End of the Magic Era - Chapter 1206

Chapter 1206: Cracks

The puppet raised its right arm once again, and a glaring radiance appeared within that huge cannon. It formed a sphere at the muzzle of the cannon, and the light instantly flashed as Lin Yun dodged those streaks of flame that were trying to predict his path.

Lin Yun’s expression instantly changed, and he added a Law Runic Shield to his Four Element Shield.

The dazzling beam impacted the Four Element Shield and tore it apart after a short pause. The impact of the light burst onto the Law Shield and slightly deformed it, rousing at least four to five thousand law runes.

The huge force sent Lin Yun flying back several dozen meters before the ray of light dissipated.

Lin Yun’s expression became serious. Needing four to five thousand law runes to resist the attack meant that it could definitely compare to a 1st Rank Heaven Mage’s 9th Tier single-target spell.

But the puppet before him clearly wasn’t at the Heaven Rank and hadn’t awakened wisdom or relied on an external source of power. That attack purely came from mana.

Lin Yun was familiar with this. He had yet to advance to the Heaven Rank, yet he was able to display the power of a 2nd Rank Heaven Mage when bursting with full power. He used his overwhelming mana to display fighting strength comparable to Heaven Rank powerhouses and forcibly suppress others.

And this Pseudo Heaven Puppet before him was the same.

He took out his Book of Death, and the radiance of the Element Chapter shone. The Draconic staff also glowed with purple light as the Purple Dragon Incarnation was ready to appear at any time.

Before Lin Yun could counterattack, another puppet of the same model came out of the opening, followed by twenty peak Level 39 puppets. They looked just like the six sword puppets and four casting puppets he had previously encountered.

Crimson light repeatedly flickered within the two Pseudo Heaven Puppets’ eyes, and the puppets behind them started moving as if they had received a command.

The twelve melee puppets instantly split up and surrounded Lin Yun. Those seemingly rusted swords all flashed with magical radiance, and the rust instantly peeled off. A layer of faint golden light enveloped the blades, and runes started appearing on them.

The blades left clear white trails as they cut through the air.

The crazy sword puppets transformed into afterimages as they closed in on Lin Yun. The eight casting puppets raised their arms and started casting simple Firebolts. Several dozen flew over every second.

The two Pseudo Heaven Puppets raised their arms. Their left arms kept shooting red-colored rays, while the right arms shone with pale glows that released those thick beams of light.

Lin Yun summoned twelve fire vortexes that burst with a torrent of flames, submerging everything within several hundred meters. Using Fire Elemental Incarnation, he kept flickering within the flames.

But after a few seconds, the two Pseudo Heaven Puppets used a storm of Firebolts to tear most of the fire vortexes apart. Their fighting awareness was terrifyingly high.

Those twelve sword puppets were unafraid of death as they firmly stuck to Lin Yun, their several dozen sharp blades continuously slashing towards his vitals.

Lin Yun frowned. Even after more puppets appeared, their coordination was still terrifying. It was as if they were one. Their combat systems must have been linked together by some method, and the upper limit was unknown.

These two Pseudo Heaven Puppets and twenty peak Level 39 puppets could burst with enough power to kill a Heaven Rank powerhouse within ten minutes.

There was no gap or break in this kind of dangerous situation. With the coordination and the powerful energy systems, they could already be considered perfect. If he remodelled just ten of these puppets, they would be at the Pseudo Heaven Rank and would be able to kill a 1st Rank Heaven powerhouse without much difficulty.

Lin Yun’s spells didn’t cause too much damage to the puppets. Even those peak Level 39 puppets resisted a few spells without suffering too much damage. They would at most pause for a moment before rejoining the fight.

As for Lin Yun, he wasn’t planning on destroying the puppets. Their energy systems had huge research value, and he wouldn’t be able to progress his research if he only had a couple.

Especially if he wanted to transform the puppet factory’s assembly line in the Natural Demiplane. At least a few dozen energy systems were required to develop a mana source for the puppet factory.

But after five minutes, these guys still showed no flaws in their seamless cooperation. They would be able to continue for several months until their energy systems weren’t able to keep it up, or until they got rid of Lin Yun.

After a light sigh, Lin Yun flickered a few times before pausing. He then blinked behind a sword puppet and put his hand on its waist. His palm transformed into a blurred shadow, and the fierce sword puppet exploded into a pile of components.

But at the same time, two thick rays of light fell on both sides of Lin Yun’s body, accompanied by several Firebolts attacking him from all directions. The blades of eleven sword puppets were already slashing at Lin Yun from behind and from his sides. They were locked onto every single part of his body.

Lin Yun’s expression became serious. The puppets reacted way too quickly. The huge amount of energy coming from their energy system allowed them to forgo the need to save mana. They could burst with all of their power at any time, and none of their systems would be burdened by a lack of mana.

These attacks blocked all of Lin Yun’s possible escape routes. He couldn’t even dodge with a Flame Flash, especially these two rays of light. Even a 2nd Rank Heaven Mage would be hit by one of them.

Lin Yun took one step back, but his body seemed to have drawn an arc that allowed him to barely dodge the two thick rays of light. He even dodged more than half of the several dozen Firebolts, and only a dozen blades landed on his Law Runic Shield.

Over ten thousand Law Runes instantly pulsated on the Law Runic Shield, and his mana consumption increased by a dozen times.

With the help of the huge impact, Lin Yun was sent flying over a hundred meters away.

As he landed, the eleven sword puppets were already rushing after him, and the Firebolts of the casting puppets were already aiming at him.

A smile could be seen at the corner of Lin Yun’s mouth. He suddenly closed the Book of Death, and even the purple light of the Draconic Staff dissipated.

He gave up all his buffs and only relied on his own pure power to fight. This perfect cooperation, this perfect suppression… Wasn’t that the kind fight he wanted?

A fight that could squeeze out every drop of his strength, a fight that could test his battle experience and fighting instincts? Only this kind of fight could shake the gate between the Heaven realm and the Archmage realm.

Lin Yun even dissipated his Law Runic Shield, only using his Four Element Shield. That shield could resist those ordinary Firebolts or sword slashes, but it was no different from paper in front of the rays fired by the Pseudo Heaven Puppets. It would absolutely be torn apart in an instant.

Life-threatening situations were the best opportunity to squeeze out one’s potential.

Enderfa came out of the Spell Wheel and looked at Lin Yun as if he was a lunatic.

“Damn, Merlin already went insane…”

Lin Yun was smiling with flames burning in his eyes. If he burst out with all his strength, these puppets would be destroyed within thirty seconds, and it would take ten minutes if he wanted to keep the energy systems and components intact.

But now, Lin Yun had to dismantle the rest of the puppets just by relying on his casting ability and control.

Sensing his rising fighting intent, the stable door in Lin Yun’s soul slowly shook.

Lin Yun instantly rushed out. The sea of flames was instantly torn apart, but Lin Yun was able to arrange a flaming path ahead of time and use that path to flash away just in time.

Lin Yun suddenly started his counterattack. These puppets didn’t change at all. Their fighting style was based on the good coordination of the set of battle systems. No matter what Lin Yun did, they would only calculate the fastest way to get rid of him.

Sharp blades kept slashing at Lin Yun and their sharp aura even pricked at his skin. The damage was minimized when they brushed across the Four Element Shield.

After dodging three times in a row, Lin Yun suddenly flashed in front of a puppet. The puppet had just swung its four blade arms, and taking advantage of that small gap, Lin Yun’s palm twitched and he instantly turned that sword puppet into a pile of components.

This didn’t leave an opening for the Pseudo Heaven Puppets to exploit, because just as the sword puppet fell apart, there was another sword puppet in between Lin Yun and the two Pseudo Heaven Puppets.

The rays of light were very powerful and so fast that they could only be dodged in advance, but they had a huge weakness: They would only display their terrifying power with a direct impact. A graze couldn’t cut it.

If the two Pseudo Heaven Puppets attacked at this moment, they would inevitably only destroy that puppet while Lin Yun would be able to take advantage of that opportunity to dodge easily.

After dismantling another sword puppet, Lin Yun kept wandering around the battlefield, continuously flickering.

When flashing away, not only did he have to consider the angle, but he also had to consider all of the puppets’ attacks. After all, Flame Flash wasn’t Teleportation. Being attacked during the flashing process was very troublesome.

Even if he wasn’t killed by a ray during the flash, he would still be left half dead. If he was slashed, he might end up losing a limb.

This was a test of strength, of pure fighting experience and instant reactions. He wasn’t relying on his powerful magic.

After another half a minute, Lin Yun’s silhouette suddenly appeared between two sword puppets. This was the gap in their defenses, as they had just slashed down. It would take a bit of time for them to attack Lin Yun.

This time was enough for Lin Yun to prevent their attack and dismantle them…

Mana surged as he put both hands on the puppets’ backs and released his first magic attack of the past few minutes.

He cast a few Bursting Flames at a good angle and hit the right arms of the two Pseudo Heaven Puppets.

They had been just about to shoot out rays of light when the side of their right arms were hit by five Bursting Flames.

The impact let out an explosive force absolutely comparable to an 8th Tier Spell. This kind of power simply couldn’t harm the two Pseudo Heaven Puppets, but it was enough to alter their aim.

This was just enough!

The two glaring white lights shot out like lasers and ended up aiming several meters away from Lin Yun.

At the same time, a Ward of Fire blocked the other puppets for an instant, and by adjusting the position of his body, only three Firebolts landed on his Four Element Shield.

After a second, the two sword puppets exploded into a pile of components. And as if that was nothing, Lin Yun even took the initiative to attack, taking advantage of the fact that the Pseudo Heaven Puppets couldn’t fire again immediately. He flashed to the casting puppets and dismantled four in a row.

After that successful attack, light shone once again from those two Pseudo Heaven Puppets’ cannons. Lin Yun had already decisively given up on the plan to disassemble puppets.

In midair, Enderfa foolishly looked at Lin Yun and was completely stunned.

‘Merlin’s fighting style… Heavens, he is only using the power of a 9th Rank Archmage! Hell, what is he trying to do? His battle experience has reached an unfathomable level.

‘How did he do it? He is calculating the changes at every step and then answering them ahead of time to calmly dismantle a few puppets. As long as he can keep doing that, the power of the 9th Rank should be more than enough to dismantle all these puppets, and they wouldn’t be damaged in the slightest. Not a single rivet would be destroyed.’

Enderfa was blankly staring at the scene, but he couldn’t see the flames burning in Lin Yun’s eyes. His mana consumption was huge, and his mind was tautened to its limits. Even his Magic Array was operating in an overloaded state.

The Magic Array wasn’t recognized as the most powerful Magic Conducting Rune for no reason. At this time, it had already converted every bit of the battlefield, every single movement of the puppets, and every piece of information into data.

As long as Lin Yun wasn’t negligent, he would receive the least amount of damage. This was a mage’s battle. The art of mage combat wasn’t relying on force to suppress one’s opponent. The stronger one would win and could survive.

Lin Yun suddenly felt a kind of satisfaction. That formidable gate that he couldn’t shake before seemed to tremble with the vibration of his spiritual world, and a small crack appeared.

After dismantling five more sword puppets, Lin Yun suddenly targeted those two Pseudo Heaven Puppets.

He first lured the Pseudo Heaven Puppets into releasing their rays of light and instantly stopped dismantling the puppet before him to flash to one of the Pseudo Heaven Puppets.

Several dozen Firebolts shot towards Lin Yun. According to the patterns, the perfect timing for the puppets’ attack was when Lin Yun approached and dismantled a puppet.

But this time, Lin Yun’s fierce mana poured into the Pseudo Heaven Puppet’s body and cut off the connections between its joints and its energy source.

A second later, numerous rays fell on this Pseudo Heaven Puppet’s body while Lin Yun hid behind it, remaining uninjured. Only two Firebolts hit his Four Element Shield due to their angle of attack.

Lin Yun’s sudden change in strategy caught those puppets off-guard. Their battle systems could combine their battle experience and improve themselves in battle in order to find the best way to deal with their opponent.

But after following the calculations of their battle systems, they found out that the puppet wasn’t dismantled and ended up taking all of the damage.

One second later, the puppets gave up on casting, and the few sword puppets rushed over. At that exact moment, the Pseudo Heaven Puppet was dismantled.

Lin Yun had already used Mirror Image Incarnation during this time and left it at his original location while he used two Flame Flashes to cover several dozen meters.

He sneered when the Mirror Image Incarnation was torn apart by the group of puppets a moment later. The flames burning within his eyes rose up, and in the depths of his soul, illusory flames suddenly appeared and attached themselves to that stable gate. Cracks slowly appeared on the surface of the gate.

Ten minutes later, every puppet was torn apart, and only a Pseudo Heaven Puppet was left. Even if Lin Yun stopped using tricks, it couldn’t handle his pressure.

A minute later, Lin Yun’s hand landed on that puppet’s shoulder and his wrist softly shook. It took an instant for that Pseudo Heaven Puppet to explode into a pile of components.

As the battle ended, Lin Yun stopped moving and closed his eyes. He calmly adjusted the raging power within his body while entering his sea of consciousness. He looked at the layer of flames on that steady gate and could see the small, almost invisible cracks.

After opening his eyes, a wide smile appeared on Lin Yun’s face. Getting started was always the hardest part. Even a microscopic crack was a huge start. It wouldn’t take long before this gate was opened.

The gap between ordinary and extraordinary would be thoroughly breached, and a brand new world would emerge in front of him. His weakness of not possessing Extraordinary Power would be fixed, and his power would advance by leaps and bounds.

Once he advanced, he would be able to feel many benefits he couldn’t feel before.

Lin Yun put away the parts that fell on the ground, especially the energy systems of the two Pseudo Heaven Puppets. Those were specially sealed and put away. The energy systems of the other puppets were also treated with caution.

After that, deciphering the battle system was of the highest priority. These puppets could display such formidable power, and their overall power would increase exponentially with their numbers. This was all due to the battle systems.

The strongest Archmages of his mage army were at the 3rd and 4th Rank, and they would be killed within a minute if they had to fight a 9th Rank Archmage.

But once fifty of them joined up, the power they could display would be several times to a hundred times higher, and it wouldn’t be too hard for them to get rid of a 9th Rank Archmage. This was the power of cooperation. When facing a monster like Xiuban, the mage army would be able to suppress him.

Once he cracked the battle systems of these puppets, his puppet army’s power would increase by a dozen times.

After cleaning the battlefield, Enderfa swayed down from the sky, his three faces looking at Lin Yun as if he was a monster.

“Merlin, are you about to advance to the Heaven Rank?”

Lin Yun nodded.

“I’m almost there. One or two more large battles and I’ll be able to push open that gate.”

Enderfa’s three faces looked sullen. He groaned but didn’t say anything.

‘Hell, that Merlin should be less than thirty… No, he is definitely in his early twenties… Yet he is already advancing to the Heaven Rank?

‘How long has it been? Is this monster-like guy the reincarnation of a God? How could he have so much knowledge?! He seems to know everything, even stuff I don’t even know.

‘He must be the reincarnation of a God. Right, that must be it. It’s absolutely impossible for an Archmage to kill a few Heaven Rank powerhouses and advance to the Heaven Rank so fast unless he is the reincarnation of a God.

‘How could the Extraordinary Transformation be so easy? Without the help of an external force, that process should take at least a few years for the preparations to be complete. Damn, Merlin is really about to advance to the Heaven Rank.’

Lin Yun finished cleaning up the battlefield, not even leaving a single rivet behind. He picked up everything before walking through the opening he had made before the fight.