A sneeze destroys a magical civilization

The collapse of order, the loss of authority, and the concentrated outbreak of old grievances turned the entire Ravnica into a hell on earth in a very short period of time.

Especially after nightfall, conflicts, killings, and deaths began to become more frequent, and the scope of the impact became larger and larger.

Except for the core areas controlled by a few guilds that could still remain stable, the rest of the places were all in a state of anarchy, lawlessness, and security.

To be precise, this time and space has always been in the competition and game between ten super giant guilds, and chaos is its normal state.

It’s just that the degree of chaos in the past was limited to a small range under the constraints of the ancient magic contract, and it was not fully released like it is now.

The sky-high flames not only ignited the city, but also illuminated the dark sky red, mixed with the roar of fighting, the howling of pain, and the desperate pleas.

Countless old people and children became victims of this turmoil, and women became tools for men to vent their desires.

Facts have once again proved that when people lose the strong constraints of order and law, and when they release the animal nature in their hearts that has been suppressed by society, they are actually a hundred, a thousand, or ten thousand times more terrifying than real beasts.

At least beasts rarely take the initiative to attack when they are not hungry, but humans will commit incredible atrocities driven by conformity and strong desires.

When the terrifying night passed and the sun slowly rose from the horizon again to welcome the day, the various forces that had been engaged in intense physical exchanges all night finally gradually calmed down.

Of course, this was not because they had fought enough or achieved a certain degree of reconciliation, but because the high-intensity battle consumed a lot of physical strength and energy, and the exhausted soldiers could not support it and urgently needed to rest.

So they had to stop fighting temporarily and continue after eating and drinking enough and sleeping.

In this way, on large areas of scorched land or ruins, soldiers covered in blood either walked into temporary tents or fell asleep directly in the middle of the camp.

Not far from the military camp, you can vaguely see women with tattered clothes or naked clothes coming out of their hiding places with empty eyes and numb faces, and then falling on the bodies of suspected family members or friends and crying loudly.

The cruelty of war and the fragility of ordinary people in front of the powerful violent machine are vividly reflected at this moment.

As the saying goes, it is better to be a dog in peacetime than a man in troubled times.

Ordinary people who have not experienced war will never truly understand what it feels like to completely lose dignity and personality and be treated like livestock.

Obviously, after experiencing the complete release last night, the entire Ravnica time and space has entered a rampage state.

The magic contract used to restrain the major guilds has completely become a piece of waste paper with the collective annihilation of the top leaders of the Ten Guild Alliance.

Because the guy who came to power later didn't know the content of this contract at all, and what consequences he would suffer if he violated it.

After all, the reason why deterrence can work is that the other party knows the damage you can cause.

When those who witnessed your power suddenly die overnight, the remaining people will naturally lose their awe.

This is basically the situation on Ravnica right now.

The more they fight and violate the contract, the more they will suffer the backlash of the contract, and the backlash will cause the death of the high-level people who climbed up, leading to more chaos. In addition, fewer and fewer people know the content of the contract, and finally an unsolvable dead cycle will inevitably form.

Without external interference, Niv-Mizzet, the founder of the Izzet League, is basically the only last hope to end it all.

"Damn it! Nicol Bolas hasn't come yet, and just sending one of his men will make us collapse from the inside?"

Looking at the messy situation, Jace Beleren, who had just returned from Innistrad, looked extremely ugly.

You know, everything was fine when he left.

But who would have thought that when he went out, the whole Ravnica would explode directly after returning.

"We can't do anything. The other party's abilities are terrifying, and they are also very insidious and cunning. We can't even tell which people are controlled and which ones join this war out of self-awareness."

Gideon Jura sighed helplessly.

As a guy who doesn't like to think, and even doesn't understand why he is always alone, and his friends and comrades around him often die inexplicably in battle, this kind of brain-intensive work is obviously a bit beyond the scope for him.

Yes, you heard it right.

This new generation of planeswalkers with terrifying self-recovery and regeneration abilities, which is equivalent to immortality, has no idea that the reason why he didn't die is all due to the unique ability of the spark, while those comrades and friends who died in the battle didn't have it at all.

It has to be said that this is really a bit outrageous and against the sky.

So everyone who knows Gideon Jura will be impressed by his firm will, strong fighting power and noble character, but they will definitely not have too much hope for his IQ.

Another young planeswalker, Ral Zarek, a member of the Izzet Alliance, held his forehead and added, "Not only are we helpless against this enemy, but even Sancho and the Lithomancer Nahiri have also failed.

According to Sancho, there are countless people in Ravnica who have been planted with the seeds.

This strange seed not only has the ability to control the target creature, but also can reproduce and spread itself.

After such a long period of silent infiltration, it is basically impossible to eradicate it.

The other party is obviously very clear about this, so he always hides in the dark and will immediately escape with the power of sparks as soon as there is any movement.

He emphasized that it is better to prepare for Nicol Bolas's full invasion than to chase this enemy. "

"I think Sancho is right. If I were the old dragon, this is the best time to launch a full-scale invasion. "

The elven planeswalker Nissa Revane stood on the side of Ral Zarek without hesitation.

Since parting with Zuo Si, she looks much more mature, and there is no more innocence in her eyes, but gives people a kind of arrogance unique to elves.

Only the dimensional bag that Zuo Si gave her is still hanging around her waist.

"What is Sancho doing now? "

Jace Beleren raised his head abruptly and asked in an uncertain tone.

Lal Zarek smiled bitterly and replied: "He has temporarily replaced Niv-Mizzet to lead the entire Izzet League with Niv-Mizzet's approval, and tried his best to maintain those key defense facilities from being destroyed by the civil strife."

Hearing this, Jace's originally ugly expression finally eased and nodded slightly: "Yes. It seems that there are still smart people in Ravnica."

"Sancho is not just smart. He quickly stabilized the situation within a few hours after taking office, and screened out all those who were infected with seeds in their bodies for isolation. At present, the Izzet League is the only guild that has not lost control, which is mostly due to him. "

Lal Zarek's tone was filled with admiration and emotion.

As a member of the guild, his loyalty to the Izzet League and Niv-Mizzet himself was absolutely unquestionable, so he was also grateful to Sancho, the hero who stood up and saved the day at the critical moment.

Although at the beginning, he had a strong jealousy of this junior who was better than himself in every aspect.

"What about now? What should we do now? Are we just going to watch Ravnica fall into war?"

Chandra Nalaar obviously had no patience, and looked at the army that committed numerous atrocities with hatred and disgust, wishing she could release her powerful fire magic to purify them all.

"Calm down, don't mess around at this time. "

Jace grabbed the young girl with fiery red hair.

Perhaps others might just say this to satisfy their desire, but Chandra Nalaar would definitely take actual action in the next second.

Just as several young planeswalkers gathered together to discuss countermeasures, a blue beam of light suddenly fell from the sky, releasing incredible and terrifying energy.

In just less than a few seconds, the light began to spread in all directions, and everything it touched would be torn, decomposed, and twisted at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally completely submerged in the blue light.

Shock!

Fear!

Panic!

Several military camps near the light column immediately exploded, and a large number of soldiers who had fallen asleep were awakened, and then they fled without caring about others.

However, most of them could not outrun the speed of the light column's expansion, and eventually disappeared one after another.

No one knew where they went, but the young planeswalkers who knew what this light was understood that these disappeared people would never be seen again. I can't come back.

Because that blue light is nothing but the famous space-time bridge.

And the space-time bridge cannot transport living things. Only the undead and dead things can use it to cross the endless dark void and reach another space-time.

When the light column began to become stable and no longer expanded outward, thousands of immortals emitting azure light rushed out like a tide.

Although they were dry and dead bodies, or simply skeletons wearing armor, their combat power was amazing.

Those elite soldiers who survived several rounds of fighting had no resistance in front of these immortals and were easily killed by the other side.

Ordinary weapons would only make a crisp metallic sound when they chopped them, and even a white mark would not be left.

Some spellcasters tried to use the power of magic to fight against it, but in the face of the terrifying resistance blessed by divine power and divinity, most of the spell damage was weakened to an almost negligible level.

"No! Impossible! What kind of monster is this? Even the sacred magic that restrains the undead is ineffective! "

"Run! Run! These monsters are impossible to kill!"

"No! Don't run! Hold on!"

"Get out of here! Why should I listen to you!"

...

Accompanied by noisy voices and large-scale defeats, the major guilds that had been engaged in fierce physical exchanges all night last night and refused to give in to each other finally lost their last organizational structure and became a pile of loose sand in front of the unmatched overwhelming power of the Immortal Legion.

Those who were still worried about what the future would be like probably never dreamed that an unsolvable deadlock was solved by a powerful external force.

The speed was so fast that they didn't even have time to react.

Looking at the endless line of immortals who began to attack the city, Jace Beleren took a deep breath and whispered in a voice that only he could hear: "Nico Bolas is here! The war... has begun!"

The words have not yet been spoken!

A huge oval-shaped object was suddenly launched from the location of the Izzet Alliance headquarters, drawing a beautiful parabola in the sky, and then suddenly bloomed with a dazzling white light at a considerable distance from the ground where the space-time bridge was. .

In a blink of an eye!

A huge fireball expanded rapidly, swallowing up everything within a radius of more than several kilometers, and then quickly transformed into a huge mushroom cloud.

At the moment of the explosion, the ripples caused by the shock wave spreading to the periphery can even be clearly seen with the naked eye.

It wasn't until a few seconds later that a deafening sound and vibration came.

boom! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

The violent shaking made countless people stagger and couldn't even stand, as if they were standing near the crater of a violent eruption.

When the shaking gradually subsided, the young planeswalkers noticed that after the violent explosion of the immortals who were almost invulnerable to fire and water, at least thousands of them in the center were affected to varying degrees. of serious injury.

There is also a small part that was simply burned into a translucent glass structure by the terrifying high temperature and pressure.

Although divinity and divine power ensured that most of them were not directly destroyed, they successfully stopped the previous indomitable momentum.

Of course, the price was that those members of the Guildpact who had not had time to escape the killing radius were also wiped out, leaving not even a bit of bones or dregs left.

"This... what the hell is this?! Izzet Alliance is doing this stuff at your headquarters every day?"

Gideon Yura stared dumbly at the terrifying power of the explosion in the distance, as well as the terrible burns and severe pain caused to the surface of his skin when the hot wind blew, and his whole person felt a strong sense of unreality.

He wasn't even sure if he would have a chance to recover from being shot head-on with his "immortal body".

How terrible!

No wonder the people of Ravnica always say that the Izzet Alliance is a bunch of lunatics with abnormal minds!

The stuff they come up with will one day destroy the world!

"Oh my God! Has Sancho finally figured this out?"

The corners of Lal Zarek's mouth twitched slightly uncontrollably, and at the same time his eyes shone, clearly in a state of extreme excitement.

After all, he is also a member of the Izzet Alliance, and members of this guild have always had little resistance to violent explosions and all-destroying flames.

In their eyes, this is the most beautiful sight in the world.

"Is this a weapon made by Sancho?"

Jace Beleren, who has long taken root in the plane of Ravnica, is obviously no stranger to this rising star. The two have even exchanged ideas about the mind and illusion magic with each other.

In his opinion, Sancho should be the kind of person with maturity that is not commensurate with his age. How could he be crazy enough to create such a dangerous thing.

If this thing accidentally explodes during the research and experiment, the entire Izzet Alliance and the city where it is located will have to follow suit.

But Lal Zarek nodded very seriously: "Yes, that's him.

It is said that this is a force called nuclear power.

In his theory, the material world is composed of countless smallest units that are invisible to the naked eye.

The reason why these smallest units can be combined to form stable matter is that there is some unimaginable powerful force.

When this interaction force is broken, unimaginable and amazing energy can be released.

Therefore, under the guidance of this theory, he and Niv-Mizzet jointly conducted a series of in-depth research and attempts.

It’s just that I didn’t know that they had actually succeeded and weaponized it. "

"Core? A unique knowledge system from other time and space..."

Jace Beleren looked thoughtful.

As an intelligent man with a strong curiosity and an endless thirst for knowledge, he knew that Ravnica would never lack inspiration, knowledge, technology, and ideas from other times and places.

I just didn't expect that the Izzet Alliance could come up with such a killer weapon quietly.

Obviously, the huge oval object that exploded just now was nothing else, but a thermonuclear weapon made by integrating magical power.

After all, all the theories and manufacturing processes of this thing had been copied down by Zuo Si a long time ago and used as reference materials and thrown into his private library in the Ashcatla Mage Tower.

Sancho accidentally saw the contents inside when he was still an apprentice. He was shocked by the terrifying destructive power of this weapon, but regretted that it could not be manufactured and used in Faerûn.

Later, he left Faerûn and came to Ravnica. In order to arouse the curiosity and attention of Niv-Mizzet, the ancient dragon, he used this theory as a qualification for advancement.

Since the magical environment of Ravnica does not affect technological creations, there are many devices driven entirely by technology in this time and space, even intelligent construct robots, so it didn't take long for real objects to be created.

Even underground at the Izzet Alliance headquarters, there are a large number of magic centrifuges working day and night, processing and purifying radioactive materials until the concentration reaches the requirements for weaponization.

It has to be said that the power of this high-altitude nuclear explosion did have a good effect.

At least it attracted the attention of everyone in the plane.

"Nuclear weapons? These guys from the Izzet League actually made nuclear weapons in private!"

The dark prince Greya, who had been looking for little Annie all night but was caught by her sister's tail, raised his head slightly and looked at the eye-catching mushroom cloud in the distant sky with an incredible expression.

Although nuclear bombs are already obsolete for New Phyrexia, they are "low-tech", "not so powerful", and "contaminated", and have long been completely replaced by antimatter bombs.

But it does not mean that it is easy for a plane like Ravnica, which is mainly based on magic and supplemented by technology, to make them.

Quite the contrary!

Without a mature philosophy, mathematics, and physics system as a foundation, it takes a lot of effort just to figure out the principles.

Not to mention the huge amount of time and energy required to find and purify radioactive minerals.

It's like in the 21st century, all countries know the principles of nuclear weapons, but there are only a few countries that can really make them.

In addition to the risk of severe sanctions, the most important thing is that the manufacture of weapon-grade high-purity radioactive materials requires a large number of industrial centrifuges, and the electricity consumed by these centrifuges is beyond the reach of many countries.

So the boast that a certain country has advanced technology, many nuclear power plants, and abundant nuclear material reserves, and can produce nuclear weapons within a few weeks or even hours is a complete joke.

Anyone who knows a little about nuclear physics knows that the concentration of fuel rods used in nuclear power plants is completely different from weapon grade.

If you want to turn the former into the latter, the entire country may need to spare a huge amount of additional electricity.

And it is almost impossible to hide such things from the outside world.

What's more, even if it is made, what can it do?

Without the corresponding trinity delivery capability, is it going to explode on its own land?

"I hate this dazzling light like the sun!"

The goddess of the night, Shar, revealed naked and undisguised hatred in her tone.

You must know that stars and thermonuclear weapons are essentially nuclear fusion, so the light produced is simply a nightmare for dark gods like her.

"Don't worry. I think with the strength of the Izzet League, they can only build a few at most, which will not have any impact on the overall situation."

As he said this, the Dark Prince Graya quickly cast a detection magic, presenting the scene around the Space-Time Bridge in an illusion.

The big pit formed by the fierce nuclear explosion did not affect the Space-Time Bridge in the working state, and the Eternal Legion did not stagnate because of this, and continued to be teleported from the other side.

About a few minutes later, the elder dragon planeswalker Nicol Bolas, who was the initiator of the War of the Spark, finally appeared above the Space-Time Bridge with his men.

He first looked around, then grabbed the boiling liquid magma on the ground that had been burned red by high temperature and high pressure, and commented with a slightly contemptuous tone: "Want to use this weapon to destroy the Space-Time Bridge? It really makes me want to laugh!"

However, unlike the calm old dragon, Tezzeret and Liliana showed a look full of fear.

They knew very well that if they followed the first batch of Eternals into Ravnica, there would be no ashes left now, and they would all have died in the high-altitude nuclear explosion just now.

"Great Dragon Lord, can we proceed according to the original plan now?" Shane VII asked with a smile, bowing slightly.

As one of Zuo Si's closest allies, he had already seen the power of nuclear weapons, and even made planeswalker cards to use in certain time and space, so he was relatively calm about it.

"Well, everything will proceed according to the original plan. Remember to go a little slower, don't scare my little cuties."

Nicol Bolas raised his mouth to show naked and undisguised malice.

"Understood, I know what to do."

Shane VII raised the scepter in his hand that controlled the Eternal Legion and flew straight into the air, then waved it gently in the north direction.

The dense Eternals began to march forward along the scorched earth, killing all living creatures on the road ahead.

Of course, except for those planeswalkers who have sparks.