End of the Magic Era

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

In the end of the Nesser Dynasty, the hatred of the past burst out, and nobody could stop it any longer after the outburst…

Uther died, and had to turn into an undead creature. Then, the King of Nightmares regained control of his body, returned to the Plane of the Undead, and entered the Kingdom of Nightmares, hoping to restore his former glory.

But at this moment, Uther popped up again. He had changed after countless years of life, and was no longer as innocent as he used to be. He became cunning and brutal for his revenge. After he entered the depths of the Kingdom of Nightmares, Uther trapped the King of Nightmares' consciousness in an illusionary world, and made sure that he would always be a prisoner in his kingdom with the Chapter of Blood.

The King of Nightmares had no idea that Uther had been an undead creature all along. He only thought that Uther was dead.

The King of Nightmares was quite shocked at the unexpected change, but he used to be a god, or part of one, anyway, and his counterattack heavily wounded Uther.

His soul was split up because of the King of Nightmares' curse, namely the Flame Spirit's part and the Destruction Black Dragon's part. His personality was shredded too…

However, due to the specialness of the Chapter of Blood and his reborn body, he didn't die even when his soul was torn apart. If anything, the evil part of his soul melted with the King of Nightmares' wisdom, and suppressed this place.

The kind part of the soul escaped from the Kingdom of Nightmares, and disappeared. It was not until the King of Nightmares saw Uther leave the Kingdom of Nightmares without a soul, and melted with Uther's evil soul that he finally realized what happened…

Uther was an undead creature to begin with. He had resurrected himself with the Chapter of Blood, but he turned into an undead creature again after he died. He transformed into a lich…

His life in the Plane of the Undead made him realize that every soul fire was bound to be swallowed, so he didn't want to have any soul fire. Was there a better place to preserve his soul fire than the depths of the Kingdom of Nightmares?

No. He let the evil soul be swallowed by the King of Nightmares' consciousness so that the two of them were combined.

The King of Nightmares was forever trapped in Uther's illusionary world. The King of Nightmares certainly wouldn't let himself die. He would live even if the illusionary world collapsed, but it was impossible for him to escape.

Uther turned into a lich whose soul was attached to the Chapter of Blood. Even he couldn't access his own soul, so nobody else could. His phylactery was absolutely safe…

Reading all the memories, Lin Yun put on a weird expression. An idea suddenly occurred to him. The Bloody Lich…

The Bloody Lich loved torturing living creatures, and letting them bleed to death. He was a synonym of horror even in the Plane of the Undead.

Remembering what the Bloody Lich did in the Leviathan Plane, Lin Yun had no doubt that it was the Bloody Lich. Uther couldn't have turned into any lich other than the Bloody Lich.

When the Bloody Lich was weak, many people tried to find his phylactery, only to fail. After the Bloody Lich was killed, he would initiate bloody retaliations after his resurrection. Nobody dared to mess with him after that.

His retaliations could last thousands of years. Even the undead creatures didn't want to piss him off.

Without destroying a lich's phylactery, it was impossible to kill a lich by destroying their soul. They could revive even if their body was no more. At the very least, bodies didn't matter to powerful undead creatures such as the Bloody Lich. They could revive even if their body was ruined.

There was no telling how many backup bodies he had in the Plane of the Undead. However, everybody knew that no liches were ever short of backup bodies.

The Chapter of Blood was suppressed by the Chapter of Blood[a], and finally melted into the Book of Death. However, the remaining soul of Uther, or the King of Nightmares, was still in there. It could be a major problem.

After reading all of the memories, Lin Yun didn't find what he wanted. The Nesser Dynasty was destroyed for many reasons. The battle between pure-blood elves and Chromatic Dragons was due to the hatred that was from the age of gods.

The invasion of demons was because of hatred from the past too. However, what caused the fall of pure-blood elves and Chromatic Dragons was the war in the space battlefield…

It was said that pure-blood elves and Chromatic Dragons ran to another plane, but that plane was destroyed too, and they went extinct.

Their enemies in the space battlefield were pure-blood dragons and Chromatic Dragons too, among other species. Some species had even been extinct before the Nesser Dynasty. The Lord of Misfortune's appearance was confusing too.

The 72 gods were all dead in the age of gods. The 73rd God that hadn't been born yet was destroyed too. The King of Nightmares' memories specified that all the 72 gods perished in the age of gods too.

Then, what was the Lord of Misfortune about?

The Lord of Misfortune seemed very strong, but not so for other gods. He ranked among the last 20 of all the 72 gods. He was killed at the very beginning in the war of gods by the Lord of Wisdom. There were detailed records of that.

Lin Yun didn't think that the Lord of Misfortune could've escaped perfectly from other gods. Then how did he come back again?

If the Great Elf King dragged him into a void hollow, and died with him, how could his soul pieces be found in Noscent?

He didn't have any answer to those questions. He only had more questions…

Shaking his head, Lin Yun decided to drop the matter. The most important thing to do was to rescue Agalon and others.

In this age, the Kingdom of Nightmares was as mysterious as gods. However knowledgeable Agalon was, there was no way that he could come up with a solution to leave the illusionary world so quickly.

In the future, the mages who risked their lives pursuing the truth of magic spent more than 1,000 years studying the Kingdom of Nightmares before they finally got to the bottom of it.

Lin Yun picked a random one of the five illusionary worlds. He had to rescue all of them sooner or later anyway.

Picking a random illusionary world, Lin Yun approached it slowly, and the same thing happened again. The illusionary world quickly expanded. His body fell quickly. When he opened his eyes again, he found himself in the Starry Sky College.

The moment Lin Yun arrived, a team of griffin knights flew towards him. All of them were in the Heaven Rank. Also, the Starry Sky College loomed in front of Lin Yun like an ancient monster.

The fat kid trembled on Lin Yun's shoulder with a bitter expression.

"Sir, when will this be over? There are five more? Each of them is so terrifying and dangerous. The chief said that if we die here, our souls cannot go back. We'll be completely dead…"

Lin Yun patted him and grinned.

"That's alright. It won't be so dangerous this time. The last trip was an accident…"

The fat kid gloomily mumbled something, but didn't dare to do anything else. He clutched Lin Yun's robe tightly, and kept his eyes closed while complaining in a low voice. "The chief said that we'll be truly dead…"

Lin Yun stood still, and didn't hide from the griffin knights. He simply released the special aura of creativity that only Saint Alchemists had.

As he expected, the griffin knights descended from the sky the moment they detected Lin Yun. They bowed at Lin Yun respectfully, and walked away immediately, not caring what Lin Yun was doing here.

A level-7 Heaven Rank Saint Alchemist could do anything in the Starry Sky College. Nobody would stop him at all…

Lin Yun calmed himself down, and stepped into the Starry Sky College, which wasn't as large as the one Lin Yun had seen, but it carried an ancient aura.

There was no telling to whom the illusionary world belonged. After all, Agalon, Alonzo, and all the three deans of the Starry Sky College had spent most of their time in the Starry Sky College, so their illusionary world could all be the Starry Sky College.

Moving forward on the main road in the campus, Lin Yun saw many young people who were walking in a hurry. They were all alchemist apprentices, who were the bottom-level alchemists that had to do most chores.

Most alchemists would give away the unimportant tasks to their apprentices after their levels rose. Such tasks were not challenging, and were very time-consuming. Still, they could help hone skills. It was nothing bad for the apprentices to do that.

Every alchemist had experienced the same. Many alchemists even chose to collect and process materials on their own in the pursuit of perfection.

Lin Yun wasn't in a hurry to look for the owner of this world. He didn't know who was here, or which age this Starry Sky College was in. It wasn't easy for him to find the target, but if he spent a few days here, and announced his presence, his target would surely come to him.

In only three days, the news that a Saint Alchemist came to the Starry Sky College had spread out. Many alchemists of the Starry Sky College came to ask Lin Yun questions. Even the dean of the Starry Sky College, who was another Saint Alchemist, discussed alchemy with Lin Yun too.

In this age, the Starry Sky College only had one dean, who was a Saint Alchemist who had just accomplished the advancement. The Starry Sky College hadn't advanced yet. It might have a lot of alchemists at this moment, but it was not a holy land that it would become yet.

[a]One of those two chapters of blood is a typo, but I dunno which (prolly the first one) and what it should be