Chapter 756: Energy Furnace

After Plamon left, the Undead Army on the wasteland immediately restored order.

The Liches of the deadlock sigils took out pre‑crafted rune arrays and reassembled them on the ground.

Lei En's Mirror Image hid several li away to observe, and at a glance saw that this rune array was not a teleport array but a hub that allows multiple people to jointly cast a large portal; it is far simpler than a teleport array and very easy to use.

In less than a minute, the Liches completed the rune array.

One of the four Liches originally responsible for opening the teleport array was killed, and they replaced it with a legendary Mid-stage Undead Wizard. The portal is a Seven‑ring Spell, but when combined it can be amplified to Nine‑ring, with greater distance and a larger portal that can transport more troops.

Strangely, they did not open the portal immediately, as if waiting for some command.

The Mirror Image could only hold its position upon seeing this.

On Shield Island, Lei En and six Mirror Images had already dispersed. He looked toward the city; the Black Soul Knight Legion had charged to within less than half a li of the turret, but after three rounds of bombardment by Electric Light Cannons, their numbers had been cut down to only a few hundred.

Along their charge route, the ground was pitted and littered with Undead corpses.

One more round of bombardment would annihilate the Black Soul Knight Legion.

Lei En glanced at the phone interface.

The Electric Light Cannon beyond the city wall kept firing to eliminate the attacking Undead Army, harvesting souls each second and converting them into electricity. The progress bars of several legendary Elements were near the end, and even the Strength Element was close to Level 15.

In the Obsidian Tower, twelve Wizards also completed soul metamorphosis, becoming High‑rank Wizards.

For Wizards from Level 7 to Level 9, the electricity required for upgrade became considerable; multiplied twelvefold, the consumption instantly exceeded absorption, and the soul‑energy pool began to plummet.

But Lei En did not let the Wizard clones stop.

As long as this wave of a few hundred Black Soul Knights is killed, the electricity will rise again immediately.

Suddenly, he sensed his soul space shudder violently; a leaf on the World Tree flickered with light, undergoing a strange change.

This Element originated from the Bronze Giant's demon soul, originally a rare‑grade "Energy Absorption".

Later it was upgraded to Level 5, advancing to the super‑rare Element "Energy Devour", and after repeated upgrades, investing an unknown amount of electricity, today it finally rose from Level 8 to Level 9, advancing to a legendary Element!

Level‑8 Energy Devour can fully absorb three Eight‑Ring Spells without any damage.

Lei En wasn't afraid of Plamon earlier precisely because Energy Devour existed, plus the resistance of his Rainbow Light Cloak, the resistance of his Titanium‑extreme Golden Body inherited from a True Dragon, and his Titan Giant form; he dared to face one or two Nine‑ring Spells head‑on.

Now Energy Devour has advanced to a legendary Element, with resistance a level higher.

The advancement concluded quickly.

A brand‑new legendary Element was born; the Element rune on the leaf stabilized, and Lei En sensed it, instantly learning its function.

It still can absorb spell energy, and its capacity limit increased dramatically, from three standard Eight‑Ring Spells to five, or two Nine‑ring Spells.

As long as the absorption limit is not exceeded, it will not be harmed.

Even this alone makes it powerful, but another ability is the real reason it entered legendary status. All absorbed energy can be converted for personal use, stored within the body, and at any time employed to restore soul power, stamina, even to heal injuries, amplifying strength!

Lei En's eyes lit up.

This legendary Element is similar to the Nine‑ring Magic Siphon, but far stronger.

Magic Siphon absorbs spell energy only to replenish one's mana and soul power, whereas this can also restore stamina, even heal, greatly boosting one's strength.

Imagine the enemy laboriously casting spells at you, not only failing to harm you but instead causing your power to surge…

Presumably no caster would be headache‑free.

Lei En feels he will sooner or later become the universal enemy of all casters; with an anti‑magic field, he now dares to confront the Holy Soul Wizard head‑on.

The "Thousand Souls Book" does not contain this legendary Element, nor was it recorded before.

He immediately gave it a name: Energy Furnace!

Energy gathering refers to devouring and absorbing energy; the furnace stores the energy inside the body, operates to release it, driving a more powerful force.

Of course the Energy Furnace is not without a countermeasure; if spell attacks within a very short time exceed its absorption limit—i. e., overload—it can still cause damage. However, only Saint Rank casters can release attacks exceeding two Nine‑ring Spells, and they are not those just at Level 20; they must be at least th Level.

Even if the Energy Furnace overloads, the remaining spell energy must still pierce the Rainbow Light Cloak and Titanium‑extreme Golden Body's resistance, so the damage inflicted is minimal.

Lei En has always had a dream.

He wants to catch his master's fireball with his own face, and now that dream is getting ever closer.

Moreover, the Energy Furnace's Element icon has a progress bar beneath it.

This shows it can still be upgraded!

Lei En tried it and found that raising it to Level 2 requires over three thousand units of electricity, comparable to the Titanium‑extreme Golden Body—truly a never‑before‑seen legendary Element.

Now the electricity is abundant enough to be endless, and he immediately began enhancing the Energy Furnace.

Boom—

After a round of charging, the Electric Light Cannon detonated the soul‑field of those hundreds of Black Soul Knights, and the other two Electric Light Cannons began a frenzied barrage.

Invisible beams slaughtered these Undead elites.

A few more seconds and they will be completely eradicated.

At this moment, a Mirror Image over three hundred li away saw the Liches begin casting. Simultaneously, the two Electric Light Cannons firing at the Black Soul Knight Legion suddenly formed several‑meter‑thick ice; the emerging shield was ineffective, and the entire turret was frozen within.

The Electric Light Cannon immediately went silent.

The Black Soul Knight Legion seized the chance to reopen the soul‑field, ignoring the frozen turret, charging straight through the middle, continuing toward the highland fortress.

Two farther‑away turrets had just launched energy projectiles and were cooling down, unable to fire for the moment.

When the Black Soul Knight Legion successfully passed through, the frozen turret shattered, its forged metal and underlying stone base silently crumbling into dust.

This is the effect of extreme cold.

Lei En's pupils narrowed; Plamon made a move.

This Holy Soul Lich excels at teleportation and ice spells; if it were allowed to destroy the Electric Light Cannon, the Fu Kong Cheng of the Cataclysm Army would appear without delay, and Getan would fall.

It must be stopped!

In a sudden shift of mind, Lei En cast a teleportation spell to return to the city, and the six Mirror Images also contracted their defenses, each teleporting near a turret, and again shouted in unison: "Seven‑ring, Pre‑knowledge Teleport!"

On the other side, the Mirror Image hidden in the shadows also launched an attack on the Lich, attempting to disrupt the portal.

However, the Cataclysm Army was already prepared.

A Lich with two Legendary High-rank Death Knights blocked the Mirror Image.

Lei En teleported to the side of a turret that was cooling down, his gaze sweeping rapidly; the Soul Eye, Truth Willpower, and All-Seeing Eye all operated at full power, piercing the void plane, and finally locating Plamon's trace. He was hidden a few hundred meters away, not in the star realm, but concealed within the Aether Plane.

He held a rune book in his hands, flipping it quickly, casting a spell.

Even a Holy Soul Lich cannot cast across planes; it must enter the Prime Material Plane at the instant the spell completes to strike the turret.

Plamon also saw Lei En, but he was very confident in his concealment.

Lei En didn't even think, swapping the Thunderbolt War Hammer in his hand for the Thunder God's Hammer, his body swelling, arm muscles bulging, he hurled it with all his might.

Boom!

A muffled thud sounded as the war hammer unleashed terrifying power, smashing through the void into the Aether Plane.

The hammerhead was wrapped in strands of golden lightning, like a small sun.

In almost an instant, the Thunder God's Hammer flew to Plamon's front, faster than lightning, catching the Holy Soul Lich off guard.

Plamon's complexion changed dramatically, forced to interrupt his casting.

The rune book in his hand flashed, instantly casting a spell, and in an instant returned from the Aether Plane to the Prime Material Plane, evading the hammer's direct blow by a hair's breadth.

In the Aether Plane, where the Thunder God's Hammer struck, a void collapse occurred.

A strand of power and lightning followed like a shadow along the ripples generated by the teleport, catching up to Plamon and striking his ice shield. Even a tiny amount of power made the ice shield quake violently, causing Plamon to fall out, looking rather disheveled.

"Seven-ring, Dimensional Anchor!"

The next second after Plamon fell and materialized, he heard Lei En's shout.

A transparent beam instantly struck Plamon, giving him no chance to counter. The beam caused no damage, as it was not an attack spell, and the ice shield did not react.

But the flames in Plamon's eyes flared intensely.

He excels at teleportation spells, so he knows well the effect of the Dimensional Anchor—it can forbid all cross-plane movement.

Moreover, Lei En's casting method was odd; he shouted it out loud.

Wish Spell!

Plamon's mind was hit by a strong shock, but his reaction was no slower; a thought flickered, and he teleported hundreds of meters away.

As his front foot flashed forward, a war hammer shot out from where his rear foot had stood.

Boom!

The war hammer struck the ground, causing the earth within a hundred meters radius to sink.

Massive void fissures spread outward, lightning, arcane energy, and the purest force mingling, forming a storm that shredded the space.

Lei En's figure appeared simultaneously, reaching out to catch the war hammer.

The storms fell on him as if unnoticed; the moment he grasped the war hammer, he vanished. Plamon just teleported out, a flash at the corner of his eye, an extreme danger warning surged in his mind, as if a terrible attack was coming.

He instantly teleported again.

Plamon's figure appeared high in the air, but before he could cast, Lei En followed.

"Seven-ring…"

Lei En swung the hammer down, the terrifying force blasting the air, thunder flashing in the sky. At the same time, he shouted, preparing to use Wish Spell to seal the space, forbidding teleportation.

Yet however fast he shouted, Plamon's reaction was faster.

The moment he shouted Seven-ring, Plamon vanished.

The Holy Soul Lich's teleport left virtually no casting gap, already capable of instant casting, even at great distance; a mere thought could reach any point within range.

The Thunder God's Hammer also struck empty air.

Lei En had to abort the Wish Spell, lock onto Plamon's bearing, and follow with a mental leap. Because of the Wish Spell's effect, his mental jump was half a beat slower, and Plamon seized the chance. Leaping out, he was met by an overwhelming ice storm.

The cold wind howled, massive ice spears rained down on him.

The area, hundreds of meters across, was completely covered by the ice storm, yet Plamon was nowhere to be seen.

Lei En was struck by an ice spear; the Eight-ring ice storm wasn't enough to wound him, but it was just Plamon's misdirection, intended not to harm the enemy but to evade tracking.

Snap!

Lei En turned into a bolt of lightning, leapt out of the ice storm, looked around, but could not find Plamon.

"He escaped again?" Lei En thought helplessly.

The thought hadn't settled when Truth Willpower raised an alert. Instinctively he looked up, and a thick white beam surged forward, as if piercing from the void, emitting extreme cold that froze even space, turning it into a Polar World.

Nine-ring Technique—Polar Ray!

Lei En had seen this technique before; Augulevi Master used it to kill the phoenix that Sabbath Dean had manifested.

He instantly teleported to dodge.

The Polar Ray grazed his chest, and Lei En appeared hundreds of meters away; a burst of ice erupted at his chest, spreading instantly over his body. The Energy Furnace activated at once, absorbing the icy force into his body, condensing between chest and abdomen into an energy sphere, like a furnace in operation.

Plamon's figure appeared in the distance, surprise evident in his eyes.

Even a trace of his Polar Ray would produce a powerful freezing effect, slowing enemies' movements; if their magical resistance is insufficient, it could even freeze them solid.

But Lei En was completely unharmed.

Bang!

Lei En turned into a bolt of lightning and surged forward, but with Plamon on guard, closing the gap to a Holy Soul Lich proved exceedingly difficult.

By the time the Electric Flash Teleport finished, Plamon was no longer where he had been.

This time he vanished completely.

Lei En hovered midair, his gaze sweeping rapidly around, still finding nothing. He waited a few seconds; Plamon made no casting attack, and Truth Willpower sensed no danger warning, indicating the threat had moved far away.

He couldn't help feeling helpless.

Plamon, despite his overwhelming strength, was overly cautious, repeatedly avoiding battle.

At this moment, hundreds of Black Soul Knight Order units had already broken through the turret defense line, rushing toward the city's highland fortress. An Extreme Warrior, circling in the sky east of the fortress, rode a Flame Dragon down in a dive, with a Bolt Gun in hand ready to fire.

Lei En feared Plamon would target the Extreme Warrior, so he teleported over, landing on the back of a Flame Dragon.

Almost as soon as he steadied his footing, a teleportation portal opened.

This time the portal opened in a very clever spot, exactly between the two destroyed turrets, beyond the Mirror Image's precognitive teleportation range, so it couldn't block the entrance beforehand.

Wave after wave of Black Soul Knights surged forth.

(End of chapter)