But this kind of frightening lethality was also exchanged for a frightening amount of mana consumption.
Most mages would only use one or two Fire Arrows, and even with the support of metamagics, they wouldn't be able to use more than ten. It wasn't because they couldn't use more, but rather because they weren't willing to use more. Every additional Fire Arrow would consume more mana and increase the difficulty of controlling it.
Lin Yun's method of using over a hundred Fire Arrows was simply unimaginable in the eyes of ordinary Great Mages, because it meant a hundredfold increase in mana consumption and a hundredfold increase in the difficulty of controlling it. Even if it was only a Low Tier Mage Spell, after being stacked a hundred times, the consumption and difficulty of controlling it would reach a frightening level.
The mana Lin Yun had just replenished was once again being consumed at an astonishing rate. In a short time, half of the mana within Lin Yun's body had been consumed, and because he had to maintain the Flame Barrier, the remaining half was also being consumed at an extremely fast speed.
Lin Yun could only maintain this kind of extreme casting for thirty seconds. After thirty seconds, Lin Yun could already feel that there wasn't much mana left within his body. But Lin Yun didn't panic. The ring on his right hand flickered once again, and pure mana once again poured into Lin Yun's body.
Relying on the Elemental Amber to replenish his mana, Lin Yun chanted a few incantations and completed a threefold cast!
Originally, the Flame Barrier and the Fire Arrow Rain had formed an insurmountable defense, but after Lin Yun's threefold cast and the second Flame Barrier appeared, the situation of the battle suddenly changed.
The two flame barriers, one at the front and one at the back, sandwiched all the Hypertoxic Dragonflies in the middle. For a moment, only countless Hypertoxic Dragonflies could be seen flying back and forth. The temperature emitted by the flame barrier made them feel as if doomsday had arrived. They wanted to rush out of the flame barrier, but all around them were raging flames. There was no way out. Countless Hypertoxic Dragonflies were squeezed into an incomparably narrow space.
What awaited them was a rain of hundreds of rockets …
At that time, only pitch-black charcoal could be seen continuously falling. By the time Lin Yun finished his last burst of mana, there wasn't a single living Toxic Dragonfly left at the entrance of the cave …
"Phew …" Only then did Lin Yun let out a long breath. He fished out the Rotten Flower's magical crystal from his pocket, and sat down while leaning on the stone wall beside him. At this moment, Lin Yun's forehead was already covered with fine beads of sweat, and his face was sickly pale.
The battle just now looked very simple. It only took a few dozen seconds to eliminate hundreds of Toxic Dragonflies. However, only Lin Yun knew how dangerous that battle was.
Using his metamagic ability three times, using the Magic Array once, as well as an almost impossible threefold cast, made Lin Yun reach his limit. It wasn't an exaggeration to say that the threat these Toxic Dragonflies posed to Lin Yun was even greater than that of Great Mage Bell of the Viper Nest.
Indeed, the Toxic Dragonflies were only level 10, and any 5th Rank Mage could easily kill them. But one shouldn't forget that what appeared in front of Lin Yun wasn't just one or two, but four nests with hundreds of Toxic Dragonflies.
If Lin Yun made a mistake during the battle …
For example, if the Flame Barrier didn't block the Toxic Dragonflies, or if the last threefold cast wasn't completed, then what awaited Lin Yun would be a completely different situation. Thinking about it, hundreds of Toxic Dragonflies flying all over the sky, spitting out venom, no matter how powerful Lin Yun was, he could only brace himself and kill them one by one. At that time, it wouldn't be a matter of a few dozen seconds or a few minutes. If things went wrong, the dozen Magic Spring potions in Lin Yun's pocket would all be wasted there.
Fortunately, nothing unexpected happened …
From the first Ice Wall to the last Flame Arrow, every spell could be said to have perfectly achieved the effect Lin Yun wanted.
Lin Yun recalled every detail of the battle while tightly holding the Rotten Flower's mana crystal in his hand, slowly extracting mana from the mana crystal. Lin Yun carefully purified it before slowly pouring it into his Magic Array.
Generally speaking, very few Great Mages would directly extract mana from a mana crystal, because the mana contained within a mana crystal contained a lot of impurities. If they weren't careful, it would bring danger to the Great Mage, and in serious cases, they might even suffer a mana backlash.
But Lin Yun wasn't an ordinary Great Mage …
After all, at the end of the magic era, Lin Yun's only source of mana was the Netherstorm. The mana contained within was a lot more impurities than the mana crystals. At that time, every meditation under the Netherstorm was like torture to Lin Yun.
How could Lin Yun, who had come from that era, be afraid of the impurities within a mana crystal? He only slowed down the extraction speed.
The entire mana extraction process cost Lin Yun three bottles of Magic Spring Potion.
By the time Lin Yun stood up, the Rotten Flower's mana crystal had already lost its luster and looked just like an ordinary stone.
Lin Yun casually threw away this mana crystal that didn't have a wisp of mana and raised his hand to cast a Light spell. The originally pitch-black cave was instantly illuminated by that Light spell as if it was daytime.
The red mist filling the cave was even thicker than the outside, as if it had already condensed into a substance. Even with the protection of the Magic Spring Potion, Lin Yun could only barely disperse the red mist within a few meters of him.
According to the notes left behind by the alchemists, Lin Yun kept walking towards the depths of the cave. After about ten minutes, the path ahead became clear. Lin Yun knew that he was about to find the place he was looking for. If the notes weren't wrong, he would reach the center of the cave after about two hundred meters. There, Lin Yun would see a tomb from the 3rd Dynasty.
Indeed, that was the 2nd ruin in the Poison Fog Canyon.
It was different from the temple Sauss wanted to open. This tomb would only be discovered after a millennium. At that time, the Cloud Tower would have already become the strongest force of the kingdom. A Great Mage from the Cloud Tower would pass through the Poison Fog Canyon during one of his travels.
Then, he would encounter a battle at the entrance of the Poison Fog Canyon. The Archmage would be heavily injured in the battle, and with the support of a few bottles of Magic Spring Potion, he would escape. In the end, he would mistakenly enter this unknown cave.
No one knew what the Great Mage encountered in the cave.
In any case, when he walked out of the Poison Fog Canyon, he was already holding a True Spirit Magic Tool, an existence equivalent to an Archmage. The enemies guarding the entrance of the Poison Fog Canyon didn't even last ten seconds in front of the True Spirit Magic Tool's Incarnation before turning into a pile of ashes.
Afterwards, the Great Mage returned to the Cloud Tower and wrote a report on his findings.
This report immediately attracted the attention of the Cloud Tower. Three Master Alchemists came to the Poison Fog Canyon and unexpectedly made a discovery in the place where the Great Mage obtained the True Spirit Magic Tool.
Speaking of which, this discovery was somewhat coincidental …
Two of the three Master Alchemists were Archmages, while the remaining one was a Great Mage.
And that Great Mage's Magic Conducting Rune was shockingly Lin Yun's Magic Array.
Originally, that Great Mage only had two Magic Arrays, but after three months of archeological research in the Poison Fog Canyon, that Great Mage's Magic Array reached five, giving him the power to confront a High Mage.
When Lin Yun read the notes, he was somewhat amazed by that Great Mage's strange increase in power.
After all, the Magic Array could be said to be the most complicated of all Magic Conducting Runes. Every small increase required a lot of effort. Even the current Lin Yun, who had far surpassed the magic knowledge of this era, would need at least three years to increase the Magic Array from two to five.
As for the Great Mage in the notebook, it only took three months!
What kind of concept was this?
This was equivalent to shortening the time by ten times!
This was what Lin Yun truly valued about the Poison Fog Canyon. In comparison, Lin Yun didn't have much hope for that True Spirit Magic Tool. After all, True Spirit Magic Tools were different from Spiritual Magic Tools. Spiritual Magic Tools only had some intelligence and could fight according to their master's will. In essence, they were still Magic Tools.
But True Spirit Magic Tools were different.
True Spirit Magic Tools represented the highest level of alchemy. Any alchemist that crafted a True Spirit Magic Tool could directly become a God. They were called "Artisans". During the peak of the magic civilization, only three True Spirit Magic Tools had appeared. The alchemists that crafted these three True Spirit Magic Tools had supreme statuses, and even Heaven Mages had to lower their heads in front of them.
Because True Spirit Magic Tools already possessed true life, that was the limit of alchemy.
The Incarnation of every True Spirit Magic Tool was no different from other lifeforms.
In order to become the master of a True Spirit Magic Tool, one had to obtain the approval of the Incarnation. But in fact, no True Spirit Magic Tool was willing to change masters. Apart from the alchemist that created them, they would never accept a second master. That Great Mage of the Cloud Tower with heaven-defying luck was the only one that Lin Yun had seen.
Lin Yun didn't have that kind of heaven-defying luck.
Compared to the illusory True Spirit Magic Tools, the Reincarnation Eyes that could let Lin Yun quickly increase his Magic Array was a lot more practical.
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