End of the Magic Era - Chapter 1013

Chapter 1013: Suppressed

Lin Yun’s left hand was holding a fist-sized spherical Magic Tool. This was the Elemental Passage that he had dismantled from the Heaven Rank Puppet in the Raging Flame Plane.

The glaring lightning kept rushing into the Elemental Passage, and it dissipated as if sucked in. The lightning covering the Great Shaman’s body kept surging as if it would never stop.

It took less than three minutes for the surface of the Elemental Passage to start to flicker with lightning. The Elemental Passage could only devour one spell at a time. Whether it was a 1st Tier Spell or an 8th Tier Spell, it made no difference.

Strictly speaking, these continuous rays of lightning couldn’t be considered as magic. But as long as they were uninterrupted, the Elemental Passage would consider them all as one spell. Unless they exceeded the limit, it could keep absorbing them.

The lightning on the surface of the Great Shaman’s body slowly dissipated, and the remaining power wasn’t enough to keep him out of commission.

After putting away the Elemental Passage, Lin Yun took out one more Health Potion.

“Sir Great Shaman, this is a Health Potion that I refined.”

The Great Shaman gratefully bowed towards Lin Yun and accepted the potion.

With the lightning dissipating and his wounds recovering, the bedridden Great Shaman had now recovered to a stable state and could move without a problem.

“Sir Great Shaman, I want to ask you a question… I hope you could tell me the truth.”

The Great Shaman shook his head.

“My greatest thanks for your generosity, as you helped reduce my pain. But I don’t really know the answer to your question.”

Lin Yun faintly smiled, not getting angry.

“Sir Great Shaman, I’ve yet to ask you the question, yet you already seem to know what I want to ask.”

The Great Shaman opened his mouth before pausing with an uncomfortable smile on his face.

“Sir Great Shaman, I want to ask what’s going on with the Undead outside. I want to know the truth.”

The Great Shaman immediately shook his head.

“I also don’t know, I’ve never seen an Undead. I’m not sure what exactly you want to know. I’m very sorry, I’m unable to help you.”

Lin Yun remained calm, as he had been expecting this kind of reaction.

“If Sir Great Shaman isn’t convinced there are any Undead Beastmen outside, then it’s very simple. I’ll just go out for half an hour and capture a few hundred of them. It is a very simple matter.”

After saying that, Lin Yun turned around to walk out.

The Great Shaman’s expression changed in an instant. Capturing some would really the simplest way to prove it, but a few hundred would definitely expose the truth to the tribe.

“Wait, wait, young man, you win. Since you want to know, I’ll tell you the truth. But the truth isn’t what you are hoping for…”

Lin Yun turned around and calmly listened to the Great Shaman as he recounted their history while sighing.

“In the most ancient era, the Greater Raging Flame Overlord ruled the entire world. All Beastmen were only slaves to the Greater Raging Flame Overlord, and all their lives were in his grasp.

“The vicious Greater Overlord could kill his slaves at will, and the blood of Beastmen flowed to every corner of the Greater Raging Flame Overlord’s territory…

“Until the day when my ancestor, the greatest Shaman Sarr, rose up. He started leading us to resist the Greater Overlord’s ruthless rule. Numerous brave Beastmen ended up sacrificing their lives, and even Saar offered his own life.

“We successfully overthrew the Greater Raging Flame Overlord’s rule and sealed him away. But although the seal was very powerful and even consumed Saar’s life for energy, it could barely suppress the Greater Raging Flame Overlord.

“The Greater Raging Flame Overlord keeps attacking the seal, and from time to time, some of the Greater Overlord’s power rushes out of the seal and greatly harms us. This is a disaster for us.

“Every few dozen years, a heroic Beastman needs to use his life to strengthen the seal.

“But too much of the Greater Raging Flame Overlord’s power is leaking. We keep having to fight the many Demons he summons, and every year, a large number of heroic warriors sacrifice their lives.

“As time passes, the number of warriors is dwindling, and our tribe keeps weakening. At the same time, more and more Demons are being summonsed as the Greater Raging Flame Overlord’s power leaks out. He’ll ultimately escape from his trap one day.

“Back then, a wise tribesman named Leksa eventually found a method to seal the Greater Raging Flame Overlord that didn’t need Beastmen to keep sacrificing their lives to reinforce the seal.

“Leksa summoned a large number of powerhouses and, while standing on the seal, he cut himself and died, while the others poured his life and soul into the seal.

“A large number of our ancestors sacrificed their lives, and their souls formed a huge cage that would imprison the Greater Raging Flame Overlord for all eternity.

“But that method wasn’t without flaws… Their souls couldn’t rest, and their bodies turned into the Undead, forever wandering this wasteland.

“I read through my ancestors’ records and watched as time passed. I could feel Leksar’s willingness to abandon his beliefs and turn himself into one of the Undead, to make his soul unable to rest.

“I also know that their souls are struggling forever. Even after knowing that they have turned, they still retain some of their memories.

“They are still guarding our tribe even now, and they attack any outsiders that come. However, they would never show themselves to Beastmen.

“They are unwilling to let their descendants and clansmen see their changed appearances… They are unwilling to let their descendants and clansmen know that they abandoned the beliefs of their ancestors. They are unwilling to let us know that their souls never returned to the embrace of the earth and never turned into Ancestor Souls.

“But I can see it. I’ve never seen the Undead before, but I know that they are still completing their mission.

“The souls of our ancestors won’t rest as long as they are suppressing the Greater Raging Flame Overlord, so the Undead will forever remain.

“That canyon where Demons keep appearing is the area where the Greater Raging Flame Overlord is sealed.

“It’s not that I’m unwilling to tell you the truth… It’s just that if you don’t want to deal with the Undead army, you will have to face the terrifying Greater Raging Flame Overlord.

“If I may advise you, don’t provoke the Greater Raging Flame Overlord. You don’t understand how terrifying he is. Even sealed, the raging flames formed from a bit of leaked power are enough to burn anyone to ashes.”

The Great Shaman had a gloomy tone, and he didn’t have any intention to fight. Just a bit of power leaking from the Greater Raging Flame Overlord would be too much for them to resist.

Lin Yun silently nodded, a flash of understanding appearing in his eyes.

In the legends of the Raging Flame Plane, everything in the Black Burn Scar had been destroyed by a Greater Demon Overlord. Even ten millennia later, the remnants of the fierce flames weren’t something anyone under the Heaven Rank could study.

After having guessed that this shattered world existed in the past of the Raging Flame Plane, Lin Yun conjectured that there might have been a genuine Greater Demon Overlord suppressed there, and sure enough, it was the case.

And Lin Yun finally understood why it was suppressed there. This kind of existence was an apex ruler in the Abyss. Countless Demons crawled under its feet, but for it to be suppressed in the Raging Flame Plane was too strange.

But he now understood why the Raging Flame Plane was called the Raging Flame Plane. It was because the original ruler of the place was this Greater Raging Flame Overlord!

His rule was overthrown! And by the Beastmen that he originally oppressed as slaves. But the name kept being passed on.

After obtaining the information he wanted, Lin Yun went back to the others to discuss it.

Everyone was shocked after hearing this. No one expected a Greater Demon Overlord to actually be sealed under that canyon.

And what they needed to do now was to look for a way to truly suppress this Greater Demon Overlord and free the Beastmen’s souls from their cages.

Only after these Beastmen’s souls were truly freed would the Undead army dissipate. That way, they would be able to attack the Golden Top Tribe and capture the Golden Beastmen without the looming threat of the Undead.

Regarding that matter, those that didn’t know much about arrays and weren’t alchemists couldn’t give any decent ideas. Raphael frowned for a long time, before hesitantly saying, “The array in that canyon is a very old array. The arrays from back then wouldn’t be as refined. I believe that we can definitely find a better method to suppress that Greater Demon Overlord now.

“Although the Greater Demon Overlord is terrifyingly powerful, to the point where he could eliminate all of us with just his voice and destroy this world with one hit, he is currently suppressed by the seal. He won’t pose a big threat to us unless he escapes the seal.

“Leaked aura shouldn’t be too hard to deal with… I believe that we are powerful enough to handle it.

“At the very least, it would be a lot easier than facing those swarms of the Undead. Unlike them, he isn’t invincible.”

Raphael, the appointed leader of Sky City’s forces, was a Peak Master Alchemist and their best expert in the field of arrays. His words had the most sway, at least to the Odin Kingdom’s people. His words were far more convincing than even the Artisan of the Andlusa Kingdom.

Everyone had seen Lin Yun’s foundation in rune carving before, and they had also seen Lin Yun taking out first-rate potions. Thus, they automatically believed that Lin Yun was a potioneering expert.

No one asked for Lin Yun’s opinion. After Raphael shared his opinion, Dedale firmly clapped his hands and made this decision.

Although the Greater Demon Overlord was terrifying, a suppressed Greater Demon Overlord was far less terrifying than an Undead army.