Mage Manual

Chapter 679: Only One Step Remains


When the Ghost Prophet consumed a large amount of thoughts to calculate, he immediately discovered the insidious nature of this Starry Sky Miracle.

This miracle had already silently connected to the entire Dream Heaven, evidently when the Starlight Angel was in charge of Dream Heaven, the Dazzling Star Magic Master hadn't skimped on studying Dream Heaven.

It has a total of two effects: completely sealing off Dream Heaven, and fully supporting the Holy Sanctuary Mage, helping them restore soul energy, repair injuries, and accelerate magic power recovery.

But the question arises, where does the energy to maintain this miracle come from?

Naturally, it comes from the two thousand sanctuaries!

Don't be fooled by the Holy Sanctuary Mages who seem to be unscathed now, but when they leave this false starry sky, they will find their rainbow wings reduced by a quarter!

If the Starry Sky Miracle continues to be maintained, their rainbow wings might even vanish entirely, potentially affecting their golden wings and silver wings as well!

The Ghost Prophet wants to sow discord but has no way, because the Holy Sanctuary Mages have not lost their wings yet; all consequences would explode only after leaving. If he wants to break free from the starry sky's lock, he must kill all the Holy Sanctuary Mages to thrust this starry sky into deep darkness!

But these Holy Sanctuary Mages have starry sky support, not that they can't be killed, but it requires the use of numerous miracles and the consumption of massive magic power!

Yet now, the Ghost Prophet isn't even a mage. Not to mention generating magic power, his very existence requires miracles for sustenance—every single thought now is produced by using miracles to consume soul energy, avoiding the drain of his original will!

He's been squandering the Source Crystals left from his past life to drive the Technique Spirit to cast miracles!

To maintain the ghost inheritance for a month, more than half of his Source Crystals have already been consumed, and he has just used a second dreamwalking Soul Refining Taboo to reshape his soul body, further straining his already meager stockpile.

The Dazzling Star Magic Master seems to be assisting the two thousand sanctuaries, but in actuality, he's using their lives to deplete the Ghost Prophet's Source Crystal reserves! Even if the Ghost Prophet wins, his Source Crystal reserves will plunge to a perilous low, making it not only difficult to proceed with the second stage of revival but even hard to eke out a personal existence, as life time counts down directly!

How insidious, how ruthless, how unsolvable!

Yet the Ghost Prophet's expression remained unchanged. While dodging the Holy Sanctuary Mages' pursuit, he rapidly consumed soul energy, with countless thoughts colliding and reorganizing in his mind!

He had encountered such crises countless times before his death. He was even hunted down by the Dazzling Star Magic Master; at the worst, not even his flesh remained, and only a wisp of soul escaped. If the Dazzling Star Magic Master had come personally to kill him, that'd be one thing, but now it's merely a miracle, why fear?

Suddenly, the Ghost Prophet drove a black sphere to attack the Holy Sanctuary Mages, causing them to dodge, while the remote group seized the chance to snipe the Ghost Prophet.

However, the Ghost Prophet hid between the black spheres, using them to block the long-range attacks from the Holy Sanctuary Mages, and again used the black spheres to meaninglessly collide with the sanctuary cluster. After several rounds, Igula and the other Spiritual Sanctuaries noticed—the Ghost Prophet intended to stall for time.

Indeed, this was the solution the Ghost Prophet had researched.

There's no need to deplete oneself against the Holy Sanctuary Mages. The starry sky lock, soul energy recovery, and accelerating magic power recovery; each effect consumes the sanctuaries' wings. As long as you delay, once their wings are exhausted, the Starry Sky Miracle will naturally unravel.

Because the Ectoplasmic Black Spheres were creations of the Ghost Prophet himself in life, manipulating them only consumed a bit of thought. Though this might waste some time, the Ghost Prophet could at least save many Source Crystals for the future!

Yet the Ghost Prophet wanted to delay, but the Holy Sanctuary Mages didn't!

They didn't know the truth of the Starry Sky Miracle, but that didn't stop them from adhering to a basic principle: whatever the enemy supports, we oppose!

Since the Ghost Prophet wanted to drag it out, they must fight a quick battle!

After brief yet efficient spiritual communication, the Holy Sanctuary Mages received a new order: attack the black spheres, seize the ghost inheritance!

If the black spheres aren't dealt with, they can't reach the Ghost Prophet. So, they first cleared all the black spheres, which also aligned with the interests of the majority of Holy Sanctuary Mages—they were here to snatch the ghost inheritance!

The Ghost Prophet noticed their change in tactics and continuously moved the black spheres to prevent them from concentrating their fire. While the black spheres would automatically recover durability, there were simply too many Holy Sanctuary Mages. They could destroy one black sphere in under a few minutes, happily sharing its rewards.

As time passed, when the number of black spheres dropped below 100, there was a noticeable emptiness in the whole of Dream Heaven. Whether it was a hallucination or not, they felt that the darkness of Heaven seemed to have become a bit grayer.

When the number of black spheres dropped below 50, Dream Heaven turned gray as if dawn was breaking. Meanwhile, they noticed that star traces appeared on the outer walls of Dream Heaven, making it seem like a gigantic birdcage.

When the number of black spheres dropped below 10, the Ghost Prophet still didn't retaliate, and Dream Heaven was almost brightening up.

Baiyu felt something amiss and asked, "Are the black spheres the pillars of Dream Heaven?"

"They are Dream Heaven," the Ghost Prophet said leisurely. "When you destroy all the black spheres, Dream Heaven will be left with just an outer shell, and you might just be able to leave then."

Leaving was, of course, impossible, but for the Starry Sky Miracle to seal a Dream Heaven reduced to a mere shell, the wing consumption for the Holy Sanctuary Mages would naturally increase. This was also why the Ghost Prophet didn't much prevent them from destroying the black spheres—either by delaying time or destroying the black spheres, the Holy Sanctuary Mages' choices would save him Source Crystals anyway.

When attacking the last black sphere, some Holy Sanctuary Mages were preparing to escape near the outer wall, while more surrounded the Ghost Prophet. Since it had reached the point where battle was inevitable, the Ghost Prophet wouldn't hesitate. He glanced at talents like Baiyu, Trozan, Igula, who had performed outstandingly during the battle.

He always had a habit of hunting the Heavenly Pride, and in this unprecedented holy domain melee, the more of these leaders he killed, the easier it would be to deal with the remaining rabble. The order of kills, the methods of use, the room for provoking discord... He wasn't stingy about consuming soul energy to generate many thoughts, quickly devising a perfect slaughter plan.

If killing could be counted as a magic faction, the Ghost Prophet would undoubtedly be a demigod mage among them.

Pa.

With the shattering of the last black sphere, Dream Heaven brightened up almost completely in sync with the outer world, yet only the starry birdcage still confined them. Those sanctuaries trying to escape found numerous finer cage wires at the birdcage's edge, hitting them felt like banging into a wall!

As if on cue, the sanctuaries and the Ghost Prophet simultaneously made their moves: grievances, flames, ice, gun bullets... countless miracles poised to strike!

Yet at that moment, in the previously empty center of Heaven, a transparent golden sphere suddenly appeared!

Inside the golden sphere was a golden hall!

In the hall, there were four black-robed mages and a bizarre devil nightmare!

But most attention-catching was the center of the hall, where a crystal spirit base composed of countless Technique Spirits gathered!

At this moment, the black-robed mages were fitting the last fragment into the crystal spirit base, and the flames, thorns, dark clouds, swamps, and bones of the crystal spirit base quickly dyed with the respective colors, as if the charred earth was calling to its master.

Just observing this spirit base made the Holy Sanctuary Mages feel choked, overwhelmed with fear that their minds blanked out, and even their inner soul spirits curled up shivering in fear!

"This power, this might..." Evil Omen's eyes widened. "Is it a Divine Being!?"

"It's a Divine Status!" The Ghost Prophet displayed a greedy, fervent expression. "A complete Virtual Godhood!"

The Nightmare gazed at the Virtual Godhood before him, and his deep voice sounded like both an announcement and a lament:

"As all beings dream, the nightmare begins to descend!"

"Now, only one final step remains!"

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