Chapter 1329: Battle
Myers, who had half-crystallized, floated in midair expressionlessly. He extended his hands, and many crystal pieces that looked like ice flowed around his hands before they covered the hands. Horrifying waves of magic power spread out. Law runes flashed around Myers' hands quickly, and quickly melted into his hands.
Dazzling brilliance emanated. Right at this moment, Lin Yun had just released a Four Element Bomb of laws inside the cavern. Then, he pointed the Draconic Staff at the Book of Ten Thousand Mantras, extracting a spell that emitted the light of four elements. His mana surged into the curse quickly. Immediately, another Four Element Bomb of laws was condensed. It was thrown to the place where mana reaction was the strongest.
When the spell that Myers gathered was about to be released, the Four Element Bomb of laws approached him. When it hit the horrifying waves around Myers, it suddenly exploded, imposing the destructive power on Myers' crystal shield.
Tiny cracks appeared on the surface of the crystal shield, but the latter wasn't shattered. On the other hand, when the Four Element Bomb of laws exploded over such a short distance, its blast was the most powerful.
The terrifying blast pushed Myers along with his shield into the sky. They had been blown hundreds of meters away in an instant. Rolling for a few seconds in the sky, Myers regained balance, and then launched the brilliance in his hands towards the cavern on the ground.
At this moment, Lin Yun had led everybody out of the cavern. They were 100 meters away from the cavern when the two dazzling balls that Myers released hit it.
Immediately, horrifying magic waves roared like a tsunami. The winds were raging, and the entire cavern was trembling.
The giant insects deep inside the cavern, not being suppressed by the elemental storm any longer, charged out of the cavern crazily. Countless insects were gathered, and rolled out like a ball of army ants.
All of a sudden, the cavern was filled up by dazzling brilliance. Noises burst out continuously, as if countless bombs were exploding at the same time.
Thick crystal stings rose on the wall inside the cavern. They were dozens of meters tall, and pierced from the ground. There were at least hundreds of them.
Instantly, the insects that were surging from the depths of the cavern were penetrated by the crystal stings. As more and more crystal stings appeared, the space between them was smaller and smaller. The insects that weren't penetrated were squeezed and killed too…
On the surface, crystal stings that were dozens of meters long burst out of the ground too. Almost in one second, the cavern had been filled up by the interconnected crystal stings. Outside, the same thick crystal stings were erupting around the cavern too. It looked as if a huge flower of crystal stings just blossomed.
Looking at the cavern and its surroundings that had been fully covered up by crystals, Xiuban was pale, and his lips were shivering. Even though his body was extremely sturdy, he wasn't strong enough to ignore the crystal stings, and he would've been pierced through if he'd been hit.
Tens of thousands of insects had emerged from the depths of the cavern, but they had all been wiped out in an instant.
The cavern, and the land around it, had been penetrated by the countless crystal stings. All the living creatures within a radius of hundreds of meters were killed instantly. Even the rocks had been squeezed into pieces too.
The blood gathered into a river, and flowed out of the gaps among the crystal stings. The stench of the sticky blood spread out like a bomb.
The nearest crystal sting was only a couple of meters away from the group. There was even blood dripping on the surface of the crystal sting that looked like a brilliant diamond.
Looking back at the crystal stings, Lin Yun had an idea, but he was immediately interrupted.
After his first attack missed, Myers immediately launched a new one. A crystal ball that reflected glamorous light fell from the sky, and suddenly exploded when it was still halfway down. The rain of crystal arrows darted from the sky, and covered a radius of 300-400 meters.
The crystal arrows hit Lin Yun's Fusion Shield, causing clinking noises. Those crystal arrows were terrifyingly penetrative. They were not a powerful spell, but their arrowheads penetrated Lin Yun's Fusion Shield easily. Then, the crystal arrows fell apart into countless pieces, and dispersed into glittering light.
The other experts of the Thorny Crown, who had been flung away in the explosion earlier, all joined the battle, and charged at Lin Yun. Besides the experts, there were also swarms of beasts that were coming at them.
Lin Yun took a soft breath, and spouted three runes of laws. Immediately, a black vortex appeared behind Lin Yun, and quickly gathered into a gate that was more than 10 meters tall and 20 meters wide.
Flames burst out of the gate, and fell dozens of meters away. The flames gradually died down, revealing 50 legion mages. All the 50 legion mages had red hair and wore crimson robes. They looked like shadows that were burning in the flames.
The moment the 50 legion mages appeared, flames automatically started burning around them. The elemental flames quickly raised the temperature.
Ever since the four laws in his Natural Demiplane began to have derivative laws, the 50 legion mages had been learning laws there. Lin Yun's demonstration allowed them to learn by almost melting into the laws of fire. Such a method let them grasp laws at an astonishingly high speed.
Starting from the level-5 Archmages, they would need to grasp the power of laws to advance to higher levels, and the accumulation of mana was no longer as important as learning laws.
As long as one learned enough laws and accumulated enough mana, one's level would soar quickly.
The 50 legion mages didn't even have to choose the foundation of their laws. It was the pure law of fire. However, they learned different branches of the law of fire. They had grasped almost all of the branches.
After years of studying, and since it was unnecessary to worry about mana in the Natural Demiplane, the 50 legion mages were almost unified. When they gathered together, they were almost a complete projection of the law of fire.
Kurumu, who was the strongest, was a peak level-8 Archmage. The weakest of them was a level-7 Archmage. When the 50 legion mages gathered, they could already demonstrate the terrifying power of the legion, even though it was not nearly as dominating as the Burning Legion in the future…
Nevertheless, nobody below level 3 of the Heaven Rank could resist the legion mages alone!
After the legion mages were pulled out, an iron torrent gushed out of the gate. Countless alchemy puppets charged out. The weakest of them was at level 30. They were the prototypes that were manufactured earliest, and could only be used as cannon fodder…
The puppets that were manufactured later were all above level 33—mostly in level 35. Some of the powerful puppets were even at level 38 and level 39.
In only a dozen seconds, 5,000 iron soldiers had charged out of the gate, and the torrent didn't stop flowing at all. It seemed that countless more iron soldiers were waiting to join from the other side of the gate.
Lin Yun hadn't dared to open the Planar Path to his Natural Demiplane or fetch anything, because he had been afraid that it would've woken up the monster. He didn't need to be afraid anymore, because the monster had already woken up.
After opening the gate, Lin Yun flew to the sky and confronted Myers, who was the biggest threat. He wasn't too worried about other enemies.
Myers and Lin Yun fought in the sky. On the ground, Sheldon, who had crystallized, was the strongest. He was the first to return after being flung away. Xiuban grinned and charged at him with Carnage.
Reina fought five crystallized bloodline transplanters. Myers was the strongest of the people of the Thorny Crown. He was in level 5 of the Heaven Rank. Sheldon was next. He was at level 3 of the Heaven Rank. However, he had transplanted many of the demon's body parts, and the longer he fought, the stronger he would be. His combat ability could even reach level 4 of the Heaven Rank.
Then, Sunny was at level 3 of the Heaven Rank. Despite her fatal weakness, her combat ability was actually greater than that of normal level-3 Heaven Rank experts. The other bloodline transplanters were mostly in level 1 of the Heaven Rank.
Reina could easily fight five of those level-1 Heaven Rank mages at the same time. She wanted to fight more, but the other seven enemies had been claimed by the legion mages…
More than 30 alchemy puppets had charged out of the gate, and the number was still rising. Apart from the cannon fodder, even the weakest of them were in level 33. When they collided with the crystallized beasts, they were like a burning dagger that had stabbed into cheese. It was a one-sided slaughter.
When the tireless and fearless iron army confronted the beasts that were also countless and fearless, a gory battle began…
The army of alchemy puppets were separated into a dozen units that cut through the beasts. Every second, thousands of crystallized beasts were torn into shreds. Broken crystals were everywhere on the ground. Rivers of blood were running. The gores made the mana violent here. The dark clouds in the sky were driven away.
Killing and destruction never stopped. In the sky, the flying beasts that covered a dozen square kilometers like clouds swooped. On the ground, tens of thousands of alchemy puppets raised their arms, and activated their weapon system.
Instantly, countless red rays of flames and blue rays of frost darted towards the sky in streaks of light. When the light gathered, it looked like a pillar of red-and-blue light that was 1,000 meters thick had shot into the clouds.
Collapses, explosions…
Remains of the flying beasts fell from the sky. A rain of crystals and blood took place in a radius of several kilometers. It was so loud that it sounded like a storm…
The battle continued. The iron army of 100,000 alchemy puppets had all been deployed on the battlefield. They were not even all of Lin Yun's stock. In the factory in his Natural Demiplane, alchemy puppets were being manufactured day and night. As his research proceeded, the manufactured alchemy puppets would be stronger and stronger.
100,000 alchemy puppets versus tens of millions of crystallized beasts, with a level gap of almost 10 levels. The army of alchemy puppets was slaughtering their enemies. However, due to the huge population of the crystallized beasts, it had losses too.
Still, the losses were negligible compared to the deaths of the crystallized beasts…
Observing from the sky, it could be seen that the beasts had crammed the land. However, in the middle of the gathered beasts, more than 30 blades were spinning and moving, sometimes clockwise and sometimes counterclockwise.
One blade could not mince all the crystallized beasts around. But then, the blade next to it would mince the survivors. The puppets had formed circles large and small, reducing the number of the crystallized beasts quickly.
The spell-casting alchemy puppets, seated in the center of the circles, cast spells crazily. They attacked the flying beasts in the sky and those on the ground multiple times more effectively than the melee puppets.
At the same time, the legion mages, who hadn't been deployed in a long time, fought the seven bloodline transplanters, who had been controlled by the monster and crystallized, but their combat ability wasn't affected. Rather, they were even strengthened by the crystallization, which minimized the negative influence of their transplantation.
The legion mages gathered together. Kurumu floated in the sky, with 20 companions standing on the ground, 20 spreading out above his head, and 10 connecting all of them.
Flames were burning furiously. Crimson light was emanating. It was like a tree of fire that was 100 meters tall had appeared. The mages at the bottom were the tree's root, those on the top were its crown, and Kurumu and the other legion mages in the middle were the trunk.
The furious flames spread out, and the crimson brilliance gathered into the shape of the fiery tree. Fiery runes were hanging on the tree's branches as its leaves, making the 20 mages in the sky look like the tree's fruits.
The flames spread from the bottom of the tree to its top, and then gradually expanded horizontally. A law rune surfaced in the center of the fiery tree's trunk.
The law rune was revolving slowly. It seemed to have absorbed countless fiery runes. The power of every flame had been reflected in it.
The seven controlled bloodline transplanted cast spells and attacked. They raised a frost that suppressed the flames like a blue billow of ice.
Kurumu raised his staff, and the strange law rune in the trunk glimmered. Immediately, the flames on the crown rose quickly, and gathered into the head of a gigantic monster that was 100 meters long.
The monster's head flew out, and swallowed the icy billow. Immediately, the monster's head became dark. It wasn't cooled down at all, but much hotter than before. Its heat was even slightly twisting the surroundings.
A second later, the monster's head opened its mouth and exhaled. Then, it grinned, as if it had enjoyed a piece of delicious food. Then, it flew to the sky, and swallowed the bloodline transplanter who made use of the power of ice.
After the bloodline transplanter was swallowed, a lot of ice was raised on his skin, freezing him into ice. The monster's head bit it in its mouth, and continuously scorched the ice, melting it. However, even more coldness arose from inside the ice, sustaining it.
The monster's head bit the ice as if it was enjoying a candy. It floated in midair and grinned, as if it was intelligent. It didn't fight any longer.
As for the other bloodline transplanters, they all made use of their own methods. Earthquake, sucking blood, burning mana, venomous corruption, mind-shrieking…
The side effects of bloodline transplantation had been minimized after their crystallization. Besides, they were under the monster's control, and it didn't care about the side effects at all. It was using their greatest power.
However, their power didn't have any effect when it hit the fiery tree that the legion mages had created. The root of the fiery tree was holding on to the fire element, not the earth, so the earthquake didn't work at all. Everything inside the fiery tree was fire itself. It couldn't be destroyed by the power of earth.
Then, the bloodline transplanter who boasted the power of earth fell on the ground due to the bombardment of blames. One flame after another was condensed above his body and exploded, causing pits around his body. The blasts of the flames smashed him like Xiuban's hammer, knocking him consecutively into the soil.
To be continued