"The greatest improvement in labor productivity, along with increased skill, dexterity, and judgment in labor application, seems to be the result of division of labor..."

"From contemplating the relationship between the earth and the sky, our understanding begins to form."

He first strengthened his spell with the [Invisible Hand], then both [Cycle] and [Equilibrium Cycle] from the "Astronomy Master" took effect, supplemented by the [Supreme Angel] from the "Divine Comedy" that did not require incantations.

In an extremely short period of time.

Ronald simultaneously activated three spells, extracting magic power from the original text for enhancement and then drawing it in again with the world's magic power.

And then...

The entire world became extraordinarily quiet, and the air seemed to freeze in the sky.

The ability Ronald was using at this moment was unlike the previous ones with obvious bursts of flames or other conspicuous visuals; it was all about interference with force.

The spell's effects were formless, invisible, and intangible.

But if someone were standing in the location of the Dust Beast, they would actually feel the terror of Ronald's attack.

The omnipresent tearing force filled the entire space.

Every bit of space in reality was filled with this force, no corner left untouched, tearing apart all material within. Looking around, the senses and bodily touch conveyed a bizarre experience — as if the whole world was falling downwards.

"What... what is this?"

From a safer distance, the casters from Lin Yin City and Hamonor who witnessed this scene found it hard to describe their feelings.

Around the Dust Beast.

The earth and trees were instantly ground into powder-like dust and then, filled with power but aimlessly scattered around like flour exploded from the air in generations.

And within the space, it seemed like a world upheaval of magic fluctuations.

Made these casters hard to comprehend.

As elites of two city-states, they were rare to witness such scenes in battles of those who held ancient texts.

But the current scenario far surpassed such concepts.

Magic power beyond human reach, spells whose range could cover a city, the sheer force that could crush all matter...

The three embodied in one person—

If not for the fact that Ronald, controlling the spell aloft, was too apparent, none among the casters present would have believed this was a scene from reality.

Only Catherine, guarding by Ronald in the air, did not go crazy over this.

The Astrology Tower Master's perspective on power remained unchanged.

So she simply flashed an intrigued smile and said:

"Oh my, you're really hiding some serious tricks up your sleeve."

"But Ronald, why do I feel like your spell is not having much effect on this guy below?"

Katherine's statement was a fact.

Within the range of Ronald's spell attack, though everything was torn to powder, the white figure of the Dust Beast remained unmoved.

The fibrous white body of the Dust Beast, after shrinking a circle, underwent a radical transformation in structure. The texture that any random spell could pierce through before now had a hardness far superior to steel.

For the Dust Beast.

Its only issue at the moment was its inability to move.

Significantly increasing its body density caused its body to also lose the capacity for movement, like a stationary turtle shell placed on the ground.

Watching the Dust Beast below, Ronald was not pessimistic; instead, he turned to the girl beside him with a smile:

"Katherine, don't be impatient; I'm not finished yet!"

As his voice landed, the already raging magic power beside Ronald surged to an even higher intensity.

And this time, the intensity of magic power.

Even made Katherine instinctively step back half a meter.

In reality, the power displayed by the spell just now was only the beginning.

This was Ronald's first time merging several spells while extracting the original magic to enhance them, and adding the technique for channeling the world's magic to it.

An unprecedented attempt brought unprecedented power.

It also indicated a very high difficulty of control.

The previous scene was merely Ronald adapting and getting accustomed to the rhythm of such a spell, without fully unleashing its true offensive potential.

But now, after Katherine said this to him.

Ronald felt he could handle it.

...

At this moment, the air became even quieter than before.

Looking down, a bizarre and counterintuitive scene was unfolding.

The matter originally torn into powder by the spell was not continuing to scatter outward with the spell's enhancement but suddenly began to condense along certain trajectories, forming arc-shaped lines.

These arc patterns pervaded every inch of the space covered by the spell.

Upon close inspection, movement was clearly evident on their surfaces!

Everyone who could see this scene could not comprehend why such a phenomenon occurred.

But one thing was very clear.

Because that massive, previously unmoved Dust Beast finally 'moved' at this moment.

To describe it with a more precise term.

The resilient white fibrous body of the Dust Beast retained its strength, not crushed.

But the air around the Dust Beast showed marks like the surrounding arcs, and the body of the Dust Beast followed these lines to cave inward, presenting a very contradictory state.

Its body structure remained undamaged.

But when viewed directly, it appeared anomalously twisted in spatial vision.

Of course, stepping beyond the confines of perspective.

For example, observing from Ronald and Katherine's position downwards.

You would notice that the overall size of the Dust Beast was shrinking inward at a steady and firm pace, already reduced to a fifth smaller than at first!

Right below Ronald, the focus of his attack.

The fibrous white body of the Dust Beast revealed, amid various arcs of distortion, a faintly visible small black object.

"Hah—"

Suddenly, Ronald exhaled, and the magic fluctuations around him drastically decreased.

This wasn't due to his inability to sustain the attack.

It was because the composite spell he prepared included the special ability of [Invisible Hand], whose initial enhancement effect began to wane due to its nature.

So even as Ronald maintained the spell.

The overall intensity of the attack inevitably began to diminish significantly, and the force changes affected by the spell and the twisted body of the Dust Beast started to recover from this special state.

Yet even so, Ronald did not feel discouraged.

As everything occurred in an instant.

Katherine had already activated her spell and streaked down like a meteor!