276 Planes in Chaos Part 1 (2/2)

Piling up these stones was a job that required skill. In order to pile the stones higher than a magic tower and be able to dump them into the river at anytime, a delicate balance had to be maintained, and this balance could not be achieved using magic. Before the magic arrays were activated, Saleen needed to ensure that there were no vigorous elemental vibrations present.

Magic beasts were very vigilant. Even though the lightning dragon's eggs were very tempting, the furious lightning dragon would also not suddenly enter a place which it felt was dangerous.

The work upstream was completed in a shorter time. That area was leaning against the river bank. From the start, there was already a slightly loose giant rock there, so the mages only needed to cast a small earth spell in order to cause this rock to fall into the water.

More importantly, there had to be way to lure the lightning dragon into the river. Magic beasts which lived in the sea would almost never enter a river. In addition to being too shallow, the water in a river was freshwater, which was unsuitable for the survival of sea magic beasts.

Firstly, a lightning dragon egg would have to be the bait, but who would be the one to lure the lightning dragon into the river? In the water, Saleen possessed adequate flexibility, but his speed was too slow compared to the lightning dragon.

If Saleen held the dragon egg to bait the lightning dragon, the most probable case was that he would be electrocuted to death even before entering the river. But aside from Saleen, even Nailisi was not that fast in the water.

After a great deal of discussion, the final decision was to have Daniel summon a death creature to carry the dragon egg and serve as bait. Even if the death creature was struck by the lightning dragon, it would return to the death dimension automatically just before it died.

Daniel did not mind at all. Death creatures did not need to breathe underwater and were not afraid of the cold either. Just some simple training would be needed for the death creature to be quicker than Saleen. Furthermore, most of the creatures summoned from the death dimension existed as cannon fodder. A creature like the winged skeleton was an anomaly within the spirits of the dead. Most death creatures would need to surpass grade-7 before gaining a bit of intelligence.

Daniel's death flames were at a high level, and he had relatively clear coordinates in the death dimension as well. Even though he could still not summon a specific creature, his success rate was not zilch either.

When the green death flames expanded, the three-headed pikoosi within appeared beside Daniel. Daniel adored death creatures like the pikoosi. Death creatures which possessed magical and physical attacks were rare, and furthermore, the pikoosi could still cast three death spells at once. It was far stronger than the winged skeleton.

As the mages observed Daniel's performance, they were green with envy at the unique powers which a death mage possessed. Absorbing powers from another plane for training was so much easier than tempering with one's magic chords. A death mage's advancement might have been slower than an elemental mage's in the later stages, but using the same logic, how many people would be able to become a sorcerer even if they were elemental mages?

Excluding a place like Alchemy City, only one sorcerer would appear out of every one thousand mages on the Myers Mainland. Grade-6 was mostly the endpoint of the training journey for most mages. Even though many mages refused to acknowledge this fact and continued training day and night, they would succumb to the power of time eventually.

Ever since Daniel had begun practicing magic, this was the first time he had enjoyed so much glory. Even in the Tanggulasi Empire, he had not been very regarded, even before the implication by the orders which the Holy See had given. Mages did not have much status in the Tanggulasi Empire, as that was the haven for holy masters.

To most people, practicing magic was something that was too distant from them. A more worthwhile thing to do was to attain a passport to heaven after death by choosing to believe in a god.

Only true mages would know that the price for that was simply too great.

Believing in a god was akin to losing oneself. If one did not even exist, then what was the point of eternal life? One would only be an extension of the will of the gods.

The green death flames seemed to be boiling. A power contrary to life had formed a colorless vortex. That was not a magic array. It was a rotating long passageway which was pitch black and cold. This passageway had a strong attraction. The moment it was opened, Daniel's death flames began expanding furiously, engulfing all areas within a radius of one hundred meters.

Hehe…

Ka!

Ka ba ka ka…

Strange noises filled the air. Inside the black passageway, rotten smells were continuously exuded. A colossal death creature was the first to fall out of the black passageway. This black death creature appeared quite similar to a human. It was just that it was around three to four meters tall. Soul flames danced in its black orbital sockets, and the flames looked like they were about to die out at anytime.

Daniel's face waas scarlet. The death creature which he had summoned was about to die, and it was still so enormous. Furthermore, its build was obviously not suited for swimming.

Peng!

An object shaped like a square dropped out, and when Daniel saw it, he screamed, ”Run!”