Another World’s Versatile Crafting Master c1-1074

by Zhuang Bifan

  The other two pseudo-Sanctuary powerhouses, Cardson and Gatana, were the weakest of the six. Hence, they were struggling in the battle against the wyrm ghosts. When all was said and done, Gatana was a descendant of the ancient royal family, and thus had some powerful magical equipment in hand. However, Cardson had been in pursuit of food all his life. Apart from hunting for ingredients, he rarely paid attention to fighting against others. Hence, it was a little difficult for him to fight in the battle.

  Fortunately, the Gilded Kingdom's fleet received news that several battlesh.i.p.s remaining from the original battle and a dozen more had just arrived to support them. The fleet moved quickly to Cardson, attracting the attention of many wyrm ghosts in the process. Some even left Cardson and others to pounce onto the battlesh.i.p.s of the Gilded Kingdom.

  In the previous battle, the battlesh.i.p.s of the Gilded Kingdom had suffered a big loss, but that didn't mean that their battlesh.i.p.s were too weak. The losses had occurred only because the enemy they had faced had been too strong. However, their enemies were now the wyrm ghosts. Even the battlesh.i.p.s that had been through a massacre of countless sea beasts and dominated the Endless Ocean had begun to show their might.

  The numerous mana cannons were shot at the wyrm ghosts. The cannons that had the girth of a bucket seemed to have become thinner, but the vast number of mana cannons could make up for that flaw. The Gilded Kingdom had clearly invested a lot into the operation as they used the Legendary magical crystals freely like they didn't cost anything, forming a large net of mana cannons that mercilessly shredded the wyrm ghosts into bits.

  The wyrm ghosts were essentially somewhat similar to Vengeful Spirits as their bodies could change or turn into a solid state to allow themselves to be immune to most magic damage. However, the cannon shots were condensed purely from mana, and were in between the two forms of fluid and solid. Hence, it was the nemesis of the wyrm ghosts.

  Of course, if there were only one or two Magical Crystal Cannons, they wouldn't cause much damage even if they penetrated the bodies of the wyrm ghosts. However, the Gilded Kingdom's fleet went all out to launch all the cannons they had. The wyrm ghosts that were hit did not just have their bodies penetrated, they were also instantly strangled into nothingness by the countless cannons. There was no longer a possibility of reconstruction, either.

  However, the battlesh.i.p.s of the Gilded Kingdom had to face more than just those wyrm ghosts. Although there was the suppression of Elder Zumar, the power of the terrifying existence sealed under Cage Island still dominated the sea around the island. The countless black vortices were tearing at the solid steel hull.

  When everyone was in a tough battle, Lin Li, who was in the sky above Cage Island, couldn't relax, either. He was facing Antora who was known as the Death Shadow. Even though Antora no longer had peak Sanctuary-level strength, and his strength was at level-27, he was in the special form of a ghost, making him hard to deal with.

  Lin Li pointed the Helios' Scepter forward, causing his entire Domain World to slam against Antora's massive body. If it had been an ordinary ancient wyrm, its bones would have broken. However, in the face of the Domain World, Antora's body suddenly swelled up and turned into a void that seemed to be enveloping the Domain World.

  Before having a clear understanding of Antora's abilities, Lin Li did not want to let a Sanctuary powerhouse of the same level as him invade his Domain World. Hence, faced with such a situation, he had no choice but to put away his Domain World and raise the Helios' Scepter to cast a magic storm made of different magic spells at Antora's empty body.

  It was not Lin Li's first time dealing with ghosts, so he was fairly clear on their characteristics. When a ghost condensed to take on a physical form, it would have extremely high magic immunity, and its defense against physical attacks would become very low. When a ghost turned into nothingness, it would be completely immune to physical attacks, but the magic damage it sustained would also be the highest.

  Hence, such a ghost was not really something very difficult to deal with. After all, its physical immunity and magic immunity would not exist at the same time. It would also have to switch between forms. In comparison, Lin Li had also met any creatures that were worse, such as the Lord Devourer that could devour everything and the Whispering God that had extremely high immunity to both physical and magical damage.

  Of course, the Death Shadow Antora was a Sanctuary powerhouse that was near the peak of that realm. At this point, any creature would go through a drastic change. Hence, if anyone saw Antora as just a ghost, they would be in trouble.

  Lin Li waved his hand to stir up a magic storm, which then crashed towards Antora whose body had turned into a void. Ordinary ghosts would turn into true nothingness upon contact with it. Hence, if there were ordinary ghosts now, their forms would change immediately and gain strong magic immunity.

  However, in the face of the magic storm Lin Li cast, Antora did not condense its body like ordinary ghosts. Instead, it expanded and almost covered the sky above Cage Island. The sky above the sea area seemed to have been covered by a darkness which did not allow a single ray of light to come through.

  With Antora's action, the sea also seemed to have sunk into darkness. However, some light shone on the surface, and the magic storm that Lin Li had stirred up also blasted over with a deafening roar at the same time.

  However, after rushing into the darkness, the powerful magic storm did not emit any light. It was as if a stone was cast into a bottomless abyss; it was unknown if it had been devoured. The magic storm simply disappeared, and even the spiritual connection between Lin Li and the countless magic spells was broken.

  The darkness that blocked the sky was none other than Antora's Domain World. It was a world that had been shrouded in darkness and where darkness was the only Law left. Other than the Laws of light, all other Laws could also exist in this world, but they would be overshadowed by Darkness.

  That was also the origin of Antora's title, Death Shadow. All the enemies engulfed by this Darkness World would fall into permanent slumber and eventually be completely assimilated by the darkness. It was said that no enemy had ever been able to escape from the world of darkness until Antora's death. In its lifetime, it had engulfed countless powerful enemies in the world of darkness. The 12 Golden Titans that ambushed it had paid a great price to kill it even during an ambush.

  When Antora released the world of darkness, a massive black claw emerged from the darkness before scratching hard at Lin Li who was still in midair. Its massive black claw seemed to be able to pick up the entire island. Resembling an inverted mountain peak, it broke through the air with a whistling sound.

  Lin Li didn't even have to try. He could tell from the changes in the Space Laws that the dragon's claw was not only clutching at something. It even sealed the entire space when it fell, making it impossible to move away using Space Power. The space that the claw enveloped seemed to have suddenly become frozen. The surroundings seemed empty, but Lin Li who was outside could feel that the space seemed to have been cast in steel at this moment.

  With Lin Li's current ability and his mastery of the World Laws, it was not impossible to tear open this space. However, Lin Li did not choose to dodge even though the claw's power seemed to be enough to rip the world apart. Instead, he stood still in the air, and raised the Helios' Scepter without dodging.

  In fact, when the black wyrm claw grabbed out, Elder Zumar and the others who were trying to strengthen the seal were the most worried ones on the battlefield. Of course, Elder Zumar and the rest were not worried about Lin Li's safety, but about being exposed to Antora's attack by Lin Li.

  Although Elder Zumar was not weak, and could face Antora alone, he still had to deal with the existence under Cage Island in order to ensure that his people could safely go to repair the Alchemy Array. If he were to get attacked by Antora now, he definitely would not be able to ensure the safety of his people even if he himself might not get injured.

  He
nce, Elder Zumar had been watching the battle in the sky above him right from the beginning, feeling even more nervous than Lin Li. He was still skeptical about the ability of Lin Li, the young Sanctuary powerhouse. Even if he was much stronger than pseudo-Sanctuary powerhouses, he might not be a match for the Death Shadow Antora. He didn't think that Lin Li and the rest who had come to their rescue would really go all out. After all, the Gilded Kingdom and the Tower of Dusk had never been that harmonious with each other.

  However, Elder Zumar didn't expect Lin Li to show no intention of dodging Antora's attack, and the young mage even raised his staff against the huge black dragon's claw. As he raised the staff, the Domain World around Lin Li became distorted at this moment. Immediately afterwards, rays of colorful light darted at the gemstone at the top of the scepter. In the blink of an eye, the jewel became as dazzling as the sun.

  Seeing this scene and feeling the enormous power contained in it, Elder Zumar's face turned sullen immediately. Even though Lin Li was a true Sanctuary powerhouse, in the eyes of Elder Zumar who had stepped into the Sanctuary-realm for hundreds to thousands of years, he was still a junior.

  Chapter 1070 - Black Giant

  However, the junior in his eyes actually displayed power that was not inferior to Elder Zumar's. In fact, he even surpassed him. Although it was a good thing for the current situation, it still put Elder Zumar in a complex mood. Since Lin Li was giving them aid, the stronger he was, the better. However, Lin Li was also his potential enemy, and thus it was definitely not a good thing.

  At this moment, Lin Li, who was in the sky, had already condensed the power of the entire Domain World in the gemstone at the top of the Helios' Scepter, causing the light of the gemstone to engulf his body. A sun appeared in the dark sky.

  In fact, it was just a matter of a split second before the huge dragon claw that stretched out from the darkness had already grabbed Lin Li. Almost at the same time, the shining Solar Sphere which resembled the sun constricted, and seemed to have been oppressed by the sun. However, in an instant, a huge sword of radiant light was thrust out from the giant sword with a menacing momentum as if it could cut the sky, and grabbed the center of the dragon's claw.

  BOOM!

  The sound of a massive explosion filled the air, and the entire world seemed to tremble in the roar. The two massive forces generated shock waves during a head-on collision before spreading out rapidly in all directions, causing ripples to form that could be seen with the n.a.k.e.d eye in space as if a boulder had been tossed onto the calm surface of the lake.

  The battlefield in the surroundings was also affected by the impact of the shock wave, and the 10-odd wyrm ghosts in the surroundings were shattered and turned into ashes by the horrifying impact. Although there was a considerable distance between them, they still found it hard to calm down. Those that were weaker even almost fainted.

  That was the power of a true Sanctuary powerhouse! Everyone was astonished. Even though they had already thought of Lin Li's strength as the most powerful they could imagine, they realized that their imagination was still far from enough as the power had already exceeded their imagination.

  Elvis and others were certain that even though they'd stepped into the Sanctuary-realm, they would definitely be destroyed in an instant if they were in the middle of the impact. Their souls might be destroyed too. In the past, they respected and had scruples about Lin Li, but now they were filled with fear towards him.

  They knew very well in their hearts that that kind of terrifying power was definitely not something they could fight against. If Lin Li wanted to wipe their forces out, he probably could do so with the lift of a finger.

  At this moment, they were in huge fear for their forces and their previous schemes. They finally knew that the Tower of Dusk just couldn't be bothered to go against them, and did not refrain from doing so because they were scared. With such a powerful strength, the young president of the Tower of Dusk would perhaps not be afraid of even the famous Ashen Warlock at all.

  Indeed, the pseudo-Sanctuary powerhouses like Elvis and the others could not understand what the Sanctuary-realm meant, but they knew how powerful it was, and that they could never resist it. At this moment, the shadow of the Ashen Warlock in their hearts seemed to have gradually been replaced by Lin Li.

  At this moment, Elder Zumar was on Cage Island, but he had been watching the battle above his head with astonishment and fright. The power Lin Li displayed made him forget his mission as he couldn't help but continuously think about the powerful figure that led the resistance in the war at the end of the Dark Age.

  Although Elder Zumar had always been very confident in his own strength, his confidence had wavered, and he couldn't help but tremble from within his soul. In particular, he was flabbergasted when he thought about Lin Li's age. How talented must he be to be able to have such terrifying power at this age!?

  Previously, Elder Zumar thought that only the Ashen Warlock who was of an unknown origin was qualified to be his opponent in the entire Breezy Plains. However, Elder Zumar had to admit that the young Sanctuary powerhouse before him was probably not that easy to deal with. It seemed that the Gilded Kingdom's strategy against the Breezy Plains had to be tweaked.

  Lin Li's attack made everyone on the battlefield develop all sorts of thoughts. However, at this moment, Lin Li didn't even consider what others were thinking. Hence, he also truly felt the power of Antora through the collision.

  Legend had it that during the prehistoric times, the Death Shadow Antora of the powerful Obsidian Wyrm race was also known as the finest descendant of Azardas, the Dragon of Destruction. Now, it seemed that it really wasn't an exaggeration. Through the tough collision, Lin Li could clearly feel the massive power of the other party, and he could imagine how terrifying Antora had been during his prime.

  The World Sword that Lin Li had condensed using the Domain World and the black dragon's claw collided vigorously, but the victory was indistinguishable. Although the black wyrm's claw had been shattered by the powerful World Sword, the World Sword also began to shatter, and all its Laws disintegrated under the impact of the tremendous power.

  Of course, Lin Li was already mentally prepared for this outcome, and there wasn't a single trace of surprise on his face. Just as the World Sword shattered, the light of mana erupted from the Helios' Scepter in his hand, and as the World Sword disappeared from the Domain World, it once again enveloped the surrounding space.

  However, compared to Lin Li, Antora who had turned into the world of darkness immediately reacted more vigorously. Only the instincts of Antora were left. Perhaps he didn't even know that he was no longer the Death Shadow that the Titans feared. Hence, having his own attack being broken was simply an intolerable insult to his dignity.

  Hence, just as Lin Li reopened his Domain World, a furious roar sounded in the sky, and it seemed to belong on a mental level. Immediately afterwards, more than 10 giants which were as tall as mountain peaks charged towards Lin Li.

  The black giants did not have any faces at all, and they seemed just like shadows of giants. However, each black giant's body emitted powerful power fluctuations that were even more powerful than those of Elvis and other pseudo-Sanctuary powerhouses. They were the Titans that had been swallowed by Antora's world of darkness and turned into Antora's darkness puppets.

  Like a silhouette, the black giants were wielding giant spears that resembled Titan Dragon Spears, but they were also pitch-dark. In the blink of an eye, they dashed towards Lin Li and, without employing any technique at all, the 10-odd black giants smashed their giant spears into Lin Li's Domain World with brute force.

  If it had happened during Antora's heyday, those black giants would have been at least level-26 or level-27, and Lin Li would be surrounded by more than 10 level-26 or level-27 Sanctuary powerhouses. Even if he had received pointers from Geresco, he would probably have ended up being defeated.

  However, Antora was no longer what it used to be, and the strength of
these black giants had already declined greatly. The difference between these black giants and Lin Li was now a realm, which was not something that numbers could make up for. Lin Li opened his Domain World, allowing the dozen black giants to attack it, but he didn't waver at all.

  However, unlike the composed Lin Li, Elder Zumar and other people outside the battlefield could no longer stay calm. They were all extremely worried. Be it Elder Zumar or Elvis and the others, they all knew that Lin Li's victory or defeat would be the key to this battle. If Lin Li failed, they would face trouble too.

  The thing that made them increasingly worried was that Lin Li, who was surrounded by a dozen black giants, seemed somewhat powerless even though he was counterattacking with magic spells too. His Domain World looked like it could be smashed by the black giants at any moment.

  Although they were nervous and anxious, they were not surprised by the situation at all. They could even sense the massive power of the black giants; hence, deep down, they didn't think that Lin Li could kill those black giants easily.

  Faced with such a situation, be it Elder Zumar who led the Gilded Kingdom's team or the team led by the pseudo-Sanctuary powerhouses like Elvis, they all immediately stepped up their respective attacks. In their hearts, they also just hoped that Lin Li could sustain himself for longer under the siege, and give the others a chance to solve the issue.

  With those thoughts, Elder Zumar constantly urged the mages under him to speed up and strive to get the Alchemy Array running smoothly as soon as possible. As long as the Alchemy Array could run smoothly, the seal of Cage Island would also be reinforced quickly. By then, given Elder Zumar's abilities, he would have high chances of defeating Antora if he joined forces with Lin Li.

  As for Elvis and others, they also wanted to eliminate their respective enemies as soon as possible. As long as they could attain their goal, the crisis on the battlefield would also be greatly alleviated. Unfortunately, not all wishes would come true. After all, the strength of Elvis and the others was limited, and it wouldn't be easy for them to get rid of the enemy quickly. Although they had already played their trump cards, they could only maintain a stalemate with the enemy, which was dangerous.