End of the Magic Era - Chapter 1257

Chapter 1257: Puppet Versus Necromancer

Pabiete’s Lightning Speed ability rune flickered as he instantly disappeared and reappeared behind the Zombie.

Jiangshi-type Zombies had very strong perception, so they didn’t need eyes to lock onto their opponents.

Sensing Pabiete appearing behind it, the Zombie immediately turned around and swung its sharp claws. But it was unfortunately too slow.

Pabiete was already at Level 43, and remodelling had reinforced his speed. When coupled with the extreme mana reactor exceeding Pabiete’s own limits, even if it couldn’t be used efficiently, Pabiete’s speed reached a terrifying degree. He was at least ten times faster than other puppets at the same level would be.

Within a second, a Level 43 melee puppet could slash ten times, while Pabiete could slash over a hundred times, and more than half of the attacks would be effective.

This was complete bullying…

A dazzling crimson light exploded in front of Pabiete as the laser sword already turned into a crimson curtain of light due to the speed at which it was swung. The mana imbued into it pushed the laser sword’s power to its pinnacle. A Level 42 Zombie simply couldn’t withstand that cutting power.

The arms of the Zombie charging towards Pabiete were cut into several dozen pieces, followed by its head and its torso. In less than half a second, the Zombie’s torso was cut forty times by the extremely sharp laser sword.

Zombies wouldn’t die even if they were crushed underground or cut in half, yet this Zombie succumbed to Pabiete’s attacks.

Pabiete’s back was exposed to Toursse, the Undead Mage, and the Death Knights after killing the Zombie. Even the pale Vampire attacked from the front.

Toursse reacted the fastest. He spat out a dark grey rune that transformed into a skull burning with black flames before hurtling towards Pabiete’s back.

9th Tier single-target spell, Undead Roar. It could pollute the target’s mana while also doubling as a terrifying soul attack. It was like being hit by over a hundred Fear Shrieks. Even a puppet wouldn’t feel great when hit.

One of Pabiete’s arms twisted strangely towards the back as if his backside was his frontside. His palm faced Toursse’s Undead Roar, and a black hole appeared in the center of his palm.

His other hand aimed at the Vampire attacking from the front, and his fingertips transformed into five pitch-black cannons that shot out crimson rays of light.

The rays intertwined and formed a large crimson net enveloping the Vampire. Unfortunately, this had no use against the Vampire’s speed. The Vampire kept flickering from side to side as it continued approaching Pabiete.

The Undead Roar hit Pabiete’s palm and disappeared into the black hole in its center. Through the absorption system, the mana of the Undead Roar was torn apart and spread all over Pabiete’s body before it converged into the black substance at the core of the absorption system.

The black substance wasn’t picky about its food at all. So what if it was death mana? It didn’t matter as long as it was mana.

A spell that had all its mana absorbed was nothing more than a joke…

It looked like Pabiete’s body stiffened as he was hit by the Undead Roar. His Firebolts became chaotic, and the Vampire took advantage of this opportunity to get closer. The Vampire spat out a mouthful of blood that transformed into a bloody mist shrouding Pabiete’s body.

The mist had powerful corrosive and confusing powers. To an ordinary lifeform, one breath would feel like swallowing several kilograms of hallucination-inducing drugs.

The Vampire smirked as it saw the mist shroud Pabiete and stopped being cautious. Heaven Puppets also awakened wisdom, and that bloody mist would be effective as long as the target had intelligence.

The Vampire rushed in front of Pabiete and grabbed his arm with one hand while the other hand clawed towards Pabiete’s chest, intending to dig out Pabiete’s mana reactor.

But something unexpected happened.

Pabiete’s crystal eyes flashed with a mocking light as the quicksilver-like arm grabbed by the Vampire rapidly changed shape and grabbed the Vampire’s arm instead. Pabiete then opened his mouth, and a glaring white light shot towards the Vampire’s head.

The beam of light pierced through the Vampire’s head and hit the isolation barrier, making it fluctuate fiercely. This showed that this power almost exceeded the limits of the barrier.

After exploding the Vampire’s head, the powerful mana dissolved half of the Vampire’s body like acid. Pabiete casually threw the remains of the Vampire’s corpse to the ground, and his arm squirmed, regaining its original appearance.

The spells cast by Toursse and the Undead Mage only created ripples on Pabiete’s body. The mana scattered over his body and was guided to the absorption system, which devoured all their energy.

Attacks on that level couldn’t break through Pabiete’s defenses.

All the spectators were stunned, that didn’t look like a puppet, but a crafty swordsman armed to the teeth.

No, it was more than that, it was more like a cunning swordsman equipped with a mana crystal cannon that could shoot instantly.

Xiuban was thoroughly stunned. Pabiete’s strength had reached an unfathomable realm. He first killed a Heaven Rank Undead Skeleton in an instant, and then cut a Zombie into pieces in seconds while also calculating what the enemies would do in response and preparing a trap for the Vampire.

And the most fearsome part was that Pabiete actually had a cannon in his mouth!

Using one’s battle experience against humanoids when facing Pabiete… No, using any kind of battle experience against Pabiete was no different from offering up one’s life

“Merlin, you are really too treacherous… Pabiete took after you,” Enderfa commented after seeing Pabiete deal with the three Heaven Ranks so quickly. He then looked at Toursse’s twisted face with sympathy.

Now he understood why Pabiete’s body was made with that kind of liquid metal. It wasn’t just to fit the defensive ability rune… The most important feature had to be concealment.

Because no one could see through Pabiete’s fighting style. He had a cannon in his mouth, but who knew if he had a canon in his chest or legs?

Now that this idea occupied Toursse’s mind, he cast his Fusion Shield and activated a shield-like True Spirit Magic Tool to rotate around his body.

He only had one of the Heaven Rank Undead left, and he didn’t dare to get too far away from it as he was afraid of Pabiete instantly killing it.

Subduing an Undead being that was at the Heaven Rank required a lot of energy and was extremely risky.

Toursse gritted his teeth, his eyes spewing flames. A moment of carelessness resulted in three of his four Heaven Rank subordinates dying. It only took a few seconds. He hadn’t had time to react, and he hadn’t expected that his opponent would be completely unaffected by the Undead Roar.

After looking at Pabiete, he glanced at the onlookers and only saw shock on their faces. Seeing that they weren’t frightened of him at all, Toursse felt rage rise in his lungs.

Dark grey death runes kept flying out, and they rapidly covered the entire barrier. As Pabiete landed on the ground, a few pale white bone hands extended out of the ground and grabbed his legs.

Taking advantage of Pabiete’s pause, the Undead Mage and Toursse immediately started casting indiscriminately at him.

Wraith Convergence, Deathly Possession, Bone Cage, Ghost Corrosion…

Death spells and death aura curled around Pabiete’s location as if countless ghosts were wailing there, celebrating the fact that someone would meet the same end as they had.

Toursse and the Undead Mage cast spells for over ten seconds, and everything in the affected area was corroded by the aura of death.

But suddenly, Toursse noticed the amazed expressions of the spectators. He turned his head only to discover Pabiete falling from the sky towards the head of the Undead Mage. His laser sword pierced through the Undead Mage’s head while his right hand stabbed into it.

Toursse suddenly heard the Undead Mage let out a desperate wail as his soul fire was absorbed by a terrifying force.

Toursse’s expression was a bit crooked as his last Heaven Rank Undead subordinate was eliminated. His death aura transformed into a dark grey flood that fiercely flowed towards Pabiete. The Undead Mage’s body was torn into pieces, but Pabiete was swept up by the flood.

Pabiete’s defensive ability rune activated and flickered with a glaring radiance. The death aura was forcibly devoured as it came in contact with Pabiete and simply couldn’t injure him.

Pabiete fell to the ground a hundred meters away, and bone claws immediately tried to grab his legs, but these bone claws instantly collapsed. The pitiful amount of mana they had wasn’t enough for Pabiete’s absorption system; it couldn’t even be considered a snack.

Apart from a fingernail-sized piece for research purposes, Lin Yun had put all the black substance he had harvested in the Puppet Plane in Pabiete’s absorption system. Pabiete could even directly block a 9th Tier single-target spell, disperse it, and absorb it, let alone these pitiful bone claws.

Toursse thoroughly went crazy as his four subordinates were eliminated. He cast numerous death spells, but Pabiete was moving too fast for him. He couldn’t land a hit at all.

As for Pabiete, he was unable to approach Toursse with that crazy casting. Even the light cannon couldn’t be used to breach his defenses.

After three minutes of deadlock, Toursse suddenly calmed down and sneered before taking out the black skull of an unknown lifeform and rapidly chanting an incantation.

At the same time, Pabiete also found the opportunity to close the gap and attack with his laser sword. Unfortunately, his laser sword couldn’t break Toursse’s several layers of defenses. It was like a Fusion Shield pieced together by bone fragments with the True Spirit Magic Tool as its core. Its defensive abilities were terrifying.

After a ten-second incantation, terrifying mana fluctuations spread within the isolation barrier.

Lin Yun frowned and looked over for a moment before his expression eased up.

“What a pity, it’s only the skull of an Undead Dragon. Undead Dragons have huge territories in the Undead Plane, hunting them is just too difficult…”

The Undead Plane was like an ocean of Undead lifeforms. It wouldn’t surprise anyone if a Heaven Rank fell to their numbers. A 3rd Rank Heaven Undead Dragon had over ten thousand Bone Dragons followers as well as countless flying creatures. When it came to numbers, it would be an embarrassment if they didn’t have five million Undead subordinates.

Toursse’s casting was over, and at this time, the skull he held in his hand flew out and rapidly grew to ten meters in size. Then, the phantom of a hundred-meter-long Undead Dragon appeared. The Undead Dragon’s phantom opened its mouth, and a terrifying amount of mana converged in its skull.

“The roar of the Undead Sky King, Abaddon’s Roar! Die, vile iron can!” Toursse shouted towards the sky.

That spell couldn’t be avoided. The Dragon had congealed into reality and possessed terrifying tracking ability. It even had a bit of foresight power. It could accurately hit its targets as long as they didn’t suddenly disappear from the range of the spell, so it could only be blocked.

Within this 800-meter-wide isolation barrier, that spell would obviously hit.

‘Disgusting Gilded Rose, vile puppet, everything here is wretched. Just you wait, once I’m done with this damned puppet, I’ll tear apart every single member of the Gilded Rose. Especially you, Faleau, I’ll definitely kill you, take your soul, and turn you into a weak Undead lifeform! I’ll then use Holy Light every single day on you.’

Toursse was already looking manic, and a trace of pleasure could be seen on his face as he was about to get rid of Pabiete.

But his smile suddenly froze.

Pabiete flew towards the Undead Dragon’s skull and easily pierced through its defense with his hands.

The terrifying power condensed by the Undead Dragon’s skull was rapidly absorbed, and in less than two seconds, a third of the power had been consumed.

This meant that the spell had already lost its original power. In less than six seconds, the mana contained within the Undead Dragon’s skull was completely consumed, and the condensed phantom also dissipated.

Toursse foolishly looked at the sky, completely stunned.

Not to mention Toursse, even the onlookers were frozen in shock.

Pabiete landed on the ground, with a thick death power condensed all over his body. But that power rapidly dissipated within a few seconds as if it had been devoured cleanly.

Toursse stared foolishly as it happened. His face then distorted into an incredibly bitter expression.

As for the onlookers, not a single wisp of fear could be seen. They all looked like they had happened upon a brawl while walking down the street, especially the young mages. They had looked pale before, but seeing that reality didn’t live up to their expectations, they were all looking at Toursse as if he was a piece of trash.

Toursse clenched his teeth and loudly roared, “Gilded Rose! This isn’t over!”

After saying those words, Toursse took out a meter-long scroll and unhesitantly tore it open. His body was wrapped in a silvery light before completely disappearing.

Toursse escaped. He should have understood that he couldn’t break through Pabiete’s tortoise defense, let alone getting rid of him. It would only embarrass him further.

“Sir Merlin, the Rodney Family definitely won’t let this go, they’ll definitely use other methods…”

Faleau looked worried. Encountering this kind of unreasonable opponent made him pessimistic.

Lin Yun looked outside the window and smirked.

“The Rodney Family? Haha…”

After Toursse escaped, the isolation barrier was removed, and Pabiete also disappeared.

The spectators instantly rushed to the stores, most of them going towards the puppet stores.

Pabiete’s performance was just too eye-catching. A powerhouse known for his fierceness like Toursse had suffered a lot at Pabiete’s hands. None of the spectators were afraid of him anymore, even the young mages. Toursse’s fierce reputation had been thoroughly destroyed.

Not only did he fail to harm the Gilded Rose’s business, but it even prospered more. Within a dozen minutes, the number of people pouring into the street doubled. The news of the 20% discount was already spreading.

Naturally, what happened with Toursse also spread out…

“Hey, it’s a pity that you left, you missed something big. The Gilded Rose is just too powerful, they didn’t dispatch anyone, only a guard puppet came out.

“One puppet alone faced that cruel Toursse. Eh, right, everyone said that Toursse is fierce and terrifying, but I didn’t see that at all.

“I didn’t really see what Toursse’s four Heaven Rank Undead followers looked like. They were instantly killed and torn apart by that puppet. It was a tragic sight.

“Toursse didn’t have the power to retaliate. The fight lasted less than ten seconds before Toursse had to flee. If not for that Heaven Grade Scroll, he would have already died…”