Before them stood a city… utterly unlike any architectural style they had ever seen.
Its structures were not built from stone or brick, but from a mysterious material resembling crystal—yet radiating a soft blue glow, like condensed energy in metallic form.
Countless spires and domes, sleek and flowing in design, lay mostly collapsed and shattered. And yet, even in ruin, one could glimpse the unimaginable brilliance of its former glory.
On the streets, remnants of metallic constructs—like "magical automatons"—lay silent and broken, long since deactivated.
"My God…" Hermione whispered, staring at the city where science fiction and magic seemed to intertwine. Even her vast knowledge felt insufficient. "This… this is Atlantis? Their magical civilization… actually reached this level?"
There was not a trace of divine power here.
Instead, the entire place was suffused with a unique aura—a perfect fusion of mental power and energy technology.
Lin Sen did not linger on the ruins.
His "divine sight" had already pierced through layers of debris, locking onto the very core of the city—
A massive crystal spire, still relatively intact, like a central energy tower.
Inside it—
He "saw" a slowly pulsing… enormous sphere of light.
"Let's go," he said calmly.
"Time to meet… the final guardian of this city."
They passed through the silent ruins and arrived beneath the towering spire, which rose over a thousand meters into the air.
Lin Sen did not search for an entrance.
He simply placed his hand against the cold, faintly glowing surface.
At that moment—
The entire tower seemed to come alive.
The wall parted like liquid, revealing a spiraling path of light leading upward.
When they reached the top—
A breathtaking sight unfolded.
A vast circular chamber.
At its center floated a massive sphere of pure blue energy, over fifty meters in diameter.
Lightning-like currents surged across its surface.
At its core, it pulsed rhythmically… like a beating heart.
"Th-this…" Hermione's voice trembled. "A living… magical formation?"
"No."
Lin Sen shook his head, his eyes blazing with rare intensity.
"This is a pure energy lifeform."
"A being created in Atlantis's final moments—when the city was about to sink."
"They fused the will and life force of their greatest mages…"
"To create an eternal, conscious…"
"…ultimate guardian."
Without hesitation, Lin Sen raised his hand.
A stream of pure golden energy—free of spells or rules, embodying only his divine will—flowed from his palm.
It shot toward the blue sphere.
The moment it struck—
The sphere shuddered violently.
A vast will awakened.
"Boom—!"
A beam of destructive blue energy erupted from the sphere—hundreds of times stronger than Lin Sen's own—
Racing toward him with annihilating force.
Thus began—
A battle without spells.
Without techniques.
A clash spanning ten thousand years—
A pure confrontation of energy and will.
The beam arrived instantly.
Even space itself trembled under its power.
Yet Lin Sen remained calm.
He simply raised one finger.
A flicker of golden light appeared—
And touched the tip of the incoming beam.
Ding—!
A sharp, crystalline sound rang out.
And then—
The impossible happened.
The raging blue beam stopped.
As if a charging beast had been halted by an invisible divine hand.
Its power was suppressed, neutralized, smoothed out by the more fundamental golden energy.
Slowly—
The beam disintegrated into countless gentle blue particles, like fireflies, filling the chamber with a dreamlike glow.
The battle ended instantly.
A complete and overwhelming victory.
The guardian fell silent.
For the first time, its vast collective consciousness—formed from countless Atlantean mages—felt something unfamiliar:
Insignificance.
It had once resisted the gods' cataclysm.
Yet before Lin Sen…
It sensed something even greater than divinity.
A presence akin to a creator god.
Its voice echoed again—
But now, filled with awe:
"…You… have surpassed… the limits…"
Hermione quickly grasped the meaning.
"It means the world's fundamental laws—Gaia's will," Lin Sen explained. "In its understanding, nothing can exceed the world itself."
"And I," he added calmly, "am an exception."
After a long silence—
"…Highest authority… granted…"
At once—
The tower erupted with brilliant light.
The energy sphere parted, revealing a core channel.
A torrent of pure knowledge surged forth—flowing directly into Lin Sen's mind.
He did not resist.
He accepted this ultimate inheritance from a lost civilization.
—How to use mental resonance to activate energy crystals for attacks rivaling forbidden spells.
—How to construct energy towers that draw from ley lines for perpetual operation.
—How to fuse souls with constructs to create immortal, sentient arcane machines.
A system completely different from modern magic.
No spells.
No wands.
Only energy crystals, mental resonance, and arcane technology.
The door to this ancient and powerful system… opened fully before him.
But far away—
In another corner of the world—
A catastrophe began.
South America.
The Amazon rainforest.
Without warning—
The sky split open.
Not metaphorically.
Literally.
A massive пространственная—stretching kilometers—tore through the sky like a scar.
Purple lightning crackled along its edges.
Inside—
It was not sky.
Nor space.
But a chaotic realm filled with alien, hostile laws.
Then—
They came.
Strange creatures poured out like a flood.
Winged scorpion-like beasts with green soul flames.
Shadow hounds made of corrosive darkness.
Towering crystal-covered war beasts.
All radiating violent, foreign magic.
They did not hesitate.
They attacked.
Flames consumed ancient trees.
Creatures were torn apart—body and soul.
The land itself crystallized under the beasts' steps.
An invasion from another world… had begun.
Across the globe—
Alarms blared.
Britain. America. France. Germany. Russia.
Every magical authority received the same warning:
EX-Level Spatial Rift Detected.
Unknown Hostile Entities Emerging.
Amazon Ecosystem Collapsing.
"Requesting reinforcements!"
"Brazilian Auror forces… have been wiped out!"
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