Chapter 381
Chapter 381 Exploding Magic
Prosperity Garden was the name of a residential community, living up to its high-class title as it was indeed a luxury locale, primarily inhabited by wealthy families—akin to a villa area in the city center.
Who would send them over there? Summer Family’s business partners?
Xia Xinyan couldn’t come up with an answer, so she simply led her group to head that way.
On the road, Ling Mo tried materializing items and ultimately discovered the death pattern of that item—anything that was attached to a weapon was unusable, including armor. He even materialized a walkie-talkie with a small knife strapped to it, and it turned out useless as well. But without the knife, it worked just fine. Probably because he treated the former as a unified whole, the being that set this rule regarded it as one complete thing.
He understood this reasoning; to put it simply, any weapon with movable parts was out of the question—even bows and arrows became useless—when the bow was drawn, letting go caused the arrow to jam against the bowstring.
It was like forcing the battlefield back to the early era of cold weapons. For those who could use abilities, it made little difference, but for those relying on external tools to unleash their powers, it became quite problematic.
This also meant that with this effect in place, the damage to the city would be significantly worse than normal—because the already limited protective forces were further weakened.
“We need to find the source of the impact quickly, or the situation will get worse.” Ling Mo dismissed his materialization, saying seriously, “Why was Xinyan so certain it wasn’t the source of invasion?”
“Because there are no features of an invasion source,” Xia Xinyan replied, slightly furrowing her brow.
During this time, Monica had been researching the White One. Xia Xinyan and her group had naturally benefited quite a bit from this, and they could be said to understand the source of invasion better than anyone else.
The most prominent feature of an invasion source was that after its appearance, it took time to collect surrounding environmental information and began adapting to it—the obvious manifestation was the large dome seen in previous invasion incidents. As long as one entered that dome’s range, they were affected by the invasion source.
But this time, they didn’t see the dome.
Moreover, an invasion source behaved like a plant-like creature and preferred quiet environments, avoiding places with too much chaos, as this could pose a threat to itself—zombies in the Dark Zone didn’t count; those things wouldn’t even give humans a second look, let alone an invasion source.
But demons were a different story.
That was why she was so sure this wasn’t the effect of the invasion source.
“Then what could it be?” Ling Mo was stumped.
“First, let’s find my parents,” Xia Xinyan said, as she didn’t want to focus on that right now.
Ling Mo pondered for a moment and then entered the Chicks communication channel to inform Fatty and the others about the situation, also asking them to let him know if they discovered anything.
As they were talking, they arrived at Prosperity Garden.
However, the situation wasn’t good at all; the entire community perimeter was surrounded by demons.
The perimeter wall had been modified into a defensive barrier, temporarily blocking all paths of attack from the demons—this defensive wall still worked despite the rule prohibiting all weapons because it was driven by magic.
The crackling arcs of explosion swirling around it were as thick as an adult’s waist, and anyone who touched it would likely spark up immediately. Even those demons would suffer a violent explosion upon contact, igniting a field of purple flames that wouldn’t go out—clearly, this was no ordinary fire.
Ling Mo felt somewhat emotional.
Times have changed.
Xia Xinyan observed the community’s surroundings for a while and noticed that even if flying demons passed over that defensive wall, they would quickly be shot down by the attacks inside. Most of those attacks appeared to be magical, looking quite violent—she couldn’t guarantee she would emerge unscathed after taking a hit.
The people inside must be quite strong.
No wonder they managed to save her parents.
She wasn’t planning to take the risk of flying in; if they mistook her for a demon and shot her down, she’d have no ground to defend herself. At this point, everyone inside was definitely on high alert and wouldn’t wait to check what flew in before attacking.
After thinking for a while, she tilted her head and looked at Ling Mo: “Mo Mo, can you use magic?”
Ling Mo: “…Huh?”
Xia Xinyan smiled slightly: “You should be able to materialize all sorts of things, right? Have you ever tried materializing magical items?”
All along, she had seen Ling Mo use tech-based items, including in her past life; she used tech more often as well. After all, compared to needing to chant a long spell with the risk of mispronouncing it and having to start over, blasting things away with a trigger was clearly more exciting.
But sometimes you had to learn to compromise. When BOOMBOOMBOOM was off the table, using magic wasn’t such a bad idea.
Though she asked, her tone was quite certain.
After all, Ling Mo’s limitation on magical item materialization was something she had lifted, spending quite a few points.
Noticing her look of trust and encouragement, Ling Mo fell silent for a moment and then nodded: “I’ll give it a try.”
With that, he immediately materialized… a magic book, a bottle of powerful purple potion, and a magic wand.
Then, before Zhang Zhen and the others’ eager and expectant gazes, he began flipping through the book, found a certain page, and handed the book to Xia Xinyan: “Xinyan, can you hold this for me?”
Following that, he picked up the potion and wand, began reciting from the book: “Mialar… land of magic, please grant me… wrong, cough, Mialar… magic of…”
Then he offered the items back to Xia Xinyan: “How about you cast the spell, Xinyan? I think you’re more suited for it.”
He had no magical power himself, so casting spells relied entirely on external assistance, so theoretically, anyone could do it. But he felt Xinyan would be better at it.
After all, she could also replenish magic.
Xia Xinyan exchanged a glance with him, took the items, then waved the wand in her hands, stared at the magic book for a while, jotted down a seemingly powerful incantation, and then aimed the wand at the demons outside the community, whispering—
“My name… is Huihui, the first magician of the Red Mage Clan and master of explosion magic; witness my power! Explosion—!”
Ling Mo froze.
Wait a minute, that spell…
But before he could react, the magic potion all flew out of thin air and condensed at the wand’s tip, instantly transforming into an extremely bright fire magic circle. Even a large fire magic circle appeared beneath everyone’s feet, centered around her, but it did not burn any of the people standing in it.
The next moment, a crimson beam of light suddenly rose from the ground, expanding rapidly.
Then—
BOOM————!!!
The entire city, at that moment, returned to dusk.
