End of the Magic Era Chapter 911 - Puppet City

Chapter 911: Puppet City

Translator: Shiraishi Editor: TheAlliance

It was rumored that the Grey Beastn weren’t natives of the Raging Fla Plane. Their ancestors were from another place, but by now the Grey Beastn had been living in the Raging Fla Plane for countless years. After having developed to this point, even the other Beastman races of the Raging Fla Plane didn’t feel that they were outsiders.

As for their fort, it was clearly inconsistent with the style of other Beastman races. It was a neat and tidy rectangular prism.

From a distance, it looked like the city walls had been cut from a huge grey rock. tallic luster could be seen flickering on the walls, and wisps of mana fluctuations could be felt, even from several kiloters away.

Lin Yun couldn’t help being sowhat amazed. He didn’t know what material had been used to make the city walls, but the outside was covered with a layer of forged magic tal.

The dense patterns and runes of the small array carved into every tal plate ford a powerful defensive effect.

Moreover, after the ashen-colored tal plates were assembled, they ford a huge array formation covering an entire wall. This greatly increased the defensive effect and rendered any spell under the 6th Tier useless.

He could also see huge and strange puppets standing atop the walls. They looked like mana crystal cannons... with very long legs.

Sure enough, by the ti those fleeing Grey Beastn entered the fort, a few puppets imdiately started emitting fierce mana fluctuations that could be sensed from a distance.

Glaring blazing light started gathering within the mouths of those cannon-like puppets, and five seconds later, loud noises echoed as huge fireballs spurted out at the pursuing puppet army.

Every cannon puppet let out a huge fireball that fiercely exploded on the ground within a few hundred ters of the city wall.

“Rumble...”

Explosions similar to rolling thunder echoed. The earth started bursting open, forming a deep ravine between the city wall and the sword puppets.

And just as these puppets had started casting, Lin Yun had the puppet army and the mage army stop their chase.

If he hadn’t, the huge fireballs would have destroyed at least a dozen sword puppets.

“Sir Mafa, what now?”

Xiuban anxiously looked at Lin Yun with worry. These Grey Beastn were too fragile... If they weren’t careful, they would accidentally kill them.

Lin Yun waved his hand and said, “Let’s surround them first...”

As he spoke those words, a group of puppets and Grey Beastn appeared on the tallic wall facing them.

The surface of the wall was like a mirror covered with patterns, and it also exposed various black holes from which the mana cannon puppets were aiming.

In an instant, a large number of Grey Beastn started casting towards Lin Yun’s side. The earth-shattering spells were akin to multi-colored rain falling towards them.

As for those long-legged cannon-like puppets, they kept casting, and their flas were following right behind the rain of spells.

As the blazing flas ca out, they turned into ten-ter-long bursting fireballs flying towards Lin Yun’s side.

The Grey Beastn were using their geographical advantage to launch a powerful counterattack.

On this side, the casting puppets and the mage army joined hands to cast a flood of spells towards the Grey Beastn on the city wall, but the patterns on the wall suddenly shone brightly.

A layer of faint light covered the surface of the city wall, and the spells falling on top of it only made the patterns on the wall’s surface enlarge a bit. They simply couldn’t damage the city wall.

As for the Grey Beastn, they were casting without restraint. The rain of spells lasted half a minute until Lin Yun made his subordinates withdraw five hundred ters away. Only then did the Grey Beastn calm their attack.

Unless one had the power of an Archmage, they would have difficulty aiming from such a distance. Among the puppets, only the roughly six-ter-tall long-legged puppets shaped like mana crystal cannons could have such an attack range.

But the attack frequency of those puppets was too low. After releasing a fireball, they would need to stop for a full minute before being able to cast again. The ti needed to gather power after every cast was too long.

Also, after their trajectory had been set, they couldn’t alter it. They had too many flaws and simply couldn’t compare to actual mana crystal cannons. Although they were powerful, they were only useful in situations like this, where they had to defend the city walls. The Grey Beastn seed to know about these puppets’ flaws, so they hadn’t made too many of them. There were only a dozen.

Those huge fireballs could compare to the strongest 7th Tier Spells in terms of power. When facing a huge group of enemies, they would land on a ten-ter-wide area before exploding in a radius of several dozen ters. This kind of spell was an extraordinary deterrent.

Lin Yun ordered a retreat and surrounded the Grey Beastn’s fort without attacking.

Before coming, Lin Yun knew that the Grey Beastn’s fort would be a very tough bone to chew, but he hadn’t expected that they would be so fearless.

The city walls they built were thirty ters high and the surface was covered with a full layer of magic-resistant tal.

That magic tal was of excellent quality. It could be used to make magic-resistant armor and could be sold in alchemy shops, while they were used as bricks by the Grey Beastn.

But to achieve that effect, the thickness of that alloy had to be thicker than an armor plate. Also, the alchemical processing, perfectly carving the arrays’ patterns and runes, and even connecting each and every tal plate as a whole... All those were sothing a true Alchemist could barely attempt.

And when looking at the city walls, just one wall was at least several kiloters in length. The number of tal plates needed to cover it all was extrely huge. Even if every mber of the Grey Beastman race knew so amount of alchemy and the number of Alchemists was shockingly high, they would still need several dozen years to complete the magic-resistant plates for the city walls. Even then, that was if they had an adequate supply of materials and their entire race worked together.

In reality, they might take a few centuries...

Lin Yun couldn’t help letting out a deep sigh. ‘Truly extravagant...’

The resources spent to build that wall could make any Family go bankrupt. Every major force in the entire Andlusa Kingdom combined would barely be able to pull together the raw resources needed for this kind of wall.

And those arrays were clearly rarely seen, ungraded arrays. A tal plate carried the most common array, but when enough of them were piled together, the alchemy array’s grade would keep increasing.

In theory, as long as it was large enough, the array formation could reach an unlimited grade, and the power might also be boundlessly increased. Given another few centuries, they could keep on piling more and more tal plates and arrays. At that ti, forming a Heaven Rank Array might not be impossible.

At that point, even a Heaven Rank powerhouse might not be able to destroy that city wall!

The stronger the attack, the greater the range of the array activated on those tal plates. As long as the attack didn’t surpass the reaction limit or the defensive limit of the tal plates, destroying the city wall’s plates was impossible.

This kind of excessive thod wasn’t uncommon. Even when Noscent reached its peak, not many people felt secure.

‘I knew that those Grey Beastn considered protecting themselves to be of the utmost importance. That’s the main reason that puppeteering has already blended with their lives and bloodlines. But I really hadn’t expected these guys to create such a huge tortoise shell...’

Lin Yun kept his group withdrawn. He wouldn’t pointlessly sacrifice their lives. The Magic Array had already caught onto the patterns of the city wall and was continuously combining those patterns and runes in order to figure out how to break the array.

Lin Yun didn’t attack, and the Grey Beastn didn’t dare to attack, and thus, they were stuck in this stalemate.

The situation was the sa two days later. So long as Lin Yun’s subordinates approached just a little bit, the patrolling Grey Beastn would imdiately go crazy and start casting.

Unless they could break through the entrance of the fort, a domineering attack wouldn’t have a great effect. It would only increase the casualties. Flying wasn’t an option, as the city walls had huge anti-air towers built every few hundred ters. Those were always operating and were ready to shoot down anything approaching their airspace.

The anti-air towers were mainly guarding the sky, and in order to reinforce that function, they were rendered unable to attack anything too close or on the ground.

Flying wasn’t possible, and they also wouldn’t be able to breach the city walls, so they could only think of a way to attack the gates.

On the 3rd day, the Grey Beastn were still sticking to their turtling strategy and simply didn’t co out. But Lin Yun started to surround the fort.

The Grey Beastn needed a lot of water. After all, it was a huge city, and they were in contact with alchemy puppets all the ti. Drinking and washing aside, the water demand in other fields was several tis higher.

If the entire fort was sealed, what water could they use?

The fort was bordering two rivers. During normal tis, they wouldn’t need to worry about water supplies, but even though their fort was under siege now, they didn’t seem nervous at all. Moreover, the black smoke coming from the workshops’ chimneys could still be seen from outside the fort, showing that they were fully focused on the production of puppets.