Mechanical Alchemist-Chapter 523 522 Su Lun’s Overwhelmingly Low-key Dominance
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On the deck of the Eternal Night, everyone caught the sudden change on Su Lun's face and turned to look.
Beside him, Qian Tiao asked, "What's wrong?"
Su Lun's eyes showed deep thought, and he spoke with a cautious tone, "It seems like the mages from the divine planes are trying to establish a large-scale teleportation formation."
The Dragon Country waters were extremely dangerous, certainly not something that two pirate groups, with seventy percent battle damage, along with a handful of mages could explore very much of. Even if one of those mages was from the eighth-order holy army, they could be annihilated by a single adult dragon.
So, establishing a teleportation formation to bring a large number of people over was the basic prerequisite for searching for the "Mimir's Spring."
But Su Lun was puzzled about another matter.
He was an expert in spatial displacement himself, so how could he not know the difficulty of long-distance spatial teleportation formations?
Reliance on demon crystals and energy stones alone simply wouldn't sustain the transfer of so many people.
Previously, in the divine plane of the Monster Mountains, those people had used the ten-thousand-person teleportation once.
That was because there was a fragment of the "Urobolos Space-Time Ring" in the Giant God Mountain, providing enough power of space to support the formation.
Now, the actions of the "Five-Person Mage Group" as mentioned by Kit were all too familiar to Su Lun. Wasn't this the prelude to a sacrifice gathering the power of time?
Does that mean those guys found a huge energy source?
Su Lun thought of something and relayed the situation to Tanni beside him.
Upon hearing this, Tanni's expression immediately lit up with excitement, "Mr. Su Lun, are you talking about a colorful and iridescent well? That must be our Naga race's arcane energy source, the Magic Spring—the 'Rainbow Well'! I remember... as a child, I even drank the rainbow-colored well water."
He was young when his mother took him away and had forgotten much.
But now he was moved by the familiar scenery, and the sealed memories emerged.
Su Lun asked with curiosity, "The Magic Well?"
Tanni nodded and explained, "Yeah. Drinking from it can permanently enhance the body's elemental affinity."
Upon hearing this, Su Lun's face brightened, "That powerful?"
With those words, he too guessed the energy source for the teleportation formation.
The Naga race, descendants of the dark elves, could trace their lineage back to the high elves of myths, inheriting the elves' supreme element control within their blood.
Just like Tanni, whose emerging talent for water affinity was not even weaker than that of "A-004-Rain Caller."
Su Lun immediately considered, "Or... could one of those mages' goals be the 'Rainbow Well' itself?"
An ability to permanently enhance elemental affinity meant the well water could indeed be described as a treasure.
Especially for mages who wield the secrets of the elements, it was truly a divine object.
The divine plane's legacies had never been severed; Su Lun felt that those invaders surely possessed ancient secrets of the Alchemy plane that were no longer known to the public.
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Just as Su Lun was about to inquire further, the communicator rang out again.
Kit cried out in alarm, "Oh, Su Lun, you were right on the money! Those guys sacrificed all the low-tier pirates! My god, what kind of magic is that? In the blink of an eye, everyone aged and died. Lucky for your warning, I managed to slip away in time..."
Su Lun's gaze shifted as he listened.
A Time Mage had shown up once again, it seemed.
The plane's passage happened to be in the Ascieden Empire of the divine plane, the worshipped deity of which was the "Lord of Time." So it was no surprise that several mages of the time doctrine, who have been part of the recent invasion of the holy army, were encountered here.
Su Lun immediately responded, "Be careful, that is the power of time, and it's very tricky. Be extremely cautious; once discovered, there's no escaping!"
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He had once personally experienced the formidable power of time.
Against such an enemy, 99% of people wouldn't even know what happened when they were dying.
Kit said, "Hmm. I'll be careful."
No sooner had he spoken than he appeared to see another shocking scene, and he said incoherently, "Oh, Su Lun, do you know what I saw?! So many mages, filling the sky, probably tens of thousands! And the teleportation formation is still active, it looks like even more mages are coming over..."
Not everyone has witnessed the spectacle of a ten-thousand-member mage group descending, overwhelming everything in its path, where even a ninth-tier would have to avoid its sharp edge.
Su Lun listened with a calm heart.
He even thought it was good news that the enemy was bringing in more people.
After all, the larger the number of people, the larger the target.
It was just like the situation in the curse space of the [Dwarf King's Resentment] in the Monster Beast Forest. Although a ten-thousand-member group was strong, its large size also made it a target for the evil dragon's attacks.
A snipe and a clam grapple with each other; it is the fisherman who stands to benefit.
The ten-thousand-member group had been thoroughly outmaneuvered by Su Lun, and the news probably hadn't spread.
They could completely handle a few more waves.
The dragons in the waters of the Dragon Country were plentiful, never fewer.
Not to mention cyclopes, gorgons, and some other dangerous creatures.
The ten-thousand-member mage group couldn't be confronted head-on, but one could certainly set a wolf to eat a tiger.
With these creatures drawing the monsters' attention, it also greatly reduced the risks for the Dawn group.
However, the teleportation formation was a big problem.
Su Lun planned to go and check out the situation first.
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But at this moment, something unexpected happened.
Kit sent an urgent message, "Not good, I think I've been discovered!"
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Su Lun, hearing the still nonchalantly dangerous tone, twitched his brow.
But he also quickly asked, "Who's chasing you?"
Kit replied, "A seventh-tier mage and two seventh-tier pirate fleet captains!"
Su Lun also breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this.
Being able to respond meant that the situation wasn't too bad yet.
A "pirate" on the run, wouldn't draw out the exalted holy army personally.
Kit was on the career path of a phantom thief skilled in all sorts of fancy movement and stealth techniques.
Unless the Time Mage himself was after him, his ability to preserve his own life was not weak.
However, it wasn't long before Kit sent another message, "Good news, I shook off the pursuers, and I'm still alive. Bad news, I'm trapped in a curse space within a space that seems rather difficult."
While saying this, the guy couldn't resist complaining, "Damn it, who would've thought a curse space would be hidden inside the sea fog..."
Upon hearing this, Su Lun guessed that Kit's recent situation hadn't been good.
After all, the guy was only sixth-tier, being chased by three seventh-tiers, it was normal for him to flee without looking back and accidentally enter a curse space.
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If it were before, having mistakenly entered a cursed space, Su Lun would have been worried about the difficulty of that space.
But now, Su Lun simply asked, "Did you leave a mark?"
"I did. Card number 7, I left it outside."
Kit responded.
He quickly cautioned, "But I think you'd better not come. I feel this space could very well be 'S grade,' or even 'T grade.' And there are three Tier 7s outside. Don't come over just yet; let me try to see if I can make it out."
Without further explanation, Su Lun said, "Senior Kit, don't move rashly, wait for me to come over."
Before Kit could respond, he glanced at Qiantiao and said, "You guys head northwest first, I'll go over and check the situation."
Qiantiao nodded lazily, "Hmm."
On the ship, only she knew the full extent of Su Lun's real combat strength, so she wasn't worried at all.
However, hearing this conversation, Barrett and Hibbs, several other Tier 7s, asked, "Su Lun, do you need us to help?"
In their view, after all, there were three Tier 7s on the other side, and even though they knew Su Lun's combat strength was extraordinary and he could take down those three Tier 7s, if he couldn't kill them quickly and got held up, it would be dangerous.
Su Lun shook his head: "No need."
Barrett and the others, seeing the composure on his face, came to a sudden realization, but still found it unbelievable.
Su Lun did not offer further explanation.
As soon as he finished speaking, he performed the sorcerer's seals, and under his feet, the alchemy formation of a spatial formation lit up.
Perceiving the distance to be approximately two to three hundred kilometers, after drawing out enough dark spiritual power from the "Heart of Isaac's Alchemy," he stepped into a spatial rift and disappeared from the deck.
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The scenery changed around him, and Su Lun appeared on a beach.
A golden Card inscribed with spatial coordinates was stuck in the sand.
"Kit really ran quite a distance..."
Su Lun chuckled to himself.
Looking at the distance, the space above an island about ten kilometers away was violently fluctuating, obviously the location where the magic group had descended.
And in the duration of the communication, Kit had already run this far, which was quite impressive.
With a glance, a thick fog blanketed the distant sea surface.
Although invisible to the naked eye, Su Lun could clearly perceive a cursed space there.
However, before that, he gripped the black umbrella in his hand and murmured, "Haven't left yet?"
In his perception, three soul fluctuations were hiding in the dense jungle on the island behind him.
Without drawing attention, the moment Su Lun bent down to pick up the Card from the ground, he had already teleported into the forest.
Two of the Tier 7 pirates belonged to the South Sea Fleet, and Su Lun had seen their bounties.
"Ghosthead Shark" Martin Mak and "Maiden Butcher" Cliff Clotford, both with bounties over two billion lisuo, were significant pirates.
There was also a Tier 7 wind mage in a white robe.
The three seemed to be using some secret technique to locate Kit's whereabouts.
When Su Lun teleported onto the beach, the three immediately detected him.
But before the three could react, Su Lun had already appeared behind them.
The moment he moved, Su Lun's body emitted a black field, and with a swing of his scythe, he easily breached the enemy's protective domain.
The "Ghosthead Shark" Martin hardly had time to defend himself and was slain by two swift cuts.
The other two, witnessing such ferocity, immediately lost the will to resist head-on and each employed their skills to attempt an escape.
But would Su Lun let them have their way?
With a pinching motion of the sorcerer's seals, he uttered in his mind, "Spatial Confinement!"
The other two didn't understand why their lives were rapidly slipping away when their bodies were already stiffening. When they looked again, they were surrounded by dozens of stone gargoyle statues.
The battle ended quickly.
The mage's shield was shattered by the gargoyles, and his head was blown apart, while another was torn to shreds.
Overwhelmed by sheer numbers and strength, the three with seventh-order power lasted less than five rounds before they were all slain.
Su Lun collected the bodies and after digesting the souls of the three corpses, a complex look flashed in his eyes as he pondered, "This is tricky... a holy army squad has actually shown up, and the leader is an eighth-order holy soldier. Now that a ten-thousand-strong force has already arrived and more will continue to come. It looks like I'll have to figure out a way to destroy the transmission formation first..."
Thoughts flashed through his mind in an instant.
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After clearing the enemies, Su Lun didn't linger.
He teleported above the sea surface, and with the spidery spear unfolded behind him, he walked into the dense fog.
The visibility on the sea was extremely low, practically not visible beyond an arm's reach.
It was logical for Gite, a sixth-order, to choose such a foggy area to escape from three pursuers with seventh-order power.
About two kilometers across the sea surface, Su Lun already saw the cursed space.
[The Last Battle of the Naga High Priest]
Explanation: The Gorgon Queen invaded the Naga territory, and the Naga High Priest led her people in a desperate fight, ultimately turning her persistence into a cursed space; survival mode; to leave the space, one must drive back the Gorgon Queen; difficulty level of the cursed space: seventh-order, rating A.
Su Lun looked at it, his expression unchanging.
For seventh-order professionals, an A rating meant a high mortality rate.
For Gite at sixth-order, it naturally was a T rating.
Initially, Su Lun would have entered with caution, but now, he had the [Urobolos Space-Time Ring]
Almost all cursed spaces in the alchemy realm were formed from the leaking power of laws after this Divine King artifact was damaged.
For him to enter or leave was entirely unaffected.
Without hesitation, Su Lun advanced into the space.
Just then, as if on cue, Gite sent another communication, "Su Lun, there's something strange about this cursed space! Oh, I just encountered a monster; she only glanced at me and I felt my body go numb! You definitely shouldn't come in..."
As if his tongue hadn't gone numb, his speech was unclear.
So much so that by the time Su Lun teleported beside him, he hadn't finished speaking.
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Gite was hiding behind a rock, speaking into a communicator.
Suddenly a person appeared in front of him; he let out a surprised "Huh... Su Lun?"
He rubbed his eyes, clearly thinking that he was hallucinating from the poison or had encountered a shapeshifting creature; he immediately became alert and even instinctively screamed, "No, it's a monster!"
He wanted to teleport and escape, but it seemed his legs wouldn't obey him, and his movements were stiff.
Su Lun raised his hand to restrict the space, stopping his attempt to teleport. Annoyed, he looked at the guy and asked with a hint of sarcasm, "Did you happen to see a mature beauty, and after giving her an extra glance, felt your body become paralyzed?"
It wasn't surprising for this guy, who had a liking for beautiful women, to be ensnared.
Instinctively, Kit retorted, "How do you know?"
He found the tone somewhat familiar. Staring at Su Lun, he looked again before saying incredulously, "Are you really Su Lun?"
"Yeah."
Su Lun replied with a hint of helplessness, then explained, "What you saw before was actually an illusion. The Gorgon is adept at casting illusions that mesmerize people. If anyone makes eye contact, they can paralyze and petrify their enemies."
Before coming here, Tanni had told him about the Gorgon.
Lower-grade Gorgons could paralyze someone just by making direct eye contact.
Whereas the high-grade Gorgon Queen could petrify everything she saw.
"The Golgon race" is a highly dangerous mythical creature; their petrification talent is divine art, with a very high priority in the hierarchy of laws, almost immune to all negative status immunities and purification techniques.
It was said they could even petrify dragons.
In short, it was almost impossible to counter.
As Kit listened, he suddenly realized. So he had been attacked by that kind of mythical creature?
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His eyes shifted to Su Lun, and his face changed, "Then why did you still come in?"
"It's not a big problem."
Su Lun didn't elaborate further and casually responded.
As Kit listened, he looked at Su Lun, astounded, and soon understood something, "You... you've advanced to the seventh level?"
"Mm."
Su Lun responded once more.
He checked Kit's condition. His pupils turned a faint grey; the paralysis wasn't too severe.
At least not like Tanni's mother, who had been completely petrified.
Hearing this, Kit then said, "Oh, my God, how did you comprehend the 'Domain'? I've been at the sixth level for a while now and haven't even gotten a clue."
Su Lun had already gotten used to Kit's incessant chatter and took out a potion that Dr. Banks had developed to inject into him. Only then did the guy's expression of facial paralysis ease.
He knew those who stepped into the threshold of the sixth level all hoped to gain some insights from someone else's advancement experience. Su Lun also recalled his own process of comprehending the Domain and responded, "Slaughter can help comprehend the Death Domain."
Kit, feeling better, regained the sparkle in his eyes and queried further, "Slaughter? How many people have you killed?"
He himself had killed not a few.
Clearly, it wasn't a matter of method but quantity.
After a moment of thought, Su Lun said, "Tens of thousands, I guess. If you count the aberrant beasts and the like, then it's hard to say."
Kit's expression turned slightly odd.
Of course.
Yet the most shocking revelation was yet to come.
Since his companion wasn't a stranger and had asked, Su Lun went into detail, "Mainly, you have to kill those stronger than yourself. When I was at the sixth level, I killed a few at the seventh level, which sped up the completion of my domain. Especially the battle against one of the top ten legends, the 'Hymn Witch' Maria G. Ocasi, the pressure was enormous, and my insights were the deepest. Before that, I also fought the 'Undead Demon Monk' Las Vegas and the 'Enforcer Lawyer' Amo E. Clair, oh, and I also fought 'Beast Speaker' Dewen Keboloni... fighting with them, each one gave me great enlightenment."
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Upon hearing this, Kit's expression instantly froze.
His view of Su Lun changed completely
I understand the principle.
But...
How did you manage to provoke such powerful beings and still be alive and kicking until now?
The "Top Ten Legendary Bounty Hunters" were already the ceiling for conventional professionals in Alchemy.
They're called legends because they're powerful!
Damn, you fought and survived encounters with half of the top ten legends; what sixth level could do that?
Seeing Kit's bewildered expression, Su Lun chuckled as well.
He knew the experiences he shared were indeed exotic for a typical sixth-level professional.
Su Lun didn't actually mean to show off.
He was merely eager to share his experiences with a companion; otherwise, he wouldn't have been so detailed.
It was like the time he asked Qiantiao, that phrase was still clear in his memory: Does the domain thing even have a threshold?
He shared sincerely; whether it was useful or not, that was another matter.
Kit sighed slightly, his expression mixed with relief and a look of utter dejection, "Ah... it looks like I'm going to be stuck at this seventh-level barrier for the rest of my life."
Listening, Su Lun couldn't help but shake his head with a laugh and a cry.
At that moment, he suddenly sensed something and casually remarked, "The monsters have found us."
Kit instantly tensed up.
Just as he was about to look around, recalling the previous experience, he immediately withdrew his gaze and said seriously, "If we can't look directly at this monster, the fight will be very troublesome. There are quite a few by the sound of footsteps. This won't be easy."
Unperturbed, Su Lun simply said, "Yeah, just don't look..."
He had not intended to show off in front of his companion, but considering the urgency of the situation, he did not have the luxury to dismantle the space slowly.
With a cursed space, it was likely that treasures were present.
He could have taken Kit and left directly, but he decided to break the space.
No sooner had Su Lun spoken than he pinched his sorcerer's seals without hiding anything, and immediately the space beneath his feet began to ripple.
Looking again, whoosh whoosh whoosh, hordes of towering silver-white monsters appeared all around them.
There were well over a hundred stone gargoyles!
At the sudden appearance of so many "monsters," Kit's heart skipped a beat, fearing some mishap had occurred.
But as soon as he realized they were gargoyles, he was immediately taken aback.
Right!
Golems aren't affected by petrification, aren't they the perfect counter to the Gorgons?
However, what shocked Kit even more was something else.
He knew Su Lun had one gargoyle golem, but... why were there so many in front of him?
The two-meter-tall gargoyle golems standing before him, though inanimate, exuded a deathly aura that made even him, a sixth-level professional, feel a chill down his spine.
Merely by looking at the arcane runes brimming with mystery, Keith could guess that the combat power of these golems would be terrifying.
Seeing the puzzled look in this fellow's eyes, Su Lun shrugged his shoulders and explained, "I made a trip to Mafa, had some good luck, and found quite a bit of material. So I made some extra golems."
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Keith had no idea what to respond anymore.
[Activating Silver] was a god-level material sold by the gram.
Just one of these golems could bankrupt many a wealthy professional.
This guy, he freaking made a hundred?
Keith remembered the last time they met was on the cruise ship to Ruying, and although this guy was powerful then, he wasn't this monstrous.
Now... it was simply unimaginable!
Time was of the essence, and Su Lun didn't elaborate further.
Behind him, the eight-armed spider spear unfolded, countless threads pulling, controlling the gargoyle legion as they charged toward all directions ferociously.
Almost instantly, the sounds of combat erupted from all sides, the noise of flesh and stone colliding in violent bursts.
The most troublesome thing about the Gorgon Queen was their petrification ability; their physical bodies were relatively weak.
Su Lun estimated it was about the strength of a third or fourth-tier monster.
As long as they didn't get petrified, the gargoyles could knock one out with a single punch.
Su Lun's various senses were sharp enough that he almost didn't need to look at the monsters to easily catch their locations.
The gargoyle legion pushed forward relentlessly.
Before long, the area was littered with bodies.
Keith had been watching the whole combat process, and already he was so shocked that he was rendered speechless.
Looking at the monster corpses scattered across the ground, his heart had already numbed from shock.
Only one thought remained: Is this really just a seventh level?
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There wasn't much of a plot to delve into in this cursed space, it was just about fighting and killing.
After leaving the cursed space with Keith, Su Lun used the [Urobolos Space-Time Ring] to absorb that portion of spatial energy, which significantly expanded his Little Void Realm.
Su Lun did, as he had guessed, obtain a treasure.
[Seven-Colored Sea Conch]
Details: A holy relic of the Naga race, a gathering of faith objects; holding it bestows strong element affinity; blowing the conch can summon the spirits of wind and sea, capable of summoning tsunamis and storms;
This being a faith object, Su Lun had no use for it; he planned to show it to Tanni.
Before long, the two were walking on the beach again.
At this moment, Keith's face was twisted with an exaggerated expression of jealousy. Looking at Su Lun, he couldn't help but scoff, "You... your fighting power alone probably rivals an entire fleet."
An entire fleet?
Su Lun smiled noncommittally in response, not bothering to explain further.
If we're really talking about it...
Controlling a hundred gargoyles at the same time didn't even begin to show his current combat power.
In his Little Void Realm, there were many mechanical battle suits, mechanical beasts, and high-level golems... enough to handle almost any situation.
Forget one fleet, without top-level combat restrictions, even ten fleets would have to kneel!
As they walked, seeing clear signs of a battle in the woods, Keith again expressed his surprise, "Were those three seventh-level ones killed by you, too?"
Su Lun simply responded once more, "Yes."
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Listening, Keith rolled his eyes.
This fellow's casual demeanor made it seem as if what he killed weren't top professionals of the seventh level, but rather mere henchmen.
If it weren't for the fact that he was previously chased to his wits' end by those three, Keith would have actually believed him.
And, thinking about it, when this guy was replying to him, did he casually slaughter three seventh-levels?
In that moment, Keith finally understood.
He understood why this guy was able to fight to a standstill with several "Top Ten Legendary Bounty Hunters" even when he was only a sixth level.
As much as he scoffed, at this very moment, looking at Su Lun again, his eyes were filled with relief as he murmured, "Aside from the leader, Su Lun, you must be the strongest in our Dawn... "
But then he thought about it and couldn't help but wonder, despite putting in so much effort himself, why was the gap between people so wide?
Su Lun just smiled, not admitting anything.
With that in mind, he said, "If we are talking about killing methods, Qian Tiao should be stronger than me."
Keith's eye twitched, and his expression instantly turned unnatural, surprised, "Qian Tiao reached seventh level, too?"
Su Lun said, "Yes."
Going on, he added, "So did Mr. Hei, he just advanced to the seventh level."
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Listening to this string of statements, Keith felt his whole person was not well.
It's only been a short time since we parted... how come it feels like the whole world has advanced to the seventh level, except for me?
Is the "Domain" that easy to comprehend?
Having been praised as a one-in-a-million alchemy talent since he was young, how come when he compared himself, he felt like an "idiot"?
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Su Lun didn't chat much with Keith, nor did he linger in the same place.
He teleported to an island nearby where the magic group was constructing a teleportation formation to observe for a moment.
The defensive barrier was already open, and magic towers were under construction. The island was teeming with people—more than ten thousand.
It seemed that the Divine Plane was preparing to use this as a long-term teleportation base.
With the magic group becoming well-established, Su Lun felt he had no opportunity to take advantage of.
Just when Su Lun was feeling somewhat troubled, he saw that the harbor was lined with hundreds of pirate ships, and an idea came to him on the spot.
The waters around Dragon Country were an archipelago, with no large ocean ships; even strong mage groups would have to lie low!
Su Lun immediately thought of a plan and notified Qian Tiao aboard the Eternal Night, saying, "Qian Tiao, I have coordinates for you, prepare for a remote bombardment."
