End of the Magic Era - Chapter 1239
Chapter 1239: Elemental Spirit King
Reina and Xiuban were about to advance to the Heaven Rank! How could he have time to waste with these people? Reina’s Draconic Crystal had fused with the empty Draconic Crystal of an Ancient Poison Dragon and her life essence had already evolved… Who knew if that might cause an issue during the breakthrough?
As for Xiuban, he was no longer a pure Draconic Beastman. He had fused with the blood of a Three-Headed Gold Dragon, an Ancient Poison Dragon, and an Abyssal Blood Dragon. He had also bathed in Ancient God’s blood. So many different bloodlines were merged in his body. Fortunately, the strongest power of Draconic Beastmen was the power of their bloodline. But something might happen during his breakthrough.
After all, advancing to the Heaven Rank was a very dangerous matter in itself, for both humans and other races. It was even more so for Reina and Xiuban who had abnormal breakthroughs and transformations. There was a higher chance of something happening. Lin Yun would be heartbroken if any of them died during their breakthroughs.
At any other time, Lin Yun would have gotten rid of these guys after finishing his study of the elemental seal. He wouldn’t have even bothered to listen to their nonsense.
Unfortunately, the answer to Lin Yun’s kindness was a flurry of spells exploding against his Fusion Shield.
Flames, ice, gales, and rocks fell from four different directions. The spells stirred up the elements and formed a chaotic and violent zone where several dozen spells impacted Lin Yun’s Fusion Shield every second.
But the light of the Fusion Shield couldn’t be shaken by these four 1st Rank Elemental Heaven Mages.
The dark mage raised his staff and quickly chanted an incantation. A vortex appeared above Lin Yun’s head and a three-meter-thick finger stretched out from it. It looked like a bony finger wrapped in a layer of dark cyan skin inscribed with some strange patterns.
The finger fiercely pressed against Lin Yun’s Fusion Shield, looking like a giant finger that was about to crush a small ant.
Lin Yun frowned. His body swayed and instantly appeared ten meters away, leaving that finger to press into the earth. There was no change on the ground within ten meters, but past that area, and up to a hundred meters, the earth suddenly exploded into fragments.
That power was already terrifying to the point where no effect appeared on the impact zone, but with a careful examination, they would be able to see that the earth there had sunk three meters into the ground.
“Devil Finger… That damned guy made a deal with a Devil, obtaining the fingerbone of a living Devil. The price of that deal is probably his soul after death.
“Be careful Merlin, don’t get in contact with it!” Enderfa exclaimed.
Lin Yun released the power of a 1st Rank Heaven Mage, and his body suddenly grew more than three times larger. Four colors roamed on the upper part of his body as he used the Quad-Elemental Incarnation. Fierce mana transformed into a fountain under Lin Yun’s feet and kept spewing out law runes, and the spells condensed were at least at the 8th Tier.
The fierce elemental spells turned into powerful spell floods that flew towards the five mages.
The four Elemental Heaven Mages instantly moved to block that powerful attack. Their Fusion Shields kept flickering, seemingly on the verge of exploding.
The dark mage’s Fusion Shield was a moving pitch-black mist that revolved around him, blocking all the spells cast by Lin Yun.
Feeling that enormous pressure, the dark mage’s expression suddenly changed. He hadn’t expected Lin Yun to actually be so powerful. He was still able to pressure them in a 1v5.
“Damnit, activate the power of the barrier! Hurry up, destroy the Magic Tools and use the power of the barrier to pressure him!” the dark mage loudly shouted.
The forty 9th Rank Archmages suddenly burst with all their power, and three Magic Tools were destroyed, alongside their Magic Tool Incarnations. With the power of the Magic Tools and the Magic Tool Incarnations, the barrier turned scarlet and its power doubled.
The terrifying pressure suppressed Lin Yun’s body and slowed his casting speed quite a bit. His casting power was also somewhat weakened. The power of resentment from the three destroyed Magic Tools and Incarnations was guided by the barrier to suppress Lin Yun.
The five Heaven Rank Mages could finally breathe. The four 1st Rank Heaven Mages formed a circle with the dark mage in the center. The power of the four elements formed a stable equilibrium between them while also increasing their power.
The four elements evolved and formed the shadows of four Demiplanes. The four Demiplanes then gathered together into something similar to the balance between the four elements found in Natural Demiplanes.
Four Elemental Gods stood at the four corners of this merged Demiplane’s shadow and helped maintain the equilibrium while the darkness demiplane was like a layer shrouding this merged Demiplane’s shadow, adding the Law of Darkness on top.
At that moment, the power of the five Heaven Mages frantically rose. This kind of structure was illusory, but they were borrowing the law power of this illusory arrangement.
The four elemental mages formed an elemental storm, and the center of that elemental storm was shrouded in a layer of darkness, showing that all destruction would eventually return to darkness.
The terrifying power pressured Lin Yun and made his expression slightly change. Before the 3rd Rank of the Heaven realm, he simply couldn’t borrow the power of the Demiplane. Fighting wasn’t the true role of the Elemental Gods born within Demiplanes, as they primarily helped with the growth of the Demiplane and the evolution of the Demiplane’s law.
Whether an Elemental God was strong or weak was directly related to the strength of a Demiplane. Each of them used their law comprehension to let the projection of their Demiplane appear and temporarily fuse into another Demiplane.
Even if that Demiplane projection could collapse at any time and would affect their own Demiplane, it could increase their power by 50%.
Ordinary 2nd Rank Heaven Mages could only defend against this kind of power, and they would be pressured to death if they couldn’t resist.
With the addition of the barrier’s power, the five Heaven Mages suddenly broke away from Lin Yun’s pressure and instead counterattacked.
Facing the elemental storm, Lin Yun’s expression became cold. With one breath, the surrounding space started twisting, and a powerful, almost tangible, aura spurted out. Mana transformed into pearls of water as a four-colored radiance enveloped his body.
A huge, thirty-meter-tall wheel shadow appeared behind him. In the center of the wheel shadow, the law runes of the four elements formed a circle with that silvery-white Law of Space continuously transforming in its center like a starry expanse.
Countless law runes spurted out of the wheel shadow, and Extraordinary Power fluctuations spread like a tide, fiercely impacting the barrier. The fluctuations alone made ripples appear on the barrier.
Syudos and Enderfa were about to take action, but they were stopped by Lin Yun. The seven-meter-tall elemental giant, Lin Yun, was floating in the air, Extraordinary Power roaming all over his body. Numerous elemental law runes were merged with his Elemental Incarnation.
Then, Lin Yun’s body kept shrinking until he regained his original appearance. Only the four-colored radiance covering his body remained, alongside a four-colored rune mark on his forehead.
Following Lin Yun’s transformation, the terrifying aura coming from his body became increasingly stronger. Facing that attack that absolutely exceeded the power of a 2nd Rank Heaven Mage, Lin Yun only opened his mouth and spat out a four-colored law rune. At that moment, an order echoed in everyone’s minds.
“Reverse.”
As that icy-cold and emotionless order echoed, the elemental storm transformed back into pure elements. But while the pure elemental power withdrew, the pure darkness power still impacted Lin Yun’s Fusion Shield.
As the elemental power flew back at them, the Demiplane shadow formed by the five mages loudly exploded, as did the Elemental Gods of the four mages…
Even if they were still in the Demiplane, they were unable to resist the backlash and directly fell.
The four 1st Rank Heaven Mages suddenly paled. The elemental power surrounding them was scattered, and even their law power suffered unfathomable pressure.
The mysterious aura of Laws could no longer be felt on their bodies.
At that moment, Lin Yun disappeared and reappeared behind the five mages. The four elemental mages exclaimed loudly as the elemental power in the surroundings frantically poured into their bodies.
Elemental power that completely exceeded the limits of a 1st Rank Heaven Mage came pouring into their bodies, but their Demiplanes were currently in a paralyzed state while the Elemental Gods had already exploded. With such a powerful force pouring in, it took less than three seconds for their bodies to start being taken over by the elements…
The dark mage became pale as Lin Yun reappeared… He was thoroughly terrified. The four Heaven Mages next to him fell to the ground like ordinary people, their bodies obviously filled with power past their limits. They couldn’t use any of it.
Flames were spurting out of the fire mage’s eyes, mouth, nose, and ears as his entire body ignited and turned into ashes.
The ice mage turned into an ice sculpture with a frightened expression before shattering into shards of ice.
The wind mage’s body seemed to have experienced dozen millenia of erosion as it slowly dissipated into nothingness.
As for the earth mage, he slowly solidified into an earth statue before turning into dust.
In the air, Enderfa’s three faces had their mouths wide open as he looked at Lin Yun with shock.
“Damn, Elemental Spirit King! This guy… This guy can actually borrow the power of the Elemental Spirit King. Damn, isn’t that the Elemental Spirit King’s law command?”
Enderfa couldn’t close his mouths, while Syudos directly revealed himself. He was floating in the air, kneeling on top of the Book of Mantras. Syudos had just evolved into a Flame Spirit King and a Wind Spirit King. He was still quite a few steps away from becoming an Elemental Spirit King.
Sensing the power of that law command, he immediately chose to bend the knee.
Lin Yun solemnly floated in the air, and the four elemental powers in the surroundings started converging towards him without him needing to beckon them. The elements were unfathomably active.
This was the power of Elemental Incarnations!
In the future, mages had to master Elemental Incarnations to battle in the endless planes. After advancing to the Heaven Rank, the mastered Elemental Incarnations would be strengthened to their limits. That kind of hidden limit combined with one’s own Extraordinary Power and perfect law runes could temporarily give a Heaven Mage the power of an Elemental Spirit King.
If a fire mage comprehended the Fire Elemental Incarnation to its peak, then it could strengthen the power of fire spells by 50%. The spell consumption and the speed at which they gathered elements would far surpass those of an ordinary fire mage.
And when combined with perfect law runes and law comprehension, they could slightly display the power of an Upper Rank Flame Spirit.
The greatest benefit was complete immunity to that particular element.
Lin Yun had established the four Laws as his foundation and had been continuously researching Elemental Incarnation since the start of his mage path, so it was already at the pinnacle.
Now, he could directly cast the Quad-Elemental Incarnation. Moreover, the truth runes he had previously researched pushed his Quad-Elemental Incarnation even further.
When combined with Extraordinary power, perfect law runes, and law comprehension, it became the Elemental Spirit King Incarnation that very few people mastered even during Noscent’s peak!
As an Elemental Spirit King, he had absolute control over the four elements, or it would be more appropriate to say that as long as an elemental mage’s law comprehension didn’t surpass Lin Yun’s, they shouldn’t think of releasing a spell of any of the four elements in front of him.
Anyone daring to attack an Elemental Spirit King with a Low Tier elemental spell would automatically suffer the backlash of the elements.
Unfortunately, Lin Yun wasn’t that powerful yet. But using the law command to directly kill those four Heaven Elemental Mages with backlash wasn’t too complicated.
How could they compare to Lin Yun when it came to elemental law comprehension?
Lin Yun’s burst of power instantly terrified that dark mage. He frantically cast a multitude of spells, but they couldn’t shake Lin Yun’s Fusion Shield. The four elements had reached a balance, and that shield wasn’t something he could break.
Lin Yun flew up and threw an icy glance at those pale Archmages. He slowly raised his Draconic Staff, and the Purple Dragon’s shadow appeared behind him while the Book of Death emitted a four-colored radiance.
The surrounding elements frantically gathered in front of Lin Yun as law runes condensed in front of him. In a few seconds, a Four Element Bomb condensed.
But that Four Element Bomb was emitting Extraordinary Power. It was quite small, yet it absorbed all the surrounding elemental powers.
The powerful force was already twisting the surrounding space. This kind of power could only be released in Lin Yun’s current state. Aside from the power of an Elemental Spirit King, no mage could order the elements to converge in such a way.
Light was distorted, space was distorted. The surroundings of that Four Element Bomb had transformed into a vortex of twisting space that was completely devoid of light.
As the Four Element Bomb flew towards the ground, the dark mage retreated in panic until he reached the edge of the barrier and discovered that he couldn’t leave. The fatal crisis was like a poison eroding his mind. He could only stare blankly.
Suddenly, the dark mage took out that Devil’s middle finger bone and used blood to dye it red. He rapidly chanted an incantation and a Hell Gate appeared before him. A powerful pressure could be felt coming from the other side of the Hell Gate.
Countless whispers suddenly echoed in the air as a meter-tall head of a Devil head stretched out of the Hell Gate.
The dignified and sinister voice of a Devil Overlord echoed, “Dolos, my stupid servant, for what matter have you disturbed your Lord? Where is the sacrifice?”
That Devil Overlord’s Aura was at least at the 5th Rank of the Heaven realm, and its pure black eyes attentively watched the alarmed Dolos… Until it suddenly started sniffing.
His dignified and impatient expression instantly disappeared, replaced by shock as he rapidly withdrew his head back into the Hell Gate, only leaving a frightened shriek behind: “Elemental Spirit King! Dolos! You f*cking idiot! Our deal is off!!!”
After sensing a wisp of Lin Yun’s Elemental Spirit King aura, the Devil unexpectedly fled. It was because Elemental Spirit Kings were born as Extraordinary lifeforms, but living Elemental Spirit Kings that could be seen outside of the depths of an elemental plane were unconditionally at the peak of the Heaven realm. Killing a 5th Rank Devil Overlord would be extremely easy for such a mighty being.
The Hell Gate blew up and turned into fragments. Clearly, that Devil Overlord was so terrified that he destroyed the gate on the other side in fear that his coordinates would be tracked.
Sensing that terrifying power falling towards the ground, Dolos let out a desperate shriek.
“Damned fools! Remove the barrier! Hurry up and remove the barrier…”
The barrier was a huge cage sealing the entire region of space. No one could enter, and no one could get out. All power would spread within the confines of the barrier.