End of the Magic Era - Chapter 1185

Chapter 1185: Starry Sky Path

The remaining Shroud Shadow Demons turned and frantically fled as if they had encountered some terrifying predator. Unfortunately for them, they turned into ashes in less than a second.

In an instant, the surrounding space shone brightly once again, and the galaxy beneath his feet emitted a faint radiance. Those boundless fragments could be seen calmly floating while the starlight passed through the endless void, spreading to unknown areas.

The ashes were slowly attracted by the gravity of these landmasses and slowly fell towards them.

Lin Yun frowned. Doubt flashed in his eyes as he stood still.

Shroud Shadow Demons’ characteristics were very obvious. Wherever they appeared, light would be hidden, replaced by pure darkness.

But this kind of monster only existed in the Era of Gods. They went extinct during the initial stage of the Nesser Dynasty.

And even in the Era of Gods, these things only existed in the Darkness God’s God Nation. Shroud Shadow Demons could only exist in that pure land of darkness.

But after the end of the Era of Gods, the Shroud Shadow Demons lost the land they relied on to live. Wherever they appeared, they would inevitably cover up all the light in the surroundings, and the lifeforms surrounded by their darkness would have their blood absorbed, only leaving terrifying mummified corpses behind.

Unfortunately for them, the Pureblood Elven rulers of the Nesser Dynasty disliked these guys. These idiots were bound to end up extinct when they eventually attacked a Pureblood Elf.

The radiance of the Sunflame Elves wasn’t something these guys could resist, and the weak point of these seemingly terrifying Shroud Shadow Demons was their biggest flaw… They couldn’t be illuminated by any radiance. Even a firefly could injure them if it could withstand their darkness.

With the radiance of the Sunflame Elves enveloping them, the only outcome was for them to be completely eradicated.

The Shadow Shroud Demons were forced into a dire situation and tried to take refuge with the only Chromatic Dragons that had a bit of connection to them, the Destruction Black Dragons. But it was a pity that the Destruction Black Dragons were also not very fond of them. The surviving Shroud Shadow Demons ended up burning to ashes under the breaths of the Destruction Black Dragons.

And thus, Noscent’s Shroud Shadow Demons went completely extinct. But it was said that there was another kind of these Demons in Hell, or a subrace, to be more exact. When those Shroud Shadow demons were burnt to ashes by flames, they would carry a thick smell of blood and sulfur.

Doubt could be seen in Lin Yun’s eyes. ‘Weren’t these disgusting guys already extinct during the Nesser Dynasty? How could such a big group appear here? There were over ten thousand Shroud Shadow Demons covering my sight…’

Lin Yun was on alert, and he summoned Syudos and Enderfa to follow him as he treaded the galaxy path. The Starry Sky Gate he had come from was already nowhere to be seen. Only this shimmering path could be seen spreading through the void.

After another hour of progress, Lin Yun once again stopped. A small black dot jumped out of one of the fragments and rapidly flew towards him.

After a few seconds, Lin Yun noticed what that small black dot was… A long, three-headed monster with the body of an orangutan and six arms. But it was hairless, as its fur had been replaced by pitch-black scales. White scales were forming a strange rune on its chest.

The monster kept jumping from fragment to fragment, and a few seconds later, it was close to the path. Its towering body was emitting an ancient and heavy pressure.

Its three pairs of eyes turned red as it saw Lin Yun, and two layers of shark-like teeth were exposed in a creepy smile. Its saliva dripped down onto the fragments below, and the acidic substance created a vast amount of white vapor upon contact, as well as a stinky smell.

Lin Yun frowned and immediately spat out a rune. Twelve flame vortexes appeared above his head, and boundless fire spells flowed like a flood towards that monster.

Syudos immediately summoned a flame gate, and a large amount of high-grade flames formed another flood that charged into that monster.

Enderfa’s three faces had horrified expressions.

“Merlin, where the f*ck is this goddamned place? How could that kind of monster be here? Sh*t, don’t let it get close! Definitely don’t let that guy spit out its saliva!”

One of Enderfa’s faces gave an urgent warning to Lin Yun while the other two vigilantly looked at the monster. The Ten Thousand Spell Wheel also rapidly revolved, and elemental storms merged into a multi-colored storm that ruthlessly pressured that monster.

The monster couldn’t approach due to the pressure, and its six pairs of red eyes were filled with hostility while its six arms kept tearing forward. Its sharp, ten-meter-long fingernails were forcibly cutting through the spellwaves and the spellstorm while its six huge legs kept stirring those powerful attacks away like pinwheels. It was forcibly taking on Lin Yun’s attacks in order to get closer to him.

Lin Yun frowned, and his body slowly floated up. The Book of Death’s Element Chapter strengthened him, along with the Draconic Staff’s Purple Dragon, which turned into a shadow on Lin Yun’s back.

At the same time, the shadow of an ancient set of scales appeared, and the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel and the Book of Mantras fell onto the trays on both sides. Power gushed out from the void and into the Spell Wheel, which started bursting with Extraordinary power at a faster rate than it had on Noscent and the Raging Flame Plane.

The flaming flood and the elemental storm merged together and formed a huge flood of destruction that thoroughly pressured that monster. The monster’s claws that previously could easily tear through the elemental storm could no longer do so. Its body was suppressed on the spot and simply couldn’t budge. It could only let out an angry roar.

A big mouth opened in the center of one of the monster’s heads, and a dense, sticky liquid came out, forcibly extinguishing the flames in front of it.

Whether it was the Bone-corroding Black Flames or Hellfire, they all were snuffed out like ordinary flames doused by a basin of water.

Even the destructive elemental storm was forcibly extinguished. The monster took advantage of this opportunity to brandish its six arms and frantically slash forward, instantly crossing over a hundred meters. Based on the monster’s build, it only needed to rush out once more before those huge sharp claws could tear through Lin Yun.

Enderfa shrieked in fright, “Merlin! Hurry up and get rid of this guy, its saliva can easily tear through your Runic Shield! Even Syudos and I can be destroyed if that guy’s saliva falls onto us!

“Its claws are sharp enough to tear through space and can destroy mana itself! Its heads! Shatter its heads!”

Lin Yun coldly looked at the monster before him and calmly waited for it to open its huge mouth, and then he threw a huge Law Runic Bomb just before it devoured the surrounding power.

At that instant, it looked like a multi-colored light appeared behind the Law Runic Bomb as the void’s energies were more easily absorbed than Noscent’s and were even fiercer.

As the sticky and dense sphere of water condensed in that monster’s mouth, the Law Runic Bomb flew in.

“Rumble…”

A loud sound echoed as the berserk power exploded in the monster’s mouth. In an instant, half of the monster’s head exploded, and that condensed water also burst, instantly destroying all power it came into contact with. It looked as if the berserk power thoroughly dissipated within a second.

After losing a head, the monster seemed to go crazy and completely ignored defense. The white rune on its chest turned black, and its six arms were thrusting towards Lin Yun like a fish going against the current as it rapidly charged towards Lin Yun.

Lin Yun’s eyes turned cold. He remained motionless and unhurriedly chanted an incantation. Law runes kept appearing behind him, and soon, a pitch-black Wind Blade was condensed.

Enderfa and Syudos understood that this was the critical moment. The flaming gates opened wide, and flames turned into a berserk flood that kept clashing against the monster’s body. There were even quite a few flames that entered the monster’s body through its wounded head and burnt it from the inside.

As for Enderfa, he seemed to have gone mad and roused the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel to revolve like a pinwheel. Boundless elemental storms looked like a multi-colored tornado that pressured the monster.

The monster’s speed somewhat reduced, but it could definitely still reach Lin Yun within three seconds!

Lin Yun’s pitch-black Wind Blade wasn’t immediately thrown out. Instead, he condensed another one. This was the law rune frame used to create law runes from runes, and it contained a wisp of power far exceeding what he could currently grasp.

The Magic Array was also roused to its peak, and it kept calculating the trajectories of the monster’s arms in order to find the best opportunity.

The seconds slowly ticked by, and after two seconds, Enderfa’s three faces somewhat changed color.

“Merlin! Damnit, we are done for if you don’t get rid of that guy!”

The monster was already eighty meters away from Lin Yun, and it only needed one more step before its six sharp claws could instantly tear them apart.

At this time, the two pitch-black Wind Blades flew out simultaneously. It looked like everything was a coincidence as the two pitch-black Wind Blades threaded through the small gaps of the monster’s rapidly slashing claws and simultaneously landed on the two remaining heads.

One of the Wind Blades landed on the monster’s mouth and cut off half of the head, while the other cut through the monster’s neck and decapitated its last head.

Just as the remaining two heads were beheaded, Enderfa and Syudos’ attacks fell onto the monster’s heads and reduced them to pieces. It was instantly covered in flames, and the elemental storm tore its corpse to pieces while the boundless flames burnt them up.

A couple of things resisted the flames and were left behind, one of which was a water sphere. Whether it was the elemental storm or the flames, they couldn’t sway it in the slightest.

As the fight was over, the scales dissipated.

Enderfa’s three heads were still alarmed, and Lin Yun’s expression wasn’t great.

“Merlin, where is this damned place? How could such a terrifying monster be here?”

Lin Yun didn’t speak. He waited for the flames to stop burning before slowly advancing. The monster’s huge body had already been burnt to ashes, but there were still a few things remaining.

Some sharp claws had been deformed by the flames. They looked like pitch-black metal and could even tear through elemental storms.

This was the Submerged Magic Essence Iron from Noscent’s legends. It could completely restrict mana and elemental power. This Submerged Magic Essence Iron only existed in the Era of Gods, but it wasn’t a magic metal ore.

And because it wasn’t an ore, it couldn’t be mine from an ore vein.

For a long time, everyone thought that it was a kind of mineral, but it wasn’t until Noscent’s peak that a mage proficient in archaeology unearthed the truth. There had never been any ore veins for this precious metal… All of the Submerged Magic Essence Iron had been handed down.

It was produced by a kind of lifeform called Laustrauls, Mana Outcasts!

That lifeform was birthed during the Era of Gods, and it could completely eliminate mana and elemental power. Naturally, their bodies didn’t contain any mana or elemental power. They were just like the rarely appearing good-for-nothings of the human race that appeared once in a millennium and couldn’t store a wisp of mana even with the use of the Mana Baptism Potion.

But the Mana Outcasts weren’t weak. No one was willing to provoke them during the Era of Gods. Their sharp claws could easily tear through all mana and elemental power. They could forcibly tear through even the most dangerous elemental storms, which were deadly to anything else, with just their formidable resistance to elemental power and their sharp claws.

Moreover, this kind of powerful monster would be at the Heaven Rank upon reaching adulthood. They could even have physical fights with Dragons.

But later, the war between Gods started, and one of the Gods made plans against the Mana Outcasts. He slaughtered them all and left none behind. This was all in order to get their claws and refine them into a weapon. This was the famous Submerged Magic Blade. Even Constance would take the initiative to dodge when faced with the Submerged Magic Blade.

And the thing that made people even more reluctant to provoke that race was their saliva. That terrifying thing could extinguish all elements and mana. As long as it came into contact with one’s body, it would continuously destroy the victim’s mana until it all dissipated.

Even after the saliva dissipated, this kind of power would still remain like a curse, and mana would slowly thoroughly dissipate.

In the Era of Gods, all lifeforms possessed mana, and many people even relied on mana to live. Having their mana dissipate was no different from losing their lives, just like the Dark Elves back then.

Thus, the saliva of Mana Outcasts had a resounding name: Water of Misfortune.

Even Extraordinary Spells could be extinguished by the Water of Misfortune. It was rumored that the Godfire of a powerhouse surpassing the Heaven Rank had once been carelessly sprayed on by a Mana Outcast, only to end up thoroughly extinguished.

Lin Yun picked up the Submerged Magic Essence Iron deformed by the heat and cautiously looked at the lump of water on the ground. That “sphere” of water was wrapped in a membrane containing the dense and sticky liquid. That was the famous Water of Misfortune.

It had thoroughly disappeared in the current era. It was only after 3,800 years that a mage discovered a lump of it in a small plane. That mage poured that Water of Misfortune onto his foe, draining all of his mana until he passed on.

“Heavens, Merlin, you aren’t planning on taking this dangerous thing, are you? Sh*t, this is playing with fire. You’ll be done for if you are carelessly infected by it! That’s a dangerous thing that can even extinguish a Godfire!”

Enderfa hid a few dozen meters away, his three faces looking at the Water of Misfortune in alarm.

Lin Yun shook his head and said nothing.

Water of Misfortune was relatively dangerous, but it wasn’t something that couldn’t be used. After all, a few millennia later, those crazy mages were pursuing the truth behind everything. There was nothing they wouldn’t do and no dangerous thing they wouldn’t touch. They even dared to capture Hell’s Devils and dissect them in laboratories.

Water of Misfortune could be used to make a single-use weapon. Even if it could be used only once, it was a formidable killing tool. That Mana Outcast was level 41 or 42, but if this Water of Misfortune was used properly, it could absolutely get rid of a 2nd Rank powerhouse. It could even infect a 3rd Rank Heaven Mage’s mana.

Lin Yun took out a pile of ordinary steel and a pile of glass and then released flames to heat the glass. Once the glass was melted, he turned it into a sphere and wrapped it around the head-sized sphere of Water of Misfortune.

Once the glass cooled down, the Water of Misfortune was contained in this glass sphere. Then Lin Yun melted the steel and turned it into another sphere that wrapped around the glass.

The Water of Misfortune was perfectly stored once the steel sphere cooled down. It was that simple. That thing completely suppressed mana and elemental power, but ordinary glass and ordinary steel could suppress it.

After two layers of protection, Lin Yun took out a Spatial Ring and put the metal sphere in.

He didn’t dare to be careless with such a dangerous thing.

After getting the loot, Lin Yun continued along the ancient path.

A few minutes later, Lin Yun saw a corpse on the fragments.

The slender body was wearing exquisitely carved battle armor that seemed too flashy, but Lin Yun knew that the Pureblood Elven crafting art used to make it was already extinct. That seemingly frail battle armor had terrifying defensive abilities.

The long, pointed ears hinted at this corpse’s identity. It was an Elf bearing a crescent moon on his forehead and holding a longbow that had lost its luster. Added to the clear style of the battle armor, this all clearly showed that the corpse was a Silvermoon Elf.

‘A Silvermoon Elf, one of the Pureblood Elves!’

Lin Yun stood on the edge of the starry sky path and looked at the Silvermoon Elf’s corpse on that fragment. His battle armor had already lost its luster, and his delicate longbow had already lost its mana. Even the crescent moon on his forehead had lost its light and had turned into a dark imprint.

He had been dead for an unknown amount of time, but due to this place’s special environment, his corpse still remained intact. However, Lin Yun knew that if he so much as lightly touched that corpse, or if any external force came in contact with it, the corpse would turn into ashes and dissipate.

He saw another corpse three minutes later, but it was the corpse of a Sunflame Elf this time.

As he slowly made his way forward, Lin Yun encountered more and more corpses as the fragments surrounding the starry sky path became covered in the corpses of a large number of Pureblood Elves.