I Created Scientific Magic

As soon as they engaged in battle, everyone present realized just how formidable the enemy was. Although constrained by her physical form, Lucia could not unleash her full strength, but she was still beyond the league of these would-be legendaries.

Just one encounter, and Vittorio nearly met his death!

The rising Undying Flame quickly surged forward, cutting off Lucia's chance to pursue.

Vittorio, narrowly escaping death, dared not probe any further and immediately activated the trap they had laid in advance!

With the sound of earth and rock bursting, the ground beneath everyone's feet collapsed without warning…

Both Lucia and Lynn's group found themselves unavoidably plummeting downwards at the same time!

Though reaching the level of a great wizard meant that flying was a basic ability, at that moment, a powerful force was dragging everyone underground, making it impossible to take flight!

This was Harrov's greatest achievement in the study of Force Field Magic, created in combination with Vittorio's Alchemy: the "Gravity Field"!

Below where they stood was an excavated, abandoned mine.

The mottled walls all around were covered with intricate alchemy runes.

These methods were the result of meticulous preparation by Vittorio and over three hundred alchemists, taking an hour to set up, and it wasn't just as simple as a Gravity Field!

"Lightning, come forth!" Lynn raised his hand, and a flickering lightning bolt emerged in his palm. The complex alchemy runes on the wall also lit up one by one, and then everyone present was engulfed in a sky full of lightning!

Thunder roared through heaven and earth!

The wild force of thunder rampaged indiscriminately through the entire mine, with bright white electric arcs leaping and flickering intensely, forming a dense Thunder Net that ensnared everyone present.

This Formation was none other than the Lightning Attraction Array he had used in the capital!

Despite lacking the aid of Celestial Phenomenon, it was personally modified and deployed by Vittorio, the 'legendary' alchemist, powered by the magic of three hundred wizards and tens of thousands of Thunder Stones used for charging railguns.

Its power was only stronger, not weaker!

The moment Lucia fell, she was enveloped by the lightning, with elements within her Divine Domain being ionized into high-temperature plasma…

The entire mine was like a sauna with temperatures over a thousand degrees, capable of evaporating a person's bodily fluids within seconds!

As for Lynn and the others who were also under the assault of the thunderbolts, they constructed a circular copper net around themselves the moment they fell. That was, indeed, a Faraday Cage!

All the thunder was blocked outside, and one could even feel the coolness brought by the flow of electrons.

For a great wizard and legendary wizards, creating a Faraday Cage using mimicry of magic power within their domain was not a difficult task—the difficulty lay in understanding its principle!

The rampaging lightning continued to flicker, and Lynn, Harrov, Aurora, and Vittorio eagerly watched the center of the mine after they landed.

As the center of the Formation, the vast majority of the force of the thunder converged there, forming a gigantic maelstrom of thunder. The white-hot plasma kept surging, emitting a chilling aura!

"Could she already be dead?" Aurora whispered.

"Perhaps..." Vittorio responded casually. As the one who arranged the Formation himself, he was certainly aware of its power.

Despite not having time to perfect this Array because of the sudden assault by the Church, its might exceeded that of normal legendary magic.

Without the possibility to utilize the Faraday Cage, Vittorio was confident that if he himself fell into this trap, without being able to release the Faraday Cage, he would most likely be doomed...

But their target was the Holy Maiden of the Church, suspected to be the fake god incarnation, Lucia. Even Vittorio had no absolute confidence!

In the next moment as the two of them spoke, the gathered thunder vortex blew apart, revealing the scene inside!

The rocks on the ground had already melted from the high temperatures into rolling lava, and Lucia's feet were stepped onto the scorching lava. Her fair skin turned bright red from the steaming heat, sweat soaked her robe, and around her body were entwined dense electric arcs...

However, the sharp-eyed Lynn noticed that most of the lightning could not continue to invade past approximately three centimeters from the target's body surface, with only a small part managing to break through the barrier and pour into the body of the target.

Harrov, Aurora, and Vittorio's expressions changed abruptly, and Lynn also felt a sinking feeling in his heart.

"Some kind of insulating material?"

Clearly, the opponent was using some element of insulation, greatly weakening the power of the Thunder Magic, and then blocking the small remaining part, which was why they could still stand there unharmed...

This is the biggest difference between the conscious and the unconscious; previously, their fellow Wizard, "Ella", was much more difficult to deal with than those 'ignorant' Divine Mages.

Damn, if only he had known, he would have used Chlorotrifluoride instead...

Lynn regretted to himself.

Mainly because using that stuff as a trap could easily burn himself to death, mainly because he also didn't expect that the Holy Maiden of the Church would be Ella's avatar, such a trap was already enough for those 'illiterate' bishops...

"Retreat!" Lynn struggled to utter these two words, their previous plan had failed!

"You want to leave?" Lucia's icy voice resonated in everyone's ears, followed by the strong and blinding light of the Divine that emerged from her body.

The speed of the divine light was incredibly fast, covering the entire mine in a blink of an eye. Everyone present immediately felt their domains further suppressed, and not only that, their movements also became extremely slow...

It was the element of air acting on its own to hinder their actions!

In fact, if it weren't for the protection of their domains, these elements would turn into deadly weapons, piercing their bodies from every direction!

"Colors of the Stars!"

Lucia spoke again, and in the void around her, brilliant starlight emerged, converging as if a long river of stars, rushing towards everyone present.

Harrov, who was closest, was the first to be struck. The protection around his body shattered amidst the burst of stardust, a crisp sound of breaking bones followed, his chest ripped open by a huge gash, blood spraying wildly, and his body was sent flying backward, slamming heavily onto the ground.

"Harrov?" Vittorio exclaimed, but he could not afford to check on him, as the azure long river of stars was already near at hand.

"Water Curtain Realm!"

At that moment, multiple overlapping illusions appeared within the mine, with dozens of Auroras emerging in front of Lucia, surrounding her in the center. Just before the river of stars reached them, they shouted in unison.

"Mirror Rotation - Heaven and Earth!"

The approaching starlight, just as if it had entered a lake, was absorbed by the emerging Water Curtain Realms and then reflected back along the same path.

(PS: The second chapter is around 2:30am.)