Free Web NovelChapter 58: Chapter58-The First Stage
John nodded slightly, then began walking toward the depths of the shattered mirror city.
He had not gone far before the first stage was triggered.
On the broken street ahead of him, the first wave of enemies generated.
They were a group of monsters formed from pale-blue cracks. Their bodies resembled wolves, yet also looked like afterimages that had been sliced apart by space and forcibly pieced back together.
These creatures had no fixed form. They only hunted along the places where spatial fluctuations were most obvious.
A golden light flashed in John’s eyes. freewebnoveℓ.com
True Sight activated.
The monsters’ information immediately appeared before him.
[Rift-Trace Wolf]
[Skills]: Phase Rend, Spatial Scent, Rift Swarm
[Description]: After the spatial structure of reality was torn apart, these pale-blue wolf-like afterimages seeped out from the unhealed rifts as hunters.
...
Roar!
With a furious howl, the monsters instantly pounced toward him.
John decisively drew Space Sever and unleashed a terrifying Voidblade Gale on the spot.
[-89,182!]
[-89,182!]
As the幽-blue sword light swept out, several Voidfang Wolves were instantly sliced into fragments.
The destructive power was terrifying.
Even though these monsters were far higher in level than him, under the enhancement of Space Sever and Spatial Authority, they were almost instantly killed by a single strike.
[You have killed a Lv.100 Voidfang Wolf. EXP +10,000, gold coin +100!]
[You have killed a Lv.100 Voidfang Wolf. EXP +10,000, gold coin +100!]
The Mirrorrealm Witch’s voice came from a nearby mirror.
"You may not look like much, but your sword art is not bad."
John ignored her and continued swinging his sword to kill the monsters.
But very soon, he discovered that something was wrong.
Every time he unleashed Voidblade Gale, a pale-blue trace would be left behind in the air.
These traces spread across the surrounding mirrors like ink. Then, from within the mirrors, new monsters began to generate.
In this way, a vicious cycle formed.
The faster John killed, the more monsters appeared.
He had no choice but to try stopping the use of Spatial Authority and switch to basic attacks and other skills instead.
Boom!
As a terrifying pillar of light blasted out, several more Voidfang Wolves died at his hands.
[You have killed a Lv.100 Voidfang Wolf. EXP +10,000, gold coin +100!]
...
Just as John felt a trace of joy and prepared to continue using other skills to wipe out this group of Voidfang Wolves, the Mirrorrealm Witch’s sharp-tongued voice rang out from a nearby mirror.
"You came here to learn how to hide Law traces, not to show off how many skills you have."
John was silent for a moment and had no choice but to stop the Wrath of Flames he had just begun preparing.
He could only continue using Spatial Authority.
But this time, he began trying to follow the Crowned Witch’s earlier suggestion, wrapping Spatial Authority inside ordinary skills.
Under the mediation of the Arcane Nexus, the fluctuations of Spatial Authority were perfectly integrated into an ordinary skill.
Boom!
A ray carrying spatial fluctuations struck a Voidfang Wolf.
[-71,029!]
[-71,029!]
[You have killed a Lv.100 Voidfang Wolf. EXP +10,000, gold coin +100!]
...
After this skill was released, the pale-blue traces did indeed become much fainter, and the rate at which the monsters generated slowed slightly.
But soon, a new problem appeared.
Ordinary skills simply could not withstand the pressure from the level of Spatial Authority.
It was like trying to wrap a blazing divine flame with a thin sheet of paper.
Before the outer skill framework could fully conceal it, it was already split open by Spatial Authority.
John quickly realized that the Crowned Witch’s method might be effective against ordinary Laws, but his Spatial Authority was no ordinary Law.
The rank of Spatial Authority was far too high.
Unless he used a God-Rank skill, a God-Rank item, or a complete high-level Law system as an outer shell, it was simply unrealistic to rely on ordinary skills alone to conceal it.
The Mirrorrealm Witch inside the mirror clearly saw this as well.
However, she did not offer a solution, because she also did not truly understand the strength of John’s Spatial Authority.
She merely continued silently observing his movements.
[-89,768!]
[You have killed a Lv.100 Voidfang Wolf. EXP +10,000, gold coin +100!]
John shattered the monster before him with one slash, only to discover that the surroundings had somehow become covered in pale-blue traces.
More and more monsters were being generated, to the point that they almost threatened to flood the entire street.
And because John had left behind too many traces from using Spatial Authority, the Shattered Mirror City seemed to have been completely fed awake by him.
Every mirror began spitting out new and terrifying spatial monsters.
Even now, the Mirrorrealm Witch still showed no intention of helping.
John finally grew impatient.
He raised his hand, gathering a vast amount of mana.
The next moment, terrifying light expanded from the center of the broken street.
Wrath of Flames!
Rumble!
A blinding white radiance instantly swallowed the entire block.
A large number of spatial monsters, along with the mirror rifts, were evaporated cleanly. ƒree𝑤ebnσvel.com
The entire Shattered Mirror City fell briefly silent.
Within the mirrors, the Mirrorrealm Witch’s voice remained silent for a moment before ringing out from countless broken mirror surfaces.
"So that’s how it was. The stone tree in the north was blown up by you like this too?"
John did not answer, because at that moment, he discovered that although the nuclear blast had temporarily cleared out the monsters, it had not truly solved the problem.
Those pale-blue traces were still there.
They had not completely vanished. They had only been pushed farther away by the explosion, eventually gathering above the city to form a massive blue coordinate beacon.
The good news was that, at least for now, no new monsters were appearing.
John began calculating his gains from this stage.
Because those monsters had existed and refreshed without end, John had accumulated a large amount of experience in the process.
Added together, it actually totaled 650,000 EXP.
He instantly rose to Lv.26.
[First Stage Completed.]
[Second Stage Beginning.]
As the two system notifications appeared before his eyes, the street that had been blasted apart began to rapidly recover.
Broken towers rose again.
Shattered mirrors quickly returned to their original positions.
The areas that John had just cleared with Wrath of Flames seemed to be forcibly reconstructed by some kind of Law.
John raised his head and looked at the coordinate beacon in the sky. Only then did he realize that all of his earlier methods were actually useless.
Wrapping Spatial Authority with ordinary skills was unrealistic.
Trying to conceal it with mana could not block it either.
Even if he used the divine mask to hide his identity, it could not hide the coordinate echo left behind in the underlying Laws of the world.
Since that was the case, he might as well take another path.
Others entered the Corridor of the Old Gods to comprehend a Law that belonged to them.
John had originally entered to learn how to control the traces of Spatial Authority.
But now it seemed that suppressing such high-ranking spatial Authority could not be accomplished with a mere outer shell.
John needed an Authority that truly belonged to him.
An Authority that could serve as an alternative trump card!
