Support me and be 30 chapters ahead of webnovel:
patreon.com/Draco_
Guys, I have a request. I'm short on my college sem fees, and if you could donate, that would help me immensely!
paypal.me/Un1que01
I will gift everyone who donates a membership to my patreon equivalent to their donation. I will appreciate your help!
******
Seti and the others had vanished without leaving any means of contact. However, before leaving, he did provide a significant amount of information and clues.
As Awakened ones, they operated in a league far beyond reach—so high-level that even the wizards beneath them weren't qualified to understand what was going on. Even if they did understand, they wouldn't be able to help. The clashes and wars taking place at the level of world laws had already transcended the boundaries between human and non-human.
But that didn't matter. What they had to face now was already enough to make one's scalp go numb.
———
What happened on the Abyss battlefield seemed confined to that small pocket realm, cut off from the rest of the world. However, the consequences of the World Will's exhaustion and descent into slumber went far beyond what Harry had seen.
While the Awakened wizards were busy mending the wounds and rifts of the world—
The mobile World Wonder roaming the African savannah—Qizhatdoro—erupted with an immense, boundless wave of magical energy that every spellcaster across the globe could sense without effort.
At Wagadu, Africa's only magic academy neighboring Qizhatdoro, the moment this anomaly occurred, the entire school was shaken. Countless students and faculty left their classrooms. Everyone in this magical school built atop the Mountains of the Moon witnessed the magnificent, radiant spectacle with their own eyes.
Hundreds of Sun Dragons, their scales shimmering with dazzling brilliance, stretched their wings across the sky. And above them soared the queen of the Sun Dragons—Daenerys—born alongside Qizhatdoro and its eternal guardian. She was over 1,500 meters long, her wingspan exceeding 5,000 meters. Her form blotted out the sun as she radiated a resplendent light like the noonday sun itself.
Yet even such an immense and awe-inspiring dragon queen, along with her legion, could not compare to the radiance that now erupted from the grasslands below.
The sun itself was eclipsed by that brilliance. A dazzling blue light—purer by far than any sapphire—burst forth from the heart of the Sun Mountain at Qizhatdoro's core. A magical geyser, dozens of kilometers in diameter, surged into the sky. Though people could sense the vast and overwhelming magical power it held, they found themselves unable to absorb even the slightest trace of it.
Instead, as this azure magic surged into the atmosphere and transformed the sky across the entire planet into a radiant blue dome, the magic of the earth began to rise.
Within less than ten minutes, the magical density at ground level dropped to levels so thin it was nearly undetectable. It was as if all the magical energy across the entire planet had been siphoned away and concentrated at a single point. Then, the deep blue sky above twisted into a massive vortex, injecting that limitless energy into some secret location beyond the reach of human comprehension.
The world spiraled into chaos. Countless rumors and doomsday theories spread like wildfire. The terrifying celestial phenomenon shattered the materialist worldview of many ordinary people in an instant. After all, what appeared alongside that blue dome was something far more startling—things from the magical world that had long been hidden through enchantments were now manifesting abruptly "near" them.
At the moment when magic across the globe was being drawn away, all those barriers and enchantments that once separated the magical and non-magical worlds—protective wards, magical boundaries, and so on—lost their effect. Those expanded magical spaces, once hidden, began emerging in strange and inexplicable forms before people's eyes. Countless things that had been concealed behind the veil of the mundane world were now exposed one after another.
Even the wizards were stunned speechless. In many ways, the sudden draining of magical energy from the world was even more terrifying for them than it was for ordinary people.
Governments across the globe were quickly notified. As the supreme institutions of the non-magical world, they were not entirely ignorant of magic's existence. At this moment, they received formal communications from the magical world—as well as a joint statement issued by the P5 nations of the United Nations, who held the greatest power on this planet.
The military and police sprang into action immediately. Heavily armed units flooded the streets to maintain order and carry out necessary suppression efforts. But unlike past crowd-control operations, this time, when faced with those who believed they could do "whatever they wanted," the authorities weren't firing taser darts—they unleashed one, or even several, blinding bursts of high-energy concentrated laser pulses.
This was especially true in the Beautiful Country, where gang activity had grown rampant. There, atop armored vehicles spun the instruments of death: triple-barreled Gatling-style pulse laser turrets known as Death Hunters. They could wipe out an entire street of rioting, looting thugs in just thirty seconds. Even in the lowest-energy efficiency mode, these turrets could discharge 18,000 bursts of pulse energy in under a minute.
Under this brutally bloody crackdown, the sudden waves of chaos and apocalyptic unrest were swiftly quelled—except in a few nations that were never stable to begin with.
Everything took place within a short span of just two hours. The sheer violence and terror of the suppression shocked most of the global population into silence. Minds cleared, and people became more willing to listen to the messages coming from those in power.
By the third hour after the "Blue Sky" incident, a global announcement—translated into more than a hundred languages—was broadcast to the public through every available channel: internet, print media, television, radio, and beyond.
The contents weren't overly complex but emphasized two main points:
First: Magic exists in the world, as do special individuals capable of using it. These individuals go by different names across various nations—wizards, mages, cultivators, etc.—but they are collectively referred to as spellcasters. The global population of spellcasters numbers around six million. Europe has approximately 850,000, Africa around 670,000, the Americas about 600,000, Australia 120,000, South Asia and parts of Asia roughly 330,000, the Soviet region 610,000, and the Taishi Celestial Empire a staggering 3.1 million.
Until now, all countries except for the Taishi Celestial Empire adhered to the International Spellcaster Secrecy Act, which separated the magical world from the non-magical one. Spellcasters lived hidden, with their existence unknown even to most of their relatives, interacting minimally with the broader world. But starting today, the Secrecy Act has been officially abolished. Spellcasters will now integrate into society as recognized professionals.
Second: A mechanized ascendant civilization known as Celtak has officially declared war on Earth. This is a hybrid magic-tech AI civilization that uses artificially cultivated humanoids as bio-batteries for their mechanical soldiers and weapons. They are now preparing to launch a full-scale extermination-level invasion against the Earth.
The rest of the announcement focused on calming public anxiety. Governments reassured their people that emergency contingency plans were already in place. So long as humanity remained united, we would prevail and defend our home planet.
While the entire world was ablaze with discussion over this earth-shattering news...
An official statement released by the Taishi Celestial Empire stirred an even greater storm:
[The Imperial Miracle, Tiangong City, will carry the Nantianmen Heavy Industrial Base to the lunar surface. Within three months, it will establish Phase One of the Guanghan Palace Lunar Fortress and the mainframe structure of the Outer-Space Starport.]
[Operation Codename: Ascension]
[Live Broadcast Countdown: 143:59:59]
(End)