End of the Magic Era

Stunned, Lin Yun watched the vampire leave with the prairie elf’s living body, and then asked Emir, “Emir, do you have any soul fire?”

Damn it, those undead creatures are trading with soul fires. How much is 80,000 soul fires? They seem all familiar with the concept. Just now, the vampire seemed to have offered only one ball of fire.

Is the soul fire the currency in this place?

Is there a currency system in the Plane of the Undead?

Emir turned around, and looked at Lin Yun curiously. Then, he opened his mouth, and spouted soul fire.

“Of course I do. How can you exchange for anything without soul fire?

“For the love of Pluto, Buddy, did you eat all your soul fires again?”

Dazed, Lin Yun could only nod…

Emir swallowed his soul fire, and grimaced angrily.

“Buddy, like I’ve told you a million times, we’re here for the auction. Do you even know what auction means? Never mind. You’re so dumb that you won’t understand no matter how many times I explain to you.

“What’s good about soul fire? It’s not delicious at all, and it takes up space in the stomach, making it impossible for me to eat anything else. Just look how slim I am…”

Emir approached Lin Yun, and mumbled constantly in a low voice, giving Lin Yun quite a headache.

It certainly wasn’t enjoyable to be considered stupid by an idiot.

The auction continued. The second item to be auctioned was a black rib that allegedly belonged to a skeleton expert.

Then, a bunch of skeleton creatures began to bid for the item.

“120,000 soul fires.”

“150,000 soul fires.”

“180,000 soul fires.”

“A*shole, you dare to compete with me? After I take this rib, I’ll twist your skull and eat your soul fire…”

“I’ll make a weapon out of your bones…”

Two level-40 skeletons began to fight as they argued. However, they had been suppressed so badly that they looked like two low-level skeletons that were brawling.

A few seconds later, a monster more than five meters tall appeared from the shadow. It had dark skin, three hideous dog heads, and a screaming skull on the tip of its tail.

It was a hellhound. After it came out, two of its heads bit the two skeletons, and the one in the middle glanced at the undead creatures and dark creatures around. Then, it retreated to the corner.

The two skeletons cried in fright, but their bodies had been caught by the hellhound, and they could not escape at all. The hellhound extended its tongues that were full of saliva, and licked them from head to top. Then, it bit apart one of the skeletons.

The noises of bones being cracked spread out clearly. A lot of skeletons’ soul fires were shivering because of fear.

The hellhounds were definitely one of the banes of skeletons. They loved skeletons for both their soul fires and their bones.

Two of the hellhound’s heads shared one of the skeletons. It didn’t seem to want to finish the other skeleton just yet. It laid its claws on the skeleton’s upper body, and bit off its lower half body. Then, it slowly chewed the skeleton, and even licked the remaining half of the skeleton’s body, as if it intended to save the food for later.

The hellhound moved back to the shadow, and none of the undead creatures dared to cause trouble again. Lin Yun finally realized why they had been so quiet after they came here.

The undead dragon didn’t seem to care at all when the two skeletons were swallowed. Needless to say, even the undead dragon was vulnerable in this place.

There were at least 200 extraordinary creatures in this place, but none of them dared to say anything.

The auction continued. Many bizarre items were taken out and auctioned. None of them were aborted. The dark creatures or undead creatures bid for each and every one of them.

A vampire’s heart was bought by another vampire, a skeleton’s body parts were bought by another skeleton, and the body of an alien creature was bought by a lich…

There were also a lot of weird items that Lin Yun didn’t know. They were bought by undead creatures or dark creatures with unknown items in exchange…

“A crystal plate that carries the power of flying monkeys.”

The skeleton who was hosting the auction took out something new. It was an ivory crystal plate that seemed to be a part of a complete plate. There were obvious traces of breaking on one side.

The crystal plate was enshrouded in a blackened skin. After the skeleton opened the skin, a glimmer slowly spread out, but the glimmer was suppressed on the crystal plate’s surface, and couldn’t get out.

Even so, a lot of undead creatures and dark creatures stood up instinctively. All of them hated the pure power of light.

Flying monkeys were undoubtedly a reference to angels, whom those guys naturally loathed because angels were entirely made of the power of holy light, from their body to their blood.

Only the power of light made all the undead creatures and dark creatures hate it instinctively.

Also, the power from the plate seemed even purer than holy light. It was the purest power of light without any variation.

Lin Yun put on a weird expression. It was strange enough to see an auction in the Plane of the Undead, and it was even stranger to see an item of light being auctioned here…

Examining the power from the broken crystal plate, Lin Yun had a strange feeling. There was something extremely strange about this crystal plate.

No matter how he examined it, he couldn’t feel anything except light from the crystal light. There was no heat, purging power, or anything else on the crystal plate.

It seemed to contain nothing but light, which was quite strange. Light and darkness were vastly different. There could be the purest darkness, but there was never the purest light, because light had many more variations than darkness.

Lin Yun frowned and pondered. However, many undead creatures had begun to bid for the item…

“Three soul crystals.” The level-47 vampire made a bid first.

The undead dragon not far away stared at the broken crystal, and spoke in a low voice. “Safelon’s left middle finger and Naorisa Glacier.”

The vampire gazed at the undead dragon with a cold smile.

“You dare to exchange Naorisa and the middle finger of the frost dragons’ ancestor for the flying monkeys’ item? Are you not afraid that all frost dragons will hunt you down?”

The undead dragon slowly turned its head, and the soul fire in its eye sockets burnt more intensely than before. It stared at the vampire for a few seconds before it slowly said, “Fred, if you want to keep your smelly heart, then shut the f*ck up.”

The vampire sneered, and made another bid, baring his tusks.

“Three soul crystals, plus my own soul.”

Immediately, the undead dragon fell silent. It mumbled and sat in silence. However, the soul fire burning inside its eye sockets seemed to be erupting. Everybody could feel its fury.

The soul of a level-47 dark creature was definitely more valuable than the undead dragon’s territory and finger bone.

The peasant skeleton who was hosting the auction laid his hand on his ragged hat, with soul fire slowly shivering in his deep eye sockets.

“Fred, you’d better get the hell out of this place before the city guards stab Holy Blood Awls into your chest.”

Fred’s expression slightly changed. One of the ghosts in the distance screamed, and mocked, “Fred, you idiot. You think nobody knows that you’re one of the vampires’ ancestors? Your soul? Do you even have a soul? Filthy idiot.”

Fred smiled and stood up slowly. Then, he left with a smile.

Lin Yun narrowed his eyes, and watched Fred go. He suddenly understood many things. Fred was a name that had been remembered in history.

He was one of the vampires’ ancestors and a terrifying man. There were his descendants in both the Plane of the Undead and Noscent.

The soul of a level-47 dark creature was indeed very precious in the Plane of the Undead. However, as one of the vampires’ ancestors, he didn’t have a soul. He offered something he didn’t have, but he wasn’t killed, which suggested that vampires were quite influential in the Plane of the Undead.

To kill a vampire ancestor wouldn’t be as simple as to kill the skeletons that had only advanced into the Heaven Rank because of luck. Although those skeletons had a lot of potential after reaching the Heaven Rank, there were too many of them in the Plane of the Undead, and nobody would care even if some of them got killed.

Fred left the auction, but Lin Yun felt that something was off. When Fred left, he looked at him for the fourth time. Obviously, that guy had noticed something.

However, Lin Yun had no time to care about that at this moment. He finally realized what the power in the broken crystal plate was.

It was the power of the purest law of light. It contained the purest light! That was the most fundamental manifestation of the power of light.

Lin Yun had no time to consider why it appeared in the Plane of the Undead. He had to claim it because he felt that it was very similar to an item in legends.

He didn’t have any soul fire, which was very valuable in the Plane of the Undead. After thinking for a long time, he finally thought of something else that was also precious. “The coordinates of an unknown plane.”

A plane!

A plane that was attached to the Plane of the Undead but hadn’t been swallowed yet!

It was definitely more valuable than all of the previous items that had been offered. It was also the only thing that Lin Yun could take out at this moment.

The coordinates of the planes that he had read about in books were the only things he could offer now. There were very few planes that were suitable for undead creatures, and most of them had already been occupied by the experts of the Plane of the Undead. Very few new planes were discovered.

The bone plane was one of the planes that would be discovered later, and it was the least valuable plane because it was just a graveyard of dragons. A tremendous number of dragons were buried in that place, and it eventually turned into a special plane that was attached to the Plane of the Undead. Most bones in the plane had turned into bone dragons, but some remained.

When the plane was discovered, a war that lasted hundreds of years even happened in the Plane of the Undead.

But keeping the plane was pointless for Lin Yun. It was only useful in the Plane of the Undead for the pure undead mages. The undead skeletons were useless for living people anyway.

After Lin Yun made his bid, no undead creatures or dark creatures followed. They were too smart to pay a bone plane for a crystal plate that contained the power of light.

Even the hosting skeleton seemed dumbfounded. He gazed at Lin Yun for a few seconds with empty eye sockets, and struck the deal immediately.

“The item that contains the power of flying monkeys is yours.”

After the deal was struck, the skeleton wearing a ragged hat stopped hosting. He asked a random host to continue hosting, whereas he led Lin Yun to a higher level.

The deal that involved a bone plane was quite a big one in the Plane of the Undead. Every small plane that was attached to the Plane of the Undead but hadn’t been swallowed yet would cause a massive war.

Those planes were all exposed before they were occupied, so a huge price had to be paid in order to claim them. Most undead creatures, especially liches, loved the secondary planes that hadn’t been exposed yet and contained a lot of bones.

At least half of the undead creatures would be willing to trade their own souls for an unknown place that was full of bones.

The skeleton who wore a ragged hat led Lin Yun moving up on the shabby stairs that were built around the enormous stone pillars until they reached a higher level. A tremendous number of undead creatures were working here. The obsidian on this place had been carved into shelves that were 100 meters tall.

Many ghosts and flying undead creatures were hauling goods among the shelves. At the edge, a lot more skeletons were digging the obsidian with simple tools to build more shelves. Obviously, the construction on this level hadn’t finished yet.

It was impossible to make use of the power of magic, so the skeletons had to dig bit by bit, which would require a lot of time.

The skeleton who wore a ragged hat didn’t stay on the level, but moved on to the higher level, which was a platform that was at least 10 kilometers long and wide. This place was much bigger than it seemed as its space had been expanded. The traces of a lot of extinguished soul fires could be seen in the edge.

There were dense dark red patterns on the floor. There was no telling how the owner of this place came up with the idea of expanding space inside obsidian. At the very least, the task was impossible according to the alchemical knowledge of Noscent. It might be possible to expand a little bit at a high cost. However, this place had been expanded at least tenfold.

There was an empty platform in the center, with stone cabinets standing everywhere around it. Those cabinets were even bigger than the shelves down below. Each of them was 300 meters tall. Most of them were empty. Only some had stocked goods.

There were many bizarre skulls that belonged to unknown creatures and many items that were stored in boxes. More importantly, there was a huge pile of scrolls that were made of skins of unknown creatures.

At the end of the empty ground was a wall that was as smooth as a mirror. Complicated patterns and curses had been written with blood on the wall in the language of souls.

Lin Yun followed the skeleton with a weird expression. Suddenly, he was stunned, and took a step back. Standing from this place, he could vaguely see the back of a person when he looked at the glittering, smooth wall in the rear. It seemed that the person was inside the wall.

When Lin Yun tried to see the person more clearly, he found that the person was walking away, and mist was rising between them. No matter how he tried, he could see nothing but a vague picture.

When he made another step forward, he could no longer see anything else…

“Dear human being from the main plane… Oh, you are even a living human being. Wait, you just look like a human being, but you are an extraordinary life.

“Duck, is he the guy that you cannot trade with directly?”

The soul fire of the skeleton who wore a ragged hat glittered, and he slowly backed off.

It was not until this moment that Lin Yun finally saw what was behind the wall, which seemed to brighten instantly.

“Expert from the main plain, I assume you prefer an environment with better lighting. I’m Lilith, the lord of this place. Or you may call me the manager, if you like.”

The wall slowly dispersed, and what appeared to be a counter showed up. Behind the counter was a girl who wore a monocle.. She had blood-red long hair, a pale face, and blood-red stripes on her neck.