Chapter 1175 - Another Round of Negotiations (1/2)

This was the difference between mass-produced goods and laboratory goods. The time needed for something produced in a laboratory to be mass-produced at reasonable cost might even be as long as an entire era.

The best way to improve the puppet base was to go to the Puppet Plane. There, they could find all solutions to things regarding puppets.

Some components that couldn’t be manufactured at a low cost in the puppet base might be found on the bodies of some unknown puppets.

At this time, Lin Yun remembered the Planar Infiltrator that he had imprisoned.

Byron was going crazy. Lin Yun had imprisoned him with the power of the Demiplane. Let alone the Demiplen’s shadows, he couldn’t even merge with the space’s shadows. It was the same as Lin Yun drawing a circle he couldn’t leave and only being able to watch.

The ability he was so proud of was completely useless. Getting out by force? What a joke.

The Natural Demiplane had the protection of the Eternal Dark Gold. It was comparable to the amount of Eternal Dark Gold existing in the entire Noscent. As time passed, the Eternal Dark God would merge with the Demiplane and it would be like the Demiplane itself had the properties of the Eternal Dark Gold.

Moreover, the radiance of the God Fire Ember serving as a sun enveloped the entire Demiplane and would cripple the abilities of Planar Infiltrators.

Even a Heaven Rank powerhouse would be crushed to death in the Demiplane.

Lin Yun went to the place he had locked Byron at and undid the Demiplane pressure imprisoning him. He saw Byron’s vacant gaze and his hair and beard reaching up to his stomach. It looked like he had lived as a savage for a few dozen years. His body was even emitting a stinky stench.

Looking at Lin Yun, Byron froze, even forgetting that the cage imprisoning him had already dissipated.

“Nervous breakdown?”

Lin Yun was a bit stunned, ‘How could this guy be an Archmage… And a Planar Infiltrator… How could being imprisoned give him a nervous breakdown?

‘Those Planar Infiltrators should be more patient than assassins. In order to infiltrate a plane, those guys could even turn into shadows and merge with the shadow of a Planar Path. They wouldn’t eat nor drink, only maintaining this state which slowly used their mana over the course of several years.

‘It was all in order to find an opportunity. The record of the longest concealment had been 28 years!

‘The Planar Infiltrator that left this record didn’t draw the ire of the plane’s ruler. The latter even generously gave the Planar Infiltrator the precious Magic Tool he needed as a present.

‘Turning oneself into a shadow and hiding for 28 years… How could a group of Heaven Rank powerhouses get angry? Even a powerhouse transcending the Heaven Rank felt that that guy’s perseverance had been quite good and gifted him a decently-sized plane.

‘But this guy got a nervous breakdown just from being imprisoned for a bit?’

Lin Yun watched Byron for a bit, but there wasn’t much vigor in Byron’s eyes. His gaze was vacant, as if his soul had been torn apart and his mind thoroughly collapsed, turning him into an idiot.

Lin Yun sighed. He had managed to find a Planar Infiltrator, and although he could only be considered an apprentice Planar Infiltrator, this wasn’t something easy to find in this era.

As Lin Yun turned around, Byron’s eyes regained their vigor and his entire body turned into shadows, instantly disappearing.

Lin Yun sensed the fluctuation behind him and turned around, only to see Byron’s silhouette having already disappeared. He was already unable to discover Byron’s location by relying on his mana fluctuations, but he could barely figure out his direction by using the Magic Array and the law runes.

Lin Yun grinned and pensively looked in the distance before leaving while saying, “I’ll let you go if you can escape.”

Byron had turned into a shadow and his heart was filled with fear as he kept himself immersed within the shadows. As an insurance, he didn’t even dare to merge into the shadows of other things. Those trees, vegetation, mountains, he gave up on every single shadow and instead kept sneaking through the space’s shadow.

Only after feeling that Lin Yun hadn’t discovered him did Byron smile.

‘This terrifying guy is really too frightening, he was actually able to capture and imprison me. Fortunately, I was smart and came up with this method after thinking for a long time.

‘But who would have thought that this damned guy would take so long before coming to see me. Could it be that he grabbed me to imprison me to death? Fortunately I tricked him and he won’t be able to capture me again.

‘Let’s find the entrance of the Planar Path… Eh, damn, the entrance to the Planar Path is actually in the air. Such a crafty guy… But it doesn’t matter, I already merged with the space’s shadow, the Planar Path being in the air can’t stop me.

‘Hey, crafty and terrifying guy, I’m leaving, let’s never meet again.

‘Eh, should I get a hold of the planar coordinates? Forget it, I shouldn’t provoke that terrifying guy. Who knows if he will chase after me if I get a hold of the coordinates…’

Byron carefully sneaked, he even slowly drifted within the spatial fluctuations, slowly making his way towards the traces of the Planar Path.

After three days, he reached the location Lin Yun had used to come in. There was a portal linked to the Raging Flame Plane.

As for Lin Yun, he no longer concerned himself with Byron. Most of the Natural Demiplane was already under Lin Yun’s control. He only needed one more step to control the Laws here, but this was a very slow process and it would need Lin Yun to comprehend them before he could control them.

But finding Byron who was moving within the space’s shadow was really too simple. He watched Byron sneaking like a thief for three days as he floated towards the entrance.

Lin Yun laughed inside the puppet base and spoke to Shawn, who had been snacking on mana crystals due to boredom.

“Lord Shawn, it’s been boring lately, hasn’t it? I found something fun for you. But please don’t kill him, I still have a use for him.”

After saying that, he told Shawn the coordinates of that entrance and the idle Shawn immediately regained his vigor. He grinned as he floated to the entrance.

Shawn floated near the entrance, but didn’t find anything strange. He rolled his eyes and pretended to nap

A dozen meters away, Byron was slowly approaching the entrance and only relaxed when he noticed that the strange Ghost Wolf didn’t seem to react.

He still didn’t react when Byron walked in front of the entrance and was about to take the final step to leave this place.

He grinned and almost burst out from excitement.

‘Damn guy, I can finally leave this cursed place. Damn, this place is crazy. There is a guy that can discover and capture me, a huge base which seems to be mass-producing puppets with the lowest level puppet being at Level 30, there are also mages from the Quicksand Tower and Shadow Tower, yet they are all treated as the lowest laborers, and they don’t even dare to resist.

‘I want to leave this place, I want to return to Noscent. No, I need to find a plane where that scary guy will never find me…’

Byron joyfully merged with the shadows and followed the entrance’s shadow.

But just as he was about to step into the Planar Path’s shadow, an undetectable dark golden light wall suddenly revealed itself, and Byron bumped into it.

“Ouch, damn, what is that…”

Byron’s silhouette was suddenly revealed, his head clearly bloody and his magic power unstable.

Byron suddenly quivered as he glanced at the Ghost Wolf who had opened his eyes and was glancing right back at him. He then looked around and figured out that his shadow state had been canceled.

Before he could turn back into a shadow, he saw a flash of light coming from the eyes of the Ghost Wolf and he instantly let out a blood-curdling screech. He looked as pale as a corpse as he fell towards the ground.

Shawn laughed heartily as he felt that he had found a funny toy. He chased Byron to the ground and entered his body. Then, Lord Shawn came out, his claws scratching his chin as he seemed to hesitate.

‘Merlin said not to kill this guy, that he had some use for him. What should I do if I go in and carelessly tear that guy’s soul apart? Forget it, I’ll just be very careful, yes, I’ll just take a look, that’s all.’