I Created Scientific Magic

Chapter 296: Chapter 283: The Legend of Lightning Magic!

“Miners… It’s those miners bewitched by the devils that have stormed in!”

Terrified shouts erupted throughout the capital. Ever since half a month ago, when Duke Rickman led his army to a crushing defeat in Earl Joyce’s territory, various rumors had been wildly spreading throughout the capital.

There were rumors that these miners had been controlled by witchcraft, turned into crazed, mindless walking corpses, and that tens of thousands of civilians within Earl’s territory had already been used as sacrificial tokens to summon the Evil God.

Many minor nobles and wealthy merchants gathered their guards, frantically packing their belongings to flee. Those civilians without the means to resist hid in their homes, hoping that the royal guards would drive these intruding miners out of the capital.

The capital still had the Church, with the exceedingly powerful Cardinal, the great Lord of the Stars, the Moon Goddess—they would surely not abandon their devout believers!

Chaos spread rapidly within the capital, and the light rain swiftly turned into a downpour. Lightning flashed across the sky, mingling with the sound of gunfire, like a fierce and stirring symphony…

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Although the muskets in Ryder and others’ hands were precoated with waterproof magic, they were still inevitably affected, with roughly one-sixth of the firearms unable to fire.

Luckily, they had the capital’s defense map provided by Prince Hattar, along with a portion of turncoat insiders. The battle process was still going smoothly, breaking the resistance forces one by one before they could rally, and then Ryder led his men towards their final target—the King’s Palace!

The sudden change in the capital’s situation didn’t affect North and the others within the Divine Barrier of silence, but the sudden heavy rainfall was felt by everyone.

However, no one was concerned about it at that moment. North simply let the cold raindrops seep into his collar down his cheeks, his gaze fixed intently on the battle at the center of the mansion.

Anluoke was surrounded by an invisible Divine Barrier that kept the crystalline rainwater at bay. A giant, luminous Spirit Realm guardian stood in front of him, blocking the incoming lightning, but the next moment it was blasted away by a surge of Magic Power.

Since he had to be mindful of another wizard that could attack from any direction, Anluoke didn’t use his full strength, merely defending against the other’s magic, yet he grew increasingly uneasy, for Anthony before him was far too weak.

He barely had the strength of a great wizard, completely inconsistent with the information he had gathered before…

“If this is all you’re capable of, then let’s end it here!” Anluoke held nothing back this time. The radiance of Divine Arts glowed around him. Rusty chains extended from the void, breaking through Anthony’s protective barrier and quickly binding him.

This was the sixth-ring Divine Arts— “Divine Punishment Lock”! @@novelbin@@

Chains from the endless purgatory, representing the judgment of the Master over sinners, could seal away the power of magic and Divine Arts, rendering the bound as useless as if they were invalids.

“Teacher!” Fula cried out in horror, immediately trying to run out of the house, but she was firmly restrained by Johnny and the others.

Lynn had previously instructed them, no matter what happened, to never leave the room. Moreover, as soon as Anthony had made his move, they immediately retreated into the bunker inside the main house.

But Fula and the others were worried about Anthony’s safety, so they had not fully complied…

“Is this already the limit?” Anthony’s expression remained unchanged, his body sizzling like butter being cut with a hot knife.

Fortunately, his task had already been completed!

Anthony’s body was quickly sliced open under the constraints of the Divine Punishment Lock, but no blood flowed out; instead, it shattered like a mirror.

Anluoke’s pupils constricted as he realized that the great Wizard in front of him was merely a Magic Projection…

At the same moment, complex inscriptions began to emerge from the floor tiles of the entire mansion, powered by the Thunder Stones stored underground to form a strong electric field on the surface, resonating with the thunder flashing in the sky…

It was a trap!

Anluoke finally understood the unease in his heart, and as the Divine Arts were activated, a ring-shaped Divine Barrier surged around him. However, realizing this now was obviously too late!

The moment the electric field formed, the guiding technique had already been completed!

The next moment, gigantic pillars of lightning crashed down from the clouds, intertwining with the electric field created by the Magic Runes.

The violent currents were firmly confined within the mansion, actual electric arcs covering the entire area at tens of kilometers per second, the falling rain being quickly electrolyzed. Everyone within the manor was encompassed within zero point zero one second.

Everything happened so swiftly that North and the others were still basking in the joy of their Cardinal’s victory over the great Wizard Anthony when nothing remained before them but the blinding lightning.

The Divine Protection on their bodies exploded in an instant, and billions of volts of high-voltage lightning surged into everyone’s bodies, as muscle cells gradually dissolved, then were incinerated into a pool of mush at tens of thousands of degrees, the air constantly emitting a strong burnt odor…

Fula and the others, who were also within the range of the technique in the main house, tightly shut their eyes as the lightning struck. However, after waiting for tens of seconds without feeling any discomfort, they opened their eyes only to find themselves standing unharmed in the same spot.

“Is this a Faraday cage?” Fula was stunned for quite a while before she suddenly realized the point. Although the copper wires wrapped around them appeared to be haphazardly put together, they too formed a small Faraday cage, so even the terrifying current couldn’t harm them.

But before she could marvel at the magic of the Faraday cage, Johnny had already sensed something wrong from the rapidly increasing concentrations of hydrogen and oxygen in the air and cried out urgently.

“Don’t stay here, move quickly, to the bunker! It’s about to explode!”

The potency of billions of volts of high-voltage lightning was terrifying enough, yet the force of the thunder would also electrolyze rainwater into hydrogen and oxygen.

Once the concentration of hydrogen and oxygen reached a certain level, it would ignite a new round of explosion at the tens of thousands of degrees temperature of the lightning. This process would cycle repeatedly, releasing a massive amount of energy, and those inside would endure a blast equivalent to a fifth-circle magic spell, [Elemental Torrent], every second!

This was the deadly spell Lynn had prepared for Anluoke, utilizing celestial phenomena and alchemic formations to wield the legendary thunder magic!

(PS: I was feeling too unwell yesterday, typing with difficulty while lying in bed. I didn’t manage to finish, so there is only one update today. The updates will resume tomorrow, definitely!)