End of the Magic Era

A few hundred kilometers away, a bunch of mages who wore all sorts of long robes were standing at the entrance of a cave. The land within several thousand meters of them had been blackened. The bodies of strange creatures, which had four wings and the heads of crocodiles, were lying on the ground. Black flames were spreading out slowly, and incinerating the bodies.

"Sir Myers, this plane is truly a blessing. We only came here by chance, yet this plane turns out to be as wonderful as paradise. It boasts infinite mana and resources. All plants here contain mana. There are even two suns.

"Most importantly, in such a favorable environment, there are only brainless beasts that are absolutely stupid. How wonderful. The waves from this cave suggest that there must be a lot of mana crystals in it. Also, the mana in them is very pure. They're better than any mana crystals in Noscent…"

A tall mage, from whose body black smoke was popping up, was remarking on the great environment as if he were singing an aria, with a demon face and horns above his head.

In the center of the crowd, an old bald mage, whose eyes seemed to be made of pure crystals, stood quietly and gazed at the entrance of the cave. He was frowning hard, and wasn't as optimistic as his partner.

The old mage didn't say anything. Not far away, a female mage who was enshrouded in gray mist spoke with disdain. "Sheldon, have your brains been corrupted by devil power too? All the creatures we've seen here are horrifyingly inferior. Their souls are as incomplete as those of a reptile. Have you not noticed that at all?

"The mana here is so abundant. There's even a blue sun that's emitting magic brilliance. Do you really think that only those stupid low-level beasts are born here?"

Sheldon, who had demon horns, burst into fury. The smoke around his body shivered fiercely, and his voice turned cold and aggressive too. "Sunny, I don't need you to remind me of that. The discovery of this new plane is so important, yet you're the only person of the Ring of Roses who's here. Where's Emmy, that crazy b*tch? You don't take the orders of the headquarters seriously at all, do you? Could the Ring of Roses have thrived without the headquarters' support?"

Myers, the old mage who stood in the center, coughed and interrupted their argument. "Enough. Stop fighting. This place is truly quite weird. Things are highly abnormal. Even the weeds here are full of mana. A lot of the weeds can even be used as low-level herbs, yet all that can be seen are beasts that aren't very strong. That's very strange.

"Also, the local beasts' souls are weird too. Their souls are all as simple and vulnerable as those of reptiles…

"Huh, something else is approaching. They're strong…"

Myers turned around and looked at the sky in the distance with his glittering eyes that seemed artificial. A dozen seconds later, his partners finally saw a few black spots approaching quickly.

Another half a minute later, they discovered, to their surprise, that it was not local beasts, but a few human beings who were coming.

Lin Yun had noticed the entrance of the cave that was almost eight kilometers in diameter and the dozen mages who were standing there from a distance. He saw that all of them were in the Heaven Rank.

He paid attention to three people first. One of them was a male mage who had demon horns with black smoke popping up. It was easy to tell that this guy had surely transplanted some sort of abyssal demon's bloodline and its horns. That was why he looked so different from normal people.

Another person was the female mage who looked almost identical to Emmy, whom he had met before. Her body was enshrouded in gray mist, and could hardly be seen clearly. Needless to say, she was from the Ring of Roses.

The old mage in the center was looking Lin Yun in the eyes, as if his eyes could see through space. His eyes were artificial, and seemed to be made of crystals. They were pure white, and didn't have pupils at all. However, Lin Yun could tell that the old mage was staring at him, and his eyes were trying to penetrate him. When it failed, the power in the man's eyes became even greater.

A power that didn't seem very great but was highly penetrative surged, trying to cut into Lin Yun's soul and read his everything.

Lin Yun casually invoked a spatial law rune. Immediately, the air between him and the old mage was twisted. He couldn't be seen anymore…

"Mafa Merlin. It's Mafa Merlin. How can he be here? Sir Myers, that guy is Mafa Merlin. It was he who almost destroyed the Shadow Tower and the headquarters' plan! The Shadow Tower is still being suppressed by many families. If it weren't still somewhat useful to them, they would destroy the Shadow Tower without hesitation!

"Now that Mafa Merlin has come here, Emmy might be in danger. She might have even been killed. That's how he learned of this plane…

"Also, our five iron warships that are in the void. Since they're already here, it's possible that the warships are already…"

Sunny's aura became more and more unstable. Her ominous aura spread out, and she spoke in a low voice that sounded like a devil's whisper. Her surging killing intent turned into gray mist that gathered into twisted faces on her skin and roared.

The black smoke on Sheldon's skin concentrated as he gazed at Lin Yun vigilantly, not because of the history between him and the Shadow Tower, and not because of what Sunny said. His hostility was simply because he saw Lin Yun in his plane.

The dozen Heaven Rank mages were all hostile and ready for battle. However, without Myers' order, nobody really did anything.

The weird light in Myers' crystal eyes was gone. They seemed to have turned into ordinary glass. He put on a solemn expression.

"Whoever they are, we must not let others discover this plane, which belongs to the Thorny Crown. Our research can be expedited if we have this plan. We can benefit a lot from the blue sun here."

Everybody understood what Myers implied after he said that.

Sheldon slightly bowed, and then disappeared, leaving thick cracks on the ground. His robe fell apart into pieces, and he rose from 2.2 meters tall to 4.5 meters. Unleashing an intense devil aura, he gathered a five-meter-long black spear with smoke in his hand.

Sheldon charged at the strangers rapidly. Even his body looked like an enormous spear that was emitting smoke.

Lin Yun looked at the scene coldly.

"Xiuban."

On Lin Yun's order, Xiuban dashed forth with Carnage without hesitation. With a roar, Xiuban's body expanded, and its eyes became bloodshot. It was surrounded by the stench of blood. Carnage was glittering and enlarging too.

The golden hammer and the black spear collided. Lightning appeared at the point of impact. It was not until after a second of impasse that an explosion finally burst out in the center of the clash. A circle of glowing light spread out instantly. Both Xiuban and Sheldon were blown away.

Xiuban rolled dozens of times in midair. Black and golden lightning kept slapping its skin. Its clothes had been torn apart, but there was not a wound on its skin.

After advancing into the Heaven Rank and melting all its bloodlines, Xiuban already had a unique bloodline that belonged only to itself. After the extraordinary evolution, it had already become unimaginably strong. It was truly impossible for it to even kill itself anymore.

There were already 18 gravity arrays on Carnage. Adding the power of earth that Xiuban made use of, the weapon weighed at least hundreds of thousands of kilograms in the battle. With the addition of Xiuban's horrifying physical strength, its every strike was as powerful as a smashing mountain.

After the fusion of bloodlines, Xiuban had one of the best bloodlines that was almost as perfect as an extraordinary creature's. The Heaven Rank only equaled adulthood. The fusion of a few dragon bloodlines even gave Xiuban an even greater ability. It could grow strong simply by sleeping…

Having been sleeping for such a long time in the Demiplane, and swallowing its abundant and pure mana, it had already advanced into level 2 of the Heaven Rank. Although it still could not beat Pabiete, the latter couldn't possibly destroy Xiuban's body, either.

Lin Yun was not afraid that Xiuban might be wounded by the bloodline transplanter at all. Xiuban couldn't be killed anyway…

Sheldon and Xiuban were both blown away. Xiuban was absolutely fine, but long tiny wounds appeared on Sheldon's skin. Blood flowed out and turned into black smoke, making the devil power around it even more powerful. The wounds recovered in only a few seconds.

Sheldon didn't win the clash. He was actually injured, and his opponent wasn't. He instantly burst into an outrage. Black smoke surged out of his body, and he roared loudly from the sky.

"Stupid beastman, I'm going to tear you apart! I'll tear you apart…"

While Xiuban and Sheldon collided in midair, Sunny turned into gray mist, and charged at her enemies too, sending out whispers from every direction. Reina flew out expressionlessly.

Law runes that looked like ice appeared around Reina. Immediately, the runes fell apart, and gathered into a cold blue ball of light that swept over everything within a kilometer of Reina. The gray mist and everything else in it, including the air and the mana, were frozen into pieces of ice…

After the mist was frozen, Sunny could not hide herself in it any longer. The ice crumbled, and Sunny had to show herself in the air.

The ice could not hide Sunny. Her body was completely exposed. Her skin was blue, with ugly veins all over it. She looked like a body whose blood had been consolidated. She had the face of a zombie too. There seemed to be a thin film on her eyeballs. Veins were protruding on her cheeks as well. The hideous stripes all over her body made her look like a zombie whose body hadn't fully rotten yet.

Her slim body was no longer alluring at all. Her whispers that sounded like the charms of a devil made her even more monstrous.

After her body was exposed, Sunny shrieked in shock and fury. Her sound waves spread out. The power of soul, the power of death, and the ominous power of devils appeared at the same time, shattering the ice around her.

The gray mist covered her body again. However, at this moment, Sunny seemed to be losing her rationality. She shrieked furiously and loudly like a banshee that had been infuriated. Behind her back, the power of death turned into a vortex, and countless ghosts were surging out of the vortex in a torrent.

A tremendous number of Screaming Ghosts were charging at Reina. As Sunny was a bloodline transplanting warlock, although she succeeded and received enormous power, the side effect was that her face was destroyed, and she looked like a monster.

That was absolutely unacceptable for a woman. She wasn't like Sheldon, who didn't care even if he had to transplant a demon's horns to make himself more powerful.

After her face and her monstrous body were exposed, Sunny immediately lost all her rationality. She had completely forgotten Lin Yun. All that she could think of was to kill Reina immediately…

Reina coldly floated in midair, and stared at Sunny with disdain. Facing the torrent of Screaming Ghosts, she didn't dodge at all, but simply charged towards it.

Blue halos of light spread out of Reina. All the Screaming Ghosts that were hit by the halos were frozen, and then dispersed.

Seeing that the torrent of Screaming Ghosts couldn't approach her at all, Sunny changed her strategy. She only sent some of the Screaming Ghosts she summoned to block Reina, and gathered the rest around her. When enough Screaming Ghosts were gathered, Sunny finally let out demon whispers. Strange whispers echoed in midair from all directions.

Hearing the whispers, the Screaming Ghosts gathered into a massive formation around Sunny, as if they had been summoned by a queen. All their power circulated in the formation, and then concentrated.

Sunny opened her mouth, and let out a shriek. Instantly, all the Screaming Ghosts shrieked at the same frequency as Sunny. A terrifying power was concentrating. A gigantic bubble that enshrouded Sunny and the Screaming Ghosts was appearing. The bubble became bigger and bigger, and contained all the power in it.

When Reina's freezing halos hit the bubble, the bubble fell apart, and the power that had been restrained so far was all unleashed towards Reina as a soul shock.

Facing such an attack, Reina finally stopped spreading the freezing halos. She roared with dazzling blue light glittering on her skin. Immediately, she turned into a graceful silver dragon that was 200 meters long. She didn't seem as strong as normal dragons. However, as she assumed her original form, a terrifying cold air froze everything around her. The coldness could compare to that in the dark void which had never embraced the sunlight. It seemed that even the flow of time had been slowed down.

Facing the enormous pure soul shock, Reina craned her head, and gathered power in her throat. Then, she opened her mouth, and let out a deafening roar. Immediately, the terrifying pressure turned into a blast that moved towards her opponent.

Her life essentials had already evolved, and she was as strong as the terrifying extraordinary dragons. She was extremely gifted as a dragon too. She was already formidable at this moment.

The soul shock that Sunny released was like a transparent blast that was pressing close in the sky. The dragon's pressure that Reina released was a pure soul spell too. It charged in the shape of an illusionary dragon, which easily tore apart the torrent of soul blast that Sunny had released.

Like a horrifying beast that was going against the current, the illusionary dragon tore apart the soul blast and charged at Sunny.

Immediately, Sunny screamed and was blown back, as if she had been slapped by a dragon right in the face. Green and red blood gushed out. Her Screaming Ghosts charged at the illusionary dragon, but exploded one after another.

They were low-level ghosts and pure soul entities, yet they dared to face the dragon's pressure. There couldn't be a second ending for them except for exploding into pieces.

After the collision, half of the swarm of Screaming Ghosts in the sky was gone. The remaining half stayed around Sunny and protected her. Blood was dripping from her eyes, ears, noses, and mouths nonstop…