Chapter 1257: Let’s Begin
Due to the fact that the Ancient God of Light was suppressed there, the entire space was filled with light that came from the ubiquitous elements of light, so much so that every single corner was well lit. In fact, the people who came here were all enveloped in light too, so none of them had shadows.
However, with Lin Li’s progress in drawing the mageweath, a large number of elements of light gathered in the temple. There wasn’t a sun in this space, and since the elements of light had been attracted to the temple, the areas where elements of light were scarce naturally became dimmer too.
After a large number of elements of magic were gathered in the temple where Aquilo was located, it no longer looked as worn-down as before, as the entire temple was shrouded in a bright and dazzling light, creating an extremely sacred atmosphere. Hence, only two spots in this space were left shining brightly, one being the place where the Ancient God of Light was being suppressed by the seven monuments, and the other the crumbling temple that was absorbing a large number of elements of light.
When the elements of light in the space were absorbed to a certain extent, a few of the rivers of light hanging above the temple also became sparser. Only the river of light that came out of the Ancient God of Light was still as bright as before. It seemed as if a chain of light had connected the Ancient God of Light to this temple.
That situation had once again caused the Ancient God of Light to struggle. No one was willing to become someone else’s mana source, let alone the Ancient God of Light that used to be almost invincible. However, the seven monuments that the Immortal King had left behind thoroughly suppressed the Ancient God of Light. Regardless of how the Ancient God of Light struggled, it couldn’t shake them at all.
The Ancient God of Light’s reaction was somewhat similar to that of the humanoid worms that had appeared out of nowhere. It seemed that the large depletion of elements of light had brought about a considerable impact on the humanoid worms, causing them to turn berserk. Before they disappeared, another batch of humanoid worms emerged from the direction that they came from. There was even a massive body that resembled a hill at their back.
After the numerous evolutions, the humanoid worms had already displayed considerable strength in battle against the two teams. Yet, more appeared now, and there was even one that seemed to be the boss of the humanoid worms, making Edmund and the others tense up.
The massive humanoid worm at the back seemed somewhat similar to the ones that had first appeared. It had a giant-like upper body and a white fat, fleshy lower body that resembled a worm. However, there was still a difference between this one and the rest. It had eight pairs of enormous eyes that were neatly arranged in two rows, an extremely unsettling sight.
“This big guy is mine!” Connoris had long gotten sick of fighting against the ordinary humanoid worms because that was no longer satisfying for him. Although all the other humanoid worms had already evolved, their capabilities and strength were far inferior.
Despite being a former ancient demon deity who had once mastered deceit and conspiracy, Connoris chose to fight with brute force like a barbarian this time because he wanted to break through to the Sanctuary-realm through the battle as soon as possible, and not just to satisfy his sadistic desire to kill. However, the ordinary humanoid worms could barely provide much help to him. Instead, it was the boss-level figure that had enticed him.
The mana fluctuations around the massive humanoid worm had already reached the Sanctuary-level or the middle of it. For Connoris, he was the perfect opponent that could really hone his skills and catalyze the fusion of the perfect body with himself.
After greeting Edmund and the others, Connoris waved his hand and summoned the Eternal Frost Blade, after which his body darted out from the battling group, and charged towards the massive humanoid worm.
Angelano, who had been hiding at the back of the group, began to lose his composure when he saw the humanoid worms surging over like a tidal wave. He was terrified of death, and the reason he tagged along this time was that he didn’t think it would be dangerous, because he had already had prior experience.
However, given the current situation, Angelano felt a lot less confident. He even regretted tagging along with Lin Li, but there was no time to regret now, and he knew very well that the more important thing was to keep himself safe. By the time the humanoid worms swarmed over, he would no longer have the opportunity to summon the Alchemy Colossus.
At the thought of this, Angelano didn’t dare to delay at all, and he hurriedly chanted an incantation to activate the Summoning Array. As he did so, a large Alchemy Colossus soon appeared in the empty space in front of him as the ground that was covered by the Alchemy Array seemed to have turned into a puddle of water while a massive alchemical statue gradually emerged from below.
His Alchemy Colossus had now been equipped with the Divine Sea Pillar that Lin Li had bought previously, causing faint blue light and patterns to appear on the surface of the entire Alchemy Colossus. Moreover, due to the massive power of the Divine Sea Pillar, the Alchemy Colossus was also faintly emitting a wisp of Sanctuary-level aura.
The Divine Sea Pillar itself was condensed from a type of ocean law, and was similar to Lin Li’s debris of the stars. Although the power of the Divine Sea Pillar was not as pure and incredible as that of the debris of the stars, it was also considered quite rare in Anril.
The enhancement of the Divine Sea Pillar might not allow the Alchemy Colossus to immediately reach the Sanctuary-realm, but it was enough to allow its power to contain a trace of Sanctuary-level power. That trace was not to be belittled, and it was already a qualitative change in power compared to the power below the Sanctuary-realm.
“Let’s begin now, let’s kill these disgusting worms!” Angelano exclaimed from inside the Alchemy Colossus. He gained a lot of confidence once he was in the Alchemy Colossus, and he smashed the spear in his hand, which resembled a giant pillar, against the humanoid worms.
After evolving again and again, the humanoid worms had gained resistance to all types of magic, and even obtained a powerful physical defense. However, they were limited by their genetic foundation, after all, and the resistance they obtained would still be limited. For example, the attack of the Alchemy Colossus was purely a suppression by force, and there was no magic involved at all. Regardless of how hard their outer shell had become, they would only end up getting crushed.
Although the Alchemy Colossus had yet to reach the Sanctuary-level, its destructive power was still extremely terrifying when its physical size grew to a certain extent. Under Angelano’s manipulation, the Alchemy Colossus showed its prowess, and crushed 10-odd humanoid worms with the terrifying gigantic sword. Immediately afterwards, the Alchemy Colossus stepped to the side, and stomped its massive foot of steel on the humanoid worms, crushing yet another 10 or so to death.
Initially, Edmund and Zumar had already begun contemplating if they should join the fight, but after seeing Angelano’s performance, they immediately suppressed the idea. To them, the most important thing was to guard against any enemies rushing into the temple lest they disturbed Lin Li, who was drawing a mageweath.
Of course, Edmund and Zumar could not help but be taken aback by the massive power that the Alchemy Colossus had displayed. After all, in the opinion of most people, an Alchemy Colossus was an inanimate object no matter what, and couldn’t possibly comprehend and master any laws like truly sentient living beings could. Hence, they thought that reaching the Legendary-level in strength by accumulation was already the limit, and it was simply impossible to break through to the Sanctuary-realm like that. However, Edmund and Zumar could now clearly sense a trace of Sanctuary-level power from the Alchemy Colossus, which was somewhat contrary to what they knew.
Of course, given Edmund and Zumar’s ability, they had already felt the aura of the Divine Sea Pillar, contained in the power of the Alchemy Colossus. However, it would be impossible to fully exert the power of the Sanctuary-realm unless one had a corresponding Sanctuary-level ability to control. Angelano’s Alchemy Colossus had truly exerted the power of the Sanctuary-realm, even though it was only a trace of it.
However, Edmund and Zumar soon thought of Lin Li and the magic scroll that could suppress Wild Whale Rabu. It was just a magic scroll, and yet it could already exert the power of the Divine-realm. Thus, he had to be capable of making an Alchemy Colossus exude Sanctuary-level power!
At the thought of that, Edmund and Zumar felt much more confident in Lin Li who was drawing mageweaths in the temple, and were full of expectations.
At this moment, Lin Li had indeed reached a very critical moment in drawing the mageweath inside the temple, just everyone else thought. He had already completed 20 out of the 24 mageweaths required, and although there were only four mageweaths left to draw, he was only halfway through the process considering the efforts and difficulty involved in drawing the last four mageweaths.
The 20 mageweaths that he had already drawn had just begun to exert their power, and were constantly injecting the absorbed elements of light into the Eye of Light. They then manipulated the Eye of Light to filter out the marks that originally belonged to the Ancient God of Light before using the Power of Light to cleanse Aquilo’s body.
In fact, Lin Li could already stop at this juncture because a mageweath array formed by the 20 mageweaths would completely be capable of speeding up the resurrection of Aquilo. However, Lin Li was not satisfied. Since his original plan was to create a mageweath array composed of 24 mageweath arrays, he had to complete it regardless of how difficult it might be.
At this time, Lin Li’s drawing had slowed down, and almost every inch and tiny magic symbol of the mageweath would require him to commit all his energy to drawing. Although he wasn’t sweating much, he had a grave expression, and he was extremely careful with each movement.
In fact, the difficulty of drawing a mageweath array composed of 24 ordinary mageweaths was already unimaginable, not to mention that of drawing 24 mageweaths to form a mageweath array that was close to the Divine-Smith-level. Although Lin Li had attainments that were at the peak of the Guru-level in inscription, had studied the mageweaths left by the Immortal King for some time, and even used the Mount Tai magic scroll to prove and put to test what he had learned, he still had to be very careful with the mageweath that would speed up the resurrection of Aquilo.
Each additional mageweath would double the power of the mageweath array, and once he completed the last four, there would be a sixteen-fold increase in strength. That would then be a mageweath that Lin Li would truly consider to be near the level of the Divine Smith.
In fact, the function of this mageweath was to continuously absorb the power of the Ancient God of Light, and then inject it into Aquilo’s body through the Eye of Light. Lin Li didn’t know if that was the reason the Ancient God of Light had been suppressed in this space, but to say the least, the Ancient God of Light’s existence was very crucial to the resurrection of Aquilo.
Based on this, Lin Li began to get more and more interested in the relationship between Aquilo and the Immortal King. Although he now held the canon of the Illuminati, he would probably have to hear the truth about what happened to Aquilo back then straight from the horse’s mouth. Hence, Lin Li also hoped to resurrect Aquilo sooner, and wasn’t just helping the Illuminati fulfill their wishes.
There was another thing that made Lin Li choose not to cut corners on this matter, and that was that he was very much looking forward to seeing what level Aquilo would reach after his resurrection. After all, injecting the power absorbed from an ancient god into a human body was like an experiment in apotheosis, which made Lin Li incredibly interested in the results.
Although according to the Illuminati, the founding Saint Aquilo’s strength was already at the peak of the Sanctuary-realm and near the Divine-realm, Aquilo was still a mortal because he hadn’t ascended to godhood yet. Now, the power of the Ancient God of Light was continuously being injected into Aquilo’s body, so Lin Li was very much looking forward to seeing what kind of existence Aquilo would be after his resurrection.
Lin Li was completely immersed in the drawing of the mageweath array, just like when he was drawing the magic scroll named Mount Tai. Outside the temple, the battle between the two teams and the humanoid worms had also reached an extremely intense point.
The humanoid worms that were swarming over like a tide might not be powerful or big, but the vast number of them made up for their shortcomings. In particular, the two teams had to guard the temple behind them while they were fighting, so they were rather tied up during the battle.
However, it wasn’t easy for the humanoid worms to break through the teams’ defense and barge into the temple. Apart from the mages of the Tower of Dusk who had now formed a Magic Net Array, the Illuminati’s team wasn’t that easy to deal with, either. The Illuminati had accumulated battle experience on the Endless Ocean for thousands of years, and if they hadn’t had significant strength, they would have probably been devoured by other forces.