Chapter 453: Realm Gate
“Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—”
The moment Maguire-Storm entered the Realm Gate, countless meteors, trailing fiery red tails, assaulted him without warning.
However, before the meteors could get close, a light-shield-like barrier enveloped Maguire-Storm, fending off the meteor attacks.
“These Fallen Stars actually attack proactively? That’s too strange.” The moment Maguire-Storm entered the Realm Gate, the originally brilliant stars collectively “extinguished.”
Not only did they stop emitting light, but they even began to manipulate the surrounding magnetic fields of the planets, controlling the small meteors to collectively launch an attack on Maguire-Storm, the foreign invader.
“Has the plane will of the Fallen Star not already vanished? Why does it still have the ability to attack?”
Seeing the ripple-like patterns constantly appearing on the barrier shield around Maguire-Storm due to the meteor fragment attacks, Jia Na, observing from behind the Realm Gate, couldn't help but frown.
“Because they were polluted by an Outer God, even if the plane will of these Fallen Stars has disappeared, their law awareness cluster can still detect Law auras that are incompatible with their Plane, thus making attacks that are almost ‘instinctive’…”
At the same time, Hefais-Chixing, standing beside the Realm Gate, explained the situation Maguire-Storm was currently facing to everyone.
Upon hearing this, Jia Na also understood from Hefais-Chixing’s explanation why these Fallen Stars were attacking Maguire-Storm.
To put it simply, because the Fallen Stars had been contaminated by an Outer God for a long time, their law awareness cluster would subconsciously treat any Law aura not belonging to their Plane as an enemy and attack.
It was similar to the common stress response in “victims,” a type of conditioned reflex.
“It seems the Hurricane Law Fragment that Maguire possesses is not very welcome among the Fallen Stars—”
Hefais-Chixing had said in his lectures that the best relationship between a Wizard Apprentice and a Fallen Star was “mutual attraction.”
For example, a Wizard Apprentice senses Source Power similar to the Law Fragment they possess from a Fallen Star, and the Fallen Star, due to the Law Fragment the Wizard Apprentice possesses, senses Law power that is of great help to the recovery of its own Source Power, leading to a mutual choice.
A relatively secondary relationship is when the Wizard Apprentice “actively” attacks, while the Fallen Star maintains a “passive” attitude, neither active nor rejecting.
In this situation, the Wizard Apprentice can also use the power of the Law Fragment to forcibly bind the Fallen Star, and then slowly “cultivate a relationship” afterward to complete the fusion between their own Law Fragment and the Fallen Star’s law awareness cluster.
The last type is “hostile.”
Just like the Fallen Stars currently attacking Maguire-Storm, they are spontaneously attacking Maguire-Storm due to the law awareness cluster’s repulsion of the Hurricane Law Fragment.
In this situation, these “hostile” Fallen Stars are almost certainly not going to choose Maguire-Storm as their “new host.”
At the same time, Maguire-Storm also cannot forcibly choose these Fallen Stars.
“Damn it!”
At this moment, Maguire-Storm, completely unaware that his every move was being watched by others outside the Realm Gate, was somewhat annoyed as he looked at the surrounding “meteor stream” attacks.
Because the Hurricane Law inherently belongs to the highly destructive “natural disaster” authority, for those Fallen Stars whose Source Power is already riddled with holes, the “Natural Disaster Authority” representing destruction is inherently a less welcome Law type.
Therefore, given Maguire-Storm’s current situation, he could only search for a Fallen Star with wind-attribute affinity, or a “natural disaster type” Plane like the Thundercloud that Jia Na had previously contracted.
“I can only use that move!”
Looking at the dense meteors around him, even if there was a Fallen Star among them that matched the attribute of Maguire-Storm’s Hurricane Law Fragment, he wouldn’t be able to discover it in his current situation.
So, after making his decision, Maguire-Storm no longer hesitated, but directly left the protection range of the Realm Gate’s barrier.
At the same time, he also quickly cast a wizardry gesture, raising his hand above his head, just as the meteors were about to hit Maguire-Storm’s spiritual body, Maguire-Storm, who had temporarily borrowed the power of the Lord of Knowledge and Wisdom, immediately simultaneously unleashed the power of the Hurricane Law Fragment.
As the azure hurricane continuously gathered around Maguire-Storm, the meteors that had already approached were swallowed by the Source Power of the Hurricane Law Fragment at this moment, and then blown far away, unable to get close.
“Whoosh—”
Three minutes were almost up. Under Maguire-Storm’s anxious mood, finally, within the last ten seconds, a Fallen Star emitting an azure light finally appeared within Maguire-Storm’s line of sight due to the appearance of the Hurricane Source Power.
The moment he saw the azure Fallen Star, Maguire-Storm, whose mood shifted from anxious to joyful, almost immediately, with the help of the Hurricane Law Fragment’s power, established a connection with the law awareness cluster within this Fallen Star.
“Bang—”
In the last second of the three-minute time limit, Maguire-Storm, who had already established contact with the Fallen Star, was pulled back to the Primary Material World by the Realm Gate’s suction, and then thrown back into the Book World like a “sandbag.”
“I succeeded!”
Although his landing was a bit disheveled, as the first Wizard Apprentice among all present to successfully gain the Fallen Star’s recognition on his first attempt, Maguire-Storm’s mood at this moment was quite excited.
“Well done.”
The Fallen Star Maguire-Storm chose was once a very pure elemental Plane with wind attributes. If not for the Outer God’s contamination, this Wind Elemental Plane might have had the possibility of further evolution and advancement.
Therefore, Hefais-Chixing, who had also chosen a Fallen Star with pure elemental attributes during his Wizard Apprentice period, looked at Maguire-Storm at this moment with a hint of admiration in his eyes.
