Chapter 19: The Sky Falls! A Triple Strike of the Seventh Order!

Cries and screams. The sounds of countless people running in panicked disarray. The once peaceful and serene Azure City was now gripped by tension. Most of its inhabitants had never witnessed such a monumental event.

Armed with live ammunition and exuding a murderous aura, military professionals began to organize the evacuation of the masses, using iron-fisted tactics to suppress any who panicked or caused trouble. No one knew exactly what had happened; they only knew that disaster had struck.

"Look, the southern sky...!"
"My god!"
"What is that!"

Among the fleeing crowds, someone noticed that the southern horizon had turned a color so deep it seemed as if the sky were bleeding. In that distant, burning expanse, they even caught sight of the silhouette of a legendary creature.

A dragon! A giant dragon of fire!

The sight of the dragon exhaling its searing breath was visually overwhelming. It was not just the civilians who were stunned; even the military professionals maintaining order stood frozen. They didn't know the truth either, but they could guess: something earth-shattering had occurred in the southern outskirts of Azure City. Perhaps it was because of that very dragon that they had been ordered to evacuate.

Fortunately, the anomaly in the southern sky came and went as quickly as it had appeared. Just as everyone was filled with dread, fearing an invasion by the dragon race, the creature vanished, and the sky over the southern outskirts returned to normal, as if everything they had seen was merely a hallucination.

However, the very next moment, a wind began to blow across all of Azure City. There was no warning. The city, previously calm and still, was suddenly buffeted by ferocious gales. The wind elements drifting through the world turned chaotic. Several fourth-rank professionals in the city mounted their battle pets and took to the sky. Compared to the ordinary citizens, they could see much more.

In the southern outskirts, a massive vacuum seemed to have formed, a terrifying cyclonic storm. All air currents were rushing toward that point in a frenzy.

"Woo..."

The flying mounts beneath many of them began to tremble in the increasingly terrifying winds. The sky grew dim, as if a long-brewing storm were about to descend in its entirety.

...

Above the Land of Dead Silence, Lin Yi hovered at the very center of the storm he had created. He was chanting, reciting the incantation for the seventh-tier wind spell: Thousand Storms Crushing Wave.

In truth, Lin Yi still had two chances for instant casting. But since he was currently protected by the sphere of wind generated by his Wings of the Gale, his casting would not be interrupted, nor would he be attacked. He wanted to see how long it would take to fully chant a seventh-tier spell.

Even before the chant was complete, a terrifying phenomenon appeared in the sky. It turned completely overcast. Clouds hung lower and lower, swirling in massive volumes to form a terrifying, wall-like formation as spectacular as a tsunami. Just like water, air is a fluid, and under the influence of such dense wind elements, the atmosphere had taken on the consistency of a liquid.

When this wall of clouds finally descended, it would mark the end of Lin Yi’s incantation.

The howling wind disturbed the slumber of the dead. This act seemed to thoroughly enrage the Undead Knight, Rivendell. He suddenly raised his black knight’s sword, pointing it directly at Lin Yi in the high sky, and let out a bone-chilling roar from his throat.

The next moment, the plague-ridden black water, which had just been dried by the dragon’s breath, surged back like a tide, once again covering most of the Land of Dead Silence. Beneath the black water, countless limbs, skeletons, and rotting flesh twisted and reassembled. Thousands of undead creatures returned to the world at the command of the Undead Knight.

This scene made the thousands of professionals from Azure City who had intended to slay the world boss tremble in fear. It was too hellish.

Lin Yi’s gaze shifted. Under the observation of his All-Knowing Eye, he recognized this as the skill "Army of the Dead." If he let the knight continue, every soul that had ever died and been buried in this land would be raised as an undead soldier to fight for him. The more who died, the larger his army would grow. Not to mention, these undead soldiers could even inherit some of the strength and skills they possessed in life. It was not impossible that, if left unchecked, all of Azure City could be turned into a living hell.

*Whoosh!!*

The Undead Knight swung his greatsword, and a streak of black light tore through the air! A terrifying sword energy slash flew straight toward Lin Yi. This was another one of his signature skills: "Undead Void-Shattering Slash." The power of the strike was immense; Lin Yi could even hear the low, humming drone of the air being torn apart. The fifth-tier defensive wind sphere from his Wings of the Gale could not withstand an attack of this intensity.

Moreover, Lin Yi’s health was currently only a few hundred points. He had come in a hurry, and he had no minions like the Molten Flame Demon to provide him with a shield.

Yet, Lin Yi did not panic.

Because, from his lips, he uttered the final syllable of the magic incantation.

The chant was complete!

Even for a seventh-tier spell, the characteristics of wind magic remained strong: the casting time was at least one-third shorter than that of the dragon’s breath. Combined with the passive effect of "Divine Grace Chant," which reduced casting time by 70%, Lin Yi had completed this seventh-tier spell in less than ten seconds.

The whistling wind and the violent air currents paused for a moment. It was the final silence before the arrival of the terrifying storm!

The next moment, from the highest heavens, the wall of clouds collapsed! Like a massive wave crashing against the shore, it descended from the high altitude, imbued with terrifying power. The horrifying undead sword energy was instantly swallowed by the violent currents of the collapsing cloud wall. In the blink of an eye, the power of the slash was worn away and annihilated. It vanished into nothingness!

The professionals standing on the ground below looked up, their hearts filled with shock and terror as they watched the sky seemingly fall upon them. The Undead Knight was incredibly powerful; their lives had been in his hands only moments ago. But by comparison, the mysterious figure in the sky was even more powerful! With a mere wave of his hand, he made the heavens themselves descend upon the earth!

Yet, what shocked them even more was not over. The blurred figure beneath the clouds in the sky seemed to point a finger downward.

The next moment, the already terrifying storm intensified, the wind speed more than doubling! Countless people couldn't even open their eyes or breathe!

Furthermore, high above, the spectacular wall of clouds began to overlap. Before the first wall had even finished falling to unleash the full power of the Thousand Storms Crushing Wave, two more walls of clouds had instantly formed and were now crashing down in succession!