Rebirth Of The Noble Mage Behind The Scenes-Chapter 366 - 141: Choice

A chilling sense of intense crisis, as if emanating from the core seemingly just within reach, suddenly surged through him.

Don’t move don’t move will die will die will die...

Every strand of spiritual power seemed to be screaming in madness, desperately trying to stop him from attempting to close off the Magic Power output of the Core Energy Room and to take the Eternal Core.

At that moment, the Ancient Secret Scripture hanging by his waist once again floated up on its own, establishing a Magic Power connection with Anvis.

Then, in his field of vision, the magic-repellent alloy walls of the Power Room, where the Magic Circuits seemed perfectly normal, suddenly flickered, faintly revealing a series of dark tentacle shadows!

Even more slender black tentacles extended directly out of the walls, with their tips undulating and probing towards the luminescent Eternal Core in the center of the Power Room.

Even across the space around the Eternal Core, they weaved into a black ’birdcage’ made of tentacles, recklessly absorbing energy from the Eternal Core.

So that’s how it is.

As the scepter he had raised slowly fell, a sense of alarm welled up in Anvis’s heart, and he immediately realized it wasn’t that the unknown entity hadn’t invaded reality but had cloaked its existence.

This is likely why Tower Spirit Pomiya failed to detect any issues with the Core Energy Room over millions of years.

However, it seemed that these tentacles were somewhat fearful of the Ancient Secret Scripture. The ones closest to the door even shifted away of their own accord, unwilling to be enveloped by the faint luminescence the book emitted.

Thinking over, Anvis directly controlled the Ancient Secret Scripture and sent it flying into the Energy Room.

He wanted to see if he could use the Sealing ability of the Ancient Secret Scripture to directly seal the Eternal Core. It would also serve to ascertain the true power level of the Ancient Secret Scripture.

The initial results were promising. All along the way, the tentacles automatically parted, allowing the dark green tome to float near the Eternal Core.

However, the Ancient Secret Scripture did not respond to Anvis’s command to seal the Eternal Core.

Clearly, this exceeded its capabilities.

But when Anvis carefully entered the Energy Room, navigating through the gaps between the tentacles, preparing to personally retrieve the core, he once again sensed something abnormal.

A strand of slightly illusory, shimmering crystal dust suddenly floated past the side of his face.

"Is this... the Crystalization Wind?!"

Controlling the breeze carrying the crystal dust with spiritual power, Anvis distinguished it multiple times, finally confirming that it was indeed the terrifying natural disaster he remembered.

In his previous life, a few decades later, an inexplicable catastrophic explosion occurred in the western side of the Yiter Kingdom Federation, within the Frenos Kingdom.

The epicenter of the explosion was located in a branch of the Manerqin Mountain Range. After the explosion, the entire branch along with the nearby Frenos City was completely flattened.

The rapidly spreading ultra-high energy level magic particles caused severe friction with the air, with the ghostly blue magic radiation soaring to the sky, illuminating half of the Yar Continent’s night skies, even clearly visible from Karlars a thousand kilometers away.

When the explosion ceased, many Professionals who went to explore the center of the explosion realized that the wind here was mixed with a kind of fine crystal dust.

When touched by this sparkling wind, the flesh of living creatures would undergo irreversible crystallization.

What was most terrifying was that all Professionals below the Fourth Rank were unable to withstand the onslaught of this wind.

Disaster seemingly never comes alone. On the western sea territory of Frenos City, influenced by the annual Shark Dragon Monsoon every summer, the reach of this Crystalization Wind rapidly spread to nearly three-quarters of the Yar Continent.

In that catastrophe, all cities were forced to activate their City Defense Shields year-round, and the number of common people living outside the cities drastically decreased by seventy percent, and this was still the result of the Crystalization Wind not blowing frequently.

Some speculate that it was the result of a magical experiment gone awry by a Ninth Rank Spellcaster, whilst others guess it to be some kind of new breakthrough-level weapon secretly developed by the Federation.

And now, looking at the core in front of him, its edge slowly dissipating wisps of crystal dust and its pulsating frequency slightly disordered, Anvis suddenly understood something.

The owner of that blood-red solitary eye seemed to have caused this core to exhibit some special instability.

When the Magic Council had studied this core, they presumably accidentally stimulated it, leading to the core in front exploding in an overreaction.

Anvis stepped out of the Energy Room for a moment, casting one last glance at the respective locations of the many Ninth Rankers at this time.

Due to his deliberate guidance, most of the Ninth Rank squads in the Dream Layer were now approaching the Core Energy Room.

The closest was a team from the Magic Council, followed, although slightly slower, by the team from the Church Court, which was likewise very close.

A few solitary Ninth Rankers and Ninth Rank teams were nearing the Central Control Room.

Duke Carrot and Duke Alfred had already arrived near the exit on the side of the city but had stopped there, not choosing to leave immediately, as if worried about something.

At this moment, there was only about one minute left of the absolute safe time of ten minutes Anvis had estimated.

Staring at the Eternal Core in front of him, Anvis suddenly had a wild thought.

What if he didn’t take this core with him, and instead let it detonate right here?

This idea did not arise without reason. In this lifetime, the number of Ninth Rankers that the three major powers brought into the Floating City far exceeded the last, accounting for nearly half of all Ninth Rankers from the whole Continent.

If, by taking this opportunity, he could leave the Ninth Rank teams exploring the Floating City from the other two powers behind forever, even if they could resurrect in the future, the impact this would have on the Continent’s situation for nearly a hundred years could not be ignored.

Most importantly, behind this exploration of the Floating City by the Pamir Academy, lingered the shadow of the Stargazer Brents.

He meticulously orchestrated the current situation, and the former Anvis was always unclear about Brents’ true objective.

However, now that he himself had truly broken through to become a High Rank Prophet, standing in front of the Eternal Core, Anvis suddenly felt an extremely profound sensation.

At this moment, any choice he made would have a deep impact on the Net of Destiny.

This was the ’Destiny Manipulation’ state of High Rank Prophets, and with this ability, Anvis was finally qualified to contend with the Stargazer.

Following the indescribable intuition, Anvis lightly lifted his scepter and gave a command to the Tower Spirit.

Consequently, in the layer of the Dream World, an ethereal image of Anvis clad in a cloak and hood suddenly appeared before all Ninth Rankers at the same time.

Without a choice, he would create one himself.

As a response to the chess game laid out by the Stargazer, his move was to flip the table over.