blueteamnovel Chapter 722: Battle Begins
Chapter 722: Battle Begins
**Chapter 722: Battle Begins**
The battle erupted in the exact same instant that Wizard Broadleaf’s sigh fell.
Suoyuan’s massive dragon head reared up violently. Within its enormous dark golden dragon pupils, fury and fear intertwined and surged.
A deep, muffled resonance echoed from the depths of its chest. Then it opened its maw, large enough to swallow a small planet.
Explosive dragon breath spewed forth—a torrent formed by dozens of entangled energies.
Dark golden light trails tore through the void. Wherever they passed, the spatial structure was shredded by conflicting laws, with web-like fissures spreading rapidly along both sides of the trajectory.
Elemental turbulence in the void was forcibly parted. Even the distant Dragonman Plane barrier flickered violently from the aftershocks.
Wizard Broadleaf raised his right hand. The law light domain spread across the void before him instantly contracted and condensed into a massive amber-colored bulwark. Countless runes surfaced densely across the bulwark’s surface, each independently analyzing the frequency bands and phases of the oncoming dragon breath. The moment the dragon breath slammed into the bulwark, all its energy was systematically dismantled and diverted layer by layer.
After enduring an impact powerful enough to easily vaporize an entire star system, the bulwark merely sank inward by a single inch.
Suoyuan’s dragon breath continued to pour out, yet its colossal body had already begun charging under the cover of that breath. Its body, as vast as a star, hurtled forward with terrifying acceleration that completely defied its size. The void groaned under the strain as its scales brushed past.
If such a charge landed, the sheer kinetic impact from its mass alone would be enough to knock a star out of orbit.
“I’ll handle it.”
A burly seventh-ring wizard shot out from behind Wizard Broadleaf.
His solidified law domain expanded violently during flight. The patterns within the domain shifted from static to frenzied pulsing in an instant.
When the light faded, he was no longer in human form but had become a giant beast comparable in size to Suoyuan.
The giant beast’s silhouette resembled a bear, yet it was far more robust.
Its four limbs were like pillars, its shoulders and back covered in thick bone armor embedded with rapidly operating runes.
It met Suoyuan’s charge head-on. In the next instant, the two colossal entities collided violently.
Boom!!!
The shockwave exploded outward from the point of impact, blasting away the lingering elemental bands left from the Dragonman Plane’s disintegration.
“Now!”
At Wizard Broadleaf’s command, the other wizards who were already in position struck simultaneously.
More than a dozen solidified law domain lights wove into a net in the void. Rings of light descended upon the dragon’s body from every direction.
The moment the runes on the inner sides of the rings touched the dragon scales, they began replicating at high speed. The binding density surged exponentially.
Countless elemental chains burst out from the void, wrapping around the dragon’s wings, claws, and tail. The ends of the chains drove deep into the void, pinning Suoyuan firmly in place.
The second dragon breath that was about to erupt from its throat was directly suppressed in its throat by a seventh-ring wizard specialized in energy suppression.
This wizard fundamentally smoothed out the energy structure within the dragon breath, forcing it back into an unactivated, inert state.
From Wizard Broadleaf’s sigh to Suoyuan being fully restrained, the entire process took less than one breath.
Yet as he faced the now completely bound giant dragon, Jie Ming’s heart suddenly jolted.
It felt as if something had lightly brushed against the edge of his fate trajectory, leaving behind a chill.
Jie Ming immediately realized it was a warning from the fate law.
Without any hesitation, dark golden light erupted from within his body. His thousand-meter true body suddenly manifested in the void.
“Don’t resist.”
Wizard Broadleaf’s voice transmission landed almost synchronously in his spiritual sea, extremely fast—clearly a pre-planned measure.
Jie Ming had just wanted to speak when his body moved first.
The instant he actively stopped resisting, an external force took control of his true body and swiftly shifted him from the rear of the formation to stand before a certain wizard. The moment he stabilized, a familiar impact exploded against his chest.
It was the terrifying erasure effect formed by the pressure disparity between the two dimensions when the reflection dimension channel opened, striking his chest directly. A blinding burst of intense light exploded across the surface of the Return to Ruins Armor.
The energy stability field automatically maxed out, pushing defensive output to the limit—then it was pierced.
Yet the attack that easily penetrated the Return to Ruins Armor left only a shallow wound on his true body, the injury remaining on the surface. Jie Ming’s face darkened for a moment.
He lowered his head to look at the rapidly healing gash on his chest, then looked up at Wizard Broadleaf.
He finally understood.
When Wizard Broadleaf had asked earlier whether his true body could “endure dimensional disparity,” he had been asking if this shield was sturdy enough.
When Dean Avery had recommended him to Wizard Broadleaf, it probably wasn’t just recommending a wizard who could tank dimension channels—it was conveniently recommending a living, walking, spell-casting shield that could even collect technical data on the side.
Before this thought could fully form, Suoyuan’s second wave of attacks arrived.
The void behind it suddenly split open into a massive dimensional channel.
The scale of this dimensional channel far exceeded any Jie Ming had seen before. It was a dimensional fissure wide enough to swallow an entire star. Dark halos from the reflection dimension poured out from the fissure, surging violently in all directions under the push of the dimensional pressure disparity. The elemental chains wrapped around the dragon’s body were directly erased by the dimensional disparity. The ends of the chains anchored deep in the void were severed at their roots. The rune arrays of the binding rings collapsed in patches under the pressure impact.
Suoyuan itself remained completely unharmed within the all-erasing dimensional wash.
Its scales grew even brighter under the high pressure of the dimensional channel. The law patterns solidified on their surface were even actively absorbing the dimensional pressure and converting it into its own energy replenishment.
In the next instant, it broke free from its bindings. The dimensional channel behind it unfurled like an enormous cloak across the void.
The dragon head reared up once more.
It spewed dragon breath again, but this time the breath contained no energy. Instead, it directly channeled the penetrating power of the dimensional channel toward all the wizards present.
The erasure effect of the dimensional disparity spread out in a fan shape, instantly covering nearly half the battlefield.
The wizards suddenly found themselves somewhat restricted.
Every person present was an expert specialized in countering reflection dimension forces.
Yet most of their so-called “countering abilities” relied on high-speed regeneration, predictive evasion, or localized sealing.
Wizards below eighth ring in the entire Star Ring Federation who could stand still and endure dimensional disparity without injury like Jie Ming could be counted on one hand. What was worse was that the channel Suoyuan had opened was simply too large.
Too large to dodge at all.
All evasion routes were sealed off. Solidified law domains shook violently under the dimensional disparity impact. The defenses of several sixth-ring wizards had already begun to show cracks. Then they saw Jie Ming.
Jie Ming stood directly at the front of the fan-shaped coverage area, arms crossed in front of his face, allowing wave after wave of dimensional disparity to slam into his true body. The Return to Ruins Armor flickered unsteadily, yet his dark golden body remained firmly planted in the void without retreating even a single step.
Several seventh-ring wizards exchanged a glance. Almost without words, they moved in tacit understanding behind Jie Ming.
Thus, an extremely bizarre scene appeared on the battlefield.
Jie Ming’s true body stood at the front, tanking Suoyuan’s continuous output of dimensional erasure torrent, while behind him stood a single-file column of wizards using him as cover. Even the wizard who had transformed into a giant beast decisively shrank his body and hid behind Jie Ming.
Jie Ming’s face was full of helplessness, yet he still dutifully kept his arms crossed in front of his face and adjusted his stance slightly to block a larger area. “You guys sure know how to pick a spot,” he grumbled inwardly.
Some wizards, sheltered behind the cover, began attempting to sever the dimensional channel behind Suoyuan.
Several seventh-ring wizards skilled in dimensional interference acted simultaneously—sealing techniques, spatial cuts, dimensional disruptions… every interference method they could think of was thrown over in a barrage.
But Suoyuan’s dragon pupils merely shifted slightly.
The dimensional channel wavered for a moment, then returned to normal.