Chapter 26: The Outside World is So Frightening

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  In the history of the Roland Empire, there was once an outstanding emperor who said a famous quote:

  "The Imperial Code is sacred and inviolable! Within the Empire's borders, everyone must strictly abide by the constraints of the Imperial Code."

  That emperor later created one of the most brilliant periods in the history of the Roland Empire, an era known for its strict laws and stable imperial rule.

  However, it was also the same emperor... It is said that while leaving behind the famous saying, he privately added another sentence. Of course, this private remark was not recorded in any official document, but the remark was revealed through many channels and has been widely circulated.

  "...Anyone must obey the Imperial Code, but there are two exceptions. The first exception is the Emperor himself. Imperial authority can override the code at times! And...the other exception is...a magician!"

  A powerful magician often possesses abilities that far exceed those of ordinary people, and when such abilities reach an extreme level, they can even move mountains and seas, and change the fate of a country. In existing records, those with extremely strong powers have reached a point where it is almost impossible for ordinary people to look up to them, and in the eyes of mortals, they are almost like divine beings!

  Those strong ones, can flatten high mountains and fill the vast ocean with a wave of their hand. They can summon storms and ice snow, and also use scorching sun to turn the flat plains into arid deserts! They can destroy thousands of horses and soldiers with a wave of their hand, and create a disaster that can destroy a small country!

  For such a strong person, the worldly "code of law" is obviously unable to restrain them. And it's also unrealistic to let those powerful people who can destroy the sky and earth follow the worldly law.

  Even without considering those legendary strongmen who possess powers close to that of gods in myths... even a life-and-death battle between ordinary magicians would be enough to trigger a small-scale disaster, and such a disaster would be enough to destroy a city.

  There are historical records that in the era when this continent was not yet unified, it was a dark age of war, and often the duel between two magicians could directly destroy a city-state!

  After the continent was unified into a powerful and complete Roland Empire, large-scale wars disappeared. The battles on the level of magicians also gradually decreased. Even so, in the history of the Roland Empire, there were records of some magicians privately dueling and "accidentally" destroying one or two small towns.

  Even so, the Imperial Code has never had a law similar to "no dueling in public" for magicians. There are regulations that do not allow ordinary people to fight in public, but magicians are not included.

  Even the Magic Guild only asks magicians to try to minimize resolving personal grudges in crowded areas. It's just a request, and no hard rules have been made.

  Even so, the agreement reached between the Magic Guild and the Empire was that any mid-level or higher magician, no matter how heinous their crimes, unless they had committed the serious crime of treason, if a magician were to be convicted or punished, it must be done through a joint trial by the Imperial authorities, the Magic Guild, and the Temple of Light. Otherwise, the Imperial authorities have no right to arrest or convict any mid-level or higher magician.

  In the empire's hundreds of years of history, there has never been a record of a mid-level or higher magician being punished by the empire for violating the law. These all undoubtedly demonstrate the special nature of magicians as a group that transcends ordinary people.

  A group with extraordinary abilities, who can also transcend the law, and whose actions are almost entirely based on their own preferences, and are almost unrestricted... In the eyes of ordinary people, magicians are such an existence, so, as always, when mentioning magicians, people have a attitude of reverence, and in this, the proportion of fear is even greater.

  Almost half of the city's residents were awakened from their dreams by a huge commotion on this night.

  The intense shaking woke up many people from their dreams, and even fell off the bed. The lights on the top of their heads were swaying, and the wooden doors in the house made a creaking sound. Countless people woke up in terror, only to find that they couldn't even stand still in the midst of the intense shaking.

  People rushed out of their homes in a state of panic, only to find that what should have been a pitch-black night was instead illuminated by a dazzling light on the horizon. The massive ball of light flickered in and out of sight, and even from a distance, a deafening roar could be heard, like the call of some ferocious beast, striking fear deep within their hearts.

  Wave after wave of tremors came from outside the city, and everything seemed to be some kind of unknown terrible disaster. The earthquake, combined with the flames on the horizon and the chilling roar that made people's hearts cold, caused the residents of Half Angle City to panic.

  What was most frightening was that after a wave of vibrations came... the intense earthquake even caused a section of the northern city wall to collapse! The sound of the city wall collapsing made people start running blindly in the city!

  In the distance, as if just outside the city's Half Angle Mountain, everyone could see with their naked eye two enormous light clusters, one silver and one fiery red! These two light clusters were colliding fiercely and violently, the frequency of collisions increasing by the second, and each collision produced a burst of light that almost illuminated the dark night! Even the moon in the sky had long lost its luster!

  Along with the intense light, there were dull rumbling sounds coming one after another! Those rumbling sounds made people's hearts tremble with fear! Each and every one of them seemed to heavily pound against the heart.

  The lightly armed infantry of the very few local garrison troops left in the city also fell into chaos. These soldiers responsible for patrolling the city walls were powerless to maintain order in the face of the chaotic half-angle city residents... They were too weak and afraid in their hearts.

  The most frightening thing is... the news finally arrived! Someone ran to the garrison camp outside the city to ask for help, but was shocked to discover that the dozens of cavalrymen who were left behind in the garrison camp were also injured and fainted on the ground. Even the famous Spann Knight, who had a good reputation locally, was seriously injured. The camp was in disarray, with extinguished fires, as if it had just been attacked by someone!

  Panic-stricken people began crowding out of the city, and some climbed up in a state of extreme anxiety...

  At this moment, a sound like muffled thunder came from the direction of Half Angle Mountain... followed by a series of sounds, like the rumble of thunder on a summer rainy day...

  "The mountain has collapsed! Half of Mount Angle has collapsed!!"

  It was unclear who was the first to shout from a high place! Then this terrifying news spread rapidly among the crowd.

  It's true that half of the mountain has collapsed!!

  Far, far away, the small mountain that was once visible to the naked eye from the city wall, the peak of the locally famous Half Angle Mountain, suddenly collapsed within people's terrified line of sight! The entire peak seemed to be shaken apart by something, as if it wasn't a mountain, but a sandpile... and instantly came crashing down!

  Far, far away, that intense strong light, even people tens of miles away could see it clearly! And there were also people with relatively good eyesight who seemed to be able to see two strange and huge shadows flying in the midst of that strong light...

  For the residents of Half-Angle City, this is probably a lifetime unforgettable experience. Because under the unknown panic, they almost longed for the dawn in the same mood!

  When the horizon finally burst forth with a ray of morning sunlight, that heart-stopping roar and those ferocious flashes of intense light that had lasted for half the night finally disappeared!

  It wasn't until more than an hour had passed, and it seemed as though the disaster had truly come to an end, that people's hearts finally began to calm down from their fear.

  Last night, the Spartan knights and others who were rescued by soldiers from the city who ran to the military camp for help in the middle of the night finally woke up, as well as Robert and others.

  They were almost powerless to resist the powerful magic of the magician, and were knocked unconscious. Later, under the magic of the ice and snow beauty, the entire hall was destroyed by her. At that time, several people who were knocked down by the ice and snow beauty were also injured by the collapsed houses.

  The first one to wake up from rescue was surprisingly the female knight Yorin.

  Ruo Lin was resting all night due to her injuries from the daytime battle, and Solaskya had also given her some sleep-promoting medicine. As a result, Ruo Lin, who hadn't been injured in the nighttime raid, woke up earliest, but she was still weak from excessive blood loss, after all, the lost blood couldn't be replenished in a short period of time.

  Robert Knight woke up first, followed by Span Knight, and then the guards of the Roline family. Several people panicked after finding that their young master and the terrible female attacker were gone.

  After learning about the situation from people around him, Robert, who was injured, ignored his charred wounds and immediately supported his injured body. He brought a few subordinates with slightly lighter injuries to prepare the car and head to Half Moon Mountain. Knight Span also learned that the young master of the Rowling family had disappeared, and he was instantly like a thousand-foot cliff with one foot in the air! He was seriously injured and unable to move, so he could only order the guards who were still able to move to immediately follow Robert to Half Moon Mountain! Because according to what the residents said, it was likely that the terrifying female attacker had fled to Half Moon Mountain last night.

  At the same time, Spen's knights immediately sent someone to leave Half Moon City hastily and rush to the spring training ground of the defending army for help, while reporting everything that happened in Half Moon City to the Governor's Mansion of Lille Province.

  Without mentioning how Sir Spenser worried about his own career, let's just say that Sir Robert Knight endured the pain and arrived at Half Moon Hill, which had become a wasteland, by carriage with Lady Joline.

  But the scene in front of him was enough to make even the calmest person speechless!!!

  These people have all been to Mount Halfmoon! Just a day ago, they were still searching for the demon beast in groups here, and their footprints even covered the entire Mount Halfmoon.

  Yesterday, when I came here, it was a typical hill in the southern region of the empire, with a continuous mountain body of three or four miles, covered with dense and lush forests. The entire mountain body is in a "U" shape, with the highest peak in the middle, standing on the peak can overlook the distant Half Angle City's general outline.

  But now...

  Robert and Jolene were both agog with their mouths hanging open and eyes wide with wonder, hardly daring to believe what was right in front of them!!

  Good heavens! If this is a nightmare, then let it end quickly!!!

  Despite a local guard's oath that this was absolutely Half Dome... or rather, where Half Dome used to be.

  Even this soldier who swore an oath looked bewildered, with a terrified look in his eyes!

  In front of...

  Hankyu-san...

  No, no, it should be said that there is no "mountain" here anymore!

  In front of him was a gigantic circular pit that appeared to be at least three miles in diameter!!

  Where is Mount Fuji? Where did the mountain go?

  This issue has been turning in everyone's mind!

  The carriage stopped right at the edge of this circular giant pit, Robert only felt his whole body chilled, looking at the shocking and strange scene in front of him...

  This circular giant crater, as if it had experienced some kind of intense explosion! It's likely that in the knight's conjecture, the entire mountain was blown away in the explosion! The edge of the circular giant crater is littered with all sorts of strange stones of varying sizes, and the ground is covered with a thick layer of sand, the original muddy surface long gone.

  And this huge circular crater, the surrounding areas are slightly shallower, and the deeper you go towards the center!

  What's even more terrifying is what's inside this circular pit.

  Such a huge circular pit, as if the divine spirit of heaven used an invisible pen to divide it into two completely different styles!

  On the left half of the crater, with the circular pit as the boundary, is a thick layer of frost! The hard frost on the ground seems to have accumulated over thousands of years! The thick and hard frost, as well as the frost covering the surface, has frozen everything above ground in this half of the pit into a silver world! Even the surface of the stones is covered with a layer of ice crystals!

  And if the right half is pitted, then it's a completely opposite scene!

  If the left half is icy and snowy, then the right half is like a desert!

  It's as if every drop of water on the ground has been burned dry! The ground is covered with fine, dry and hard gravel, and some areas without sand cover are also clearly cracked due to excessive dryness. Here, it seems that not a single drop of water can be found... even stones seem to have been burned open!

  Such a huge circular pit, one left and one right, completely two kinds of opposite appearances. It makes people's hearts terrified to the point of adding several inexplicable shocks.

  After all, as a strong-willed knight, Robert was the first among them to come out of shock.

  "I guess... this place must have gone through a fierce battle last night. The scale of such a battle is beyond our imagination... That female magician named Vivian is also nowhere to be found, I suppose she had a big fight with that female attacker here last night." The knight analyzed with a serious face: "We don't need to care about these things... Our problem is, where is the young master now! He's not in the military camp, he was already gone when we were rescued! So he must have been taken away by the enemy... or maybe..."

  Robert didn't say anything else. After all, even a mountain can be turned into a pit out of thin air! The magical power of the magician is so formidable... So, making a few people disappear doesn't count as much, does it?

  Robert's face was ugly to the extreme, but he still realized his responsibility. After all, he was the highest leader of their side now, and he couldn't let his subordinates lose heart. He gritted his teeth and said: "The situation may not be so bad, maybe the master escaped by himself, or maybe the master was taken away by the magician. In any case, the most important thing now is to find the master back!"

  The knight immediately gave two orders: First, those who could still move were to search everywhere at once. Second, someone was to be sent back to the castle of R?ln in the province of Kotte at once with a message!

  Things have gotten out of Robert Knight's control now.

  Where is this young master now?

  This is a question that everyone ponders in their heart.

  So what is Du Wei doing now?

  ……

  Du Wei was doing something he had never even dreamed of before.

  He is riding a dragon!

  Riding on the back of a dragon, soaring in the sky! The wind around him blew so hard that he could barely open his eyes, and he could only wrap his head with clothes. His hands grasped tightly onto the protruding scales on the dragon's back, watching as the massive creature darted quickly through the clouds below, with endless cloud seas beneath his feet... This feeling made Du Wei's heart involuntarily excited to let out a loud shout!

  "Please, please, please don't hold onto its scales, okay?" came Vivian's pitiful voice from beside him. The female magician was weakly lying on the dragon's back, her body tightly pressed against the dragon's back, and her small face had already turned pale as paper, looking extremely weak. Seeing Du Wei holding onto the dragon's scales so tightly, the female magician couldn't help but feel some heartache: "It will feel unhappy, dragons are a proud species, my Lich is still just a child, it doesn't like others touching its scales..."

  "If I don't grab onto the scales, where else can I hold on?" Du Wei furrowed his brow. As soon as he opened his mouth, a gust of wind rushed in, causing him to cough repeatedly. He quickly lowered his head and turned to look at the female magician: "With such strong winds, if we don't find a place to grab onto tightly, what if we fall off?"

  "Never mind the scales, let's just get rid of your sister's pursuit first. Once we're in a safe place, I'll make a halter for it."

  Reins?

  Almighty God! Please forgive poor Vivian... and also forgive this terrible guy.

  Put a saddle on a dragon's head...... God, does he think dragons are creatures that can be ridden casually?

  At this time, the giant dragon under him suddenly let out a mournful cry...

  Du Wei's heart skipped a beat as he shouted: "Not good, your dragon seems to be in trouble!"

  Vivian's heart was also aching: "The poor thing is still just a young dragon, it has just been injured and now it has to carry two people on its back..."

  This giant dragon with a completely red body has a striking wound on the left wing, which makes it difficult for the dragon to fly steadily as half of its wings are not flexible. As it flies, its body also leans slightly to one side.

  "Think of a way quickly!" Du Wei shouted: "Otherwise we two will crash to death."

  "You've extorted everything from me! I have no way out..." Vivian was also scared speechless, her big eyes welled up with tears, and she suddenly burst into loud sobs:

  "Wow!!!!! The outside world is so scary! Teacher! Teacher, please come and save me! I want my mom, I want my dad! Please come and save poor Weiwei!!"

  Huh? At this time, crying actually didn't stutter?!

  Du Wei almost fell off the dragon's back from anger! At this time, she actually started crying like a little kid and shouting for her dad and mom!

  He scowled and cursed several times, but at this moment, the dragon under him finally couldn't bear it anymore.

  It fought fiercely for half the night, originally almost all of its magic was exhausted, and it was seriously injured in the end. It had been carrying two people and fleeing with its master for so long, and now its wings were also badly injured, already at the limit.

  With a mournful cry, Du Wei felt his body suddenly sink! The giant dragon had already fallen from mid-air...

  "Damn it! Think of a solution quickly! Your dragon is no good!!"

  "Wow... Dad! Mom!! Mom..."

  "Stop crying! If you cry again, we'll all be dead!!"

  "Wow... Mom... Come and save poor Vivian..."

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