Mechanical Alchemist-Chapter 617 - 616: Siege on the Ninth Order

Claymington, Earl Rasel's forest estate.

The ninth tier is where humans grasp the ultimate laws that can be understood, the pinnacle of combat power. Whether they are mages or alchemists, they possess extraordinary powers capable of destroying heaven and earth.

In a three-against-three encounter, they started with various forbidden spells, fighting so fiercely that the shockwaves quickly reduced the originally classical and beautiful estate to ruins, along with the nearby mountains and forests.

In the sky, Mr. Jing split into three and continued to fiercely battle with those three ninth-tier Sages of Law.

On the other hand, Su Lun and a group of high-end warriors from the Dawn Brigade had already ambushed their respective targets.

In the blink of an eye, fierce battles erupted throughout the mountain forest.

Sword Qi crisscrossed, various high-level spells emerged endlessly, and the noise of the battle surged wave after wave.

The celestial beings on the divine plane were completely baffled; before they began, they had not anticipated such fierce resistance.

They thought it was a foolproof beheading ambush, but just at the first encounter, they immediately felt something was terribly wrong.

This was not like an ambush; rather, it seemed like they had been ambushed!

That "Mr. Jing" was not only unharmed but had become much stronger than before. So much so that the three ninth-tier Sages of Law found him extremely troublesome.

Moreover, these were clearly beings from a dark abyss race, yet their resistance to the Holy Light was so high?

They had inflicted heavy damage last time; why was the same tactic so ineffective this time?

Moreover, other circumstances greatly differed from the information they had received from the deserters. They were supposed to eliminate targets at the eighth and ninth tiers, yet it turned out there were many powerhouses ambushed?

Where did so many experts from the Alchemy plane come from?

But even though they knew something was wrong, they had no choice but to fight; the magic formation was set, and they were bound to clash.

Especially under the current circumstances, the Dawn Brigade would not let them leave easily.

...

Su Lun also teleported and appeared in front of a cave.

This location was equipped with a simple magic tower; immense magic power surged, and an eighth-tier Red-robed Archmage was continuously gathering magic power into the formation at his feet.

Seeing Su Lun approaching, the Red-robed Mage did not panic at all and immediately started chanting a complex spell.

In an instant, the light from the nine-pointed star formation at his feet flared up, and a visibly thick golden defensive barrier was already fortified around him.

Su Lun recognized this as the ninth-tier arcanum-level legionary combined magic barrier "Ninefold Golden Light Spell."

This barrier could withstand almost any ninth-tier spell and was the most suitable for standing ground and dealing damage.

With this restraint, even if several eighth-tier fighters came, he could hold his ground without defeat for a short time.

The guy did not take Su Lun seriously but continued to maintain the magic formation beneath him as lines of Holy Light Chains kept flying towards Mr. Jing in the sky.

They knew very well that, cutting off this ninth-tier alchemical native could allow the three Sages of Law to free their hands, instantly stabilizing the situation.

Regrettably,

this Red-robed Archmage had yet to realize what kind of opponent he was facing.

Seeing someone approaching, the man casually tore a precious eighth-tier magic scroll from the sleeve of his robe and instantly cast a Lightning Technique, striking with a crack.

This experienced Grand Magician's reaction was beyond reproach. Lightning magic was known for its attack speed and potency, and since he was prepared, it was unavoidable; thus, even a fighter of the same tier would have been severely damaged.

However, it was this sure-hit strike that led to an unexpected scene unfolding before him.

When he saw the opponent's body covered in dragon scale glyphs withstand the blast of this lightning spell, the Red-robed Mage's expression changed dramatically.

He could not comprehend how someone could directly withstand a blow of eighth-tier lightning magic.

Was this another ninth-tier alchemical native?

Clearly not.

...

Su Lun, observing the countless tiny lightning serpents erupting across his body, revealed a stern look in his eyes.

The Dragon-poised Golden Body enhancement, even Mr. Jing had highly praised it, How could a mere eighth-tier lightning spell injure him?

Yet he did not underestimate his enemy.

After all, it was the same tier, and he had formed a special formation.

The "Forbidden Curse: Holy Shackles" maintained by these nine eighth-tier Grand Magicians formed a legion with the magic power of the formation connecting them.

Facing one was like facing nine; their offensive and defensive capabilities were not inferior to facing a true ninth-tier.

And Su Lun was aware that besides forcefully breaking it, there was no other way to combat this kind of magic battle array.

That also meant, breaking through the first defensive corner would be the hardest.

Su Lun knew that conventional methods would hardly break through in a short time; if he could not break through, neither could any of the other formation points.

Meanwhile, Mr. Jing, still restricted by the Holy Light Chains, was facing three enemies alone. Each second of delay was a minute of danger, and he had to break through the situation quickly.

Su Lun had been prepared.

He raised his hand and pulled out several space scrolls, shouting crisply, "Release!"

The scrolls burst open, and ten thousand alchemical stone ghosts appeared on the scene, darkening the sky.

At the same time, a giant cross appeared in the sky. Threads connected the puppets, and the ten thousand stone ghosts instantly formed a legion formation.

The stone ghost legion moved uniformly. As soon as they appeared, they lifted their arms towards the Red-robed Mage without hesitation, a powerful spatial fluctuation rapidly building up.

The power of Su Lun's puppet legion's Combination Attack Technique could easily break through the defenses of a ten thousand-mage group; how could this one Grand Magician withstand it?

The Red-robed Mage, viewing the overwhelming horde of ten thousand puppets, looked incredulous and pallid.

He, a leader of a ten thousand-mage group, did not fail to recognize that these puppets were arranged in some kind of combination attack formation.

However, to maintain the formation, he could not retreat.

In his moment of despair, after destroying over a hundred stone ghosts with a few spells, the Red-robed Mage faced the crushing blow.

A massive fist formed by the Space Law in the sky and with a boom, it struck like a falling meteor.

The golden magic shield lasted only a moment, shattering like a broken eggshell, and after fracturing, the situation became irreversible.

The mage tower at the formation point was forcibly breached, and the shockwave continued, creating a huge crater with a hundred-meter diameter on the ground before finally dissipating.

The Red-robed Mage was crushed into a pulp, his blood spattering through the air.

Su Lun casually harvested the soul, glanced at it, and muttered, "The puppet legion loves these stationary type of opponents."

...

With the first formation point broken, the complete battle formation of the nine Grand Magicians quickly collapsed.

In other areas, the high-ranking fighters of Dawn Group also quickly achieved their victories.

The elite fighters of the Dawn Group, two against one, now found it no problem to quickly eliminate an eighth-level Mage now that the formation had broken.

Su Lun was not idle either; he had already teleported to another formation point and repeated his tactic, using the puppet legion and the secret technique of "Death God's Fire," to quickly dispose of the second eighth-level Grand Magician.

He had previously killed eighth-level Grand Magicians in the Dragon Country Waters, but those fights were risky gambles, each encounter walking on thin ice. For a seventh-level, the domain of the eighth-level Grand Magician was a crushing threat at the level of the laws.

But now, having advanced to the eighth level, Su Lun's understanding of the laws was incomparable to before, and the dominance granted by his "Isaac Dragon Patterned Golden Body" allowed him to possess a virtually indestructible body against all eighth-level magic.

Su Lun could kill enemies, but it was hard for his opponents to harm him.

Thus, the threat from ordinary eighth-levels was very limited now.

In just a short time after the battle had begun, many formation points had already been broken.

With each broken formation point, the bonds of Holy Light Chains on Mr. Jing in the sky loosened, and her combat power grew fiercer.

In the blink of an eye, five formation points were successively broken, completely collapsing the Forbidden Curse: Holy Shackles.

This change shocked the three Sages of Law once again.

Seeing Mr. Jing's growing combat strength, they realized the magic formation had been compromised.

Even though it would take them considerable time to break the formation created by the nine eighth-level Grand Magicians, they could not fathom how the natives of the Alchemy Plane had managed it.

However surprising it was, the ability to advance to the ninth level was not just about talent; all three were combatants who had survived numerous deadly battles. They reacted immediately.

Almost at the moment Su Lun killed the second Grand Magician, Mr. Jing urgently cautioned through the communicator, "Everyone, be careful, a Sage of Law is heading your way!"

Mr. Jing's cloning ability could withstand three Sages of Law undefeated, which was no small feat. But if the enemy took other actions in the meantime, she couldn't completely stop them.

Especially one with the very unique ability of the Time Sage of Law!

Hearing the warning, Su Lun's expression hardened.

With a flash in the spatial fluctuation, he did not hesitate to confront the ninth-level Sage of Law head-on.

...

Even though Dawn Group had previously hunted down eighth-level dragons in the Dragon Country Waters, comparable to ninth-level professionals in strength, those were still eighth-level creatures.

At the level of the laws, a ninth-level Sage of Law holds the ultimate understanding of humanly accessible laws, touching the threshold of the rules themselves.

Beyond the seventh level, each level represents a massive threshold.

Without reaching that height, one cannot comprehend why the capabilities of the ninth level are so fearsomely powerful.

This overwhelming dominance at the level of laws poses a lethal threat to those below the ninth level.

Just like during the Spiritdon Catastrophe, Master Pierre, even severely injured, could easily eliminate an eighth-level expert who attempted to assault him.

Yet strangely, Su Lun could understand the gap between the laws.

He was currently the most physically resilient in the Dawn Group, and only he had some confidence in confronting the ninth level head-on.

Moreover, he found it hard to feel pressured by his peers now and wanted to test just how strong a ninth-level Sage of Law really was.

In that instant, Su Lun had already teleported several miles.

Upon his arrival, he saw an old mage with a white beard charging toward Old Sword God Bartolo and Number Nineteen, who were ganging up on a Grand Magician of the eighth level.

As soon as the ninth-level Sage of Law arrived, the terrifying pressure caused everyone's scalp to tingle.

However, a bizarre scene immediately unfolded.

The white-bearded Sage of Law did not use magic to fly; instead, his figure flickered and teleported forward.

As he closed in, he softly chanted, and his magic wand suddenly emitted a gentle white light, instantly unfurling a holy field.

This white light spread like ripples, seemingly invoking some high-level Power of Laws, instantly covering the entire area.

Although Old Sword God Bartolo and Number Nineteen were extremely strong among their peers, they were far from understanding the laws at the ninth level. They had no idea what had happened.

Moreover, it was the exceedingly rare Time Law.

To others, the old man simply teleported over, but to Su Lun, who was also proficient in Time Law, it appeared different.

He clearly saw local time being distorted, cycling at a speed nearly a hundred times that of the stopping forbidden.

And only the old man was unaffected.

That is to say, time in the senses of Old Sword God Bartolo and the others was nearly stopped, while the old man was completely unaffected.

Just this move alone was enough to trap them in a fatal situation!

This level of combat was often just so, in the blink of an eye, life and death could be decided.

Unfortunately, Su Lun made a decisive move.

From the first sight of the three Sages of Law, he had already roughly gauged their strength.

And after harvesting the memories of two Grand Magicians of the eighth level just now, his intelligence gathering was complete.

He knew very well that this man named "Sage of Time" Ralph Zimmerman was a Sage of Law who had mastered Time Law.

Light streamed brilliantly in Su Lun's eyes, and no matter how clever the enemy's methods, there were no secrets in his view.

Looking at the legendary wand in the old man's hand, he couldn't help but mutter, "The wand is actually inlaid with a 'Time Crystal Core'. Tsk tsk, what a treasure..."

In the past, he also had a bit of "Sand of Time" which was already a treasure of the planes. Now this fellow was luckier, having obtained a crystalized time gemstone as the energy core of the wand.

Even just the materials from dismantling this legendary quality wand were invaluable.

Indeed, great treasures were always amassed by the top powerhouses.

...

Using temporal methods to kill, even if Old Sword God Bartolo's swordsmanship was extremely sophisticated, he couldn't exert half of his power. Unwittingly, he would be killed.

This was the tricky aspect of Time Law.

If you can't understand the mysteries of time's flow, you can only drift along in the river of time.

Moreover, Ralph Zimmerman's understanding of Time Law was very profound, so profound that although Su Lun could understand it, he knew he was at least one or two major levels below in understanding.

Trapped in the Time Holy Domain, they could only be slaughtered at will.

Unfortunately for them, Su Lun possessed the "Urobolos Space-Time Ring," a supreme artifact of space-time.

If his cultivation was insufficient, artifacts would make up for it.

This ring allowed him to ignore almost all sub-divine levels of time law erosion.

When the Time Holy Domain was spread, Su Lun also acted as if he was caught, his body entering a state of relative stasis, just like Bartolo and the others.

However, the moment the old man with the wand drew near, he suddenly burst forth!

His body was wrapped in a layer of surging green flames as he slashed at the old man with his sword.

...

Ralph Zimmerman initially thought that this strike was sufficient to instantly kill these alchemy natives, yet he never expected that just as he was about to act, out of the corner of his eye, he spotted someone rushing toward him within his Holy Light Domain.

How did this guy manage it?

He couldn't understand how an alchemy native, much lower in rank than himself, could ignore the twists of time.

"He has a temporal artifact on him!"

Ralph Zimmerman immediately realized what was happening.

Upon seeing the glaring Death God's Fire, his brow furrowed tightly, sensing a fatal threat.

After all, being a Sage of Law, his reaction was extremely swift, and a magic power shield instantly formed around his body, this was clearly the ninth-level Arcane Art "Elemental Symphony".

It was when Su Lun attacked, engulfed in flames, that the shield suddenly burst open.

A muffled "bang" sounded, and a figure was instantly blasted hundreds of meters away.

But before he could catch his breath, the space next to him fluctuated, and the person holding the black scythe reappeared.

"Eh?"

Ralph Zimmerman, holding his magic wand, had just targeted Number Nineteen with his piercing light beam when he stopped, deeply puzzled in his heart.

Having taken on an "Elemental Symphony" head-on, even if he wasn't severely injured, there shouldn't be no sign of damage at all, and immediately being able to counterattack, right?

This was definitely not something an ordinary eighth-level Alchemist could achieve!

Seeing the dragon scale runes faintly visible on Su Lun, the old man immediately guessed something: "This guy's body is also strange!"

He knew that advancements in the alchemy system involved integrating some special cursed objects to enhance oneself, and if this person could withstand a ninth-level spell, it meant the quality of the object integrated during his advancement was very high.

Ralph thought of this, his eyes momentarily clouded then cleared.

But the black scythe was already slashing towards him, and he had no choice but to perform a magical teleportation to evade.

Upon looking again, he had reappeared hundreds of meters away.

...

It was this brief skirmish in which Su Lun repelled the ninth-level Sage of Law and let out a slight sigh, murmuring to himself, "How strong. So this is the ninth-level..."

Meanwhile, the three not far away felt as if there was a visual skip.

Suddenly, they saw the old man reappear hundreds of meters away, while Su Lun holding the black scythe had already appeared as if ready for a grand battle.

Number Nineteen looked at the burn mark on her chest, her gaze extremely solemn.

Her skin had been burned through, exposing the charred mechanical armor beneath, yet she hadn't even realized how these marks had appeared; it was as if they simply popped up in the blink of an eye.

The Old Sword God Bartolo frowned, immediately perceiving something.

The timing was off!

Before he could think further, Su Lun warned, "Be careful, this guy has mastery over Time Law."

Number Nineteen and Old Sword God Bartolo knew they had just walked along the line of death.

In that moment, mirror light flashed in the sky, and Mr. Jing's doppelganger also arrived.

As Ralph Zimmerman's aura had not yet stabilized from his previous retreat, he was struck by Mr. Jing, causing his body to briefly stiffen.

Seeing his chance, the Old Sword God Bartolo drew his sword swiftly, slashing a snowflake Sword Qi towards the sky.

This sword could cleave an eighth-level giant dragon, and could certainly chop down a Sage of Law!

Ralph Zimmerman's face slightly changed, unable to completely avoid the attack, and with a "sizzle", the Sword Qi tore through the magic shield, carving a wound on his body.

Seeing the blood from his wound, the Sage of Law realized that these people had the strength to kill him, and said with heavy seriousness, "To have reached the realm of laws... it turns out he is a Sword God..."

Before he could ponder further, in his field of view, Su Lun with the black scythe charged at him again.

Ralph frowned deeply; in his view, this man who ignored his time sanctuary was the biggest threat.

No!

All these people are strong.

He was also surprised, how could the alchemy plane produce so many eighth-level Magicians capable of withstanding ninth-level ones?

Su Lun and the others wouldn't give the enemy a chance, already collectively swarming to attack.

And Bartolo and his group knew their mission well; they did not pause, attacking again towards those eighth-level grand Magic Conductors still alive.

The communicator also continued to transmit good news, with only a few left of the nine formation corners.

Now that the formation was broken, the Dawn Group merely needed to defeat those eighth-level enemies, then they could focus their strength to gradually encircle and kill the three Sages of Law.

This was the heartland of Luying, where there was no ten-thousand-strong magic group for reinforcements.

The longer the delay, the more advantageous it was for the Dawn Group.

As for Su Lun, he teamed up with Mr. Jing's avatar to first engage Ralph Zimmerman.

Among the three Sages of Law, this time-weaving elder was the most troublesome.

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As for the other Elemental Sage of Law and the Holy Light Sage of Law, their abilities, though deadly to the other Dawn Group members, were common elemental magic, posing far less threat than those mastering Time Law.

Such a high level of risk was inherent in this battle; from the start, the members of the Dawn Group were prepared for a fierce fight.