Chapter 1388 - Compromise (1/2)
Edward laughed. Meanwhile, Lin Yun shook his head, and looked at Edward pitifully.
“Fool, you’re approaching the end of your life. What you offer in the end will only be your own life. Let me guess. The last ritual requires a light mage, preferably a holy light mage, right? If they are unavailable, then a fire mage is a good replacement, even though the mana cost will increase.
“Eventually, you will turn into a lich that doesn’t require a phylactery. You will be flawless, won’t you?”
Dazzling light suddenly burst out of Edward’s eyes. Before he said anything, the two young Archmages by his side cried, “Idiot, you’re about to die. The great Sir Edward will rule over this place. The power of death has corrupted this plane, which will soon turn into a paradise of death. We’re all Sir Edward’s loyal subordinates…”
“Just curse and yell. The angrier and more hateful you are, the more useful you will be as a material. A lot of stupid lone mages die here every day. Nobody pays any attention to them…”
Hearing the two young Archmages’ curses, Edward suddenly put on a smile.
“Indeed. It doesn’t matter how you learned all that, because you’re about to die…”
Lin Yun shook his head. He had obtained all the information he needed. The floating island above his head actually belonged to this idiot who was determined to transform into a lich. A lot of his time could be saved.
Standing inside the array, Lin Yun suddenly spouted a law rune. Instantly, three green vines emerged from the ground, and tied up the three people.
The two Archmages were unable to put up any resistance. They were instantly tied up, and even their mouths were gagged. As for Edward, he suddenly unleashed the power of death, hoping to decay the vines.
After the power of death corrupted the vines, the green vines suddenly turned red, and the sharp thorns retreated. However, tiny mouths that were full of sharp teeth appeared on their surface, howling and mauling Edward’s skin. Instantly, Edward’s expression changed, and he screamed. The vines then stoppered his mouth.
The two young Archmages were frightened. They turned into dry bodies in only a couple of seconds. Edward’s body was shrinking too. His power of death was being swallowed. The more power of death he lost, the thicker and redder the vines became.
“No need to feel surprised. They’re hybrids of Hell Vines and Death Thorns. Technically speaking, it’s called Bloody Thorn, and can absorb the power of blood and death. It’s perfect to restrain undead mages.
“For the sake of your alchemy lab, I won’t let you die in ignorance. There is no such thing as a flawless lich. A lich that doesn’t have any weakness means that he might get killed any moment. So, your ritual won’t transform you into a lich at all, but will offer your everything to another lich.
“Can you tell me where you learned the ritual?”
Edward’s eyes were full of fear and hate. He didn’t believe what Lin Yun said at all. Lin Yun shook his head.
He would not need to waste so much time if the impact of the exile was gone. He could’ve summoned Lord Shawn, and asked him to search the guy’s soul.
Lin Yun walked out of the gravity array one step after another, as if it didn’t work on him at all.
He walked to the teleportation array. Flames arose behind him, burning the three bodies and the thorns to ashes.
Through the tiny teleportation array, he reappeared on the floating island above his head. Around him were empty buildings that didn’t contain any living creatures. In the center, there was a 10-floor mage tower. The teleportation array was established not far in front of the mage tower.
Apart from the buildings, the only things that could be seen were the tall trees that erupted from the ground. The trees seemed normal, but Lin Yun noticed that they were actually just branches of the gigantic tree down below. The branches had penetrated the floating island and grown out.
Seeing the gigantic tree, Lin Yun’s eyes glittered. There were no fallen leaves at all in this place. The leaves on all tree branches were green. There was not even a yellow one.
He fetched a few leaves with a Mage Hand. Watching the patterns on the surface of the leaves, Lin Yun put on a smile.
He tapped the trunk of a tree that was more than three meters thick.
“Hey, would you please come out? I’d like to make a deal with you. That stupid undead mage has been killed. You must be already aware of that. After all, nothing here is a secret to you.”
He waited for a couple of seconds, but there was no response from the tree. There was still nothing but dead silence.
Lin Yun tapped the trunk of the tree again. “Listen up, big guy. You must know that the Plane of the Undead and the Leviathan Plane have collided. Right now, the space within a radius of several thousand kilometers has overlapped.
“You must’ve realized that the laws of the Leviathan Plane and its core are being corrupted. It won’t be long before this place is completely corrupted by the Plane of the Undead.
“You should know that the undead creatures loathe things with vitality. You will surely be destroyed. Do you know where that stupid mage got the sacrifice ritual?
“There must be a lich king behind all this. It has already noticed this place. Are you going to keep silent forever? You would rather be destroyed by undead creatures in silence than talk to a human mage?”
Lin Yun shook his head. When he saw the tree that lifted the floating island, he knew that it was a branch of a Ladder Ancient Tree. Only the floating islands lifted by such trees would attract the other floating islands.
However, not all Ladder Ancient Trees were conscious. At least in the future records, most Ladder Ancient Trees were unconscious.
When the Leviathan Plane was conquered, it was almost shattered in the battles against Leviathan. There was an enormous tree in the center of the Leviathan Plane that supported the continent.
The continent had already been shattered into countless floating islands. Most of them had collapsed, while the Ladder Ancient Tree was broken into countless smaller trees. The consciousness of the level-49 Ladder Ancient Tree fell into pieces too, and melted into the smaller Ladder Ancient Trees.
Leviathan was permanently gone, and the Ladder Ancient Tree was broken. Leviathan might have been ferocious, but it didn’t do anything to the Ladder Ancient Tree. Human mages, on the other hand, destroyed it. It was natural that those ancient lives didn’t like human mages…
When Lin Yun was about to turn around and leave, the surface of the gigantic tree moved, and an ancient face appeared. Then, it stared at Lin Yun without moving, as if it were just an engraving on the trunk.
After staring at the wooden face for a couple of minutes, Lin Yun suddenly put on a bitter smile. He just remembered something important…
“Hey, buddy, listen to me. I know that thousands of years might just be one day for you, but we don’t have so much time right now. If we spend hundreds of years talking, this plane will be doomed.
“So, would you please hurry up?
“Five years. In five years at most, in human time, nobody will be able to stop the Plane of the Undead from swallowing the Leviathan Plane!”
Lin Yun’s words seemed to have worked. The wooden face slowly turned, and an ancient and slow voice came out of the face.
“Human, what do you want?”
Lin Yun felt a headache. It was truly troublesome to communicate with such individuals. That was almost the fastest speed of talking for them. It was said that they could spend years greeting each other.
“Listen, it’s not what I want that matters. I’m here to help this plane and you. I’m going to cut apart the connection between the Leviathan Plane and the Plane of the Undead so that the Leviathan Plane won’t be swallowed.