Pompeii, ground level.
More and more Truth Society wizards appeared from all over the town, and some rose into the air, blocking the airspace and blocking any direction in which Richard could escape.
Around the square, under the command of Chikafu, powerful spells prepared by many core wizards were gradually put into place. It can be clearly felt that there is a strong energy response within a radius of several hundred meters, as if a powerful energy field has been formed. The air was affected, and arcs as thick as a hair appeared and disappeared from time to time, adding a gorgeous and mysterious feeling.
It won't take long for all the spells to be completed. With just one command, the torrent of energy can drown and kill Richard.
That's what Chikafu thought. He looked at Richard gasping for breath on the top of the stone building in the southwest corner, and looked at Richard's obviously weak appearance. Although he was still frightened by Richard's sudden attack power, he did not doubt the final victory. Belongs to the Truth Society.
Even if Richard's previous attack power could be repeated, it would not change the result - after Richard killed more than a dozen or dozens of Truth Society wizards, the remaining wizards were enough to break through Richard's defense and kill him. Richard hundreds of times.
Perhaps it was a pity that Richard could not be captured alive and allowed to plead guilty. Director Rommel was destined to be a little dissatisfied, but in this case he could not care so much.
This is all what Richard asked for.
"You asked for it." Chikafu said loudly to Richard on the top of the stone building, "You can't hold on anymore. Do you know how powerful it is? Then go to hell!"
"Lock him!" Chekhov raised his hand and ordered.
"Get ready, give it to me..."
Chikafu's raised hand began to chop, and all the wizards who heard the order activated the mana flow in their bodies to the extreme, producing strong mana fluctuations. With a radius of several hundred meters, it was like there were hundreds of energy suns appearing in an instant.
The energy field becomes solid.
Richard, who was located in the center of the energy field, had almost no source of magic in his body. His physical fatigue continued to increase, and his weakness could not be relieved in a short period of time, so he had to continue to pant.
"Hoo-ho-"
"Hoo-ho-"
While panting, Richard squinted at Chikafu without any fear, just silently recited the final countdown in his heart.
"three… "
"two."
"one!"
"boom!"
Chekafu's arm froze in the slashing motion, and the wizard's mana flow that was preparing to attack was stagnant. Everyone present felt that their heartbeats suddenly stopped.
Time seemed to be frozen, and the whole world became quiet for an instant.
Very quiet.
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Pompeii, ground floor of residence No. 1248.
The secret room at the end of the corridor, inside the implosion atomic bomb.
"Click..."
"Click."
"Click!"
The last three seconds countdown is over.
Built-in timer resets to zero.
The power source is activated, a discharge begins, and the current travels along the first wire at the speed of light. The length of the wire is an absolute standard thirty centimeters. After one billionth of a second, which is the time of a tremor, the current is conducted to the end, entering and activating the electrical signal control network.
There are a hundred branch wires in the electrical signal control network. Because the length of each branch wire is deliberately cut to a standard ninety centimeters, after zero point two tremors, the current in the branch wire is simultaneously transmitted to the end, activating the explosive detonator set there.
There are two detonators installed in the explosive detonator, one is standard and the other is backup.
In the end, the detonators in a hundred explosive detonators all took effect at the same instant without any error.
Next, a hundred composite explosive blocks forming an oval were successfully detonated, and the power spread rapidly along the explosive blocks and gathered inward.
Since the explosive block is composed of two explosives with different detonation velocities, the power does not spread from point to point in an arc, but forms a horizontal wave that acts on the "squeezer" on the inside of the explosive block.
The so-called extruder is a specially processed rhenium-tungsten alloy, with a one-centimeter-thick metal beryllium sheet wrapped inside it. The metal beryllium sheet is wrapped with a one-millimeter-thick uranium-235 metal sheet.
Due to the high strength and high temperature resistance of the rhenium-tungsten alloy, the extruder did not deform or melt under the impact of the horizontal wave of explosives, but instead pushed inside at a speed of nearly 10,000 meters per second. And because the atomic bomb is an implosion, two opposite extruders move toward each other in each direction, so the actual speed of the entire atomic bomb's inward contraction doubles to nearly 20,000 meters per second.
At such a high speed and in such a small space, human thinking has almost no time to react. The atomic bomb has shrunk to its core - the nuclear raw material component - the crystal heart.
The metal uranium 235 component, which is like the crystal heart of an open glass, was squeezed into a short and thick cylinder like a finger under the impact of a hundred extruders.
The density of uranium-235 has been greatly increased, and atoms have become extremely close to each other. It instantly breaks through the critical state and reaches the supercritical state, and the preconditions for continuous chain nuclear fission are achieved.
The last key component inside the atomic bomb, the ignition component, is activated at this time.
The so-called ignition component is an item that looks like a flashlight. It is placed not far from the nuclear material components. When activated, it quickly releases a large number of neutrons. Neutrons traveling at one-tenth the speed of light slam into supercritical, compressed uranium-235.
One of the neutrons accidentally and inevitably hit a uranium-235 nucleus. The nucleus shattered and split into two smaller barium nuclei and krypton nuclei, and two excess neutrons were released.
The two excess neutrons were passed around because the surrounding atoms were dense enough and did not travel far before they hit the second and third uranium-235 nuclei.
The second and third nuclei also fragmented, splitting into a total of four small nuclei and releasing four excess neutrons.
The four extra neutrons pass on, causing four more new uranium-235 nuclei to explode.
Four new uranium-235 nuclei break apart, releasing more - eight neutrons, speeding up the same reaction.
Eight, sixteen, thirty-two, sixty-four...
In an area, the number of fissioned uranium-235 atoms began to increase exponentially.
And this is just one area.
Because the ignition component releases not one neutron, a similar situation occurs in other parts of the compressed uranium-235 metal component.
As a result, in a very short period of time, countless atomic fission of nuclear raw material components was completed.
After fission, the mass of an atom is reduced to a certain extent compared to before. These reduced masses are converted into massive amounts of energy and released according to the mass-energy equation E=mc2.
Finally... three tremors.
Three billionths of a second.
The time it takes for light to travel a distance of nine meters in a vacuum.
Compressed nuclear material components have completed all aspects of a nuclear explosion. This 150,000-yield implosion atomic bomb, Truth No. 1-Goodwill, has gone through its extremely glorious life.
It officially died on the fourth day after its birth.
When it dies, the whole world mourns for it.
The power that could destroy everything was released rapidly, and the outside world had just reacted.
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In the secret room, Rommel touched the strange metal creation in front of him, and heard the "click-click" sound inside the creation suddenly disappear, and he fell into extreme silence for an instant.
For some reason, an unprecedented feeling of terror arose in his heart and enveloped his whole body.
His brain didn't have time to think, but his body reacted subconsciously: muscles contracted, eyes widened, hairs stood up, heartbeat increased, blood flow increased - these physiological reactions that disappeared due to the increase in strength, all reappeared at this time. For a moment, he seemed as weak as an ordinary person.
He couldn't help but think of the fear he felt when facing Foe Feng, the Ring Master of the Truth Society, when he was not yet a member of the Society of Truth.
The fear now is ten times stronger than that then.
No, not ten times, but a hundred times, a thousand times, countless times,
The fear now is a fear of extreme despair.
It was as if the metal creation in front of him contained power comparable to that of God.
No, it is not comparable to God, it may be stronger than God, and it may be an existence that kills gods.
What exactly is this
What exactly is this metal creation
What secret did Richard put inside
Rommel clearly felt the intense needle-pricking pain all over his skin. It was a warning signal, and his survival instinct drove him to desperately want to escape from the metal creation in front of him.
Escape, must escape.
He had no time to think carefully about why this happened. He just relied on instinct, tilted his head slightly, and glanced around, looking for a way to escape.
Then he felt a chill all over his body, and the blood almost froze in his veins.
Only then did he suddenly realize how targeted he was in his environment.
The secret room where the metal creation is placed has been specially reinforced with magic. With his strength, he can naturally destroy it, but he cannot do it in an instant, it takes time.
At the rear, his way was blocked. If he wanted to escape, he had to open up the collapsed tunnel, which also took time.
Time, fatal time!
In just a few seconds, he can escape from this place and be safe. But in just a few seconds, it was like a natural chasm standing in front of him, blocking all his hopes of escape. He had a premonition: In less than a second, he would be killed by the strange metal creation around him.
That…
Rommel's eyes widened, his gaze became heavy, and he suddenly realized: This is a trap.
Yes, this is a trap. He has stepped into this trap since entering the corridor.
The trap is very simple and only delays him for a few seconds.
But it was these few seconds of delay that became the straw that broke the camel's back.
He was going to die, he was going to die in this simple trap, he was going to die in this simple trap for no apparent reason.
However, he didn't want to die, he didn't want to die, he wasn't willing to die.
That…
Rommel's thoughts turned, and a sharp light shot out from his eyes. What came to mind at the next moment? He used great perseverance to overcome the body's survival instinct. He waved his hand, and blood-red flames appeared on his palms. He shot it with all his strength towards the strange metal creation next to him - he thought. It was clear that since there was no hope of escape, it was better to give it a try and destroy the metal creation that gave him fear first. As long as the metal creation is destroyed, danger will naturally not come.
With this thought, Rommel's palm fell on the metal creation as fast as lightning - not even a second had passed since he felt the crisis until now.
It will definitely come in time, it will definitely come in time... Rommel's eyes bulged slightly as he watched his hand getting closer and closer to the metal creation.
But at the next moment, when his palm was still more than twenty centimeters away from the surface of the metal creation, his pupils shrank slightly and he saw dense cracks suddenly appearing in the shell of the metal creation, and a faint light was released from the cracks.
Light
This thought flashed through Rommel's mind with some confusion, and then he heard a "buzz" sound. The shell of the entire metal creation vaporized, and a large area of extremely bright light was released, filling his entire field of vision.
"ah!"
He exclaimed in his heart, trying to cast a spell to defend himself, trying to block the dazzling light. But before he could retract his hand, boundless light enveloped his whole body.
"puff!"
With a soft sound, without any time to respond or resist, his entire body was directly vaporized and disappeared from this world, without even a hair or a cell left.
Rommel died physically.
As Rommel's body died, the power of the implosion atomic bomb did not stop, but was fully released.
Boundless white light filled the entire underground chamber, and then heat and force exploded with power.
The high temperature of millions of degrees and the high pressure of millions of atmospheres rapidly spread and impacted in the surroundings in a sphere, like a huge balloon that was fully inflated and exploded suddenly.
"boom!"
The power is devastating!
The underground nuclear explosion was a complete success!
Accompanied by the roar, the reinforced walls of the secret room, the collapsed tunnel, and the hard rocks were vaporized in the nuclear explosion, forming a huge cavity with a diameter of nearly a hundred meters in place.
The passage leading to the belly of the volcano had been blocked by Richard, but now it was opened. Part of the remaining nuclear explosion power was released along the tunnel towards the ground, and the other part crashed into the belly of the volcano, violently squeezing the stable state. magma.
The surface magma is forced to squeeze deep, and many magmas are disturbed, causing a chain reaction. The volcano slowly gathers momentum, becomes active, and approaches the eruption state. A huge crystal ball placed in a room at the Pompeii Town Affairs Office flashed red light and sounded an alarm, but no one noticed it. The only thing noticed was an "inhuman" existence.
A spirit, Rommel's soul to be precise, appears in the cavity of an underground nuclear explosion.
Rommel said he was a little surprised to see that his soul could survive with complete consciousness after his body died, but he later found a reasonable explanation.
It turns out... receiving the baptism of the true god's power before not only strengthened the body, but also strengthened the soul. In this way, even if the body is completely dead, the soul can survive independently. As long as it finds a suitable soul container, it can be resurrected.
Is this really immortal
Sure enough, the power of the true God is incredible.
It's just... what is the force that caused all this now
Rommel thought, looking at the cavity that had formed.
It can be seen that the underground nuclear explosion cavity with a diameter of nearly 100 meters is like a huge hollow stone ball placed underground.
The inner wall of the stone ball is covered with molten dark red magma. Part of the magma is squeezed into the cracks of the rock like marshmallows, and the other part flows downward like viscous syrup. Finally, the magma on the top is dripping. It's like rain—but the dark red color looks more like strawberry juice.
The whole scene has a sense of strange beauty and an indescribable horror.
It's scary, really scary, because it's unknown, so it's scary.
Rommel really couldn't imagine what kind of power Richard used to create all of this. You must know that Richard is still very young and weak, and his real strength is far below him. Even so, Richard can use such terrifying power. If Richard is given more time to develop and fully grow up, he may really pose a threat to the true god.
No, no, absolutely not.
Wrong, wrong, he was really wrong.
He originally thought that Richard would be an excellent successor, so he endured Richard's problems and tried to persuade Richard to submit.
But the truth behind Richard is thousands of times more terrifying than he imagined. He didn't find an excellent successor with flaws, he found a demon who could destroy the world and destroy all the efforts of the Truth Society.
Stop, stop, he had to stop this from happening.
He wants to leave here, do everything possible to be resurrected, and then report to the headquarters of the Truth Society. He wanted to apply for the director of the Golden Ring to kill Richard at all costs, not only destroying his body, but also his soul.
That's the only way to be safe.
Yes, that's insurance.
Thinking of this, Rommel controlled his soul and floated upwards. As a result, before he had floated a few meters, he suddenly saw a breathtaking blue energy point appearing in the center of the space. The light spot seemed to be connected to the endless ocean, and when he looked at it in his soul state, he felt like he was on the verge of collapse.
What is this
As soon as Rommel had this doubtful thought, he saw the light spot suddenly erupting and turning into a vast blue light like a tide, roaring and spreading in all directions.
Then there was a "crash" sound, something like the sound of broken porcelain.
Um? What's wrong? Is it the soul that has lost the protection of the body... broken... or...
This was Rommel's last consciousness. The blue light swept across, and his soul was directly shattered into thousands of fragments, and his consciousness went blank.
At this moment, Rommel was completely dead.
The blue light continued to spread without stopping, breaking through the soil and spreading to the ground. At this time, due to the delay in the transmission of impact force in the soil, the ground just started to move, which just broke the calm in the square on the ground.
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