After the Lord of the Abyss Awakens - Chapter 41.1

Millard excitedly said. “Look carefully, isn’t this magic formation very simple?”

The young magician observed closely and said. “It is simple. Any intermediate magician should know this teleportation spell. In our Oedipus Empire, it’s even part of the assessment for intermediate magicians.”

Millard glared at him, as if disappointed, and declared loudly. “The magic formation in the image is even simpler than a regular teleportation formation!”

What?!

The young magician was stunned. Looking more carefully, he found that it was indeed as Millard said. One could tell at a glance that it was a teleportation spell, but the structure of the magic formation only had the “framework” without details, and even the “framework” itself was greatly simplified.

Was this an improved magical structure?

No, could this structure really be used to cast magic stably?

The young magician could hardly believe it. It wasn’t that he had never seen improved magic before.

Or rather, the history of human magic was a history of magic improvement.

Millard said with a complex expression. “To understand that person’s research, you first need to review the history of human magic development.”

The young magician immediately sat up straight.

It was said that magic was originally developed as a supernatural means of imitating divine power.

Early magic was very crude, with no concept of structure. It could only imitate the power of the gods through inspiration or intuition, using humans’ own energy for various practices.

Using divine methods by humans, let alone whether it was feasible, this approach would first cause incompatibility, as the human body couldn’t withstand it.

Therefore, the risk of using magic in that era was extremely high. One could easily blow themselves up. Humans with mental power less than 60 didn’t dare to try it lightly.

Magic teaching could only be one-on-one without bystanders, because a slight carelessness would not only mislead students but could even cost lives. One could only teach one disciple at a time.

After structure was proposed as a concept, the use of magic became less risky and people stopped blowing themselves up frequently. This marked human magic entering the ancient magic era, gradually moving towards pursuing structural stability rather than relying solely on intuition or inspiration.

This period was also when a large number of imitative power-type magic spells were born.

People were unable to come up with stable magical structures on their own, so they could only study and analyze the power of those gods, observing how their power operated and stabilized, extracting their power structures, learning from their strengths to strengthen themselves.

The hero Ye Qingyi made a historic and tremendous contribution in this regard. She studied and analyzed the powers of the gods in the sky, deriving various magic systems, laying the foundation for the original basis of human magic.

It took an unimaginable amount of time, and most of the research work was said to have been completed by the hero Ye Qingyi alone.

Especially for basic magic theory, she completed most of it by herself, leaving her students far behind. For a long time, they could only annotate her work.

However, one day in history, the hero Ye Qingyi suddenly disappeared, and human magic fell into a development dilemma.

Simply imitating the gods was certainly not going to work. Some people believed that they should forge their own path and create their own human magic.

However, with human wisdom severely limited, countless people hit walls until they died without being able to break through.

It wasn’t until Agares and Matros appeared that human magic entered the next stage, namely the modern magic era.

At that time, Agares reorganized the “Basic Magic Theory”, further refined the classification of magic, and proposed the world-shocking concept of “composite structure”, allowing human magic to no longer be singular, but able to stack various properties, becoming more complex, more refined, and more diverse.

It could be said that Agares truly changed human magic.

It was also from Him that human magic truly differed from the imitation of divine powers and had its own unique characteristics.

Later, Agares disappeared, said to have gone to the realm of dreams, and people could no longer communicate with Him.

Human magic developed slowly until the appearance of Matros.

Matros’s greatest contribution to modern magic was the proposal of concepts such as “imagination”, “three-dimensional structure”, and “flowing structure”.

Before Matros, magic always followed a certain order.

Without order, it would be unstable and collapse. At best, the magic would fail; at worst, even the caster could be blown up. So magicians had to remain mentally tense, constantly maintaining stable mental power.

What Matros broke was precisely this rigid cognition that had persisted for thousands of years. He told people that magic didn’t have to follow order, didn’t have to be rigorous and inflexible, but could be flexible and flowing, integrating our own imagination into magical structures, using magic that belonged to us individually, rather than magic that solely belonged to “humans”.

This directly changed the underlying logic of human magic! It allowed human magic to flourish for a period, which was also considered the most creative period for human magicians.

However, after developing for a while, new problems emerged.

At some point, their ideas began to get bogged down in details. It seemed that only by designing structures to be extremely complex could they create strong and good magic.

For the past thousand years, their best magicians have been working hard to make magic designs complex, preferring a single spell to have hundreds of layers and thousands of variations.

The more complex the structure of magic, the better.

If one couldn’t design it to be complex yet stable, then it must be the designer’s problem. Either their brain power, or computing power, was insufficient, or their imagination was lacking.

It was in this sense that Millard was now so moved, as if struck by lightning, his brain trembling.

Because the other party was simplifying the magic formation.

The number one ranked human was simplifying magic formations, using a method he had never imagined!

Both the approach and the method shocked him immensely.

“As expected of the number one ranked! I knew the top ranked couldn’t be researching intermediate magic. Thinking carefully, the key isn’t intermediate magic, it’s the method! The approach!”

“Why choose teleportation? That’s because teleportation is currently the simplest and most basic composite magic structure in human magic!”

“If even teleportation can be simplified, what magic can’t be simplified?”

Millard was extremely excited, his eyes wide, his face flushed red.

The young magician opposite him finally understood his meaning, and was also scared into cold sweat.

That image was so significant. And he was so stupid, he couldn’t see anything!

Is this the daily life of the number one ranked? It’s too strong.

Regarding this, magicians from various countries made similar discoveries. They all informed their national political leaders.

After hearing the explanations, the national political leaders were all moved.

The number one ranked person was at the forefront of magic development. It’s easy to go from simple to complex, but difficult to simplify the complex!

The other party’s research was absolutely the direction of development for modern magic.

Moreover, Millard analyzed in his mind, simplification sounds easy, but how to achieve it? With most of the structure simplified, how to ensure stable magic release?

Millard had a premonition that if this obstacle could be overcome, modern magic would surely reach a new level.

And the other party obviously knew the answer!

On another side, a political leader of a great empire spoke. “This suddenly appearing number one ranked is so extraordinary. Has anyone recognized where this scene is? Even if we can’t recruit the number one ranked, we must do our utmost to show goodwill.”

Political leaders of various major countries were all advising their kings and emperors.

And most of the kings and emperors were even more anxious than them. What did the human number one ranking mean? It meant the fighting power to conquer the continent!

In the view of the various kings and emperors, if they could win over the number one ranked, their country would definitely be able to advance or maintain its position as the first on the continent, and even have the prospect of conquering the continent, becoming the first unified human country in history!

Which ambitious king or emperor could resist this temptation?

“Find, find a way to locate the number one ranked! Whatever they want, as long as our country has it, give them whatever they ask for!”

“Why won’t the God of Ranking’s lens turn away? Stop filming the book, film the person!”

“No, wait, I haven’t memorized the magic formation they drew yet.”

Within just two minutes, a huge commotion spread across all human nations.

In the military conference room of the Aust Empire, Philip glanced at Ronald, who happened to turn his head. The two looked at each other, because they might know the identity of that person.

But they absolutely could not say anything.

If they did, not only would they lose their lives, but the country might be destroyed in Their anger.

That person was of extraordinary significance to Them, no one could touch them.

However, Philip hadn’t expected that beneath that youth’s friendly exterior was a terrifying power that could crush them with a single thought!

Of course, how could someone so beloved by the Abyss Lords be weak?

The other party had even stayed in their Aust Empire for quite a long time without any issues.

Philip could only be grateful that the other party didn’t dislike the Aust Empire, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.

Ronald felt the same, just thinking about it made him fearful.

They tacitly maintained their silence.

Philip lowered his head, his eyes still somewhat complex, because how could he not know that the person who secretly saved the Aust Empire must also be that person?

“Why would such a powerful and great being like you…”

Be willing to lend a helping hand.

On another side.

The king of the Great Oedipus Empire rushed to the round table conference and immediately ordered everyone, saying seriously, “You’ve all seen the rankings. The number one ranked must be somewhere in our country. Be careful, improve what needs to be improved immediately, make sure the city looks good. We can’t let that person be unhappy in any way!”

The people at the round table were stunned for a moment, then immediately understood.

“Yes, Your Majesty, we will definitely complete the mission!”

Ferrol at the table was already dumbfounded. Heaven knows a single ranking could have such a significant impact.

Who exactly was this mysteriously appearing number one ranked? Where in their country were they? And why were they in their country?

All the answers to these questions depended on—

They immediately turned their heads to look at the real-time image.

The camera lens seemed to be struggling with a small animal. It was trying hard to turn, but that small animal pressed its paw on the lens, stubbornly not allowing the lens to capture the number one ranked, strangely like a child misbehaving while the parent wasn’t paying attention.

Come on, baby, stop playing with the lens, let everyone see your parent!

For some reason, this thought popped into many people’s minds.

Perhaps due to the enhancement of faith power, the God of Ranking’s ability strengthened. In the next second of the stalemate, the lens actually moved, miraculously turning a few degrees.

Good lens, overcome that baby, keep turning!

At the same time, Inpos noticed the lens was striving to move, determined to turn over.

How could He allow that?

Inpos used both paws to firmly press it down. Whether it was because a cat’s body wasn’t good at exerting force or not, His paw slipped, and the lens took the opportunity to turn, almost capturing His father!

Goodness, Inpos broke out in a cold sweat and hurriedly pressed it down again.

This pounce caught Xiu Si’s attention.

Xiu Si turned his head, and this time he saw the gray cat hugging the air, using all four paws, its fur standing on end, with a resolute look in its eyes, as if facing death unflinchingly.

This scene was beyond his imagination.

What was it doing? Acting against thin air?

Xiu Si was stunned, considering whether to grab the gray cat and ask about the situation.

At this moment, the lens turned again.

The crowd was overjoyed. Could they finally see?

Inpos was in great crisis, pupils shaking. Even more critical was that He sensed His father’s attention on His situation!

Damn you, God of Ranking, this is all your fault. If this goes wrong, I’ll hunt you to the ends of the earth!

At this moment, the God of Ranking felt a chill down its spine, inexplicably receiving a terrifying killing intent.

Meanwhile, the lens was still turning.

Inpos was caught between a rock and a hard place, His cat heart in chaos.

“Here it comes, we can finally see!”

Someone couldn’t help but celebrate prematurely.

They could finally glimpse the style of the number one ranked!

The people of the Great Oedipus Empire were particularly attentive, with the king himself on tenterhooks, eyes fixed straight ahead.

The image changed, and the corner of a garment could be seen.

Good, good, good! Keep going!

The king suddenly stood up, fists clenched.

Just as they were eagerly anticipating, the screen suddenly went black, as if another violent small animal had appeared.

It smashed the lens with one paw.

With a crisp sound, clean and neat, the lens was finished, without even a chance to play dead.

The air fell silent for a moment.

Countless people were frozen in place.

Political leaders of various countries were dumbfounded.

Simon, Lia, and others from the Continental Human Alliance were also stunned, having never seen such a situation before.

This… this… huh? How did it just break?

At the round table conference of the Great Oedipus Empire, everyone was silent.

The king thought, no way, can it be like this?

“Quickly find the God of Ranking, His ranking should tell us exactly who it is. Now we haven’t seen anything, this isn’t reasonable!”

The king immediately urged.

But he wasn’t the first to urge. The temple of the God of Ranking was full of people urging and inquiring, almost crushing the priests.

In humans’ impression, the God of Ranking was considered a weak god, with almost no combat power. Humans generally didn’t need to be wary of anything when visiting His temple.

Someone urgently asked. “Where is your God?”

The priest was under great pressure, “Huh? I don’t know, I’m just a priest, how would I know where the deity is?”

“Speak quickly, or know the consequences.”

One fellow threatened menacingly.

The priest of the God of Ranking had no combat power and was terrified, instinctively saying, “Behind the temple!”

Several human experts rushed over, but saw nothing. It seemed the God of Ranking had run away!

Come on, you’re a god, why are you running?

Those present looked at each other, completely bewildered.