Techniques and Dao

Chapter 216 The Mystery of the Nuclear Bomb
Jane had no time to discuss his feelings about the floral dress. She pressed her hand against the magic brick on the stone wall and recited a spell in French.

Suddenly, the light around the three of them dimmed, as if they were hiding in the shadows beneath the Arc de Triomphe. Then, the nearly fifty-meter-high Arc de Triomphe flipped down like a giant building block, instantly becoming a reflection of the ground beneath their feet.

It's as if a giant mirror has been placed on the ground, and not only the Arc de Triomphe, but the original road has also become a reflection separated by glass.

Hua Sheng and Mie Ying arrived at this magical place once again. Strictly speaking, they were in the underground area that was originally covered by mud and bricks. However, due to the effect of the magic circle, a magical space called "Inverted Space" appeared in this part of the underground.

The Attack Campus is a huge black castle, with a dark color scheme both inside and out.

In addition to the original medieval stone wall structure, the building's exterior also incorporates many modern design elements, such as black steel. It's like adding black steel armor to a medieval castle.

This is the "Attack" campus of Klin Magic Academy, which primarily teaches offensive dark magic.

Perhaps because most of the magic students were transferred to the east to attack the dragon vein, Jane, Mieying, and Huasheng, who had transformed into a short-haired girl, did not see many magic students, only a few scattered figures in the distance.

Most of the time, only the three of them were in the long castle corridors.

They walked quietly through the corridors of the college, searching for clues. Jane thought the auditorium on campus was the most likely place to be converted into a combat command center.

Jane led the way for a while but still didn't see anyone.

Hua Sheng couldn't help but feel a little doubtful and asked, "Jian, could we have gotten the location wrong? This campus seems deserted. If I'm sure I won't run into anyone, I'd better go back to my original form. Wearing a skirt is really uncomfortable; my butt feels so cold."

Mie Ying exclaimed in surprise and asked, "You barbarian woman, you're not setting some kind of trap to capture me..."

Before she could finish speaking, Jian suddenly turned around and covered Mieying's mouth, shaking her head with a solemn expression.

Startled, Mie Ying turned to look at the corridor behind Jane, where a dark figure stood at the end of the corridor, where the torchlight flickered on the wall.

The three quickly hid in a corner. Hua Sheng peeked out and, upon closer inspection, could see that the figure was wearing a dark green magic robe. The person was holding a medieval-style mirror and was whispering something into it.

She whispered to Jane behind her, "This guy is sneaking around in the mirror in such a dark place, muttering something. Is he praising his own handsomeness? Even if he's narcissistic, he doesn't have to be like this."

Jane seemed uninterested in Hua Sheng's humor and replied, "He is Professor Brian, the vice principal of Klin Magic School."

She peeked in too, and then said, "Professor Brian isn't looking in the mirror; he seems to be talking to someone in the mirror."

"You mean the reflection in that mirror isn't him?" Hua Sheng asked doubtfully.

Jane rolled her eyes at him and said, "Haven't you ever seen a video call before?"

“I…I have seen it before,” Hua Sheng said, suddenly realizing, “but I’ve never seen anyone use a mirror for a video call…”

“Magic,” Jane replied impatiently.

"If we can use a mobile phone, why use magic? Is it to save data?"

"It's because I'm afraid of being monitored."

Upon hearing this, Mieying retorted, "Huasheng, look, others use magic to avoid being discovered, but when we use immortal techniques in Shengpingning, we will be monitored, just the opposite."

"This..." Hanamori didn't understand either, "Is it a cultural difference?"

"Shh!" Jane gestured for the two to shut up.

The three hid in the shadows, listening intently to what Brian, the vice principal of Klin Magic School, was saying.

However, the place where they were hiding was far away, and the sounds could only be heard intermittently.

But not long after, Vice Principal Brian seemed to notice something strange. He immediately and alertly hid the ancient mirror inside his magic robe and hurriedly walked into the depths of the corridor, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

Hua Sheng quickly asked, "Who heard what he said just now?"

Mie Ying shook her head and said, "This young lady has very sharp ears! I heard every single word clearly!"

"Mieying, you've done a great job! You're so amazing!" Hua Sheng asked excitedly, "Who is he contacting?"

"I have absolutely no idea!"

Didn't I say you heard me clearly?

"I heard him clearly, but he was speaking French gibberish! I couldn't understand a single word."

Hua Sheng sighed: "Isn't that just a waste of your breath?"

“I overheard a little bit,” Jane said from the side. “It sounded like they were saying, ‘Sir, we obey your instructions… something about returning from America, and also, it seems the global computing power I heard about before didn’t arrive on time…’”

"What? Global computing power hasn't reached Nanjing? But Jinling City is already being bombarded by a powerful six-pointed star magic array. Does that mean that when computing power is concentrated, the pressure on the mage Ruokong will increase?"

Jian Zheng explained, "It's a geometric increase in power. Not only that, but there's another thing that worries me: the attacking force is carrying a gravity-based nuclear bomb." Hua Sheng pondered, "I know a nuclear bomb's destructive power is enough to destroy a city, but that's only against mortals. If our immortal masters were here, a nuclear bomb should be able to handle it..."

"No, no, no! You've misunderstood! Terribly wrong!" Jian Zhengse interrupted Hua Sheng. "This isn't an ordinary nuclear bomb, it's a gravitational nuclear bomb! It's the prized possession of Klin Magic Academy! When it detonates, it won't cause ordinary nuclear fusion as you understand it! It will unleash gravitational anomalies!"

Hua Sheng couldn't immediately imagine what would happen if gravity were disrupted in a certain area, so she asked, "If there were no gravity, would the original objects float?"

Mieying immediately said, "You idiot! If the gravity of heaven and earth were reversed, then the earth would be the sky, and everything, including people, would be overturned and thrown into the sky. Even if there is a magic array of Master Ruokong in the sky, it is still hundreds of meters above the ground. If a person is thrown out, it would be no different from falling from a great height!"

Hua Sheng said, "That's true, but the remaining people in Jinling City should all be hiding in buildings or underground. Even if a building flips over, it's still just a building. It's more likely that the water from Xuanwu Lake is flying into the sky, or that all the cars and plants in the city are flying up."

Jane said, "Don't be so naive! A nuclear bomb is nuclear fusion, but gravitational nuclear fusion is obviously not as simple as just doubling the power!"

Hua Sheng then began to understand what Jian meant: "Wait! I've heard that four hundred times the force of gravity can crush a person into a pulp. How many times greater is this gravitational nuclear bomb?"

“Ten thousand times!” came the simple reply.

Hua Sheng gasped, "Isn't 100,000 times the size of a black hole in the city center?"

"That's right! Once the bombing begins, the destruction to the city will be no less than the severing of a dragon vein!"

"But that doesn't make sense! There are people from your Demon School in the city too, wouldn't that mean we'd all perish together?"

Jane shook her head repeatedly: "I already said this is a nuclear bomb made of magic, so the magicians at Klin Magic Academy won't be affected..."

Before she could finish speaking, Mieying lunged at her and grabbed her by the neck: "I knew you were all bad people! You're all vicious barbarians!"

Jane was being choked by Mie Ying until she could barely breathe. She reached for her wand at her waist, but after a moment's struggle, she forgot that her wand had long been destroyed in the ancient city of Nice. She tried to retrieve the Star Rainbow Codex, but it was too late. A mage without magic is like an ordinary person; how could she possibly be a match for Mie Ying, this celestial being?

Seeing that Jian was almost choked to the point of rolling her eyes, Hua Sheng quickly stepped forward to pull Mie Ying away: "Xiao Qi, don't get angry. Jian and the other students at the Demon School have different ideas now!"

Mieying retorted, "You know everything! We've only known each other for two days. You're not a mind reader. How would you know what she's thinking?"

"Cough cough cough cough..." Jian coughed violently for a while before finally coming to her senses.

“We’re not barbarians!” Jane gasped for breath. “It’s just that we don’t trust each other, everyone wants to survive, and everyone is afraid of being destroyed by the other. Isn’t that what all wars between civilizations in this world are like?”

"Look at her, she's getting even more worked up! As if she's right!" Mieying puffed out her cheeks.

Hua Sheng quickly comforted the two girls who were constantly bickering.

"Shadowbreaker, Jane! Everyone, let's put the bigger picture first! The battle in Jinling is at a stalemate, we need to stop the Ultimate Hexagram Magic Array right away! Oh, and that damned gravity nuclear bomb too!"

Mieying then asked with some concern, "Can Master Ruokong, Immortal Master Yuran, Immortal Master Jueguang, Buxu, and Xuanwen hold out?"

Hua Sheng quickly said, "In any case, we must inform Master Ruokong of this news as soon as possible!"

He quickly took out his phone, but the screen showed no signal.

Jian said, "Within the Magic School, unauthorized contact methods will be blocked, and mobile phones will be unusable."

"Then where's your phone? Didn't you use your phone before?"

Jane took out her phone, but the screen didn't light up.

"I made too many phone calls today, and my phone battery died."

Hua Sheng took the phone from her hand: "I know lightning magic! Let me charge your phone and see!"

Having said that, he thought urgently, and with a burst of electricity from his finger, the phone made a clicking sound, followed by a wisp of green smoke rising from it.

"Hey! My phone! What's the charging current in amperes? What's the voltage?"

"What……?"

"Forget it! It's no use talking to you. You've overloaded my phone and burned it!"

"Huh? The magic course didn't teach how to control voltage!"

Mieying said, "Forget it, you're the one who caused trouble. Let's find the command center first. Regarding the nuclear bomb, we have no choice but to trust Abbot Ruokong and the Immortal Master!"

Hua Sheng also became worried: "We have to hurry! If the global computing power really arrives, and Tai Shang Xiao Jun and the others haven't managed to inject the virus in time, Jinling City and Master Ruo Kong will both be in danger!"

Jian's tone was also very uneasy:
"I thought only Minister of Dark Arts Madeline was in the Attack Campus, but it seems the Vice Principal is here too. He's an all-around wizard; it looks like we're in big trouble this time!"

(End of this chapter)