Lan Qingyou was a chemistry student, and a greenhorn who had only been studying for a few months at that, so she didn't have a deep understanding of physics.
But even so, she knew exactly what would happen to the shelter once this giant boulder was dropped.
So, here is the question again.
How can a six-ton rock strike a shelter protected by a magic shield?
As an alchemist, Lan Qingyou could actually provide a partial answer to this.
It was simple.
As long as the rock was inscribed with a magic circle of the same specification as the magic shield.
Just as when the magic circle had been projected outward before, Lan Qingyou had absorbed a great deal of knowledge and theory from it.
One of those theories was that magic circles followed the principle of "like repels, opposites attract."
Although magic circles and magic shields didn't seem to have much in common, they were actually just different branches under the broad academic umbrella of 《Semiotics》.
Lan Qingyou had seized upon this point to create a magic circle that functioned similarly to a magic shield.
That was right.
In other words, Lan Qingyou was currently the only person capable of dealing damage to the interior of a shield from the outside.
Or to put it another way, she was currently the only person on the Kalim continent who could ignore a shelter's shield.
Now then, let us revisit the first question.
Known: The boulder weighs approximately six tons. Height: approximately 280 meters.
Because they were of a "similar nature," the magic shield would attract the boulder bearing the magic circle, and the boulder would accelerate because of the magic shield's influence.
Question: If this boulder is further accelerated by the gravitational pull of the ground-level magic shield during its descent, how much energy will it generate at the moment of impact?
Boom!
The answer: it was leveled to the ground!
There were no specific numbers, and no need for complex formulas. A liberal arts student could accurately describe it in four words: "leveled to the ground!"
No, to be precise, after the shelter was leveled, the boulder left a massive crater in the earth.
The resulting shockwave and the plume of dust were felt by Lan Qingyou and Susie even at an altitude of 280 meters.
Lan Qingyou immediately gained more altitude while flying to the side, narrowly avoiding the aftereffects.
“That was incredible. I didn't expect the power to be this great,” Lan Qingyou muttered, looking down at the mushroom cloud rising below from their new height of six hundred meters.
“Wait... You didn't even know how powerful your own move was?”
Susie looked at her in a daze, unable to fathom how a warm human mouth could utter words that made her heart turn cold.
Good grief.
With a move this powerful, one wrong step and she could have been caught in it and finished. It was one thing for Lan Qingyou to have no regard for her own life, but why did she have to experiment with a new skill while Susie was present?
Indeed, in Susie’s eyes, the move Lan Qingyou had just performed was clearly something she had just come up with and had never tested before.
Only then would she have been able to say something like that.
She wasn't wrong; Lan Qingyou had indeed used this opportunity to test the move.
Actually, she had wanted to use it before, specifically when dealing with Ksuya's Eye.
But she hadn't expected to defeat it so easily, so she never had the chance to use it.
Now, with her enemies right below her, Lan Qingyou had delivered a strike of justice from above as a "knock on the door," a gentle tapping on their souls.
From the look of it, the effect was significant.
“Come on, let’s go down and see. It’s my first time seeing something that looks like a meteorite crater on the moon.”
Even though she was the one who had caused it, Lan Qingyou looked excited, leaving Susie speechless beside her.
However... she had finally endured it.
No matter what anyone said later, she had to get down.
Even if they couldn't make it back tonight and had to camp outside, she would never sit on Lan Qingyou’s Magic Broom again.
“There’s so much dust and smoke. I’ll go down first to see if there’s any danger.”
Sure enough.
As the dust began to settle and the Magic Broom descended to about two or three meters, Susie used safety as an excuse to be the first to "float" down.
“Wait—”
Before Lan Qingyou could finish her sentence, Susie had already charged into the lingering dust.
Left with no choice, Lan Qingyou deactivated the talent skill she had placed on Susie's body.
“She seems stern, but I didn't expect her to be such a warm-hearted soul.”
Mistakenly believing that Susie had run into the dust out of a genuine concern for safety, Lan Qingyou remarked with a sense of admiration.
Thud.
It was unclear whether it was due to the sudden imbalance when her weight returned or because of Lan Qingyou’s casual remark, but a dull thud of someone hitting the ground echoed from within the dust.
Perhaps... something that hadn't collapsed yet had finally fallen over.
Lan Qingyou nodded silently to herself.
She then pulled out several frost potions, which lasted longer than the standard potions, and threw them into the dust. When the smoke finally cleared, what appeared before Lan Qingyou were several people frozen into ice sculptures and a bewildered Susie standing among them.
After Susie had entered the dust, she had originally just wanted to catch her breath, but the sudden return of her weight had caught her off guard and caused her to trip.
Just as she stood up, she heard several thumping sounds around her followed by a biting chill.
When the dust cleared, she was surrounded by a scene of lifelike ice sculptures.
If she weren't in her thirties, a former top student, and the current branch president of the Adventurers' Guild, she probably would have lost her composure.
Many people would assume that an impact of that magnitude would leave no survivors, but that would be a mistake.
While the boulder seemed powerful, it wasn't an actual meteorite.
At most, it had taken out some unprotected monsters and "squishy" targets with low health and defense.
But that didn't mean everyone was gone.
The individuals Lan Qingyou had frozen into ice sculptures were those with high health or strong defense.
“Yo yo yo, if it isn't Chairman Huang Xingming and that big brute Huang Wei. How have you fallen off so hard in just a few years?”
The moment she saw her targets, Lan Qingyou didn't hesitate to fly right in front of the frozen Huang Xingming and Huang Wei.
Because they hadn't been killed instantly, the father and son had huddled together immediately to assess the situation, only to be frozen solid by Lan Qingyou’s two frost potions.
It had saved Lan Qingyou quite a bit of trouble.
Although the two were currently frozen, they could still hear what Lan Qingyou was saying outside.
However, because they were frozen, they could do nothing but stare back at her with wide eyes.
“Oh, sorry, sorry. I forgot you're still frozen and can't speak.”
Theatrically tapping her forehead with a finger as if reflecting on her mistake and offering an apology, Lan Qingyou then reached out her hand.
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