End of the Magic Era

Chapter 1300: Diary

Lin Yun finally had a personal experience with the dangerousness of the boundless void.

Now that he had the feeling of bloodline connection, it was likely to be Santon Merlin himself. Lin Yun couldn’t wait.

Observing the projection of the planet, Lin Yun hesitated. The projection looked very small. However, every planet that had left a projection in this subspace was much more powerful, or at least had a much higher gravity than the strange potato planet he saw at the beginning.

He took out the Book of Death, and copied an anti-gravity spell from the Sage Chapter. He activated it on himself. Since there was no gravity here, it naturally didn’t work at all.

He summoned the Void Owl, and asked it to take him to the normal space where the planet was at.

Receiving a soul wave from the Void Owl, Lin Yun frowned.

“You can only travel with natural-born extraordinary lives?”

Sensing the information from the Void Owl, both Lord Shawn and Enderfa burst into fury.

“Damn you, bastard, if you dare to leave us behind…”

Lord Shawn grimaced, and was about to bite the Void Owl again with the excuse when Lin Yun stowed him away along with Enderfa and Lord Shawn.

The Void Owl couldn’t be lying to him. A natural-born extraordinary life…

Lin Yun glanced at the Void Owl, and suddenly realized something. He had returned from the Gate of Rebirth when he advanced into the Heaven Rank. Although he looked no different from before, he was essentially evolved. He retained the structure of a human being, but he was also a natural-born extraordinary life.

That had to be another reason why the Void Owl yielded so quickly.

It was not too unacceptable for a natural-born extraordinary creature to surrender to another one. The Void Owl would’ve resisted fiercely if it had had to surrender someone who wasn’t a natural-born extraordinary creature.

That was probably the reason why few void beasts had been tamed. Even if a mage evolved into an extraordinary creature, they were essentially different, or rather flawed.

Future research on mages would point out that extraordinary evolution decided one’s potential. An imperfect extraordinary evolution meant that one would run out of potential very quickly.

That was the truth. But nobody had figured out the reason behind the truth yet…

The creatures with horrifying bloodlines could rise to the Heaven Rank by doing nothing except sleeping after their bloodlines were awakened. It was because their bloodlines contained extraordinary marks, so they could naturally grow into extraordinary lives.

Pondering for a moment, Lin Yun suddenly realized that the perfect extraordinary evolution was much more useful than he thought.

After putting away Lord Shawn and the others, Lin Yun connected himself to the Void Owl. Immediately, the frequency of Lin Yun’s body was adjusted to the Void Owl’s. The Void Owl touched the planet’s projection, and Lin Yun instantly vanished.

In the blink of an eye, Lin Yun detected horrifying gravity around himself. The anti-gravity spell that he’d cast upon himself earlier was already working. The fusion shield had been unfolded too. Still, he felt that there was a mountain on his back. Not just his back, his internal hands were being pressed down by invisible hands too. His blood was flowing with more difficulty too, and gathering on his feet.

Instantly, Lin Yun felt that he was fainting. He quickly cast the anti-gravity spell several times again, and imposed the Earth Shield on himself. Finally, he felt that it was easier for his heart to beat.

All that he could see was a dim silver world that was absolutely flat. It looked like the ground was exclusively paved with lackluster black crystals.

The Void Owl was pressed to the ground by heavy gravity, and turned into a very thin piece of paper. If it hadn’t been a special soul entity, it would’ve been killed by the enormous gravity the moment it appeared.

Lin Yun dragged the Void Owl back behind the fusion shield. Then, the Void Owl shrank into a small black ball, and stayed on Lin Yun’s shoulder. It was clearly frightened.

Lin Yun stayed still for hours before he was finally accustomed to the environment. His eyelids that had been pulled down could finally be kept up.

There was cold sweat on Lin Yun’s forehead. This was rather surprising. The dangers in the boundless void included not just the thick void storms and void beasts, but also such heavy planets, which were even more dangerous.

The gravity on such planets couldn’t be fully blocked by the fusion shield. Lin Yun would’ve been pressed to death the moment he’d appeared if he hadn’t grasped the laws so closely.

At this moment, Lin Yun felt like he was being pressed by hundreds of times the normal gravity. He was actually only enduring one percent of the planet’s gravity thanks to the anti-gravity spells and the various shields. In conclusion, this planet’s gravity could be tens of thousands of that in Noscent…

Lin Yun would never have dared to enter this place if he hadn’t known the level-9 spatial, earth, and tornado laws.

If one accidentally fell to such a planet from space, unless one had special methods, or one was at the peak of the Heaven Rank, and could slightly change the laws around like Agalon did, one would be trapped there forever.

There was absolutely no energy or air in this place. It was absolute desolation. Everything on the surface of the planet would be destroyed by the enormous gravity, leaving nothing but black crystals.

They were very precious raw materials that would be needed in many alloys and advanced fusion agents. Those materials were highly unstable, and would collapse without the high gravity. They could only be used as a component, but not as an independent and reliable material.

Within the next 20,000 years, those materials would be very rare. After all, they could be found in few places. This planet boasted an inestimable amount of black crystals, but it was impossible to excavate them.

Even Lin Yun could only manage to protect himself here with all his methods. It had been hours, and yet he couldn’t even walk yet. To break the hard floor and excavate the black crystals, one had to be at least at the peak of the Heaven Rank…

He summoned a level-39 puppet, which fell to the ground immediately with cracks all over its solid body. Then, it broke apart into countless pieces. When those pieces hit the ground, they shattered into even tinier pieces.

It looked as if a terrifying hammer had hit the puppet. The puppet’s reaction furnace exploded, but only caused sparks that were three centimeters high at most. All pieces were squeezed on the ground, and crumbled into smithereens until they completely vanished as if they had melted into the ground.

Lin Yun had cold sweat when he saw the picture. He was in no mood to claim the huge amount of black crystals here.

Some books he read in the decaying library mentioned prisons that were such planets with unfathomable gravity. Those prisons were built to cage people who were so powerful that their followers would initiate unimaginable retaliations if they were killed. So, it was best to just imprison them forever.

The most famous prison was call Silver Light. It was as smooth as silver, and no buildings could be constructed on it at all. Its enormous gravity could prevent anyone from escaping. Even the prisoners who were so strong that they could hardly be killed couldn’t run away. They could only stay on the planet of nothingness until they died.

Lin Yun wouldn’t have embarked on an adventure to such a planet without the Void Owl…

He simply stood still and cast helpful spells. Unfortunately, those spells could only work behind the fusion shield. They would collapse immediately after they left the range of the shield.

Lin Yun looked up and saw the boundless void. As the planet revolved, a splendid curved belt of light emerged. The glamorous belt of light surrounded the planet, and then dispersed in the void. It looked like an enormous rainbow around the planet.

He stood still. He knew that it wasn’t because the rays were twisted, but because the space here was distorted by enormous gravity. That enormous belt of light was caused when light traveled through the space that had been compressed hundreds of times.

Lin Yun looked up and observed the belt of light while he calculated the spatial changes. The space here had been compressed, and the spatial laws were different too. After he got used to the changes, he would be less suppressed by the heavy gravity, and at least be able to move on this planet.

There was no telling how long had passed, but Lin Yun was finally accustomed to the spatial changes, and could walk on the planet.

He walked for a long time again, and finally approached the spot where he had a feeling of blood connection. On the flat ground of black crystals, there was a magic book that was emitting redness while surrounded by a halo of law runes. Those law runes were all stuck to the surface of the magic book by gravity.

Lin Yun looked at the magic book. That was the source of his bloodline connection. He had a strong feeling. Also, the moment he saw the magic book, Lin Yun realized why he detected it from such a long distance away. That was a True Spirit Magic Tool, and definitely one of the best!

Looking at the magic book, Lin Yun hesitated and didn’t approach. He could tell from the bloodline connection that it had been left by a powerful member of the Merlin Family.

Ever since he advanced into the Heaven Rank, and returned from the Gate of Rebirth, Lin Yun’s bloodline had changed. Although he was essentially a descendant of the Merlin Family, he couldn’t feel bloodline connection with its ordinary members. Santon Merlin was the only person who could’ve triggered such a powerful feeling of connection.

When he approached the magic book, the dense law runes on the surface of the magic book seemed to have felt something. They broke free from the gravity, and turned into a shield that was several meters tall.

The power that the shield emitted shocked Lin Yun.

At first, he was already amazed when he saw that the magic book was preserved in such a place. After all, this was a heavy, desolate planet that even the experts who would leave and land here wouldn’t visit it often. To walk on the surface of the planet and to get rid of its gravity and fly out were completely different. The latter was much more difficult than the former.

This was definitely the safest place to store the magic book. It was difficult enough to locate the planet. Even if it was located, it would be even harder to take the magic book away.

In addition, the magic book emitted such horrifying power that it formed a huge shield. It suggested that the owner of the magic book had to be terrifyingly strong.

The shield wasn’t aggressive at all. It was just a simple barrier that would be automatically triggered by any person who approached to ensure that only those with a specific bloodline could enter it.

Lin Yun looked at the shield, which was definitely huge for this place. A drop of blood emerged from his fingertip, and dripped on the surface of the shield.

Immediately, the shield turned red, and countless runes were surging more powerfully. However, when Lin Yun stuck his hand to the shield, it penetrated the shield without being blocked at all.

A DNA test of the magic world? Lin Yun wore a weird expression. This technology was never used frequently until the last years of the heyday. It was rarely used in the past.

In the last years of the heyday, the relics of a lot of experts who had lived in the heyday were found. Normally, the Heaven Rank experts could live tens of thousands of years. The strongest of them could easily live for 10,000 years as long as they didn’t die by accident halfway.

However, very few Heaven Rank experts had died of old age in the heyday. The alchemists sought the truth of alchemy, and the mages sought the truth of laws. Nobody ever rested. In the heyday, while there were much more resources, the competition was much fiercer too.

That was the age where anyone might distinguish himself. Many Heaven Rank experts who ran out of their potential embarked on adventures, looking for methods and items to help them make a breakthrough. Too many people had died in the process.

The relics from that age mostly required bloodline tests. Only the designated descendants could acquire the legacies in the relics. After all, in the age of grand grave robbing, those crazy mages had dug almost all the relics and tombs from the past…

So, when they left their own relics, they mostly set up bloodline restraints so that only their heirs could receive the legacies. They would rather destroy the legacies than give them away.

Lin Yun shook his head, and stopped thinking about that. The moment he entered the shield, the enormous gravity he felt was greatly weakened. He could resist the remainder of it easily.

Detecting Lin Yun’s bloodline, the magic book rose from the ground, and floated to Lin Yun’s hand.

There was not a title on the surface of the magic book, only a mark in the bottom right corner. Lin Yun easily noticed that it was Santon Merlin’s mark. Nobody would’ve faked such a special mark.

He thought it was a powerful magic book that Santon Merlin had somehow dropped or lost here.

Santon Merlin’s soul lamp was still in the Merlin Family’s ancestral land. It was impossible that Santon Merlin had died while he was away. Also, the lingering power on the magic book suggested that he was still alive.

Opening the magic book, Lin Yun put on a weird expression as it was not a magic book of spells at all, but just a diary. Also, it was not written in the language of Noscent, but a rarely used magic language. Only some mages knew that language because there were few spells in that language.

The magic language contained special power. It sounded like a mixture of the Dragon Tongue, the Nesser Language, and the Third Dynasty’s language.

However, this language was rarely spoken except in some curses. Only the Merlin Family had the complete version of the language. Normal members of the family only learned the incomplete version, while the complete version could only be found in the family’s ancestral land.

Santon Merlin had written the diary in this strange language, and thanks to the bloodline restraint, nobody else could possibly understand it.

“I encountered an unrecorded void beast today. It looked like an enormous sea urchin whose color was as dark as space. Its body was just three kilometers in diameter, but it had spines a dozen kilometers long.

“It contained horrifying lightning power that could penetrate through space and cause lightning storms…”

The first page was just ordinary diary content. Lin Yun turned the pages, and saw that they were just records of creatures, environments, and materials that were unseen in Noscent.