Chapter 1263
Several Law Sigils shot out from Leon's mouth and instantly transformed into countless Gale Barriers. These were merely low-tier Gale Barriers, but their number exceeded eight hundred.
More than eight hundred Gale Barriers formed a line, standing before Leon. Yet in an instant, every single Gale Barrier shattered.
It was as if some invisible force had pierced through all eight hundred Gale Barriers in a single moment!
The speed of the Swiftwind Blade was beyond imagination; these low-tier Gale Barriers couldn't resist it at all.
However, the eight hundred Gale Barriers weren’t arranged in a true straight line. Each barrier was set at a slightly different angle, and though the effect of each individual barrier on the Swiftwind Blade’s trajectory was minuscule, together they managed to divert the blade by just under a meter.
But that was enough. Leon never saw the Swiftwind Blade itself, only felt it brush past his body as it sped by.
The Swiftwind Blade vanished after passing through. This spell couldn’t be broken—if you weren’t hit, it meant the spell had failed, and that was enough.
The Spell Construct casting Swiftwind Blade suddenly collapsed, dissolving into a string of spell fragments in midair. Almost simultaneously, a thin bolt of Thunderstrike tore through space and struck Leon’s Gale Elemental Avatar.
The moment the Thunderstrike hit the Gale Elemental Avatar, Leon abruptly reversed his mana, forcibly dissolving the avatar. At the same instant, he unleashed a Gale Blink, following the trail of Gale Element left by the fading Devastation Tempest, his body tracing an arc as he shot away.
The collapse of the Gale Elemental Avatar meant Thunderstrike had hit its mark, unleashing its full power. Countless tiny bolts of lightning danced and spread outward, flooding the area with arcs of thunder.
Leon’s Gale Blink was interrupted midair, but his body still followed its original trajectory, flying away. Only faint numbing arcs of lightning brushed against him, paralyzing his body.
Yet his mana wasn’t paralyzed. Though Leon temporarily lost control of his body, his combat ability remained mostly unaffected. In just a second, he could destroy the Spell Construct casting Thunderstrike.
The final Spell Construct collapsed, dissolving into countless spells that drifted aimlessly in midair.
There wasn’t a single Spell Construct left in the space. Leon hovered in midair, his body twitching unconsciously. It took five or six seconds before he gradually recovered.
Once he recovered, Leon’s face was pale, his eyes bloodshot—a clear sign of severe mental exhaustion.
The Spellbook of Ages—everything here is built on spells. Conquest isn’t measured by brute force, so the strongest Spell Construct here is only at Sky Rank Level 2.
This forced Leon to rely on his understanding of wind laws and wind spells to dissolve, evade, and resist the magic here—brute force simply wouldn’t work.
Such is the rule of this layer—the Spellbook of Ages’ own law.
After a few minutes of recovery, Leon flew toward the Gale Platform at the center—a small floating platform made of wind. This was the core of the layer; only by mastering it could he truly control the Gale World.
Landing on the Gale Platform—the only foothold in this world—Leon continuously spat out Law Sigils, imprinting his mark on the core of the Gale World. It took him more than ten minutes to finish.
This is why all the Spell Constructs must be destroyed in the final layer—those ten-plus minutes cannot be interrupted. If interrupted, the process must begin anew.
Only after the imprint was complete did Leon summon Theo. Transformed into a mass of flames, Theo was completely out of place here. The moment he entered, the Gale World began to reject him.
Leon grabbed Theo and forcefully shoved him into the core of the Gale World—now under Leon’s control.
Soon, a mass of flames twisted and warped within, while endless gales invaded Theo’s body from every direction.
The power of the gale began to erode Theo’s body, and his screams echoed continuously.
Anywhere else, a Gale-Flame Sprite King wouldn’t be burned to death by fire. But other forces here could harm Theo—a Gale-Flame Sprite King falling into the Gale Plane would be utterly annihilated, not even a spark left behind.
But this Gale World was already under Leon’s control—he had conquered it. This layer was his domain. Leon ruled both the world of flame and the world of gale. As the Spellbook of Ages’ Relic Spirit, Theo could never die in a world already mastered by the Spellbook.
The Spellbook of Ages’ power wouldn’t destroy Theo. But Theo was a pure Gale-Flame Sprite, so only one outcome remained: either the Spellbook compromised, or Theo changed—or perhaps both would change together.
Gradually, the pure flame body of Theo began to fill with gale energy. Under the power of the Spellbook of Ages, the gale forcibly altered Theo’s body—changing his very species.