Chapter 145: Celestial Meteor Technique

After finishing their meal, Chu Yun and Anna returned together to the Mage Academy. The Crown Prince had already departed, likely to “visit” those powerful figures who hadn’t attended last night’s banquet.

To achieve his goals, the Crown Prince spared no means; he even ordered the city sealed off, forbidding anyone from entering or leaving. The city gates were personally handed over to the Royal Knights.

Leotis had gradually become aware of the Crown Prince’s plan. He didn’t know that the prince had relied on prophecy to confirm the presence of divine fragments in Blackstone City. He only felt that the Crown Prince had descended into madness, bordering on hysteria.

With the thought of indulging his folly for a few more days, Leotis had no choice but to obey his orders.

After all, the deadline had not yet arrived, and the Second Prince had yet to find an excuse to arrest him as a criminal. Officially, Leotis was still serving as the Crown Prince’s guard.

The residents of Blackstone City grumbled endlessly about the Crown Prince, but he didn’t care about these commoners. The lockdown was primarily for his own safety, to prevent assassins seeking his life from entering the city.

Chu Yun returned to his quarters to check on Shivana and Carlo, adding some daily necessities and food to their basement quarters before retreating to his own room to meditate and restore his spiritual energy.

Carlo was a relatively quiet mage who could spend an entire day calmly in the basement with just a few books. Shivana’s physical condition remained unchanged; feeding her a berry each day was enough to keep her alive.

As Chu Yun meditated, his mind also turned to his next plan.

Since he had identified the Crown Prince as his enemy, Chu Yun would show no mercy. As long as he could distance himself from suspicion, he would neither hesitate to seize the Holy Spear nor to kill the Crown Prince.

Considering the Crown Prince was surrounded by numerous elite guards and was himself a third-tier knight, wielding the Holy Spear would unleash formidable combat power.

To harm the Crown Prince’s true body within the Mirror World and seize the Holy Spear, Chu Yun first needed to defeat his mirror image there.

Among the spells Chu Yun mastered, many could be used for ambushes in the Mirror World. He planned to test his opponent’s mirror image’s strength once the duplication of the Meteorite Spell was complete.

If the Meteorite Spell failed, he could always resort to a fire elemental self-detonation later, though summoning fire elementals consumed more spiritual energy.

Compared to the real world, the Meteorite Spell had an incomparable advantage in the Mirror World. In reality, casting such a spell made a lot of noise and was easy to detect, especially when using celestial meteors, which took longer and were hard to control, allowing opponents to evade. The priests of the Dragon Cult had needed their subordinates’ help to complete the casting.

But in the Mirror World, it was different. Chu Yun had enough time to carefully cast, and once the meteor entered the opponent’s perception range, they had no chance to dodge and had to endure it head-on.

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Having restored his spiritual energy through meditation, Chu Yun entered the Mirror World, activated his flight wings, and scouted the skies for the Crown Prince.

The Crown Prince always traveled with many attendants, making him easy to locate. After about ten minutes of flight, Chu Yun found him in the noble district.

Though the Crown Prince had hosted a banquet inviting all the nobles, and most had honored him by attending, not every noble family brought their entire household.

Now, reckless and careless, the Crown Prince went door to door in the noble district, forcing every family to present themselves for inspection.

With the help of the sycophant Leotis, no one dared resist. A fifth-tier power like the Crown Prince was the top combat force in Blackstone City—no one could match him, not even Nelson. Only mobilizing the entire guild could oppose him, but that was unlikely to happen.

Watching noble scions emerge from their homes as if their families had been ransacked, Chu Yun couldn’t help but sigh at the cruelty of this world. Even nobles were not spared; only absolute strength guaranteed survival.

Because Leotis was near the Crown Prince, Chu Yun dared not get too close.

This time, unlike during the trials, he chose to cast the Celestial Meteor Spell.

Nobody knew what harsh battles the planet had endured; countless fragments drifted along the atmosphere’s edge, which could block other meteor attacks or serve as material for the mage’s meteor spells.

Chu Yun flew to the top of the clock tower in the noble district, took out a purchased second-tier earth elemental crystal as casting material, and began chanting the incantation.

With Chu Yun’s perception, sensing meteors outside the atmosphere was nearly impossible—other mages could not do so either.

Thus, the Celestial Meteor Spell required using an earth elemental crystal to activate.

As Chu Yun chanted, the crystal in his hand began to resonate with meteors orbiting beyond the atmosphere through the ever-present magic network.

He selected a large, round meteor in the haze and began transforming the spell’s model.

Though the meteor was a mirror image, as a physical object rather than a living being, after attempting a certain connection with Chu Yun, it behaved like a contracted magical pet and did not return to its source despite exceeding the usual distance.

As long as this connection remained, the meteor would not disappear.

This method of control through the magic network was peculiar, akin to playing a VR game—Chu Yun was, at that moment, the meteor itself.

The meteor began breaking through the atmosphere; the tremendous impact ignited fierce flames on its surface, and the rocky fragments covering it burned away.

The Celestial Meteor Spell differed from the ordinary meteor spell primarily in its intense heat and flames. Meteors summoned directly by crystals lacked such flames, making them mere falling stones. Apart from the high temperature, the impact was also far greater, incomparable to the ordinary spell.

Chu Yun guided the meteor to rapidly descend toward the noble district, continuously adjusting its trajectory en route.

This mode of movement was highly unstable; without constant control, air resistance could easily alter its course, sending it astray.

Different spells demanded different attributes; the meteor spell favored perception power.

“Almost there. Just about to arrive.” After breaking through the atmosphere, the meteor’s speed accelerated sharply. Chu Yun strained to maintain control, steering it toward the target.

Suddenly, amid the meteor’s rapid descent, a shadow appeared and swiftly moved into its path.

A deafening dragon roar echoed.

A black wave of light shot from the shadow, striking the meteor Chu Yun controlled.

Boom!

The meteor shattered, and Chu Yun’s consciousness snapped back from the magic network to his body. A trickle of blood dribbled from the corner of his mouth—it was his first injury in this world.

Normally, if the connection was severed in time, Chu Yun would not have been hurt. But the suddenness of the attack and his first time casting the Celestial Meteor Spell left him vulnerable.

“That’s the dragon! I didn’t expect it to have been hiding in the clouds all along!”