End of the Magic Era
chapter-1425-30041322

Chapter 1425: Retaliation

It was not until 10 minutes later that the sandworm finally stopped struggling. A lot of thorny vines where bloody flowers were blossoming crawled out of its mouth, and then withered quickly.

The sandworm looked exactly the same as before, but its body had been emptied. Its blood and everything had been transformed into the Bloodsucking Vines’ nutrients. After the nutrients were exhausted, the vines would wither and disperse, turning into ashes in only a few seconds.

Lin Yun passed the sandworm’s body, and moved even faster. It was already getting dark.

The weather was not bad. Only several tornadoes were visible during the day. It would be fine to avoid them. The only dangerous factors were the quicksand and the sandworms.

But nothing except sandworms could survive in the desert at night. Their thick rocky skin was exactly meant to resist the harsh environment at night.

To move faster, Lin Yun cast an acceleration spell, which consumed one-fourth of his mana. He then cast Keen Senses in case of possible dangers around him.

After rushing for half an hour, he could already see the light and the tip of the Shelter Tower in the distance. The Shelter Tower was emitting dim light, just like a lighthouse on a dark night.

However dim it was, it was still the last hope in the apocalyptic world.

The night fell extremely fast. The spicy smell in the air quickly dispersed. It seemed that the air was back to normal, but it became so cold that one seemed to be breathing ice only three minutes later.

As time went by, the air became more and more gloomy and chilly. Lin Yun knew that it would be impossible to stay outside Heiss City in 15 minutes. Everyone who hadn’t returned to Heiss City in 15 minutes would either be killed by sandworms or frozen.

In the apocalyptic world, even an official mage would be a top-tier expert. In particular, Lin Yun was at the last phase of the apocalyptic world. Very few people became Magic Apprentices these days. The population in Heiss City had plummeted too.

When the doomsday finally arrived, Heiss City had few living residents. Even those who were alive had lost their desire to live.

In the age where a real mage counted as one of the top experts, the terrifying coldness outside would surely kill anyone easily. When it was midnight, the outside would be as freezing as some of the ice planes.

Such coldness was too much for any Magic Apprentice or mage to resist. Besides, there were sandworms. Whoever failed to return to the city before nightfall could be presumed dead, or dying…

Lin Yun sped up, and rushed to Heiss City. The air became colder and colder. This coldness was unlike the lack of warmth in the void, but more like a mouth that would swallow all lives.

When he saw Heiss City, he noticed that a slim pale young man was rushing to Heiss City from one side too. Behind the young man, a 10-meter-long sandworm was giving chase.

They were only three kilometers away from Heiss City, but the sandworm was about to catch up with the young man. His time would be wasted even if he survived the fight with the sandworm. If he missed the last safe time, he might be weakened by the coldness of the night, and killed by another sandworm eventually.

Seeing Lin Yun, the young man cried in fear, trying to grasp at the straw.

“Lin Yun, help me, help me…” the young man implored in fright. He didn’t drop the piece of meat dripping with blood on his back even though he was wounded. That was what he gained from today’s hunt. He found the remains of a sandworm which had been killed by another sandworm, and got the only piece of edible meat, which could sustain him for a couple of days, and give him enough time to strengthen himself.

When he became stronger, it would be easier for him to get more prey so that his time could be saved to further strengthen himself and swallow mana from the void…

Lin Yun casually glanced at the young man, and unconsciously touched the left side of his neck. While rushing, he chanted a spell, and threw a quicksand trap in the young man’s way.

The young man was too desperate to notice the trap. By the time he noticed it, one of his feet had already stepped into it. Normal quicksand traps were only half a meter deep, and couldn’t bury a person. However, this trap had been expanded three times by Lin Yun. It was impossible for the young man to dodge.

Stepping on the quicksand trap, the young man lost all his hope. When he was delayed for two seconds, the sandworm had caught up to him, and bit off one of his legs. His blood was frozen into bloody grains of ice before it hit the ground.

“Lin Yun, I curse you. I curse that you will be destroyed in the flames of doomsday… Aaaaah…”

Lin Yun finished the rest of the journey, and entered Heiss City, which was shrouded in the light of the Shelter Tower, and was freed from the coldness outside. Looking back at the young man who was swallowed by the sandworm, Lin Yun didn’t look happy.

Lin Yun knew the guy’s name—George. He met the guy in the second year after he came to the apocalyptic world. The guy was a level-5 Magic Apprentice. Back then, Lin Yun was only a level-3 Magic Apprentice.

It wasn’t easy for him to overcome the initial difficulties, and become a Magic Apprentice. He had to seize the three minutes of peace in the morning and the dusk to swallow the mana from the void storm. It was too much for normal people to bear.

Countless people in Heiss City had given up because they couldn’t endure the pain. The mana in the void was so chaotic and disorderly that it felt like blades running about inside the body until it was tamed.

Lin Yun had transmigrated to that world. Nobody cared where he came from, or why he looked different. Nobody had time for that. They didn’t even care whether he was a human being.

In the end of Noscent’s apocalypse, even the inferior demons from the abyss and the undead creatures were unwilling to come to Noscent. So, nobody really cared about anything…

Lin Yun met George when he became a peak level-3 Magic Apprentice. They went hunting as a team.

The picture was exactly what happened earlier. Lin Yun picked up parts outside of Heiss City, hoping to make them into simple tools, even if he was unable to build alchemy puppets just yet.

What happened was exactly the same. George was wounded. He was carrying a piece of edible meat, and being chased by a sandworm, and the night was falling.

He sought Lin Yun’s help, but took advantage of him in the end. Lin Yun nearly died a kilometer outside the city. Before Lin Yun was able to retaliate, George had gone missing on a trip outside Heiss City…

Now that the same scene happened again, Lin Yun naturally got back at him.

He couldn’t hold back, even though he knew that everything in this world was fake. More importantly, he was just a mage here. If he died, he would truly be dead.

When he transmigrated to the apocalypse of Noscent as an ordinary person, it was harder for him to survive than it was to make it out alive in a boundless desert. He didn’t want to recall the hardships he went through.

He read magic books day and night, and learned the local language. In the world of magic, knowledge was power. He managed to survive. Then, he breathed in the spicy air, and swallowed the mana that felt like glass pieces from the void.

After he became a Magic Apprentice, this was the place where he had almost been killed by a fellow human being for the first time.

Lin Yun entered Heiss City. He looked back at George, whose body had been bitten apart by the sandworm, with a peaceful expression.

He had heard exactly the same curses in the past, but the result was completely different.

This was a world that was based on Lin Yun’s memories and feelings, but things might not go exactly the same as he remembered. The memories were just the foundation. What happened later might deviate from what he knew.

Lin Yun had seen it before, but he wasn’t very clear about it. Still, it was fine because he had returned to Heiss City!

Entering Heiss City, he found that everything was the same as he remembered. All the passers-by on the street were numb. Those who had just returned to Heiss City all seemed happy that they made it back at the last moment.

He looked out of the city across the city wall, only to see that the outside world had been covered in black snow. Black snowflakes the size of human hands were swirling and falling from the sky like ice blades, making the sounds of a devastating piece of music..