265 War (1/2)
Lin Yun didn't further provoke Enderfa after the latter agreed to the two conditions.
Because Lin Yun felt that this Enderfa was the most evil Incarnation among Incarnations. It was for the best if they could peacefully coexist, which would be the best conclusion. It didn't feel as if he was gaining much, but if he pushed Enderfa too far, they would end up in a life and death struggle, and that wouldn't benefit anyone...
”Oh, right, Lord Enderfa, you just said that I was stupid?”
”That… That was just a joke, hahahaha…”
Enderfa's laughter dragged on for a while, but after a few moments he found out that the other side remained silent, and thus his laugh slowly petered out.
Lin Yun also did not press him and waited for Enderfa to be done laughing. ”Explain…”
”Fuck…” Enderfa cursed before talking unwillingly. ”I said you were stupid because you think that the creator of this puppet was Vaughn…”
”Ah?” Lin Yun's eyes shone when he heard that. ”So you mean to say that someone else created this puppet?”
”Well, there is no harm in telling you, you would learn of this sooner or later…” After sighing, Enderfa helplessly said, ”I believe you should know the reason for Vaughn's rapid rise. It was because he obtained the inheritance of a formidable alchemist…”
”You are talking about the Dark Sage?”
”Indeed, the Dark Sage. But Vaughn only obtained a small part of the Dark Sage's legacy. To be more precise, it was three Heaven Rank puppets…”
”Sure enough…” Hearing this, Lin Yun nodded in understanding.
In fact, many people during the 3rd Dynasty had conjectured that Vaughn had obtained the Dark Sage's three Heaven Rank puppets, but the conjectures on the subject were only baseless theories. There had been no evidence, even after Vaughn's death. Those three Heaven Rank puppets never appeared during his life.
Up until now, when Enderfa affirmed that conjecture.
”Later, Vaughn discovered some secret in the Four Seasons Canyon, and don't even ask what that secret was, because even I am not too sure about it. I only know that after Vaughn found that secret, he set up a large array around the Four Seasons Canyon and built an alchemy laboratory here. Once he was done, Vaughn left the Four Seasons Canyon and only returned once, years later…”
”When exactly?”
”Around ten years before his self-exile…”
”Eh…”
Lin Yun worked out the time frame. Vaughn's self-exile to Crystal Island was twenty years before his death. In other words, he had returned to this laboratory thirty years before he died. At that time, Vaughn already stood at the peak of Noscent as the Imperial Chief Alchemist, the glorious last Artisan.
”When Vaughn came back, he brought back the three Heaven Rank Puppets and handed over the control of the laboratory to them, and ten years later he left again. He went to Crystal Island and spent the last twenty years of his life there.”
”What then?”
”And then… Haha, then these three puppets followed Vaughn's will and took charge of the laboratory, keeping it operating. Up until one night, five hundred years ago, when one Heaven Rank puppet suddenly lost control and started crazily destroying everything in the laboratory…”
”It went crazy?”
”Yes, it did, you would never imagine how frightening an uncontrolled puppet could be. The entire laboratory was almost destroyed by that puppet, and what you see now are only the ruins left behind after the disaster. The laboratory during its peak far surpassed what you could imagine…”
”How could the puppet go out of control like that...” Lin Yun pondered over it but couldn't understand. Puppets strictly followed the orders from their control runes, so how could that one go crazy out of the blue?
”How could I know? My body at the time was only a Spiritual Magic Tool Set, I couldn't even run when faced with that Heaven Rank disaster, so how could I still have the courage to search for the truth? In any case, when that Heaven Rank puppet went crazy and destroyed everything, it also climbed to the highest floor of the stone tower. It met the other two Heaven Rank Puppets and a battle ensued, leaving the top floor of the stone tower in ruins. You simply can't imagine how scary that battle was…”
”Eh?”
”You went to the top floor, you should remember that very long path with empty cages on the sides, right? Well the truth is that those cages held magic beasts from various planes. The weakest was around level 28, while some of the stronger ones reached level 38, and they were far more numerous than you could have ever guessed. I can still remember the dark tide when the two Heaven Rank Puppets released them. At that time, they almost all died in that world-shaking fight, and less than one in a thousand might have managed to escape.”
”I see…” Lin Yun understood when he heard this.
Those empty cages had been left behind after those magic beasts...