'No wonder Agalon said that there was a problem with my fighting style, especially when facing opponents stronger than me. My original fighting style would only get worse and worse. I only made a small change and used the power of the Natural Demiplane to injure that bat puppet that suppressed me and almost killed me.'
The enraged bat puppet was thoroughly enraged. The ability rune on its throat kept shining and its attacks became even more frantic. Moreover, it no longer cared about being unable to cover its tracks and sound. Phantoms filled the surroundings, countless images left behind by the bat puppet.
Lin Yun had a calm expression as he pointed his Draconic Staff at the Book of Mantras once again. A complex incantation flickering with lightning flew out of the Book of Mantras.
In an instant, countless bolts of lightning converged and a twenty-meter-long huge electromagnetic track appeared. Lin Yun also threw the special artillery shell at the end of the electromagnetic track.
Suddenly, circles of lightning frantically flickered on the electromagnetic track as the artillery shell accelerated and instantly disappeared.
In less than a second, a muffled sound echoed eight hundred meters away as the bat puppet's silhouette appeared out of nowhere. The electromagnetic cannon shell hit its right cheek and exploded, but most of the bat puppet's head had disappeared.
Instant kill …
It was an instant kill, and the headless corpse of the bat puppet spun in the air before falling like a meteor towards the distant steel city.
Lin Yun flew towards the steel city and caught the bat puppet's corpse as it fell down. He then turned around and left without looking back.
The moment Lin Yun turned, the steel city's defensive devices and weapon systems started operating. Countless thick laser cannons, lightning bolts, and flames covered the sky as they flew towards Lin Yun.
But these attacks had no effect on Lin Yun. By the time a large number of puppets rushed out of the steel city, Lin Yun had already taken the bat puppet's corpse and returned to Agalon's concealment barrier. In this place, unless a puppet king surpassing the Heaven Rank appeared, no puppet would be able to discover Agalon's trail.
Agalon was also smiling. He was clearly very satisfied with Lin Yun's fight, but he was saying something else.
"The amount of law power a 5th Rank Heaven Puppet can directly use is actually very limited. Even puppets with ability runes are far inferior to human mages in terms of flexibility.
"These puppets' method of using law power is very inflexible. Although they are very powerful when used with ability runes, and the spells they release are more powerful than the spells of 5th Rank Heaven Mages.
But the waveband of the Law and the way to use the Law were all fixed. Any 4th Rank Heaven Mage that could truly use the power of the Law, especially if they happened to comprehend the part of the Law used by puppets, would be able to get rid of a 5th Rank Heaven Puppet as long as they could truly use the power of the Law.
"For you, the Natural Demiplane's Law Projection is very comprehensive. At least more than half of the 5th Rank Heaven Puppets use law power within the Law Projection of the Natural Demiplane. You should be able to easily get rid of this guy, but you spent a lot of time …"
Lin Yun listened to Agalon's pointers and humbly accepted them. Agalon was right this time. If he had comprehended it earlier and freed himself from his original fighting style, he would have been able to get rid of that puppet within ten minutes.
Even if it was a puppet that had awakened wisdom, it was still inflexible to a true mage. If it had been a 5th Rank Heaven Mage, the time Lin Yun had wasted would have been enough for the other side to get rid of him a few times.
Using the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel, the Book of Ten Thousand Mantras, and the Magic Array's original abilities, the burst power shocked Lin Yun.
The puppet's fighting style and movement trajectory were largely controlled by the control system, so it had a lot of regularity. But by calculating these regularities and constantly correcting the calculated data, the electromagnetic cannon shot hit the puppet's head. This kind of ability made Lin Yun suddenly understand the true usage of the Magic Array.
During the peak of Noscent, the Magic Array was known as the strongest Magic Conducting Rune, it had the most powerful computing ability. Now, Lin Yun could be said to have experienced for himself why the Magic Array was said to be the most powerful.
The buffs on the power of spells, the reduction of casting time, the reduction of mana consumption, the acceleration of mana recovery …
Almost 90% of them couldn't compare to many Magic Conducting Runes on their own, but the Magic Array was still recognized as the strongest Magic Conducting Rune. After all, geniuses were the most worthless during Noscent's peak. Heaven Rank powerhouses were everywhere, and Titled powerhouses were like dogs. This wasn't an exaggeration.
Now, Lin Yun thoroughly understood. Even if he already knew the data and descriptions, it was still better to personally experience it to understand how powerful it was.
It wasn't the strongest spell, nor was it the fastest, but it was the most efficient Magic Conducting Rune that could get rid of an enemy in battle. As long as it was powerful enough, all trajectories could be perfectly deduced. It was like knowing what the opponent would do in advance and only needing to bury a trap in their path.
If he wanted to get rid of a 5th Rank Heaven Puppet with an ability rune and an unbelievably fast flying puppet, he wouldn't be able to talk nonsense.
During this battle, Lin Yun thoroughly felt the transformation of the Heaven Rank, a true transformation. It felt as if he had completed the Extraordinary transformation.
After dissecting the bat puppet's corpse, he collected all the components. Many of them could be used for Pabiete's upgrade. Moreover, there was a black substance within the bat puppet's body that could continuously devour mana, it was like melted asphalt.
Seeing this black substance, Lin Yun's expression slightly changed. He took out the mana isolating device he had prepared earlier and collected all the black substance.
Agalon had a calm expression on the side. He wasn't startled when he saw this black substance.
"Sir Agalon, what is this black substance?"
Previously, Gandaph wasn't willing to explain a single word when Lin Yun obtained this kind of thing, and he couldn't stop talking about other things. As long as he talked about this kind of black ignorance, Gandaph would keep chuckling.
Agalon didn't directly answer Lin Yun's question and looked straight into Lin Yun's eyes.
"How is your research on this black substance going?"
Lin Yun shook his head.
"It's just that this thing can keep devouring mana, and it doesn't reject any mana. Even if it's motionless, it will keep devouring the surrounding mana. I haven't been able to figure out where the mana devoured by this black substance goes. I used all kinds of methods to track and monitor it, but I couldn't find anything.
"I only used this black substance to create a devouring system on the puppet's body, that's all.
Sir Agalon, what is this thing? "
Agalon nodded, disappointment flashing in his eyes.
"I originally hoped that you would be enlightened when researching this thing and see some things in the future, but it looks like I failed.
This thing had drifted out from the Astral Battlefield. There was almost no barrier on the Puppet Plane's outer layer. All meteorites and things that fell from outer space could fall here successfully. This was how this black matter drifted into the Puppet Plane.
"Only this place has the most of it. This kind of thing can't be seen in Noscent. As for what it is, you can research it yourself."
Agalon didn't say anything, so Lin Yun knew that he definitely wouldn't be able to get an answer. But Lin Yun asked another question.
"What's going on with the Starry Sky Battlefield?"
Lin Yun didn't know how many times he had heard of the Starry Sky Battlefield. He had seen a large number of corpses on the ancient starry sky path controlled by the Merlin Family, and there had even been a God's corpse floating in the void.
And he had heard of the Starry Sky Battlefield here. If there was nothing unexpected, the ancient starry sky path of the Merlin Family should definitely lead to the Starry Sky Battlefield.
Lin Yun had long wanted to ask what the Starry Sky Battlefield was. Many powerful existences weren't recorded as dying, but rather leaving Noscent for the endless void, never to return.
Even when he transmigrated to this era, Lin Yun only felt that those powerful mages that would appear in the next few dozen millennia were lost in the endless void.
After all, the space occupied by the endless void was countless times larger than all of Noscent. The starry sky was constantly changing, and even if one found a stable starry sky path, they could be thoroughly lost in the starry sky for all sorts of reasons, never to find their way back.
Now, it looked like this possibility was very small. If nothing unexpected happened, those people should have definitely gone to the Starry Sky Battlefield.
Facing Lin Yun's question, Agalon remained silent.
"You'll learn about the Starry Sky Battlefield when the time is right, but now isn't the right time. Knowing about it won't bring you any benefits.
Let's go to the next place, I've already helped you find your second opponent. "
Agalon didn't say anything, so Lin Yun was somewhat helpless. He knew that he definitely wouldn't be able to get anything out of him.
After flying for a day, they found a second steel city. It was about the same size as the previous one. Agalon once again threw a rune into that steel city. Lin Yun didn't know what it was, but it only took a few seconds for a level 45 puppet to fly out of the steel city.
It was over eight meters tall, had six legs, four arms, and was holding a seven-meter-long silver longbow in its right hand.
The longbow was emitting a metallic luster. It didn't have a bowstring and was covered in a large number of strange patterns. There was also an ability rune in the center of the longbow.
Seeing that guy's appearance, Lin Yun's expression changed. After being kicked by Agalon once again, that centaur-like huge puppet raised its longbow and placed its left hand on the bowstring.
In an instant, a radiant bowstring appeared out of nowhere and a silver-white arrow of light appeared on the longbow.
Seeing the actions of the greatbow-wielding puppet, Lin Yun's hair stood on end. A terrifying sense of crisis instantly enveloped his mind. No, it would be more accurate to say that it locked onto his soul. Facing this sense of crisis, his soul instinctively shivered.
A wisp of spatial fluctuations appeared and Lin Yun's body seemed to be squeezed out by space as he instantly moved a meter to the side.
At this moment, the silver arrow shot out from the side of his head and instantly disappeared into the sky.
The edge of the arrow of light brushed against the surface of the Fusion Shield, and in that split second, half of the Fusion Shield's law runes started throbbing.
Lin Yun's hair stood on end, it was too frightening.
Its speed was unfathomable, it was even faster than the Electromagnetic Cannons he had developed. After that arrow was shot, the arrow of light flew towards the starry sky and ultimately turned into a dim light before disappearing. In a few seconds, it had traveled at least a few dozen kilometers.
That speed was fast enough to reach the speed of light propagation. Unless he dodged in advance, he simply wouldn't be able to dodge. The distance between him and the greatbow-wielding puppet was less than two kilometers. At that distance, the arrow of light would directly hit.
As he dodged, Lin Yun immediately used all his power, the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel, the Book of Mantras, the Book of Death, the Draconic Staff, and even the Wind Elemental Spirit Incarnation. His body was like the wind drifting in the air, continuously dodging without any pattern.
The Ten Thousand Spell Wheel rapidly revolved, calculating all of the Draconic Puppet's movements and casually releasing a Four Element Bomb Storm to disturb the other side's casting.
But that greatbow-wielding puppet's six legs galloped in the air as if it was stepping on the ground. It was extremely nimble, just like a Heaven Rank Centaur. The Ten Thousand Spell Wheel couldn't calculate the other side's movement pattern, there was no pattern to speak of. Every time the other side dodged, the calculations would give it a dozen possibilities.
While easily dodging Lin Yun's interference, the greatbow-wielding puppet once again pulled its bowstring and shot three silver arrows of light. These three arrows were a lot slower, but their trajectories were strange.
The three arrows crisscrossed as they flew over. Their trajectories were like three arrows circling around each other. Using pure archery techniques, the power of the three light arrows affected each other. It looked like there was a pattern, but as long as there was even the slightest influence, the previously calculated trajectories would be completely scrapped.
The three arrows flew less than two kilometers in less than five seconds. But after three seconds, Lin Yun still couldn't calculate the trajectories of these three arrows and could only release a Law Runic Bomb to explode in front of the three arrows.
The power of the explosion affected the trajectories of the three arrows. In an instant, the three arrows scattered in three different directions and turned into an arc that bypassed the explosion before combining once again and flying towards Lin Yun.
'Is this cheating?'
Lin Yun was a bit stunned. It wasn't that he hadn't seen a Heaven Rank Divine Archer, but that guy's strength was definitely more frightening than Divine Archers of the same rank!
He easily made use of the Law Runic Bomb's explosive power, and before the explosion even arrived, the three arrows had already dispersed along with the fluctuations that had appeared ahead of time.
Seeing this scene, Lin Yun suddenly understood. Apart from dodging at close range or forcibly resisting the power of these three arrows, there was no way to dodge them in advance.
The three arrows crisscrossed as they flew towards Lin Yun. When they sensed Lin Yun's Fusion Shield, one of the arrows hit the surface of the Fusion Shield while the other two scattered.
Just as the first arrow stirred up a large number of law runes, the second arrow flew in an arc towards the other side of the Fusion Shield. The instantaneous burst power made over 90% of the Fusion Shield flicker with law runes.
The instantaneous burst power of the two arrows almost reached the limit of the Fusion Shield. But the truly fatal one was the third arrow.
Because the instantaneous burst power of the arrow was too powerful, a large number of law runes converged on both ends of the Fusion Shield and the center instantly became the weakest area.
The last arrow of light hit the center of the spherical Fusion Shield and easily tore through it as if it was a piece of paper. The arrow came from under Lin Yun's feet, and if it had pierced through, it would have definitely pierced through the top of Lin Yun's head.
One hit destroyed his heart and soul.
'Vicious puppet …'
Lin Yun 'body shattered like glass the moment he was hit. He then turned into a shadow and dissipated. Ripples flickered behind his shattered body as Lin Yun appeared covered in cold sweat.
If he hadn't calculated the last arrow's trajectory at the last moment and cast a Mirror Image Spell to replace it, he would have already died.
Just as he dodged, Lin Yun discovered that the bow-puppet was actually preparing to draw its bowstring again.
As the Natural Demiplane's projection fell, the Law Projection started operating according to the opposite Law and canceled out the puppet's Law Power. But the effect on the bow-puppet was negligible.
Just by relying on that frightening archery technique and the enhancement of the innate rune, the other party might be able to kill him. If he couldn't predict the trajectory of the other party and the trajectory of the arrow, the battle wouldn't be able to continue. The next arrow would definitely kill him.
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