Lord of the Magical Beasts

“Blood Curse, this is an evil summoning spell used by the Evil Demons from the other dimensions in ancient times. Everyone, be careful!” Looking at the bloody handprint in the middle of the statues’ brows get clearer and clearer, Elder Brent’s expression turned grave. With his explanation, the group quickly understood what was going on.

As it turned out, a very long time ago, there was a faction of Evil Summoners on the continent. They could gather a large number of souls and turn them into statues of evil demons, then use a substantial amount of fresh blood as a price to summon powerful evil demons from the other dimensions. If this spell was cast successfully, they could even kill off a Domain Expert in mere seconds, much less a sage-level expert. Their battle capabilities were extremely terrifying.

Building a statue of an evil demon like this required at least the soul of a thousand ordinary men, and a substantial amount of fresh blood was required to conduct the summoning. Thus, in order to summon an evil demon, the Evil Summoners frequently committed inhumane acts. In the fringe, mountainous regions, entire towns would often die by their hands. Sometimes, even prosperous towns and cities would suddenly encounter such a disaster.

With the situation getting more and more chaotic, the powerful fighters of the continent joined forces and took action, herding together the Evil Summoners who were wandering throughout the continent before finally killing Artest, hailed as the Blood Summoner, ten years later. From then on, the Evil Summoners vanished from the vast continent. To think that there would be several hundred statues of the evil demons here, in the underground tomb that had been dormant for millennia!

One of the evil demon statues was terrifying enough, much less several hundred!

Elder Brent had a grim expression. He naturally had a way to deal with these evil demon statues if his abilities had recovered to the level he had when he was at his peak; However, now that most of his Divine Power has been depleted, he had no choice but to be cautious. More importantly, the density of the Magical Elements in the Tailun Continent is too thin, and it would take him an extremely long time to regain his Divine Power. If he depleted all of his Divine Power in order to deal with these statues and managed to fortunately escape the underground tomb, how was he going to deal with the powerful fighters of the Church that would attack them in the future?

“Quick, gather, get into formation, quick!”

“Get into formation, quick…”

Faced with the transformation of the evil demon statues and sensing the pulsing ripples of energy within their bodies, Faern, Stuart and the rest seemed to have encountered a great enemy, decisively giving the order to get into formation. The greedy troops and adventurers also instinctively felt a strong sense of danger, carrying the gemstones and premium crystal ores as they retreated quickly. They wanted desperately to leave the plaza immediately, and bring all the treasures on them out of this eerie underground tomb.

The various major factions and the troops reacted quickly, but they were unfortunately too late!

Roar…

After a low but powerful roar was heard, several hundred evil demon statues came alive, manically massacring all of the humans in the plaza.

The giant dragons with a wingspan of over a hundred meters shot out a dragon breath, instantly killing several hundred troops and adventurers who were retreating in a fluster; The evil demons that looked like Yakshas cackled, pouncing forward with lightning speed, pinning a Golden Knight together with his horse onto the ground with a stroke; An evil demon wielding a scythe stomped his foot, instantly appearing several dozen steps away, its giant scythe cleaving several gold-robed warriors into two with just a flick…

The elites of the various major factions, being caught off guard, were not a match for the evil demons, while the situation was even worse for the ordinary troops and adventurers. The plaza became covered in blood within the blink of an eye, corpses littered at every corner. The dark red Death Energy got thicker and thicker.

“Ah… Brother Barry, save me…”

“Save me, save me…”

After witnessing the carnage and terror inflicted by the evil demons, the people fled for their lives in fear, gemstones and crystals dropping behind them. Before this, they had been fighting and killing one another for a few of those crystals; Now, no one dared to bend their waists over to pick up a premium gemstone even if they were stepping on one.

Faced with the terrifying giant dragons and Yakshas, the troops and adventurers had completely lost their will to battle!

“Leave, retreat, leave quickly!”

Seeing a Holy Knight by Stuart’s side instantly get cleaved into two by an evil demon, Elder Faern swallowed with difficulty. He waved his hand and unleashed a blazing wall of fire to defend their backs as he instructed the people from the Sect of the Fire God to quickly retreat. They closed in toward the direction Yang Ling and his group were at, prepared to directly retreat to the second level of the tomb.

Faern had been incredibly decisive, but Elder Klive, Stuart and the rest were not slow either, leading the elites by their side in a hasty retreat. Faced with over a hundred evil demons with such strong offensive capabilities, they had smartly decided to retreat. Especially the ever-cautious Elder Klive, he raised a sturdy wall of mud after muttering a few incantations to obstruct the path of the evil demons before making a speedy retreat, not hesitating even if the tall wall of mud was blocking the route of escape of several troops and adventurers.

“Hahaha, foolish humans, let’s see where else you can run off to?”

After blasting the several-meter-thick mud wall into pieces with a fist, a giant of about a dozen meters tall let out a manic laugh, spitting out the femur bone of a human before murmuring loudly. He then stomped his foot fiercely onto the ground. In that instant, a light brown wall of mud tens of meters thick rose within the tunnel, blocking off the group’s path of escape.

Earth Demon?

Seeing their only path of retreat get obstructed, the people slipped into despair. Even Elder Brent knit his brows tightly, his expression becoming even grimmer. According to the records of the historical annals, an Earth Demon was a high-level evil demon within the Demonic Plane. It was adept in earth element magic spells and had alarming offensive and defensive capabilities. Even if this was merely a projection and that its main body was not here, it was still not something an average sage-level or Domain Expert could deal with.

Must I really use all of my Divine Power here?

Seeing the troops and adventurers get defeated with one strike, seeing the many evil demons approaching them, Brent shook his head in frustration. If he was alone, he could have directly teleported away to the second level of the tomb. If he had to bring Yang Ling with him, he would have to expend an even greater amount of Divine Power. Furthermore, there were this many people by Yang Ling’s side!

“Elder Faern, let’s go, fight it out with them!” Seeing a Golden Knight get grabbed by the Earth Demon after having not enough time to dodge, his head bitten open and swallowed into its stomach, the Holy Knight Stuart was furious, speaking as he urged his horse toward Elder Faern’s side.

Now that is has come to this, retreating at all cost would definitely see them hit a dead end. They might instead have a chance of survival if the various major factions joined forces and launched a counter-attack!

Seeing the thick wall of mud behind them and understanding that they could not avert this crisis, the various factions quickly formed an alliance, mobilizing the elite warriors and Spellcaster within their faction in a counter-attack. The Golden Knights under Stuart and the gold-robed warriors from the Bellimore family stationed themselves at the outer perimeter, while the Spellcasters from the Sect of the Fire God and the Dark Association stood within the circle, forming an elite squad.

“City-razing Burning Flames!”

Under the protection of the Golden Knights and the gold-robed warriors, Elder Faern was the first to take action. Raging flames descended from the sky, forming a wide sea of fire. Wherever the spell enveloped, the terrifying giant dragons and evil demons wielding scythes took continuous damage from the flames! A Spellcaster with abilities at the peak of Domain Expert was powerful indeed, managing to fend off the attacks of a few evil demons with one strike, boosting the morale of the army.

Under Faern’s lead, the Spellcasters of the various factions manically cast their strongest spell, launching a continuous barrage of Wind Daggers, Icicles and Walls of Fire. They also cast weakening spells to damage and slow down the advances of the evil demons. The Golden Knights and gold-robed warriors at the outer ring clenched their teeth, defending against the assault of the many evil demons with their lives. In that instant, not only did they stop the advances of the group of evil demons, they even managed to kill off a few careless Yakshas at the expense of their lives.

“Hmph, a bunch of foolish humans!”

After being unable to break past the line of defense formed by the elites of the various factions despite trying multiple times, a Great Evil Demon let out a cold grunt, directly teleporting to the back of the various major factions to unleash a massacre, manically culling the weak and injured of the various factions, as well as the fearful troops and adventurers who have lost their will to fight. Behind it, a group of Earth Demons and Great Evil Demons followed closely behind, also engaging in a massacre.

What do we do?

Seeing the evil demons split into two groups, with one dealing with the elites of the various factions and the other moving to the back to kill the weak and injured, Faern, Klive and the rest felt their hearts turn cold. No one expected the abilities of the evil demons to be this terrifying. Even more so, they did not expect the other party to be this crafty!

“Elder Brent, I’ll leave this area to you!” Seeing that the evil demons were directly killing their way toward where his group was, Yang Ling knew that there was no way he could sit this battle out any longer.

Even though the restriction could fend off the terrifying evil demons for the time being, it could definitely not be able to defend against them forever. If he did not strike now, his group might be the next to meet with misfortune after the armies of the various major factions got exterminated. Evelyn and the rest had placed all of their hopes on Elder Brent. Only Yang Ling knew that the elder’s Divine Power is already on the verge of depletion after being trapped in the Burning Fire Restriction for thousands of years.

Even though Elder Brent had shocked the people on an unprecedented scale when he killed over two hundred members of the Church’s army with one move, but he had also paid a heavy price. He had exhausted another portion of his already waning Divine Power. Someone else might not be able to detect it, but Yang Ling, being a Soul Wizard, sensed the ripples of energy within the body of the elder vary in strength back then, sometimes getting stronger, and sometimes weaker. Even his soul displayed an unusual ripple.

To the Magical Beast Territory, the future attacks of vengeance from the Divine-level Experts of the Church were fatal. Without Elder Brent, Yang Ling knew that he did not have a chance of winning alone. In order to allow the elder to conserve his power and prevent any unnecessary depletion of his Divine Power, he had no choice but to steel his nerves and charge out at this moment!

“Yang Ling, remember, do not leave three hundred steps away from me no matter what happens!” Seeing Yang Ling lead the Corpse Wizard King, Dark Dragon King and the rest as he charged out, Elder Brent did not stop him. After understanding the Church’s hidden abilities, he knew how dire the situation was. Unless it was a critical moment, he was unwilling to expend even a shred of his Divine Power.

After taking a deep breath, Yang Ling held the crystal skull in his left hand and raised the sharp Blood Elf Dagger on his right, leading the Five Great Wizard Guards, the Corpse Wizard King and Winnink as he charged out, directly facing a Great Evil Demon that had been pouncing in that direction. He first cast a wave of Soul Roar when they were about a hundred steps apart, directly attacking the other party’s soul.