End of the Magic Era - Chapter 1145
Chapter 1145: Incarnation (2)
Steer lowered his head. His eyes glimmered as if he was waiting for a good show. He seamlessly got closer to the human side and would look at Lin Yun from time to time with evasive glances.
Although Steer had casually said a few words, everyone’s expressions had become somewhat unsightly. Cross and Clombton both frowned, and the mana and aura surrounding their bodies became somewhat chaotic.
Although the Bronze Beastmen were the ones most looked down upon among the Beastmen, they carried on with the concept of defense being the strongest power. Even the Grey Beastmen, the Beastmen with the weakest bodies, would focus on killing their enemies and not strengthening their defenses.
But no one could deny that the Bronze Beastmen’s defenses were powerful, especially after advancing to the Heaven Rank. The Bronze Beastmen would become tortoise shells that were very difficult to approach. No one was willing to fight with Bronze Beastmen, especially the few of them with bloodlines so powerful that they’d awakened the gravity ability.
The Holy Mountain Incarnation ahead of them not only controlled the Gravity Domain, but it was comparable to a Gravity Domain released by a Peak 3rd Rank Bronze Beastman.
Even a Bronze Beastman at the 4th Rank with an inferior bloodline wouldn’t be able to release a Gravity Domain as powerful as the Holy Mountain Incarnation had.
How could they fight this?
Holy radiance appeared in the sky as Clombton’s chanting voice kept echoing and rays of light frantically converged. In an instant, the sky within several kilometers darkened.
Apparently, those rays of light converged together and formed a thick pillar of light that fell down from the sky.
One after another, small angels emitting white radiance floated around the light pillar, the weapons in their hands were pointed at the Holy Mountain Incarnation.
A stern and majestic aura emerged from the thick light pillar, and a solemn, godly shadow floated within. That blurry shadow faintly looked like Clombton.
“Judgement!”
An indescribable voice suddenly echoed from it. That language was unfamiliar, yet everyone understood the meaning.
The pillar narrowed into a meter-thick blazing beam of light that lanced at the Holy Mountain Incarnation.
In an instant, the Holy Mountain Incarnation was surrounded in rays of light, and its silhouette couldn’t be seen anymore. But the earth within ten meters of it seemed to melt into glass, while the ground outside of those ten meters was covered in fine cracks. Those cracks barely had the time to appear before the ground was flattened by the pull of gravity.
A roar of anger came from the light beam, and less than three seconds later, the beam started distorting and the light slowly dimmed. That light was like a rubber band that kept being stretched.
Several seconds later, the pillar of light exploded, and the scattered light was pushed to the ground by the gravity, turning the earth within several dozen meters into a shining carpet.
The Holy Mountain Incarnation was covered in white smoke. Its body was covered in a layer of sinister white Bone Aura Armor. Even the traces on the Bone Aura Armor were rapidly dissipating.
Apparently, the 9th Tier Extraordinary Spell, Light Judgement, could only force the Incarnation to use the Blood Bone Beastmen’s ability.
Light Judgement was the strongest 8th Tier area-of-effect spell. With the addition of Extraordinary Power and by condensing it into a single-target spell, it would become a 9th Tier Spell. Any Undead under the 3rd Rank of the Heaven realm would evaporate instantly under that attack.
Unfortunately, the Holy Mountain Incarnation hadn’t been greatly injured, and its few injuries were already healing.
Seeing this scene, morale rapidly fell. The 1st Rank Heaven powerhouses slowly put down their raised weapons and staves, not knowing whether they should bother to cast spells or not.
At this time, Clombton said with a cold expression, “The Holy Mountain is already under the control of that Ancient God. We won’t be able to go in if we can’t deal with the Holy Mountain Incarnation before us.”
Clombton raised his light staff and looked at the Incarnation. His mana surged, and formidable power gathered into a ring of light that revolved around his body.
The radiance was like a calmly flowing brook. The air flowing nearby seemed to have stopped, and everything became strangely quiet.
On the other side, Cross drew his three-meter-long greatsword, and his golden aura gushed out like waves. The sword in his hands glowed and instantly tripled in size.
But the golden aura didn’t stop there. It kept coursing through Cross’ body, condensing into a sinister Aura Armor.
The chaotic aura distorted the air and elements in the surroundings and formed a chaotic storm zone. No one could get within a few dozen meters of him.
There was a sharp contrast between Cross and Clombton, but they both exuded terrifying power.
Their auras swelled and burst out, suppressing the aura of the Holy Mountain Incarnation.
In the rear, the Heaven Rank powerhouses that had lost hope due to the Holy Mountain Incarnation’s aura were now raising their weapons, cold sweat trickling down their backs.
Lin Yun was no better than the others. He was also pale. Even if the Holy Mountain Incarnation wasn’t the entire Holy Mountain, the power it borrowed came from the entire mountain.
The Holy Mountain that had existed and been worshipped by the Beastmen for countless years had already gained wisdom. If this incarnation were a true lifeform, it would have already become a first-rate Heaven Rank powerhouse.
An incarnation of wisdom and power… The pressure it produced was many times stronger than a 3rd Rank Heaven powerhouse would!
The power derived from laws was innate pressure, and mana could barely influence it. This was especially true when it came to a gap like this. It was so great that it couldn’t be breached.
As Cross and Clombton endured the pressure of the Holy Mountain Incarnation, Lin Yun felt his mana recover and operate as normal. The feeling of being the enemy of the entire Raging Flame Plane and facing the faith that the entire Raging Flame Plane had accumulated over the years… That feeling disappeared.
He glanced at the surroundings, and beside Cross and Clombton, all the other Heaven Rank powerhouses were pale. It was as if they had experienced a bitter struggle.
The 1st Rank Heaven powerhouses had yet to join the battle when Cross roared and rushed out.
Faint golden aura burst out of Cross and then attached to his large greatsword. In an instant, that huge and powerful sword lengthened again, becoming ten times its original length.
Cross held his sword with both hands and rushed above the Holy Mountain Incarnation before ferociously slashing down.
After reaching the center of the Gravity Domain, the heaviness of the gravity had reached its peak, and the greatsword formed by Cross’ Aura was about to be torn apart.
But Cross’ eyes burnt with faint golden flames, and the magic patterns on the surface of his body brightened. Part of his magic patterns seemed to come alive, and they instantly rushed into the sword in his hands.
With the addition of these magic patterns, that huge golden sword was saved from the fate of collapse. Instead, with the help of the Gravity Domain, the strike gained even more force from the increased weight.
Facing this power that could apparently tear through space, the Holy Mountain Incarnation slowly raised his head, and a hint of ridicule flashed in the pure black eyes. It then slowly raised one hand.
That arm covered in Bone Battle Armor shone with a bloody brilliance, and the white armor suddenly became a dark red bloody color. Dense black smoke surged like a volcanic eruption and rapidly condensed into existence.
From a distance, it looked like the arm of the Holy Mountain Incarnation had suddenly transformed into a gigantic black hand.
The black hand instantly arrived before the huge golden sword and grabbed it bare-handed.
A transparent ripple spread from the point of impact between the two, and the slowly spreading ripple swept forth with terrifying power, shaking the surrounding space. Fine spatial tears appeared where the ripples swept.
A look of shock flashed in Cross’ eyes. He instantly scattered his aura and didn’t continue his forceful attack.
His golden sword shattered with a loud bang, and similarly, that black hand also exploded. The smoke turned into a scaled, pitch-black fist that flickered nine times, avoiding Cross’ counterattack and fiercely smashing against his body.
“Crack…”
A fierce light flickered in the air as Cross instantly disappeared, only leaving behind a long, white trail.
His fall felt like an 8th Tier Spell falling on the ground. The earth was shattered, and spiderweb-like cracks spread from it for hundreds of meters.
Cross stood in the hole with both hands holding his greatsword in front of him. Pale golden aura was frantically bubbling on his body, rapidly fixing the gaps in his Battle Aura Armor.
The Heaven Rank Bone Beastman, Mutabla, let out an alarmed cry as if he had seen a ghost.
“Sh*t, this is our Blood Bone Beastmen’s life-saving ability! How could the Holy Mountain Incarnation also have it…”
The Blood Bone Beastmen were the fastest among the eight tribes. It was even rumored that the Vampire bloodline was in their lineage.
This was because the Vampire’s life-saving ability could turn them into bats covering the entire sky. As long as one Vampiric Bat remained alive, high-ranked Vampires wouldn’t die.
The Blood Bone Beastmen’s bloodline ability allowed them to split apart into nine Blood Shadows in order to escape in different directions. As long as one remained alive, the Blood Bone Beastman wouldn’t die.
But that ability had never been used by the Blood Bone Beastmen in a direct confrontation. They always used that ability when they were weak, when their fighting strength was below half.
But now, the Holy Mountain Incarnation didn’t use that ability on itself, but on its magic power. This was something the Blood Bone Beastmen never did.
More importantly, the black smoke condensing into an offensive spell was clearly the ability of the Black Iron Beastmen. The Black Iron Beastmen had Abyssal Bloodlines. That kind of abyssal magic power was something that only Black Iron Beastmen had among the Raging Flame Beastmen.
So far, the Holy Mountain Incarnation already revealed the Bronze Tribe, Blood Bone Tribe, and the Black Iron Tribe’s innate abilities. There was no need to think to know that the Holy Mountain Incarnation definitely possessed the abilities of all the Raging Flame Beastmen.
Then, everyone’s worries became reality.
The Holy Mountain Incarnation raised its arm, and thick black clouds covered the sky. Then, hundreds of blazing meteors rained down on the ground.
Everyone was within the range of the spell.
A flaming meteor fell to the ground, and the earth started violently shivering. The ground was like an ocean as wave after wave spread out. The flames and fragments from the meteors crashing down simply couldn’t be dodged. It covered a range of at least two to three kilometers.
The two dozen Heaven Rank powerhouses tacitly released their most powerful defensive abilities.
Fusion Shields, Law Runic Shields, Battle Aura Armor, Aura Shields…
The meteors were densely packed and in such high numbers that they simply couldn’t dodge them, so they could only block them.
Flames, fragments, shockwaves…
All kinds of destructive power converged into a sea of chaos, and every Heaven Rank powerhouse was like a boat floating on that sea, about to collapse at any time.
Morgan’s Fusion Shield kept flickering. His Darkness Elemental God was released to resist these meteors, but his Fusion Shield was still on the verge of shattering.
“Sh*t, that thing doesn’t care about mana consumption! Damned b*stard, every meteor is comparable to an 8th Tier Heavensfall Meteor.
“Moreover, hundreds of them keep falling down. Sh*t, sh*t, even if I roused my Demiplane and all my mana, I wouldn’t be able to do it. That guy… F*ck, Am I going to die to flaming meteors…!?”
Morgan was pale. He was a darkness mage that nurtured a Darkness Elemental God. Darkness Elemental Gods were basically innate slaughterers, but the power of their casting and defensive abilities were weaker than ordinary mages. At this time, this little gap would become a fatal factor.
The others weren’t much better… The only difference was how long they could last.
Even if the 1st Rank Heaven powerhouses completed their Extraordinary transformation and had Extraordinary Power, they wouldn’t be able to survive the assault of a few hundred 8th Tier Spells.
Moreover, this rain of falling meteors showed no signs of stopping or easing up.
Clombton solemnly floated in the air. The light staff in his hand blossomed with a milky white radiance, and all light converged into law runes.
As Clombton chanted, these law runes all burst, and the radiance filling the entire sky transformed into twenty human-shaped runic symbols with hands holding their chests.
These runes flew and instantly fell on everyone’s heads. In a split second, it felt like praising voices could be heard from the void, and milky white human-shaped angelic shadows appeared above their heads. The small angels emitted a large amount of light that merged with every Heaven Rank powerhouse’s defensive shields, steadying their fluctuating shields.
Morgan looked at his smoothed Fusion Shield with a stunned expression before letting a long sigh of relief.
“Holy Blessing? No, this is Angel Blessing, a supporting spell that could even bless the Undead!”
This was the doctrine of Holy Light; most of the spells leaned towards support and redemption. This branch of the Law of Light wasn’t like the other branches. It was very lethal to the Undead.
If a person understood the laws of purification within the Light Law, they could even kill an ordinary Undead with simple Therapy Spell.
With Clombton’s Angel Blessing, the Heaven Rank powerhouses no longer needed to use all their power to defend against that large-scale spell.
With this, he had also attracted the Holy Mountain Incarnation’s attention, and the speed of the rain of meteors slightly slowed down.
A small, scarlet radiance appeared in the hands of the Holy Mountain Incarnation. Then, the radiance flew out and instantly transformed into a fierce and sinister Beastman’s head.
The thirty-meter-tall head bared its teeth as it ruthlessly bit down towards Clombton.
And where its teeth met, a huge black hole seemed to appear. It was like a white cloth was forcibly torn apart bit by bit.
The huge and monstrous Beastman head bit its way towards Clombton and soon bit the Fusion Shield covering him. Rays of light and black smoke kept colliding, destroying one another.
They transformed into a sphere wrapped around Clombton’s Fusion Shield. And just like a ball, Clombton and the head flew into the distance.
The ring of light surrounding Clombton blossomed with a bright light, and as that light spread, the essence of that ring of light was revealed and law runes appeared one after another.
These numerous law runes formed a pure zone shrouded in holy light. It formed that sphere that swelled up, seemingly wanting to force that huge Beastman head to burst.
But it only made that huge and sinister head slightly open its mouth. Its speed didn’t lower at all as it rushed towards a small hill in the distance with Clombton stuck between its teeth.
“Rumble…”
A muffled explosion echoed from the distance as that hill burst into a black and white mushroom cloud. The cloud slowly rose to the sky, marking the original location of the hill.
That small hill had already disappeared, as had the huge Beastman head. Even Clombton’s situation was uncertain.
A few seconds later, beautiful angelic singing voices echoed, and a pillar of light suddenly shot from the distorted chaotic storm. Rays of light converged and twisted into a person as the pale Clombton reappeared before everyone’s eyes.
Boundless radiance shone behind Clombton as the shadow of a huge Demiplane floated there. The radiance cast by the Demiplane enveloped Clombton’s body and rapidly recovered his injuries and mana.