I Pioneered Scientific Magic

At the moment the hydrogen bomb detonated, in the City of Fire Oil, everyone's hearts simultaneously felt an ominous premonition. The camels pulling carts all tried to lower their bodies, uneasily attempting to break free from their restraints—a natural instinct for danger.

Even Muto, who was deep in sleep, abruptly opened its eyes and leaped up from the ground...

The evening sun had gradually sunk below the horizon, yet a stronger beam of light emerged from the end of everyone's sight.

"The sun... the sun has risen again!" Susan, amidst the crowd, exclaimed in shock. In her view, a 'fierce sun' of immense size hung in the void, clearly visible even from tens of kilometers away.

This 'fierce sun,' over a kilometer in diameter, coalesced in the sky for a minute before suddenly exploding into a column of fire shooting skyward...

In an instant, an area of hundreds of kilometers lit up as if it were daylight.

Everyone watched in stunned silence as the giant sun fractured.

Terrifying energy waves began to rapidly spread in all directions, transforming the land into flowing lava, countless stones and dirt sucked into the fire, incinerated into ash by temperatures reaching billions of degrees...

And this intense blaze was rapidly advancing towards the City of Fire Oil.

The apocalyptic scene of dark clouds overhead and the earth splitting open made the wizards standing on the city wall tremble.

"It's coming, it's coming!" Raphael couldn't help but swallow hard, his legs going weak. If not for the presence of several councilors and the casting Master Lynn, he might have already run away.

Lynn, however, was not so nervous. Seeing the column of fire, he knew the experiment was a success. The alchemical array they had set up had managed to suppress the power of the hydrogen explosion to some extent—confining it for about a minute.

This minute was precisely when the explosion was most violent and the energy wave spread the fastest.

As Lynn had anticipated, the energy wave, initially propagating at supersonic speed, began to slow rapidly after crossing ten kilometers. By the time it reached their visible range, the energy had been reduced to a millionth of its original strength, colliding with the magical barrier protecting the City of Fire Oil.

Ripples continuously danced on the invisible magical barrier, which only held for three seconds before bursting open!

The several grand wizards present turned pale, wanting to intervene against the aftermath, but seeing no movement from the councilors, they dropped the idea.

In that moment, a fierce gale swept over the city, the ground beneath them started shaking violently, yet it was just a minor aftershock, causing no damage but snapping the citizens of the City of Fire Oil out of the spectacle of the giant sun and fire pillar.

Several merchants collapsed on the ground, scared to the point of wetting themselves, and none of the citizens laughed at them. At the moment the 'fierce sun' rose, they all thought the apocalypse had arrived!

"Is this the great nuclear magic? Truly terrifying magic!"

Ivina, having the status of a wizard, naturally had the right to stand on the city wall and witnessed the entire process of the hydrogen explosion technique, from creation and delivery to detonation, turning pale.

During her two years fighting wizards and demonic gods in the North, Ivina had witnessed the marvel and weirdness of magic, but no matter how powerful the enemy, her excellent swordsmanship and body enhanced by divine potions always allowed her to fight back.

Even against demonic gods, Ivina knew she couldn't win but felt no fear. However, witnessing the power of the hydrogen explosion shattered this notion.

Ivina realized her proud swordsmanship was meaningless against such force!

Beside her, Monroe was ashen-faced. He had come with the last shred of hope to watch, wishing to expose the 'lies' of the wizards.

But there it was before him, the so-called 'great nuclear magic' demonstrated by the Messenger of Apocalypse, Lynn, even more powerful than before, its aftermath directly reaching the City of Fire Oil!

His only hope now was that the smugglers sent by Pope Alves hadn't yet stepped into the Dead Zone, otherwise, the information he provided would become their death warrant!

Due to the urgency, Monroe couldn't even notify the spies within the city to relay the message back to the Holy City.

Other empire spies, wealthy merchants, and nobles with ulterior motives were also trembling with fear.

Terrifying, truly terrifying!

Magic could be so powerful. Although they had witnessed the horrors of the Dead Zone and heard countless terrifying rumors, nothing could prepare them for the shock of facing such power directly.

Maybe... our plan for revenge should be canceled?

A merchant, completely bankrupted by the food war, gave a meaningful look to his colleague beside him, who quickly nodded in agreement.

Because the council had driven grain

prices to rock bottom, many merchants who had speculated on grain prices suffered immense losses, forced to sell their wheat, bought at hundreds of coppers, back at the price of one copper.

Many disgruntled merchants secretly formed a small group, plotting revenge, like sabotaging the railways or even defecting to the empire!

But before their plan could start, the grain merchants were already frightened off. To them, the empire was likely already beyond saving...

Who could stop an electromagnetic cannon firing at thousands of kilometers per second? Who could withstand such a fearsome attack?

It wouldn't be long before the wizards could control the entire continent. No matter where they fled, they would be captured...

Lynn's figure slowly descended from above the City of Fire Oil, with Raphael and others immediately surrounding him, showering him with compliments.

Even Harof expressed admiration, "Truly remarkable magic. I didn't expect your great nuclear magic to increase in power again."

When Lynn first mentioned he had improved the nuclear magic, increasing its power by eight times, Harof was somewhat skeptical. Now it seemed, it wasn't just eight times; the power had clearly increased by more than ten times!

If they hadn't set up the energy-binding array in the Dead Zone in advance to slightly block it, the entire City of Fire Oil would likely have become ruins by now!

Lynn smiled and didn't explain further. What he meant was the mass loss ratio caused by the hydrogen bomb's explosion was about eight times higher than that of an atomic bomb, not merely the maximum power.

After all, the power of a hydrogen bomb theoretically has no upper limit; if desired, creating a hydrogen bomb with a yield of hundreds of millions of tons isn't impossible, while the maximum yield of an atomic bomb is only a pitiful five hundred thousand tons.

"Let's go, let's take a look!" Lynn looked towards the destroyed area, calling the councilors and grand wizards to fly towards the explosion's core.

The Dead Zone was thoroughly destroyed by the nuclear energy wave 'plowing' through twice, with previously visible charred trees or half-melted armor and swords now completely obliterated.

The terrain of the entire area had changed from high to low, the closer to the center, the more severe the depression, revealing a three-kilometer-wide abyss to everyone.

Water from the west flowed down the terrain, continuously pouring in. Because the heat from the nuclear explosion hadn't fully dissipated, steam rose as cold and heat alternated, gradually enveloping the area.

"In the future, this should form a new lake!" Grand Wizard Alade exclaimed, marveling at the terrain and landscape changed by a single strike, hard to believe they were all grand wizards like the Star of Magic.

"Let's call it—Lake Starfall!" Lynn suggested, naming this future landmark lake of the City of Fire Oil.

In fact, using hydrogen bombs to create lakes was not a novel idea in his previous world; it had long been a practice liked by some. However, it was still quite trendy in this otherworld...

Besides, Lynn had already named this hydrogen explosion magic—【Skyfall】. Having previously used the principle of atomic bomb detonation to create the great nuclear magic, this time with the hydrogen bomb, it couldn't simply be called the great hydrogen bomb technique, right?

It seemed a bit too revealing—although the fusion reaction used isotopes of hydrogen, deuterium, and tritium, it was better to be cautious.

"Let's measure it, see how much radiation is in the air now," Lynn turned to Raphael, reminding him.

Raphael remembered the main task and quickly took out a disk-shaped alchemical device. Due to technological limitations, they could only use the property of fluorescent substances glowing after absorbing high-energy rays to detect nuclear radiation levels, not very accurate but sufficient for their needs.

About a minute later, Raphael solemnly stated that the radiation level had returned to normal.

Lynn was very satisfied, it seems the cleanup was thorough, and now the oil drilling project could also be put on the agenda.

The hydrogen bomb test was a complete success!

"Wait... what's that over there?"

Just as Lynn and others were about to return to the City of Fire Oil, sharp-eyed Aurora seemed to have discovered something, suddenly stopping everyone and then flying towards the other side of Lake Starfall.

About five minutes later, Aurora stopped on a glass wasteland. Before her was a silver 'river' that they realized was not a river at all, but a large amount of melted and then solidified iron.

Harof instantly realized something, speaking playfully, "It seems your magic did have some harvest!"

Lynn also frowned, wondering to himself.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

Could someone really be that unlucky? The Dead Zone's reputation in both the kingdom and the empire was well-known, with rumors as terrifying as they come. Normally, no one should approach it.

Could they be smugglers, driven mad by profit, attempting to transport goods through here? In Lynn

's mind, only merchants blinded by profit would undertake such foolish acts.

Curious, the group followed the direction of the iron flow and flew for a while longer. Soon, a large number of weapons and half-melted armor that hadn't been completely destroyed appeared before them, their owners obviously turned to ash by the terrible temperatures.

"So many people tried to sneak through the Dead Zone..." Lynn glanced around and from the distribution of the wreckage, inferred that those killed under the hydrogen explosion must number over ten thousand!

And so many weapons and armor couldn't possibly belong to a merchant convoy.

"This looks like the church's border legion..." Raphael picked up a scalding, half-melted badge from the ground, its faintly visible holy light emblem visible.

"But why would they appear here just at the right time?"

Harof and others were puzzled. Were these people mad, attempting to invade through the Dead Zone? Whose brilliant idea was this?

Lynn was somewhat amused and confused, seemingly having inadvertently eliminated an empire border legion without understanding why.

...

As Lynn and others were examining their 'battle results,' the impact of the hydrogen explosion was rapidly spreading throughout the empire.

The immense destructive power was felt even in the Holy City, hundreds of kilometers away, with slight vibrations.

Pope Alves, standing atop the Tower of the Heavens, stared at the sudden aurora erupting in the distance, his unease reaching its peak. After hesitating for a moment, he took out the communication crystal orb, preparing to contact Monroe in the City of Fire Oil again.

Although it was less than half a day since their last communication and the device hadn't fully charged, it could still make emergency contacts!

However, Alves waited for three minutes in place, receiving no response from the other end.

The faint glow of the crystal orb sank his thoughts into despair...

Just then, the door to the prayer room was suddenly opened, and an archbishop urgently reported, "Your Holiness, it's top-secret information from the City of Fire Oil!"

"Speak!" Alves, suppressing the anxiety in his heart, calmly said.

"Those wizards... the minions of the demonic gods have used the apocalypse magic again, just... just half an hour ago, many saw another sun rise in the sky." The archbishop said in terror.

Furthermore, dozens of cities in the western territories of the empire simultaneously felt the ground shake violently.

Alves's back was immediately soaked in cold sweat, urgently asking, "Tell me, where did those wizards release this magic?"

The archbishop cautiously replied, "It seems... it seems to be in the Dead Zone..."