Chapter 1463 - 1425: Explosion

At that moment, it seemed as if the air and space above Sandy Island suddenly froze!

A massive energy, palpable without even needing to observe, suddenly surged from the top of Tor Laura!

This was not the appearance of energy originally present in the tower being activated.

The high tower, standing since the Elf Era and then abandoned, no longer contained high-energy sources. Otherwise, Airetusa would have initiated research long ago.

——This was the force bursting out from the chaotic and disorderly portal, from the disturbance in space!

But this was clearly abnormal!

Even if a wizard were to cast a portal closely by this tower, at most they’d banish themselves into twisted space to be shredded into pieces, or appear fragmented across the world.

The portal created by Elf Sages in Tor Laura, now chaotic and disordered, wasn’t easily triggered into explosion!

Otherwise, throughout history, many warlocks who came to Sandy Island to study this portal, surely one or two with uncontrollable curiosity would have succeeded in their reckless pursuit.

But only today!

Only today, when Ciri ran up this tower with no other exit in a panic to escape pursuit and capture!

The top of Tor Laura, eroded by sea winds and time, was already crumbling, pitted, and fragile.

Yet at this moment, the energy thrusted from spatial disturbance almost caused every stone there to heat up due to the high concentration of energy influx, glowing brightly!

First, a dark red light, followed by rapid escalation of energy, with the spectrum changing swiftly!

Dark red turned to bright red, fiery red, brilliant red! Finally reaching a dazzling pure white!

After reaching the utmost brightness, the extreme light nearly made Sandy Island, cloaked in morning light, appear dark by contrast!

Centrally at the tower’s apex where the portal was located, a vast and chaotic energy exploded out!

The erupting power resulted in a massive explosion!

People in Gos Velen even thought two suns appeared today!

The clouds above Sandy Island were blown apart!

A large hole exploded in the expansive fish-scale clouds at the sea’s edge!

The explosion occurred extremely quickly and suddenly.

Lann had not noticed any signs beforehand.

Only when the phenomenon of rapid energy escalation began suddenly at the tower’s apex did his body tense up like bristled fur!

The entire high tower collapsed from top to bottom, with the apex instantly melting and vaporizing.

The shockwaves heated and expanded the air, rapidly diffusing outward.

Mid-air, yet to hit the ground, Viggo Fortez’s body, sliced into two parts, crackled with the sound of proteins being scorched.

But Lann no longer had the time to care for him!

Scorching shockwaves surged from behind! Not even Lann’s body weight and Smaug’s mass could keep him standing!

In an instant, his robust body was directly flung, pushed out towards beyond the Seagull Tower.

The rocky platform where the tower stood trembled, and Gastang Palace’s nearby tower tilted and crashed into the sea!

Lann’s body, with the fierce sound of the wind, was propelled out of the tower.

The high-temperature shockwaves didn’t significantly harm him.

His armor was robust enough to withstand the high temperatures from the Flame King Dragon and Flame Princess Dragon’s domains.

The tower was built at the highest point on Sandy Island, increasing altitude difference as he flew outwards.

Finally, with a dull "thud" sound!

Lann slammed into the densely packed gardens of Sandy Island.

His armor, along with enhanced muscles, bones, and internal cable lines, layered and diminished the enormous impact force.

Decorative stone carvings, soft soil, exposed reefs... were shattered and flung by this solid body and armor in bursts of dull noise!

The sound of crumbling stones echoed unceasingly.

But from the instant Lann fell from mid-air to touch the ground, he began adjusting his center of gravity and posture.

He landed on his back first, and the fierce Smaug crushed the landing rock into pieces.

Continuing to shoot forward due to inertia, yet Lann’s body had already adjusted its posture.

His feet started contacting the ground, suddenly tensing!

The strength of muscles, bones, and tendon coils began pushing back the inertia forcefully, using the ground as a fulcrum!

The ground beneath Smaug’s boots shattered completely, leaving two ghastly, ugly cracks in its wake.

A hand armor also gripped onto the ground, its sharp claws clutching tightly.

Finally, with a ’Kara La’ sound of cracking reefs, the inertia on Lann’s body was completely dissipated, finally bringing him to a halt.

"Pah."

Tilting his head, he spat out a mouthful of blood. Lann calmly wiped the corner of his mouth, but by the time the blood was wiped onto the hand armor, it had already become a semi-solid, approaching coagulation.

And the internal organs that had suffered the fall impact no longer had any symptoms of bleeding.

The Lariman organ implanted into his body was taking effect, secreting a highly efficient coagulating substance to seal the wounds and prevent massive blood loss.

After sealing, the superorgan responsible for healing and recuperation could then begin to play a more efficient role.

Coupled with the Light Body Breathing Technique and his own physical fitness, a height that would have blown an ordinary person away and killed them a dozen times over was, for Lann, just enough to make him tilt his head and spit out a mouthful of blood.

And after confirming that his internal organs were not bleeding, Lann reactivated in an instant!

His heavy footsteps ground the rubble into finer dust!

The ’thud thud’ sound was like an infantry fighting vehicle sprinting!

However, the agility in turning and reacting, under the blessing of the Acceleration Technique and the Light Body Breathing Technique, exceeded several levels!

Having just been swept out of the range of the tower by the shockwave, flown far, then fallen to the ground.

But in the blink of an eye, Lann, who had just regained his footing, had almost instantly re-adjusted his body, which had just experienced a fall, into high-speed movement.

Using a grappling hook and his skills, he rapidly traversed height differences and complex terrain.

The Tor Laura High Tower itself was still collapsing under the shockwaves from the tower tip, with large chunks of rock still breaking away from the structure and crumbling.

Yet Lann, almost right after the shockwave passed, immediately started approaching again!

At the entrance of the tower where he was blown away just now, at the bottom of the uphill stairs leading into the main door, Lann picked up the still-unconscious Geralt and began retreating into the distance.

Because of the height difference on the slope, the shockwave that could have blown Lann away directly did not cause further harm to Geralt at the base of the incline.

Only if he didn’t leave now, this collapsing tower would definitely crush him to death!

Lann dragged his old friend away and had already stuffed the small Shield Emblem embedded with the Early Recovery Guard Stone into Geralt’s collar.

But the young Demon Hunter frowned, and in that instant, slightly glanced upwards from the base of the slope.

He didn’t see Viggo Fortez’s body.

Although logically, he should have been unevenly split into two vertical halves by the Demon Wolf’s Fang from the shoulder.

Such pain and injury should prevent any warlock from maintaining enough rationality and calmness to cast spells in such a state.

The chaotic teleportation gate of Tor Laura was detonated, and now a teleportation gate could be opened here.

But opening a teleportation gate is in itself a sophisticated magical technique.

Attempting to cast such high-level magic while injured is even more difficult and dangerous.

The mages on Sodden Mountain at the time were only being dragged by the battlefield, tense and moving around, but not even physically injured, yet no one dared to open a teleportation gate anymore.

Could Viggo Fortez already be dead?

Lann didn’t see his body.

After all, it’s too chaotic now, with debris flying and collapsing everywhere after the shockwave swept through, the entire tower collapsing.

Even with Lann’s extraordinary observation skills and the extreme calculation support of Mentos.

Still, the angles and obstacles obscured the view, and what couldn’t be seen in full cannot be seen in full.

No time to linger further or confirm again, Lann already heard the sound of stone pillars cracking and collapsing on the main structure of the tower.

Carrying Geralt, he quickly retreated into the distance.

The massive tower from the Elf Era still had rubble falling randomly, making crashing and crumbling noises.

Sometimes the giant slabs falling between floors would reach a balance, stalling the collapse for a little while, but the incorrect posture of the building materials clearly couldn’t bear more weight.

So the balance and halt from mechanics could only be sustained for a short while, followed by more significant collapses until finally, the entire cylindrical tower caved inwards and collapsed.

Until it was only one-third of its original height, the collapse process finally stopped.

And by this moment, what was originally a secret internal seizure and purge of traitors, known only within a small range, had completely alarmed all the people in the entire city of Gos Velen!

These were the people who, just last evening, were hoping for the warlocks’ gathering to bring more, greater consumption, and their meetings would be a soothing remedy for the increasingly difficult year.

Yet on that shimmering sea, on the beautiful and luxurious Sandy Island, the two conspicuous towers there both exploded! Collapsed!