Seeing that, Lin Yun couldn’t help but step back, as if he was trying to avoid the danger. Levis, who had been observing him, was slightly surprised, and finally calmed down a little bit.
Damn it, was Mafa Merlin speaking the truth?
The idea had just occurred to Levis when Dalton screamed on the other side. The gray mist he pulled out was dozens of times bigger than what Lin Yun had attracted. The moment it touched Dalton’s left hand, he felt that the mana around his left hand was out of control. The gray mist was like a ferocious Heaven Rank beast in the middle of a bunch of sheep.
His extraordinary power and mana were both out of control. He couldn’t even feel his left hand anymore, and it quickly turned from healthily red to gray. His vitality was dispersing, and his left hand was completely corrupted.
Then, the corruption spread from Dalton’s left hand to his arm like a plague.
Dalton was pale. His mana waves were getting more and more chaotic. His soul waves were in disorder too. The power of holy light surged. In only three seconds, Dalton gritted his teeth, and summoned a crescent blade of light that cut off his left arm.
His left arm instantly turned gray after it was cut off. It was like a vivid gray sculpture. Then, it turned into ash and dispersed, and the gray mist flowed back into the tall, boundless wall of mist.
Even though the corruption only reached his wrist, Dalton didn’t hesitate to cut off his left arm completely. Nevertheless, a bit of the gray mist had entered his body.
Two seconds later, Dalton realized that he would be dead for sure if he didn’t do anything. Nobody could save him when his mana was completely out of control.
Immediately, Dalton took out his True Spirit Magic Tool, which enshrouded him in the power of holy light. The abundant holy light unstoppably pushed the gray mist to the wound on his left shoulder. Then, through the link between his True Spirit Magic Tool and himself, he drove the gray mist into the True Spirit Magic Tool.
After the gray mist entered the True Spirit Magic Tool, Dalton threw it aside without hesitation.
The magic tool floated as a ball of light. Five seconds later, the ball dispersed, and ash fell from the sky. That True Spirit Magic Tool, which was tailor-made for Dalton, and had accompanied him for 1,000 years, was destroyed just like that…
Dalton stood there with a twisted expression. Thanks to the holy light on his wound, there was not a drop of blood on his left shoulder. After he stabilized his mana, the holy light mages near Dalton quickly chanted spells.
Three holy light mages chanted for three minutes. Then, a huge amount of holy light emerged on the wound on Dalton’s left arm in the shape of an arm. Then, inside the light, veins, muscles, bones, and other parts were all quickly regenerating.
It was Limb Regeneration, an extraordinary holy light spell, which didn’t work very well for the Heaven Rank experts. It would take them a lot of time to adapt to new limbs.
Only better spells could let Heaven Rank mages grow new limbs that were the same as what they had earlier. Also, only their arms and legs could be reborn.
The three holy light mages chanted together, and cast a strengthened version of Limb Regeneration, which was more effective than it should’ve been.
After the new arm was grown, Dalton stared at Lin Yun so ominously that the flames in his eyes seemed to be burning Lin Yun into ashes.
“Mafa Merlin!”
Lin Yun shrugged, lost for words.
“Dalton, I warned you. I was an alchemist, so I tried to study the mist, but I almost got hurt. That’s why I warned you not to touch it. It’s not my fault. You didn’t listen to me. What could I have done?”
Lin Yun didn’t know what to say. He had wanted to be nice, but Dalton hadn’t believed him at all.
Danason and Levis both hesitated, but what Lin Yun said seemed to be true. His mana seemed to have been in chaos for a couple of seconds when he had touched the mist, but nobody had thought it had been a big deal.
Lin Yun hadn’t even finished his warning yet when Dalton already took action. Whose fault was that?
Dalton gritted his teeth and roared in fury. He didn’t know what to say. It was true that the people of the Holy Light Alliance were rabid dogs, but whenever they attacked, they almost always came up with a perfect excuse…
But there wasn’t a perfect excuse at this moment. The man had warned him despite the tension between them. It was his fault that he hadn’t listened. No matter how shameless he was, he couldn’t distort the facts in front of so many people. This wasn’t the Holy Light Alliance’s territory.
It wasn’t a smart choice to raise an internal conflict between the four forces. Who knew what treasures lay ahead? If he was kicked out by all the others, then he would’ve suffered for nothing.
Dalton gritted his teeth so hard that they were almost broken, but eventually he held back his fury. He saw that Levis and Danason were both angry.
Danason stepped up, and pointed at the mountain up ahead.
“There will be greater danger if we go down this road. We’d better all be careful. But there seem to be many special treasures ahead of us too.”
Hearing about the treasures, Dalton could only hold back his fury and move on.
Levis glanced at Lin Yun with a vague smile, but fear flashed in his eyes.
Although Dalton was like a rabid dog, he was not weak at all. He had to chop off his arm after touching a bit of the gray mist, and wasn’t safe until he sacrificed one of the best True Spirit Magic Tools.
Mafa Merlin, on the other hand, only had unstable mana for a couple of seconds. Didn’t it mean that Mafa Merlin was significantly stronger than Dalton? What a terrifying man. Had it not been for this incident, Levis probably wouldn’t have noticed that Mafa Merlin was the strongest person here.
If Levis were to fight Dalton, even though Levis might be slightly stronger than Dalton, the latter would surely win in the end. With the Heart of Luminosity, his combat ability was as good as the peak of the Heaven Rank, and he was no weaker than level-6 Heaven Rank experts.
Was Mafa Merlin already in level 6 of the Heaven Rank?
Never mind. The Storm Tower had never had any conflict with the Gilded Rose anyway. They had even made some deals. They were only here to loot the treasures, and there was no need to offend Mafa Merlin.
Everybody moved on. Passing through the boundless desolate plain, they soon reached the mountain they saw earlier.
The moment they entered the mountain, the boundless desolate plain behind them was completely gone. They found themselves in the middle of endless mountains. Chaotic and violent mana appeared in the sky, and black aura spread out like sticky ink that had dripped into the water.
A claw that was at least 50 meters long extended from the black aura. Immediately, the black aura exploded, and a shadow appeared above everybody’s head.
The claw that was more than 50 meters long smashed down on everyone ferociously…
Instantly, all sorts of mana and light were flashing. Everybody escaped in their own way.
The huge claw hit the hill that everybody was standing on, crushing it into pieces. The hill, which was dozens of meters tall, was gone, and only a claw mark[1] that was more than 50 meters long and 20 meters deep was left behind.
Countless broken pieces darted in all directions like cannonballs, and dust rolled for a kilometer outward. Then, a roar burst out, raising such a strong wind that all the debris and dust were blown apart. A gargantuan creature that was at least 500 meters tall was revealed in the dust.
Its body was like a black rock, or maybe a piece of black metal. It had four thick arms, each armed with three sharp claws. Its upper body was in the shape of a human being, but its lower body consisted of four thick black serpents, which were craning their heads and gazing at everybody. Their tongues were slapping the air like whips as they hissed, causing strange sounds.
The most surprising thing of all was the monster’s head, which had four faces, but all the faces were empty, as if they had been somehow erased. One couldn’t help but feel frightened just looking at the empty faces.
The monster roared, and looked at everybody. The serpents in its lower half body shivered, and a mountain hundreds of meters tall was gone. When it laid its claws on one of the hills, the hill was shortened by half…
Everybody floated in the sky, and gazed at the enormous monster that crossed mountains as easily as it walked the flat ground.
“Damn it, what’s that monster? Sir Danason, what exactly is that monster?”
Levis looked at the monster in shock. The aura that it released suggested that it was at least in 46. Also, it was obvious that the monster was definitely much stronger than normal level-46 beasts…
Danason was quite scared too. The Snake Tail Beast by his side had reverted to its original form. However, it was only 100 meters tall, and was like a kid compared to the monster.
“Why do you think I know what that monster is? As far as I know, there should be a lot of powerful beasts in this place. The beast that my family’s ancestor contracted left the information that the beasts here went crazy after the power of gods appeared, and that insane battles and slaughters began.
“I felt that something was wrong the moment we came in. There was not a living creature in the entire desolate plain, not even the tiniest trace of them left. Something unexpected must’ve happened…”
Danason was rather scared too. The Chester Family was the best at summoning and training beasts. Nobody knew beasts better than they did. Just by examining the level-46 monster’s aura, Danason already knew it was impossible for him to resist it.
Lin Yun frowned, and floated in the sky, taking out the Draconic Staff, the Book of Ten Thousand Mantras, and the Book of Death. The monster had obviously been corrupted by the power of gods. Losing its own faces meant losing its everything. It was no different from a puppet at this moment.
However, the lack of soul and wisdom didn’t mean the monster was easy to deal with. Anything that was related to gods was tricky.
Everybody was shocked, but the monster didn’t stop. It crossed the mountains, destroying all of them to pieces as it moved forward. The serpents in its lower body, which were at least 600 meters long, were sticking out their tongues faster and faster too.
The people of the Holy Light Alliance dashed forward. They established an array of light around Dalton, chanting spells together.
That was what the Holy Light Alliance was the best at. The more people were casting the same holy light spell, the more powerful it would be. A spell cast by Dalton and eight supportive holy light mages would be as powerful as that cast by a level-6 Heaven Rank mage.
Their hasty voices echoed in the sky, and a huge amount of holy light sprayed from the firmament. The holy light gathered into a river of light, and dashed towards the monster from the sky.
A distance of two kilometers seemed quite safe. At the very least, considering the monster’s size and speed of climbing the mountains, it would take a couple of seconds for it to cross two kilometers. The time should be enough…
The river of light that was 100 meters wide hit the monster, which raised its arms and blocked the river of light as with a shield. The voices in the sky became more passionate, as if thousands of people were singing, and the holy light was getting more powerful.
But all of a sudden, the monster’s four arms emitted metallic colors, which flowed like ripples. Only two seconds later, the monster waved all of its four arms, smashing the river of light that the Holy Light Alliance unleashed into pieces.
The monster’s serpent limbs moved too. The two serpents in the front coiled around two mountains, and the two in the rear bent.
With a deafening noise, the two serpents in the front pulled the body, and the two serpents in the rear pushed it. As a result, the monster was thrown towards the mages of the Holy Light Alliance like a flying mountain.
Facing the monster’s sudden outburst, Dalton’s expression changed. Holy light emanated from his body. He instantly vanished, and the other mages of the Holy Light Alliance turned into streaks of light and dodged.
But the monster’s outburst was too fast. It crossed two kilometers in the blink of an eye, and its claws, which were more than 50 meters long, flew in four directions like walls.
Two unlucky holy light mages were unable to escape. Instead, they bumped into the monster’s claws.
Falling out of the holy light that they had merged themselves into, the two mages lost the opportunity of survival. In the center of the monster’s clawed hands, cracks opened and formed gigantic mouths that were more than 20 meters wide. The teeth and a bloodstained tongue in each mouth were quite scary.
When the mouths between the monster’s claws opened, a stinky smell spread out, and hit the two holy mages first. The moment they were hit, their faces turned pale, as if they had been poisoned. The holy light around them then collapsed.
Thick, sticky tongues extended from the mouths, and caught the two holy light mages, as if the monster was a frog. The mages were soon swallowed, and the mouths were closed again. Only vague cracks could be seen in their place.
Dalton floated in midair, and he was bursting into an outrage. His power of holy light gathered into flames, and the Heart of Luminosity seemed to be absorbing the light of the entire world.
Dalton was on the verge of exploding because of fury. The other people were horrified by the monster too.
It had mouths in the center of its palms, and its faces were completely empty. Such a monster was truly bloodcurdling.
However, before they attacked, the monster had changed again. The power of holy light emerged on the monster’s claws. The bodies of two struggling holy light mages surfaced on the claws, as if their lower bodies had been attached to the monster.
While they struggled in pain, the two holy light mages were completely melted into the claws. Even their power of holy light had been completely swallowed and absorbed. Two marks of holy light were condensed on the monster’s back, bestowing power of holy light onto the monster’s claws. As the monster waved its claws, arrows of light rained in a radius of five kilometers…
It was Arrows of Light, a level-9 holy light spell…
It was an area attack spell, but didn’t work on those who were strong enough at all. That spell was only used in massive wars…
Although it didn’t cause any damage, everybody looked quite awful. The monster was already able to make use of the power of holy light, and even cast holy light spells after swallowing two holy light mages…
It had only been a couple of seconds before the monster learned to do that…
Immediately, Lin Yun realized why countless beasts and other living creatures lived here according to Danason, but not even a rat could be found here anymore…
This monster here was an amalgamation of all the living creatures which lived in the relics. It would gain the power of any creature it swallowed.
Obviously, the weird features on the monster were those of the strongest prey. The two level-2 Heaven Rank mages only gave the monster the power of holy light after being swallowed…
Every feature on the monster probably belonged to a victim that had been no weaker than level-4 of the Heaven Rank before they were swallowed…
[1] In Chinese, the word “claw” can also mean a full hand or paw with claws on all its fingers, so it’s hard to tell how many claws we have here that were actually used to attack.
