Chapter 702: Ascension Legend – High Tier

Thunder God's Spear pierced the protective barrier, and its momentum continued, blasting a huge hole in the outer wall at the top of the Mage Tower, causing countless stones to fall down.

Aside from that, the Mage Tower suffered no greater damage.

But it was now completely exposed, like a frail maiden stripped of all clothing, powerless to resist the invasion.

"Ah……"

The Eye Demon's frantic yet terrified scream echoed from the tower top.

It tried to draw the tower's energy to reopen the protective barrier. However, the rune array inside the Mage Tower was only half set up, the energy reserve was low, already mostly consumed, and the energy transmission was not fast enough; there were only a few minutes left, insufficient to re‑establish the barrier.

Lei En would not give it such a chance.

In the instant the tower's barrier collapsed, the nine remaining Mirror Images vibrated their titanium‑gold flying feathers, became nine shafts of golden light, supplemented by Flash and Electric Flash Teleport, and in a blink flew to the hole at the tower top and rushed inside.

Reslin's true Mirror Image also opened a random door and stepped through.

The top of the Mage Tower was a great hall.

When Reslin's true Mirror Image emerged from the random door, it saw a strange monster floating in the middle of the hall.

Its form was a massive sphere over two meters in diameter, with a huge single eye at the center occupying one‑third of the surface; beneath the eye was a blood‑filled gaping mouth bristling with sharp fangs, and inside a tongue covered in barbs.

Layer upon layer of armor‑like keratin wrapped the eye and the huge mouth, and ten tentacle‑like eye stalks extended from the top, each ending in a slightly smaller eyeball.

One main eye and ten auxiliary eyes gave it a completely dead‑angle‑free field of view.

It floated in midair, each eye filled with endless cruelty and madness; the gaping mouth emitted a harsh roar mixed with curses and venomous insults.

This is the Eye Demon!

And a specialist caster among Eye Demons, an Eye Demon Elder.

It radiated powerful magical fluctuations; the entire eyeball was shielded, and the main eye and ten auxiliary eyes each fired magical rays at Lei En's Mirror Images.

The rays the Eye Demon emitted were swift and fierce, powerful—its most proficient spell.

However, the vast majority of the rays struck Lei En's Mirror Images and were easily resisted, absorbed, or deflected, causing almost no damage.

This drove the Eye Demon into extreme despair.

As a caster, it possessed many escape spells and had prepared a retreat. Beneath it lay a stone platform engraved with a complex rune array, centered by a skull‑sized orb; this platform was the Mage Tower's control core.

If it left the console, the Mage Tower would be lost entirely.

Around the console was another layer of magical field, a semi‑transparent barrier; as long as this final protection was breached, the Eye Demon would have nowhere to hide.

But it was unwilling to abandon the Mage Tower so easily, choosing to cling stubbornly within the protective field.

"You lowly creatures…"

"Daring to invade the ancient Gozelakan Tower, such an unforgivable act of stupidity. May the great Matriarch curse you; I will kill you and imprison your souls to torment for a hundred years."

"If you cease now and depart, I can forgive your crimes."

"Ah!"

"Disgusting hybrids, you are doomed!"

The Eye Demon kept speaking, threatening and enticing, raving mad, its eyes filled with all manner of negative emotions, casting spells without pause for a second.

Lei En's Mirror Images surrounded the console's protective field; this field functioned like the Nine-ring Technique, hard to break, so they did not rush to act.

Anyway, they had already entered the Mage Tower, the Eye Demon was locked, with nowhere to escape.

At this moment, two Fungal Giants were teleported in by the Eye Demon.

Fungal Giants are a very rare branch of giants, lower‑tier giants, nearly ten meters tall, their massive bodies composed of plants and fungi, skin speckled with spots, heads shaped like huge spores, hands are two oily long whips, exuding a rotting stench.

They are legendary monsters; upon appearing they swung their arms and charged.

Four thunderous roars rang, sword lights intersected.

The Fungal Giants were instantly sliced into several pieces, their bodies scattered on the ground, the corpses burned to charcoal by thunder‑flame.

At that moment the Eye Demon finally saw that its Fungal Giants had been slain by four Mirror Images; they bore wings on their backs, wielded dark‑golden two‑handed greatswords, the blades ignited with silvery thunder fire.

"You…"

The Eye Demon finally realized its fear.

Just Mirror Images were so powerful, able to slay a Fungal Giant with a single sword, and now it was surrounded by nine such Mirror Images.

As it wrestled within, torn between greed and luck, the Mirror Images began their attack.

The remaining five Mirror Images also summoned titanium‑gold holy swords, igniting thunder‑flame.

All-Seeing Eye located a weak point on the protective field; the nine Mirror Images locked onto that spot, their titanium‑gold holy swords lit up, and slashed.

Thunder Slash!

Thunder Slash!

Thunder Slash!

The Mirror Images, in a queue, delivered one Thunder Slash after another at the same point.

Legendary power and lightning erupted together, the magical field quivered violently, and the entire hall atop the tower trembled as if about to collapse.

At this time, Reslin's true Mirror Image also released a spell.

Tim Kainen Disintegrate!

A transparent ray struck the magical field; the Eight-ring Disintegrate technique has a low success rate against the Nine-ring protective field, but under the Mirror Images' assault the field was already suppressed to the brink of collapse, and once the disintegrate activated, the magical field instantly shattered.

The Eye Demon's body was exposed, then vanished in an instant.

In the next instant, seven or eight Eye Demons appeared in the hall, each identical.

Mirror Image Technique!

Reslin's true Mirror Image didn't even glance at these false images, fixed its gaze on a spot in the hall, and instantly unleashed a Space-Time Shock.

Clap!

The hidden Eye Demon manifested, its teleportation spell was interrupted, and the single eye was filled with shock and panic.

A Mirror Image swung a Thunder Slash at the Eye Demon, but struck empty air.

The Eye Demon flashed to the other side of the hall; before it could assess the situation, black Void Chains erupted from the surrounding void, entangling it and its shield. Several eye stalks on its head rotated, and its eyeballs emitted green dissociation rays that shattered the chains.

Such rapid reaction and casting is truly worthy of an Eye Demon Elder's power.

However, that was not enough to let it escape.

Shedding the Void Chains took less than half a second, yet it sealed its fate.

Four Mirror Images of Lei En locked onto the Eye Demon, taking turns unleashing Space-Time Shock to keep it firmly in place. The remaining Mirror Images then sequentially swung Thunder Slash.

Bang! Bang!

Just two Thunder Slashes, and the Eye Demon's shield shattered.

In the dire situation, it opened a counter‑magic field, canceling the continuous Space‑Time Shock. The counter‑magic field can suppress magic, but it is of little use against Lei En's Mirror Images; Thunder Slash and Thunder Flame are not magic and are barely affected.

When a Mirror Image slashed in front of the Eye Demon, its constant Flight Technique failed, slowing its speed by a few ticks.

But the potency of Thunder Slash was hardly diminished.

A crack of thunder, and sword light with silver flame flashed.

The Eye Demon's keratin armor was instantly sliced open; the titanium holy sword pierced its single eye, and its blood‑filled maw let out a wail as the entire sphere was cleaved in two.

The Wizard Tower fell silent at once.

The rune light on the tower dimmed, and the flow of energy subsided.

The main body of Lei En flew into the tower's top hall, holding a Soul Stone before the Eye Demon's corpse; soon, an Eye Demon soul was extracted.

He glanced at the demon soul inside the Soul Stone, a look of delight on his face.

This Eye Demon was indeed a Legendary Mid‑stage; its power was negligible to him, yet it possessed many Elements—nearly thirty, most of them Arcane Elements. These Elements were largely self‑constructed by the Eye Demon; if not in its demon‑soul form, one would mistake it for a Wizard.

Lei En instantly spotted the counter‑magic field he coveted most.

It is a supreme Element, upgradable, already at seven rings; mastering it allows suppression of spells below seven rings.

Another supreme Element is called "Eye Wave Ray".

It is an innate ability Element of the Eye Demon, with a unique effect: it releases ray‑type spells through the eyes, unrestricted by Arcane, elemental, or other energies—any ray spell can be used, dramatically accelerating casting speed and doubling potency!

It is precisely because of the Eye Wave Ray that the Eye Demon always prefers to master various ray spells.

Lei En counted, and found that among this Eye Demon Elder's Arcane Elements, a little over half were rays, including Charm Ray, Petrify Ray, Fear Ray, Weaken Ray, Dissociation Ray, Scorching Ray, Freezing Ray, Lightning Ray, Death Ray, and so on—over ten types in total.

These ray spells vary in ring count, some high, some low.

If it were Legendary High‑rank, these ray spells alone could pose a great threat to the Mirror Images; alas, being only Legendary Mid‑stage, its damage is insufficient, and the negative effects are all resisted.

Aside from the counter‑magic field and Eye Wave Ray, the remaining Arcane Elements are quite miscellaneous.

There are Arcane Elements for countering other casters such as Dispel Magic, Dimensional Anchor, and Spell Reflection; shadow‑type Projection, Weak Energy, Shadow Bind; for attacking and controlling foes: Fear Technique, Stun Technique, Mental Whip; for displacement and escape: Flash, Arbitrary Door, Teleportation; as well as universal ones like Wizard's Hand, Invisibility, Mirror Image, True Insight, and so on.

The ring counts aren't very high; aside from a few at six or seven rings, most are below six, and some he has already mastered.

But Lei En didn't mind at all; just the counter‑magic field and Eye Wave Ray satisfied him.

The Eye Demon's plethora of spells can also fill his own spell count.

He glanced outside the high tower; his teammates were still fighting. With the Eye Demon dead, the slave army's morale collapsed instantly, and they fled in the caves.

These slaves are all energy; Reslin's Mirror Images are in hot pursuit.

The Soul Power Pool is nearly full.

Lei En immediately swapped positions with Reslin, returning to the study in Glamorgan Castle. He opened the mobile interface, channeling energy into "Thunder God's Spear" and "Thunder Slash", raising those two Elements to level six, consuming over four hundred units of energy to prevent the Soul Power Pool from overflowing.

Meanwhile, Reslin was also moderately expending energy to upgrade spells.

Lei En sat at the desk, placing the Soul Stone on his forehead.

The next second, the Eye Demon Elder's demon soul was drawn into Soul Space, appearing at the roots of the World Tree. This demon soul differed from before; though a strange beast, it possessed extremely high intelligence, making fusion exceedingly difficult.

Moreover, this was the third fusion of a Legendary Mid‑stage demon soul, and the conflict was the most severe.

But Lei En was very confident.

The battle in the caves continued, with souls constantly being absorbed by Reslin, causing the energy in the Soul Power Pool to fluctuate.

In Glamorgan, Lei En, seated in the study with his eyes closed, felt his chest rise and fall irregularly.

Time ticked by, minute after minute.

Lei En suddenly opened his eyes, a smile on his face, the fusion succeeded!

In Soul Space, a brand‑new branch sprouted from the highest point of the World Tree; its leaves, the most numerous yet—twenty‑four in total—surpassed all other demon souls. Each leaf shimmered with runes, representing a spell.

To complete the fusion, Lei En raised the frequency of soul vibration, forcefully suppressing the Eye Demon Elder's demon soul and quelling the conflict.

The price was the loss of five Elements.

Fortunately, those five Elements did not include the counter‑magic field and Eye Wave Ray he coveted, so the outcome was unaffected.

"The three Legendary Mid‑stage demon souls have finally all fused."

"Fifteenth‑level Wizard!"

Lei En did not stop; he immediately poured more energy into Blood Frenzy.

Blood Frenzy was already at level five; one more upgrade would advance it to a Legendary Element. Previously, the progress bar had been pushed past ninety, just a few points shy of leveling up.

Soon, Blood Frenzy's progress bar reached its end, and the icon began flashing.

Lei En felt his soul begin to transform!

He advanced from a supreme Element to a Legendary Element, using the Element's upgrade to trigger Soul Transformation; he was already very familiar with it. This Soul Transformation requires no ceremony, is safe and reliable, and the metamorphosis is faster—only a few minutes from start to finish.

Lei En sat there, fully experiencing his Soul Transformation.

After a few minutes.

The soul metamorphosis ended, and he stood up.

The Blood Frenzy icon on the mobile interface also changed, advancing to "Infinite Frenzy", a Legendary Element coveted by all melee super‑humans worldwide.

Activating Infinite Frenzy amplified his power fivefold.

And as time passes, the amplification will rise further, from five times to six, seven, eight… up to a maximum of ten times!

Lei En had previously witnessed Unlimited Fury, and he knew its power better than anyone.

He glanced at the icon and noticed the progress bar below had disappeared.

This meant Unlimited Fury could no longer be increased.

"What a pity."

Lei En shook his head, but he didn't really care. With his own strength, a tenfold increase was already terrifying enough; adding the weight of Thunder God's Hammer, if his strength rose another two or three levels, probably few people in the world could withstand a single blow from him.

What he cared more about was that he had advanced to Legendary High-rank.

Reaching Legendary High-rank, from level sixteen to nineteen, four levels allow fusion of four magic souls, and he already had two prepared!

(End of chapter)