Wizard: Stronger through Marriage

Chapter 1206: Chapter 558: The Corrosion Codex Emerges (Part 2)

His gaze swept across the crowd, revealing a trace of frenzy and rebellion: ”You... dare to pry into my secrets? Pathetic... Silver Moon Kingdom Bishop? Already defected... I am the Soul-Consuming Apostle of the Shadow Council, and you Star Pupil Race are nothing but stepping stones on my path to revenge!”

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly waved his hand to release a powerful mental shockwave to attack the enemy formation, while guiding abyssal dark energy with his magic staff towards David in a fierce assault.

But Liya was fearless, as she intercepted steadily and retaliated with a strike full of pure blessing energy, causing him to tremble violently and stagger back several steps in pain.

Zelros shouted, ”Watch me!” With the sharp sound of a blade slicing through the air, he delivered a sweeping strike towards the Bishop, buying precious time for his companions to counteract the enemy’s mental suppression!

Amy seized the opportunity to cast healing magic, treating the wounded while strengthening everyone’s mental barrier to mitigate the interference from the illusion realm.

Reina silently adjusted the array parameters to make the barrier more solid and resilient, in order to withstand more potential hidden threats...

The scenes unfolded like an epic: the snowflakes drifted sparsely over the wilderness, yet their firm faith and cooperative coordination sparked a glimmer of hope;

In the distance, the sky lit up with a red glow, dyeing the far northern night sky with a strange and magnificent vista;

Each face was filled with resilience, determination, and an unquenchable belief in victory...

After a long and arduous battle, the defected Bishop, driven to the edge of the cliff, finally lost his last bit of sanity, launching a destructive attack in an attempt to stage a comeback.

However, under the combined efforts of everyone, he was eventually sealed within golden ropes, helplessly kneeling in the dusty snow, unwilling yet unable to escape the reality of defeat...

With the crisis resolved, the piercing chill wind gradually mellowed, and a sliver of morning twilight pierced through the clouds, falling upon the faces of people whose souls were weary but whose wills were resolute.

The air was filled with a suffocating sense of pressure, as the space inside the abyssal rift twisted like a swirling vortex, as if time and reality were mercilessly pulled and torn apart here.

David, along with Reina, Amy, Zelros, and Liliana, slowly stepped into this eerie otherworld full of coldness and mystery.

The ground beneath their feet was shattered and slippery obsidian, emitting a faint blue-purple light.

The surrounding walls squirmed and extended like living creatures, seemingly woven from shadows and corrosive energy.

Occasionally, fine dust would slide down from the ceiling, each fall triggering a low echo, as if the abyss was softly whispering ancient secrets.

Reina frowned tightly, the screen of the resonance instrument in her hand flickering with complex waveforms, among which distorted signals that were hard to decipher intermingled.

”These rune ripples... are continuously absorbing chaos energy and converting it into a more pure and dangerous abyssal energy,” she explained softly, ”We must find the source quickly, otherwise the risk is incalculable.”

Everyone nodded silently, their eyes solemn and determined.

David gripped the rune engravings on his bone armor, the gray-white blemishes wriggling slightly, as if perceiving a hint of a call from the unknown power ahead.

He took steps more firmly, each step leaving a shimmering trace on the cold stone surface.

Finally, after traversing a narrow, corruption-patterned corridor, a grand yet mysterious altar gradually appeared before them.

It stood at the center of a platform as smooth as obsidian, about several fathoms high, pieced together by countless bony structures, its surface engraved with dense complex runes, these runes seemed to flow with vivid life essence, forming a stark contrast with the surrounding dim shadows.

Suspended in the center of the altar was a massive bone-plated book, its bone cover inlaid with a chaos core fragment emitting a ghostly blue chaotic aura.

This ”Abyssal Erosion Scripture” seemed like a peerless forbidden tome, silently emitting a faint pressure, the terror sealed within the chaos core fragment indescribable, making one fear it yet unable to avert their gaze from its mysteries.

David stepped forward slowly, the cold flame in his vertical pupils reflecting the engravings on the surface of the scripture, each line flowing with strange totems that seemed to record the methods and formulas for converting chaos energy into abyssal dark spiritual power.

An ancient and extremely dangerous knowledge was dormant within, just waiting to be unlocked, and this could very well be the crucial source of the enemy’s plan to subvert world order.

Amy gently ran her fingers along the edge of the scripture, her brows furrowed as she cautiously perceived the erosion brought by the chaotic resonance.

This power was not purely evil, but seemed to be fused with incomprehensible and extremely complex rules, giving her the intuition that if touched recklessly, it would likely trigger a cataclysmic chain reaction.

”Is this... the immortal truth they seek?” Reina whispered, trembling, ”Using this scripture, they could refine the disordered chaos into tangible entities, and thus manipulate souls and space...”

Zelros’s gaze was stern, his grip on the sword firm: ”If left unchecked, it would bring irreparable catastrophe, we must completely destroy or seal everything here.”

Liliana took out the ancient relic of the Star Pupil Race—an ice mirror shield from her arms, she approached the altar slowly, using the ice crystals to reflect over the scripture, hoping to temporarily isolate the dark magic accumulating within.

”The ice mirror shield may be able to temporarily curb its release of negative energy, but the time is very short, we must seize every minute.”

Everyone worked together seamlessly, maximizing their abilities to maintain the rare stable situation in this small space.

The cold wind blew through the crevices, sweeping between the bone altar and the floating scripture, slicing through the stillness like a blade, yet bringing a rush of sharp sobriety.

David closed his eyes and held his breath, attempting to channel his own bloodline resonance technique, injecting the interwoven dual-pole forces of flame and frost within him into the bone armor, causing it to emit a faint blue glow, resonating with the suspended core.

He knew, this was also the only method to analyze and interfere with the operation path of this forbidden book, but the cost was undoubtedly enormous—each fluctuation would tear apart his fragile mental defenses within, making the pain almost unbearable.

Time seemed to freeze, all sounds disappeared, leaving only the intertwined vibrations of heartbeat and soul rhythm, like the weakest yet most truthful rhythm during the cosmic stars’ operation.

In that blank silence, they could almost hear the ancient devouring decree of the ”Abyssal Erosion” quietly ringing, making one’s hair stand on end!

Suddenly, a pale ghostly blue beam erupted from the center of the scripture, piercing the dark void and stabbing straight into the sky.

A strong attraction swept around every corner of the walls, causing dust and snowflakes to swirl upwards, and several bone tendrils stealthily stretched out intending to entangle everyone!

David suddenly opened his eyes, his vertical pupils flashing with icy fierceness, he shouted: ”Everyone hold steady! Don’t be deceived by the illusions!”

Zelros swung his sword to sever the floating tendrils, while applying pressure on the surrounding formations to block the invasion paths;

Amy swiftly conjured a soul cleansing shield, erecting a resilient mental protection for all;

Reina concentrated her mind to adjust the instrument parameters to suppress the abnormal band signals;

Liliana spared no physical strength to reinforce the barrier, using the ice mirror shield to fend off the negative effects caused by the core’s remnant spread...

After a brief stabilization, they meticulously inspected the outer edges of the altar, missing no suspicious detail: the intricate arrangement of inscriptions, hidden mechanisms, and those small passage openings leading to unknown areas, all were methodically marked, archived, and analyzed in preparation for future exploration.

They also remained alert to changes in the surrounding environment, ready to respond together immediately if any anomalies appeared...

As the investigation deepened, the secrets within the ”Abyssal Erosion Scripture” gradually emerged: those intricate and complex runes not only documented the refining process, but also detailed how to convert soul elements to enhance one’s wild magic nature, and how to use a ”Blood Contract” to bind demons from other realms as auxiliary combat power, among other horrifying truths—all of which were enough to destroy the very foundation of civilization!

The air grew increasingly heavy, each breath felt like ingesting a sharp dagger, yet the determination on their faces became more resolute, showing no signs of retreat.

In this world’s most cold and desolate forbidden ground, their hearts held not just the mission, but also the undying oath of safeguarding their race and the last hope for the entire world!