Chapter 1219
But the fighting spirit burning in Blackman's eyes only grew fiercer, his laughter booming like thunder.
"Yes, that's it—this is how it should be. This is what a battle between men looks like..."
Electric light coiled around Blackman's body. That metal staff, as massive as a troll's spear, became weightless in his grasp, twisting like a thunder serpent as lightning crackled wildly along its length.
Blackman didn't dodge. Instead, he stomped the ground hard, his body shooting forward like a cannonball, brandishing his spear-staff as he charged at Leon.
Facing the overwhelming flood of Fourfold Burst Bombs, Blackman gripped the end of his spear-staff. In an instant, the weapon blurred with afterimages, its tip engulfed by a sphere of lightning.
The spear's tip lashed out, striking one of the Fourfold Burst Bombs and knocking it slightly off course.
But the moment they collided, the Burst Bomb exploded with a deafening roar, its wild power spreading indiscriminately in all directions—Blackman, closest to the blast, took the brunt of the impact.
The explosion triggered a chain reaction, and the rest of the Fourfold Burst Bombs—almost all arriving at once—detonated together.
Violent, destructive energy collided and compressed, creating a frenzied zone of annihilation within a two- to three-hundred-meter radius. At this point, no one could sense what was happening inside.
And it wasn't over yet—the elemental storm of the Arcane Wheel and Theo's torrent of flames surged into the destruction zone as well.
The raging power tore and twisted everything, turning the surrounding four to five hundred meters into a death zone.
Each Sky Rank mage stared in horror at a battle that was already unimaginably fierce from the very start.
At the edge of the battlefield, the solid earth kept shattering, chunks of it hurled skyward, only to be torn apart again midair.
No one could see or sense what was happening inside the destruction zone, but at its edges, over a hundred meters of ground kept crumbling. Even in the distant mist, runes began to appear one after another.
Just from the shockwaves, runes emerged throughout the thousand-meter Mistveil, trying to suppress the madness of the destructive impact.
A crowd of mages, hiding behind shields, panicked and fled toward the wizard tower—this place was no longer safe. Only the tower's defenses might withstand such devastation.
"Damn it, if anyone had told me a Ninth-Rank Title Archmage could unleash this kind of power, I'd have called them insane. Hell, can anyone tell me—am I the crazy one now?
A Ninth-Rank Title Archmage can do this? This is madness. Even that monster Thornton Merlin, back at the Heavenly Tribulation stage, didn't seem this strong, did he?"
Labordo looked as if he'd seen a ghost, his voice cracking in disbelief.
Redman snapped without even turning his head.
"Labordo, shut your damned mouth and watch. Blackman’s a lunatic—once he gets into a fight like this, he’ll go berserk and forget everything else…"
On the battlefield, Leon’s face was grim. What others saw as terrifying, Leon sensed with perfect clarity; even the destruction wrought by the Four-Element Bomb Barrage hadn’t broken through Blackman’s defenses. In fact, a truly monstrous power was surging out from the heart of the devastation.
He took the brunt of the triple assault: the elemental storm from the Arcane Wheel, the flames of the Spellbook of Ages, and Leon’s Four-Element Bomb Barrage—yet he forced his way through.
Battle mages—Sky Rank really is terrifying…
Leon stopped releasing Four-Element Bomb Barrages. In front of him, countless Law Sigils appeared, rapidly converging to form a massive Law Sigil Bomb, following the structure of the Four-Element Bombs.
The moment Leon finished forming the Law Sigil Bomb, a huge bolt of lightning—sharp as a blade—tore through the heart of the devastation below, splitting it open with blinding brilliance.
Then a second flickering bolt ripped through, then a third…
A dozen thick lightning bolts flashed wildly, slicing open the destruction zone like blades. Blackman’s body had grown to over three meters tall, shrouded in lightning, with arcs extending from him like countless thunder blades, tearing at everything around.
He shredded all the destructive force assaulting him, and the ball of lightning at the tip of his spear-staff had swelled to more than three meters across.
As Blackman broke through the oppressive destruction, the deep blue ball of lightning—now perfectly round—was launched by a fierce swing of his spear-staff.
Behind the ball of lightning, countless thunder tails trailed, their extraordinary power even shaking the fabric of space itself.
On the other side, Leon’s Law Sigil Bomb fired off as well.
Built entirely from Law Sigils, this bomb was the strongest form Leon could achieve after mastering the Four-Element Bombs.
Pure Law Sigils linked together, and as the bomb launched, the extraordinary power it radiated began to surge!
Without reaching Sky Rank, one can’t control extraordinary power. Leon couldn’t control it either—but he had mastered Law Sigils, a power reserved for Sky Rank mages.
By harnessing the power of Law Sigils, he forcibly drew immense energy from the void, turning it into pure destructive force—extraordinary power that couldn’t be controlled.
This was inspired by the annihilation energy spheres of those Pseudo Sky Rank Beasts. If it couldn’t be controlled, then let it become pure destruction.
The Law Sigil Bomb instantly fused the borrowed power into its rune framework, colliding head-on with Blackman’s ball of lightning.
In an instant, a thunderous boom flashed and vanished—and then, all sound disappeared…
At the collision’s core, the Law Sigil Bomb and the ball of lightning didn’t explode outward—instead, the terrifying power collapsed inward.
Dozens of meters of energy were swallowed up as if by a black hole, instantly devouring everything in that radius and forming a sphere three or four meters wide.
And then, in the next instant, the sphere exploded…
The shockwave swept across a thousand meters in a flash, still spreading further…
The ground here, reinforced countless times, shattered like leaves swept up by a sudden gale, splintering into countless fragments that kept rising toward the sky.
A kilometer away, all the wizard towers struck by the shockwave lit up, like blinding lighthouses suddenly igniting in the night.
Within a three-kilometer radius, every wizard tower activated its magical defenses. The Mistveil churned, runes rolling and surfacing everywhere—at least three kilometers of mist now shimmered with runes.
Even deeper in the swirling mist, countless runes could be seen leaping and tumbling…
Amid the devastation, flashes of lightning and waves of terrifying extraordinary power surged.
Leon’s Mana Harness ran at full throttle, assembling Law Sigils in rapid succession according to their construction principles.
The three massive Law Sigil frameworks formed and then began to operate toward an even higher-level structure, following the principles of Law Sigil construction…
Dual-layered framework!
If successful, it would mean building a single Law Sigil out of hundreds of runes!
It was supposed to be impossible, but all Leon needed was the faint power contained within that framework—and that was enough!
As the three-meter-wide Law Sigil framework took shape, a terrifying power spread out. The space here, usually impossibly stable, was instantly torn open by a hair-thin spatial rift.
The Law Sigil transformed into a pitch-black wind blade, slicing through the raging shockwave and hurtling toward Blackman!
Faced with this pitch-black wind blade, the shockwaves were cut apart as easily as a blade through raging waters—no matter how strong the flow, it was effortlessly sliced open…
On the other side, Blackman was completely enveloped in lightning, his fighting spirit more terrifying than some Sky Rank Sword Saints. The spear-staff in his hands had become pure thunder.
With a roar, Blackman swung the staff down hard, unleashing a crescent-shaped deep blue light blade that tore through the shockwave, surging toward Leon.
Look closely and you'd see that deep blue blade was made of countless compressed lightning bolts—no flicker, just an overwhelming force.