I Created Scientific Magic

From smelting bronze to forging steel, and then on to developing gunpowder, humanity's technological level continuously advanced, "conquering" the land, sky, and sea...

Yet even the roaring cannons, in the face of true Heavenly Disasters like earthquakes, meteor strikes, and volcanic eruptions, still seemed utterly insignificant!

It was not until the twentieth century that humanity made a new breakthrough in the microscopic realm and delved deep into the study of atoms. With the Mass-Energy Equation as the core theory, they developed the atomic bomb, giving humanity for the first time the power to rival a Heavenly Disaster!

Now, this power was truly presented before everyone for the first time!

An indescribable force burst forth from within the silvery-white sphere.

Lucia felt only a soul-piercing terror before plunging into darkness...

This was not the darkness created by the nuclear explosion.

In fact, the light it emitted was at its extreme, hundreds of times brighter than the sun above!

And because of this, Lucia's eyes were blinded instantly, her eardrums burst directly, and she found herself in a state of sensory imbalance. Even her usually extremely acute Divine Arts perception was useless, for all she could sense now were endless light and heat!

At the epicenter of the explosion, where temperatures reached tens of millions of degrees and pressures were in the trillions of Pascals, space and time seemed to lose their meaning in this instant. Neither Lynn's Magic Projection nor that colossal steel war machine could withstand such power; they vaporized in an instant!

Lucia, who was just a few meters from the center of the blast, was no exception. Her protective barrier constructed around her didn't hold out for even 0.001 seconds before vaporizing, followed by her body, guarded under Divine protection!

First, her hands, legs, and skin, those outer limbs exposed to the elements, dissolved, then her bones, internal organs, and blood, until her entire body was completely evaporated by the extreme heat.

What kind of power was this?

Lucia still had a sliver of consciousness. She did not understand why Lynn, who was only a projected incarnation piloting a new type of war machine, could use such terrifying magic.

Seventh ring? Eighth ring, or even ninth ring? Lucia, in the midst of it all, couldn't care less to assess the power of this spell anymore because, after her body was destroyed, her very source, her soul, was exposed in this scorching furnace!

For the first time in hundreds of years, she felt a threat to her soul on a spiritual level!

A massive number of sturdy and dangerous neutrons wreaked havoc on a microscopic level, accompanied by various terrifying radiation emissions.

Although the nuclear blast itself had no soul-targeting effects, Spiritual Energy was also a form of energy, and matter and energy were one and the same.

Since it interfered with matter, it could, conversely, be affected by the material world!

In the absence of the protection of the flesh, even souls that had stepped into the realm of legends began to disintegrate under such a force.

The agony of the soul being torn apart was unimaginable, a thousand times more painful than being gnawed upon by countless venomous ants.

It seemed she had no choice but to completely abandon this avatar and part of her source energy...

Lucia steeled her heart and transmitted the most crucial part of her memory back to her true body through the soul entanglement effect. The next moment, her soul was thoroughly extinguished in the tens of millions of degrees of high temperature, and the projection of the Divine Kingdom that covered the external world also collapsed thunderously!

From the moment of the nuclear explosion to the obliteration of Lucia's soul, everything happened in an instant. After the domain of the Divine Kingdom disappeared, the shockwaves carrying high temperatures, flames, and radiation surged in all directions!

The already hollowed-out mountain body exploded violently; countless boulders were enveloped in high temperatures even before they fell and turned into scorching lava...

"Prepare your defenses, and don't open your eyes!" Lynn, who had jumped down the mine ahead of time, shouted a reminder.

Harrov and Aurora heard and kept their eyes firmly shut, setting up protective barriers around themselves with the little Magic Power they had left.

Only the curious Vittorio cracked open his eyelids slightly, squinting to take a peek, and then under the terror of the intense light, grotesque tears of blood streamed from his eyes!

But before losing his vision, Vittorio clearly saw the superheated energy wave moving at several times the speed of sound catching up to them!

Luckily, the Divine Domain projection and the hollowed-out mountain bought them enough time; before the full force of the nuclear blast's shockwave hit, they all crashed into the deep river together!

The next moment, the high-temperature energy wave swept over the surface of the river, raising towering giant waves, instantly evaporating tens of thousands of tons of seawater. The turbid waves churned and roiled, and the shockwave soon began to propagate along with the river water, causing fish and shrimp inside to be shattered to death, and soon numerous floating corpses dotted the river surface...

Fortunately, such residual effects of the blast were still barely manageable for a legendary Wizard!

That was also the reason why Lynn had specifically chosen this place as the battlefield!

...

Meanwhile, several kilometers away in a dense forest, Ragnar was leading the Church's punitive force in a rapid charge.

To catch up and provide support to Her Holiness the Holy Maiden, this punitive force had pushed their marching speed to the limit. However, due to the night march and racing along the way, thousands of imperial soldiers had been left behind as a result.

But Ragnar clearly couldn't worry about them anymore; after all, he had seen the situation in the sky clearly before. Lucia, who had been riding the griffin, had shot down the flying machines of those Wizards but was also hit by a laser beam, plunging into a very dangerous situation.

"There's no need to worry, Lord Ragnar. Her Holiness the Holy Maiden has received divine revelation, and she will surely defeat the minions of the evil demons and achieve the ultimate victory!" The red-robed bishop beside him made a prayer gesture and said with conviction.