At the moment when the artillery fire roared, Kelben showed a look of relief, and silently looked at the Spider Queen Rose, who showed a hint of surprise.

After the Saint Catastrophe, the link between the kingdom of God and believers as an intermediary was lost, and the gods who walked the world in the mortal bodies of saints were greatly weakened.

For example, the goddess of magic who originally had powerful divine power, after being succeeded by Anna, is still being taught by Elminster and Lyla's several magical sisters how to use her magical power. The still immature third generation of magic goddess,

Kong has a lot of strength, but in terms of actual combat ability, I'm afraid it's not as good as a lesser god.

Another example is the "dead" three gods of death, not to mention Melkor, the god of the dead who was poisoned by him with rat poison, even though it is said that he possessed the storm god outside the city of Tanreth in the Bay of Dragons and had a relationship with the loyal and brave god.

Bane, the God of Strife, who died in the final battle between Thom and Bane, has already revealed this by his power, which can even be killed by mortals.

Naturally, Kelben had no intention of comparing those three trash to the Spider God Queen in front of him, who had lived for tens of thousands of years, nor did he expect that this cluster bombing of magic cannons could kill the opponent in one fell swoop.

But Rose is still too arrogant. Arrogance often means underestimating the enemy.

He actually dared to come to the main material plane in person and stand under the muzzles of more than 300 magic cannons.

Then, let me appreciate your embarrassed posture under the power of technological magic at the moment when your life is about to disappear!

We don’t seek to annihilate the enemy! As long as we can hold the opponent back for a moment! Just hold them off until reinforcements arrive!

As long as...the soul after death...is not controlled by this terrible demon in front of you!

This is Kelben's last wish that he is willing to give up everything...

I just don’t know...whether what that guy Tiberius said is true...and whether he can snatch their souls away from the terrifying existence in front of him.

Just as various thoughts were running around in Kelben's mind like a marquee, everything in his field of vision seemed to slow down... He could even sense the violent magic energy rushing from behind him...

He suddenly saw the corners of Rose's mouth grinning exaggeratedly to both sides, looking at the metal cannonballs that were being fired towards him by the energy of the magic network, spinning and twisting in mid-air, and let out a chuckle:

"The magic net...isn't what it's used for."

The muzzle velocity of those magic cannon shells clearly exceeded the speed of sound, breaking through 4 kilometers per second. But at that moment, Rose seemed to have broken free from the constraints of time around her, and the alluring yet cruel voice came to her.

rang in the person's mind, and then Shi Shiran raised his right hand.

"How... is this possible!" Kelben, who was already ready to embrace death, was speechless.

Not just him, at that moment, everyone in Jishui City, except for the continuously roaring magic cannon, looked at the observation deck in disbelief, looking at the Spider God Queen floating in mid-air, as if they were witnessing a miracle.

!

In front of her, densely packed metal cannonballs all stagnated around the Spider God Queen out of thin air. It was obvious that the air in front of the rotating warheads was still being continuously discharged, creating twisted ripples visible to the naked eye, but it was difficult to change.

further.

"When did such a magical and great creation as the Magic Network fall to the point of being desecrated and manipulated by you mortals? If it had its own consciousness, it would be so humiliated that it would almost cry!"

As the last word "Ba" fell, those magic cannonballs were under the control of Rose's will, just like Magneto controlled the missiles all over the sky in a certain Blue Star movie called "X-Men First Class".

Under the horrified and desperate eyes of the people, they slowly changed their direction and shot back messily towards the place where they came.

Amid a terrifying roar, the Troll Wall, which had been built by the people led by King Rong a thousand years ago, along with the 326 magic cannons on it...

Evaporated directly in the violent magic energy and dazzling firelight...

The entire ground in Jishui City was trembling.

The people of Jishui City who took refuge in the Jishui Mountains also screamed in fear amid a burst of uncertain lights.

The huge Jishui City fell into absolute silence in front of this hell-like destructive power.

Therefore, Rose, who did not wait for her desired goal, seemed to have exhausted her little patience:

"At this time, the goddess of magic you believe in... still dare not show her face?

"Ah... I have to say, your magic goddess... is really inferior to every generation.

"Now that Mystra has fallen, this magic network... should be left to me, Rose... to manage it."

At the end of her speech, the Spider Queen let out a sigh of pity.

This sigh was like a drop of water falling on a calm lake, creating a layer of vague ripples in the space centered on her.

At that moment, the people in Jishui City felt dazzled for a while. When the ripples rippled out... they seemed to see... a dense network...

But soon, they discovered that they were unaware of their illusion.

It was as if the barrier between reality and illusion was beginning to be broken down, and a network as dark red as a soldering iron and as complex as a spider web began to erode the surrounding space.

"Ah!" Lucifer, who was pierced and hung in mid-air by some invisible existence, let out a miserable howl.

Then he saw the huge spider body next to Rose, which was originally looming, finally gradually revealed to the eyes of mortals under the resonance of magic energy and faith.

It was a huge thing like a mountain, and Lucifer was being skewered on one of the claws on the tarsus by his 'kind' mother.

This huge spider model is one of the forms that Rose likes to use on a daily basis, but it is also an ability, an extraordinary divine ability that the dwarf god Moradin likes to use most:

【Avatar】!

And in that translucent mesh country, you can even see countless blurry drow shadows, praying with selfless fervor, and their prayers are also intensifying the erosion process.

At the same time, through the row of light and shadow screens in front of her that had begun to be affected by violent fluctuations, Laila, who was looking at the scene in front of her anxiously, seemed to finally see through its true face:

"Deep... Pit... Demonic... Web...

"Stop her quickly! She is assimilating the magic network of the main material plane!!!"

Probably even closer:

Through the magic resonance of the two magic webs, the spider magic web on the 66th floor of the bottomless abyss is directly eroded...

Relocated to Northland as a whole!

If she really wants to succeed!

It’s completely over!

"Also! Notify the Northland reinforcements immediately and refrain from conducting swarm magic bombardment!"

"Zi..."

"Madam! DreamNet communication has been cut off!"

"Griffin Knight's message! Hurry!"

What Laila can see, Kelben, who is also the chosen one of the magic gods, can naturally also see it, and he can see it more thoroughly.

Since the catastrophe of the Saint, in addition to the past priesthood, God's power has also begun to be linked to the believers around Him and the strength of their faith.

At this moment, I just took a peek, and God knows how many drow are there in the pit magic net that is gradually emerging from the abyss!

Just like Calvin doesn't know how many Cavans are in his kingdom of heaven, I'm afraid even Rose herself doesn't know that the souls of the drow who have been fighting among themselves for nearly ten thousand years are in her spider demon.

How many of them exist in the network?

This is almost equivalent to Rose taking advantage of the loophole in the rules of the Holy Catastrophe that "the gods will walk the world as saints", and is about to become the first true god in the main material world to "return to the Kingdom of God"!

Moreover, he is the true god who drags the ‘Kingdom of God’ directly to the main material plane!

By then, who else can compete with him!

This must be Rose's long-planned plan!

But before the Nether Era, there was the first-generation magic goddess Miss Riel who supervised the magic network!

To seize the magic network from the hands of this great goddess of divine power is nothing more than a foolish dream.

After the fall of the Nether Empire, the second-generation magic goddess Mystra supervises the magic network!

Even though Mystra, a powerful god, was much weaker, Rose was still no match.

Until the Saint Catastrophe, Mystra suddenly fell, and the Magic Network fell into the hands of a mortal mage with almost no handover.

This made Rose see an opportunity! This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

Kelben, who has understood all this and has been on the edge of life and death once again, heard Laila's voice and was already determined to die. After that, he suddenly realized that even if he died, he would not be able to change the situation at all.

..

This old masked lord who had been arrested suddenly had his facial features distorted, his eyes burst into tears, and he burst out with an unprecedented desire to survive and a cry for injustice:

"Why...we in the North...are always in so many troubles!!!"

While watching the translucent but sharp tarsal foot piercing his chest, the old mage who was trapped in the invisible spider web directly used an arcane spell to cast a [Sun Flame Explosion], towards Luo Luo.

The spray flew away from Si's face.

Rose just raised her chelicerae slightly to block this not-so-powerful fire-based evocation spell, leaving a small area of ​​charred black.

However, although this spell did not pose any threat to Rose, the flame impact was still a bit 'hot', causing her outstretched legs to shrink instinctively as she was a spider.

Kelben, on the other hand, took advantage of the rocket-like recoil to fly away from the place and fled in panic toward the Jishui Mountain Peak.

Before leaving, he even used a mage's hand to try to take away the dying Lucifer, but failed because Rose reacted in time.

Not only was he on the run, but the entire people of Jishui City had already started a large-scale retreat through the secret passage on the mountain peak of Jishui City under his previous order.

Speaking of which, this is the experience learned from Kaishui City and Zeelandia...

If the city is gone, it is gone... As long as people are still there, with today's technological magic technology, the city-state can always be rebuilt.

Reinforcements from the Silver Moon Federation and Escaut should be... already on their way.
To be continued...