I Created Scientific Magic

Chapter 384: Chapter 372: The Way to Counter the Divine Descent Technique!

With the barrier provided by the ice wall, the Empire’s fleet began to turn and head for home. To avoid pursuit, Joshua even created a towering sea tornado tens of meters high, continually churning, completely separating the two fleets before calmly disappearing into the depths of the mist-shrouded sea…

Meanwhile, Aurora and the others successfully rendezvoused with the reinforcements that had arrived.

After comparing intelligence, Aurora learned that the war back in the capital had already ended, and it was a close call. The Cardinal in the intelligence reports possessed legendary-level powers and had nearly summoned “that being.”

“It seems my predictions were somewhat off,” Aurora frowned.

Based on her earlier guess, if the Holy See had decided to dispatch a fleet to attack Wizard Land, then the kingdom’s side was likely only feigning an attack.

Unexpectedly, the Holy See took such a big gamble, planning to hit both fronts simultaneously—aiming to recover the kingdom while annihilating Wizard Land in one fell swoop!

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Unfortunately, they didn’t have real-time intelligence across the entire Mist Sea. The fleet she had sent back must have just missed the reinforcement forces heading to support the capital, led by Harrov and Vittorio.

“Lady Aurora, shall we continue the pursuit?” Tic hurriedly asked. Now, with the support of the airships, they had regained the initiative in the war and could completely trap the Empire’s expeditionary fleet with a combined sea and air force.

This was undoubtedly a very tempting prospect, yet after pondering for a moment, Aurora shook her head.

“No, just arrange for some people to search and track them for now. We’ll launch an attack if they show signs of advancing again!”

The munitions on the fleet were nearly depleted after the long day of naval battle.

The airships that had come to their aid were in the same state, having just fought a major battle and not even having the chance to rest before hastily coming to aid, the shrapnel they carried was not sufficient for another war.

More critically, she worried that the legendary cleric on the Empire’s fleet, cornered, might do the same as Edwell and summon the false god.

That would be troublesome…

However, since the enemy didn’t rashly use it during the battle, it meant that casting that Divine Art required a price even heavier than losing a third of the expeditionary fleet!

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By the time Aurora led the fleet back to the capital, several days had passed.

The air in the capital was still tinged with the scent of gunpowder, and damage could be seen everywhere, especially in the poor district that served as the battlefield, where the destruction was particularly severe, and the casualty count was not minor.

Lynn saw this as a great opportunity and directed nearly all personnel, except for the necessary guard forces, to go out and help the affected populace.

Even the wizards were no exception. Although they didn’t hold much regard for the poor, they had great respect for Lynn, the star of magic.

Now, the entire capital was buzzing with rumors that the star of magic and the two Legendary Councilmen had driven the false god that had descended upon the capital away.

It led some to speculate whether Lynn had broken through to the legendary realm, for how else could one intervene in a battle of such caliber?

However, this speculation was too extravagant since, according to what they knew, this “Star of Magic” had only just broken through to become a four-ring Wizard a few months ago, and most Wizards simply scoffed at such rumors.

For there were whisperings that after the great battle, Master Lynn had been seriously injured, and Rafael, who was also present, had been even more severely wounded, lying in bed for several days.

So, the actual situation was very likely that the two Legendary Councilors, while protecting the two of them, were also responsible for the fighting…..

Regardless, the Wizards still faithfully executed the orders given, using magic to restore the damaged streets and houses. In just five short days, half of the repair work had been completed with incredible speed….

Not every person among the capital’s poor had been beyond hope due to the corruption of their faith; after being relentlessly rescued twice, most could recognize that the destruction was caused by those so-called messengers of God, while it was actually the ‘minions of the Evil God and demons’ who helped them repair their homes!

As one of the poor, Haydon became even more convinced of his prior belief that the Wizards were not as terrifying as the Church had propagated.

If the roles had been reversed, Haydon thought that neither the Church’s priests nor the noble lords would ever pay out of pocket or use Divine Arts to help them repair their damaged houses!

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Master Lynn had little free time to concern himself with the wild rumors spreading within the capital or the ideological shifts among the poor.

After the war, there were far too many tedious matters to attend to, and even someone as sick as Lynn had to work while ill. Once Aurora and the others safely returned to the capital, the council immediately convened an internal meeting.

Even though the details of the events that had occurred over the Mist Sea had been reported by the airship that returned earlier, they were not yet fully known until Aurora personally recounted the entire sequence of events.

“I had no idea the Holy See had already grasped a method to locate Wizard Land!” Rafael said with a lingering fear, his face still carrying a hint of sickly pallor.

After five days of recuperation, Rafael barely broke free from his near-death state and would need at least half a month for complete recovery.

In fact, surviving a strike from a god was already incredibly lucky!

The Wizards present, after listening to Aurora’s account, also felt a shiver of fear.

The protection of Wizard Land was now extraordinarily weak, with its high-end defensive forces not even a quarter of what they were previously. Of the thirty Grand Wizards, only nine remained there, and three council members—Harrov, Vittorio, and Aurora—had all gone to support the kingdom.

Only the Legendary Councilman, the “Elemental Controller” Altoc, was still in Wizard Land.

However, Rafael and others knew that this Legendary Councilman was quite mad; relying on him to organize forces seemed rather unrealistic.

“You did the right thing. Compared to the kingdom’s side, delaying that fleet at sea was indeed more important!” Harro nodded. They couldn’t afford the cost of losing Wizard Land.

“We need to resolve the issue with communication as soon as possible, to avoid a recurrence of such an incident…” Vittorio added, as relying solely on ships and airships for message delivery was simply too slow, and the existing communication formations also couldn’t cover such vast distances.

Those present quickly began discussing the development of new communication magic, but soon the conversation shifted to an even more important matter, which was how to counter the Holy See’s terrifying Divine Descent Technique!