End of the Magic Era

Some mages had Extraordinary Power as heavy as a mountain because their law foundation was established upon the Law of Earth while some had swift and lively Extraordinary Power due to their foundation Law being the Law of Wind.

Everyone’s Extraordinary Power was directly related to the Law they comprehended. Lin Yun’s foundation was based upon the four elemental Laws, reaching a perfect equilibrium. No aura would leak when he didn’t use Extraordinary Power.

And now, he has already reached the threshold of the Space Law, it wouldn’t take long before he comprehended it.

By having comprehended four Laws, Lin Yun’s Extraordinary Power was already more powerful than any new Heaven Mage.

Floating above the Natural Demiplane, Lin Yun calmly sensed the power within his body and also felt that he could establish a Demiplane.

After advancing to the Heaven Rank, new Heaven Mages could feel the limitations of a body, they could now hold stronger power, but it was limited. They could control Extraordinary Power, but had no way to store it.

And Demiplanes were holding the concrete manifestation of comprehension, it was also a display of the power they held.

The main reason why mage was considered the strongest class after the Heaven Rank was mostly because of their Demiplanes.

Similarly, the first thing a mage could use after advancing to the Heaven Rank was spatial power, and it was mostly due to the Demiplanes. This was also the reason why opening a Spatial Door was more or less an instinct to Heaven Mages.

Lin Yun frowned as he looked at the Natural Demiplane under his feet.

Although his connection to the Natural Demiplane was extremely close, it wasn’t to the point where it could match with the Demiplane he could create.

He couldn’t use the Natural Demiplane to hold the comprehension of his Laws.

He had to open a Natural Demiplane, but Lin Yun felt that the Demiplane he could establish could only be one-kilometer-big, the gap was too big…

He was also troubled because a new Demiplane wouldn’t be very effective. No matter from what angle, it couldn’t compare to the Natural Demiplane.

After contemplating for a moment, Lin Yun landed on the ground.

Xiuban, Reina, and the others were all in the Natural Demiplane.

Enderfa was bragging about Lin Yun’s breakthrough to the Heaven Rank, about how frighteningly powerful Lin Yun was and how he sealed eight Heaven Puppets.

Xiuban was foolishly looking at the three faces simultaneously talking, his expression was dull as he couldn’t keep up with Enderfa. As for Reina, shock could be seen in her eyes. Xiuban might not know, but Reina knew of the legend of the Gate of Rebirth, a process of perfect Extraordinary Transformation.

In the distance the group of old workers sensed the changes of the Demiplane as well as the Extraordinary Power emitted by Lin Yun. They gave up all hope of being lucky and worked bitterly…

“Sir Merlin, you advanced to the Heaven Rank? When can I break through? Didn’t you have a potion before? Does Sir Merlin still have some?”

Xiuban shamelessly moved to Lin Yun’s side and calmly asked for the Golden Temptation Potion.

Xiuban was already at the Peak of the 9th Rank with an extremely bizarre bloodline, making God Blood unable to suppress his casting ability. More and more patterns were appearing on the surface of his body.

This kind of terrifying constitution was already more terrifying than some race that could reach the Heaven Rank when they reached adulthood. He would definitely reach the Heaven Rank in his sleep one day.

As for Reina, it wasn’t that she couldn’t break through, but that she was suppressing her breakthrough. Her Draconic Crystal was already at the final juncture of its evolution and her Life Essence would undergo a terrifying transformation. When the time came, she would reach the Heaven Rank involuntarily.

Ignoring the clueless Xiuban, Lin Yun started discussing the matters establishing a Demiplane with Enderfa.

“Enderfa, I already feel that I’m at my limit, my power can’t grow further. As for my law comprehension, I have nothing to store it. I can’t use the Natural Demiplane, I have to establish a Demiplane…

“But establishing a Demiplane and not managing it is meaningless, it might even conflict with the Natural Demiplane…”

Lin Yun had been thinking about whether he should wait until he could fully control the Natural Demiplane to increase his strength, or if he should establish the Demiplane.

Enderfa’s three faces had a strange expression, they seemed stunned.

“Merlin… Is your brain alright? Why do you need to choose one? Can’t you just establish your Demiplane in here? Then your Demiplane will directly fuse with the Natural Demiplane…”

Enderfa had yet to finish his sentence when Lin Yun suddenly froze.

‘Right, why do I have to choose one? I can just establish the Demiplane here…’

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[T/N: The author seems to have missed a part of the story, it’s not in the raw text. From what I understand from the next few chaps, he is in the process of setting up (or already set up?) his Demiplane while upgrading the Book of Mantras (like he did in the past) Sorry for the immersion break, but I felt that context was needed.]

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A dark green Wind Blade pierced through space, flying towards Lin Yun. Naturally, even if Lin Yun cracked that Wind Blade with terrifying tearing abilities, that living spell would just dissipate.

Two other spell creatures, one shaped as a Chaotic Space Spell and one as a Lightning Hell Spell, were present. Lin Yun kept spitting out a few law runes and wind power poured into small vortexes. Opposite forces revolved and immediately cracked the Chaotic Space Spell.

As for the Lightning Hell, this pure offensive spell, it was even easier to crack. This was a guided channelled spell, getting rid of the spell lifeform was more than enough.

A few Wind Blades fell toward the Lightning Hell’s body and three Space Rending Blades flew over, instantly cutting it apart. The living spell was cut in half and its incantation was naturally interrupted. The Lightning Hell also transformed into a series of unconscious incantations floating in the air.

Even more spell lifeforms were standing on the other side. The key to controlling this floor was in the center of this darkness.

Lin Yun used Flight to its fullest, cyan wind curling around his body and rapidly carrying him inside. Every 9th Tier spell transformed into living spells that kept releasing 9th Tier Wind spells.

A large number of Wind Spells attacked, just like a large group of Heaven Mages casting. Getting rid of them through normal means was impossible.

Because these living spells were at least ten times stronger than him when working together, maybe even more.

This was a test of his Wind Law comprehension. He had to crack these living wind spells without relying on other methods.

Any non-cracking method would be considered cheating and the price would be the strength of the other side increasing until he couldn’t resist anymore.

These living spells only released a single spell like old-fashioned examiners asking one question. Only death, or a successful answer, could be considered as a pass.

At this point, Lin Yun could no longer rely on his shield to resist and could only slowly analyze and crack the living spells. He also couldn’t use law runes to force his way forward like he had been doing, he could only crack them at top speed, one after another.

Facing these Extraordinary Spells, Lin Yun’s body suddenly flickered in midair, using wind to buff himself. His speed rapidly reached its peak and his Magic Array already revolved to its limits. An endless amount of data could be seen flowing in his eyes while law runes kept pouring from inside the wheel shadow, and fell on those spells before they even hit him.

Using his comprehension of the Wind Law’s wind spells, he broke the other side’s spell structure and triggered a few of the spells’ weak points. With the fluctuating irregular spells, he used the weakest point, their core, and used wind power itself to crack them.

This was something very difficult, it required a deep understanding of wind magic. He needed to instantly see through a spell structure upon gazing at it.

As long as he couldn’t crack through one spell, he would end up torn apart.

Cold sweat slowly started trickling down Lin Yun’s forehead. Countless wind spells’ incantations kept floating in his mind, and the countless incantations were like a flood.

The Extraordinary Spells turned into vast incantations before his eyes and kept transforming into law runes.

His movement speed started slowing and it was completely incomparable to the previous eight floors. This floor was a true test!

It took an average two to three seconds for a living spell’s body to collapse and transform into an incantation drifting through the air, but numerous living spells were waiting behind it.

After half an hour, Lin Yun felt that the consumption of his mind power was too high. Performing calculations for a long period of time would be very taxing on one’s mental capacity and mind power. Moreover, there was still half of the living spells remaining.

If it was someone else, even a wind mage, they would have already died here. Without the Book of Mantras’ incantations, no wind mage could compare to Lin Yun, they might not even reach a tenth of Lin Yun’s knowledge.

Most wind spells weren’t really used in battle, there were too many spells with the same effect, but the spells with the lowest consumption, the easiest to cast, and the one taking the shortest amount of time to cast, were useful in battle.

After another half an hour passed, only three spell puppets remained before him, a Destruction Tornado, a Swift Wind Blade, and a Lightning Impact.

Destruction Tornado was a large scale spell, it was pure destruction. It was the easiest to resist because this kind of spell was a channeled spell.

To crack the spell, he only needed to find an opportunity to interrupt the caster. It usually was harder to interrupt a cast, but it was truly too simple now.

What he really needed to pay attention to was the Swift Wind Blade and the Lightning Impact. These two spells were almost the strongest single-target spells among 9th Rank Extraordinary Spells. Even if the two living spells were only at the 2nd Rank of the Heaven realm, the spells they released were at the pinnacle of the 9th Tier.

Lin Yun was pale and the huge amount of data was still flooding his eyes. He was floating in the air, continuously using shields to resist the Destruction Tornado, his eyes firmly locked on the two living spells.

He remained motionless, like the other two living spells who were waiting for an opportunity to cast their spells.

Lin Yun squinted and instantly understood. These two spells were single-target spells, and although they were powerful and terrifying, they wouldn’t move unless they could hit their enemy. And since they chose to remain motionless, that allowed him to cast spells.

Lin Yun suddenly waved his hand and released a dozen Space Rending Blades. These Space Rending Blades were as thin as sharp lines and flew straight away for the spell puppets’ bodies.

The Space Rending Blades tore through space and ripped apart those Destruction Tornadoes before fleeing towards his opponents. They kept being destroyed on the way, but as the one in front was destroyed, the one behind it perfectly followed, opening the path for the ones in the back.

He could see the dozen Space Rending Blades being destroyed one after another, but in the end, there would be one Space Rending Blade tearing through all those Destruction Tornado to land on those living spells.

As long as them received the attack, the other side wouldn’t be able to use other spells, and interrupting the cast would be inevitable.

As Lin Yun launched his attack, the other living spells started casting.

They didn’t care about the other puppet being interrupted, they instead started casting towards Lin Yun. They didn’t need to care about the casualties, they only needed to stop Lin Yun and make him unable to pass this test. That way, Lin Yun would fail.

A bright clear white lightning fell down from the void and onto Lin Yun’s. The arm-thick lightning bolt didn’t seem very powerful, and the same could be said for the mana fluctuations. However, Lin Yun didn’t dare to let that thing hit him.

Lightning Impact, it was a variant of wind magic and the strongest solo-target Extraordinary Spell. Its speed and piercing power could be said to be the strongest. And most importantly, it couldn’t be cracked like the Wind Blade he had cracked earlier. The opponent’s strength was enough to rip space apart.

The power of the lightning couldn’t break through, Lin Yun only needed to side-step to dodge. That spell could be considered a failure.

But no one ever dodged that spell. When that spell appeared in battle, the only solution was to use a Fusion Shield to block it.

And the strongest part of the Lightning Impact wasn’t its piercing power, but the highly condensed lightning power that ran through the shield, and its formidable destructive power. Not to mention the formidable paralysis effect that would target mana and make mages lose their control over their mana, paralyzing their bodies as a side effect.

This would result in a certain death during an intense battle because they only needed to release a simple spell during the paralysis to sever the mage’s head.

This was the reason why this spell was known as one of the strongest 9th Tier wind spells.

As for the Swift Wind Blade, it was the evolution of the most basic Wind Blade, but it was different from the Space Rending Blade which had its tearing ability developed to the peak. This one had its speed reinforced to the maximum, increasing its movement speed at a rapid pace.

Strictly speaking, the Swift Wind Blade wasn’t very powerful, it only had a terrifying speed. But the strong point was that this spell was faster than a mage’s mana, even faster than the speed of thought.

When Noscent developed to its peak and those crazy mages conquered endless planes, they would have an unknown number of colonies. But aside from those advanced higher planes, there would still be some special planes that would become colonies after going through a lot of difficulties.

The most representative ones were the Pure Elemental Planes. Earth Planes, Fire Planes, Ice Planes, and Wind Planes…

Those kinds of planes with only a certain kind of pure element were very difficult to conquer, and even if they were luckily conquered, guarding them was very difficult.

An expedition sent to conquer a large scale Wind Plane would end up suffering heavy losses. They targeted that plane because it could nurture wind elemental crystal gems. And that kind of precious gem could be said to be an irresistible lure to wind Heaven Mages, because they contained fragments of Wind Law!

But when the conquest hit the final stage and they reached the depths of the plane, a disaster occured.

The Wind Elemental King occupying that plane had the strength of a Peak Heaven powerhouse, and that Wind Elemental King only released one spell, but it caused terrible losses, including to the Heaven Mage escorting the team as well as to the large-scale Archmage army.

At that time, the Wind Elemental King, only released one spell, Swift Wind Blade!

Most wind mages would develop their Wind Blade into one of two kinds, one focusing on tearing ability, able to tear through space as it was strengthened to its peak.

The other one increased speed, to the point where it started to influence time.

And in that large scale Wind Plane, another outcome was witnessed. The 9th Tier Swift Wind Blade reached the limit of the spell in the hands of the Wind Elemental King!

The power could compare to an unimaginable powerful 11th Spell. It simply couldn’t be sensed as a Wind Blade, it didn’t freeze time, but rather, tore a thousand-kilometer-long rift directly into the flow of time, into the river of time.

Then, every mage, everyone was banished into that light river and no one could stop the collapse of their power, no one could prevent the river of time from flowing forward.

Even the Peak Heaven Mage with terrifyingly long lifespans, didn’t last more than thirty minutes in the river of time before dying of old age.

This was the terrifying part about that spell. Although it was only an ordinary Swift Wind Blade, it could already affect time. When the Swift Wind Blade flew, it would cut down time, and with that terrifying speed, they would already be hit when they saw the caster casting the spell!

Lin Yun’s gaze flickered crazily as countless streams of data flooded his eyes. One second before these two spells were cast, Lin Yun had already cast a Wind Elemental Incarnation.