RUMBLE!

The army of the Macher Kingdom marched toward Maple City.

Their advance was massive and undisguised.

This was an overt plot.

The Macher Kingdom was forcing Otz to abandon his new nation.

Otherwise, they would crush Maple City with their one-hundred-thousand-strong army.

Otz, for his part, was already prepared to face war.

When the Macher Kingdom led its grand army forth, Orn had already stationed tens of thousands of soldiers at Frostwind Fortress.

Frostwind Fortress was the only viable path between the Macher Kingdom and Maple City.

There were no other roads suitable for a large army to traverse.

Otz had been planning to establish his nation for a long time and had already secured control of Frostwind Fortress.

Upon arriving at Frostwind Fortress, Orn’s army moved right in.

Relying on Frostwind Fortress, Orn could firmly hold off the Macher Kingdom’s one-hundred-thousand-strong army.

Seeing this, the Macher Kingdom had no choice but to find a way to dispatch Professionals to bypass Frostwind Fortress and infiltrate Maple City to cause sabotage.

Their goal was to stop the Divine Worship Ceremony from being held.

After Otz’s declaration, a storm began to brew over Maple City.

All eyes within the former Macher Kingdom were now focused on this conflict.

Meanwhile, Li Wei paid no mind to the shifting tides of the outside world.

He was still grinding away, practicing his Magic.

「August 23rd.」

In the Dream World.

[Object Control Skill (Tier One Perfection)] 0/10000

"It’s finally at Perfection."

A massive amount of knowledge related to the Object Control Skill flooded Li Wei’s mind.

’Huh, so this is the principle behind the Stone Throwing Skill?’

’Everything is ready!’

After digesting the new insights in his mind, Li Wei instinctively knew how to develop a new Flying Spell.

’The Object Control Skill will handle flight and levitation, the Fireball Skill will provide acceleration, and the Invisible Armor will withstand the recoil from the explosions.’

Using the Invisible Armor as the core, he would add flying and acceleration capabilities to it.

Li Wei’s mind raced as he quickly searched for a viable solution.

Under his deductions, the form of the Invisible Armor began to change.

’Huh, so this is also possible?’

Li Wei had made an unexpected discovery.

He had originally wanted to modify the shape of the Invisible Armor into something like a thruster nozzle to focus its explosive power.

Instead, he accidentally discovered that he could assemble the Invisible Armor from individual component parts.

In other words, he could take the original full-body Invisible Armor and condense it into a gauntlet or a greave.

After compression, the Defense Power of a single-layer Invisible Armor increased significantly.

Its overall flexibility was also greatly enhanced.

Li Wei spent a little time shaping the eighteen layers of Invisible Armor on his body into separate components.

These eighteen components formed a single, complete, full-coverage Invisible Armor.

He immediately felt much lighter and more agile.

When attacked, he could even control it to reveal only certain parts of the Invisible Armor, which also improved its stealth.

Most importantly, the eighteen components were interconnected and could distribute damage.

The Invisible Armor was essentially an Energy Shield.

Theoretically, with enough energy, it could block any attack.

Its creator had shaped the Invisible Armor into full-coverage Armor to solve the shortcoming of an Energy Shield only being able to block attacks from one direction.

Li Wei disassembled the eighteen layers of Invisible Armor and then reassembled them.

It was still one complete Invisible Armor.

This Invisible Armor’s Energy Limit was now eighteen times its original capacity.

Naturally, its Defense Power was also eighteen times greater.

Its Defense Power wasn’t weakened just because it was split into components.

This was the advantage of an Energy Shield.

Before, stacking was limited by thickness.

Now, it was theoretically possible to stack them infinitely.

Li Wei just needed to compress the components into smaller and smaller pieces.

Out of the eighteen components, Li Wei used five to create the thruster nozzles that would provide acceleration.

One for each hand and foot, and one on his back.

Li Wei integrated the Object Control Skill into the Invisible Armor.

The two Magic Models merged, becoming incredibly complex.

Soon, he created a brand-new Magic Model.

The Invisible Armor turned blue, and he slowly began to float.

Next was adjusting the distribution of the levitation power provided by the Object Control Skill.

He allocated the vast majority of the power to his back and feet, leaving twenty percent of the Power for his hands.

Another ten percent of the Power was distributed throughout his body to maintain a certain degree of mid-air agility.

Otherwise, if all the power were channeled to the thrusters, his flying speed would be much faster.

But his maneuverability would inevitably drop significantly.

In any case, the power distribution could be changed at any time, so Li Wei didn’t spend too much thought on it.

The most crucial step had arrived.

He had to integrate the explosive power of the Fireball Skill into the newly formed Magic Model.

Li Wei only wanted the explosive force provided by the Fireball Skill.

He didn’t need its indiscriminate explosive damage.

After a long period of debugging and deduction, Li Wei finally managed to control the power of the Fireball Skill.

It was just like with the Self-detonating Fireball Technique back then.

He contained the explosive force within a manageable range.

This would minimize the damage to himself.

And grant him maximum acceleration.

With a thought from Li Wei, the safe house expanded infinitely.

He slowly flew up into the sky.

Faint sparks began to drift from the thruster on his back.

Power was building up.

After further deductions, Li Wei discovered that the Flame Spray Spell was more suitable for integration than the Fireball Skill.

However, to enhance acceleration, Li Wei retained a portion of the Fireball Skill’s explosive power.

Under normal circumstances, he would accelerate using the flame spray.

In an emergency, he could use a direct explosive recoil for a super-acceleration.

HISS! WHOOSH!

Flames shot out from Li Wei’s back, his speed continuously increasing.

Faster and faster he went.

In just a few seconds, he surpassed the maximum speed he could achieve with the Object Control Skill.

His speed was still increasing, seemingly without limit.

Once Li Wei was accustomed to the acceleration, he decisively triggered the explosion.

BOOM! WHOOSH!

A powerful recoil erupted from his back.

A shockwave violently burst out around him.

Li Wei shot forward several dozen meters in an instant, his heart pounding violently.

The Invisible Armor became streamlined, minimizing air resistance as much as possible.

As he accelerated, Li Wei could clearly feel that his body was about to give out.

The Invisible Armor, however, was as steady as a mountain.

Its explosive acceleration had not yet reached its limit.

His body was the first to fail.

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!

The wind howled around him.

The scenery below blurred past in a flash.

Li Wei could no longer even judge how fast he was going.

He was moving too fast, and he found it difficult to control his direction.

BOOM!

A ball of fire exploded in mid-air. Li Wei tumbled dozens of times before plummeting toward the ground.

"Gag!" 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

Li Wei felt like his brains had been scrambled.

The ground rushed up to meet him.

SPLAT!

A large crater appeared in the ground. Li Wei lay in the crater, reduced to a pile of pulp.

The incredibly durable Invisible Armor flickered in and out of sight.

It had almost been shattered by the immense impact.

Li Wei was dead.

After a long time, Li Wei’s consciousness gradually returned.

He saw the corpse in the crater.

He was utterly astonished.

’What is going on?’

’No, that’s my body. Then what am I right now?’

He looked down, trying to see himself clearly.

But he saw nothing.

Suddenly, Li Wei felt a sense of malice and danger coming from outside.

He looked up and saw an endless fog shrouding his vision.

Countless dark figures writhed within the fog, baring their fangs at him with greedy expressions.

Li Wei jolted, and his consciousness returned to his body.

Everything was back to normal.