Chapter 484: Metal Dense Forest

On the grey-white wasteland, the wind is sobbing.

This abandoned plane, which was spliced together, is essentially the remains of dozens of worlds whose resources have been completely squeezed dry. Except for endless grey-white dust and occasionally exposed rocks, there is nothing.

But at this moment, in a certain part of this wasteland that is monotonous to the point of madness, an extremely abrupt scene appeared.

Black.

It was a "dense forest" composed of countless sharp black metal clusters, growing wantonly on the grey-white earth.

Each metal cluster was more than ten meters high, pitch black all over, covered with fine spiral textures and sharp barbs, reflecting ominous cold light under the dim sky.

They were squeezed together densely, intertwined with each other, forming a black jungle with a diameter of over ten kilometers, which was daunting.

This was clearly not a natural creation.

Any experienced wizard could see at a glance that this was the residual influence of some large-scale wizardry.

It is very likely the product of wizardry such as "Metal Proliferation" or "Matter Conversion," which can forcibly convert the soil and stones in the range into metal structures of a specific form and maintain them for a considerable period of time.

And in the center of the dense forest, at the top of the thickest metal cluster, a wizard of the Chaos Secret Sect was busy.

He wore a deep red robe, as if woven from congealed blood, and his face was covered with crisscrossing stitches.

Those stitches were still wriggling slightly, like living things.

At this moment, he was humming a tune that was not a tune in a hoarse voice, playing with the corpse of a Plane Nuolun workshop wizard in his hand.

The state of the corpse was very miserable.

The limbs were twisted at unnatural angles, the chest cavity was dissected, and the internal organs were exposed but not completely detached.

The skin was covered with fine cutting marks, each of which cut open blood vessels, clearly done on purpose.

The eyes were dug out, and two black beads that were slowly rotating were stuffed into the eye sockets.

The mouth was torn to the ear roots, revealing an eternal, solidified expression of silent roar full of pain.

But this wizard of the Chaos Secret Sect seemed not quite satisfied yet.

He played with the posture of the corpse, trying to "hang" it on a horizontal barb at the very top of the metal cluster.

But because the corpse was already stiff, it was difficult to adjust the posture, and he had to break the corpse's joints again and again to reshape it.

Crack.

Another crisp bone-cracking sound.

"Tsk tsk, really troublesome..." The Chaos Secret Sect wizard muttered, his voice like sandpaper rubbing, "Even after death, they don't let people worry."

On the edge of the dense forest, another figure stood there.

That was a wizard of the Tower of Extinction, wrapped in a grey-white tight robe, wearing a pure white mask without any facial features on his face.

At this moment, he was frowning, looking at the "work" of his perverted companion in the center.

If it weren't for the fact that the two forces were now a coalition, he would even want to take action directly and purify this lunatic on the spot.

"Hey."

He finally couldn't help but speak, his voice transmitted through the mask, sounding dull and oppressive:

"You like this... is it really good?"

The Chaos Secret Sect wizard didn't look back, continuing to play with the corpse:

"What's not good? What a beautiful work of art. Wait until I hang it up, and then carve a few emotion-type runes on it, so that the resentment fluctuations it emits can spread for dozens of kilometers... tsk tsk, when the time comes, the expressions of the Plane Nuolun workshop scum passing by will definitely be good to look at."

"I'm not talking about this." The Tower of Extinction wizard's voice was colder by a few points, "I'm talking about... you are so blatantly abusing and desecrating the corpses of enemy wizards, and even deliberately arranging them as conspicuous landmarks, aren't you afraid of completely enraging the people of the Plane Nuolun workshop?"

"What if they therefore send an elite team specifically to hunt you down? When the time comes, I will be implicated by you."

Crack.

Another bone was broken.

The Chaos Secret Sect wizard finally stopped his movements and turned his head slowly.

The eyes under the stitches revealed a kind of near-innocent confusion:

"Enrage them? Isn't that even better?"

He grinned, revealing a mouth full of uneven teeth, as if deliberately polished into a sawtooth shape:

"That way they will take the initiative to find me, and I won't have to work hard to find them outside. How much easier."

The Tower of Extinction wizard was silent for two seconds.

Then, he rolled his eyes—although the expression couldn't be seen through the mask.

"You lunatic..." He cursed in a low voice, "Didn't you think that the other party might send a Tier 6 wizard? What will you do when the time comes? Kneel down and beg for mercy?"

"Tier 6?" The Chaos Secret Sect wizard tilted his head, as if thinking seriously, "Hmm... if it's a Tier 6 who is good at frontal strong attacks, it's indeed a bit troublesome. However..."

A cunning light flashed in his eyes:

"This 'Pain Metal Forest' of mine is not just for show. Besides..."

Before he finished speaking.

A mutation occurred.

The Tower of Extinction wizard suddenly changed his face: "Enemy attack!!!"

He only had time to roar these two words, his body had instinctively lunged to the left, and at the same time his hands quickly formed seals in front of his chest, three layers of grey-white shields instantly unfolded, wrapping his whole body layer by layer.

Almost at the same instant...

The sky, lit up.

A scorching white light pillar with a diameter of over three meters, like a spear of judgment, fell vertically from the gap in the lead-grey clouds, precisely bombarding the center of the black metal forest.

Boom!!!

The roar of the explosion appeared for a moment and then disappeared.

Or rather, the sound was completely submerged by the more violent energy release.

Where the white light landed, everything began to melt, gasify, and annihilate.

The black metal clusters turned into boiling metal steam and sprayed in all directions the moment they came into contact with the white light, jumping directly from solid state to plasma state.

The ground vitrified under high temperature and high pressure, and then continued to sink and melt downward, forming a continuously expanding lava pit.

The shock wave spread in a spherical shape with the landing point of the light pillar as the center.

Wherever it passed, those metal clusters that were not directly hit were broken and thrown away in pieces like wheat stalks pushed by invisible giant hands.

The grey-white dust was lifted, forming a dust wall hundreds of meters high, sweeping outward like a tsunami.

The entire attack process lasted for a considerable period of time.

When the white light dissipated, the black metal forest with an original diameter of ten kilometers had already turned into a scorching lava basin.

The magma rolled at the bottom of the pit, emitting dark red light and scorching heat waves.

And at the very center of the attack...

"Cough cough... cough..."

A violent coughing sound came from the lava.

The Chaos Secret Sect wizard's state at this moment was miserable.

Most of the deep red robe on his body had been burned, revealing the charred and cracked skin covered with stitches underneath.

His left arm had disappeared from the root at the shoulder, and there was no bleeding at the break, but unstable dark red energy sparks were flashing.

That was him taking the initiative to break his arm at the last moment, transferring most of the damage to the discarded limb.

His right leg below the knee had also disappeared, and he was half-kneeling on the hot, already beginning-to-solidify lava ground, the exposed flesh and blood sticking to the scorching ground, his body swaying.

The stitches on his face were wriggling frantically at this moment, trying to repair the damaged tissue, but the repair speed was far behind the continuous burns and energy erosion.

But even if he was injured to this extent, he was still laughing.

It was a twisted, perverted smile mixed with pain and excitement.

He lowered his head, looking at what he was still clutching tightly in his only remaining right hand.

That was half a charred corpse remnant belonging to a Plane Nuolun workshop wizard.

The moment the white light descended, he used this corpse as a "scapegoat medium" to absorb part of the attack's power.

Now, this half of the corpse had been carbonized beyond recognition, as if it would shatter into powder if touched lightly.

"The attack is really ruthless..."

The Chaos Secret Sect wizard raised his head, looking at the sky, laughing hoarsely:

"Don't you even care about the remains of your own people? Plane Nuolun workshop 'gentlemen'?"

In the sky, two figures slowly descended.

Both were wizards of the Plane Nuolun workshop, wearing standard grey combat wizard robes, with the Plane Nuolun workshop emblem embroidered on their chests.

Both were Tier 5, one male and one female, and at this moment they were hovering about fifty meters above the lava basin, coldly looking down at the enemy below.

Hearing the Chaos Secret Sect wizard's teasing, the male wizard snorted coldly:

"As long as we kill you, it's considered revenge for that colleague. The corpse... is just material remains."

"Oh? So cold?" The Chaos Secret Sect wizard licked his cracked lips, a dangerous light flashing in his eyes, "I like it."

Before the words fell...

"Side!"

The female wizard suddenly shouted sharply.

Almost at the same time she made the sound, a grey-white "annihilation beam" that seemed to swallow all light shot out from the shadows on the edge of the lava basin, aiming directly at the male wizard.

It was that Tower of Extinction wizard!

He escaped from the core area the moment the white light descended, and at this moment he was lurking on the edge, waiting for this sneak attack opportunity!

The male wizard reacted extremely quickly, his body twisted forcibly in the air, his left hand drew virtually in front of his chest, and a pale blue water curtain shield instantly unfolded.

But the Tower of Extinction wizard's attack was clearly not something that an ordinary water curtain could block.

Sss...

The moment the annihilation beam came into contact with the water curtain, the water curtain "disappeared" silently like pencil marks erased by an eraser.

The beam penetrated the gap and continued to shoot towards the male wizard's body.

At the critical moment, the female wizard took action.

She raised her right hand, and a metal disc carved with complex runes flew out from her sleeve, exploded in the air, and turned into countless fine golden threads, weaving into a large net, blocking in front of the annihilation beam.

The golden threads collided with the grey-white beam, making a harsh screeching sound.

The two forces stalemated in the air, canceling each other out.

And taking this opportunity...

"Hehe..."

The Chaos Secret Sect wizard below let out a low laugh.

His only remaining right hand suddenly made a strange gesture.

From his fingertips, a thread of dark red that was almost invisible drifted out quietly and merged into the lava ground silently.

And he himself flew up violently, rushing towards the two.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 485 =====