Manticore snorted coldly. Instantly, the magic in his body surged out and formed a barrier-like layer around him through his magic veins, which then started spreading out in all directions. It crushed the thunder spears that were fast approaching him, dissipating and shattering them into wisps of harmless magic.
When Laylen saw the thunder spears getting shattered, and he wasn't shocked or in any way surprised.
After all, this was only a tier 4 magical formation, which would have no problem killing people below tier 4. However, against Professor Manticore, who was at the peak of tier 4 and was almost tier 5, it would be a little difficult.
Within the magical barrier, countless thunder spears were formed and shot towards Manticore once again.
As long as there was sufficient magic available to sustain the formation, it would not be broken, and thunder spears would continuously be formed again and again.
Manticore did not care about the attacks of the thunder spears. After setting up a magical barrier around his body as before, he blinked to the front of the magical formation and attacked the alchemical stones which were holding up the formation.
The alchemical stones were very hard. When Manticore tried hitting them with spells, the surface of the stones glowed and defensive spells were cast from it.
Even if it was only a tier 4 alchemical stone, it would still be difficult for Manticore, who was only at the peak of tier 4, to destroy it.
It took him more than ten minutes to successfully destroy the first alchemical stone.
As the alchemical stone shattered, the incantation on it lost its effect and a part of the magical formation lost its luster.
The magical formation was formed by relying on the alchemical stones that were connected to each other. Among all the alchemical stones in a magical formation, one was the core of the formation.
It was crucial to the operation of the entire formation.
If this core were to be broken, the magical formation would be broken.
Therefore, the more powerful the magical formation, the more alchemical stones it would need. Some terrifying magical formations could even use up to tens of thousands of alchemical stones.
Therefore, finding the core was like finding a needle in a haystack.
Manticore did not understand magical formations. He could only break the alchemical stones he could land his hands on to weaken the defensive power of the barrier. If he could weaken the formation enough through this way, he would then be able to break the barrier and get out.
After another ten minutes, he successfully broke the second one.
After breaking two alchemical stones in a row, Manticore looked at Laylen through the barrier and said coldly, "Kid, a mere tier 4 magical formation can't trap me."
High in the sky, Ang Li smiled indifferently. "Father, I've already told you that a mere tier 4 magical formation can't trap the professor. After he breaks a few more alchemical stones, he will be able to break through this barrier."
At this time, Creed heaved a sigh of relief in his heart.
Outside the mayor's mansion, the onlookers were a little worried. Once this magical formation was broken, the mayor's mansion would be vulnerable, and these people harboring evil intentions would then be able to enter and leave as they pleased.
"I admit that a tier 4 formation can't kill you." Laylen's expression remained unchanged with a smile on his face, but his voice became strange. "But I can still drive you crazy."
As soon as he said this, everyone revealed a puzzled look, not understanding what Laylen meant.
Even Manticore frowned slightly, and a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes.
Laylen waved his hand, and two more alchemical stones appeared in his hand. The magical incantations carved on them were still for the Berserk Thunder cage.
He then stomped his feet and jumped into the air. Then, he replaced the destroyed alchemical stones with the new ones.
The dark part of the magical formation lit up again.
"The young mayor has more than one set of alchemical stones!" Beside him, Evelyn's eyes lit up.
The completed alchemical stone with incantations was made by a formation master using his mental strength as a carving tool. He would carve the corresponding formation incantations on the alchemical stones. This process consumes a lot of mental strength.
The clans that didn't know much about magical formations would usually buy magical formations as a whole.
If they encountered problems like the formations getting cracked and defective, they would spend a lot of money to hire people to fix it.
Buying a large magical formation as a whole was already a huge expense. Ordinary people couldn't afford them at all.
"You actually have completed alchemical stones for the Berserk Thunder Cage?!" Manticore's pupils constricted.
He wasn't afraid, but rather excited. A Berserk Thunder Cage required twenty alchemical stones to form. By taking out more completed stones, didn't this mean that this kid had more stones available to him in order to form more cages?
"Hahaha, I don't have any. There are quite a lot of such worthless gadgets." Laylen smiled modestly. With a wave of his hand, large amounts of thumb-sized magic ores poured out from his interspatial ring. They piled up like a mountain, and there were hundreds of thousands of them.
Laylen naturally threw out these magic ores to replenish the power of the magical formation.
Hearing Laylen's words, everyone present felt that it was a little ridiculous. Since when did something as good as tier 4 alchemical stones become worthless?
Both Manticore and Creed felt that Laylen was just boasting.
As Laylen continued throwing out a pile of magic ores, the magical formation automatically absorbed the magic and continuously transformed into more thunder spears, continuing to launch wave after wave of attacks at Manticore.
Manticore's fingers trembled slightly and he quickly shattered the spears, taking advantage of the time when the new thunder spears had yet to condense to continue to bombard the alchemical stones. Every half an hour, two alchemical stones would be shattered, and Laylen would quickly replace them with new ones.
In the blink of an eye, an hour had passed, but Manticore was still trapped in the formation, which made him somewhat angry due to humiliation. "Brat, let me out!"
He was nearly at tier 5, but here he was being trapped in a formation for an entire hour by a mere tier 3 brat. He could not help but feel exasperated.
"Have you forgotten what I said just now?" Laylen grinned.
What did he say?
Manticore frowned. He suddenly remembered that Laylen had said that he wanted to drive him crazy.
To be honest, if Laylen had enough alchemical stones, he could lock him forever in the formation. However, due to the shockingly high price of tier 4 alchemical stones, he did not believe that Laylen had many left.
Manticore continued to attack the magical formation while sneering, "Well, I would like to see how many alchemical stones you can pull out."
Then, he continued to focus on breaking the formation.
This then continued for four to five hours till sunset.
In these few hours, Laylen had used up nearly thirty complete alchemical stones.
Inside and outside the mayor's mansion, many people were speechless. A mighty peak tier 4 expert had been trapped by the magical formation for four to five hours and was still unable to break out of there.
Inside the barrier, Manticore was getting anxious and irritated. After attacking the formation for several hours, he was a little tired.
Laylen would take out a new one every time he broke one.
"How many alchemical stones does this kid have?"
Manticore roared inwardly. Now, he was really on the verge of collapse.
How could this brat have so many alchemical stones?! Were these stones not worth anything to him?!
Manticore then cast a spell and started floating up in mid-air, breathing heavily. The surrounding thunder spears continued to condense and close in on him before they were crushed again.
This was repeated over and over again.
These thunder spears were like unkillable flies flying around him constantly irritating the heck out of him.
"Continue, don't let the battle stop. Don't tell me you don't have any strength left?" A very annoying sentence came out of Laylen's mouth.
He asked the imperial guards to summon a rocking chair with fruit on the side, eating fruits while continuing to replenish magic for the formation.
Seeing this kid so relaxed, Manticore almost exploded with anger.
His eyes were red as he roared, "How many alchemical stones do you have?!"
Laylen waved his fan leisurely and said, "Not much, but I have enough to trap you for a month."
Hearing this, Manticore just wanted to go up and teach this kid a lesson.