Chapter 485: Dark Calculation and Mutation

The battle broke out completely in the blink of an eye.

Two Plane Nuolun workshop wizards and two enemy Tier 5 wizards launched a fierce duel above this newly formed lava basin.

The male wizard specialized in Water Element Law, summoning dozens of water snakes with a wave of his hand, each water snake containing terrifying impact and corrosiveness, pouncing on the Chaos Secret Sect wizard from different angles.

The female wizard specialized in runes and barriers, constantly throwing various pre-made rune props, laying down layers of restriction, interference, and weakening barrier fields in the air, while providing protection and blessing for her companion.

And the Chaos Secret Sect wizard who was their opponent, although seriously injured, had an extremely weird fighting style.

He rarely used direct attack wizardry, but constantly released various curses, hallucinations, and spiritual interference wizardry.

Whenever the water snake was about to hit him, the air around his body would twist, and the water snake would inexplicably deflect its direction, or simply collapse on its own.

Various binding barriers also often missed their targets inexplicably.

What was even more troublesome was that the lava ground under his feet would explode from time to time, spraying out tentacles made of magma that seemed to have life, trying to entangle the Plane Nuolun workshop wizards in the air.

The Tower of Extinction wizard was a completely different style.

Simple, rough, direct.

He condensed a mass of energy in the palms of both hands, the left hand was pure scorching white light, and the right hand was deep darkness.

Two completely opposite energies were forcibly compressed together by him, and then bombarded in the form of light beams, shock waves, energy balls, etc.

Every attack carried a terrifying "annihilation" attribute, capable of erasing the matter and energy it came into contact with from the level of existence.

Four Tier 5 wizards, mixed together, clashed fiercely in the air.

The explosion sound of energy collision, the screeching sound of law confrontation, and the chanting sound of wizardry release echoed over this wasteland.

Overall, the two wizards of the Plane Nuolun workshop occupied a clear advantage.

The Chaos Secret Sect wizard was seriously injured, his movements were slow, and every time he cast a spell, it would trigger violent coughing, even coughing up black blood with internal organ fragments.

His defense was becoming thinner and thinner, and he was almost hit by the water snake several times.

The Tower of Extinction wizard's state was slightly better, but he was also annoyed by the female wizard's barrier tactics.

Although his attack power was great, each time it required a short accumulation, and this period of time was enough for the female wizard to lay down more than three layers of interference barriers, making his attack effect greatly reduced.

If this trend continues, in at most three minutes, the Chaos Secret Sect wizard will be the first to fail to hold on.

Once he falls, in a two-on-one situation, the Tower of Extinction wizard won't last long either.

"Fast! Add some effort! He can't hold on much longer!"

The male wizard shouted to his companion while manipulating the water snake to launch a more violent attack.

The female wizard nodded, her hand-sealing speed became faster, and more rune props flew out from her storage space.

However... at this moment when the Plane Nuolun workshop wizards were in an extreme advantage.

The Chaos Secret Sect wizard suddenly showed an... extremely cold smile on his face.

The male wizard who was fighting him head-on felt his heart jump violently.

Not right!

There is a trap!

He almost instinctively increased his vigilance, his spiritual power spread out with all his might, guarding against a third enemy that might be hidden, or the curse wizardry of this guy in front of him.

But he never expected that the danger came from under his feet.

To be precise, it came from the half charred corpse belonging to a Plane Nuolun workshop colleague that had been ignored by him in the lava basin below.

Pssst.

A slight sound, as if a sharp blade pierced into flesh and blood, sounded.

The male wizard's body stiffened violently.

He slowly lowered his head and looked at his chest.

A charred hand that only had bones and a little carbonized muscle pierced through his chest from behind, the palm penetrated from the front chest, five fingers spread out, and the palm held a heart that was still beating slightly.

That was... his heart.

"Uh..."

The male wizard opened his mouth, and blood gushed out from his mouth.

He struggled to turn his head and looked behind him.

That half charred corpse had "stood up" at some point.

Although it had no legs, it was just supporting the ground with the remaining chest cavity and one arm.

In the eye sockets of the corpse, those two black beads were rotating frantically, emitting weird red light.

And the mouth of the corpse, that mouth torn to the ear roots, was opening and closing at this moment, making a sound he was very familiar with...

That was the voice of the Chaos Secret Sect wizard.

"Didn't expect... it could be so smooth."

The voice was full of joy:

"You 'gentlemen' of the Plane Nuolun workshop are always so... easy to be fooled."

The male wizard's pupils contracted violently.

Not until this moment did he understand—from beginning to end, this was a carefully designed trap.

That corpse was not some "remains of a colleague abused to death" at all, but a "parasitic puppet" prepared in advance by the Chaos Secret Sect wizard.

A high-level mimicry curse and soul disguise were applied to it, and even the death aura was simulated vividly, so that they didn't notice the abnormality at all.

And in the battle just now, the Chaos Secret Sect wizard's seemingly embarrassed dodging and defense were actually deliberately guiding his movement, making him unknowingly retreat to the sky above the area where the corpse was located.

Even that cold smile was bait.

Then, at the moment his attention was completely attracted by the enemy in front...

The puppet erupted, killing with one blow.

"Damn it!!!"

The female wizard on the other side also saw the miserable state of her companion at this moment, her eyes splitting.

She wanted to rush over to rescue, but the Tower of Extinction wizard had long expected her reaction, grinning and launching a more violent attack.

The grey-white annihilation beam poured down like a rainstorm, suppressing her in place, unable to break free at all.

"Hehe... don't be anxious."

The Chaos Secret Sect wizard's voice continued to come from the puppet's mouth:

"It will be your turn soon."

And at this moment, the male wizard whose chest was pierced flashed a touch of determination in his eyes.

He knew he couldn't live.

The destruction of the heart was really not a serious injury for a Tier 5 wizard.

Even the curse energy that remained in his body while piercing his chest was not a big problem for this wizard.

The problem was that since the other party had already set this trap, it meant that there were more traps waiting for him!

Since that's the case...

"Run!"

He roared at the female wizard with all his strength.

As the words fell, his body began to deform.

Countless cracks appeared on the skin surface, and thick tentacles covered with mucus drilled out from the cracks frantically, waving wildly in the air.

His head began to elongate, his mouth split into four petals, revealing the layers of sharp teeth inside.

The bones made a teeth-aching twisting sound, and his body size expanded dozens of times in a short moment, turning into a terrifying meat mass that kept wriggling and waving dozens of tentacles.

This was the "Deep Sea Behemoth" bloodline gene he implanted in himself when he was promoted to Tier 5.

Once fully liberated, he could gain terrifying power and vitality in a short time.

But the price was... completely losing human form, and he could only maintain this body for at most five minutes, after which the gene would collapse and die.

It was originally a means as a last-resort life-saving trump card, and now it was used without hesitation.

"Roar!!!"

The meat mass let out an inhuman roar, and dozens of tentacles whipped towards the Chaos Secret Sect wizard and the puppet like steel whips, the terrifying force even drawing out sonic booms.

The puppet was hit head-on by a tentacle and exploded into sky-filling fragments.

The Chaos Secret Sect wizard also groaned, was whipped away for hundreds of meters, slammed heavily on the lava ground, and dragged out a long trench.

But even so...

"Useless..."

The Chaos Secret Sect wizard's voice came from the other side of the lava pit.

He slowly climbed up, although he broke a few more bones, the smile on his face became more and more brilliant:

"You thought... I wouldn't have any preparations?"

He raised his only remaining right hand and snapped his fingers.

Snap.

The crisp sound was particularly harsh on the battlefield.

The next second...

Hum.

With the lava basin as the center, within a radius of five kilometers, countless dark red lines suddenly lit up on the ground.

Those lines spread and intertwined on the surface like blood vessels, eventually forming a huge three-dimensional array covering the entire area.

The moment the array started, space was locked.

No, not just space.

Even energy flow, law activity, and even... "information transmission" were forcibly suppressed and isolated.

The female wizard's face changed drastically.

She tried to use communication wizardry to contact the rear, but the spiritual fluctuations emitted were like a stone sinking into the sea, without any response.

She tried space jumping, but found that she was like a bug trapped in amber, and even moving became extremely difficult.

"This is... 'Pain Prison' ritual?!" She exclaimed.

"Guessed right." The Chaos Secret Sect wizard grinned, "I started deploying it three days ago, just waiting for 'big fish' like you to take the bait."

While speaking, he slowly walked towards the male wizard who had turned into a meat mass:

"Don't worry, this ritual can isolate all internal and external communications, shield most spatial fluctuations, and can also continuously absorb the pain emotions of all creatures in the range and convert them into my power."

"You can't escape."

"And don't count on anyone coming to save you—this area has been completely 'hidden' by my ritual. From the outside, this is just an ordinary wasteland, without any energy fluctuations, without any abnormalities."

"And inside this ritual..."

He stopped ten meters in front of the meat mass and tilted his head:

"Among Tier 5 wizards... I am invincible."

As the words fell, he raised his right hand, and a mass of heart-palpitating dark red energy began to condense in his palm.

In that energy, countless painful and twisted faces seemed to be wailing and struggling.

Just at the moment he was about to launch the final blow.

A mutation occurred again.

(Added update today, one more chapter.)

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 486 =====