Wizard: Stronger through Marriage

Chapter 1382: Chapter 646: Code Mutation_2

The air was filled with magnetic field fluctuations, spreading across the earth like an expanding ecological network.

From the city walls to the nearby forest, countless vegetation began to awaken, giving birth to fine roots. Those withered branches and leaves regained vitality, and a mesh of plants constructed with ancient laws and pure order rippled in intricate complexity yet exceptional resilience.

This is the "Root Cage"—a large-scale forbidden formation formed by the fusion of life essence and the rhythm of laws, silently growing and expanding from underground, encapsulating the corruption spores within, entangling them endlessly and gradually stripping away their freedom of movement.

Reina led the members of the Watchers and the Priest Corps in assisting to set up the ritual defense array, each face carrying weariness but also brimming with hope.

"We have witnessed a miracle!" She whispered, while adjusting the Frost Magic Array steps to prevent enemies from taking advantage of the chaos.

Sofia stood at the outer edge of the array, in the form of a Shadow Aurora, guarding the peripheral passage, continuously burning the lingering miasma, and countering any small malicious replicas attempting to escape or destroy the root mesh.

"Not a trace of corruption must escape!" She looked ahead with icy determination, her entire body’s magic power surged like flames, yet steady and shining as the stars, never extinguished.

Above the battlefield, countless large sealing runes beacons cast by the combined efforts of wizards, mechanists, and priests shone brightly.

Their energy columns soared straight into the sky, intertwining with the order defense grid in the heavens, forming an insurmountable barrier, providing a solid wall of protection for the entire frontier.

As the progress of the ritual continuously rose, the environment around New Rainbow Bridge City underwent subtle changes.

The air thickened with justice rhythms, each wind carried the sound of decrees, and each ray of sunlight seemed to suppress the fallen shadows.

Everything seemed to return to a balance of natural purity, and the corrupt darkness was gradually being dispelled and dissolved...

Under this vast, solemn baptism of the natural law, the pulsation of the spore’s core weakened visibly, its internal chaotic vortex gradually contracted, and layers of black-purple corrosive lines began to crack and disintegrate, like crevice glaciers continuously expanding.

Finally, it revealed a vaguely crystalline, transparent, and majestic new life core texture, a pure and invigorating symbol of new order!

Hilvia showed a rare smile, she chanted a spell softly, strengthening the mental purification barrier, laying down more tenacious defenses for any potential future counterattack!

Meanwhile, a squad of knights was dispatched to patrol the surrounding area to ensure that no enemy infiltrated to sabotage at this crucial moment!

Simultaneously, Cynthia on the monitoring platform furrowed her brows slightly.

Although the chaotic ripples from the "Chaos Codex" had generally subsided, the signal it revealed was more complex and difficult to decipher: "These abnormal energies seem to be traversing multiple dimensional nodes, and behind it may very well be a greater conspiracy..."

David quietly gazed into the distance at the land of revival, knowing that this is both a victory and a new crisis’s starting point.

He tightly gripped the phase dagger, muttering to himself: "As long as the will remains, nothing can truly destroy order..."

The gale on the battlefield was still fierce, the ground around New Rainbow Bridge City scarred from prolonged battles. Yet the "Root Cage" was slowly spreading, tightly binding the corruption spores within the cage woven of life and order.

David stood on the highest platform of the command center, holding the ethereal blue-shadowed phase dagger.

His eyes deep and solemn, like a falcon that perceives all phenomena.

Having just delivered a deadly blow to the spore core, the aftermath left by the "Chaos Codex" stripping him of three-tenths divine power still roiled within him.

He knew that this war was far from over, and the true and unknown fear lurked deep within the codex.

"This prohibitive power... is not just order itself." David murmured softly, "Behind it hides a more ancient and dangerous mechanism."

Meanwhile, in a temporary data analysis space on the frontline, the young alchemist and biological magic expert Anne was focused on debugging complex rune arrays and life code projections.

Her brows tightly furrowed, her eyes reflecting the stream of symbol light on the projection screen.

"Master, I have completed a preliminary analysis of the ’Chaos Codex’ anomaly entry." Anne’s voice was clear and carried an undeniable firmness, "There exists a piece of underlying code, which I call the ’Observer Protocol’...

This is essentially a monitoring and intervention mechanism that transcends multiple realms, very similar to what we encountered when faced with the ’Observer’s’ threat before."

David’s expression changed slightly at her words. He slowly approached Anne, examining her data board while saying in a deep voice, "Are you sure this protocol is not a mere system evolution, but an artificial implantation?"

"Very certain." Anne nodded, "It conceals itself deeply, difficult to discover, but possesses the right to forcibly intervene in the balance of multirealm order and energy circulation.

This code essentially is designed by an external monitoring entity, to observe and control the direction of cosmic evolution, and can impose ’injunctions’ to restrict any existence trying to break the established rules."

David fell silent for a long time, his gaze gradually turning as cold as a blade. "This means we’re facing not only the corruption spores, but also the conspiracy behind those so-called ’Observers’..."

Just as everyone was plunged into anxious speculation, a violent tremor emanated from the battlefield.

The core writhing of the corruption spore intensified, and the large chaotic entity bound by the "Root Cage" began releasing an unusual amount of black-purple corrosive energy waves.

These energies, akin to living creatures, devoured the surrounding plant grid, continuously eroding and destroying.

Reina led the Watchers in resisting the malice embryos attempting to break out. Her silver-blue sword blade cut through the air, emitting a deafening metallic clash.

However, those black-purple tentacles madly tore apart the vegetation amidst the chaos, severing the resilient plant roots.

Sofia on the outer edge wielded her magic staff, raising a fierce gale of Shadow Aurora form to fend off the attack, but her face showed increasing fatigue, the pressure brought upon by that endless corrupting power far exceeded before.

"They’ve found a way to weaken the seal..."

David frowned deeply, knowing this was a precursor to a crisis outbreak.

He quickly turned back to the command center’s main control terminal, forcibly severing parts of the "Chaos Codex" authority by blending his own residual divine power, safely transferring the fragments to Anne for more flexible and targeted strategic responses.

Anne took the data board and immediately launched a complex analysis program.

As the runes rotated and starlight shimmered, she discovered that the hidden code contained many unknown symbols and abnormal logic, clearly beyond the understanding of any existing cosmic civilization, more resembling fragments of information crossing dimensions or even time constraints.

The screen displayed illusory patterns, like intertwined tracks of starry rivers, among which the most striking was the flickering, eerie cold light-emitting small icon—the "Observer" symbolic emblem!

At this moment, the large sealing array outside New Rainbow Bridge City trembled violently, a strange ripple spread out, containing extreme life rhythms yet mixed with rapidly spreading evil tendrils. Countless plant branches broke and collapsed, the ground cracked like a spider web spreading everywhere...

The corruption spore’s divine body roared violently amidst the chaos, its enormous body imbued with the flames of fallen stars, using the vast corrupt energies suddenly released to again tear apart part of the "Root Cage."

Sharp black-purple tentacles madly churned the air, each tear accompanied by a thunderous boom, and a destructive shockwave, instantly pulverizing the condensed ice crystals around into debris.

For a moment, the earth seemed to be at the center of an apocalyptic catastrophe, swallowed by endless darkness, even breathing felt unbearably heavy.

Hilvia’s face turned pale, yet she persisted in chanting the Holy Seal spell, suppressing the fallen miasma with mental purification: "Attention all Priest Corps! Maintain a steady defense! Do not let the spore break through the blockade!"