Chapter 355 This Is Legendary

Though this spell attack was extremely powerful, Shaoke still sensed that the Eighth Tier Mage of the Luanyun Empire was alive. So, before the flames had dissipated, Shaoke attacked again. This time, he remained suspended in the air, beginning to chant a complete incantation.

When Shaoke was a little less than halfway through his incantation, the Eighth Tier Mage suddenly blinked out of the flames. He looked somewhat disheveled, his staff damaged, but his spirits seemed high. This Eighth Tier Mage paid no attention to the distant Blue-robed Mage, as she was busy fending off the white tornado. He had to kill Shaoke as quickly as possible to prepare for the counterattack.

The mage took hundreds of top-tier crystals and some magic cores from his ring. These items hovered in the air for a moment, forming a strange pattern. Then, the mage chanted another incantation, and streams of milky white light flowed from his damaged staff into his spellbook. Finally, a peculiar spell structure emerged from the spellbook. As it landed on the crystals, Shaoke, who was still casting, felt the surrounding atmosphere change drastically. Overwhelming pressure made him feel as if hundreds of mages of the same tier had locked onto him, nearly causing his spell to fail. The Blue-robed Mage also noticed this.

After quickly chanting a few syllables, the Blue-robed Mage sent dozens of blue lights flying from her crown. Under the female mage's control, these lights formed a rotating cage, enveloping Shaoke. Only then did Shaoke feel the pressure around him decrease by dozens of times.

After releasing the cage, the Blue-robed Mage cast several small nets toward the mage preparing his spell. However, just before the blue nets reached him, the spellbook in front of the mage instantly produced a spell—either Seventh Rank or Sixth Rank. Using a special casting method, the spells easily disrupted the Blue-robed Mage's attacks.

Almost simultaneously, both of them prepared their spells. A fist-sized mass of twisted gray mist writhed in Shaoke's hand for a few moments before rapidly disappearing into the air.

After completing his spell, Shaoke began preparing to blink. But whether due to the cage cast by the Blue-robed Mage or the spell from the Luanyun Empire mage, his blink failed. At that moment, the mage's spell attack arrived.

The mage's attack looked very peculiar. Dozens of milky white light pillars intertwined to form a simple hexagram pattern, flying toward Shaoke. The pattern moved slowly, but for some reason, Shaoke could not blink or fly; he could only stand there passively, waiting for the opponent's spell to arrive. The Blue-robed Mage was still using her spellbook to fend off the tornado with a blue net, only able to cast small spells to intercept. Shaoke quickly cast seven or eight Cutting Waves, hoping to damage the spell, but it was futile—they had no effect. Yet Shaoke was not worried, because he believed that once the spellcaster died, the uncontrolled spell would no longer harm him.

A tiny crack suddenly appeared inside the mage's defensive spell. A wisp of gray smoke turned into a thin thread, gently slicing across the mage's neck. At that moment, Shaoke felt the pressure from the mage decrease significantly, and he knew the mage was dead.

Seizing the opportunity, Shaoke blinked three times in succession, fleeing far away. The Blue-robed Mage did the same. As for the mental attack tornado, it stubbornly pursued the Blue-robed Mage even after she had fled, illustrating the terrifying nature of mental attack spells.

The uncontrolled spell could not change its target in time. The uncontrolled spell, a hexagram of light pillars, flew through the air for a while before suddenly exploding. A silver-white pillar of light emerged from the center of the hexagram, connecting to the ground and rapidly expanding in area. Everything on the ground—buildings and living beings—was vaporized by the light pillar.

After the pillar disappeared, Shaoke and the Blue-robed Mage together destroyed the mental attack spell. Only then did they have time to examine the destruction caused by the previous spell. A city, similar in size to a medium-sized city of the Blue Feather Empire, had been partially destroyed by the pillar. The ground was flattened to a depth of several meters, forming a smooth, mirror-like surface. The city lord's mansion and the noble residences in the center had completely vanished from existence. This result infuriated both Shaoke and the Blue-robed Mage.

After calming down a little, the Blue-robed Mage suggested to Shaoke, "Let's completely destroy this place. Damn it, after all that effort, we got nothing." She was furious about not obtaining the mage's golden light orb and spellbook. Shaoke thought for a moment and agreed to her request.

"Wait a moment. I need to prepare some magic items." Shaoke thought for a while, then took out the three Eighth Tier Mage heads he had collected earlier. These heads had been specially refined using his methods. This time, he released some arcane fire, added a few small wards into them, and finished the preparations.

Seeing the white skull in Shaoke's hand, the Blue-robed Mage asked doubtfully, "Do you plan to become a necromancer? That profession is not the best choice." She was about to say more, but Shaoke shook his head, interrupting her unfavorable speculation.

"I'm just following the necromancers' methods to create a magic item. This way, I'll have some means of resistance when facing high-level beings in the future." After saying this, Shaoke took out a skull, chanted a few verses, and the skull floated in the air. As he continued chanting, black mist ribbons emerged from the void and merged into the white skull. As the black ribbons entered, the skull gradually turned black. Then Shaoke signaled the Blue-robed Mage to begin the slaughter.

He cast Lawful Death Ripple, an upgraded version of Death Slash. A black line hundreds of meters long flew under Shaoke's control for over ten thousand meters. Then, Shaoke released a large amount of fire over the city, covering it entirely in green flames. While controlling the skull, he focused on absorbing the souls. The Blue-robed Mage watched Shaoke with a complicated expression, unsure whether she should advise him, as harvesting souls was a practice opposed by most mages.

In less than the time it takes to cast one spell, the entire city vanished from the map of the Luanyun Empire. Countless innocent civilians died under Shaoke and the Blue-robed Mage's slaughter. Yet this had no effect on Shaoke; he was now fully focused on the pitch-black skull.

After examining the skull, Shaoke found that it could still absorb many more souls. He then told the Blue-robed Mage to leave, as staying too long would attract other professionals to investigate. The Blue-robed Mage rolled her eyes helplessly—she had already been keeping watch for other professionals. She was surprised that this male mage had only thought of this now. Fortunately, no hostile professionals had arrived, or they would have had to fight again.

Putting away the skull that could no longer absorb souls, the two of them used the scepter's display to choose a direction with fewer companions. There, the chance of being discovered while carrying out such slaughter was much lower, and the likelihood of interception by large groups of high-level imperial professionals was also much smaller.

After flying for a while, they stopped at a remote small village. There, they ate some food, rested thoroughly, and then continued their search for the next target.

"Snow Night Mage, very few people use this method of soul collection. Most professionals oppose it." The Blue-robed Mage said this, unhappy with Shaoke's collection of souls. After thinking for a long time, she finally began to dissuade him.

Shaoke didn't pay much attention to her persuasion. He gave a wry smile and said, "It's just soul collection. These people worshipped gods. Even if we don't collect these souls, their gods will. I believe these souls are very helpful to the gods." Shaoke had learned this from books. Now he told the Blue-robed Mage, using this argument to counter her objections.

The Blue-robed Mage frowned but said nothing. Finally, she sighed helplessly and said, "It's best not to collect souls when others are around. Some old-fashioned individuals strongly disapprove of this practice." After that, she said no more and sped up toward a small city not far ahead, where they would attempt another looting.

Just as they finished speaking, Shaoke and the Blue-robed Mage simultaneously sensed dozens of mage and aura presences in the sky. These presences were extremely powerful, pressing both of them down toward the ground. Shaoke struggled to control his body, using the silver light in his meditative space to resist the oppressive presences. Then he began to observe the sky with his naked eyes.

Dozens of multicolored lights flew in from all directions, gathering together and forming a massive beam of light that flew into the sky. After flying for a while, a huge black hole appeared in front of the beam. Then the beam instantly entered the black hole, and after a long time, the powerful presences slowly dissipated into the air. Shaoke stared blankly at the sky, forgetting to fly.

First release.