Chapter 1314: Early Birds
However, level-5 Heaven Rank experts were extremely rare. An unparalleled genius had to go through endless suffering before they grew up into a level-5 Heaven Rank expert.
In comparison, it would only take a month to build one of those magic battleships. Adding the time needed for testing, in only three months, another magic battleship that was exactly as the three here would be ready for work!
Countless magic battleships could be built as long as there were materials. Besides, this was just the first batch of magic battleships. The future magic battleships would only be more powerful.
Even Fantexi and Pinocchio were blushing in excitement too. They had been devoted to alchemy their entire life. They wouldn't have been so excited if they had killed a void beast. However, now that their product had ripped apart a void beast easily, they were overwhelmed with the sense of achievement.
The crew on the three magic battleships all continued their research with bloodshot eyes, as if they had just taken exhilarants. The alchemists who were controlling the magic battleships all seemed to be doing something sacred, even though the controlling was very easy.
After a flight of almost eight hours, The Intrepid and the three magic battleships finally reached a spacious area that even meteoroids wouldn't pass by. This was the entrance to that plane, and the weakest part of the spatial barriers.
If it had been in Noscent, it would've been a natural Planar Path. Anyone could travel through it easily as long as alchemy arrays were set up to break the Planar Path.
This area covered several square kilometers. There was nothing around but the plane's spatial barriers. Although the power of the plane didn't leak out, there was a natural rejection force in this place that prevented meteoroids and other things from approaching.
This was the way to look for new planes in the age of colonization, especially those which were relatively complete.
The spatial barriers of two planes rarely echoed or overlapped. When they did, a natural Planar Path would appear. If they didn't overlap or echo at all, then no Planar Path would appear. It was possible to create a Planar Path if one had the fixed coordinates of the plane.
However, if the plane hadn't been found, it was hardly possible to get its coordinates…
When people searched for new planes in the future, they would mostly send magic battleships to search for the coordinates of the planes in the boundless void, and then set up Planar Paths. Then, it would be easy to enter the new planes.
The three magic battleships stopped near this unstable space. The Intrepid gradually approached the border of this unstable space. Spatial waves spread out like ripples. A black hole that was several kilometers in diameter appeared. The size of the hole was changing constantly, ranging from five kilometers in diameter to two kilometers.
Leading Xiuban, Reina, Pabiete, Lord Shawn, and Xiusi, Lin Yun unhurriedly walked into the black hole that was emitting waves constantly from The Intrepid's deck. The vessel had broken the spatial barriers, so they could enter easily. If it hadn't, they would've had to tear apart the barriers on their own, and fixate the opening with alchemy arrays.
There was no time to lose. The instability of the spatial barriers indicated that someone had entered. Tearing apart the spatial barriers with spells would've been noticed. It was much easier to create a channel with the powerful The Intrepid.
After realizing that someone had entered, Lin Yun didn't look very well. He had to abandon his previous plan, and led a few people in for reconnaissance.
The blue sky was cracking like broken glass. Then, it fell apart into pieces. A hole that was one kilometer in diameter appeared. Hardly had the spatial waves spread out when they were already suppressed by the cold wind at high altitudes.
After Lin Yun walked out of the hollow with Xiuban, Reina, and Pabiete, the hollow behind him slowly closed. Only black cracks appeared now and then.
"This place is so cold…"
Xiuban exhaled dizzily. Immediately, the air it breathed out was frozen into ice and fell down. Even the wind here seemed to have turned white because of the power of coldness.
They saw clouds 1,000 meters below their feet and the variegated earth through the openings in the clouds. There seemed to be countless flowers blossoming on the earth. They looked quite splendid from the sky. There was also an enormous glimmering tree.
In the sky in the east, an orange sun was setting, and in the west, a blue sun was rising. There were not only two suns in this plane, but they rose and set in different directions than the suns did in most planes including Noscent.
Looking at the rising blue sun from the high sky, even Lin Yun was slightly surprised. The orange sun was nothing special. It was just like any star that facilitated the growth of plants and warmed the earth.
However, the blue sun was emitting bright blue light, which was like magic brilliance. As the blue sun rose, the entire plane was soaked in an ocean of mana. Everything was enshrouded in the magic brilliance. Everyone who was standing in the sky felt that their mana was being replenished without them doing any meditation!
This rarely happened even in Noscent, except in places where there was abundant mana.
Lin Yun looked at the blue sun that was slowly rising. He had known that there was a special blue sun in this place, but he was still amazed when he saw it with his own eyes.
There were only a handful of planes that had a sun which radiated infinite magic brilliance. This was the only one that both had a blue sun, and was suitable for the survival of human beings.
Thanks to the natural conditions, almost everything in this plane contained mana. Even the most common weeds in this plane could be used as low-level mana herbs in Noscent.
"Merlin, something is very weird about this plane. I think my abilities are limited. I don't feel very comfortable about a world that's enshrouded in such brilliance. I think it's very dangerous…"
Lord Shawn turned into the size of a fist, and squatted on Lin Yun's shoulder. It stared at the plane hesitantly.
Lin Yun shook his head.
"That's alright. As long as we stay careful, and don't send too many people down here, this plane will be very safe."
Enderfa was floating on Lin Yun's right side, with all its three faces aimed at the blue sun, absorbing its brilliance greedily. Hearing what Lord Shawn said, all the three heads nodded at the same time.
"This plane is indeed rather strange. It has two suns, and one of them is spraying magic brilliance. It's definitely possible for terrifying creatures to be born in such a plane. We should be cautious."
Lin Yun shook his head.
"Don't worry. The strongest creatures in this plane cannot be better than level 42. What we should worry about are the people who came here ahead of us."
He led them to land on the ground. As they passed through the thin clouds, and approached the ground, the mana density became higher and higher. After the blue sun rose, the entire ground seemed to be glowing. Almost all the plants were absorbing the magic brilliance.
Peaceful mana waves were flowing everywhere in the plane. In such a place, the spells that one cast would be much more powerful. But at the same time, because of the overflowing mana waves, the other, weaker mana waves would be eclipsed.
Before they landed, a gigantic tree that was more than 300 meters tall suddenly started shivering. Many creatures whose wingspan was almost eight meters flew out of the crown of the tree. They looked like giant dragonflies.
Those giant dragonflies, like a mass of clouds emitting bright blue light, swooped at the intruders. Their tide of mana was almost visible. The blast of mana, together with the enormous dragonflies, made the mana waves in a range of dozens of kilometers even more unsteady.
The power of the countless dragonflies gathered, plus the abundant mana in the place, made them as strong as the Heaven Rank. More importantly, as more and more giant dragonflies flew out of the tree's crown, their power was on the rise.
Lin Yun remained unruffled. Xiuban grinned impatiently with Carnage on his shoulder. Reina, on the other hand, had already taken action. A blue law rune dropped from her fingertip. Immediately, countless ice crystals spread like a plague in a radius of several kilometers, making it snow in the area.
The snowflakes that looked like pieces of ice froze the gigantic dragonflies into ice sculptures that later fell to the ground upon hitting them.
After they fell over a distance of several dozen meters, they were minced into pieces by the surging tide of mana that they raised. Hundreds of them dropped encased in ice every second, which increased the range of snow.
In only three minutes, the swarm of gigantic dragonflies was gone. There were still snowflakes that were falling slowly. The area within the radius of eight kilometers had turned into a world of ice.
Lin Yun landed on the tree's crown with his followers. He saw a lot of burns on the tree. Needless to say, that was the doing of the people who came earlier. Each of the tree's leaves was almost eight meters long, and was a home to one of the gigantic dragonflies. Lin Yun walked in the crown for a few minutes, and found the place where the trunk bifurcated. There was a hole almost eight meters in diameter here. Some golden fluid was glittering in the hole.
"This is the Golden Honey, which can be made into several kinds of Heaven Rank potions. It can treat wounds and hidden injuries that normal medications cannot cure. It can also sort through your mana. It's very rare. We're lucky to find so much of it at one time…"
Lin Yun had a mouthful of the Golden Honey. After he ate it, he felt like he was in the middle of a hot spring, where his body was cleansed and massaged by a warm power. It was a precious item that could increase his potential.
Most of the enormous dragonfly-like creatures were below level 30. Those which were above level 30 were bosses. They had an enormous population, and could constantly reproduce with enough Golden Honey. Unfortunately, the productivity of the Golden Honey was not high, so the population of such creatures couldn't be too big. They would die without the Golden Honey.
Lin Yun took away 80 percent of the Golden Honey on the trunk. There were some larvae of the dragonflies left in the tree. The remaining Golden Honey should be enough for them to grow up.
"Merlin, why do you know this? Have you been here before?"
Enderfa approached Lin Yun with its three weird faces. It seemed to be asking a casual question, but it was almost sticking its three faces to Lin Yun…
Lin Yun ignored Enderfa. The usage of the Golden Honey had been detailedly recorded in the history he knew. It was impossible to hide the Planar Path to this plane. Anybody who found the entrance to this plane in the boundless void could come in.
In the future, a lot of organizations would compete over this plane named Munster. But in the end, nobody was able to claim it. They had to build an enormous fortress in the boundless void, and those who were qualified shared the resources of Munster.
By then, any organization would have the power to fight and sail in the boundless void. The magic battleships would already be popularized. Nobody could monopolize this plane.
Also, due to the uniqueness of this plane, they had to concede.
There were a lot of great local specialties here besides the Golden Honey, which would remain extremely valuable in Noscent's heyday when there were countless Heaven Rank experts. A piece of Golden Honey could be as valuable as the mana crystal of a level-45 beast that was its weight. The best Golden Honey was effective even for the experts who had ignited their God Fire.
"Merlin, this place is very strange. All the creatures' souls are damaged. The larvae, in particular, only have a small number of soul pieces…"
Lord Shawn grabbed one of the larvae, and injected its power into it. Immediately, the larva died, and its soul piece completely shattered the moment it was touched.
Lin Yun didn't say anything. He flew out, and examined the obvious battle waves in the distance with an awful expression. The long distance that the waves traveled over suggested that at least level-4 Heaven Rank experts were attacking, with extraordinary power and even something wicked.
"Let's find them. If they continue doing this, all of us will be in big trouble…"
Lin Yun looked rather awful. He took everybody to the source of the battle waves. They didn't arrive at the battlefield until spending an hour on flight. Here, the area within a dozen kilometers had been destroyed. The land was blackened, with smoke popping up. A heavy ominous vibe dominated the place. There were fire power, hellish power, and even the evil power of devils lingering in the mana waves.
The people who had fought here already left in the past hour. What remained here was only a hideous body that was 100 meters long. It was impossible to tell what it looked like when it was alive. It only had a skeleton and a dried skin that was stuck to its bones. It seemed to have died a miserable death.
The black ashes around suggested that its flesh had all been burnt up.
In the sunlight of the blue sun, the battle waves were like a storm in the ocean that could spread far away. Even though the waves wouldn't be able to hurt anyone after spreading 20 kilometers, they could still be detected.
Examining the traces in this place, Lin Yun frowned.
He was almost positive that the people of the Thorny Crown did it. They had surely accidentally discovered this plane during the exploration in the boundless void. Then, they sent for a lot of reinforcements, including level-5 Heaven Rank experts.
Judging by the waves here, he could tell that there were a lot of bloodline-transplanted warlocks. Some had transplanted devil bloodlines, one had transplanted a demon's bloodline, and some had even transplanted bloodlines of unknown creatures.
They were truly fearless. No wonder it would take 1,000 years before they could finally start developing this plane after the discovery. Such fearlessness meant suicide in this place.
What a bunch of idiots. This plane had a magical blue sun and all the necessary substances. It contained a terrifying amount of mana. Yet, most of the creatures that were seen here were below the Heaven Rank. Even the strongest individual had just reached the Heaven Rank.
Did those idiots not notice any of the anomalies? Yet, they were still blatantly using their wicked power. No wonder the Thorny Crown had never risen. They were truly stupid.
Lin Yun looked quite awful. He followed the traces of the Thorny Crown and chased them down. Enderfa was slightly puzzled at Lin Yun's reaction.
"Merlin, why are we chasing them?"
Lin Yun shook his head, and didn't say anything. He took out a few bottles of drugs, and gave them away.
"One bottle for everybody. Whenever you notice anything wrong, drink the potions immediately. There's no time to explain. We have to find those idiots. If they continue, all of us will be in great trouble…"
To be continued