End of the Magic Era - Chapter 975

Chapter 975: Out of Luck

Arnaud inwardly sighed, ‘I shouldn’t have betrayed my conscience and helped Morgan back then. Although that mana crystal was very important, that Frost Ape was the Merlin Family’s prey, after all. Stealing it and being discovered thoroughly offended the Merlin Family, and now we’ve really run out of luck…

‘If we hadn’t been greedy back then and returned the mana crystal to Sir Merlin, the Merlin Family wouldn’t just be watching from the side now. If this continues, the losses will far outweigh the value of that mana crystal. Not only has the airship been destroyed, but several hundred of our magic scrolls have been used.

‘These magic scrolls are the supplies of the Henry Family, but they aren’t for normal use, and over two hundred potions have been used already. The losses are far too great.

‘Damnit, I should have stopped that fool! Stealing eggs? Are six Mud Lizards that easy to handle? Who knew that these guys would go crazy for their eggs? It’s over now that their eggs are smashed, they’ll never leave until they kill us.

Arnaud felt helpless. He wanted to ask Lin Yun for help, but he was hesitating. At the same time, his huge river was continuously attacking the entrance of the valley, stopping the Mud Lizards from expanding the entrance.

After five minutes, Morgan’s expression suddenly changed. The Curtain of Darkness was torn to pieces once again, and the Mud Lizards got rid of the Rotten Flower they hated… And Morgan had run out of Rotten Flower Seeds…

He noticed that the rightmost Mud Lizard was already crawling towards the mountain peak. If that Mud Lizard reached the top of the mountain, it would be able to storm the valley from the side. At that time, it would be even harder for them to survive.

Morgan looked as if someone had cut a piece of his flesh off.

“Morgan, what are you doing? Hurry up and stop it!” Arnaud loudly shouted.

Morgan closed his eyes and took out a black scroll. The scroll was over a meter in length and emitted spatial fluctuations.

It was an 8th-grade magic scroll, and a rarely seen spatial magic scroll at that! It could only be made by a Heaven Mage with a deep understanding of the Law of Space!

That was something that couldn’t be bought, worth more than a Level 40 mana crystal. Even in an internal sale of the Henry Family, it would be worth at least five Level 40 mana crystals, and it couldn’t be sold to outsiders.

Morgan tore the scroll, and a spatial fluctuation instantly flashed and flew to the mountain on the right side of the valley. Fierce spatial fluctuations had now appeared there, and spatial tears started appearing in the unstable space before closing down one after another. They turned the mountain peak into a spatial tear trap.

That Mud Lizard suddenly stopped and slowly returned to the entrance of the valley. In a dangerous place like the Raging Flame Battlefield, all magic beasts would instinctively avoid these kinds of dangerous spots, even if this unstable space wasn’t actually very threatening…

That was a Spatial Shake magic scroll. A true Spatial Shake was a 9th Tier Extraordinary Spell, but that scroll didn’t have Extraordinary Power, so it was only an 8th Tier Spell.

Spatial Shake could cause a stable region of space to quake violently and render all instantaneous movement abilities and teleportation abilities useless. At the same time, it would also jolt out the people hidden there. Moreover, due to the spatial shake’s displacement, everything within the space there could be shattered. Powerhouses under the Heaven Rank could hardly resist such an effect.

Naturally, this scroll wasn’t that offensively powerful, but it could create a spatial tear trap in an unstable place like the Raging Flame Battlefield, and that was enough to stop the Mud Lizards.

After losing a rare spatial magic scroll, Morgan felt as if he was bleeding. When added to the previously lost True Spirit Magic Tool, he really felt the pain of the losses.

At that time, he looked back at Lin Yun’s group enjoying the show and evil thoughts appeared in his mind.

His eyes turned as he chanted a brief incantation and summoned a Dark Guard. Morgan tore three scrolls towards the Dark Guard, buffing it with Haste, Flight, and Hidden Aura…

The Dark Guard entered the Curtain of Darkness and sneakily approached the side of the valley entrance. Suddenly, it rushed out of the protection of the Curtain of Darkness and rapidly charged into a pile of rocks at the entrance of the valley. From the pile of rocks, it found some eggshells that still had some bloody liquid on them and rapidly flew towards Lin Yun’s group while carrying them.

The Dark Guard was very good at concealment to begin with, and with the addition of Hidden Aura, it frantically flew over two hundred meters before being discovered by a Mud Lizard.

The Mud Lizard’s tongue lashed out as it sharply whipped the air twice, emitting two sharp noises, before it rushed towards the Dark Guard. The lizard also angrily roared as it charged through everything in its way. The earth seemed to be rapidly melting as it transformed into a quagmire, while thick Earth Spikes shot out of the ground. Over a hundred meters of the ground was destroyed in an instant, ruined beyond recognition.

Lin Yun looked at the Mud Lizard angrily rushing over and sneered. A rune came out of his mouth and a fire vortex instantly appeared in front of that Dark Guard.

The vortex rapidly expanded, and several dozen fire spells turned into a spellwave that instantly incinerated that Dark Guard.

Then, the crazily charging Mud Lizard was also washed over by the spellwave. Mud bubbled as a wave of mud clashed with the wave of fire.

“Rumble…”

A deafening thunderous sound echoed as the Mud Lizard’s footsteps were obstructed.

Lin Yun turned towards Reina and said, “Tell that thing that this is your territory and that it should f*ck off…”

Reina opened her mouth to let out an angry Dragon roar like she was issuing a warning to a trespasser.

The Mud Lizard seemed to hesitate as it heard that roar, but it was still thinking of attacking.

The notion of territory was very serious to magic beasts, and trespassing in another’s territory was the same as starting a fight. Looking at the environment, it was clear that the Mud Lizards had chased the Henry Family quite some ways and that this wasn’t their territory.

Seeing that this Mud Lizard still thought of attacking, Lin Yun immediately increased his power, and the fire vortex suddenly tripled in size. Moreover, two more fire vortexes condensed, and the fire spells rushing out of them were pressuring that Mud Lizard together.

The fire vortexes floated in the air and kept forcing the hesitating Mud Lizard back.

The other Mud Lizards were attracted to the commotion after that one Mud Lizard was pushed back to the entrance of the valley. It looked as if they were considering attacking that side instead.

Morgan suddenly looked happy at this turn of events.

‘Great, those damned guys actually dared to stand and watch! How could there be such a nice thing? As if I would let you watch the show. As long as you draw three of them over, no, even two, as long as you draw two over, we can break away from these lizards.

‘Although dealing with four might still be difficult, we should still be able to escape. And if we escape, these stupid Mud Lizards will never let the Merlin Family go. You want to watch us suffer without helping because I stole your mana crystal? A bunch of Andlusan insects, that’s what you are. You actually dare to make fun of our Henry Family!’

Morgan smiled as he looked at Lin Yun tearing open a scroll in the distance. A light charged into the sky and disappeared, and one second later, a radiant light appeared in the sky.

Three seconds later, Morgan watched as a meteorite wrapped in fire rapidly fell towards the entrance of the valley.

“Boom…”

The meteorite crashed down in an instant, and a pitch-black mushroom cloud rose up as two Mud Lizards were sent flying by the explosion. Those huge bodies over a hundred meters long couldn’t resist that terrifying power.

The sweeping shockwave instantly tore open some small barriers at the entrance of the valley. Apart from the barrier using the three True Spirit Magic Tools, the barriers made from magic scrolls were all torn apart.

The shockwave spread in a huge circle around the entrance of the valley and instantly tore apart the Curtains of Darkness on both sides. A few of the Henry Family’s mages hovering in midair ran out of luck and were hit by the shockwave, tearing apart their shields and inflicting some injuries. A particularly unlucky one was swept by the shockwave and was sent flying several hundred meters away as if he had been slapped by a huge creature.

After the attack, a Dragon’s roar echoed in the distance. Morgan couldn’t make sense of it, but the Mud Lizards understood its meaning.

This was a warning not to approach its territory.

Although these Mud Lizards hadn’t awakened wisdom, they weren’t stupid. The rules among magic beasts were merged within their bloodline’s instincts.

There was a Dragon’s territory over there, and that Dragon wasn’t to be trifled with. Moreover, it didn’t really care about them, so why should they provoke it? The right thing was to do was to get rid of the daring poachers first.

Those Mud Lizards continued their attacks on the Henry Family’s people. The Mud Lizards that had been smashed by the meteorite completely ignored Lin Yun’s group and focused their anger on the Henry Family.

Even with these Mud Lizards’ inferior wisdom, the decision was clear to them: on one side were the ones that stole their eggs, the foes that killed their children, while on the other side was a dangerous Dragon. Moreover, the Dragon didn’t care about attacking them, so why would they choose to trouble it?

Thus, the Henry Family ran out of luck.

Not to mention having some injured clansmen, the valley entrance had become even bigger, making it even harder to defend. They would have to use even more magic scrolls and potions, and also pour more mana into their spells.