Chapter 871 - Puppet Battle (1/2)

Translator: Shiraishi  Editor: TheAlliance

Xiuban swung Carnage and clashed heavily with the huge grinding wheel. As sparks flew about in all directions, the powerful Xiuban groaned and was forced to take four steps back before stopping.

Meanwhile, another huge grinding wheel followed the first one and sliced towards Lin Yun.

Lin Yun frowned, and Reina took the initiative to act. She breathed out, and two ice fragments flew out, slicing at the joints of the mechanical arms.

Ice started spreading from the joints in an instant, and the originally fiercely moving arms quickly stiffened.

The two mechanical arms kept shaking, as if they were trying to struggle free in order to keep attacking.

Lin Yun was still frowning, as he yet again failed to notice any traps. These two mechanical arms were extremely powerful, and even Xiuban wasn’t able to destroy them, but their function was to polish puppet components… They weren’t used for battle.

Yet, these two mechanical arms had sliced at them with the grinding wheels. Grasping the timing and angle needed for a surprise attack was something a combat puppet could do, but it was beyond the capabilities of two mechanical arms designed for assembly.

Lin Yun looked at these two arms for a long time before using a crystal pen to write numerous runes onto them and thoroughly severing the arms’ energy supply. This action finally stopped the two shaking mechanical arms.

After leaving the room, Lin Yun threw a glance back while feeling that this matter was too strange. It felt as if there was some unknown activation method that he couldn’t discover, or maybe even something controlling the place. They were always ambushed at some unexpected places.

They continued down the passage again, until Lin Yun suddenly stopped. He had lost connection to a Mage Eye without having any time to see anything. He didn’t know what had destroyed it.

And it spread like a chain reaction. He lost contact with the eight Mage Eyes that had been spread ahead of them, and barely managed to see a scene flash before it all disappeared.

When that Mage Eye entered an open room, the door suddenly closed, and some device able to create a burning flame suddenly shot a Fire Bolt and destroyed the eye.

Lin Yun frowned and started pondering. The other mage eyes had also entered different rooms before he lost contact, so he assumed that they had also been destroyed.

“Prepare for battle,” Lin Yun instructed in a deep voice, his Draconic Staff already shining brightly.

They’d just reached the center of an intersection when suddenly, fierce mana fluctuations spread from all directions.

Several dozen Fire Bolts rushed over at Lin Yun’s group from all four directions. Moreover, this passage was only seven meters wide, giving them no space to dodge.

Lin Yun waved his Draconic Staff and a light flickered as Askrim Gates rose up around their group, boxing them in and blocking the Fire Bolts.

Reina also chanted in Draconic, causing transparent Ice Walls to rise up just behind the Askrim Gates and make them also transparent, allowing everyone to see what was happening.

Through these transparent walls, everyone could see four teams of alchemy puppets that seemed to know their whereabouts attacking them in a pincer attack. There were ten puppets lined up in each direction, raising arms enchanted with numerous Fire Bolts.

Several dozen Fire Bolts would be shot towards them from all directions every second, and it only took two seconds for Lin Yun’s Askrim Gates to evaporate from all the firepower.

Lin Yun frowned, his Draconic Staff flickering as more Askrim Gates rose up, firmly protecting everyone within.

The spells enchanted on these puppets were very formidable, and they were also casting fast, low-consumption Fire Bolts. In such a narrow place, the Fire Bolts could display their full power while also being very efficient.

Other spells might have been stronger, but they would have higher consumption and wouldn’t be able to keep up as much pressure.

It looked like the puppets were prepared to forcibly keep them here, killing them through attrition.

Some victims might have run out of mana after half an hour, suppressed until their deaths.

Slightly weaker people might not even last ten minutes before being hounded to death.

Lin Yun handled the defense while Enderfa and the puppet made their preparations.