Wizard: Starting from the Skill Tree-Chapter 535: Self-Destruction

Many of these Insect Race units disintegrated shortly after charging out due to over-accelerated maturation, yet they used their lives to fill every inch of seawater.

They attempted to slow down and wear out the eight unmatched giants with the most pure number and sacrifice of life, even if only to delay for a moment and consume a sliver of power.

Meanwhile, the vast energy of the Level 1 and Level 2 Nests yet to be destroyed began to violently and uncontrollably fluctuate and converge.

It seemed as if they were forcibly extracted of all energy by the Level 3 Nest, resembling ignited Energy Sources.

One after another, silent yet soul-stirring explosions resonated across the Insect Race’s frontlines, not being physical blasts, but sacrificial detonations of the Nest Cores.

Each nest’s self-destruction released a storm of energy mixed with desperation, madness, and destructive intent, like an invisible tsunami sweeping across the battlefield.

The Level 3 Nest used the self-destruction of these nests as a means of attack, its diffused energy waves being extremely powerful, causing massive loss to the surrounding slave creatures.

This attack was indiscriminate, and the raging energy also devoured surrounding Insect Race units.

The will of the Level 3 Nest was decisive, unwilling to be easily breached, opting for a mutual destruction counterattack.

Lauren naturally wouldn’t stand by and do nothing. If the Void Insect Race nests continued self-destructing like this, even this Level 3 Nest might self-destruct in the end.

By then, it would not just be a significant threat but also result in gaining nothing from this operation, ending in futility.

Even though they came to complete the Wizard Council’s task, gaining some benefits during the mission would naturally be better, as no one wants to return empty-handed.

Moreover, leaving such a vast amount of resources to be destroyed in the nests’ self-destruction, anyone would find it hard to bear.

Faced with this almost insane, desperate counterattack of the Nest cluster at the cost of self-destruction, a flash of icy sharpness finally crossed Lauren’s ever-unfazed face.

He would never allow such vast and precious resources, especially the core Level 3 Nest, to turn to nothing before his eyes without value.

"Meaningless waste." He murmured, yet his voice seemed to carry some peculiar power that penetrated the chaotic battlefield.

Just as another Level 1 Nest Core was about to sacrificially detonate, with the destructive energy fluctuation already at its peak, Lauren acted.

He didn’t attack the nest about to self-destruct nor did he attempt to withstand the impending energy storm, which would only aggravate the energy’s chaos and uncontrollability.

Lauren raised his hands, his fingers moving as if plucking invisible strings, sketching quickly in the void.

Moments later, countless extremely fine, flickering azure energy runes appeared.

These azure runes, as if alive, instantly crossed space, accurately imprinting on the Core of the Level 1 Nest about to explode, as well as the violently fluctuating energy field around it.

The previously extremely violent destructive energy, ready to fully release the next moment, seemed to have been forcibly calmed by an invisible giant hand.

The azure runes formed a complex and precise three-dimensional network, functioning as a temporary, ultra-strong energy constraint and redirection matrix, forcibly confining the energy capable of leveling a sea region within the Nest Core and forcibly reversing its explosive flow, beginning a slow, stable return and calm.

This process was not static, as the Nest Core still trembled violently, its internally forcibly constrained and redirected energy emitting an unwilling buzz, with its biological tissues on the surface continuously breaking apart, but it did not explode in the end.

Lauren’s actions did not cease, constantly manifesting azure runes before him, which then flew to the nearby other Nests about to detonate, applying the same technique.

One by one, azure energy constraint matrices lit up on those pulsating Nest Cores, forcibly halting their self-destructive processes.

For a moment, multiple Level 1 and Level 2 Nests, which should have turned into grand fireworks, stood frozen as if a pause button had been pressed, their internally confined destructive energy emitting unstable light but unable to release, could only roll and roar futilely within their cores.

As Lauren suppressed the self-destructive processes of multiple Level 1 and Level 2 Nests, a far more terrifying and profound omen of destruction than any previous wave rang out like a final death knell from the deepest part of the Bone Spike Strait, where the Level 3 Nest was located.

The entire Level 3 Nest, a massive presence akin to a giant dark heart, suddenly lit up with dazzling blinding white light in its numerous thick energy veins on the surface.

An annihilating energy capable of evaporating a radius of several miles of sea and distorting space itself was madly converging and compressing at unprecedented speed in its core.

The Nest’s consciousness of the Level 3 Nest, upon realizing that defeat was certain, and even the suicidal attacks of its subordinate nests were stifled, finally made the ultimate choice.

To transform itself into the ultimate bomb and perish with all intruders.

The scale of this energy was too vast, its nature far beyond those of the lower-level nests.

Lauren seemed to have anticipated this moment long ago, his gaze sharp as a lighthouse piercing the abyss, without any hesitation, gathering his Spiritual Power and Magic Power like rivers flowing into the sea.

He spread his arms as if embracing the entire ocean.

At the same time, a series of Spiritual Power messages containing strange power also transmitted from the Spiritual Power waves emitted by Lauren.

"Hereby declare—"

"The flow of energy shall cease before its birth."

"The will of destruction shall be silent at the moment of burst."

"Time and space shall stand still here, all things shall freeze here."

"Great Decree: All Things to Quiescence!"

This series of messages appeared long, but once included in Spiritual Power, the perception felt as if it happened in an instant.

A force of absolute stillness beyond ordinary energy and material planes, centered around Lauren, expanded like an infinitely expanding transparent field, instantly enveloping the entire rift area where the Level 3 Nest was located.

The originally frenzied, converging and compressing annihilating energy inside the Nest Core, about to reach its critical point, its raging process appeared to have an absolute pause button pressed.

The blinding white light solidified in its rushing state, no longer increasing, nor decreasing, as if it became a freeze-framed catastrophic painting.

The energy blood vessels on the Nest’s surface that had lit up, their glow also stagnated in place, no longer flickering.

Even the massive throbbing of the Nest itself fell into complete stasis.