Novel Full Chapter 460: Astonishing?
Chapter 460: Astonishing?
"Great Bone Wall," Razeal whispered.
The moment the words left his mouth, the earth far beyond the battlefield trembled.
At first it was subtle a low vibration rolling beneath the ruined plains. Then suddenly the ground split open across the horizon, long fractures tearing through the battlefield in a massive circular line stretching farther than the eye could properly follow.
And then
Something began rising.
A gigantic wall erupted upward from beneath the earth itself, not built stone by stone, but growing violently out of the land as though some buried skeleton beneath the world had awakened. Ash-white structures pushed upward in enormous layered ridges, thick as fortress towers, locking together while dirt and shattered rock cascaded down their sides.
Everyone atop the wall froze watching it.
The structure did not stop.
It kept rising higher and higher, spreading simultaneously in every visible direction. Kilometers away to the left. Kilometers away to the right. The line continued endlessly beneath the morning sky until it seemed impossible to determine where it truly ended.
For several moments it genuinely looked as though the entire kingdom itself was being surrounded.
The scale alone was difficult for the mind to grasp.
The wall rose with terrifying speed, shaking the plains beneath it while huge clouds of dust exploded outward from the earth below. By the time it finally slowed, the structure towered nearly four hundred feet into the air.
Almost the height of a small mountain.
And unlike ordinary fortress walls
This thing stood perfectly vertical.
Smooth.
Massive and Overwhelming.
Its surface was not stone.
Not metal.
Ash-white material stretched endlessly across its body, layered and ridged with unnatural density. Looking at it closely, everyone standing there slowly understood what it resembled.
As if bone?
The name suddenly made perfect sense.
Great Bone Wall.
Nobody spoke immediately afterward.
Even the soldiers stationed atop Silver Shield’s walls stared silently toward the impossible structure dominating the horizon.
The sheer amount of mana required to create something like this should have been absurd beyond comprehension.
Even basic earth manipulation at large scale demanded tremendous magical reserves. And that was before considering density, reinforcement, structural stability, wind resistance, impact resistance, and gravitational pressure from the structure’s own weight.
For something this enormous to stand without collapsing under itself
The material itself had to be monstrously dense.
Monstrously strong.
Sofia let out a low whistle as she looked across the newly formed barrier.
"Well..." she murmured. "That’s definitely one way to stop an army."
Lord Kael walked toward the very edge of the battlements, staring outward with visible excitement despite himself.
"This alone could hold back the golem forces for a very long time," he said honestly. "Even climbing over it would become a nightmare. Jumping across it? Impossible for most."
His voice carried something rare now.
Admiration.
Lord Kharvek slowly stepped closer as well, his eyes still fixed upon the gigantic wall stretching across the plains.
"Just how much mana would something like this even require?" he muttered quietly. Then his gaze shifted toward Razeal himself. "And somehow... I still cannot sense any mana from your body at all."
A faint shake of his head followed.
"The abilities you possess truly are strange, Lord Razeal."
Razeal slowly lifted his hand back from the ground and stood fully upright.
A faint smile appeared on his face as he looked toward the wall himself.
"You cannot sense it because I do not possess mana," he answered casually.
Several expressions stiffened again after hearing that.
No mana?
Yet he stood there shaping battlefields and constructing walls that rivaled mountains.
Razeal ignored their confusion completely.
Instead he simply continued staring at the structure stretching across the horizon beneath the growing dawnlight. Truthfully, even he felt impressed by it. This was the first time he had ever used his bone affinity on such a scale after fully obtaining it.
The structure looked magnificent.
Terrifying.
For a brief moment even he wondered just how durable the wall truly was.
But there would be time to test that soon enough.
Very soon.
"What do you mean... you don’t have mana, Lord Razeal?"
Lord Kael’s brows had drawn together deeply now. The confusion on his face mirrored the expressions of nearly everyone standing atop the wall. Even after everything they had witnessed tonight, that statement somehow unsettled them differently.
Because it should not have been possible.
Razeal looked toward him calmly.
"Well... not standard mana," he replied simply. "Not the kind all of you use."
The wind moved softly across the battlements while dawnlight slowly spread over the ruined battlefield beyond the Bone Wall.
"You could say," he continued, "I was born without mana aura... and without the world’s blessing and whatever that is."
Silence followed.
Then slowly, realization began appearing across several faces.
There had been heard about this before. And now at him pointing it out they suddenly remembered.
And at that realisation they went even more confused now..
Nyssa’s expression tightened slightly.
Lord Kharvek looked genuinely stunned now.
Then how was this possible?
"Then how do you possess such astonishing abilities, if I may ask?" Lord Kael questioned again, now even more confused than before.
Even Grace slowly blinked several times as though trying to process the contradiction standing before her.
Nancy stared openly at him.
She had not known this either.
And strangely enough, even Sofia seemed caught off guard by it now. Unlike the others, she had never grown up using mana systems herself. The ocean obeyed her naturally, so she had never truly understood how different Razeal’s existence actually was compared to ordinary people.
Only now did the implications begin settling into place for her.
Razeal looked around at the countless questioning eyes fixed on him. Some held disbelief, others curiosity, and a few something closer to unease.
"Nothing complicated," he said with a small shrug. "I simply found a different magic system in this world. One that, unfortunately, doesn’t naturally exist here." He paused briefly before continuing. "So I created a system suitable for myself."
He said it casually, as though he were discussing something ordinary.
But in truth, it was not a lie.
When he had been weak, his methods had been crude and inconvenient, relying on absorbing monster cores directly just to gather dark mana because none existed naturally within the atmosphere. But now things were different. After using that ultimate forbidden spell and reshaping everything from its foundation, he truly had created an entirely separate magical system within this world.
A long silence followed.
Not the silence of confusion alone, but the kind born when the mind struggled to even process what it had just heard.
They were powerful people. Experienced people. Yet none of them could fully grasp what such a statement truly implied.
"You mean..." Nancy spoke slowly, staring at him as though trying to determine whether he was serious or not. "You created your own magic system? Is that what you’re saying?"
"Well... yes." Razeal nodded and looked toward her directly. "What I used earlier was still magic. You simply cannot sense its fluctuations because it uses an entirely different type of mana." His gaze shifted briefly across the room. "In the same way, I cannot sense or even see normal mana either."
Again, silence.
This time heavier than before.
Because his words explained everything too clearly.
None of them had sensed mana when he acted earlier not even during something on that scale. At first they had assumed these are his mysterious means or something which was simply beyond their comprehension, but now they realized the truth was far more unsettling.
It was not hidden mana.
It was something entirely foreign.
Nancy’s lips parted slightly, though no words came out. Even she looked shaken now that the implications had fully sunk in.
At last, Lord Kharvek spoke, slower than usual, as though carefully choosing each word. "Then... does that mean the dark black substance you used... and the metal this wall is made from... those are your elements?" He hesitated briefly before adding, "If my guess is correct... my lord?"
The title came naturally to him this time.
Not "Lord Razeal" as he had used before out of courtesy between powerful men, but my lord—spoken with instinctive respect that surprised even Kharvek himself. The difference was subtle, yet everyone in the room heard it. Before this, he had acknowledged Razeal as strong, perhaps even stronger than himself, but still as something close to an equal. Now, after witnessing power that stood completely outside the laws they understood, that perception had shifted.
Kharvek no longer looked at him as merely another lord.
He looked at him as someone standing beyond them.
"Yes, you are correct," Razeal said calmly.
Then slowly, he raised one hand.
Darkness gathered above his palm almost immediately. A thin strand of shadow rose visibly from his skin before twisting upward like living ink. It moved unnaturally, swaying through the air like a small black tentacle made from liquid darkness, constantly shifting between smoke and substance. The thing almost looked alive.
"This," Razeal said while looking at the moving shadow above his hand, "is the shadow element."
Then he tilted his thumb behind himself toward the massive white structure stretching endlessly across the battlefield.
"And that wall behind me... that is the bone element."
The others instinctively turned to look again toward the gigantic Bone Wall dominating the horizon beneath the pale morning sky.
"All elements align differently with mana," Razeal continued. "The mana I use simply allows compatibility with different elemental systems than the ones this world naturally possesses."
Silence followed instantly afterward.
Not because they lacked questions.
But because every answer only seemed to create more.
Even Sofia looked genuinely surprised now. She herself knew almost nothing about conventional mana systems, but even she understood enough to realize how abnormal this sounded. New elements. A separate mana structure. Different compatibility entirely.
It was almost like hearing someone calmly explain the creation of magic itself.
Nancy blinked several times, her eyes moving repeatedly between the shadow moving above Razeal’s hand and the Bone Wall behind him.
Lord Kharvek stepped forward slightly first, unable to suppress the curiosity in his expression anymore.
"And how many elements exist within this... new system, my Lord?" he asked carefully.
There was unmistakable excitement in his voice now.
Honestly, for several brief moments, it almost felt as though everyone atop the wall had forgotten they stood in the middle of a war.
There was something strangely intoxicating about hearing entirely new knowledge. Especially knowledge that should not even exist.
Razeal noticed the shift immediately.
And truthfully
He enjoyed it a little.
"As far as I know," he answered casually, "There are thirteen elements in total."
Several visible reactions appeared instantly afterward.
Nyssa’s eyes narrowed sharply.
Nancy’s lips parted slightly.
Even Kael blinked once in disbelief.
"Thirteen..." Lord Kharvek repeated under his breath.
Then his gaze sharpened further.
"And how many can you personally use, my Lord?"
The question came immediately after.
Obviously. Because they had already witnessed at least two directly tonight.
Shadow.
And
Bone.
And before that
That strange crimson liquid which had healed the city itself.
As if blood?
Everyone standing there had already begun connecting the pieces themselves.
Razeal looked at them for a moment before finally answering.
"All thirteen.
This time the reaction was immediate.
Several sharp breaths escaped at once.
Even Sofia visibly raised her brows now.
She herself only possessed one elemental affinity.
Water.
And Razeal stood there calmly claiming ownership over thirteen entirely unknown elemental affinities.
Honestly
Even he himself felt slightly amused saying it aloud.
It almost felt like bragging.
But seeing the expressions spreading across all their faces made him strangely satisfied.
"What monstrous talent..." Lord Kael muttered honestly before slowly shaking his head. "I do not remember a single existence in history naturally capable of holding affinity toward every element."
His eyes remained fixed upon Razeal now.
"Even gods themselves..."
He stopped there before finishing the sentence.
Obviously, he did not mention the Imperial Family for obvious reasons.
Afterall.. That was different entirely.
The Imperial Bloodline possessed compatibility with all standard elements due to thee special bloodline methods itself, not because of natural talent.
But this
This was something completely different.
The others remained equally stunned.
Because everyone standing there understood exactly what elemental affinities meant in battle.
One affinity alone already determined entire lifetimes.
Two elements made someone rare enough to become famous.
Three made kingdoms fight to claim them.
Four
People would call such a child heaven-blessed.
And if all affinities were properly mastered?
Then even opponents of equal rank would struggle desperately against such overwhelming versatility.
Yet now
Someone stood before them claiming thirteen.
A number none of them had ever even heard seriously spoken before.
Nancy looked genuinely shaken now.
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