End of the Magic Era
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Chapter 1402: Downfall of the Skeleton King

All the three reflections were clones that Lin Yun had left earlier. They had perfected simulating the unique waves of living creatures. They were even emitting Lin Yun’s extraordinary power. Even the undead creatures couldn’t tell which of them was real.

As a matter of fact, the skeleton king didn’t even bother to identify them. He simply waved the scythe of death and Page’s scepter, and tore all the three clones into pieces in only one second.

Eight kilometers away, Lin Yun wore an awful expression. There was a wound on his right arm. The greenness on his face was all gathered on his wound.

A second later, a stream of blood erupted from the wound on Lin Yun’s right arm. All the blood was shattered immediately. However, there was a drop of green blood that remained undamaged.

The crystal phoenix that hovered above Lin Yun’s head opened its mouth, and swallowed the green blood, expelling the power of plague. Lin Yun then had a few potions. Finally, his face was back to normal.

The power of plague could’ve only been eliminated with the crystal phoenix when it just hit him. If he had been infected for a long time, and his mana, blood, and soul were contaminated, only the Heart of Plague would be able to save him.

After he recovered, the skeleton king charged at him again at an astonishing speed. Lin Yun dodged consecutively, and considered how to kill the skeleton king.

All of a sudden, Lin Yun’s expression changed. Seeing how unstoppable the skeleton king was, he came up with another solution.

The guy was too sturdy to be killed directly, so Lin Yun could just slow him down and weaken him bit by bit, until he was vulnerable enough to be killed directly…

When the idea occurred to him, Lin Yun calculated all sorts of possibilities with the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel. In the blink of an eye, he sneered.

The Book of Ten Thousand Mantras floated near Lin Yun as a book. It opened and turned quickly. Soon, a spell flew out of the book, and was cast out by the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel.

The moment the spell was unleashed, Lin Yun made use of the power of the Origin Chapter, and pure darkness fell upon the area within a 10-kilometer radius. The law of darkness expelled the power of holy light as well as all the other powers in the area that weren’t dark.

Lin Yun’s mana was exhausted quickly right away. It was truly difficult to make use of the Origin Chapter in this place. In particular, after he doubled his mana input to increase the size of the dark space, it became even more mana-consuming.

In the dark space, the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel spun crazily. Many spells flew out of the Book of Ten Thousand Mantras, and were then cast out by the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel. Obvious space waves flashed in the darkness, and didn’t disappear until after a dozen flashes.

The powers that were banished from the darkness did not include the power of space. At the very least, Lin Yun was incapable of banishing space with the Origin Chapter just yet. Only space spells could be cast here besides the dark spells.

Only three seconds later, the dark space was torn to shreds by a horrifying power like a curtain. The skeleton king roared and broke in. The moment he came into the darkness, he found an electromagnetic track hundreds of meters long in front of Lin Yun. Around the track, there were also circles made of four elements that were spinning crazily.

The cannonball on the track was emanating deep, colorful light. The power that belonged to the crystal phoenix was released completely.

After tearing apart the curtain of darkness, the skeleton king saw that another attack was ready. He had learned a lesson, and did not dare to resist the spell passively. The cracks on his right arm hadn’t healed yet. Although the colorful light in those cracks were getting dimmer and dimmer, it lingered stubbornly, and prevented his right arm from turning into a zombie arm.

The skeleton king moved aside quickly to dodge. However, after he moved several dozen meters, he found that he seemed to be caught in a mire. The space here had been twisted into a collapsed track. It was spinning and increasing the attraction force.

The skeleton king fell into the trap, and struggled crazily. He broke free from the trap in no more than one second. However, as the intense space waves spread out, a dozen traps nearby were activated at the same time, producing terrifying attraction and distortion forces within 2,000 meters.

Gravity had lost its power in this place. There was only the terrifying attraction force caused by the interactions of a dozen space traps. More importantly, the direction of the attraction force was completely random.

For every space mage, this was just a trick that they could easily escape from. Furthermore, every level-7 Heaven Rank mage could’ve escaped easily.

To establish a Demiplane, a Heaven Rank mage had to have a basic understanding of the law of space. Even if they didn’t specialize in the law of space, they could still find a way to break free from the trap with their basic understanding. All they needed to do was to exert their strength according to the space waves.

See? Very simple. Unfortunately, it was impossible for a skeleton king to understand the law of space…

Then, the skeleton king was caught in the dozen space traps that had been set up earlier. It would only take no more than three seconds for him to break free with his physical strength.

However, there were a lot of things that Lin Yun could do in three seconds…

A streak of light burst out of the electromagnetic track, and reached the skeleton king immediately. The skeleton king intimidatingly roared, and waved the scythe of death, cutting the light that was approaching him fast.

The light was easily cut apart. Pieces of the light sprayed on the skeleton king’s face in different colors. Instantly, the skeleton king’s soul waves spread out like a tide. His painful screams echoed inside the cage.

It was not until this moment that the skeleton king finally realized that the light was just a distraction, and the real attack hadn’t been launched yet.

However, when the skeleton king screamed instinctively, the real attack was launched. The four-element circles around the electromagnetic track spun crazily, and the cannon was activated. It barely took any time for the cannonball to cover the distance of two kilometers and hit the target.

The cannonball, which was only the size of a fist, hit the joint on the skeleton king’s right arm precisely. The joint, which already had a lot of cracks, exploded immediately. His bones were blown up. Colorful light burst out along with the power of destruction, and his right arm was blown away. Illuminated by the colorful light, the bones that looked like a mixture of metal and crystals quickly dimmed. Gradually, bumps and dents appeared on their surface.

Adding the destructive power in the range, the skeleton king’s right arm was torn into shreds. The pieces of the arm were soon burnt into ashes by the destructive power and the colorful light…

The skeleton king was blown out of the space trap, but in another direction. The situation of the battle had completely changed in one second.

The skeleton king’s scythe of death floated quietly in front of Lin Yun. Many law runes appeared around it. Then, they fell on the top of the scythe like a rap, sealing it in one second.

Dropping the scythe of death into his space ring, Lin Yun grinned and looked at the skeleton king, who was roaring crazily in the distance. Well, it should be a zombie king now. Without the skeleton arm, he looked like a complete zombie.

Having sealed and taken away the skeleton king’s scythe, the rest of the battle was a lot easier. Even Lin Yun did not dare to receive the guy’s slash, which would cut apart his body as well as his soul the moment it hit him.

The broken soul, contaminated by the power of death, would only lead to one result. It would be burnt as soul fire, and his body would turn into an unintelligent, if not deranged, undead creature…

After one of the skeleton king’s arms was cut off, the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel spun much more slowly.

Without the scythe, the skeleton king was no longer as invulnerable as before. At the very least, based on the calculation of the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel, the skeleton king was full of flaws, and it was easier to create opportunities.

“Foolish human being, I’m going to tear you apart, and let you watch yourself being eaten alive…”

The skeleton king roared furiously, and waved Page’s scepter, charging again. Lin Yun put on a weird smile. The space around him instantly turned into one of darkness.

It was the purest darkness, without the slightest light. The darkness soon reached the skeleton king, who warily stopped in front of it. Then, he quickly disappeared and circumvented the darkness at an unbelievable speed, tearing it apart from the rear.

Deep green light sprayed, and the power of plague contaminated the darkness, tearing it apart. However, the moment he broke into the darkness, the skeleton king realized that he had fallen into a trap again.

Also, it was an area of a dozen interconnected space traps, just like the one he’d entered earlier. He had just stepped into the center of the traps.

The darkness was gone. Lin Yun, whose back was supposed to be facing him, was looking at him with a cold smile. Meanwhile, an electromagnetic track had been aimed at him, and the cannon was activated the moment he entered the space traps.

Some colorful light crossed the space, and charged at the skeleton king.

With a scary smile on his rigid face, the skeleton king raised Page’s scepter, and roared furiously.

“Stupid human being, you want to try again? You’re so foolish…”

The skeleton king felt like his head was exploding when he saw that Lin Yun was going to use the same traps and the same attack with the electromagnetic track. The skeleton king sneered vigilantly as Lin Yun launched the cannon again.

He didn’t care about the first launch of the cannon. He simply established a barrier with the power of death to resist the colorful light that might appear.

All of a sudden, his barrier was easily torn apart, and in the middle of the colorful light, a cannonball the size of a fist hit his left wrist precisely…

Colorful light burst out. The blast and the explosion combined into a terrifying power that even the skeleton king couldn’t completely resist.

His wrist was blown apart. His broken hand was still connected to his arm, although just barely. However, his left arm had been cut into three parts. Page’s scepter was still held in his broken left hand.

Only undead creatures were capable of holding things when their arm had been broken into three parts and they were barely connected…

The skeleton king looked quite scary. He didn’t care about his broken arm at all. Undead creatures couldn’t feel any pain, and they only suffered when their soul fire was hurt. A broken arm was simply trivial. It couldn’t kill them anyway.

Staring at Lin Yun, the skeleton king’s eyes were raging, and his soul fire was shivering. Flames burst out of his eyes, and his soul fire was almost exploding…

That goddamn human being tricked me again. The first attack was not a distraction. It was real…

Unfortunately, that stupid human being mistakes the great undead creatures for his own kind. That kind of attack doesn’t work at all…

Just wait for it. You will die miserably when I release the power of the great Lord Page. It’s a shame that I won’t be able to eat this delicious-looking human being…

The skeleton king sneered. His broken left hand suddenly squeezed the Heart of Plague, which erupted with a tremendous amount of blood instead of dripping blood.

“Foolish human being, embrace your death…” the skeleton king’s soul fire roared.

But exactly at this moment, Lin Yun launched the electromagnetic cannon again, and the cannonball hit the skeleton king’s wrist precisely, blowing away his wrist as well as Page’s scepter…

Confused and shocked, the skeleton king was blown away. He could only watch Page’s scepter and his wrist fly in the sky. Then, a crystal phoenix that emitted colorful light soared to the sky and shrieked in delight, catching the Heart of Plague.

The hand that was holding the scepter, and was about to return was easily purged into ashes by the crystal phoenix.

The crystal phoenix opened its mouth, and swallowed all the blood of plague that sprayed in midair. It burped quickly, as if it was full. Then, it picked the Heart of Plague from the top of the scepter, and threw the scepter aside. Finally, it returned to the Book of Death as a streak of light.

Lost for words, Lin Yun stared at the crystal phoenix. He smiled, and didn’t say anything. The Heart of Plague was an irresistible temptation for the crystal phoenix. The more evil something was, the better it would allow the crystal phoenix to neutralize evils after it was swallowed. The crystal phoenix would find it easy to neutralize evils of the same kind.

Lin Yun retracted the rest of Page’s scepter, which was insignificant without the Heart of Plague. However, after taking it over, Lin Yun’s expression changed. The scepter seemed to be made of undead creatures’ body parts, but there was an obvious cover on its surface. This was clearly not the scepter’s original look.

More importantly, despite the cover, the scepter and the Book of Death were connected to each other with Lin Yun as the bridge the moment he took it. The reaction from the Book of Death showed that it was actually one of its components!

Considering that possibility, the Heart of Plague might not be the only thing that mattered on Page’s scepter. It was likely that the scepter itself was more important.

Which component was the scepter exactly?

Lin Yun held back his excitement. The scepter was sealed, and it was impossible to know which component it was at this moment. There was something more important to do.

Putting away the scepter, Lin Yun flew towards the skeleton king, who had lost both arms and the scepter. He had quickly reverted to the appearance of a skeleton king instead of a zombie. He had been weakened a dozen times, and was no longer a threat at all.

Lin Yun caught the skeleton king in only half a minute, and threw him to the fiery world in the Book of Ten Thousand Mantras. The black flames that were full of destructive power would burn him until he died.

The flames had absorbed a lot of flames that could suppress undead creatures. No matter how sturdy the skeleton king was, it was only a matter of time before he was completely burnt.

It was impossible to summon the crystal phoenix for now. Otherwise, it would’ve been easy to purge the skeleton king into bones with its help.

The battle was over. Lin Yun looked above his head at Prome, who was still releasing the power of holy light.

Prome solemnly stared at Lin Yun, as if he was considering something. He didn’t open the cage of holy light immediately. A few seconds later, Prome finally stopped singing the hymn. The cage of holy light gradually dispersed, and the curtains between the holy statues were gone. The holy statues faded away, and then soared into the sky as four pillars of light.

Lin Yun seemed quite thoughtful. He seemed to be exhausted from the battle, but he couldn’t help but remember what he felt before.

When he lowered Prome’s level earlier, he had detected that something was wrong with Prome’s soul, which seemed different from other people’s. It was undoubtedly a human being’s soul, but it was surprisingly blank.