Chapter 1277 - Duel (1/2)
The molten steel became uncontrollable, Wilder had to wait until it fell to the ground and cooled down to a certain degree before he could manipulate it again.
Wilder hadn’t used a steel spell after wrapping the molten steel around Lin Yun’s Fusion Shield, he had used a steel hardening technique to temporarily cover Lin Yun’s Fusion Shield before controlling the rest of the steel to attach to it. Once the temperature had decreased, he would have kept condensing the steel.
But due to the Fire Protection, the steel just kept melting. It was the first time someone saw through the spell developed by the Rodney Family.
Wilder had an unsightly expression as he glared at Lin Yun in silence. He kept throwing steel spikes and steel balls towards Lin Yun, covering the entire sky. As for Lin Yun, he just floated there with his Fire Protection active and raised his Draconic Staff. The shadow of a huge purple dragon embracing a wheel appeared behind him.
Glaring light shone at the tip of his magic staff and thunder boomed as lightning surged. Clouds and mist suddenly covered everything within several kilometers before condensing into a thick black cloud.
A deep rumble echoed…
He used the Mist Spell to draw in a large amount of moisture before forcibly compressing it into a black cloud. During that time, the strand of lightning at the tip of Lin Yun’s staff had turned into a glaring mass of lightning.
Lin Yun spat out a law rune and hurriedly chanted an incantation. Booming thunder kept echoing as thick snake-like pillars of lightning fell down.
Wilder grew increasingly more worried as he watched Lin Yun’s actions. His steel magic was really powerful, the Fire Protection Lin Yun had released was a 9th Tier Fire Spell. It could be said to be among the best defensive fire spells in terms of temperature and defense, but it was still pierced by Wilder’s steel.
A large amount of law runes kept appearing when Lin Yun’s Fusion Shield was pierced by the steel spikes, it looked like it would be torn shreds at any moment.
But there was no use, he couldn’t get rid of Lin Yun’s defenses even when he used his strongest abilities. And while Lin Yun’s actions didn’t seem to be too impressive, Wilder still felt uneasy.
He watched Lin Yun’s cast with a somber expression, took out a silver piece of metal covered in strange patterns and casually threw it over. The piece of metal transformed into a sharp spike, and disappeared as Wilder cast a spell.
At the same time, countless lightning bolts surged out of that several-kilometer-wide black cloud, falling on the ground like rain. The steel balls and spikes flying in the air were naturally attracting the lightning bolts. As for Wilder’s transformed body, it was no different from a lightning rod as countless lightning bolts fell onto him.
The forest below them had already been set ablaze.
Four Lightning Shields started revolving around Lin Yun’s body.
The metal spike that Wilder just threw slowly started deviating from its course, ultimately missing Lin Yun by eight meters.
That steel spike flew into an arc and aimed at Lin Yun once again, only to miss again.
Wilder’s expression took a turn for the worse after missing for the third time. It wasn’t due to the lightning bolts falling on his body, as they barely injured him. It was because he suddenly discovered that he lost control of the silver-marked metal passed down from his ancestor. He could no longer call it back. He had sent it flying towards Lin Yun three times, but he completely lost control of it after that and it started revolving around Lin Yun.
Wilder once again manipulated the large amount of steel into steel spikes and threw them at Lin Yun, but the same thing happened. They would deviate from their trajectory whenever they got within a hundred meters of Lin Yun and would no longer pose any threat to Lin Yun once they were fifty meters away.
Wilder was completely stunned, he couldn’t understand what was happening.
He knew that his family’s steel magic could be restrained by the terrifying temperature of Extraordinary Spells, but this was something new to him.
‘Why do I lose control over steel when it gets close to Mafa Merlin? It simply can’t get close to him, damnit! What the hell is going on!?’
Lin Yun sneered. The four elemental laws in his Demiplane had formed four extremes recently, and after the four core laws evolved, branching laws started evolving.
Heat and lightning magic were laws that had evolved during this time. Lin Yun’s comprehension of the four elemental laws was the deepest, but he still comprehended the other laws of the Demiplane.
‘That idiot Wilder definitely doesn’t know that the target of the Lightning Rain wasn’t him, but the steel. After hosting the power of thunder, it would carry a force that might not necessarily be properly understood in Noscent, magnetism.’
Lightning and magnetism could very easily be swapped, let alone in a place filled with steel, magic metal, and silver-marked metal. Temporarily magnetizing them was really too easy. The Lightning Shields formed a repulsive force that easily altered the metals’ trajectory, rendering all of Wilder’s attacks unable to hit his shields.
Clearly, Wilder couldn’t understand why this was happening.
A strange smile appeared on Lin Yun’s mouth when he saw Wilder’s lost expression.
“Wilder, have you ever heard of railguns?”
Wilder had a confused expression as he looked at Lin Yun, he then gritted his teeth and kept casting steel spells. However, the closest they got to Lin Yun was five meters, not a single one reached Lin Yun’s shield.
Countless law runes spurted out of the wheel shadow behind Lin Yun, most of them being lightning runes flickering with electricity.
These runes rapidly gathered in front of Lin Yun, before rapidly condensing into a ten-meter-long cannon flickering with electricity.
At the same time, Lin Yun casually collected the silver-marked metal revolving around him. This was a very precious type of metal which could only be found in small quantities in large natural metal veins. Extracting a small amount was very troublesome, over a hundred tons of metal might have to be extracted to find a few grams of silver-marked metal.
After condensing that cannon, Lin Yun took out a twenty-centimeter-big artillery shell made of magnetic materials, and some hard metals. Those magnetic materials were considered inferior among alchemists and no one would bother gathering them, it actually took him some time finding them.
Lin Yun had already crafted it when he sensed that the Demiplane’s four elemental laws evolved and was only waiting to test it.
Although he didn’t feel any danger, Wilder still protected himself with a Steel Shield and a Fusion Shield when the cannon aimed at him. He was also ready to dodge if he sensed anything wrong.
He didn’t feel any danger when the artillery shell entered the muzzle of the cannon, but he suddenly fell mortal danger when it started spinning at an increasingly high speed, a deep sense of dread suddenly erupted.
He condensed steel into multiple shields in front of him, but his third shield exploded as he condensed it. He didn’t even have time to react before his Fusion Shield was torn apart.
Wilder barely had time to dodge… Only to feel something tear through his right shoulder.
His right shoulder, right arm, and even the right side of his chest were torn to shreds.
The explosive force even sent his body flying. As for the artillery shell, it flew in the distance, no longer visible.