Chapter 1070 - Prey (1/2)
Dylas’ face was blue and his lips kept shivering. The robe he was wearing kept drenching and drying over the course of the night, but Dylas didn’t dare to use any mana for fear of being discovered by probing spells.
Finally, after having waited until daytime, Lin Yun finally left his tent. Dylas took advantage of that opportunity to infiltrate the tent after Lin Yun left. But he only saw some ordinary materials and simple alchemy tools.
How could these crude things be enough to develop such a formidable potion? Most of those prototype potions within the alchemy tools were made out of low level materials with no known use.
Dylas was stunned as he saw that scene.
‘Damn, what’s up with that guy?!
‘This must be a joke! How could the potion that can let 9th Rank Archmages advance to the Heaven Rank and complete their Extraordinary transformation be researched here? With these inferior materials.
‘Damnit, that Mafa Merlin must have guessed that I would come spying and prepared everything to play with me. No wonder those tents had so many probing spells enchanted onto them.
Dylas controlled the Shadow Devil to leave and quietly sneak out of the temporary camp… When his expression suddenly changed. His connection to the Shadow Devil had been abruptly cut.
The Shadow Devil couldn’t even be sensed through the power of the contract, it had been eliminated.
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In the temporary camp.
Xiuban held Carnage and looked at the shadows on the ground doubtfully.
Xiuban had stomped on the ground twice, but after seeing that there was nothing abnormal, he mumbled in doubt, “There was definitely something weird about that shadow, was I wrong? Right, I just woke up, I probably made a mistake…
“The great Lord Xiuban definitely hasn’t woken up yet, I’m still asleep and it was a dream…”
Xiuban stomped on a Level 31 Shadow Devil and shook his head before returning to his tent to keep on sleeping.
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Outside the temporary camp, Dylas was grinding his teeth. He looked like a zombie with his bluish pale complexion. He felt like he was bleeding…
‘My Shadow Devil, f*ck, Mafa Merlin, that b*stard definitely discovered my Shadow Devil and was just pretending not to know to let me freeze under the rain the entire night.
‘He took out a pile of trash prototype potions to lure me in, and he immediately got rid of my Shadow Devil once it left.
‘The Shadow Devil I had been nurturing for ten years died just like that…
‘Mafa Merlin, just you wait…’
Dylas’ eyes were red as he fiercely glared at the camp before stealthily retreating.
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Lin Yun made a trip around the temporary camp before returning to his tent. He looked at the alchemy facilities Dylas labelled as crude, as well as those inferior materials and frowned.
‘It’s still not working, the new extraction method really isn’t easy. The normal extraction method is too basic and many of the materials’ ingredients mix together to form impurities…
‘I could continue my research if I could separately extract every ingredient of every material…’
Lin Yun was researching a new extraction method. That method appeared during the end of the Magic Era.
At that time, the world’s mana had declined, various magic plants and magic materials were slowly disappearing. They kept disappearing, from high grade magic materials to low grade. A piece of ordinary Magic Iron that no one would bother to pick up in the current era could trigger a fight between two powerhouses at the end of the Magic Era.
The usage of materials has been developed to the limits during that era.
One of the complete theories that hadn’t been put into practice was to decompose every kind of material and extract every substance.
It would allow another kind of material to be extracted from the originally useless impurities…
According to this point of view, when the usage of each magic material reached the extreme, he might be able to find things that had yet to be found in this era.
The current method was far from enough to study the Beast God’s Blood or the secrets of the Pseudo Heaven Rank mana crystals. He needed some special new substances and methods.
Now, Lin Yun was using low grade materials to do some experiments. These experiments were purely burning money so it was best to use low grade materials for them.
Unfortunately, Dylas had no knowledge of alchemy and couldn’t see that.
Lin Yun didn’t care about Dylas, he also didn’t care whether he would use some method to spy on him or plot something against him. Lin Yun didn’t have time to care about that.
His research had reached a bottleneck and was advancing very slowly.
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On the other side, Dylas gritted his teeth as he pondered how he should go about digging up the secret, as well as what he would do after grasping it and how he would ruthlessly retaliate after becoming a Heaven Rank powerhouse.
After two days, he once again returned to Lin Yun’s temporary camp, but no matter how much he thought about it, he couldn’t infiltrate it without being discovered.
‘B*stard, Mafa Merlin is definitely the only one who knows that secret, and he is too powerful to sneak in. I need to find a proper target if I want to infiltrate the camp. This kind of large-scale search would definitely be discovered…’
Dylas thought about it for a bit. Having lost his Shadow Devil, he was nearly discovered each time he approached the temporary camp.
Ultimately, Dylas gritted his teeth and decided to go talk head-on again, he would pay some price at worst.
Less than half an hour later, Dylas came out of the camp in fury. His anger was bursting within his chest and his body was shaking as he glanced back at the smiling Morgan.
Dylas clenched his fists, to the point where a cracking sound echoed from his magic staff, as if it was letting out a painful moan.
‘Sh*t, that idiot Morgan, that profiteer, that scum among mages.
‘He is a mage of the Odin Kingdom, yet he actually acts like a shameless dog. Mafa Merlin throws a bone and he runs after it.