Chapter 765: Section 553: Falling into a Trap
Honey Snow Tower.
The Tower Spirit reported, "First phase detection complete, Divine Power analysis yielded no results, Divine Country unknown..."
Shuanglian did not wait for the Tower Spirit to slowly report; she activated her spirit and directly accessed all the detection results.
The next moment, her expression changed.
The indicators in the detection report were telling her a significant secret!
"An unknown deity?"
"No, perhaps...it hasn’t truly been born yet."
"This Divine Country might be..."
Shuanglian’s heart trembled violently.
Her gaze transformed.
Previously, she looked at the Divine Country’s space, wishing she could directly extinguish it.
But now, her fiery gaze seemed to want to penetrate the scenery of the Divine Country’s space—to verify the report’s results, to see through the truth!
"If it really is as I suspect..."
"This Divine Country will be the most important opportunity in my life!"
Shuanglian once coincidentally encountered a juvenile Half-plane, which she captured. It was the greatest opportunity of her life.
She seized it.
In future operations, she benefited tremendously.
It was the proper management of the Half-plane that allowed her to establish her own value, to have foundational capital for leveraging, and on the platform of the Alchemy Guild, to mobilize even more resources.
Finally, she built Honey Snow Tower, achieved countless alchemy results, and became one of the most influential elders in the Alchemy Guild.
But now, she felt that the opportunity of encountering a Half-plane might not compare to what was before her!
"A Divine Country... This is not something a Half-plane can compare to."
"What’s wrong with teacher?" Bu Quan grew doubtful.
She had been closely watching her mentor and was surprised to find that the Tower Spirit’s report stopped abruptly midway, and her mentor’s eyes flickered with compelling sharpness!
Spell conversion—Space Pendant!
Shuanglian thought only for an instant before she began her actions.
She directly transformed the previous Spell Space Anchor into a Spell Space Pendant.
These two spells had different effects.
A Space Anchor fixed space, limiting various spatial changes. A Space Pendant, however, was for investigating different planes and performing precise spatial positioning.
Honey Snow Tower once again demonstrated its powerful capability, effortlessly transforming the previous Space Anchor into a Spell Space Pendant.
Spell conversion is a spellcasting technique.
Mages, who had mastered this technique, could transform between two spells with similar magic models.
In this way, one spell could be transformed into another.
This had a wide range of applications in fields such as combat, alchemy, and more.
The Space Anchor once again coalesced visibly, then in an instant, it transformed into a giant water droplet pendant.
Without the suppression of the Space Anchor, the Divine Country space suddenly lost its restraints and expanded rapidly again.
Bu Quan was startled and wanted to ask her mentor, but wisely shut her mouth.
Shuanglian was fully focused, controlling the Mage Tower.
Spell—Ice Crystal Chains.
Soon, another spell was released.
Frost elements condensed into five slender chains that extended from the Mage Tower to the space pendant.
The pendant was launched in the next moment.
The Space Pendant directly penetrated into the Divine Country space, and as it did, the Divine Country space stirred up a strong spatial ripple.
"?!" Yijiu stared in astonishment.
Spell—Frost Flower Immobilization!
This spell had just been used.
Under this spell, Da Dou had no chance to retaliate, frozen into an ice block, unable to move.
Flurries of frost flowers became visible, first covering the space around Yijiu, then swiftly spreading into the Divine Country space.
The frost flowers were more than ten times larger than those covering Da Dou!
Huge frost flowers interlocked with each other, radiating cold air, shimmeringly transparent, almost forming a giant net, immobilizing the Divine Country space.
No, to be more accurate, it was "reinforced!"
"What is Shuanglian doing?!" Yijiu was stunned.
And with the same expression were several Golden Level members from the Divine Country of Anqiu.
"Shuanglian is really expanding the Divine Country space!"
"Not only that, but she is also reinforcing the spatial passage, fearing that we would give up Yijiu and retreat directly."
"She really did it!"
"Mei Lin, what exactly is going on?"
Everyone looked toward the Mermaid Mage.
But Mei Lin just silently stared at the Space Pendant entering the Divine Country of Anqiu space, without any explanation.
She suddenly said, "It’s about time, Snow Ball, activate the Magic Array immediately!"
Snow Ball crisply responded.
The Array activated, unleashing a powerful pull.
The force acted on the Space Pendant, yanking it down fiercely.
The Space Pendant was linked to Honey Snow Tower by Ice Crystal Chains. Temporarily, they were a whole.
Everything happened too quickly.
Shuanglian couldn’t react in time, and the Mage Tower was pulled down.
Yijiu screamed in panic.
The Divine Country space was using him as the spatial coordinate, in his view, the Mage Tower plummeted from the sky, headed straight for him!
With all his might, Yijiu dodged.
He wasn’t able to dodge completely and was grazed by the Mage Tower.
He was like a rubber ball, sent flying directly. In just an instant, he broke three ribs, despite having already deployed a Golden Level Defensive Fighting Skill.
Yijiu crashed into the snowy ground and spat out a mouthful of fresh blood.
He quickly got up to find that the Mage Tower had disappeared!
The Divine Country space was fiercely impacted by the Mage Tower, and the originally gradually-clearing scenery of the Divine Country looked like paint forcefully stirred in a bucket, forming a colorful vortex.
Yijiu just glanced at it and the colorful space vortex made his head spin.
Even worse, the colorful space vortex burst out with a strong suction force!
Yijiu could no longer dodge and was caught by the suction, harshly dragged into the space vortex.
Within the next second, the space vortex rapidly diminished into a point, then completely disappeared from the Mixo Half-plane.
Yijiu and the Mage Tower had both vanished; the original battlefield had suddenly become very quiet.
Divine Country of Anqiu.
The Magic Array used to drag the Mage Tower shattered with a loud crash.
"Success!" Snow Ball cheered, paying no further attention to the shattered Magic Array.
This Magic Array was meant to be disposable, one-time-use, and it had fulfilled its tactical purpose.
"Damn, we’ve been tricked!" Inside the Honey Snow Tower, Shuanglian looked extremely grim.
She instantly realized it.
The enemy first used her spell to reverse-locate the Honey Snow Tower.
Then, the magic power burst out from the Magic Array marked and dragged both the pendant and the Mage Tower.
The power alone wasn’t enough to easily displace the Mage Tower. More crucial was the spatial power.
The enemy cleverly used the unstable nature of the space channel to create a temporary space vortex. With the space vortex, they absorbed the Mage Tower.
Originally, the Divine Country Descent Technique utilized the spatial power of the Divine Country of Anqiu to counteract the spatial power of the Mixo Half-plane.
But just now, the duelists suddenly reversed their force, and the Mixo Half-plane was also applying a pushing force to restore its original spatial order.
The combined forces, together, were too much for the Honey Snow Tower to counteract in haste!
Thus, eventually, the Mage Tower was absorbed into the enemy’s Divine Country.
Piercing alarm sounds rang out in the Honey Snow Tower.
The Tower Spirit was urgently reporting all the damages.
Many damages!
A space vortex isn’t a stable space channel, and it exerts a crushing and grinding force on anything passing through it. Thankfully, the Mixo Mage Tower was very sturdy, so it made it through the space vortex.
Even so, the surface of the Mage Tower was now horribly twisted, with some parts even showing holes that were visible from both inside and out.
"We pulled the Honey Snow Tower in?!"
"Weren’t we supposed to attack the Mixo Half-plane?"
"Mei Lin, truly worthy of you! Such a strategy!"
"Indeed, Shuanglian has been managing the Half-plane for many years, turning it into an ironclad fortress. If we were to enter and fight, we would be at a great disadvantage. But now it’s different. Here, we have a strong home-ground advantage."
The Golden Duelists rapidly came to understand and commended Mei Lin.
Yijiu, however, was roaring, "Mei Lin, are you trying to kill me?!"
Yijiu was also in a tragic state.
His nose had been sheared off, his left leg had directly folded forward 90 degrees, and his right forearm had been twisted into a corkscrew. More severe injuries were inside his body; several of his organs had been displaced.
These were all the prices Yijiu paid for his physical body passing through the space vortex!
In contrast, Shuanglian, Bu Quan, and others were completely unharmed due to the protection of the Mage Tower.
Mei Lin spoke calmly, "Yijiu, you have been rescued, haven’t you? Our side kept its promise."
Yijiu was so furious that he spit blood, his blood-filled eyes locked on Mei Lin as if he wanted to devour her, "Is this your way of rescuing? To have me pass directly through a space vortex?!"
"Shuanglian had already lifted the suppression, why didn’t you wait until the space channel stabilized before letting me return?!"
Mei Lin shook her head, "I will not place the opportunity for battle in the enemy’s hands."
"With every passing second, Shuanglian could potentially realize it’s a trap, changing the spell again."
"Your injuries are not fatal; we had already repeatedly calculated this when we pre-planned this tactic."
"The Mage Tower went in before you, bearing the brunt of the spatial crushing."
"Of course, you can also see these injuries as a warning from our side."
Previously, Yijiu had threatened to expose Mei Lin and others, even the Divine Country of Anqiu, using this to provoke these people to rescue him. This made the majority of duelists very antagonistic toward Yijiu, even loathing him.
Yijiu trembled with rage at these words.
But seeing the indifferent looks from other Golden Levels, he calmed down.
"I’ll remember this! Next time, Mei Lin, don’t expect me to take action for you!" Yijiu clenched his teeth and turned to leave.
Golden Level Fighting Energy enveloped his internal and external wounds, even forming a Fighting Energy prosthetic leg to help him stand on the ground.
"Wait," Mei Lin said.
Yijiu’s heart skipped a beat as he turned around sharply, warily staring at Mei Lin, "What else do you want?"
Mei Lin suddenly displayed a slight smile, "Don’t you want revenge? Your real enemy isn’t us, it’s Shuanglian."
Yijiu snorted coldly, glancing at the Mage Tower high in the sky nearby.
He indeed harbored a desire for revenge, but his injuries were holding him back.
Mei Lin suddenly tossed a vial of medicine.
Yijiu caught it, his expression changing slightly.
The medicines were all Golden Level; he quickly recognized them as top-quality Healing Medicines.
"Drink them, and you can regain your fighting strength," Mei Lin smiled, "This is my new offer to hire you. I’m only offering this much because the other compensation is right there."
Mei Lin directed her gaze towards the Mage Tower, the implication clear.
Yijiu’s expression fluctuated greatly for a while before he finally took a deep breath, cursed, and declared, "I’m going to take down Shuanglian!"
"Who else is interested?"
The Golden Duelists looked at each other and laughed loudly.
"We are all very interested!"
"Can you do it, Yijiu?"
"Let me be clear, nobody hinder me, or I’ll take you down too!"