Chapter 1238 - Elemental Seal (1/2)
Layford lowered his head and no longer looked at Lin Yun’s back. Instead, he was pondering how to steal Lin Yun’s achievements. Suddenly, Layford’s eyes lit up.
‘Right, Mafa Merlin will definitely make a copy of the mysteries for the Starry Sky College after leaving.
‘It was said in advance that this was the price to come and study truth runes. Only by handing over the copy of the mysteries could we get the corresponding benefits from the Starry Sky College.
‘Everyone has to do this and Mafa Merlin is no exception. The Starry Sky College must have already estimated how many truth runes he has studied, he has to copy all of them.
‘After all, the more truth runes we have, the more benefits we would obtain. Once he copies these mysteries… Hehehe…’
Layford’s head was lowered, but his mood was a lot better.
After a few minutes, the spatial transfer was ready and everyone used the alchemy device.
After leaving this place, everyone returned to their previously assigned laboratories and started copying the mysteries they had deciphered. Everyone had to do so, including Lin Yun.
As for Zeith, he hurriedly took a teleportation array in a Mage Tower after guiding the Artisans out.
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In another mage tower, Zeith was sitting at a round table with a mage whose eyes were filled with wisdom. That mage looked like a middle-aged man in his thirties. There were three crystal balls on the round table and the scenes recorded within those crystal balls were all related to Lin Yun.
“Dean Dalaran, these are records of Mafa Merlin’s research of truth runes. According to our speculations, Mafa Merlin might have researched over 1,600 truth runes…”
Zeith respectfully reported Lin Yun’s matter, but he could hardly hide the shock in his voice.
Dean Dalaran attentively watched the scenes flashing within the crystal balls. Three minutes later, he appeared to be terrified.
“No, it’s definitely not just 1,600, he must have researched about 1,800! This is a genius, he is truly gifted. Such a terrifying guy, he might have already reached the peak of the Artisan realm.”
The dean seemed so sure of the number that his tone left no room to be questioned, but he couldn’t conceal the fact that he couldn’t keep his calm.
Zeith was shocked, he was really terrified this time.
1,800 truth runes meant that many of these truth runes’ mysteries hadn’t been figured out by the Starry Sky College. If the copy of the secrets contained within so many truth runes was handed to the Starry Sky College, they would have to trade at least three fertile planes.
The Starry Sky College didn’t have many fertile planes, taking out three at once would be like cutting an arm.
But when compared to the mysteries contained within 1,800 truth runes, giving away three planes rich in natural resources wasn’t unacceptable, the truth runes were a lot more valuable. As long as their alchemy progressed, the Starry Sky College might suffer less pressure when conquering a plane, and they would have a higher chance of finding a plane with a lot of natural resources..
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Lin Yun didn’t know that he had already startled one of the three deans, he was busy copying the mysteries of the 1,800 truth runes he had researched.
Naturally, characters couldn’t perfectly express the mysteries contained with the truth runes. But who cared about it, these mysteries were already enough to support an alchemy force. The Starry Sky College would mind even less.
In that forest, every Artisan had their own building provided with a well-developed laboratory. And this place was even more calm, no one would bother him. Every Artisan was holed up, writing down their own alchemy experiments.
Lin Yun’s copying speed was very fast, he didn’t use a quill to copy, but directly took out some crystal plates and used the power of law runes to inscribe these crystal plates. That would undoubtedly save quite a bit of time.
Only law runes formed from sixteen runes had this kind of ability. Even if ordinary Heaven Mages copied onto crystal plates, they would have to do so little by little, they couldn’t directly copy them.
Lin Yun had been doing it for seven days straight and today was the day he would finish copying. The crystal plates already formed a big pile next to him.
Just as Lin Yun was copying the mysteries of the last hundred truth runes, his laboratory’s array suddenly started shaking and the warning crystal contained within started flickering. The mana fluctuations even pierced through the laboratory’s defenses.
Seeing this crystal flicker, Lin Yun frowned. This wasn’t a guest, someone was forcibly attacking the defensive array, and the defensive array would be breached within a very short time.
With a wave of his hand, a few dozen Mana Hands flew out and collected the pile of crystal plates, putting them into his Spatial Ring. Then, the wall of the laboratory caved inward as if it was made of clay, before exploding with a loud “bang”. A berserk tide of mana transformed into a pitch-black blaze that rapidly engulfed the entire laboratory.
The equipment within the laboratory twisted into strange shapes before transforming into molten drops of metal.
A layer of transparent barrier surrounded Lin Yun and resisted all spell attacks. But the berserk mana seemed to have found an entry point and frantically poured in.
Lin Yun coldly watched as a gap was created by the explosion. He felt at least five Heaven Rank powerhouses waiting outside. As long as he rushed through that gap, he would have to face the assault of the five Heaven Rank powerhouses waiting outside.
Clearly, sensing that Lin Yun hadn’t rushed out, the Heaven Rank powerhouses also didn’t take the initiative to rush in, they instead increased their mana input. In less than three seconds, the berserk mana and surging flames reached the limits of what that small laboratory could handle.
Cracks opened in the surrounding walls and the whole building exploded open. Flames and fragments merged together as they flew up in the sky, before being blocked by a hundred-meter-tall barrier.
Lin Yun raised his Fusion Shield and expressionlessly walked out from the sea of flames. He raised his head and glanced at the sky, but he was only able to see a hundred meters up and five hundred meters to the sides. It looked like he was trapped with the five Heaven Rank powerhouses in a red cuboid.
And at the four corners of the cuboid, there were at least forty 9th Rank Archmages. They were also sealed in the corners, maintaining this illusory barrier. Unless they took the initiative to remove that barrier, it would be impossible to tear it apart, whether it was from the inside or the outside
Not far from there, a group of Griffin Riders flew past, but they didn’t seem to notice anything abnormal. This was the effect of an illusion barrier, nothing could be seen from the outside, the location was no different from before, and the mana fluctuations couldn’t spread out.
“Sacrificing three True Spirit Magic Tools to create an illusion barrier is really costly… But have you taken into account the fall of five Heaven Rank powerhouses?”
Lin Yun indifferently looked at the five black-robed powerhouses. They were hiding their appearances. One of them was a 2nd Rank Heaven powerhouse, while the other four were 1st Rank Heaven powerhouses. When added to the forty 9th Rank Archmages, it really was a very costly endeavor.
The four 1st Rank Heaven powerhouses were floating at the four corners, each of them holding onto a chain of a different color. The four chains emitted the auras of earth, fire, wind, and water. As for the four 1st Rank Heaven Mages, each one of them used a different element. That 2nd Rank Heaven Mage was shrouded in black smoke and gave a strong feeling of darkness mana.
Before Lin Yun appeared, the four 1st Rank Heaven Mages already swung their chains. The four chains frantically extended, before curling in Lin Yun’s surroundings, seemingly forming an array’s pattern. Within a second, a complex three-dimensional array was formed.
As for the mana emitted by Lin Yun and the violent flames around it seemed to have no effect on the four chains. The four chains formed a hundred-meter-wide boundary and a dozen-meter-tall huge three-dimensional array. The radiance of the four elements frequently flickered as those auras looked like Demiplanes.