[Third Update]
Salin had never been so determined. He had dared to enter the Chaos Swamp when he was still a level-one Mage. Now that he was a level-eight Magic Shooter, the amount of equipment he had made other Mages drool with envy. Why couldn't he explore the ancient graveyard alone?
Although he had always been in danger, he had never been like his teacher, wholeheartedly adventuring. Everything he had experienced was because he had no other choice.
This time, he would train in the Abyss under the sea. He would walk a path that a Mage had to take, and face the dangerous world alone. No squires, no followers, no help. He would only rely on himself and magic.
Salin suddenly understood why his teacher was so powerful. That was the strength of his heart. He would not cower in the face of anything, and would only move forward step by step. This was a Mage, and the pride of humans.
After leaving Nelis, Salin felt extremely relaxed. He slowly raised his Water Shield, forming a shuttle-shaped magic shield. The magic knowledge Salin had learned in the past slowly flowed through his heart. The conversion of the six major elements, the balance of energy, the control of souls, the laws of lightning …
The energy of the Water Shield gradually became balanced in the abyss, where the earth element was abundant. Finally, a blue electric current flashed on the surface of the Water Shield. This was something Salin had dreamed of.
The electric current only flickered for a moment, and then disappeared. Salin did not mind. After all, it was a new skill he had learned. Besides, it was best to suddenly appear when fighting an enemy, or when defending. If it was maintained all the time, he would not be able to bear the mental power consumption.
The earth element softened on the surface of the Water Shield, showing no signs of solidifying. It was as if the earth element was assimilated by the water element, making the shield even more durable. Salin even felt that the defense of the Water Shield had directly crossed to level-nine, and the consumption was reduced. It was only equivalent to a level-six spell.
This was not an illusion. The earth element here was too abundant. Salin did not need to use any magic strings. After activating the Water Shield, he could use his mental power to maintain it.
After the shuttle-shaped Water Shield was formed, Salin felt much more relaxed. The attractive force of the earth in the Abyss was no longer as terrifying. Instead, he borrowed the power of the earth to lift the Water Shield.
Salin's speed instantly increased. Moving forward in the water, he was no different from the Unicorn White Whale.
His power hadn't increased, he was still an 8th Rank High Mage, but by using the power of the environment, the original hindrance had instead become a help. In Salin's heart, he had a deeper understanding of Figaro's magic formula and Dante's sequence. The power of the elements was not something that could only be mobilized with Mental Energy, and it did not necessarily need the Magic Strings to guide and release it.
His Water Elemental Body could resonate with the surrounding water elements! No wonder the consumption of the Magic Strings had decreased, it was because of this!
The outer Magical Beast skeletons were only fifteen miles wide. These Magical Beasts hadn't had a chance to enter the graveyard before dying here. The further in they went, the larger the skeletons became.
At a distance of thirty miles, Salin began to circle around the collapsed city wall to observe. After the wall collapsed, it was still more than a hundred meters high. Salin floated upwards, gradually rising to a height of about five hundred meters. The scenery inside the city wall also appeared in his elemental eyes.
Salin could now maintain his Elemental Eye for more than six hours, which meant that he could use it at any time. Even a 9th Rank High Mage would only be able to maintain this level-nine skill for half an hour.
Within the city, Salin's Elemental Eye could not see the end. He could only see huge collapsed buildings and plazas filled with magic arrays.
This city had a diameter of more than seventy miles, and Salin could not see the end of the city wall. In that case, perhaps this city was three to five hundred miles long and wide.
How much manpower and material resources would be needed to build such a huge city at the bottom of the sea? Salin himself had built Metatlin City, which was only eight miles long and six miles wide. It had taken him more than a year, and it was only a prototype. In the end, the Three Undead Monarchs had summoned a large number of Undead creatures to barely build the city.
Inside the city, there were still many Stone Soldiers, which shattered Salin's idea of sneaking in. These Stone Soldiers were definitely not more than eight hundred meters away, and how far could a 9th Rank Elemental Creature sense? There must be one within a mile.
Salin circled the city wall very patiently, observing from afar. He approached bit by bit, and finally, when he was about a thousand meters above the city wall, he began to try to approach within ten miles.
Ten miles, eight miles, six miles!
Just as Salin was about three kilometers away, a torrent of earth elements surged out from the collapsed city walls, arriving in front of Salin in the blink of an eye. This already damaged city wall actually still had powerful defensive and offensive abilities!
An attack range of six miles wasn't very strong for Metatlin City. Metatlin's magic catapults could attack from five miles away without a problem, but this attack was a pure magic attack. The earth elements formed a torrent of thousands of boulders.
Even an ancient giant would be smashed into meat paste if hit by this attack, much less Salin.
If it was a pure elemental attack, Salin would not hesitate to take out his family crest to collect it. However, this attack had turned into thousands of boulders. The result of taking out the crest would be that he would be buried, and the crest would only be effective.
Elemental spells with physical attacks were the most difficult to defend against. Dozens of bubbles quickly swelled outside Salin's Water Pattern Shield. Two level-nine spells were activated on his magic robe at the same time.
Phantoms danced, and Fire Spirit Roared.
Phantom Dance had advanced to level-nine and created thirty-six phantoms. As soon as these phantoms appeared, the elemental torrent of boulders immediately scattered to attack each phantom, not letting any target escape.
Fire Spirit Roared created a level-nine fire elemental creature. The species of the fire elemental creature was random. It was impossible to create fire elemental creatures in the deep sea, but Salin's spell had transformed fire elements from water elements.
Behind Salin, a thirty-meter-tall fire elemental ape appeared. The core of this ape was a ball of white water elemental energy. The water elemental vaporized and then burned fiercely, forming a powerful fire ape.
This fire ape pounced at the elemental torrent, its huge fists flying and smashing boulders to pieces. It also withstood the impact of the earth elements. Originally, the thirty-six phantoms had dispersed the attacks from within the city. This Fire Ape stood in front of Salin, not allowing a single boulder to pass through its body. This continued until its energy was exhausted and it dissipated into the sea.
Salin did not retreat. Instead, he rapidly advanced from the position of the elemental torrent. Salin only took three minutes to cross the distance of three kilometers. There were very few Stone Soldiers outside the city walls. Salin hid in a corner of the collapsed wall, calculating the situation in the city he had just seen.
There was a Stone Soldier two hundred meters to the left, and another six hundred meters to the right. If he climbed over the city walls, the Stone Soldier on the left would quickly arrive, and he would have less than half a minute to escape. Most of the magic arrays in the city were probably damaged. The ones that were not damaged had completely different attack power. At most, only ten percent of their power remained.
Even so, he couldn't withstand a second attack. He had advanced to a level-eight Magic Shooter, but the seal on the Demonic God Set had also been unlocked to level-nine. The recovery time for these spells was still six hours.
He could still use Vacuum Confinement, Frost Mageweath, and Endless Night. Vacuum Confinement was a single-target attack spell, Frost Mageweath was a buff spell, and Endless Night was a spell that targeted living creatures.
There were still three level-nine spells in the wooden sword, and Salin could still cast Shield of Darkness. These were not enough to resist the attack of the city's magic array.
What to do, what to do!
Salin's deduction was completely correct. There was definitely something wrong with the defensive magic array of the city. It could not have been operating normally for tens of thousands of years. Hence, after the elemental torrent, the location where the spells were released was the safest. The broken magic array would definitely have a break, and this break would be very long.
The problem was that when he rushed to the bottom of the city walls, there were no Stone Soldiers to his left or right, and he could not enter the city.
Salin carefully recalled the spells he had. None of them could deal with level-nine elemental creatures. To be precise, he could not deal with dozens or even hundreds of elemental creatures.
He could only find a way to defeat the leader of these Stone Soldiers and enter the city safely. But the leader of the level-nine Stone Soldiers was very likely a level-ten creature.
Salin was at his wit's end, but he still took out the Hunter Spider. This Hunter Spider was useless to Salin now. His enemies were getting stronger and stronger, and the Hunter Spider was best used for sneak attacks on professionals below level-seven.
Salin gave the Hunter Spider a level-nine magic core and let the spider start digging holes in the walls. He himself released the water from Divine Fusion and started digging holes in the ground.
The ground here was made of hard rocks. These rocks were harder than Salin's Metatlin City's specialty white stone. However, these rocks were hard only in the special environment of the Abyss. In other places, they were just as hard as steel.
Salin began digging holes in the ground with ease. If it had been in ancient times, the ground would have been densely packed with magic matrices, and he wouldn't have been able to dig at all. But now that the matrices had stopped operating, Salin's water calmly dug a hole with a diameter of more than a meter.
The hole dug by the Hunter Spider was not small. Salin patted Divine Fusion and let the Water Puppet out.
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