Proving the Dao of Hunyuan from the Age of Witches

Chapter 079 F-Rank and the Devouring Nuclear Explosion

D-rank witches are very strong; both their magical energy reserves and quality are significantly improved compared to novice witches.

The range of their magic influence reaches hundreds of meters. If D-class witches are considered as war machines, the combat groups composed of D-class witches completely transcend the dimensions of conventional warfare.

When her magic field expands to a radius of 100 meters, modern infantry weapons become like children's toys!

In addition, magic influences the witches' souls, so their souls, like their bodies, have been enhanced and modified by magic.

This is a more fundamental change. In theory, modern weapons cannot interfere with the soul, so D-class witches can no longer be fought with conventional weapons.

But, but that's an atomic weapon! The most powerful weapon in modern human technology, the pinnacle of collective intelligence and engineering!

So... can a D-class witch directly withstand the impact of an atomic weapon?

At her current level, if she were in the center of a nuclear explosion, her body would vaporize within a fraction of a second—or more precisely, become plasma.

After all, the temperature at the center of the nuclear explosion has exceeded that of the sun's surface. Even if she can react in time and use magic to resist for a short period of time, the magic output required to maintain the defense may instantly drain all of her magic!

The Witch Council has always maintained a domineering style, and has even used strategic weapons directly against D-rank witches!

What a terrifying determination, what a resolute approach!

Even though they were enemies, Luo Xi couldn't help but feel a touch of admiration.

However, there is still a sense of incongruity. Their ability to deal with the enemy so decisively suggests that they are intelligent.

However, given the possibility of cooperation with a witch, who is a supernatural being, the fact that such a heinous and inhumane plan was devised to deal with her suggests that the Witch Council has gone mad.

Did the Witch Council somehow collude with aliens and betray Earth?

Regardless of what's going on with the Witch Council, the nuclear explosion has already occurred!

That's right. The way to deal with a D-class witch is to use a weapon that can unleash a super-large amount of damage in an instant, such as an atomic weapon. Putting aside the shock wave, light radiation, and nuclear radiation after the explosion, the super high temperature released by an atomic weapon in an instant can destroy even a D-class witch's body!

However, the most fundamental change for a D-rank witch is her soul. A D-rank witch's soul can exist independently of her body for a period of time!

Within this timeframe, as long as there's still magic, the body should be able to recover, right? But if the body is gone, where is the magic stored? Can a D-rank witch still restore her body?

The Witch Council is probably unaware that she has become a D-rank witch, but it is clear that this level of attack is aimed at intermediate witches like Witch Zero and Beki. More likely, the target also includes all the witches involved in the Thousand Valleys County anomaly!

As for Rose, she may just be an innocent victim caught in the crossfire.

However, even if she were hit by a nuclear attack, Luo Xi would have a way to cope. She could simply dig a pit several hundred meters deep and bury herself in it. As long as it wasn't a nuclear missile that hit her directly, she would still have a high probability of surviving.

As for Wei Ying, Shui Lin, Le Tong, and Yao Yao, they can only hope for the best.

As her mind raced, Luo Xi was already planning to use her magic to create a temporary shelter on the spot. She had never imagined confronting such a powerful modern weapon!

It was called a temporary shelter, but it was actually just a pit more than a hundred meters deep. Under the influence of magic, the pit was dug quickly. Luo Xi hurriedly grabbed Qiangwei and tried to call her to hide in the pit to avoid the nuclear attack, but Qiangwei stood on the ground in a daze.

She was at a loss for what to do. According to Rose's intelligence, Rose was only a D-rank witch. She had first dealt with an anomaly of unknown level, then was ambushed by Witch Zero and Betty, and now she was facing an attack from an atomic weapon...

At this moment, Rose remained quietly watching the nearest mushroom cloud, saying nothing, seemingly lost in thought.

The shockwave did not arrive, and the intense light seemed to freeze.

Puzzled, she looked at Rose; Rose must have done something!

Rose gently stretched out her hand, and green plants sprang up from the ground beside the nuclear explosion.

In an instant, green plants reaching thousands of meters in height formed a barrier that blocked out the sun. Luo Xi thought this barrier would be destroyed instantly by the nuclear shockwave, but the shockwave from the explosion gradually weakened!

Then it disappeared completely.

There must have been three atomic weapons exploding, right? They were surrounded by three atomic weapons!

But Rose solved the nuclear explosion so easily?

Has Rose already refined the abnormal entity's abnormal core?

What exactly is the grade of rose?

Staring blankly at the rose, the other party remained calm, as if pondering what to have for dinner.

Thinking about how she had been disrespectful to Rose before, she felt it was a miracle that she was still alive.

Indeed, the cost of trial and error in life is very high...

Her thoughts had already drifted far away. Glancing at Rose out of the corner of her eye, Luo Xi was thinking about how to make up for her relationship with Rose.

She had been somewhat disrespectful to the rose before.

Although she had previously speculated that Rose might be a Nascent Soul cultivator or a Nascent Soul novice, after personally witnessing the power of atomic weapons and seeing Rose effortlessly devour the detonated nuclear weapon, she had a clear understanding of the most advanced modern firearms and Rose's power. All she felt was lingering fear... Cultivators and novices are truly terrifying!

"Rose..." Luo Xi hesitated, "Lady Rose, what do you think would be a more appropriate way for me to address you?"

"What's wrong?" Rose looked at her with some confusion, then smiled calmly. "If you'd like, would you call me master?"

I absolutely refuse!!!

Luo Xi froze, turning her gaze to the distance, no longer looking at the roses, pretending not to have heard.

"You're so cute right now," Rose said, and she didn't dare to move. "I'll protect you."

Is that how it is?

You... you must be referring to witches.

Suddenly, she found it somewhat amusing. Thinking about how the Witch Council always schemed and plotted, she still had no idea what the Witch Council was planning. Yet, all of the Witch Council's schemes and plots were easily thwarted by Rose. It was truly ironic.

She is now a witch, a witch pretending to cultivate immortality, but she doesn't seem to have transitioned from being an ordinary person yet.

It's time to change my attitude towards the world's top powers.

"Lady Rose... Lady Rose," he began cautiously, seeing that Rose made no move, "You said before that you were a Scholar-class D-rank witch, so what am I now?"

"Don't use titles like 'you' or 'sir'," Rose said, finally looking at her seriously. "Right now, you're a support-class F-rank witch."

Support-class F-rank witch?

Is this Rose's assessment of her? F-rank is one thing, but what's with the support category? At least give her a combat category classification.

"Why, why? I clearly have more magic power now, and the properties of that magic power are the same," Luo Xi complained. "Didn't you say before that I was barely an E-rank witch? Why am I now an F-rank?"

"Although your magic power has increased, you have too many magical characteristics," Rose paused, and looked at her quietly, "but right now, you are a support-class F-rank witch."

It seems that Rose's system for evaluating strength is somewhat different from the perceptions of all witches.

Rose says she's an F-rank witch. Is that based on Rose's understanding of power levels?

After a moment of silence, Luo Xi asked again, unwilling to give up, "If, and I mean if, you are currently a combat-class A-rank witch, then by that logic, what rank would I be?"

"A support-class F-rank witch." Rose's answer remained unchanged.

……

So that's how it is. She's F-rank because the lowest rank is only F-rank?

She was so angry she laughed, but dared not show it. Just moments ago she had felt sorry for the Witch Council, with all sorts of schemes and tricks, even resorting to atomic weapons, only to have them all casually destroyed by a passing rose...

Now, she has fought desperately and betrayed her teammates, devoured a bunch of cores and torn her own consciousness apart just to increase her strength, but she is still an F-rank witch, the F-rank witch that Rose mentioned!

This feeling is really disheartening!

Suppressing her discouragement, she spoke again, "Then, according to you, you are a Scholar-class D-rank witch. What ranks are Wei Ying, Shui Lin, Bei Qi, and the Zero Witch?"

"They're both F-rank witches, so they should all be support-type," Rose replied after a moment's thought.

???

So everyone here is F-rank, which puts her at ease.

She breathed a sigh of relief, realizing she couldn't continue discussing witch power with Rose. If they continued, Rose would shatter the worldview she had painstakingly built, especially the worldview about the witch system, this extraordinary system.

She firmly believes she is a combat-class D-rank witch!

At this moment, Witch Zero and Betty suddenly appeared out of nowhere, still breathing on Rose, just like before. "Hand over the anomalous entity core! You witch from the last era!"

What does "the previous era" mean? Rose mentioned before that the Witch Council headquarters seems to contain remnants of information from the previous witch era.

Without much thought, Luo Xi instantly realized the most important thing at hand.

Great! She had been wondering how to improve her image in front of Rose, and now that she had a chance to prove herself, she naturally seized the opportunity.

Taking a step forward, she shielded the rose behind her, saying, "If you want to take the anomaly core, you'll have to get past me first."

Just then, Rose looked up at the sky again, and the witches followed her gaze.

In the sky, accompanied by continuous and low rumble of thunder, nine points of light appeared in their sight... Nine shooting stars, with tails, were falling rapidly!

The meteor magnified rapidly in their field of vision, hurtling towards them vertically. What was this?

Before she could react, Rose hugged her from the front. "I can't fly. Take me up there to intercept these nine nuclear missiles."

Nuclear...nuclear bombs? The nuclear strikes haven't stopped yet?

Rose's magic attached itself to her, so Luo Xi had no choice but to activate her magic and use its telekinetic properties to fly up.

Because of the enhanced magic of the rose, Luo Xi felt that her speed had increased by more than 100 times. The surrounding scenery blurred instantly, and then Luo Xi appeared in the air!

The speed was so fast that she almost fell from the sky again. Fortunately, Luo Xi reacted in time and used magic to stabilize her body.

Feeling the softness in front of her and the faint fragrance of Rose, and thinking that Rose would help her attain the Dao of Hunyuan, she couldn't help but feel a little distracted. Although she hadn't decided on a name for the child yet, Rose had already confessed her feelings, "Hold me tight."

Luo Xi dared not disobey Rose's instructions and hugged Rose tightly. Rose stretched out her hands, and the eight nearest burning meteors were instantly wrapped in magical green vines and floated in the air. A few seconds later, as the green vines disappeared, the meteors also disappeared.

"We can only intercept these eight," Rose hesitated for a moment, "There's one left on the ground."

Upon hearing Qiangwei's voice, Luo Xi looked at the meteor that had failed to be intercepted. The meteor had already disappeared into the ground. There was no loud noise, but the earth rose slightly, and then the ground arched upwards like a drumhead. The entire ground was like a stone thrown into a lake, slowly spreading out like ripples!

"Don't be afraid," Rose's voice remained calm. "Just go to the center."

Luo Xi listened to Qiangwei's words without hesitation, immediately activated her magic, and flew towards the center of the nuclear explosion.

Upon reaching the ground, a beam of light, mixed with dust, steam, and radioactive material, shot directly into the sky.

Immediately, as soon as the ground trembled, Rose took action. The entire earth solidified instantly, and the beam of light shooting into the sky was blocked by the magical green vines. Before the explosion could unleash its true potential as a strategic-level atomic weapon, it was suppressed by Rose.

Luo Xi instantly realized that this was... a strategic bunker-buster nuclear missile!

The initial three were likely nuclear landmines, forming a nuclear landmine array.

The nuclear mine array was just a smokescreen; each nuclear mine likely had a yield of only a few hundred thousand tons. The purpose was simply to force these witches underground.

Luo Xi glanced at Qiangwei. Oh, Qiangwei was right beside her. She even dared to describe nuclear landmines as having a mass of only a few hundred thousand tons...

Coming to her senses, Luo Xi was still deep in thought.

After the three nuclear landmines forced the witch underground, the real killing move, the attack that would truly destroy the witch, was the second nuclear strike: nine strategic bunker-buster nuclear missiles!

Only by forcing the witch to take refuge underground and cutting off her aerial intelligence can they effectively strike her with strategic bunker-buster nuclear missiles!

Although the witches have a sense of danger, after several nuclear strikes, they simply cannot determine which one is the truly fatal blow!

Although the second nuclear strike did not actually and completely erupt, according to Luo Xi's guess, each of these nine strategic bunker-buster nuclear missiles had a yield of at least one million tons!

The Witch Council truly intends to completely annihilate them with this level of strategic bunker-buster nuclear missile!

They completely disregarded public opinion and the lives of ordinary people. They just gave up on so many ordinary lives like that!

They're willing to pay any price to fight the witch?

Or are Qianhe County and even Nuchuan City targets they want to destroy?

No, she didn't break any heavenly rules, did she? Then...did the witches break heavenly rules? Or did the Witch Council break heavenly rules in Nuchuan City, and are they so eager to cover up their crimes?

No, the Witch Council of this world is beyond saving; they have gone completely mad.

For witches to survive, and for ordinary people to survive, the Witch Council must be completely destroyed!