Chapter 63: Complete Ban on Spells

Charlotte City.
"What exactly happened? Could such a massive gathering of magical power be..."
John, an old member of the Frost Mercenary Corps, was in the conference room with a group of young mercenaries, organizing documents. Suddenly, he stood up and walked to the window, stepping on the windowsill and flying into the air.
"...I haven't seen the Forbidden Spell for decades. But this time, why is it not attacking the magical defense barrier inside the city, but moving towards the outside? Could there be something going on..."
Mr. Johnson looked puzzled as he watched the thunderclouds moving to the left towards Charlotte City.
"Stay at home. I want to go there and check. Remember, it's best not to go out if there's no need," he said.
Mr. Johnson suddenly felt another surge of immense magic appear under the enchantment. Unable to contain himself any longer, he ordered the little mercenary who had chased after him to immediately return to the headquarters before flying towards the outskirts of the city.
"Could it be the boss who cast the spell? I have to go over there." Sitting in the magic tower, controlling the magic defense barrier, Alex felt the immense magic power outside the city and stood up. "Seir, I'll leave this place to you. I'm afraid something might happen to the boss. I need to go out and take a look."
"Leave early and return early."
Seeing Alina's anxious expression, Doro nodded and slowly injected the energy from the small piece of magic crystal into the large piece of magic crystal in the middle.
"As long as the boss is fine, I'll come back."
"Alex nodded at the top of the tower and flew towards the direction where the enormous magic was gathering."
"This...this...come down quickly! Don't fly in the air anymore! Come down quickly!"
Moose, accompanied by two winged mercenaries, had just flown out of the magical barrier of Charlotte City when he was caught in the air by the airflow generated by the magic outside the barrier. It took him a lot of effort to stabilize himself in the air, only to see an even stronger magical airflow blowing from a distance, which scared him into landing quickly.
The forbidden spell 'Ancient Storm' of the previous seven nights was finally completed under the mountain range on the left side of the outskirts of Charlotte City.
In addition to the clouds concentrated in the 'Star Thunder Settlement' in the sky, the previously casted dark sky of the previous seven nights was blown away by the wind generated by the Seven Nights Frequency Magic Shield and Magic Defense Barrier of the 'Star Thunder Settlement', allowing the sunlight to appear on the ground once again.
After a flash in the sky, the massive six-star magic circle in which the Seventh Night was located disappeared, only to reappear on the ground with countless whirlwinds. These small whirlwinds merged together and grew larger and larger, eventually combining into a towering tornado. The corpses, weapons, grass, stones, and mud on the ground were all swept into the tornado. Anything caught in it would be crushed into powder within the vortex not long after.
"Go and definitely break their forbidden curse!"
Qiyue used frequency magic shields in the air to resist the powerful wind elemental in an effort to stabilize herself in the air. She watched as the tornado formed by her 'ancient storm' moved towards the 'star thunder settlement' in the thunderclouds above.
"Don't!"
Just flew out of the city of Aishelotte, old Johnson happened to see the "ancient storm" approaching the "StarThunder settlement".
"Old Johnson! What's wrong?"
Arriving outside the city before old Johnson, Ali Li, who saw the prohibition spell of Seven Nights and the prohibition spell of the Magician Legion, turned back and asked in confusion when he heard old Johnson's call.
"Absolutely cannot let those two forbidden curses collide! Otherwise..."
Old Johnson anxiously tried to fly through the magical defense barrier but was pulled back by Alexander.
"It's too dangerous over there. I tried to fly out earlier, and the strong wind almost blew me away."
Alex used his trained strong arm to pull Old Johnson back.
"You said it is absolutely forbidden to have a collision between two forbidden spells? Otherwise, what will happen?"
Alex looked at Old Johnson's anxious and uneasy expression, asking him.
"If two forbidden spells collide, the power and destructive force will increase more than five times compared to a single forbidden spell."
"It's not possible. I have seen the boss and Miss Tsukihime engage in a magic battle in the academy before. They also used forbidden spells to fight each other, but it wasn't as terrifying as you mentioned."
Hearing Mr. Johnson's words, Alex couldn't help but giggle. The forbidden curse duel between St. Night Academy and Miss Tsukihime only ended up smashing quite a few windows in the academy, which wasn't necessarily dangerous.
"Once upon a time, they were cast by a single person, right? The current forbidden spells are supposed to be cast by the magical legion of the Allied Forces. They are significantly stronger than the spells used by an individual, by many times. Moreover, even though the lord of the city's forbidden spell is slightly stronger than the opponent's, their collision would result in a massive explosion. I'm afraid no one within a ten-mile radius can survive."
"Is this true? How do you know?"
"When Alec overheard Mr. Johnson's words, he felt a cold sweat on his forehead but still found it hard to believe."
"Sigh! Seventy years ago, during the Forbidden Spell War between the Alliance Mage Corps inside Charlotte City and the Magician Corps of the Meiguo Kingdom outside the city, Charlotte City, despite having a magic defense barrier, was almost destroyed by a massive explosion caused by the collision of forbidden spells. At that time, it was me and all the mages in the city who set up the magic defense barrier to escape that disaster."
Mr. Johnson looked at the distant "Star Thunder Settlement" and "Ancient Storm" and sighed.
"This is not good. I must immediately inform the boss and definitely cannot..."
Alex opened a magic shield and wanted to fly over to stop Seven Nights, but was pulled back by Mr. Johnson.
"It's too late now, even if the city lord changes the direction of the forbidden curse, it won't make any difference. If you rush over now, it will only be a futile attempt at suicide."
"But the boss, he is right next to the forbidden curse. If something happens at that time..."
Alex felt the urge to shake off old Johnson's grasp but didn't know what he should do.
"I experienced the city lord's magic once when I was locked in the city's prison. Considering the explosion caused by the collision of his magic banishment, it's likely that something is wrong, and it must be Charlotte City."
"Charlotte City?"
Upon hearing this, Alex stared at Old Johnson, not understanding what he meant.
"The previous magic defense barrier of Charlotte City was broken by the lord once. Although you have repaired it now, it is not as good as before. It is fortunate that the large magic crystal is not broken, right?"
"How do you know?"
Yale Langlang looked at Old Johnson and was certain that besides himself and Dorcel, only Seven Nights had been up in the Magic Tower. Because it was a military restricted area, there were dozens of protective magic on the tower. They also had to use the magic crystal verified by the previous keeper to enter. After entering, Dorcel always stayed there to do routine maintenance work.
"I was the one who escorted the magic crystal back then, how could I not know about it? Now, relying on that broken crystal alone is not enough to handle the prohibition collision outside the city."
"What should we do then? It's not possible to gather all the magicians in the city now..."

Alex looked at Mr. Johnson in confusion.
"There's no time to escape now. Are you willing to fight for Charlotte City?"
What?
Alex was puzzled and did not understand the meaning behind Mr. Johnson's words.

"If you run back to town now to find the wizard to create a protective barrier, you'll probably be safe. But if you take a chance here, you may end up with nothing but a pile of bones." Old Johnson looked at Alex and said, "You only have one minute to decide. If you haven't made up your mind after one minute, we'll be waiting here for our demise."
"My boss is over there, do you think I would run away?"
"Without hesitation, Alex pointed to the sky in the distance where the two forbidden spells were about to collide and said,"
"Alright then. Now I will use a forbidden spell to disperse the explosion generated by the collision of the two forbidden spells. You go outside and set up a barrier for me. Later, I will absorb all of your magical power."
"What? You use forbidden curses? Forbidden curses seem difficult to master and only those who reach the level of a wizard can..."
Looking up and down at Old Johnson, Alex began to doubt whether he had been confused by those two forbidden curses.
"Magician? I became a magician thirty years ago. Stop talking and quickly go out to set up a defensive barrier."
Seeing Alexander's incredulous expression, Old Johnson couldn't help but push him out of the magical defense shield of Charlotte City.
"Ah - you wait a moment too!"
"Just as he was pushed out, Al lost control in the strong winds outside the magic defense barrier and was scared into flying back in."
“If you keep waiting, there will be no need to do anything, didn't you see it?"
Mr. Johnson suddenly looked at Alex seriously and said,
"Alright, wait here. I will finish it immediately."
Alex nodded as he watched meteors and lightning in the distance being deviated from their original landing points by the mighty power of the "Ancient Storm." After they landed on the ground, he walked out of the magic defense shield and crouched on the ground to draw a magic circle.
As Alec saw Alec gradually taking action, Old Johnson also pulled out his wand.
Alec quickly drew a magic circle and immediately unfolded the magic defense barrier, and Old Johnson swiftly entered Alec's magic defense barrier. He then signaled Alec to gather his magic power and prepare to cast a curse for him.
"Great Lightbringer..."
"Radiant light that shines everywhere..."
"Grant me the power to match any foe..."
"-- Holy Light reflection!"
In the enchanting voice of Old Johnson, the gathered magical power in Alexa dissipated completely, and a gigantic translucent shield resembling a white mirror suddenly appeared in front of the magical defense barrier of Charlotte City.
"No, this won't stop me at all. I said I need all of your magical power, not just a little bit."
Suddenly, Mr. Johnson shouted loudly at Alex behind him.
"Okay, if you want it all, then you shall have it all!"
Alex lifted his wand high and gathered all the magic inside him onto the wand before transferring it to Old Johnson.
"Now that's more like it!"
Old Johnson received the magic transmitted by Alex and once again lifted his wand, infusing all the magical power into the completed curse.
The originally transparent light shield started to emit a white light under the full-force magic of Old Johnson and Alexa. In the end, the light shield was flickering with a white light, illuminating the sky of Charlotte City. At this moment when the "Holy Light Reflection" was completed, even the sunlight in the sky couldn't match its brilliance. However, it gave people a feeling of warmth. But the two of them fell to the ground because they had exhausted all their magical powers.
"Mr. Johnson! Alex! What happened to you? Is this thing your doing?"
Mums, drawn by the 'reflection of holy light', quickly spotted Mr. Johnson and Alex lying on the ground behind the light shield and flew down in a hurry.
"... It's okay, just take us back to the city quickly."
Old Johnson opened his eyes and looked at Mims, who was flying down.
"You two, carry him and fly back to the city quickly."
The two winged mercenaries that followed Mace were instructed to bring Alex back to the city. Mace lifted old Johnson into the air with both hands.
"Old Johnson, it's rare for me to carry a man, so you better remember to compensate me well in the future."
Flying in mid-air, Alexander looked at the now recovered Old Johnson and jokingly said, "
Do you remember who saved you last time when Aphrodite was chasing after us? I had to put in a lot of effort to make sure she didn't find out about what you were doing in the girls' bathhouse in our group."
Mr. Johnson smirked and threatened Williams.
"I surrender, I surrender. Why are you still holding on to that kind of thing... Oh yeah, did you and Alex make that light shield?"
"Well, I hope it can withstand it."
"Withstand what?"
Ms. Smith asked in confusion.
"Of course, it's the explosion caused by those two forbidden spells outside the city."
"You mean the thundercloud and tornado?"
“如果没有魔法防御罩那二样中的任意一样都可以把艾夏洛特城变成废墟。”
“那现在呢？城中不是有魔法防御罩你还做个什么大盾牌放在前面做什么？”
"The immense power generated by the collision of those two forbidden spells is not something that the current magical defense barrier in the city can withstand. I don't know if what I did has made any difference..."
Mr. Johnson shook his head.
"The forbidden spells outside the city are so powerful? Isn't the magic defense barrier in the city supposed to be able to withstand three or four forbidden spells without any problem?"
Ms. sighed with disbelief and looked back at the two forbidden spells about to collide behind the white shield of light.
"Wasn't it broken by Qiyue last time? Although the magic defense barrier has been repaired, it can be easily shattered by a single forbidden spell."
Mr. Johnson shook his head.
"What should we do then? There are so many people in the city, what if they are affected..."
"You don't have to worry too much. Al and I have used 'Holy Light Rebound' to block the city's magic defense barrier. Although its power is not as strong as those two forbidden spells, its defense is its strong suit."
Mr. Johnson turned around and looked at the flickering white light of "Holy Light Rebound" with a helpless smile. Although "Holy Light Rebound" is a forbidden defensive magic of the Light element, it is uncertain whether it can withstand the power of two forbidden spell explosions. Now, he can only wait and see how things unfold later.
"What are Mr. Johnson and Alexander doing with the Light Shield? Could it be..."
As the two completely forbidden spells got closer and closer to each other, sparks started to fly. Suddenly, Yoru had a sense of impending doom. Then, he saw a light shield appearing in front of the city of Charlotte in the distance.
Seven Night suddenly remembered that although he had used many forbidden spells before, he had only truly fought against a forbidden spell once, which was resolved with Miss Tis's help at the Holy Night Academy. Therefore, he did not know what would happen when forbidden spells clashed. Seeing Mr. Johnston and Alec breaking through the magical defense shield around the city and creating a light shield in front of the city, there must be a reason behind it. He did not believe that they would do something pointless and create a light shield.
While the situation was not looking good for Qiye, "Star Thunder Settlement" finally clashed with "Ancient Storm".
The violent thunder power collided with the directionless wind power, instantly creating a powerful force that Qiye couldn't react to in time and was sent flying.
"Not good!"
When Qiyue stabilized his figure again, he was already more than ten miles away from the collision point of the forbidden spells. Underneath the two forbidden spells, the ground had already been stirred up by the tornado, and some shallowly buried undead soldiers had been engulfed by the tornado.
"What should I do... What should I do... What should I do..."
Qiyue anxiously looked at 'Ancient Storm' and 'Star Thunder Tribe'. He never expected that with his powerful magic and the frequent use of the Magic Shield, he would be thrown away for more than ten miles in an instant. If the two forbidden spells collided a bit later, the resulting force would definitely blast a huge hole in the ground, and the undead army below would certainly be annihilated."
'Ancient Storm' and 'Star Thunder Enclave' continue to collide in the air, and the huge thunderstones are scattered by the strong winds, causing the mountains on both sides of the Charlotte City to collapse and crack. Many peaks are instantly shaved off by these random thunderstones. Many wild animals on the mountain are also injured or killed. Although they are not directly hit, the powerful lightning in the thunderstones instantly turns them into black charred objects.
With a huge thunderstone at the center of the collision of two forbidden curses, countless unaware soldiers and mages of the coalition army were instantly vaporized, leaving only a pile of charred black bones. The ground on the entire battlefield was filled with potholes and craters caused by the thunderstones, except for the relatively better situation on the side of the city of Ashalotte, where a "holy light rebound" protected them. All the thunderstones that flew towards them were rebounded in the opposite direction by the light shield formed by the "holy light rebound".
"That's right, defense defense... yes, that's it!"
Eager Seven Nights saw the light shield of 'Holy Light Rebound' and suddenly realized, taking out the 'Undead Holy Grail'.
"Crossing through darkness, crossing through the river of blood, crossing through time and space..."
"Coming from the distant hereafter to this world..."
"The great deity of death has bestowed upon me your all-encompassing power..."
"- Undead Bone Shield!"
Seven Nights recited the strongest defensive magic of the undead - Bone Shield.
After completing the magic, Qiye shot a beam of white light from the 'Necro Holy Grail'. That beam of white light penetrated into a corpse lying on the ground, instantly causing the flesh on the corpse to explode, revealing its white bones.
The bones of the corpse turned into a shield-like shape and rapidly expanded, soon covering the entire ground. The scattered lightning stones that were bouncing around all hit this bone shield one after another, turning into fragments.
"... finally, we are saved..."
"The fleeing soldiers of the Alliance looked through the gaps between the bones and saw the enormous bone shield above them. After it blocked the lightning stones, they all collapsed onto the ground, gasping for air. Although they knew that this shield was conjured by the necromancer for some unknown purpose, they were aware that safety could only be found underneath it."
Seeing that his "Necro Shield" successfully blocked the powerful force of the "Ancient Storm" and the "Star Thunderclap," Seiya finally felt relieved.
"Crossing through darkness, crossing through the river of blood, crossing through time and space..."
"Coming from the distant hereafter to this world..."
"The great deity of death has bestowed upon me your all-encompassing power..."
"- Undead Bone Shield!"
However, worried that the "Necro Shield" may not withstand the full impact of the collision caused by the forbidden spell, Seiya once again used his powerful magic to create three additional bone shields and placed them in front of the first "Necro Shield," guarding the Necropolis and the "Holy Light Rebound."
"The losses this time are truly devastating... The magic power is also almost depleted. The Mage Legion cannot be underestimated."
Seven Night flew back to the top of the city tower in the Undead City, looking at the powerful forces bouncing around from the continuous collision of the forbidden spells in the distance, and sighed.
There was suddenly a loud thunderclap in the sky, with lightning swirling around all the clouds that were being swept up into a tornado. 'Ancient Storm' and 'Star Thunder Settlement' finally collided completely.
Following a deafening explosion accompanied by the rumble of thunder, the powerful force of lightning and wind erupted from the point of impact, shattering the bone shield created by Seven Nights. In an instant, only the second layer of the bone shield on the forbidden spell explosion surface managed to hold on, while the "Holy Light Rebound" in front of the city of Charlotte blocked the subsequent forbidden spell's power behind the bone shield.
After seeing the thunderstone spawned by the explosion of the forbidden curse, resembling a wave, break through the "Undead Bone Shield" and shoot towards the Undead City, Seven Nights was about to use the remaining magic to create another bone shield. However, the magic crystal inside the enormous dragon head in front of the Undead City suddenly emitted a bright light, followed by a pale white magic barrier that enveloped the Undead City. The thunderstone and the enormous magical power generated by the collision of forbidden curses were all halted in front of that pale white, seemingly transparent magic barrier.
The next chapter will be updated when I return from my business trip this week, possibly on Saturday or Sunday. If I can find an internet café to go online during my trip, I will release the VIP chapter as soon as possible. If not, it will be taken care of after I return from the business trip. I have been extremely busy with work recently, but once this period is over, I might have more time next month. I will continue to work hard and write then.