Chapter 1277
And just my luck, those idiots had reinforced the barrier's power only moments ago...
Feeling the terrifying force crashing down to the ground, Dolores gritted his teeth and threw out three Essence Relics. He even detonated his own Essence Staff, unleashing its greatest power for the last time.
That Devil's Fingerbone was forcibly fused into his own body, and a layer of pitch-black shield enveloped Dolores. His form grew hazy, almost ethereal...
The next second, a terrifying and pure force of destruction exploded at the center of the barrier. The unleashed power instantly filled the entire enclosure, as if a storm of elements from the void had been trapped inside a rectangular prison.
A second later, the top of the barrier burst open with a bang, and the chaotic elemental destruction surged upward like a flood, shooting thousands of meters into the sky...
From afar, it looked like a multicolored pillar of light suddenly rising from the earth, visible even from dozens of miles away.
The barrier, said to be unbreakable even by a third-stage Sky Rank mage, now shattered like broken glass...
Forty Ninth-Rank Title Archmages didn't even have time to scream—they were evaporated in an instant. Dolores, protected by layers of defenses and the power of the Devil's Fingerbone, was blown away like a rag doll. Over twenty bones snapped, half his body was gone, and his organs were laid bare...
He self-destructed four Essence Relics and a Devil's Fingerbone, yet was left hanging by a thread. Dolores's blasted body pierced through hundreds of meters of outer alchemical arrays before finally coming to rest on the branch of an ironwood tree...
Though Dolores was barely clinging to life, he dared not stop. He shrouded his wounds in magic, refusing to let his organs spill from the shredded left side of his body, transforming himself into a blurred shadow as he desperately fled into the distance...
The shockwave from the Transcendent Four-Element Bomb, after shattering the barrier, leveled everything within a thousand meters. The Astral Academy's alchemical arrays were swept away as if made of paper, obliterated in an instant...
Bathed in the pillar of destructive light, Leon Merlin slowly emerged, rune on his forehead flickering before vanishing. After a dozen meters, the wild elemental forces began to batter his shield...
Feeling a hollow emptiness inside, Leon Merlin frowned.
It really was pushing things too far. Even just ten seconds was the absolute limit. Without the demi-plane's mana support, he'd be drained in a second—magic gone, even his life force sucked dry...
In those ten seconds, he'd burned through more than thirty times his total mana reserves...
I really shouldn't use the Elemental Spirit King form unless absolutely necessary. Right now, it's just too much of a strain; maybe sticking to the Flame Spirit King form is safer...
That little experiment just now cost me half the mana water in the demi-plane, and there wasn't much to begin with. If it weren't for the mana lake, I'd be completely drained—even my soul would be wrung out...
No wonder, at Northend's peak, only top-tier Heaven Rank mages could use the Elemental Spirit King transformation. Normally, you had to be beyond Heaven Rank to wield it freely...
After recovering some mana, Leon Merlin glanced toward where the dark mage had fled. He stepped forward, silver light flashing around him, and vanished in an instant.