End of the Magic Era - Chapter 1165

Chapter 1165: Time to Return

“My Lord, this isn’t good. That damned Flame Demon is a coward and doesn’t dare to appear on the battlefield. He must have already escaped, we can’t keep delaying!

“We have to occupy his territory as soon as possible and then hunt him down. He might be seeking a Flame Demon Overlord’s help. We definitely can’t let him escape.

“If he escapes, those unreasonable pureblooded Flame Demons will definitely retaliate…”

Dubois was speaking very solemnly about the consequences, using both reasoning and threats. And sure enough, the Purple-Eyed Demon blew up when he heard this matter. His body expanded in size as he loudly roared.

“Damned Flame Demon, coward! Shameful Abyssal Magic Bug! You actually fled from a war!”

As he roared, the Purple-Eyed Demon personally stepped onto the battlefield while Dubois flew to the other side to threaten the Shade Fiend with even more alarming words.

The Shade Fiend instantly exploded. Pureblood Flame Demons could be considered existences that Shade Fiends had to eliminate. Blazing bright lava filled the area under the territories of Flame Demons, and Shade Fiends simply couldn’t approach.

After hearing that a pureblooded Flame Demon Overlord might be escaping, the Shade Fiend panicked and hurriedly stormed the battlefield.

They planned on quickly finishing the war and killing their way into Lin Yun’s territory.

With the two Demon Overlords personally entering the battlefield, Lin Yun’s Demon Army was unable to resist, so they kept retreating. But something happened when they joined the fight

The bloody mist and black smoke covering the battlefield transformed into a faint mist. It was as if a Demon Overlord suddenly awakened. In less than three seconds, the entire bloody battlefield was covered in a thick, bloody fog.

Everything within that was around Level 20 or lower instantly went crazy after being enveloped by the dense fog.

Each and every one of them burst with their most powerful spells and attacks at the people next to them.

A hundred thousand abyssal lifeforms were torn apart within a few seconds, plunging the entire battlefield into chaos. It didn’t have much effect on the Demons that were Level 30 and above, but they were forced to fight.

After killing a few crazy abyssal lifeforms, these Demons also became crazy. Then, the Lesser Demon Overlords were drawn into the chaotic slaughter.

In less than thirty seconds, the two Demon Overlords and Dubois started being attacked by a large number of crazy Demons.

The Purple-Eyed Demon scanned the surroundings before rapidly discovering something fishy.

The flesh, blood, life aura, and souls of all the dead abyssal lifeforms were all torn apart before flowing under the earth.

The Shade Fiend next to him transformed into a shadow and tried to break through that dense fog that made him uneasy, but he was unable to escape.

Seeing the blood converging into a small river flowing towards the depths of the earth and the dead Demons rapidly turning into ashes, the Shade Demon quickly let out a frightened screech.

“Damnit, Sacrifice! F*cker, someone is conducting a Sacrifice to an Overlord!

“No! That damned guy is actually going to sacrifice the two of us. This is a Sacrifice to a Gold Bloodline Demon!

“Let’s quickly get out of here, that madman… There is a Demon of the ten great Gold Bloodlines watching this place!”

The Shade Fiend was losing his mind and wanted to escape the dense, bloody fog. The Purple-Eyed Demon also immediately summoned a Shift Gate to escape. But just as the halo appeared above his head, it was torn into pieces by the chaotic energies within this space.

The Purple Demon Overlord and the Shade Fiend no longer cared about getting rid of Lin Yun. They were both madly charging, desperate to escape this bloody battlefield.

But just as the Purple-Eyed Demon reached the edge of the battlefield, a patched puppet blocked his path.

Deep crimson rays of light roamed around the surface of the puppet. The light then transformed into a chaotic flood of spells that pressured the Purple-Eyed Demon back into the bloody battlefield.

On the other side, the Shade Fiend hadn’t managed to reach the end of the battlefield before towering flame gates opened before him. All kinds of flames flooded out and wrapped around the Shade Fiend, sending the Demon Overlord back to the bloody battlefield.

As for Dubois, he immediately flew up to flee after hearing the conversation between the two Demon Overlords and seeing their frantic attempt to escape.

But in the sky, Enderfa’s three faces laughed eerily as the Spell Wheel slowly rotated and emitted dense mana fluctuations.

Following some slight fluctuations that appeared in the dense fog, Dubois managed to extend his head out of the fog, and a fearful yet joyful expression could be seen on his face.

Enderfa laughed heartily as he controlled the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel to release a massive elemental storm.

“Idiot, those that want to kill Merlin end up being killed by Merlin. Do you still think you can escape?”

Before Enderfa could release the Elemental Storm, he still needed to release spells of the four elements and have them collide against each other to make the spell matrices collapse. This created the chaotic elemental power to form an elemental storm.

It was very troublesome, and its power wasn’t as great as a real elemental storm, but now, all the magic gems of the Spell wheel aside from its power source had been replaced by the most berserk Deep Crimson Cores. As long as he burst out with spells of the four elements, it would inevitably create the most berserk Elemental Storm.

The Elemental Storm pressured Dubois back into the bloody battlefield.

“No, Mafa Merlin, you can’t do this. Damnit, I am Dubois, I’m not a Demon, let me go, quick…”

Dubois fell back into the bloody battlefield and was immediately approached by a dozen crazy Lesser Demon Overlords. His wings were torn to shreds, and within a dozen seconds, his body was torn into a dozen pieces.

The light within his eyes slowly dissipated as his blood and soul sank into the ground, bound to the altar.

The sacrificial altar slowly rose up and appeared on the surface. The bloody battlefield’s abyssal armies had already disappeared.

A rope made of countless blood-colored bones restricted the two Demon Overlords.

As more and more blood-colored bones appeared, the two Demon Overlords were no longer able to struggle free, and they looked at the center of the altar in despair.

“No, you can’t do that! It’s a rule established by Sir Greater Overlord, you can’t sacrifice an Overlord, you can’t sacrifice us! Damnit, you’ll suffer punishment, your soul will be suppressed and thrown into the lowest layer of the Abyss, you’ll be tortured in that sea of corrosive souls for countless years!”

The Purple-Eyed Demon loudly cursed, but unconcealable fear could be seen in his eyes.

The Shade Fiend also shrieked in fear. His body was unable to turn back into shadow and was continuously shrinking. His flesh, life aura, and magic power were continuously drained.

“Forgive me, I swear on my true name to pledge allegiance to you, Great Existence. Please forgive me…”

The aura being emitted from the altar, even if it was unclear, let the two Demons know that it was a member of a Gold Bloodline, and a pureblooded one!

Ordinary Demons were no different from common abyssal lifeforms to pureblooded members of the ten Gold Bloodlines. If they wanted to kill, they would just kill. This was why the two Overlords were so frightened.

Because even if they were killed by an Overlord of the ten Gold Bloodlines and the Greater Demon Overlord of this plane awakened, he still wouldn’t pay attention to it. Whoever had the bigger fists made the rules, and the rules of the Abyss were drawn by the ten major Gold Bloodlines.

If ordinary Demons died, they died, even if they were Overlords…

The abstract shadow on the altar slowly condensed, and a Demon burning with golden-red flames was now standing on the altar.

Dubois, who was bound to the surface of the altar, shouted in anger and bewilderment, “Damned b*stard, Mafa Merlin, it’s you! You daring guy, you actually offered a sacrifice to yourself! Aside from the Demons with Gold Bloodline, anyone offering a sacrifice to themselves is courting death!”

Lin Yun indifferently glanced at Dubois’ soul and crushed it by stomping on it.

“Idiot, who told you that I wasn’t the one with the pure Gold Bloodline?”

Meanwhile, the Purple-Eyed Demon Overlord was already thoroughly despairing.

“Flame Demon Monarch, f*ck! Who told me this was the territory of a pureblooded Flame Demon? Damnit, it’s actually someone with a Gold Bloodline, a pureblooded Flame Demon Monarch!

“It’s over, it’s thoroughly over. Even if the Greater Demon Overlord was watching this place, he wouldn’t intervene. Offending a young Flame Demon Monarch in its infancy for the two of us wouldn’t be worth it at all…”

The Shade Fiend fearfully begged for forgiveness, but the flames were restricting him too tightly and he ended up turning into ashes and dissipating. After more than ten seconds, the Purple-Eyed Demon Overlord’s body also transformed into ashes and disappeared.

The power of the two Demon Overlords converged onto the altar. The power of all the cannon fodder had only been used to handle these two Demon Overlords. What he really needed was these two Demon Overlords themselves!

After finding out that these two Demon Overlords were coming to attack him, Lin Yun had suddenly thought of a problem that had previously been on his mind.

The other Heaven Rank powerhouses had reached the Heaven Rank before reincarnating. They had controlled, comprehended, and experienced Extraordinary Power.

Even if they had become Demons, many things on the path to power were universal, and they would be able to quickly grasp those.

The pressure to advance to the Heaven Rank would be minimal, but it was different for Lin Yun.

He hadn’t advanced to the Heaven Rank yet, and he had no direct experience controlling Extraordinary Power. There would inevitably be some inaccuracy.

It would take longer to advance to the Heaven Rank and the chances would decrease. But by using the properties of the Abyssal Magic Bug, he could continuously transform and break through the restriction to his Demonic Bloodline. Advancing to Level 40 would be very easy.

This was the original reason that Lin Yun chose the Abyssal Magic Bug. It was because it would greatly shorten the time needed to return, while also increasing his opportunity to advance to the Heaven Rank.

But he had another problem. He could reach the Heaven Rank in the Abyss, but Lin Yun himself hadn’t reached the Heaven Rank.

This time, the feeling and experience of breaking through the Heaven Rank would involuntarily form an awareness, which would make it very easy for Lin Yun to advance again, but it would also make his magic path imperfect, or perhaps cause a deviation.

The most perfect solution was returning to the Raging Flame Plane without advancing to the Heaven Rank.

When he learnt about the two Demon Overlords planning to attack him, Lin Yun put this plan into motion and immediately started his next transformation.

Because only pureblooded Demons of one of the ten Gold Bloodlines could offer sacrifices to themselves.

By sacrificing two Demon Overlords, he obtained the power to make himself, who hadn’t advanced to the Heaven Rank, return to the Raging Flame Plane and take back his own body.

He once again transformed. There was only one possibility among the Golden Bloodline going forward: the Flame Demon Monarch.

The master of all flames within the Abyss. All Demons and abyssal lifeforms related to flames were attached to this Demon Race. With that identity, he could do anything he wanted. Most importantly, he could sacrifice two Demon Overlords to his Sacrifice while not having advanced to the Heaven Rank.

As the two Demon Overlords dissipated, a sphere emitting Extraordinary Power took shape in the middle. Lin Yun swallowed that orb, and the altar under his feet dissolved into ashes.

A trace of Extraordinary Power fluctuations appeared on Lin Yun’s body. He could even faintly feel that after that orb of Extraordinary Power burst out, his soul would be able to return and take back his body.

Similarly, it seemed that this Flame Demon Monarch’s body wouldn’t collapse and dissipate, but instead go into slumber.

After thinking for a bit, Lin Yun smiled.

Other Heaven Rank powerhouses would have to break through to the Heaven Rank first before releasing all of their Extraordinary power at once by detonating it. Their life and mana would be consumed in a split-second.

To Demons, this meant giving up their own lives.

Their souls would return, and after taking back their own bodies, the bodies they used in the Abyss would disappear, not leaving anything behind.

But Lin Yun wasn’t using his own power since he was offering a sacrifice to himself. After that power was consumed, Lin Yun’s soul would be able to take back his own body while the Flame Demon Monarch would fall into a slumber, waiting for the next awakening.

That was an unexpected harvest. A Flame Demon Monarch’s body was like a Planar Coordinate in itself. After leaving this place, he would have a way to return here without passing through the Abyss’ upper layers.

He put Syudos, Enderfa, and the patched puppet back into the Demiplane and rushed towards the desert once again.

Slythrin was controlling the desert’s lifeforms to mine the ores within the desert. All of the ore was thrown into that huge crystal hole.

Within a dozen days, the bigger pieces of ore had been dug out, while the remaining ones were small, sand-like pieces mixed with the grains of sand of the flowing desert. This was taking too much time, and they simply wouldn’t be able to gather everything within a reasonable period of time.

Lin Yun appeared once again and Slythrin had a look that seemed to say, “sure enough, I was so wise”.

‘Mafa Merlin seems even more powerful than before. Damn, there are actually Extraordinary Power fluctuations. It’s over, there is no need to think about it. Those two arrogant and stupid Demon Overlords definitely died. Dubois must have died too.

‘I was smarter, refraining from provoking that terrifying Mafa Merlin. Otherwise, my fate would have been no different from those other idiots.’

“Sir Merlin, these ores are all that we have collected. The rest is sand. Those stupid abyssal lifeforms still can’t completely distinguish which ones are ore fragments and which ones are grains of sand. This might take a while…”

Lin Yun nodded and gathered the Eternal Dark Gold ore at the bottom of the hole before flying up again and telling Slythrin, “I’m ready to leave the Abyss. After I leave, you’ll be in charge of the territory. You can use any resource that can help you level up.

“But some of the minerals and special products of the Abyss will be in Bajiao’s charge. After I return, I can help you find your body and make sure that nothing untoward happens to it.”

Slythrin was overjoyed. What he had been most afraid of was that someone would return before him and carelessly destroy the other bodies before his own return.

With Lin Yun’s promise, Slythrin promptly showed his loyalty.

“Sir Merlin, rest assured. I’ll definitely help you oversee your territory. I’ll give what you need to Bajiao.”

Slythrin smartly didn’t ask Lin Yun how he was planning on taking these resources out of the Abyss, nor did he care why Lin Yun wanted these things.

Lin Yun nodded with satisfaction. He had previously felt that Slythrin was like the mages of the Quicksand Tower, hiding in the dark until the crucial time, but that guy was clearly craven and cowardly.

Lin Yun didn’t care what Slythrin would do. After all, apart from the special resources of the Abyss, there was nothing worthy of attention here.

After leaving the desert, Lin Yun appeared on the bloody battlefield where the three territories overlapped. Lin Yun had gotten rid of an additional two Demon Overlords, so he naturally also obtained their territories. Moreover, a large number of Demons came to show their loyalty.

In front of these Demons, Lin Yun flew up and kept chanting in the sinister Abyssal Language.

After finishing his long incantation, the earth under him started shivering, and cracks started appearing in the earth as if a huge monster was about to emerge from underground.

“Rumble…”