Chapter 1268 - Viper Bandits’ Camp (1/2)
Viper Bandits’ Camp
Lin Yun first outlined the crisis of the Bojinsen Family before pointing out how they would all perish. This threw Patriarch Bojinsen’s mind into chaos. He was unable to reason properly. That and the fact that the poison had been cleansed made his mood swing up and down. He then looked at Lin Yun with a complicated expression.
The hidden poison that could kill him was easily cleansed away with a few potions from the Gilded Rose.
Patriarch Bojinsen remained silent for a few minutes before suddenly raising his head.
“Sir Mafa Merlin, my son is in the hands of the Viper Bandits, I can’t go against their command.”
Lin Yun nodded.
“Give me the coordinates, I’ll bring your son back.”
Patriarch Bojinsen promptly nodded when he heard Lin Yun’s words.
‘It was rumored that the true owner of the Gilded Rose was a man called Mafa Merlin. I hadn’t expected that rumor to be true. Furthermore, his alchemy experience is terrifying. That Health Potion is at least seven to eight times stronger than any healing potion I’ve ever seen. With his strength and alchemy techniques, he definitely won’t fear the Viper Bandits’ leader.
‘The Rodney Family tried to snatch the Gilded Rose, only for that infamous Necromancer to almost be killed in front of the Gilded Rose. Even if the Gilded Rose isn’t as powerful as the Rodney Family, it’s not that far behind.
‘My son can be rescued, and we can endure this crisis with the help of Mafa Merlin. This is the most important thing right now. The rest can wait…’
“Sir Mafa, those are the coordinates of the camp…”
Patriarch Bojinsen gave a set of coordinates but didn’t know what to say after that. Lin Yun glanced at Patriarch Bojisen and casually opened a Spatial Door. It appeared at a high altitude above the coordinates to make it harder to discover. The fluctuations caused by its appearance wouldn’t spread far since space was even more unstable at a height of five thousand meters above the ground.
Patriarch Bojinsen’s face turned pale as he watched Lin Yun casually opening the Spatial Door and going through it.
Opening a Spatial Door was an instinctive spell for Heaven Rank powerhouses. All mages would gain some comprehension of the Spatial Law after advancing to the Heaven Rank. After all, it was involved in the process of establishing a Demiplane.
But most Heaven Ranks, or at least those under the 5th Rank, would have huge restrictions when using a Spatial Door.
They would at most be able to open a Spatial Door once or twice a day, would need a coordinate imprint prepared in advance, and would need the place to be devoid of any strong interference. In short, they were extremely restricted. It wasn’t very practical and could only be used in some fixed settings.
Those able to rely on coordinates to calculate a definite position and open a Spatial Door near it were at least at the 5th Rank of the Heaven realm and had a good comprehension of the Spatial Law.
Mages who specialized in the Spatial Law were also able to do it.
Patriarch Bojinsen was a bit pale. He hadn’t been able to feel Lin Yun’s strength earlier, but seeing that casually opened Spatial Door, he felt that his selfish scheming wasn’t very sensible.
On the other side, Lin Yun appeared five kilometers above the ground. The temperature was very low, and the mana was chaotic and continuously bursting. But fortunately, the mana density was a lot lower than on the ground, making it unlikely for elemental storms to form.
Lin Yun’s comprehension of the Spatial Law grew at a rapid pace as he spent more time comprehending it in his Demiplane. He had also deciphered 300 more truth runes. This wasn’t a small amount of progress… It meant that he was just one step closer to becoming a Saint Alchemist.
The number of law runes condensed from the Spatial Law rose up to over two hundred. This meant that Lin Yun could already use Spatial Spells in battle, and the power of those spells could already influence a battlefield.
When it came to opening a Spatial Door based on coordinates, Lin Yun could already compare to a spatial mage specialized in the Spatial Law.
Floating in the sky, Lin Yun cast Eagle Sight and looked down. A dense fog was covering the ground, and not a single sound could be heard from within, as if there was not a single living being inside.
Three kilometers away, he noticed some traces of buildings.
There was a barrier blocking mana fluctuations and silhouettes. Lin Yun slowly descended and entered the dense fog, which contained traces of green light containing violent poison. Aside from the dark green trees with high resistance to toxins, only some magic plants remained as part of the vegetation: Vampiric Vines, Flesh-Eating Rafflesia, as well as Bone-Marrow Flowers growing out of piles of bones.
It was very peaceful in the forest. Only the sounds of rustling leaves echoed. Lin Yun frowned… From what he could sense, anything that could move in this forest was poisonous or venomous, like poisonous insects, snakes, birds, and beasts. Not a single lifeform wasn’t.
The report mentioned that although the location of the Viper Bandits’ camp was known to many people and wasn’t hidden, the Viper Bandits were still able to remain carefree. The biggest reason behind that was that their camp was completely covered in a poisonous fog that would never dissipate.
The Viper Bandits previously provoked a first-rate family of the Odin Kingdom, making them dispatch an army to eliminate them. A Heaven Rank Wind Storm Mage released a Howling Gales Extraordinary Spell, which tore through the entire forest. It blew more than half of the vegetation and lifeforms away, but it didn’t disperse the poison mist.
It wasn’t that the poison mist wasn’t blown away, but even after the density of poisonous fog decreased, it quickly regained its original density. Aside from Archmages and Heaven Rank powerhouses, every member of the army that entered the poisonous fog at that time quickly got infected by the poisonous fog. Their skin festered, their flesh was torn apart, and they ended up as bones before they could be treated.
Later, they gave up on their revenge, and the Viper Bandits’ abilities were put on display. Moreover, the bandits wouldn’t provoke the forces that could exterminate them and were able to survive in the Odin Kingdom due to their hideout.
After sensing the poisonous fog, Lin Yun felt that something was abnormal because the root of the poisonous fog simply wasn’t in the forest. The poisonous plants and animals didn’t infect the forest. In fact, they had been infected by an already existing poisonous fog, which developed to this stage.
But as time passed, the scope of the poisonous fauna and flora had progressed to a developed stage, making the poisonous fog even more complex and toxic. Anyone under the Sword Saint realm would be poisoned to death upon entering the Viper Bandits’ camp.
The strength of an Archmage would start dropping after thirty minutes. After two hours, it would already be decreased by 20%, and a Low Rank Archmage might even be in danger of losing a rank after twelve hours.
But that kind of poisonous fog was only useful against the living, and it could hardly influence a Heaven Rank powerhouse.
Lin Yun casually opened a Planar Path, and Xiuban, Reina, and Pabiete came out of the Demiplane. They were followed by an army of puppets, which slowly formed in the forest within ten minutes, with the weakest puppet being at Level 35.
Due to the activity, the forest’s flora and fauna frantically converged towards them, waiting for the massacre to unfold.
After the appearance of the puppet army, the mage army also came out of the Demiplane. The temperature rose with the appearance of the fifty mages.
The Law of Fire became akin to a sapling growing branches that mimicked the appearance of volcanoes in the southern part of the Demiplane, and the fifty mages had kept training in that area.
With Lin Yun’s meticulous guidance, the Law of Fire was nearly always surrounding the fifty mages. Even if they were incapable of truly comprehending the Law of Fire, it was enough for them to lay a very good foundation and rapidly increase their rank.
Kurumu was already a 7th Rank Archmage, and the lowest-ranked one was already a 5th Rank Archmage. At those ranks, they could already start getting in touch with the Law, but all they could get in contact with was the manifestation of the Law.
Archmages had to slowly interact with the Laws from the 5th Rank up until the peak of the Archmage realm. Once they established their Law Foundation, they could only wait to complete their Extraordinary Transformation.
The truth runes and the Law of Fire were open to the mage army, and the speed at which they improved was inevitably faster. After all, ranking up was more troublesome starting from the 5th Rank, as it was no longer a matter of mana accumulation, but rather a matter of law comprehension.