by Zhuang Bifan
The Legendary-mages words were somewhat beyond Lin Li's expectations. He initially thought that it was Canuman's intention to attack the Tower of Dusk, and that the Necromancer and blood elf et cetera were just hired to help him. However, it seemed that there was an unknown force helping Canuman and allowing him to go against the rules of the Supreme Council. Clearly, the strength of this unknown force was probably not too inferior to that of the Supreme Council, even though it could not be on par with it.
That made Lin Li curious. It was fair to say that the Supreme Council was in control of all other forces in Anril, and no one would oppose that claim. Even the two great forces that were second only to the Supreme Council, the Brilliance Shrine and Darkness Shrine, probably could not ignore the Supreme Council.
"Seems like I've failed to get the latest news. I really can't think of any other force in Anril that dares to ignore the existence of the Supreme Council." Lin Li did not stop attacking, and instead continued speaking while squinting slightly in a bid to find out some things from him.
"There's no need for you to know what our force is now. You only need to know that even the so-called Supreme Council is nothing at all in our eyes. If you join us, you will have our support, and it won't be impossible to replace the Supreme Council," the Legendary-mage said proudly like a pious believer of a certain faith.
Upon hearing the other party's proud and arrogant reply, Lin Li nodded calmly, and said, "Indeed, it's not the time to talk about this now. Don't worry, I'll give you some time to tell me everything you know." After saying that, he made two giant mana hands appear out of the void, each holding a Sword Sage.
Lin Li did not give them time to react at all. As soon as the mana hands grabbed the Sword Sages, he pointed the Helios' Scepter forward, and magic spells blasted at the three enemies like a massive wave.
The other party did not expect Lin Li to take on the challenge. Although the two Sword Sages were figures who were at the peak of the Legendary-realm, there was no way they could escape from the hands of a Sanctuary powerhouse. After being restrained by the giant mana hands, the two Sword Sages were powerless, and could not retaliate against the magic spells at all. In an instant, they were devoured completely by those magic spells.
That Legendary-mage managed to cast a layer of magical defense in time, but, after all, there was a difference in realm between the two of them, and Lin Li's attack was sudden too. That Legendary-mage could not keep the defense up even for a single second, as it was immediately broken by the magic spell.
However, Lin Li merely killed the two Sword Sages and left the Legendary-mage alive because he still wanted to find out some things from him. Hence, after the magic storm passed, the Legendary-mage lay on the ground in a disheveled manner without any severe damage done to his body.
"Just behave yourself and stay here. Someone will come and pick you up later. I still have some questions that I need you to answer." After saying that, Lin Li vanished, and the next time he appeared, he was already in front of the blood elf.
Among the few who escaped, the blood elf was in the best condition. With his incredible agility and the large number of demons as cannon fodder, he soon got rid of the meteors that were chasing him. However, that was also the reason Lin Li charged towards the blood elf after killing Sandos who used the Teleportation Scroll and those who pretended to be the real leaders.
There were only a few seconds left until he could really leave the place, but to his surprise, a figure suddenly appeared and hindered him from leaving. Not wasting any time at all, the blood elf immediately tossed his staff out and turned in a bid to move away from the obstruction at the same time.
After being tossed by the blood elf, the staff immediately turned into a mottled python which had a head larger than that of the Abyssal Demon Dragon Kiel. Its body was as thick as an ordinary tower. If a carriage were to be put in its mouth, it would take a long and hard time to reach its bottom.
As the mottled python was taking shape, a large bloodied mouth was already covering Lin Li's head. Its venomous fangs were also the size of a human. Even Lin Li seemed just like a fly in front of the giant python.
However, the python could no longer close its mouth after looming over Lin Li, as a layer of light emerged around Lin Li and pushed up the giant python's mouth entirely. Regardless of how much force the giant python was using, it could not bite through the seemingly weak layer of light.
Lin Li did not intend to take a day trip in the python's stomach. Making the intruders who attacked the Tower of Dusk bear the consequences of their actions was what he wanted to do the most now. Although he was standing still, the arm that he had extended simply moved out of thin air into the void, as if half of it was suddenly missing. It seemed extremely bizarre.
At this moment, the blood elf changed his direction, and exerted all of his power while balls of red fog erupted from his body, causing his escape speed to increase rapidly. He was well aware that he might really die if he could not escape in time. Hence, he did everything he could to escape.
However, before the blood elf could go far, he suddenly felt a palpitation, and then saw a huge hand piercing the void and grabbing him. At this moment, the blood elf finally knew why Sandos was killed even though he had used the high-level Teleportation Scroll.
A large amount of self-destructive genes caused the blood elf to almost lose his power to retaliate. He watched the giant hand grab him and drag him out of the void. By the time everything around him changed again, he was already back in front of Lin Li. He could still see the giant mouth outside the light that could not close.
"There's always a price to pay for everything you do."
As soon as he heard his words, he sunk into eternal darkness, and felt as if everything quickly disappeared.
Lin Li threw the blood elf's corpse onto the ground with a loud thud. With the death of the blood elf, the mottled python that was fighting with the light also instantly reverted to the form of a staff and fell to the ground.
Without looking at the staff at all, Lin Li moved and appeared right in front of the serpentine woman Vesha. As soon as Lin Li appeared, a massive wave of oppression landed in the space around Vesha. The totem poles around her also began to break and shatter as they could not withstand the pressure.
Seeing this situation, the serpentine woman Vesha dared not procrastinate at all. She took out a silver mask and held it in her hands. Two rays of light shot out at Lin Li through the eyeholes of the mask.
That was the special magical weapon of the snakes, the Medusa's Touch, which would instantly turn anyone or any object that was hit by the light into stone. If Lin Li was only at the Legendary-realm, he would probably have to put in some effort to resist it, but unfortunately, being in the Sanctuary-realm meant a fundamental change in his understanding of the world. The petrifying light was not a big deal to him at all.
Faced with the incoming petrifying light, Lin Li simply waved his hand gently, causing the two rays of light to immediately change direction as they accurately shone on the serpentine woman Vesha. With a shrill shriek, her body turned into a dull gray stone sculpture.
"Your turn, Canuman." When Lin Li appeared in front of Canuman again, the latter was the only one left on the battlefield.
"Wait, I admit defeat, but I want the Supreme Council to judge and sanction me for my sins." Canuman had initially wanted to make the last struggle, but he just wanted to survive now. Once he headed to the Supreme Council and pulled some careful tricks, he might be able to turn the situation around.
Unfortunately, Lin Li was not afraid of what Canuman was going to do, but he was afraid of trouble. How could he let the Supreme Council deal with Canuman? He glanced at the frightened Canuman composedly, and slowly raised his arm while pointing his finger forward.
BOOM!
The entire space seemed to have cracked because of Lin Li's action, while Canuman, who was in that space, could not make a single sound at all. He was torn into bits amidst
countless spatial cracks and devoured by the void, thus leaving nothing behind.
"President!" Gavin and the others had seen the appearance of the Sky Castle, but due to the fact that the Sky Castle's attacks would not differentiate between foe and friend, they dared not leave the Tower of Dusk without permission. When they saw Lin Li killing all the fleeing enemies on the battlefield, they finally knew that their President had returned.
Taking the mages of the Tower of Dusk with him, Gavin quickly arrived in front of Lin Li and suppressed his feelings of agitation while saying to Lin Li with guilt written all over his face, "President, I've you down the past three years!"
Chapter 1019 - Legendary-mage Gerian
"Enough, you've already done well. I didn't expect that I'd be away for three years. Otherwise, I would have left a few more people behind to help you man the Tower of Dusk, and things wouldn't have turned out this way." Lin Li waved his hand and told Gavin not to hold it against himself. Actually, Lin Li had a greater responsibility for this. He believed that if he had left a few powerhouses behind to take charge of the Tower of Dusk, or perhaps even made the Retribution Knights or the Mage Legion stay behind, no one would've dared to bully the Tower of Dusk that brazenly.
"Felic, what's that thing in the sky? Did you really drive the Sky Castle back here!?" Gerian and the mages of the Eternal Furnace scurried over from behind together with Gavin.
Wilkinson, the other pharmacists, and technical elites of other fields were following behind Gerian. When they first saw Lin Li, they eagerly wanted to rush forward to greet him and pour their woes out to him. However, when they heard Gerian's question, they immediately fell silent and looked at Lin Li eagerly, waiting to hear his exact answer.
Since he had already driven the Sky Castle back, there was nothing for Lin Li to hide anymore. Hence, he nodded, and said, "Yeah, that's the Sky Castle that we went to explore. The others are still up there. They were the ones who launched the attack."
Upon hearing Lin Li's exact answer, everyone jumped for joy in excitement after staying silent for a while. A mere Eternal Furnace had already made the Tower of Dusk become an invincible place. Now, they even had a real Sky Castle. No one dared to imagine what the Sky Castle would be like in the future.
"Okay, the battle here has ended. Everyone, just follow me and go up to take a look," Lin Li said smilingly. He then chanted an incantation softly, and a large teleportation door opened in front of them.
"Is it really possible?"
"Oh my God, it's the legendary Sky Castle!"
"I knew it, I said that the President will be fine. Look, he has even driven the Immortal King's Sky Castle back!"
"I wonder if those who have been spreading rumors can still sleep after receiving this news."
"Yeah, and those forces who have terminated their business relations to us. This time, even if they kneel down in front of us, we will only give in based on our mood."
The members of the Tower of Dusk were talking with each other excitedly while lining up and entering the Teleportation Portal.
It seemed that there were a lot of scores to settle! Lin Li stood quietly by the side, and he could basically tell from their chatter what the members of the Tower of Dusk had experienced in the past three years. Lin Li had never been a kind and soft-hearted person. He would never be stingy with his own subordinates, but he wouldn't be gracious with his enemies. Simply put, he would pay his enemies back in their own coin.
Once all of them had passed through the door of the Teleportation Portal and stepped onto the majestic Sky Castle, Lin Li was also about to follow them, but he remembered that there was a prisoner that he had left near them. It was not that Lin Li was forgetful, but rather that he was overjoyed to see that his subordinates were alright.
Lin Li made Gerian and Gavin enter the teleportation portal before turning his head to look at the prisoner. He then reached his arm out to grab something in the void. There was a mana hand at the spot where the half-dead prisoner was, and it was reaching out and grabbing him.
However, at this moment, there was a sudden fluctuation in the space, and another mana hand reached out to grab the captive on the ground.
The two mana hands collided, and it did not seem to be a powerful magic spell. The captive it affected was simply blown to the side by an impact.
"Huh?" Lin Li said with a solemn expression. Although such means were not rare, only a Sanctuary powerhouse could cast it. Without a doubt, the person who had attacked was a powerful Sanctuary powerhouse.
At this moment, an old voice sounded from afar.
"President Felic, since your Guild of Magic did not suffer any losses, I'll take this kid away."
After he said that, another wave of magic emerged from the void before grabbing the prisoner.
What a joke, since when does just anyone have the right to hold my people captive! Although Lin Li knew that the other party was in the Sanctuary-realm, and was not just a beginner, it did not mean that he had to show him respect. Anyway, he could tell that the other party was definitely not one of the few Sanctuary powerhouses whom he was close to.
Hence, Lin Li didn't hesitate at all. He pointed the Helios' Scepter, and rays of lightning crashed down onto the hand of mana that was not far away. He then split it and made it disappear.
"President Felic, I suggest that you don't act impulsively out of anger. You've already killed the others, but killing this person won't do you any good," said the old voice, seemingly suppressing his anger.
"Sure, you can take him away, but before you do, I want to know what force you are from," said Lin Li who wanted to keep the prisoner behind for the sake of finding out the force behind him. Otherwise, he would have long crushed him into powder.
However, after hearing Lin Li's words, the old voice fell silent. Clearly, he did not expect that rascal to reveal such an important piece of information.
Since you don't want to answer, I'll go over and ask you! Throughout this period of time, Lin Li had already roughly estimated the other party's location using the clues that he found when the latter was exhibiting the hand of mana. Hence, when he saw the other party remaining silent, Lin Li immediately summoned the debris of the stars, Nothingness, and waved it in the air, causing a crack to form. It was about to pierce through space and strike that old man.
However, before Lin Li even entered, he heard a sudden shriek coming from the spatial rift, immediately after which the clues that he was tracking vanished. It seemed that the other party's reaction was rather fast. When he sensed that Lin Li was going to catch him, he immediately vanished.
Lin Li could but stop and turn around to pull the captive towards him. He then strode towards the door of the Teleportation Portal that led to the Sky Castle.
Everything happened within less than 20 seconds, and thus no one in the Sky Castle noticed that Lin Li had lagged for that brief duration. However, Gavin, Gerian, and the others immediately rushed over while Lin Li was carrying the person who had passed out.
"President, who's this?" Gavin knew that Lin Li was holding one of the enemies who had attacked the Tower of Dusk, but the latter did not stand out in the battles during this period of time. Hence, they did not know why Lin Li chose to kill all the leaders and leave this one behind.
Lin Li tossed the prisoner onto the ground, and said to Gavin and the others, "Lock this one up in the dungeon of the Sky Castle. Use whatever means it takes to interrogate him and identify the force behind him."
"You mean Canuman isn't the culprit behind this attack against the Tower of Dusk!?" Gavin couldn't help but be shocked when he heard the news. He frowned a little, and said, "Lately, the peace in the Breezy Plains has been disrupted, and rumor has it that many of the local forces have been attacked by unknown forces. Initially, we thought that they were just making excuses, but it turns out that there's really such a force."
"Okay, the rest of you can look around. Let's go inside to chat. I'd like to hear what exactly has happened in the
Tower of Dusk and Breezy Plains in the past three years." Lin Li sent the captive away and brought Gerian, Gavin, as well as the other senior executives of the Tower of Dusk to the Central Tower of the Sky Castle.
They settled down in the hall on the first floor, and Gavin and the others began to tell Lin Li about what had happened in the past three years, as well as the various changes in the Breezy Plains and the Tower of Dusk. Actually, Lin Li knew the first and greatest change: there was a large number of mages who suddenly improved greatly in strength because of the magic tides. There were many who had also broken through the bottlenecks that they had been stuck in for a long time.
At this juncture, Gerian squinted, and his chubby face vibrated continuously due to his laughter. He said, "Kid, did you notice? I'm now a Legendary-mage too!"
In fact, with Gerian's magical talent, he should at most reach level-15 or level-16. He only managed to reach the peak of level-19 thanks to the power of the Sky Castle's control crystal and the Tree of Eternity. However, the peak of level-19 could already be considered the maximum of Gerian's potential. There was almost no possibility of further advancement. When Lin Li left, he was already stuck at the bottleneck of the peak of level-19 for a long time.
However, Gerian encountered the magic tides that occurred once in a blue moon, and this time they were on a much greater scale than before. With the power of the magic tides, the old Gerian finally broke through the bottleneck in one go, thus becoming a true Legendary-mage. Similarly, Gavin, who had always been in charge of the matters at the Tower of Dusk, had also entered the Legendary-realm. Many of the mages who had been eliminated from the Mage Legion had also reached the peak of level-19.
