End of the Magic Era

Chapter 1424: Homecoming

If a Leopard Tail Worm’s body was destroyed, but their soul wasn’t, then whoever did it should just be prepared for the Leopard Tail Worms’ revenge. The Leopard Tail Worm Kings were always two levels higher than their opponents, so they could just all wait to get killed.

However, a Leopard Tail Worm without the tail didn’t have all the abilities they were proud of. They were incapable of transforming or sending their souls out for resurrection when they died.

If such a Leopard Tail Worm appeared in the sea, there would surely be hundreds of creatures that would be bold enough to taste it.

The fat kid obediently stayed aside, and remained quiet after pointing out the way.

Lin Yun looked at the trail, and found it somehow familiar. The trail extended all the way into the depths of the woods. It looked exactly the same as one of the trails he remembered.

However, he couldn’t see anything wrong about the place. Taking a deep breath, Lin Yun embarked on the journey with the fat kid.

The moment he set foot on the trail, Lin Yun looked back, only to discover that the shore behind him was completely gone, replaced by the trail that stretched backwards. He seemed to have arrived at the center of the trail from nowhere.

However, the space, elements, and magic power were all normal. Everything seemed natural.

Lin Yun wasn’t really surprised. The Kingdom of Nightmares was essentially a dream of the King of Nightmares, where anything could happen. The King of Nightmares was so formidable that his dream was as vivid as the real world.

Lin Yun moved forward on the creepily quiet trail. At first, the surroundings looked like those in the real world, but as he walked on, the sky was completely shrouded in darkness, and he couldn’t see any starlight at all.

No sound could be heard at all. The heartbeat sounded like thunder, and the flowing blood sounded like running rivers. Even the swallowing of the fat kid on his shoulder sounded like drumming too.

After Lin Yun walked for more than 10 minutes, the vivid forest became an oil painting that he was crossing.

Everything except the trail that extended into the darkness became fuzzy and twisted. The lifelike painting became a lousy piece of art too. It was dead and desolate. Even an idiot could tell that the tall trees were all fake.

As Lin Yun walked, the wind seemed to be rising again, and the sounds were back. The noises of heartbeat and flowing blood gradually declined.

Lin Yun gradually became confused. His pupils dilapidated, as if he had lost his consciousness. The fat kid clutched Lin Yun’s shoulder, frightened, not daring to move at all or make any sound.

Stunned, Lin Yun proceeded on the trail. After a dozen minutes, the sky was lit again, and light could be seen up ahead. They seemed about to walk out of the forest.

The moment he left the forest, Lin Yun regained his consciousness. When he looked back, the forest was gone, just as he expected. He found himself standing in the middle of a desolate desert. There was nothing around him except sand.

“Fatty, tell me what you’ve just seen. Don’t deny it. I know that the bewilderment of the Kingdom of Nightmares doesn’t work on you.”

After Lin Yun opened his mouth, the fat kid gloomily fell silent. It was not until a few seconds later that the fat kid finally obediently admitted what he saw.

“You lost your consciousness as we walked. You kept walking on the trail until you were out of the forest. When you reached this desert, the forest was completely gone…”

Lin Yun was silent for a moment. He began to observe the desert, and saw protruding dunes and a yellow tornado moving in the distance.

He looked up at the sky. The blue sky had turned dim, and there were a lot of thick space crevices that were fixated to the sky like hideous wounds.

Chaotic and violent power was erupting constantly from the wounds. The sun had almost set. The entire sky was filled with the aura of death and desolation.

He inhaled, and found that the air was extremely spicy. The elements were like infuriated bulls that couldn’t be tamed at all.

“The apocalypse…”

Lin Yun looked at the world with complicated feelings.

Although he had always known that the deeper world was not fixed, but was dependent on the visitor, he didn’t expect that it would be so deeply related to himself.

His deepest fear had been transformed into a complete world by the power of the Kingdom of Nightmares. It looked just like the world he remembered.

Lin Yun examined his own strength, only to find that he had been weakened into a mage. His huge storage of mana was gone. He couldn’t detect his Demiplane any longer. He seemed to have been completely blocked in this world.

The only thing that wasn’t too terrible was that he could still use his space ring. At least he wouldn’t be short of mana here.

Having arrived in this apocalyptic world, Lin Yun knew that the one thing that he couldn’t be short of was mana.

The elements in the air were like maddened bulls. Most of them were unusable. The mana was so thin it seemed like a magic resistance barrier had been established. The chaotic energy from the wound in the sky was the only magic power that was pure and peaceful in this world.

The magic power from the void storm was the most violent and untouchable thing in the age that Lin Yun currently lived in, but here, it was the only source of hope.

One could only squeeze out a tiny bit of magic power from the void storm at the risk of being torn apart.

Mana flowed inside Lin Yun’s body slowly. He controlled every tiny bit of it without letting it leak. He had gained the ability of controlling his mana from the apocalyptic world he came from.

His control of mana, having been honed in the apocalyptic world, was much better than that of the Noscent mages. The mana in their age was like a docile pet. The only mana that could be used in this age was a short-tempered beast.

Lin Yun was not unadapted to the environment at all. He checked the surroundings, and soon found the direction of Heiss City. That was the most important ability to survive in the apocalyptic world.

In the desert, losing the way meant death. Everyone who failed to return to Heiss City before nightfall and receive the protection of the Shelter Tower would die without leaving any remains.

Walking forward for a few hundred meters, Lin Yun suddenly stopped, and casually threw out a sand vortex into the desert.

The sand within three meters began to swirl, revealing the hollow down below. The sand constantly collapsed in the center. A few seconds later, a sandworm that had a hard yellow skin charged out, and bit at Lin Yun with sharp teeth, as if it was going to swallow Lin Yun.

The fat kid shrieked in fear. He had every reason to feel scared. He had been feeling that his mana was fleeing beyond his control since he came here. The air was spicy, and the elements outside seemed crazy. The entire world was filled with desolation.

At this moment, this rampant beast had emerged out of nowhere. Having lost his tail and most of his power, and because Lin Yun was already weakened into a mage, he thought he was dead for sure…

“I’m going to die, I’m going to die. Let’s run…”

Lin Yun ignored his scream, and extended his hand. He quickly cast a spell, which consumed one-fifth of the mana in his body. The consumption was a dozen times greater than it should’ve been, and that was when Lin Yun controlled his mana perfectly.

The sandworm, with its enormous mouthpart, had moved almost 10 meters when it came to a sudden stop. It seemed to be held back by something. Feeling the restraints, the sandworm wiggled and mauled the hole where it came from.

Sand splashed as if there was an explosion. Stinky blood permeated in the sand. The sandworm completely emerged on the ground. It was more than 15 meters long, and the rear half of its body was tied up by thorny vines.

The thorns on the vines couldn’t penetrate the sandworm’s rocky skin, but they could make it awkward for the sandworm to move.

The Bloodsucking Vines couldn’t kill the sandworm, which Lin Yun knew too well. A sandworm that was a dozen meters long at least had a 20-centimeter-thick skin to ensure its survival in the desert.

The Bloodsucking Vine didn’t seem accustomed to the environment. It withered quickly. If the sandworm left it alone, it would completely wither 10 seconds later.

But the sandworm didn’t know that. When the rear half of its body was held back, it instinctively bit and mauled its opponent, corroding its opponent with its poisonous saliva.

But it only bit itself. The Bloodsucking Vines were only as thick as human arms, so the sandworm’s bite penetrated them as well as its own defense.

Feeling the blood, the Bloodsucking Vines crazily absorbed it to ensure its own survival. Then, they crawled into the sandworm’s body through the wound.

Seeing the scene, Lin Yun knew that the battle was over.

The sandworm wriggled crazily in the desert. The vines on the surface of its body quickly withered, but those inside its body quickly proliferated..