Chapter 163: Strike First

The Immortal Veren and Draca left the Holy Council one after another, which caused a fundamental shake in its foundation.

Who could say that if even the peak existence of the Mages, an Immortal, had abandoned the Deities, where was the authority of the High Gods that the Holy Council always maintained?

The correctness of the Main Plane theory he had been preaching was greatly doubted by the Mage world. Every day, hundreds of Mages left the Holy Council to join other organizations. For most Mages, their first choice was the recently rising City of Saints.

More than three months had passed. This Mage organization, which openly opposed the Holy Council, had remained strong. This alone was enough to show its strength.

The Mages who left the deep-rooted Holy Council were mostly worried and afraid. They were afraid of being settled accounts by the Holy Council in the future. So, taking refuge under another powerful organization was an inevitable choice.

More and more Mages were leaving the Holy Council, and the speed was getting faster, from hundreds per day at the beginning to nearly a thousand per day recently.

This made the scale of the City of Saints expand at a crazy speed. In three months, it had doubled from less than 10% of the Main Plane before!

Among them, the rapid expansion would inevitably conflict with the Holy Council. But every time, the Holy Council withdrew first. Even if there were real conflicts, it ended with the compromise of the Holy Council.

Ptolemy always maintained this weak attitude. After a long time, rumors arose inside the Holy Council. Some said that this Ptolemy was not worthy of being the leader of the Holy Council. He had forced the Holy Council, like a cat, to be teased by the City of Saints, like a mouse. He was simply the most incompetent Council President in history!

Of course, these rumors reached Ptolemy’s ears. When he heard these words, his first reaction was to smash everything in his room!

Then, looking at the exquisite and luxurious decorations in his original room that had become ruins, Ptolemy leaned against the wall. The dark light flashed in his eyes.

“The City of Saints? It is just a stage held up by that young man. Just wait, you mediocrities of the Main Plane. When I annihilate the headquarters of the City of Saints in one stroke, see who dares to say I am not worthy of being the Council President!”

At this moment, Ptolemy’s face was hideous, and he looked like a madman.

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On Mongillo Planet, Lin Lei and the others also felt quite incomprehensible about Ptolemy’s silence.

Draca, who came out of the Holy Council, had only noticed some minor signs before leaving.

“Ptolemy is narrow-minded, but his mind is extremely deep. Before I left Fobole, it seemed that the movements of mobilizing Mages there were very frequent. He must be preparing for a grand plan!”

A grand plan? Lin Lei thought of Ptolemy’s unusually respectful attitude towards him in outer space. Lenna said that he mistook Lin Lei for a Deity, but Lin Lei preferred to understand it as an attitude of endurance.

Enduring temporarily in the face of irresistible power was a necessary quality for a leader of an organization. And now he was preparing a grand plan. Undoubtedly, this should be Ptolemy’s backup move.

Only when Lin Lei was alone did he ask Lenna: “Lenna, I want to strike first. What do you think?”

Lin Lei did not dare to try the Holy Council’s grand plan. The attack formed by the aggregation of three thousand Mages in the past was not something Lin Lei could withstand. Besides, now Ptolemy had already regarded him as a deadly enemy!

Without more words, once this strike came, he certainly could not withstand it. In fact, whether Mongillo Planet could still exist was also a problem.

Lenna did not answer Lin Lei’s question directly. She only said a fact of the future: “Five thousand years later, the Holy Council did not exist in the Andromeda Galaxy. Only the Holy City existed. Even the Mages there were renamed Priests, and they thoroughly became the servants of the Deities. I think, for an organization with deep roots, this change must have occurred because of some drastic changes.”

Lin Lei understood immediately: “Are you saying that I will complete this drastic change?”

“Why not? Sometimes, details are not so important to the general trend of history. Moreover, to interfere with the plan on Fobole Planet, a natural disaster would do. As far as I know, there is a large-mass satellite on Fobole Planet. So, how about a great celestial collision?”

“Okay, Lenna. This collision would be enough to turn Fobole Planet into cosmic dust. It is really ruthless. I like it very much.”

Lin Lei clapped his hands, stood up, and at the same time, his body began to become insubstantial, decompose, and then dissipate into a burst of clear wind.

At the same time, in the outer space of Fobole Planet, a black human figure appeared immediately.

This black human figure was no longer Lin Lei’s former appearance, but the image of the Flame Lord from the Demon Crystallized Mecha that Lin Lei had used before.

Except for the appearance being similar to the Crystallized Mecha, its surface lines were softer, and true blood-red energy flames were burning fiercely on its body.

The first impression it gave people was that of a powerful Flame Demon!

This means of teleportation was understood by Lin Lei by observing the data of Mages’ bodies being annihilated in the last Abyss battle. Its fundamental principle was the imperishability of information.

Among this, the principle of gravitational wave resonance of space was also involved. This part was completed by Lenna, who had understood the secrets of space and time, on his behalf.

The current Lin Lei could teleport arbitrarily in the four-dimensional space of the Universe. His means had approached that of a Pan-dimensional Creature.

As soon as Lin Lei’s image as the Flame Lord Demon appeared, it immediately began to gather powerful energy!

Looking up from the Fobole Planet to the sky, one could see that the clouds in the entire sky, including the sun, began to show ripples like images on water.

This was the result of the large energy aggregation interfering with the path of light rays. On the planet, ordinary people and even low-level Mages knelt on the ground, thinking this was a sign of the Deity’s descent.

But Ptolemy felt the terrifying destructive energy gathering reaction in the outer space immediately.

At this moment, the image of the sun in the sky had been torn into several distorted arcs, and a huge vortex began to slowly appear in the sky!

“No!” Ptolemy immediately entrusted his Will to the Origin Law and commanded in his Will that the twenty thousand Archmages gathered during this period be teleported to the outer space.

But this teleportation was exceptionally difficult and uncertain. The energy fluctuations in space were truly too violent. When the twenty thousand Archmages arrived in the outer space of the planet, their positions relative to each other differed by thousands to tens of thousands of kilometers. Even many Mages had their bodies torn apart by the turbulent energy flows in the Void. When they appeared in the Four Space-time Dimensions, they had already become piles of rotten meat.

The Mages who truly survived were surprisingly just a little over ten thousand. Ptolemy saw this situation and felt his heart bleeding!

Moreover, the Mages’ positions were too scattered, so it was difficult to form the formation immediately.

When Ptolemy came to the outer space, he immediately saw the huge Flame Demon standing insubstantially in space with the sun as the background!

At this moment, Lin Lei’s Will Fluctuation was completely covered by Lenna’s fluctuation. Ptolemy could not recognize him at all.

He shouted with shock and anger: “Who are you? How dare you run wild in the place protected by the Deity!”

“I am the Lord of Fire, the King of Destruction. The place protected by the Deity is the first world I want to destroy!”

Lin Lei shouted these big words, but his hands did not stop at all. Huge energy began to gather continuously, gathering more condensed and larger than during the Abyss battle last time.

This time, Lenna also helped Lin Lei gather energy with all her strength. Because their target was the satellite with a diameter of nearly 2000 kilometers, whose mass was almost 1/40 of that of Fobole Planet. They wanted to push this satellite onto Fobole Planet.

But Ptolemy did not understand Lin Lei’s intention for a moment. He sneered: “The energy you can master is very powerful, but it is still far from enough to destroy the Land Blessed by the Deity!”

At this time, the Archmages who were scatteredly teleported to space had basically gathered and began to arrange the formation. The formation of more than ten thousand people was qualitatively different from that of three thousand people, and the time required was much longer. It would take at least until after Lin Lei completed the first push of the satellite.

Originally, the energy Lin Lei could master was far from enough to push this large satellite. But with Lenna there, she not only had great power but also great wisdom.

She was a Pan-dimensional Creature who understood the mysteries of space. To change the orbit of this satellite, one only needed to change the degree of space distortion where the satellite was currently located.

As long as the subtle balance formed by Fobole Planet and its satellite over billions of years of time was interfered with, then, due to the gravitational force between the two, they would crash into each other uncontrollably. Unless a real Deity appeared, no one could save the headquarters of the Holy Council.

Letting this satellite fall onto Fobole Planet along its own trajectory in space was Lin Lei’s true purpose.