End of the Magic Era - Chapter 1252

Chapter 1252: Draconic Bloodlines and Life Essence

One was an eight-armed monkey over seven meters in height with arms almost as long as it was tall. Another was a huge cheetah covered in a layer of metallic fur and with two loaded weapons on its shoulders. The last one was a human-shaped puppet holding two longswords, and it was even taller than the monkey.

With the three Heaven Puppets appearing, Xiuban could no longer sit still, and he turned his head towards Lin Yun with shining eyes.

“Sir Merlin, there are three Heaven Puppets on the other side and they don’t look like pushovers! Sir Merlin has spent a lot of time on that silver iron can, although he advanced to the Heaven Rank, he only has two arms while that big guy has eight! And all of them are thicker than the silver iron can’s waist! He might be slapped to death with one slap.

“With the three of them together, it might take no more than a few seconds for Sir Merlin’s efforts to be ruined…”

Enderfa’s three faces looked at Xiuban with shock. Even Reina couldn’t help but glance at him.

“Damn, when did the idiotic Xiuban grow some brains?”

Xiuban acted as if he hadn’t heard Enderfa’s words and winked at Lin Yun.

“Sir Merlin, just say the word. Your most reliable subordinate, the great Xiuban, can’t watch as your efforts are destroyed. Even if that iron can has a bad temper and a brain filled with iron, I’ll reluctantly help him…”

Lin Yun looked at the battlefield and nodded.

Pabiete was powerful. He possessed three ability runes, a powerful mana reactor, and was armed to the teeth. It wasn’t impossible for him to battle three Heaven Puppets, but even though these Heaven Puppets were at the Low Heaven Rank, they all had ability runes.

Seeing Lin Yun’s nod, Xiuban rapidly flew towards the ground.

With Carnage weighing over ten thousand kilograms, Xiuban created a huge impact as he hit the ground. A huge hole was formed where Xiuban landed, and cracks spread all around it. The cannon fodder within that area was forcibly torn apart by the impact.

Xiuban grinned as he left the hole, his eyes locked onto that gorilla-like puppet with eight arms.

“Hey, Iron Can! The great Lord Xiuban is quite kindhearted. Leave that powerful puppet to me, and watch how the strong fight. I’ll smash its body into pieces!”

Pabiete threw a glance at Xiuban and light flickered within his crystal eyes as he coldly answered, “Idiot.”

Xiuban ignored him and grinned as he rushed towards that eight-armed puppet.

The appearance of a non-puppet lifeform like Xiuban immediately angered the three Level 41 Puppets. They no longer paid attention to Pabiete and attacked Xiuban instead.

Pabiete had no choice but to act. Xiuban was powerful, but quickly getting rid of three Level 41 puppets wouldn’t be easy. Pabiete blocked the path of the human-shaped puppet, while the cheetah-shaped puppet was blocked by an ice wall as Reina quietly floated down.

As Reina roused her mana, her icy aura rapidly spread like the plague and the air temperature rapidly declined. Crystalline snowflakes condensed in the sky, calmly floating around her.

Three versus three. Their terrifying auras started spreading. The fight was initiated by the impatient Xiuban as he was itching to display his power.

The wind elements curled around Xiuban’s body, raising his speed and agility. The earth’s power adhered to Carnage, covering it in a yellow radiance. At this time, Xiuban’s aura became oppressive, and the terrifying weight had reached the point of visibly affecting the environment.

A Three-Headed Gold Dragon’s shadow came out of Xiuban’s right arm and spread to Carnage. The bottom half of the draconic shadow coiled around Xiuban’s right hand while the upper half and the three draconic heads merged with Carnage.

Spatial fluctuations would appear every time Carnage moved. That decently-sized warhammer weighed at least 200,000 kilograms now, and with the strength of the Three-Headed Gold Dragon, its power sharply increased once again.

After all, the Three-Headed Gold Dragon was known as the fiercest and most powerful lifeform when it came to physical battle. The strongest Three-Headed Gold Dragon could even fight a God with their body. Whether it was in the sky, on earth, or even in the void, no other lifeform surpassed Three-Headed Gold Dragons. Some lifeforms like the Golden Behemoths could give them a decent fight, but ultimately, Three-Headed Gold Dragons were superior.

Xiuban’s bloodline awakened, and with the Three-Headed Gold Dragon’s bloodline power, Carnage’s roused aura was a lot more powerful than Xiuban’s.

Xiuban instantly disappeared and reappeared in front of the eight-armed monkey, taking the initiative to start the battle.

Carnage’s sweep covered a huge distance, distorting space as it fiercely smashed towards the puppet, which raised two arms to face Xiuban’s attack.

A loud explosion echoed like a thunderclap, and Xiuban’s momentum was halted. His left hand also started grasping Carnage, and the Ancient Poison Dragon’s shadow came out of his left arm, adding another buff.

Xiuban’s momentum might have been temporarily halted, but the puppet’s arms seemed to have been completely overpowered. The damage went through the monkey puppet’s fists, and several components inside the arms were unable to endure the power and stopped functioning.

Faced with Xiuban’s strange physical attack, the eight-armed monkey puppet grew angrier, and its other six arms were like doors flying towards Xiuban.

Xiuban stood there with a fierce expression. The Crystal Dragon’s shadow appeared behind him and covered his body in a layer of crystal defense. The shadow even spread its wings to protect Xiuban.

The six arms attacked one after another, smashing onto the wings of the Crystal Dragon’s shadow. It was as if a Crystal Dragon was really there protecting Xiuban. Countless fragments of crystals collapsed and were broken apart, but Xiuban’s body remained completely unharmed.

Xiuban shook, and his face became even fiercer as the malevolent Abyssal Blood Dragon’s shadow appeared over his chest. A layer of blood covered Xiuban’s body, and his eyes instantly turned blood red.

It looked as if Xiuban had suddenly drunk a Heaven Grade Berserk Potion. He swung Carnage with both hands and forcibly broke free from the eight-armed puppet’s onslaught. He then fiercely slammed Carnage down, smashing any spot that he could reach.

The monkey puppet’s huge body seemed completely useless. It was unable to do anything against Xiuban even if it roused its powerful ability rune… It could only try to endure Xiuban’s attacks.

Xiuban’s eyes were crimson red, and it looked like the only thing he cared about was attacking.

Slamming sounds kept echoing as the huge puppet kept being pushed back while Xiuban, who was less than one-third its height, was continuously suppressing it.

In the air, runic data kept flashing in Lin Yun’s eyes as he observed the fight. He had a complete grasp of Xiuban’s characteristics, and this couldn’t help but make Lin Yun somewhat surprised.

After awakening his bloodline, although the four draconic powers didn’t seem to have been completely integrated, the unique powers of the four dragons coordinated flawlessly.

The Three-Headed Gold Dragon’s main buff was tremendous strength, which doubled Xiuban’s originally terrifying power. Moreover, it also increased battle awareness.

Although the Ancient Poison Dragon’s power lost that terrifying poison, the Ancient Poison Dragon was synonymous with terror in the Era of Gods. It wasn’t just because of their terrifying poison, as they also had formidable bodies and outstanding penetrating power.

The eight-armed puppet had clearly blocked that first hit, but the power still penetrated its two arms and destroyed the insides. Its fists weren’t injured, but some of the components within were destroyed.

There was almost no record of the Crystal Dragon Clan, and aside from their dislike of war and their passion for hibernation, there were still a few legends regarding their defensive power.

Back then, the Berserk God took a fancy to a territory in which special crystals were growing, and he was about to occupy it, when he suddenly discovered a Crystal Dragon hibernating underground. As a God, he would only fear other Gods. Even if a Crystal Dragon had been hibernating there for an unknown amount of time, he would still take over that territory.

A war naturally erupted.

As a result, everyone learnt how formidable Crystal Dragons’ defensive abilities were. The awakened Crystal Dragon simply ignored the Berserk God and used its innate Mana Crystal Rampart before continuing its slumber.

The Berserk God’s true body came and attacked the crystal barrier for three days without leaving a single crack. The drooling Dragon ended up making the Berserk God into a laughingstock, and he didn’t show his face for a very long time.

After that, the Mana Crystal Rampart earned another name: Absolute Defense!

Although the bloodline power inherited by Xiuban was far from the Mana Crystal Rampart, he could already use Crystal Body and Soul Protection. With the defensive power of the Crystal Dragon, no one within the same rank would be able to tear through his defenses.

And there was also the Bloodthirst from the Abyssal Blood Dragon’s bloodline. It was a kind of Berserk ability, but the Bloodthirst was at least twice as effective. It didn’t affect one’s mind, and every time Xiuban attacked, he would become slightly more powerful, while his opponent would also slowly weaken.

This showed that Xiuban had already inherited the most sinister ability of the Abyssal Blood Dragon, Life Absorption. Heaven Puppets that awakened wisdom naturally had the power of Life.

Every time Xiuban attacked, the Abyssal Blood Dragon’s power would absorb the puppet’s lifeforce to restore Xiuban’s own lifeforce, heal his injuries, restore his stamina, and even slowly increase his power.

The four draconic bloodline powers actually matched one another perfectly. The effect displayed far exceeded any single one.

Lin Yun couldn’t help thinking of the reason that the future Draconic Beastman Race, this race with so few members, would become known as one of the most powerful Beastman races. Their fighting strength was terrifying, and the more powerful their bloodline, the more power they could display.

Xiuban’s battle held no suspense. It was only a matter of time before that eight-armed monkey was beaten into a pile of scrap iron. Lin Yun turned his head to look at Reina’s battle. Xiuban’s strength had increased so much after advancing to the Heaven Rank… Then, just how strong was Reina after finishing the fusion with the Ancient Poison Dragon’s empty draconic crystal and having her Life Essence refined to a higher level?

Reina’s opponent was that cheetah-like puppet. It was very fast and rarely seen puppet. Its fighting power increased with its terrifying speed.

Reina hovered a dozen meters above the ground, coldly looking at the cheetah puppet that kept circling around her.

As the cheetah puppet dashed around, the weapons on its two arms rapidly started casting. Fierce, sharp gales burst out and formed a sphere.

The tearing gales were stopped by a Frost Shield appearing before Reina. As those gales impacted the shield like a meat grinder, sharp sounds kept echoing from the collision.

Reina calmly remained motionless, still floating in the air. Her body was continuously emitting cold air, while the metallic ground under her burst open from the ice. The moisture in the surroundings was also forcibly congealed into ice crystals.

The cheetah puppet kept revolving around Reina, but a few minutes later, it discovered that the spells were useless against her. The light within its crystal eyes flickered a few times, and it immediately gave up on casting. The dark golden sharp claws hidden within its paws popped out, flickering with a piercing aura.

The cheetah puppet flickered a few times before suddenly charging at Reina. It planned to fight in close range, but just as its sharp claws came into contact with Reina’s Frost Shield and shattered it, three silver blue runes suddenly exploded.

Boundless cold air spread and froze that guy into an ice cube in an instant. As the block of ice fell to the ground, the cold air rapidly spread into the surroundings. The earth was blown apart by that terrifying freezing power while the ice formed a rhombus-shaped black crystal sticking out of the ground. That terrifying cold even made the ground change shape.

Within the ice cube, the cheetah puppet was still waving its paws within a limited area, hoping to tear through the ice with its claws. But Reina extended another finger, chanted a brief draconic incantation, and a deep blue rune entered the ice.

In an instant, the cheetah struggling within the ice was completely frozen. The ice also darkened as a kind of soul-freezing cold air slowly spread.

Reina landed in front of the ice and extended one finger. Countless runes and dots of light, formed from draconic, appeared. All the light and runes converged at the tip of Reina’s finger before she gently tapped the surface of that icy blue surface.

At that moment, a shockwave spread from Reina’s fingertip along with a blue halo, freezing everything it came into contact with.

Numerous patterns appeared on the surface of that huge ice cube, instantly covering it in black patterns that formed an irregular network of black lines.

Then, the scene changed drastically. The ice, which was as hard as iron essence, exploded into fragments along with everything it contained. It covered the sky in fragments of ice and metal.

That attack also blew up the cheetah puppet’s body, turning it into fragments no bigger than a fingernail.

Only its innate ability rune remained intact, alongside a fist-sized lump of black substance.

Lin Yun immediately jumped down to collect the ability rune and the black substance.

Surprise couldn’t help flashing in his eyes as he glanced at Reina. Frost Dragons were truly loved by ice elements. After Reina’s Life Essence had been refined, her ice spells became an instinct and were extremely powerful.

Even her Freeze had become overpowered. Only Reina, this kind of existence who transcended the shackles of Frost Dragons, could ignore the shackles of the spell itself to continuously increase the power of the spell.

And that one-finger ability was a draconic spell that Frost Dragons had a very slim chance of learning after advancing to the Heaven rank, Sierna’s Sigh.

It could only display its full effect when the enemy was completely frozen. With a single sigh, everything would turn into fragments.

That spell came from the first Frost Dragon, Sierna, who sealed the world in ice and shattered it with a sigh. That terrifying spell could only be mastered by 5th Rank Heaven Frost Dragons, but Reina had already grasped that spell despite just advancing to the Heaven Rank.

This could only mean that Reina’s Life Essence far exceeded the Frost Dragon Clan.

Lin Yun used special methods to seal the ability rune. He then put the black substance into an obsidian box and kept watching the battles.

Xiuban was relying on his overpowered defense to oppress his opponent, while Pabiete’s battle felt more like an artsy puppet battle.