End of the Magic Era

Everybody boarded a magic battleship, and flew towards the nearest city of Blood Elves.

The underground world had its own rules. Here, whoever had bigger fists made the rules. Although the situation was similar in Noscent, it wasn't as straightforward as in the underground world.

By showing your muscles, you could achieve your purpose easily without any fighting.

Lin Yun was going there to rescue the Cave Gnomes that had been caught by the Blood Elves. According to Bulinwon, about 50,000 Cave Gnomes lived in this mountain. Their life was difficult enough as it was. Then, the Blood Elves came to hunt them. Not counting those who were killed, about 40,000 of them had been captured.

So many Cave Gnomes had been caught not a long time earlier. They were certainly gathered in the nearest city of Blood Elves, waiting to be transferred. They couldn't be freed without a fight. There would be a lot of trouble if the arrogant Blood Elves weren't taught a lesson.

The five magic battleships flew to the nearest city of Blood Elves, which was only 300 kilometers from Tungus Mountain. This was the border of the Blood Elves' territory, and the families here couldn't be too powerful. That was why Lin Yun wasn't worried.

The Blood Elves were arrogant to others, but had a strict hierarchy amongst themselves. The powerful families occupied the most resourceful place in the center, and the weaker families stayed in circles around them.

A fairly large mine of Blood Essence was invaluable for such a Blood Elf family that wasn't too powerful. It could help significantly expand their territory, or make them grow much stronger.

They wouldn't have hunted the Cave Gnomes so crazily if the returns hadn't been so huge. After all, asking the Cave Gnomes to do mining was much more costly. Also, the Cave Gnomes had a small population. If they went extinct, it would cause great trouble when they were needed in the future.

So, no powerful race would purposefully eliminate those cowardly and ugly creatures.

The five magic battleships were very fast. An hour later, they were already able to see the city of Blood Elves on the horizon. The city looked splendid, with tall buildings everywhere. There were glamorous patterns on the city wall and three pointed towers that were more than 100 meters tall inside the city. On top of the towers, three bloody crystals were floating.

The five approaching magic battleships were detected, and alarms were echoing throughout the city. A flock of ugly birds carrying Blood Elves on their back rose from the city and marched out. The three pointy towers at the center of the city emanated gentle brilliance that gathered into a transparent shield, protecting the entire city.

The riders on the birds flooded towards the five magic battleships like a black river. Before they arrived, the Blood Elves on the birds' back had already drawn their bows and shot arrows that gathered into a bloody streak of light. Many Blood Elves were also raising their staffs. Their tattoos emitted weird and bloody brilliance. They had already started casting spells.

Standing in the command room in one of the magic battleships, Lin Yun looked at the Blood Elves and shook his head.

"What a domineering species. It seems that the Blood Elves consider themselves the dominator of the underground world. We're still kilometers away, yet they're already attacking us…

"Give my order. Kill all those riders. We cannot have a nice conversation with the local Blood Elf family without killing them."

Although the underground world was chaotic, and war was anything but unusual, attacking someone who was kilometers away and hadn't shown any hostility was still outrageous. The Blood Elves were just being unreasonable, and were determined to beat whoever might come.

Lin Yun never planned to talk to the Blood Elves in peace, either. This was just ground. Whoever had bigger fists had a bigger voice. He was just playing by their rules.

The alchemy puppets which had been standing by in the five magic battleships received Lin Yun's order simultaneously. They all went to their respective posts, and started working.

The control programs of the alchemy puppets had been written with a high standard. In terms of combat ability, they were even weaker than the lowliest manufactured alchemy puppets, but they were the best at controlling magic battleships.

Every part of the magic battleships was built by the alchemist team. When they designed and made the alchemy puppets, they focused on fitting the puppets to the magic battleships.

The alchemy puppets were perfectly fitted for the new magic battleships, even though their combat ability was sacrificed. Human crews could be preserved, and the magic battleships would always be kept in the best shape.

Those alchemy puppets didn't need to fight in person. It wouldn't matter even if they didn't have any combat ability.

After Lin Yun gave the order, the alchemy puppets that controlled different parts of the magic battleships started working without delay. The commanders in the five magic battleships were all Heaven Rank ones. Their levels were founded on the parts of Heaven Rank alchemy puppets and rare materials.

Those materials were good enough for level-43 and even level-44 alchemy puppets, but they were used in the level-40 alchemy puppets, which hadn't gone through the extraordinary evolution, and had only awakened their wisdom.

Even though they didn't have a lot of wisdom yet, they could already command all the alchemy puppets on a magic battleship.

Three seconds after Lin Yun gave the order, the weapon systems on the magic battleships were activated. Only one-tenth of them were used. The main cannons weren't even preheated. Obviously, the alchemy puppets had concluded that the weakest weapons on the magic battleships would be enough to annihilate the riders.

Cannons whose barrels were only one meter long extended from the surfaces of the warships. Brilliance of mana quickly gathered.

The riders' bloody arrows and spells, and even their ordinary elemental spells, couldn't break through the warships' protective shields. As they got closer and closer, the prepared weapons on the magic battleships were launched.

Icy pillars of light, red fiery pillars, and green pillars of light that seemed to be countless tornadoes compressed darted out of the cannons crazily.

Such rays were extremely fast and powerful. Their only shortcoming was that they were easy to dodge.

On such a battlefield, the dodging enemies were no longer a problem. The hundreds of cannons could all shoot seven times per second, and their rays had a coverage of almost 3,000 square meters, not to mention that all of the cannons were controlled by alchemy puppets. Their precision was almost 90% under such circumstances.

Every cannon was as powerful as an average level-8 spell for individuals. There were only three riders who were in the Heaven Rank. The rest were mostly Archmages. Some of them were even just High Mages.

After a 10-second barrage of one-tenth of the ray cannons, more than half of the riders in the sky were already gone. The survivors tried to turn around and flee, only to be covered by the rays again one second later. A couple of seconds later, it could only be seen that the dense rays penetrated the sky as a pillar of light.

All of the riders had been annihilated. The Blood Elves and their birds had been ripped to pieces and fell from the sky…

The five magic battleships moved onwards, and floated in the sky two kilometers away from the city. They didn't break the city's shield.

In only half a minute, a few Heaven Rank experts had risen from the city. They stared at the magic battleships with shock and fury.

"Who's so bold as to attack a city of Blood Elves? Do you want to raise the wrath of Blood Elves? Stupid bastards…"

Some screamed in the sky in shock and fury. Darri, as a local of the underground, walked to the deck of one of the magic battleships, and gazed at the Blood Elves coldly. Each of the Blood Elves could tear him into pieces easily, but Darri held his head high as if he were looking at some pathetic bugs.

"Stupid Blood Elves, surrender great Sir Merlin's subjects, and he shall mercifully forgive you. Otherwise, you should know the consequences of waking the fury of a dragon!"

Darri's roar, with the help of his aura, transmitted in a radius of at least 20 kilometers. Everybody within the range could hear him. Having been hunted by the Blood Elves earlier, Darri finally had an opportunity to get back at them and insult them. He surely needed to make good use of it.

The Blood Elves were dumbfounded after hearing what Darri said. They had no idea what happened. Why would the subjects of a dragon be in their place?

There were no dragon territories nearby, either. The Blood Elves were rather shocked that a dragon should visit them in person.

Subjects were just a nicer way of saying slaves. Neither the Blood Elves nor the dragons cared about slaves. They would certainly never attack a city just for a few slaves…

So, the dragon had probably come because he felt disgraced for being robbed of the slaves. Dragons were all unreasonable. They were not just arrogant; they might destroy a city just because they didn't like it.

In the underground world, there were few pure-blood dragons, but each of them was very strong. No races would offend a pure-blood dragon, because the latter would retaliate at all costs until they destroyed their enemy.

However, most of the dragons in the underground were impure dragons or subdragons. Although they were also strong, they were nowhere nearly as good as real dragons.

Darri, as a lizard man, didn't receive the Blood Elves' respect at all.

"Stupid lizard man, you dare to attack the Blood Elves city in Tungus. Wait for bloody revenge! Your head will hang above our city gate today!"

The Blood Elves almost burst into fury. It had been years since their city had been last attacked. Even in wars, the city had been in the rear, and had never been attacked.

A lot of Blood Elves flew out of the city. Most of them were riding the weird birds. Some of the birds were dozens of meters long, and had two heads.

Nobody was surprised at the Blood Elves' arrogance and stubbornness. They would rather beat any challenger than talk with them. So, no talk.

Lin Yun had known what the Blood Elves were like, but others couldn't hold back. Holding Carnage on his shoulder, Xiuban walked to the edge of the magic battleship scarily, and gazed at the Blood Elves.

"Idiots, your Lord Xiuban is here. Surrender the gnomes that you idiots caught immediately, and I will grant you a quick death. You were stupid enough to steal Sir Merlin's subjects. You're asking to be killed!" Xiuban roared on the magic battleship, holding back the urge to go out and tear apart the Blood Elves.

The weapon systems on the magic battleships weren't accurately controlled as mages' spells. It was possible that they would kill him along with the Blood Elves.

Xiuban roared, and a Blood Elf who stood on the back of a double-headed bird stretched his bow. Immediately, a bloody arrow crossed thousands of meters, and appeared in front of Xiuban. There were bloody circles around the arrow, as if it were being held by many bloody hands.

The arrow hit Xiuban's Carnage brutally, and caused a deafening explosion. The bloody circles around the arrow spread out, and slapped Xiuban's body, circumventing the weapon.

Xiuban sneered and stood still. When the bloody circles reached him, the dragon tattoo on his skin opened its eyes and mouth. Then, all the bloody circles crumbled, and were swallowed as power of blood.

The Blood Elf laughed loudly after firing the dragon.

"You're just a bastard beastman with part of a dragon's bloodline, yet you consider yourself a dragon? Stupid. Those filthy Cave Gnomes are our slaves. They might have been your subjects in the past, but so what? They're ours now. You bastards dare to attack our city? You're dead for sure. We'll put your body at the city gate for everybody to watch!"

Instantly, Xiuban's eyes turned bloodshot. The tattoos on his skin glittered one after another. The three-headed golden dragon, the primordial venomous dragon, and the abyssal blood dragon had never had a good temper. The three-headed golden dragon was known as the strongest of the Chromatic Dragons.

As for the strongest of the primordial venomous dragons, even gods had to avoid them. The abyssal blood dragon was as strong as the pure-blood devils in the abyss. They were all very strong, but none had a good temper.

The tattoos of the three dragons glittered. Then, the crystal dragon's tattoo opened its eyes too. The crystal dragon had a good temper and loved sleeping, but it didn't mean that it would just stand any insult…

Xiuban was significantly strengthened, and instantly disappeared. Even the magic battleship underneath his feet shivered a bit because of the counterforce.

Xiuban turned into a blurry shadow, and marched towards the Blood Elves. Ignoring all the other riders on weird birds, he went straight for the Blood Elf in the center.

A terrifying aura burst out. All the weird birds in the sky were so frightened that they could no longer be controlled by the Blood Elves. They dispersed in panic, not daring to approach Xiuban at all. Even the double-headed birds that were dozens of meters tall seemed to have met their nemesis. They flapped their wings in panic and fled.

Xiuban didn't have a pure bloodline, but his bloodline was a mixture of that of several most powerful dragons. Also, the bloodlines were perfectly mixed with the help of the God Blood after the extraordinary evolution. It was as if he naturally owned the power, and there was no conflict at all. He was even stronger than pure-blood dragons, and could compare to the strongest Chromatic Dragons.

Those strange birds were actually strong enough not to have been terrified to death by the aura of the dragons…

Xiuban wielded Carnage and charged, with compressed energy around himself. He looked like an energy cannonball that was a dozen meters tall.

The double-headed bird underneath the Heaven Rank Blood Elf was so awed that it could only flee without the courage to confront him. It bore Xiuban's terrifying attack.

The double-headed bird that was dozens of meters tall was instantly torn into shreds. The terrifying power burst out. The pieces of the bird then splashed in all directions, riddling 100 riders in the radius of several hundred meters with holes.

In the sky, the Heaven Rank Blood Elf, who luckily survived the attack, was shocked and infuriated. But before he could say anything, Xiuban had appeared above his head with a scary smile, and smashed him with Carnage that carried daunting energy, blowing up his weapon, his shield, and his body.

The dispersing power of blood was greedily absorbed by Xiuban's abyssal dragon tattoo, which further strengthened him.

Wielding Carnage, Xiuban committed a carnage in the sky. The five magic battleships simply floated, and didn't intervene with the battle. Most of the surviving riders had already escaped. None of them dared to fight any longer.