Beside the derailed train, lightning crows transformed into a dense electrical net attacking the awakened soldiers. Fortunately, there weren't many of them, and soon enough, the werewolf mercenaries came to their aid.
After searching the train, the werewolves found a wizard who had already been controlled while unconscious. The firearms in the hands of the remaining mundane soldiers were not very effective against the lightning-transformable crows and the mercenaries with their extraordinary self-healing abilities.
The battle soon came under control, and the sound of gunfire gradually ceased, becoming sparse and almost inaudible.
...
On the other side, Murphy, who had beheaded Alexei, planted his long sword into the ground, stabilizing his body, barely avoiding a fall.
He was bleeding from two large holes in his torso, but luckily, they were not fatal wounds.
After applying some dittany locally to stop the bleeding, his transformation state's strong regenerative ability also rapidly healed his wounds.
However, there was a cost. The cell division in these areas increased further, greatly raising the risk of cancer.
But he had no time to worry about that now.
Alexei was too tough an opponent. Not to mention a series of unseen magics, his last curse was extremely dangerous.
Looking at Alexei's head with uncloseable eyes, Murphy sighed with relief.
"You couldn't figure it out, right?"
Actually, he had just shifted his heart to the right side to avoid being pierced by that strike.
As for how it was done - although he couldn't control magnetic fields like Magneto, he could create a temporary electrical loop in a part of his body, then manipulate it slightly by using another coil in his palm.
Murphy was about to throw a C4 to destroy the corpse when he sensed something. A spike of earth attacked from behind, which he kicked and broke. The two elemental giants, which had been in standby mode since earlier, suddenly moved again and charged at him.
Murphy frowned, stepping on the shaman's corpse, crushing it into mush - not metaphorically, but literally.
"An earth clone?"
Damn! Were these guys really from the ninja world?
Murphy teleported into the sky, choosing not to entangle with the two giants, but pondering over Alexei's whereabouts.
The area was locked down by a space anchor, so he couldn't have teleported away. That meant he either burrowed into the ground or had possessed a tree.
Murphy looked around but saw no signs of earth mounds.
He hadn't escaped but was hiding... Considering the recent earth spike, he was waiting for an opportunity to counterattack.
Murphy took out his wand. "Show me the way."
The wand spun around in his hand but pointed nowhere.
His connection with magic was still blocked, rendering the spell ineffective.
It felt like someone had added electromagnetic shielding to the "magic net" of the area, making the signal extremely weak.
This magic-sealing ability was troublesome. To find Alexei, he first needed to remove the magical blockade of the area.
Not knowing how the opponent added this layer of shielding, he couldn't remove it. However, using magic under these circumstances wasn't entirely impossible - he just needed to forcibly increase the signal strength.
He spread his arms in mid-air. "Return to me, my crows."
The suppression work at the train was nearly finished, the remaining werewolves could handle it. Leaving behind about a hundred crows for coordination, the rest, thousands of them, returned to Murphy. They circled in the sky, cawing and gradually forming six massive columns of black clouds reaching from earth to sky under Murphy's will.
They flew in the same direction within the cloud columns, forming circular coils.
Magic signals are ultimately just fluctuations of magic.
These thousands of lightning crows could transmit his magic.
This was already proven with the leprechaun gold.
If they could transmit magic, could they be considered as separate wand tips? Could they be seen as detached wands?
What if they were arranged in an array? Could his magic signal strength be amplified through this crow phased array magic signal antenna?
Murphy fluttered his wings, floating in the center of this massive crow array antenna, spanning kilometers.
He was eager to find out to what extent his magic would be amplified through this "wand" array.
Minutes later, he finished calculating the phased array parameters, arranged the crows in a sequence, and then sequentially transmitted magic fluctuations to each crow according to a specific timing.
He intended to scan the area below to locate Alexei.
At first, everything was still calm, as if nothing had happened.
But soon, a breeze arose, and thin snake-like lightning and thunder began to frequently appear within tens of kilometers.
Then, the earth began to tremble, with tiny sand and stones floating upwards as if weightless.
Unnoticed, the sky gradually darkened.
Sunlight was blocked, countless clouds gathered from all directions, covering the entire area, making it so dark it was like entering early night.
"Boom!" A scarlet lightning spread across the sky, like a cracked wound.
Huge fissures traveled across the land, forming deep canyons.
In the distance, a river suddenly erupted in flames, as if the water had all turned into combustible material.
The forest withered, its green erased, leaving only rotting black ash.
The tremors of magic became more and more intense, every peak caused flowers to bloom within hundreds of meters, and each trough crushed everything it passed into dust.
Murphy, at the center of the magic vibration, clearly felt the force trying to bind his magic.
It was a net with five strange dimensions, not up, down, front, back, left, or right, but earth, sky, river, forest, and thunder.
Each concept spread a huge network, like five monsters with tentacles, penetrating every corner of magic.
And now, they formed a ban.
The ban was extremely complex, but in simple terms, it translated to: Prohibiting all unauthorized magic in the area from traveling on any pathway related to the five conceptual networks.
Although they only prohibited pathways related to the five concepts, their network covered a huge area of magic, effectively making it no different from prohibiting any pathway.
However, at that moment, the ban was swollen with a vast amount of magic, like a dam burst, the magic flood broke one after another established magic channel, turning places without rivers into a vast ocean.
Boom! Murphy seemed to break through a boundary, his magic instantly swept across tens of kilometers.
What he did was merely a scan, but the terrifyingly amplified magic almost ignited the ground below.
In the next instant, countless pieces of information flooded back into Murphy's mind. He was like a deity, capturing everything in a moment.
The magic antenna was not only a magic signal transmitter but also a receiver. The information, richer than ordinary vision, was re-converged onto Murphy through the massive crow array antenna. He was almost shattered by the feedback of information.
He immediately cut off the connection with the crow antenna.
But before that, he still captured and locked onto a humanoid form, distinct from his magic fluctuation, and issued a command.
"Avada Kedavra!"
"Zzz..." The myriad of snake electricity around the magic antenna array suddenly turned into a terrifying green.
All crows began to caw, their wings flickering with emerald phosphorus, their eyes crazily growing green.
The few massive black cloud columns turned into green-lit cloud cannons.
The earth trembled as if foreseeing its fate, issuing a trembling roar.
"Ga! Mogha!"
A green light ball, tens of meters in diameter, formed below the antenna array. Then, accompanied by a silent explosion, the grand spell instantly traversed thousands of meters, smashing into the forest below.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
Unable to withstand it anymore, staying up late recently, my head is about to explode, my chest always hurts. At least I've finished writing this climax. I'll take a day off at the end of the month, let me catch my breath…
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