas].

It was arranged with nine ninth-tier thunder-type beast crystal cores as the formation eyes, and it was inherently spiritual. The constantly activated lightning field would automatically identify and attack unidentified targets. Its power was even above the ninth tier.

With a "crack" of lightning, the transparent shadow was hit, revealing its true form in the thunder elements. Only then did everyone see clearly that it was a mummy-like person wrapped in bandages.

Who else could it be but Su Lun, who had teleported in secretly?

Su Lun was not at all surprised that he would be discovered by the restrictions the moment he broke in, after all, he knew everything on the flagship like the back of his hand.

But the lightning strike above the ninth tier was not so easy to bear.

Enduring a round of lightning strikes, numbness spread throughout his body. Even though the Dragon Tattoo Golden Body colony equipment had extremely high magic resistance, exempting him from the fatal damage of the lightning, the terrifying thunder elements gathered by the restrictions also poured into his body, like scorching magma flowing along his blood vessels and meridians in an instant. The burning sensation that seemed to want to incinerate him into ashes swept through his body.

If it weren't for Su Lun, if an ordinary eighth or ninth-tier professional had come, he would have been annihilated on the spot.

Moreover, it was not just the lightning strike. The moment he entered, various magical lights lit up. Mental control, magic prohibition, space imprisonment, blood qi extraction, elemental theft, five senses interference, time distortion... dozens of restrictions attacked all at once. The Heavenly God Plane was a magic plane, and they had studied magic to the extreme.

These restrictions had almost considered all situations. Unless the intruder had no weaknesses, he would inevitably be hit.

As long as one could not withstand one of them, the result would either be capture or death on the spot.

However, Su Lun, this puppet master, was precisely the kind of professional who had almost no obvious weaknesses!

He had strong blood qi, strong rune golden body with both physical and magical resistance, strong mental power, unrestricted space, and top-level understanding of all laws... He had no weaknesses!

It was because he withstood this first wave of restriction attacks that he had a chance.

The moment he teleported into the command room, he opened a spatial crack in his left palm, and three figures rushed out rapidly: his right hand technique condensed, and countless threads had already spread out.

......

The "Evil God of Magic" Constantine was greatly alarmed when he saw the enemy suddenly appear in the command room.

Although he didn't understand what gave these natives of the alchemy plane the confidence to dare to break into the command room, at this moment, a domineering sword qi had already slashed down on his head.

On the other hand, nine mirror lights flashed, and in the blink of an eye, they entangled a few ninth-tier magic saints.

And a scarlet moonlight permeated, and the Tsukuyomi illusion instantly reflected in the eyes of all the mages.

"Not good!"

Constantine's eyes turned cold, and he had already recognized that these few people were the top combatants of the alchemy plane.

They were opponents that he had to be wary of.

At the moment, Constantine had no time to think about other things. His magic power surged, and he raised his hand to create a magic shield in front of him, which just blocked the thundering sword qi.

In his eyes, the mirror ability user had the highest cultivation and his ability was very tricky, but the most fatal was still this swordsman who could cut the realm of rules.

He had to deal with it with all his strength. "Huh?"

But in an instant of confrontation, Constantine immediately judged that the person wielding the sword was not fighting for his life, but to hold him back.

This was also what he was puzzled about.

In his opinion, these people broke into the command room with the purpose of decapitation.

After all, without killing him, this demigod, this kind of surprise attack would have no meaning at all.

When he freed his hands and mobilized the legion restrictions, he could easily kill these intruders.

But this swordsman in front of him did not have the determination to fight for his life?

Moreover, the meaning of the legion was that they were a team. Even if he was held back, there were countless attack points that could kill the enemy.

What exactly were these guys trying to do?

As the thought flashed, Constantine had already received several sword qi.

And on one side, a few ninth tiers were also entangled by mirror clones.

But until this moment, Constantine and the high-level officials did not have too many worries.

The flagship was full of the Ashiden Empire's royal elite mages. Even without command, the impeccable emergency response plan allowed everyone to launch a counterattack at the first time.

As long as they didn't have the ability to kill all the commanders in the command room in the first time, the intrusion would be meaningless.

However, what happened next was something that these mages from the Heavenly God Plane did not expect.

They had overlooked a person who had been silently casting spells after entering.